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#160661
Topic
Your Ultimate Star Wars boxset
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160661/action/topic#160661
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1. Star Wars
- Original Edition, restored with cleaned up FX (à la the Indiana Jones trilogy).
- Option to play with original 1977 crawl.
- Several audio options including original mono, original Dolby stereo, 5.1 mix derived from original 6-track, and remastered 5.1 with missing bits of dialogue (from mono track) re-inserted.
- Holiday Special as a hidden easter egg!

2. The Empire Strikes Back
- Original Edition, restored with cleaned up FX.
- Several audio options including original Dolby stereo, 5.1 mix derived from original 6-track, and remastered 5.1.

3. Return of the Jedi
- As above.

4. The Ewok Adventures
- Restored with cleaned up FX.
( I don't care if they were set before or after ROTJ, they were released after so it goes at No. 4.)
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#160592
Topic
Dr. M's Reinventing The Wheel Edition (PAL to NTSC+) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160592/action/topic#160592
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Originally posted by: Doctor M
Anybody see this yet and know if this'll need color correction or not?
I know Moth3r was saying that he's done some work and it looks better than the first 2.
If it's a straight resize and audio dub I could probably get this done in a short weekend.
I took a different view on the saturation setting this time. Previously I set it low so that the reds wouldn't clip, however this time I thought sod it, let it clip. There's a couple of shots (e.g. where Luke escapes the exploding death star in a shuttle) where the red shoots off the scale on the vectorscope, but overall I think it looks nicer.

I will post some more jpegs in my thread, as the shots posted in October are now dead.
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#159435
Topic
Could someone help me obtaining the MagnoliaFan edits?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159435/action/topic#159435
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Yeah, upload 1.4GB to a free file host, that's a great idea!

Oh wait, no it isn't...

Rapidshare is set up so badly, it can't see through transparent ISP webcache proxies - so if you're on ntl, you're screwed.

Megaupload provides a download speed of around 5KB/s. OK if you want to spend 4 days solid downloading.

Yousendit downloads are plagued by "connection reset" messages.


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#159085
Topic
Mono mix for Moth3r's ANH DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159085/action/topic#159085
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No, I've finished with the mono mix for the time being. I've released a rough AC3 file for my ANH DVD and an NTSC speed version to go with Dr. M's DVD. It's a straightforward process to extract video from an existing DVD and author a new DVD with the mono audio, so I'm not going to do a whole new DVD. I would consider the rough audio track to be of academic interest only, just a bit of fun until a fully restored version becomes available (I've sent the uncompressed audio file to a restoration specialist to work with).

Not forgetting that Jedi/Feta and Tellan have made use of the mono mix in their own projects.
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#158707
Topic
Info: My PAL VHS Archive Collection
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158707/action/topic#158707
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Originally posted by: russs15
Originally posted by: Moth3rHave you checked the capture on a PC? Are there any frames that show interlacing artefacts that might indicate the use of some kind of non-standard pulldown?


I have to show my complete ignorance here and publicly state that I havn't the foggiest what you just said there!!!!!!!!!!
Load a VOB into an editor such as VirtualDubMod. View frames with motion. If the video is pure 25fps progressive then you should not see any interlacing "jaggies" or "mice teeth".
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#158379
Topic
Info: My PAL VHS Archive Collection
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158379/action/topic#158379
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Originally posted by: russs15
Secondly, on the 1995 Trilogy - One Last Time - Fullscreen and Widescreen release, Empire and Jedi only, there is no Fox logo and fanfare. Instead there is the crappy blue CBS FOX logo. This is very wrong!!!
I've mentioned this before (see here - my post dated October 17th). Because the audio form my DVD was taken from this set, I had to capture the laserdisc audio for the fox logo.
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#157675
Topic
.: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/157675/action/topic#157675
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ocpmovie: the video (apart from the freeze) and audio were finished, the disc just needed chapter points.

I tried Womble MPEG Video Wizard last night, thought it was worth a shot. It did reduce quality on a frame or two following the edit (up until the next I frame, basically) and for some reason decided to trim 7 frames off the end of the file (these frames only contained black anyway). But apart from that it was a quick and painless way to effect a fix for the freeze.

Just need to author with chapters, then watch the whole thing through to check for any more errors I might have missed.

Not be long, now.

Post
#156632
Topic
.: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/156632/action/topic#156632
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Damn...

Started watching my ROTJ disc this morning. It looked great in progressive scan on my new 36" TV. Then, just as our heroes were leaving Tatooine, I noticed a horrible freeze in the video. On checking my source, it appears there as well. Which means I've got to go back and recapture that section, splice it in to the AVIs, and re-encode everything again (I don't like the idea of using a MPEG editor to splice without re-encoding.)

So that means it will be a little longer before you can expect to see my release hit the newsgroup.