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#271886
Topic
Merry X0mas and a Happy New Year!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271886/action/topic#271886
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Originally posted by: Laserman
Just a quick note to say thanks to everyone who has supported us this past year, your support has allowed us to continue to turn this:

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http://www.mudgee.net/ot/x0speeder89.jpg

Into this: /\ /\ /\

(No colour correction yet and a few problems remain, but nearly there.)

I'm off camping with my family to take a break from the drought and the bushfires, what are you all doing for the holidays?
Laserman et al,

Happy... erm, Valentine's Day!

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7608/imageea5.png

^^^ Moth3r V.2?
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#271739
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Info: The Making of The Empire Strikes Back (Michel Parbot)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271739/action/topic#271739
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Darth Neo, thank you for joining this forum and providing information about the existence of this rare video. I'm sorry your experience was marred by a few idiots here (the same idiots I might add are part of the reason why mverta no longer posts on this forum).

I hope you will rise above it and continue to contribute. Good luck with the website, and I look forward to seeing updates!
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#271289
Topic
ac3 sound question
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271289/action/topic#271289
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You cannot normalise an AC3 file without converting to a WAV file then re-encoding.

However, AC3 should not need normalising if it's encoded properly, as there are values stored in the AC3 stream that tell the decoder how to amplify/attenuate to make sure the sound plays at a known reference level.

Is this a file ripped from a DVD or TS file, or one you encoded yourself?
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#271288
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POLL: Which version of the OT do you own?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271288/action/topic#271288
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Originally posted by: Squirrel
Star Wars recorded from its first TV showing in 1983! Shame you didn't mention this before - it could have become another source for the Mono Mix Restoration Project!

[OT: I read an interview with Prowse once, and even though Darth Vader brought him international recognition, he actually seemed to take more pride in his role as the Green Cross Code man! OK it was a cheesy public safety campaign, but fondly remembered by anyone my age. And you can't deny it probably saved lives.
/me goes to search youtube for green cross code adverts...]

Return Of The Jedi - recorded from TV in about 1990.
If you get a chance, could you have a look at the scenes in Jabba's palace with subtitles? My TV recording of this got wiped, but I seem to remember that the subtitles looked like they were from the original theatrical prints. A giveaway was that one line was too long for the P&S frame, so the picture actually panned from left to right to show all the text!
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#271067
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Info: Returned, and still working on XP77...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/271067/action/topic#271067
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Moll! It's been years. Good to see you back.

You have some catching up to do. Which version of the mono mix do you have? I've done 3 captures from the old tape; the first (released as an MP3 and FLAC) had some clipping, the second, synced up to the video from my laserdisc transfer, was a bit dull sounding. The last one, synced to the GOUT video, is probably the best until Belbucus delivers the restored version. (I made no attempt to reconstruct the missing sections or fix glitches, though).

And yeah, there was the pre-ANH bootleg with original subtitles, a couple of in-theatre recordings of the original 70mm soundtrack showed up (here and here).
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#270796
Topic
Info & Help: Looking for... Raiders Of The Lost Ark - on HDTV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270796/action/topic#270796
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
I have read reviews and I would have to concur that the picture on the dvd's suffer from compression and they picture is darker than it should be and the constrast was was too high.

No one should ever trust Lowry to retouch the color of there films, they did a complete hack job on star wars.
Where have you seen these reviews? Link?

I was under the impression that most people were happy with the official Indy DVDs. The colour problems with the SW DVDs were not Lowry's fault, but a result of LFL's meddling.
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#270788
Topic
The Official babyhum Release Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270788/action/topic#270788
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Hey don't ask me I know nothing about Macs...

Sounds like the correct procedure. If you want to make sure it's working, find a short section containing lots of strong red, render once without the filter, then again with the filter applied. Close examination of the encoded files should demonstrate the effect that the filter is having.

You can see the 4:1:0 chroma effect in the screenshots from the original TR47 laserdisc transfer.
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#270527
Topic
The Official babyhum Release Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270527/action/topic#270527
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Originally posted by: DVD-BOY
Someone please correct me, but I had always heard that NSTC DV should be avoided as an intermediate codec as it is 4.1.1 meaning when you do the DVD encode, which is 4.2.0, you end up with effectively 4.1.0 colour. PAL DV on the other hand is 4.2.0, ie: the same as DVD.
It depends on the DV codec.

