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#130260
Topic
Info Wanted: are there any lossless masters of ld captures?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130260/action/topic#130260
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In my experience, the difference between the lossless source after post-processing and the MPEG-2 compressed file is negligible.

The unprocessed captured AVIs are 60-80GB per film - and that's compressed with huffyuv. It'd theoretically take about 7 weeks of solid uploading for me to put these on a.b.sw, and no-one is prepared to do that (not to mention it will piss off the users of the group and probably the uploader's ISP as well).

Some people may offer to copy the files for the price of a hard drive plus shipping - if they still have them. My raw AVIs are now deleted, and I believe Cowclops has deleted his as well.
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#130246
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***The Official FAN CREATED DVD Reviews and Feedback Thread***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/130246/action/topic#130246
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I'd be interested to read comparisons of the DVD-based Ep. IV edits; specifically:
ADigitalMan's version with trimmed scenes, a few fixes and modified audio.
ocpmovie's version that uses laserdisc footage to replace a lot of the CGI crap.
Darth Editous who has digitally painted out the CGI stuff, and also gone to town removing continuity errors and fixing dodgy SFX.
Anyone seen all three?
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#129726
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Citizen's Aspect Ratio Calculator Tool for your browser
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/129726/action/topic#129726
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Originally posted by: Karyudo
Now, for a real TV, getting the AR "right" is sorta pointless, because a CRT can be (and is) adjusted to mess with the AR, and the edges hidden by a bezel. So the minute differences made by CCIR-compliant calculations sorta make no difference at all, when some doofus at the factory wasn't all that careful, and your TV is actually displaying 4.2:3 already!
I'm sort of with Karyudo on this bit, there's no point in doing the calculations to n-th degree accuracy if the tolerance the display device can be up to 5% out.

Plus the fact that many people will find this useful for converting downloaded AVIs into DVD, and many AVIs have aspect ratios that are slightly off to begin with to comply with the mod-16 size requirement.

However I think it would be nice to have a checkbox to say "correct values for CCIR compliancy" so that users have the option to use it or not.
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#129366
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<strong>The Cowclops Transfers (a.k.a. the PCM audio DVD's, Row47 set) Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/129366/action/topic#129366
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Originally posted by: MoveAlong
Just read on myspleen that Rik had a private viewing of cowclops2 ESB and the demo disc with other OT fans. They rated 7 transfers and cowclops2 came in #6, as in next to last, ahead of only the quality broth set. This seems hard to believe after months of reading this thread and looking forward to this set. I don't have the discs yet. Any comments, concerns?
Not watched this all the way through, but first impression is that Cowclops V2 is the best anamorphic NTSC version yet.
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#129200
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Dr. M's Reinventing The Wheel Edition (PAL to NTSC+) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/129200/action/topic#129200
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Originally posted by: Doctor M
That's a 7-pass vbr, now how do I make CCE go all the way to 11? Pointless IMO, after 2 passes it's a case of dimishing returns. For a laserdisc source, I don't think there's any advantage in doing more than 3 passes. Even for a DVD source, 5-6 passes is considered about the maximum.
Originally posted by: Doctor M
Let me know what you think, and be honest, this IS for posterity. To bright, to yellow, too much border, etc.
Really kicking myself about the colour saturation. It looks so much better with just a little increase (I have to turn the colour up on my TV every time I watch my discs!)

I think you're wrong to do what you've done with the borders. If it was me, I'd just shrink everything vertically by 16.67% to give 480 lines (with about 360 for the actual video picture).

And just an idea for you: for the halos, you might want to try the FixVHSOversharp Avisynth filter. It looks like it's the sort of thing that the video needs, but I think it's designed for VCD, it might not be developed enough to work with full-resolution DVD video.
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#129061
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<strong>The &quot;ADigitalMan Special Editions&quot; DVD Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/129061/action/topic#129061
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segaflip, a belated thanks for posting "Vergence" to the newsgroup.

ADigitalMan - the audio drop out is hardly noticeable. (I did however notice, when watching on my PC, the famous "halos" which are an issue with the Region 1 DVD release).

I haven't had a chance to watch all the way through yet but it looks like you did a great job with this. I liked what you did with the podrace. The last fan edit I d/led was Magnoliafan's remastered 'Phantom Re-Edit' but due to a bad framerate and poor audio that one got deleted; yours however is a keeper!
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#128482
Topic
<strong>The Cowclops Transfers (a.k.a. the PCM audio DVD's, Row47 set) Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/128482/action/topic#128482
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Originally posted by: segaflip
Well I am running winrar on ep5 right now. Since i am not in a rush to get this up, seeing how I am still posting ep4, i am using the best compression. That should make it alittle bit smaller and faster to upload/download. I plan on starting to post ep5 around noon Sun same format as ep4.

I was able to compress ep5 from 4.23gb to 3.64gb, only took 2.5hrs. If anyone cares.
Does that mean it's going to take 2.5 hours to un-rar? I'm surprised you managed to compress it that much, as normally DVDs (which are already compressed MPEG-2 video) don't compress very well with ZIP or RAR compression.

