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#295207
Topic
Star Wars - The Vintage Edit (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/295207/action/topic#295207
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Oh, I have a frame-server to TMPG. Actually I changed where in the order of things I resize the video, plus gave TMPG some more reasonably higher quality settings, and the results look a lot better. Ha, I was scared a minute there.

I've updated the initial post to contain screen-shots sourced from an actual encode, instead of a bitmap off my time-line in premiere. So this is what it actually looks like and would look like on DVD. There's oodles of little flukes to go back and fix, but those are some screen-shots of where things have improved.

A friend of mine and I watched my ESB edit on his big screen TV. Obviously I saw all the places where I need to improve, but the overall experience of seeing something I made on somebody else's screen was awesome . Plus I gave him the disc and he watched it again only days later with the isolated score, big Star Wars fan too. I've said this before in the midst of a large rant in another thread, but I just wanted to bring it up cause it really enlists some confidence to know these movies are salvageable. OT all the way. Peace dawgz. (plus offering free copy for a volunteer to create an original crawl in HD resolution)
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#295095
Topic
Who got their membership pkg and "letter" from George Lucas?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/295095/action/topic#295095
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GOD DAMN! I hate it when everything turns into this depressing bullshit! You are all such Debbie Downers I want to blow my brains out! Now if we and all you Negative Nancies can take nothing else from this letter, it's that if Lucasfilm will not, for some reason, from strange excuses to outlandish conspiracies, will not release the best movie ever in a proper format for the classic fans as those who come to this forum, we'll just have to show a little ingenuity. Of course in this letter, he's clearly talking about making your own damn movie, to go out there like he did as a young man and get in the dirt and come up with something new (yeah he probably not even be talking about fan films dawg), but we can take so much more from this. The technology today can do so much more than what it could do when he was a kid (although it's a few thousand pixels short of the same quality) in terms of both power and distribution. Dammit, we have everything we need. We have the 2004 DVDs, we have HD broadcasts, we have a laserdisc master tape on DVD, we have the mono mix, we have the stereo mix, we have an isolated score, God dammit we even have the back channels of the 2004 DVD mixed properly, we have avisynth, we have insert generic expensive editing program (and failing that, we have software piracy), we have everything that we need to do what we need them to do. Why is it that OCP's Classic Editions are the only DE-SEing projects in existence???!!! I thought with time that is all I would see on these forums! Put down your PT DVDs!!! Stop fan editing them! They're not good! They have no souls!

If Lucasfilm won't give Star Wars what it needs, then we'll just have to.

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g40/DledRhapsody/TantiveWall.jpg

I'm sorry, it's just when you watch your own DE-SEing project with a friend of yours on his HD television, with the real Fett speaking right now cue, and everything with a place and everything in its place, when you leave your disc there for your friend to have, and print out for him the cover art you yourself created, and when you give it to him he's all "Dude sweet!", and when days later he's watching the film yet again with the isolated score, and all this you yourself put together, and have everything you need to do it two more times (three times cause you're convinced you could still do better with the one that's done!), and have everything you need to give it to the whole world with an internet connection, well fuck.

No, it won't be perfect, it won't be perfect until Lucasfilm does a proper transfer from the original negatives once again. And if he's actually taped over his copy, then another can be easily salvaged from deep within the safe, secure, environment-controlled vaults of the British Film Institute or the American Film Institute. Now come on people, cheer the fuck up.
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#294904
Topic
//Star Wars Begins\\: HD Version Now on Vimeo
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294904/action/topic#294904
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it's an issue you could bring up though. I remember just casually watching it awhile ago, and I swear I saw him miss it myself, then I looked back, and the way the sequence is edited, it seems as though he actually tries and misses if you're not paying attention, or if you're just remembering back on it, like thinking it only happened in the theater. I think it's when Luke is pulling out some slack on the cord, and it cuts real quick mid-pull to the ledge or something, then cuts back and he's collecting the slack, and it can definitely look like he tried to throw it. I dunno I can't check now, but that's where I think the myth comes from. I'm probably not the first to think that but it is a theory.
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#294374
Topic
2007 Star Wars DVD Collection Release
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/294374/action/topic#294374
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Well, this boring ol' debate aside. Klokwerk, have you gotten anything more from your employer on the supposed box-set? We have official internet buzz for the other announcements he spoke of. I would be more skeptical if it were just something he brought up in passing, but with detail like the number of discs, and this number being contradictory mathematically to a simple repackaging (which would be 13). Have you managed to talk to him again?
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#293745
Topic
STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/293745/action/topic#293745
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I had a thought...

