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#296190
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Info Wanted: Moth3r's PAL trilogy vs. anamorphically enhanced GOUT's
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/296190/action/topic#296190
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Hey I made Mallwalker's .sig! I'm honoured...

Moth3r vs GOUT? The most disappointing fact is that this is even a valid question. The 2006 release was Lucasfilm's chance to wipe the floor with the previous bootlegs and give us a definitive DVD version of the OOT.

If you convert the GOUT to 16:9 anamorphic, you should also apply some processing to reduce those annoying jaggies, you might also want to apply a bit of grain removal and hard-encode the subtitles. I'm planning on making such a disc when I get around to it. It will probably win out over my transfer with the improved colour saturation and level of horizontal detail.

But I'm confident that the X0 Project release, or Moth3r transfer V2, would be able to improve on any GOUT-sourced project.

Yes the Citizen transfers are also excellent. I have noticed the effect that Arnie mentions; I think the noise reduction was a little too strong and tended to group areas of similar colour together, giving a very subtle "cartoon" effect. You can see it if you zoom in on the moon in this screenshot. Having said that, if you find the halos in my transfer annoying then the Citizen version would be the one to get.
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#295920
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Getting AVI in Premiere Elements
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/295920/action/topic#295920
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Glad you figured it out, but to answer your questions above:

M2V is an elementary MPEG-2 video stream - what you get when you de-multiplex the video out of the VOB files. Ideally you want to get this into your editor without having to put it through a lossy encoder.

The Mainconcept plug-in allows you load in the M2V directly. The AviSynth/DGDecode approach tricks Premiere into thinking that the file is an AVI. If you are going to save the video into an AVI, don't use DivX, use a lossless codec like Huffyuv or Lagarith. Using VirtualDubMod or VirtualDub-MPEG2 for the conversion would be better than using Super, IMO.

BTW I've never actually used Premiere (Elements) myself, so any advice from those who have would be welcome.
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#295853
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Happy 25th Birthday, Compact Disc
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/295853/action/topic#295853
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Got my first CD player late in the day, probably around 92 or 93. Over the following 10 years or so, I amassed a large collection of those overpriced (in the UK, anyway) silver discs.

I can't remember the last time I bought an audio CD. There's not much new music worth listening to, and the odd track I like I'll download illegally - I feel I've given the music industry enough of my cash already over the years. And anyway, if you buy an audio CD these days it'll most likely be a non-standard, copy-protected disc (or try and install some crap software on your PC).

I can very easily tell the difference between mp3 and uncompressed WAV. Especially with orchestral music. I don't know how to describe it... cycling? Wahwahwah.... It's very obvious.
I often see posts on here from people who claim they can hear the difference between audio encoded with lossy compression and the uncompressed original. Personally I'm "agnostic" - I believe that some people genuinely can hear a difference. However, I also believe in the "placebo effect" (because I've experienced it myself); this is where you perceive a loss in quality because you know what you're listening to is compressed. For this reason, unless someone can support their claim with ABX test results, I will always regard such statements as subjective opinion.
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#295584
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splitting DVD's into youtube chunks
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/295584/action/topic#295584
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Is that 100 MB or MiB?

The sums work out at a maximum total bitrate of 1300-1400kbps. The easiest approach is probably to encode the entire length to an AVI, with MP3 audio at 192kbps and Xvid video, all quality options enabled, at 1100kbps (which is more than enough for video at 320x240). Then use something like Nandub or AVI-Mux GUI to conveniently split the AVI into 100MB chunks.
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#295580
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.:. MoveAlong's - The Story of TESB/The Adventures of Luke Skywalker .:. Complete!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/295580/action/topic#295580
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Finally got a chance to watch this.

I'm not going to go into detail as it would pretty much echo what others have already said, but this is a fan project of the highest calibre. Absolutely top notch MoveAlong, well done.

Also I wanted to thank you for your outstanding generosity. Mailing out 50+ discs for free, some internationally, complete with cases, covers and disc art must have set you back some.
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#294934
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Who got their membership pkg and "letter" from George Lucas?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294934/action/topic#294934
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Interesting.

I think his intention is to encourage fan films rather than fan edits - I certainly don't think he's condoning "the Internet as a distribution vehicle" for copyrighted works. However, "I know that some of you haven't liked every single thing that I've done" in the preceding sentence does suggest he is tolerant of Star Wars fan edits.
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#294760
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//Star Wars Begins\\: HD Version Now on Vimeo
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294760/action/topic#294760
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Belbucus has created an audio file with the Dolby mix in one channel and the mono mix in the other, synched to the GOUT DVD. This would help in identifying the changes, but from what I gather there are numerous minor differences that are probably not worth mentioning.

I could help converting video to PAL for you, but I don't have any of the Jabba material.
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#294690
Topic
splitting DVD's into youtube chunks
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294690/action/topic#294690
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What's a manageable size?

I know YouTube resizes to 320x240 and re-encodes anything you upload into FLV format, but I don't know what formats they accept or what size/time constraints they have on uploads (as I've never actually uploaded anything to YouTube myself). I assume they won't accept raw VOB sections split straight out of your DVD source?

You can probably help things along by doing the resizing yourself, but from what I understand the site will alway re-encode your video, even if you submit it in FLV to begin with. To begin with I'd try submitting a 320x240 Xvid AVI file and see how that looks.
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#294414
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Info: 2006 GOUT DVD using 'Faces' PCM Sound?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294414/action/topic#294414
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The "loud" version peaks at 0dB; there is no clipping of the waveform. If you want a disc with just the '77 mix, then this would be a better choice because it has a greater bit-depth.

If you are making a DVD containing AC3 encodes of both the '77 mix and the '93 mix, you can account for the level difference by making use of the dialnorm metadata in the AC3 stream. So for example, the '93 mix should have a dialnorm of -27dB (which is the average dialogue level). If you set the dialnorm level of the '77 mix to -23dB, then it will be automatically normalised to the "reference level" on playback.

If you just want to compare the two WAV files side by side on your computer, then you should get the reduced level version.

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#294411
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Difference in quality of laserdisc players
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294411/action/topic#294411
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The PAL laserdisc market was miniscule - the vast majority of discs you will find will be NTSC - but I can understand you not wanting to import a player from the US.

S-video seems to be the way to go with the D925, other players might give different results. This is where we miss Laserman's experience - I remember him mentioning an industrial player that had a very clean composite signal, but can't find the post now.

You might be able to improve the look of laserdisc on an LCD screen by using a separate video processor/scaler. Or you could capture the disc, process the video digitally, encode to MPEG-2 and burn a DVD.

I don't know much about demodulators. In theory, as the AC3 is digital, there should be no quality difference, the only differences being in connections or features like autoswitching. I might look into getting one at some point but they don't turn up very often on eBay. Going back to your first point, only NTSC laserdiscs can have AC3 tracks, PAL discs are PCM or analogue only.