Persoanlly I prefer no compression, (i.e. use the "store" option), as then if you want to preview the download you can just rename one of the RARs to VOB and play it in PowerDVD.
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#127675
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.: Moth3r's PAL DVD project :.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/127675/action/topic#127675
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I believe it's a problem with some MJPEG codecs doing a non-standard YUY2 -> RGB conversion.

http://www.doom9.org/capture/digital_video_color.html

A good thing to know. If you feed a YUY2 file into VirtualDub or TMPGEnc, it will be converted to RGB before it gets there. This conversion will be done by the codec (like huffyuv or an mjpeg codec) if you open the avi directly. It can be done by an explicit ConvertToRGB32() within AviSynth, or it will be done by your operating system if you open the file in AviSynth and output uncompressed YUY2. The reason you may care is that the luma range may be handled differently depending upon the method of conversion. The standard way of converting is to take the normal range of YUY2 (which is 16-235) and expand it to the normal range of RGB (which is 0-255). Huffyuv, the AviSynth conversion routines, and the default OS conversions do this. The down side of this is that any values outside of the normal range will be set to 0 or 255. This is called clamping. A non-standard method of conversion is to keep the 16-235 range for the RGB. The problem with this is that if you don't deal with this correctly, you will get washed out looking video. The major mjpeg codecs (and some DV ones) do this non-standard YUY2->RGB conversion. TMPGEnc and other mpeg encoders have a setting to adjust for this. In VirtualDub, you need to make the adjustment manually, or simply know what you have before you feed it to your encoder.
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#127560
Topic
Dr. M's Reinventing The Wheel Edition (PAL to NTSC+) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/127560/action/topic#127560
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I just remembered, back in the day when I used to do a bit of work as a DJ (this would be mid to late '90s) there was a piece of hardware available that did some kind of realtime time stretching/pitch preservation for you. Basically it meant that DJs could drastically ramp up the tempo of a track without getting the "helium" effect on the vocals, and it also compensated for any sudden pitch change if you touched the record during a mix.

Digging around Google came up with this, but not much else.

So what I'm saying is that the technology for pitch preservation did exist back when these VHS versions were released, so it shouldn't be so much of a surprise that it was used. Just makes you wonder how many other PAL titles have the correct pitch?
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#127557
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Star War, Episode III - Backstroke Of The West (part-finished release?)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/127557/action/topic#127557
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The original article at winterson.com went down ages ago, so posting a link to an alternative mirror was a useful exercise.

I did get my hands on an Asian bootleg pressing of Ep. III, but it was the later one without the timer and with the Russian opening text. The English subtitles on that were not perfect, but nowhere near humourous as the version shown.
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#127222
Topic
Dr. M's Reinventing The Wheel Edition (PAL to NTSC+) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/127222/action/topic#127222
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Hmmm, some interesting points to note in this thread:

Top and bottom edges have the least damage (and little can be done about this).
Left and right present the real problem. Because in addition to the lost regions, even more of the frame will be lost once this is view on a TV (because of overscan). The tighter framing in the PAL laserdiscs is well documented, but in addition, some of the image lost from the left and right could be due to the "capture window" effect.

Your nuts Doc! What about his nuts?

I did a simple saturation boost and put the brightest red in that clip to 75% of maximum I find this very strange - but that's exactly what I did when I captured the video. So in theory, you shouldn't be changing the saturation at using that method.

I've since found that the 75% thing (which equates to a maximum analogue voltage of 100 IRE for NTSC video) isn't a limitation for PAL, so I could have gone higher. Also, it's normally acceptable to go up to 110 IRE or even 120 IRE for the occasional isolated pixel.

:: Edit - check out frame 8098.

The sharpening process Moth3r used produces halos around dark edges,
No, the halos were not caused by the sharpening (see my post dated 18 April). It's actually an analogue oversharp problem, you can see that the halos are on the left hand side only (if it was digital sharpening it would be both sides). But my version is designed for analogue (CRT) displays, where such things are not as noticable, whereas I understand yours is intended for a digital projector?

I've never seen (heard) a PAL release with preserved pitch.
I hadn't either, so this is a bit surprising. Can anyone confirm this is definitely the case?

Have you tried to align the audio track to the video yet? Because I'd imagine you'd be unlikely to get a perfect 25fps from your VHS player.
No, but the audio on my DVD is a perfect 25fps, I spent some time matching it up frame-by-frame cutting out the occasional 40ms where necessary. Although it does maybe go out of sync for a little bit during some parts of the final death star battle.
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#126824
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What do you use to master your DVD's?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/126824/action/topic#126824
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I used DVDAuthorGUI for my DVDs, which is ideal if you just want a quick and simple structure.

For more complicated authoring, I've used DVD-lab PRO, which is pretty easy to use and quite powerful. However I did once have a problem with it not recognising a text file containing timecodes of desired chapter stops.

Scenarist is, of course, the industry standard. I've never used it - the version I had, when I tried to install, turned out to be a trojan (bloody Suprnova ). Apparently it's very powerful, but as Zion said it probably takes some time to get used to.