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#276627
Topic
Help Wanted: Pre-ANH rollup for DVD-sourced fan edits?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276627/action/topic#276627
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Replying to myself...I figured it out

I made a series of jpgs named nxNNNN.jpg, NNNN being 0000-1941 and a bmp with the backdrop

BASH command (should work in ksh also, needs imagemagick)

for x in *.jpg;do echo -n "${x}"\ ;convert -black-threshold 20000 -transparent black "${x}" png:-|composite -gravity center png:- c.bmp png:"`basename "${x}" .jpg`".png;done

This gives me a series of PNG files that I then load into avisynth with the oneliner

ImageReader("nx%04d.png",0,1941,23.976)

which I load into virtual dub under wine and then encode normally.

EDIT:
http://www.usotsuki.info/orupx.jpg
Sample clip (13 MB, XviD)
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#276623
Topic
Help Wanted: Pre-ANH rollup for DVD-sourced fan edits?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276623/action/topic#276623
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I’ve been working on some way to stitch the GOUT rollup onto new footage for making an improved edit, but since all I really have to work with is simple editors like avidemux and vdub… it’s not coming out well, and I’m not sure what route would be best to take.

I’m thinking of possibly doing a whole new rollup, but I don’t really have the tools to do that. Recoloring the existing rollup from the GOUT works, but there’s no stars! (They aren’t really visible on my encode of the GOUT either.)

Unless maybe with ImageMagick or something I can take a bunch of stills, make them all transparent and add a starry background, which just might work o.o…

Post
#275842
Topic
Info Wanted: anyone done a 2.0 mix synched to GOUT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/275842/action/topic#275842
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Hm. The best copy I have at hand of the 1993 mix is the GOUT AC3. I could try to do this hack that way...or if perhaps someone'd be willing to relay me the audio track from the TR47 DVD or something as a FLAC? (Though for some reason, the ROW47 I had lying around here somewhere has the 3PO line, so it's not the 1993 mix.) Though, my ability to generate 5.1 is limited and maybe it would be better for someone else to do that step.
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#275662
Topic
Info Wanted: anyone done a 2.0 mix synched to GOUT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/275662/action/topic#275662
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Has anyone else done this? I just did and am currently encoding a FLAC of it, if it would be of use to you guys (and I can tell it’s a bit different from the actual GOUT mix), I could put it on BT or something? I’m estimating it to be about 700 MB, as the ALAC I sourced from was.

In two places I had to stitch in 1993 audio for a fraction of a second, as my source was the time-compressed CED. Other places, I either added blank space, or stretched the background noise by duplication, whichever was closer to what was on the 1993 mix.

The most noticeable difference: right before Han says “17,000, these people must really be desperate”, Chewie does NOT grunt in the 2.0 as he does on the GOUT. As the 2.0 is a further evolution of the 4.2 mix and nothing not in the 2.0 is likely to be in the 4.2, it’s pretty obvious that Georgie’s claims of GOUT being “unaltered” are not quite true.

If I can find a better version of the mono mix than my current restoration - and then a 4.2 or 5.1 rip of the 4.2 mix - then I’ll be set

EDIT:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 andi root 653.9M Mar 6 14:48 sw20.flac

Post
#275161
Topic
Info: Seeing how much of the 1.0 material survived
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/275161/action/topic#275161
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Actually, they mesh quite well, and very little of my current working mix is actually not stereo - even when using the mono mix.

Screenshot of the "It's Secure" clip in Audacity and the same after a karaoke filter

The blank parts mark where I was only using the mono mix.

This is also just a draft, and I may do additional work. During at least one of the Beru lines I actually added the music back in underneath from the OST then cropped around the voice, so it actually never goes mono. This is the trick I prefer, but I don't know enough about the OST to do this.

Keep in mind that the Spanish mix is 2.0, it's not mono, although it has all the mono elements.

My current priority of tracks is this:

1. Spanish 2.0 from GOUT (main source)
2. English 1993 from GOUT (for most dialogue; note that this will inherently synch with the Spanish 2.0)
3. English 2004 2.0 (for "Close the blast doors" and the 3PO line - unless you know any other monoisms?)
4. Story of Star Wars (one Beru line and some of the loudspeaker voices)
5. English 1.0 from ITV VHS rip (last resort)

This is more of a proof of concept than anything else.
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#275045
Topic
Info: Seeing how much of the 1.0 material survived
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/275045/action/topic#275045
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Pass 1. All in all, about 53 min. of footage has been edited. All but one of Beru's lines, and "Check that side of the street...it's secure", come from the mono mix; the other Beru line comes from Story of Star Wars. The sound effect changes are taken from the Spanish 2.0 mix. In some places where I used the mono mix I dropped in a new copy of the BGM, or even used snippings of the Spanish track, so as to avoid the track "going mono" for any amount of time.

Some line timing is different between the English and Spanish tracks on the GOUT. (I mean R2 and Greedo) I have generally preferred the Spanish track as it reflects the mono mix.

I don't expect this to be the best possible reconstruction, but it will at least fulfill my desire of hearing the mono mix in stereo in reasonably good quality.