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#308077
Topic
Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308077/action/topic#308077
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That's fantastic Ady, thanks a lot.

Some very useful stuff in there. The 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is not exactly the same arrangement as on the official DVDs, but close enough. (The BBFC "U" logo in that pack is the older version - it was revised in 2002 - but I got an updated EPS from brandsoftheworld.com).
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#307979
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307979/action/topic#307979
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@Anti-Matter:
You say you have installed the latest Xvid codec but are you certain there isn't another decoder sitting on your system that's producing corrupted output? (For example, an old version of ffdshow). It looks like it's just you having this problem; you would get better help if you started a new thread in the technical help section.

@Sevb32:
Please learn how to use the quote tags properly.
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#307951
Topic
The Vaultbreakers Collection - Disney Preservations
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307951/action/topic#307951
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Aladdin:
The censored lines are described differently HERE - can someone confirm, and correct the description if necessary?

Are there any video differences? Are you planning on a VHS/LD to DVD transfer, or just capturing and syncing the audio for muxing with the DVD (keeping in mind this announcement).

Little Mermaid:
I did read a thread about someone working on a restored version, but if the DVD release that was pulled is actually the original theatrical version, then why is a preservation neccesary? Surely this DVD can be tracked down on eBay/Amazon Marketplace or whatever.

Song of the South:
I have this version which is 29.97fps and hard-telecined. Unfortunately the BBC broadcast was also interlaced, apparantly due to a botched NTSC to PAL conversion. Doctor M tried the Avisynth filter "restore24" on it, but I think he gave up in the end. Might be worth trying the newer "R_pack" restore function on it to see if it fares any better.
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#307754
Topic
Star Wars Prologue - Epic Prequel Edit (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307754/action/topic#307754
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There are at least two other edits I know of that combine all 3 prequels, but I think this would be the first to use a "flashback" to progress the story. Very interesting.

I don't have anything more to add because I haven't downloaded or viewed your screener, but I hope that you get some constructive feedback from others and continue with this project.
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#307363
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Help Wanted: A pitch-corrected Star Wars for PAL?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307363/action/topic#307363
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Hold on, surely your original encode was progressive 23.976fps 720 x 576, and DGPulldown applied flags to make it display 25fps. To be DVD compliant, I would have thought the file after pulldown has to be 720 x 576 and 25fps. What authoring software did you use, and did it complain at all?

(Or, was the MPEG-2 25fps to begin with, but you told DGPulldown to assume it was actually 23.976, so it re-wrote the frame rate and the repeat field flags at the same time? That would make sense.)

I'm wondering how a progressive scan DVD player would play such a DVD, and if any stuttering is noticeable.

The alternative to pitch correct (time compress) the audio, also has drawbacks with audible digital "stepping" artefacts. Although Belbucus tells me the Serato Pitch 'n Time plugin for Protools has an extremely high quality algorithm.
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#307342
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H.264/AVC/MPEG-4
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307342/action/topic#307342
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Decoding H.264 is much more intensive than MPEG-2. I've heard that CoreAVC is the fastest H.264 decoder, might be worth giving it a try to see how it compares with ffdshow.

I can play 720p x264 files with no problem on my PC (Athlon X2 4200+) with Media Player Classic Home Cinema Edition, although to be honest I'm not really sure whether it's using ffdshow or the Cyberlink decoder.

I've just got a DVI to HDMI cable so will be testing out some HD files in the near future - although time is a bit sparse at the moment!
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#306820
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Help Wanted: A pitch-corrected Star Wars for PAL?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306820/action/topic#306820
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The UK VHS releases in 1995 had pitch corrected audio. I used the audio from these coupled with the video from the French laserdiscs to make my PAL laserdisc transfer DVDs.

To clarify the framerates, film is, and always has been, 24fps.

The PAL system is a 50Hz signal, 50 fields per second, equivalent to 25 frames per second.
To convert from 24fps to 25fps is a simple case of speeding the film up. Most of the time this is unnoticeable. (Alternatively you can keep it 24fps and mess around with non-standard pulldown and blended fields - but this looks a mess, and thankfully is very rare).

NTSC was originally 60Hz, but this was reduced to 59.94Hz when colour was added. That's 29.97 full frames per second.
A speed up from 24fps up to 29.97fps would be unacceptable, so instead a system of repeated fields was devised. You cannot simply repeat every fourth frame because the jerkiness would be a problem. What happens is every 2 film frames are split over 5 fields (3:2 pulldown). This keeps the jerkiness to a minimum (altough PAL users, who are used to smooth motion, can sometimes see the effects of pulldown on motion and camera pans.) You end up with 4 film frames spread over 5 video frames, equivalent to 4/5 * 29.97 = 23.976fps. (No-one ever complains about the slowdown from 24 fps to 23.976fps!)
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#306559
Topic
highest resolution for anamorphic dvd?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306559/action/topic#306559
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Originally posted by: reave
Would a HD video converted to to DVD resolution look better than a standard DVD of the same material? Sometimes, yes. Paticularly if the HD version is sourced from a newer transfer (e.g. the original Blade Runner DVD vs. the HDTV to DVD conversion). Also, sometimes DVD versions have horizontal detail filtered to reduce flicker on interlaced displays. In these cases, an HD downscale will look better on progressive displays (see http://www.videophile.info/Review/FOTR/FOTR_01.htm).The move in question is a Blu Ray 720p mkv, 90 min film, but only takes two and a half gigs up. I would guess from that that I could fit it onto a standard DVD and not compress it, but then again I know sh#t about HD conversion.
What you have there is a pirate 'rip' from the original blu ray disc compressed with the x264 codec and stored in the mkv container. These rips are intended for playback on home theatre PCs, and are usually sized to fit on a DVD5 or DVD9. 2.5GB sounds a bit low, the effects of compression may be visible.
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#306072
Topic
Info: GOUT Anti-aliasing
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306072/action/topic#306072
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Originally posted by: Arnie.d
Why didn't you crop the sides Moth3r? I don't have the files on my hdd to check but I thought the PAL versions had the crap from the sides removed and the NTSC version still has them.
Oh, and do you know where I can download the font you used?
The "crap" at the sides is off the edges of the screen on my TV. I thought I may as well keep all the scaling in the y direction only. I don't know if scaling horizontally by a very small % is advisable.

I'm sure Google will find you a site online where you can purchase the Franklin Gothic font family.