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althor1138 said:

I think my capture card pulls in fields in the wrong order perhaps?  The order on my capture starting with the first frame of the Title card and using separatefields goes like this: 0,1,3,2,5,4,6,7,8,9

What are these numbers? 

Are you using DoubleWeave().Pulldown() to manually IVTC?

Harmy said:

... Like when you take the DeEd, I am technically editing the SE.

Yes you are editing the SE - you are cutting out certain shots, for example.

But the role of the editor is much more than that. He/she selects and combines shots from the raw footage to guide the telling and pace of a story. In your case, the artistic decisions have already been made (and recognised with an Oscar) by the original editors, and you are attempting to replicate this version as close as possible.

I see this as very different to your Mike J Nichols or ADigitialMan taking the final cut as their raw footage and attempting to re-imagine the story.

TV's Frink said:

This is a silly debate, 

This is irony.

TV's Frink said:

Harmy (and some other fan editors) get some love on Wired:

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2013/02/star-wars-fandom-editors/

Using my interpretation of the definition of a fan edit, Harmy (and Jambe) are not fan editors.

No, the PAL laserdiscs use a different master. ANH has less DVNR, while TESB has more and looks worse than the GOUT DVD. Not checked ROTJ.

If you hover over the icons in the lddb listing, it tells you:

- This title carries a Digital Soundtrack identical to an Audio CD in quality.

- The Analog Soundtrack was encoded using the CBS CX Noise Reduction system to expand its dynamic range

E. H. Shepard was an English artist and book illustrator. Although he was known especially for his illustrations for Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne, he grew to resent "that silly old bear" and felt that these illustrations overshadowed his other work.

That makes me sad.

SilverWook said:

Molly said:

I've seen worse.  The mono tracks on some Funimation DVDs are only 96 kbps.

They used 96kps on the extras for the 007 SE DVD's a decade ago. It makes the commentaries sound like AM radio.

96kbps is Dolby's recommended data rate for DD1.0, so it should sound transparent to most people. I used this bitrate for the mono mix on my Star Wars Pwnage Edition disc, and I certainly couldn't ABX it.

What I'm saying is that those commentaries probably sounded like AM radio before encoding...

Yes, the '77 fullscreen bootleg had the mono mix.

digitalfreaknyc said:

I complained about this in blu-ray.com when the blu-ray came out and several people commented that the DTS 768 equals the PCM. I didn't understand why but they explained it.

48kHz = 48,000 samples per second.

Each sample is 16 bits, therefore mono PCM is 1 x 16 x 48,000 = 768,000 bits per second = 768kbps.

However, the specs above say that it is encoded as dual mono (same track in left and right channels) and uses 24 bit samples. Uncompressed this would be 2 x 24 x 48000 = 2304kbps, so 768kbps represents a track that has been compressed to a third of its original size. 

You mean try a sample out with Srestore? Send me the link, I can have a go.

Jetrell Fo said:

http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/07270/CC1462L/Halloween-%281978%29

Halloween, 2 disc Criterion LD CAV Release, has Color Bars on it. 

:)

It looks like all Criterion Collection laserdiscs contained color bars.

Thanks - added.

So... about that 2.1?

Yes the deck will probably use professional connectors - XLR for audio and BNC for component video. You'll have to use adapters, but it shouldn't be a problem.

Can the Hauppauge take a component input? If not, s-video would be a second choice.

Four requests in two days?

Thread locked.

No, although the tapes look similar Betacam SP and Betamax are completely different formats.

I would look into getting a Betacam SP tape deck off eBay, and a capture card that can capture an analogue component input.

animebuff said:

bkev said:

How bad? The kind where it's not salvageable if you switch it back?

Yes.  Screengrabs from DVDizzy post.

That might be salvageable (using Srestore, for example). Would need to see a short clip rather than two screengrabs.

AntcuFaalb said:

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(For now, let's say that "best" means "most accurate to the original theatrical presentation".)

Which original theatrical presentation? Lady and the Tramp had two...

Yes, there are many DVDs that contain the THX Optimizer too. 

In the context of analogue capture, these may be useful for a general check of your capture device's performance and calibration, but results may be skewed by the analogue conversion in your DVD player.

As far as this forum is concerned, you should own the Blu-ray release.

See the announcement here: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Notes-on-Piracy-Please-Read/forum/17/topic/13347/

ProgMetalMan said:

I am having this issue as well. After obtaining the DVD9 iso, I attempted to open it with VLC to no avail, and then tried to mount it with Alcohol 52%.

It gets mounted successfully, but Windows won't read it. It says:

 

Title: Disk is not formatted

 

Windows cannot read from this disk. The disk might be corrupted, or it could be using a format that is not compatible with Windows.

[OK]

 

Are you on Windows XP? If so, you will need to install a UDF 2.5 driver to be able to read AVCHD discs.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Phantom-Menace-Theatrical-Version-NTSC-DVD-ADYWAN-NOW-AVAILABLE/post/371386/

This is correct - if you check your players manual, it says:

Using DivX disc

• Disc : CD-R/-RW, DVD-RAM/±RW/±R, HDD, USB
• Video File with following extensions can be played. : .avi, .divx, .AVI, .DIVX
• DivX Video (Codec) Format : DivX 3.11 DivX 4.x DivX 5.x (without QPEL and GMC)
• DivX Audio (Codec) Format : MP3, MPEG1 Audio Layer 2, LPCM, AC3, DTS
• Supported subtitle file formats: .smi, .srt, .sub, .psb, .txt, .ass
• Each folder can have up to 500 items including files and sub folders.
• You cannot play back the disc that is larger than a 720 x 576 pixel resolution