When Tarkin discovers that the rebels have gained access to the cell block corridor, Vader says "They must be attempting to return the stolen plans to the Princess, she may yet be some use to us." I was thinking about lines of dialog that don't make any sense (like threepio saying there'll be no escape for the princess this time, which you've cut), that maybe it would improve the film if Vader didn't make such a stupid assumption. I checked your first post and this change isn't there, but if you're looking for some of those silly little lines/scenes to cut, that could be one.
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#293520
Topic
Star Wars - The Vintage Edit (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/293520/action/topic#293520
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I just downloaded the mono mix and it's very pretty and I'll have a wonderful time stealing it for my own use . I'll have to grab some people's real names to give due credit. I want to this release to feel legit in that respect.

So....my encode went...okay. What does anybody know about WookieGroomer's HD thang. So it's the combined efforts of a number of HD broadcasts? Is this just to eliminate broadcast glitches? How do people like the quality of the encoding? Many artifacts? I know they're mostly unavoidable with a broadcast signal, but just wondering from anybody who's seen them.

It's just so grainy right now. I know part of this is probably coming from how filter heavy the process from the original file all the way down to the encode, so in that respect I might need to rethink how I do the actual color correction. I might also rethink about when I resize the image, cause I get some stair-casing when I let Premiere do the resizing, when maybe it's a better idea to resize first with a good avisynth resizer.

Well I learned a lot from this first 3-day debacle! And I've got some new ideas and I'm gonna get back on track. Screener getting held off for a bit cause this one sucks too bad. It needs to be as good as I think I can get it, that way the standard of the critiques will go up as well.

But for tonight...Simpsons Movie. I hope it's great...oh it won't be. It hasn't been great since season 10...can only hope
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#293087
Topic
Star Wars - The Vintage Edit (* unfinished project *)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/293087/action/topic#293087
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So encoding 2 hours of this crap takes only...69 more hours, and that's with motion estimate set to pretty low quality. But I think I've got things more or less lined up so I can start syncing audio to what video I have, await our screeners' comments, then just encode it again correctly. But that starts something like three days from now. It's excellent this is finally happening, cause Premiere takes about a week to render a preview frame with this HD material. So far, some shots look good, some shots don't, but I'm finally getting a good look at it outside of the editing window. Every special edition improvement is officially gone. Great thanks to adywan for doing all the tough matte replacements in the cell block corridor, he kicked their ass quite sufficiently. I hope to find the restored mono mix from the mono mix restoration project in a torrent soon. From what people have been saying so far it's quite the listen.

Obstacles of Doom:
-Opening shot (repainting that stuff) I'm playing with some methods outside of actually shelling out for After Effects, and it should work out soon.
-Original crawl (where are you Swehanzon?)
-Some matte fixes of my own are failing when encoded, like not lined up correctly...god damn lying preview window.
-And I don't know exactly how I'm going to pull off a 5.1 1977 mix, or a 5.1 mix at all without resorting to some sort of "heresy mix" just for the sake of a 5.1 mix as per standard DVDs for classic films. Neil's disc (or as he prefers, "the disc he received" ) is obviously a good base, but we'll see.