The MPEG encoder requests video in RGB (4:4:4) or YUY2 (4:2:2) (that's TMPGEnc & CCE respectively, no idea about Apple's Compressor). If the DV codec is being nice, it should interpolate (upsample) the chroma when it converts from 4:1:1. The problem occurs when non-interpolated NTSC DV is fed into the encoder, which then down converts as you described, resulting in that ugly blockiness in red areas.

If you're using a DV codec that doesn't interpolate, then you should apply a chroma smoothing filter to the video before encoding. CCE has an option for this, as does Final Cut Pro according to This Link (which also mentions that Apple's DV codec is one of the ones that doesn't interpolate.)
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#270259
Topic
Howard The Duck - special edition (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270259/action/topic#270259
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Originally posted by: DVD-BOY
I had tried opening the AVI produced by AVC2AVI into MainConcept, but no dice - haven't tried via the AVISynth script. Did you remember to enable H.264 decoding in ffdshow?

What's the best way to get the framecount of the ts file - does something like TSEditor list it?
Don't really know, I used the AVC2AVI method. Never used TS Packet Editor; I know TSConvertor works with H264 streams but I think it uses timecodes instead of frame numbers.


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#270243
Topic
Howard The Duck - special edition (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270243/action/topic#270243
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Originally posted by: DVD-BOY
I've notice that everything I've used the AVISynth script with has got the number of frames and therefore the running time completely wrong - like in the region of 16 hours!!

I'm not really doing anything 'funky', just:

DirectShowSource(howard.ts)
AssumeFPS(23.976)

Any suggestions?
Two suggestions:
Use AVC2AVI to put the H264 stream into an AVI container, and use AVISource(), as described on the previous page.
or
Assuming you are using the latest AVISynth version 2.5.7, use the new framecount parameter to force the correct length, e.g. DirectShowSource( "filename", framecount=<no. of frames> )


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#269830
Topic
crawl generator (link)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269830/action/topic#269830
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Originally posted by: Jambe Davdar
Very interesting. I am running it now. I will let you know what the results look like.

Update - It actually makes a series of BMP stills - now all I have to do is figure out how to make them into a video file...


You can load those into VirtualDubMod and generate an AVI from that. Usually you pick the first one in the sequence and the program knows how to put them together from there ... assuming they're named correctly.
Too bad VirtualDub doesn't run on a Mac...

Anyway, we need someone to write a tutorial for a reliable way to create custom crawls, judging from the amount of posts we get requesting them. There's probably a way to do it in AVISynth (using animate, ffdshow's perspective correction and overlay) if only I had some time to devise such a script.
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#269786
Topic
Howard The Duck - special edition (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269786/action/topic#269786
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I checked out DJ's PAL sample - looks to be in synch to me. The AR of this is about 1.85:1, am I right in thinking that the OAR was 2.35:1? Has it ever been released on laserdisc in its OAR? EDIT - Just read the beginning of the thread, looks like this is the best AR you can get)

For some reason, when I tried DirectShowSource() with the TS sample DJ sent me, it ended up repeating nearly half the file. DirectShow was using the Cyberlink TS splitter and H.264 decoder included with PowerDVD 7.

So here is another method you could try:

1. Use xport to demux the TS file into raw H264 video and AC3 audio streams. You will need to rename the MPV file to H264 and the MPA file to AC3. (This method will cut the beginning of the audio so that there will be no need to guess an audio delay later on.)

2. Run AC3Fix on the demuxed audio.

3. Use AVC2AVI_MOD to put the H264 stream into an AVI file.

4. (Install ffdshow if you don't have it already). Enable H264 decoding in the ffdshow VFW configuration.

5. AVISynth script as posted previously, but replace DirectShowSource with AVISource("filename").

6. Open script into CCE and encode as normal.

7. When muxing/authoring, the video from step 6 and the audio from step 2 should synch up with a 0ms delay.