Moth3r

Can you post a screenshot that shows the flaw on the Baby Herman scene?

Image:

(It also appears on the "uncut" laserdisc.)

Guys, what do you think about this one:

In the Toontown bathroom, on the wall next to the Allyson Wonderland graffiti, there's a towel dispenser with a bird's nest on top.

On the theatrical version, one frame shows a brown splodge as if one of the birds has taken a shit defecated onto the towel below. The splodge has been removed from the BD version.

Take a look and let me know if you think this is just a coincidental spot of dirt on the film, or if it's been deliberately drawn on by the animators.

Thanks AntcuFaalb - I'll now see this every time I watch BTTF 3 in the future. Something I didn't expect in a thread about Return of the Jedi...

From a quick scan of this it looks very nice.

I've heard that the TPM laserdisc is one of the best ever made (it was towards the end of the format's life), and the CLD-HF9G is the Japanese equivalent of the CLD-99 (one of the best US laserdisc players).

I spotted just a little haloing in some scenes that shows it's from an analogue source, but laserdisc can't get much better than this!

Has anyone compared this to the version that came from a DVB broadcast?

If you want to match on a frame by frame basis, you could use the function HistogramAdjust inside a ScriptClip.

HistogramAdjust only matches the luma, but with some clever use of UtoY and VToY you could use it to match all channels. (Similarly, I imagine a combination of ShowRed/Blue/Green and MergeRGB could be used to do the matching in RGB colourspace.)

none said:

pittrek wrote: BTW there was a shot where they added a CGI bridge for the DVD/BD. Does anybody remember in which scene it was so that I can check it ?

It's the establishing shot of GTF occupied Naboo after the heroes begin their return from Coruscant.  ~1:35:00.  It's a few shots after Jar-Jar says: "Weesa going home!"  The shot after the CGI modified bridge is Sidious (hologram) talking to Gunray. 

pics of the shot in this post:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Prequel-Bootlegs/post/611716/#TopicPost611716

Looks like Adywan missed that one in his theatrical reconstruction (the bridge is there). Also, this change is not mentioned in this dvdactive article.

Video Collector said:

Hi Althor.

Great work on this LD capture, but I am seeing horrible blocking when playing this in Media Player Classic. I'm not sure which decoder my system uses, but I haven't had any problems before. Is it just a bad decoder on my system or do others experience the same on playback?

Also using MPC, but no problems here. To find out what decoder is being used, go to Play -> Filters, then look for the video decoder. I'm using the MPC Video Decoder, which in turn uses my video card's DXVA for decoding. 

A request to uploaders: please don't post compressed RARs (use the "Store" option instead). 

The size benefits of using compression are minimal (at least for video files that are already compressed), extraction takes longer, and MPC doesn't support playback.

Hi Rachel,

Thanks for the reminder. I've now purged all your links and banned all your accounts. Please don't come back again.

SilverWook said:

It drives me nuts when Wookiee is misspelled. Especially when it's someone on the Lucasfilm payroll. ;)

For most other misspellings me & my OCD feel the same (most will know about my particularly strong dislike for the misspelling of the BD acronym).

But I tend to misspell "Wookiepedia" - deliberately, just to piss off EU-nerds and TFn members.

Also: http://goo.gl/maps/c0kSN

Tend to agree - lagarith is good intermediate codec. 

These stickies are really overdue a revamp.

Even though the thread title says "new", this is a legacy of a time when laserdisc captures were the main push of the forum.

There's not really much point of creating a comparison for Harmy's project as there is nothing to compare it against. (Although if they were to be a downscaled DVD version I could add it to my Custom DVD page.)

Haven't seen anything from Zion for a few years so I doubt that his site is still active.

VirtualDubMod has never been recommended for taking screenshots, even for DVDs, as it alters the colours. The latest VirtualDub with the MPEG-2 plugin, or AviSynth with DGIndex/MPEG2Source would be my recommendation for DVDs. For MKV I'd try AviSynth with ffmpegsource. Not sure you could trust MPC not to apply any processing to the video that may affect the screenshot.

JPG is used because the file size is smaller than PNG, thus the screens are quicker to load.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-originaltrilogycom-acronym-buster/topic/6810/

Think I need to break someone's fingers.

What's BRD?

Here is a list of (supposedly) all 112 US laserdiscs with DTS sound (scroll down to post #7).

The list doesn't include Japanese releases, many of which have English DTS - most seem to have a US equivalent but there are some Japanese exclusives such as this one that looks very interesting.

Initially you can display the histogram and use the level dialogue in Virtualdub's capture mode to make a coarse adjustment of brightness and contrast.

Matt_Stevens said:

OK, I have MKVtoolnix (the program itself is listed as mkvmerge GUI v6.1.0) but all it does it make yet another mkv file. ??????

You need to use the mkvextract tool, not mkvmerge.

You could remux the video & audio streams into a different container (M2TS) using tsMuxeR. 

Or use mkvtoolnix to extract the raw streams then Yamb to mux into MP4.

Not sure what Adobe Premiere supports.

Now up on a.b.starwars.

darth_ender said:

Is there anyone who has a copy of this and is willing to upload it?  I'd also be pleased with the Darth Editous/ADigitalMan hybrid, though it would be nice to have both.  I'd love a PM.

I have a PAL DVD which is, I think, v1 (there is a file on the disc named DE-ANH20050525P.jpg which suggests it was released 25 May 2005).

Popped the disc in to run a verify in ImgBurn and unfortunately it's unreadable after the 94% mark (so the final VOB file is lost).

I do however have two AVI files on a hard drive - one is in a folder with DE-ANH20060510X.jpg, so is probably v2, and the other is DE-ANHv3X.jpg. I don't have DVD versions of v3, but can post the Xvid for anyone who wants it.

I've used previous versions of Sound Forge - isn't this a simple case of selecting the zero level audio and hitting the delete button?

I'm waiting for Ady to change his.

(Actually I'm just being lazy)

The THX Ultimate Demo disc contains the Wow sequence that was previously used on a demo laserdisc. While it's interesting to compare the colours (no clipped whites, unlike the GOUT DVD) it's no real use for projects as the fast-paced editing means there are no complete shots in the sequence.

Cutting frames and a slice of audio is the easiest, but can be noticeable clicks or jumps. Better results if you make a note of the cut points then use an audio editor to do a crossfade.

My suggestion would be to capture the vhs audio & video together, using virtualdub, so you have an avi file with audio synched to a video reference.

Then match video to video by cutting frames where required.