In somewhat related news: I've got HD The Empire Strikes Back already, and I'm downloading HD Return of the Jedi as we speak (hey seeders!), so at least I can complete the trilogy. Yes, everything is proceeding as I have foreseen...muahahhaaha!
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#291648
Topic
Star Wars - The Vintage Edit (* unfinished project *)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/291648/action/topic#291648
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Well, yes and no. I've covered almost all of the easy changes. I was actually gonna post tonight with a query for volunteers :

1. I need some volunteers to look over a DVD screener of my final footage. I just need a few fresh eyes. Should have proper equipment for the job, be willing to go into extreme detail at what you see wrong, specific pointers, etc. Free copy of the final project to these people for a good and hard critique. I'll put a nice time-code on it and everything so it looks like an official screener DVD.

2. Also, and this is a stretch, but a volunteer to do some of these damn matte fixes. It's a bunch of the perspective fixes on the cell block corridor. If someone wanted to re-matte in the original backdrop into the first 5 or 6 times they fixed the perspective in 2004, free copy of the final project. Doesn't need to be an HD source, just work off the DVDs you already own. I'm just putting this out there for volunteers. If no one is able I'll just have to switch in GOUT

Problems aside, it's all going good. Little before and after action (contrast in my color corrected frame is too high sorry...but it's still an improvement):

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g40/DledRhapsody/OpeningShot--2004.jpg

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g40/DledRhapsody/OpeningShot--Tatooine.jpg
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#291017
Topic
MECO's rare ESB 10&quot; record (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/291017/action/topic#291017
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Muahahaha derailed topic!

[edit: well it was on at the end of page 1...]

in the end, it isn't too much about what we can hear rather than what it is whether we hear it or not. MP3 IS compressed, and vinyl sound or other analog recordings are NOT compressed, they emulate true sound. Though I know I can't tell the difference, it is just technically so.

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/question487.gif

Actually, in my Spanish class, we used to play a lot of Spanish songs, by Latin pop artists. They were all on these burned CDs, and most of them were God awful mp3s and I could hear all sorts of artifacts while listening to them (I actually pointed it out one day and realized I was the only one who cared). I don't know how old the CDs were, and therefore how old the codec was, but still.

Are .ac3 files 16 bit? Doesn't that mean it's just CD quality audio?
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#290923
Topic
.: The Lancer DVD Project :. (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/290923/action/topic#290923
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I had a quick request that's a bit off topic. I was wondering if you could post a screen of the Star Destroyer barreling down on the Tantive, the one after the pan down and the first shot of the Tantive running from the Star Destroyer. I noticed about ten pages back or so you showed some real cool shots of some recovered star fields. I need to see how many stars you got back in that shot, and how!
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#290922
Topic
Star Wars - The Vintage Edit (* unfinished project *)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/290922/action/topic#290922
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Originally posted by: pittrek
Well, the method I've mentioned makes exactly what I have written, simply takes the GOUT video as the base layer, and puts over this layer the same video from the 2004 release with black being transparent. That's why the code doesn't work.
Both Layer and ColorKeyMask expect a clip as their parameter, and not an avs script, so you should have it ALL in one script, and you should start it with for example

GOUT = mpeg2source("path_to_GOUT_clip.d2v")
SE = mpeg2source("path_to_SE_clip.d2v")

GOUT = GOUT.Trim(..., ...) #the start and end frames if you want to do it only with one scene
SE = SE.Trim(... , ...) #the same

GOUT = Crop(... , ... , ... , ...).Lanczos4Resize(720, ...) # crop it and resize, the numbers are depending on the format you're using (NTSC / PAL)

#and later use
Layer(GOUT, ColorKeyMask(SE, $000000, 10), "add", 255, 0, 0)



That's one method. If you don't wanna do it this way, tellan wrote a couple of month ago a different method on chroma keying in his "Lancer project" thread. Maybe it's worth reading.


Tellan's actually what gave me the idea, and it was he that said that it probably could be done in avisynth, he just used his editing program.

Oh Jesus I'm retarded, d2v files. Ha ha. Well I finally got it working and I don't think I'm getting anything out of it. I can't get the tolerance and saturation intensity and all that balanced so that the shots work. There simply aren't enough stars in that shot in the 2004 footage to be gained without other elements beginning to glow and bleed outside the matte lines on the top layer. I'm still working on it.