ShiftyEyes

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Post: #178727
Topic: ADigitalMan's Guide to MPEG2/AC3 Editing
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/178727/action/topic#178727
Time: 8-Feb-2006 12:31 AM

Thanks for the reply. After working on six simultaneous edits of the last two Lord of the Rings flicks, you could imagine how pissed I was after the sync went off just when I thought I was finished.

Fortunately, I was able to solve this problem since my post. I finally thought of going to the Womble site for support and noticed they had a new "Womble Mpeg Video Wizard DVD" which authors the DVD for you. I downloaded the trial and though I didn't like the menu options, I gave it a try. The output files played in PowerDVD in sync. But since the disc was about 4.88GB, I wanted to run it through DVD shrink. Unfortunately, the output files from the "Womble Mpeg Video Wizard DVD" were not recognized by DVDshrink, TMPGENC DVD author, and a few other programs. Luckily though, I downloaded some program which simply processed the files and the resulting ones were finally readable by those aforementioned programs. So now at the very least I have one disc burned. I'll probably tweak some things and it's off to making more changes to the other five.

This editing hobby is much more time consuming than I had expected.

Post: #178650
Topic: King Kong (1933) - Criterion Commentary (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/178650/action/topic#178650
Time: 7-Feb-2006 8:11 PM

Thanks!

Is the file NTSC? I tried syncing up the audio to the new DVD, but it kinda falls out of sync after a few minutes.

Post: #178648
Topic: ADigitalMan's Guide to MPEG2/AC3 Editing
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/178648/action/topic#178648
Time: 7-Feb-2006 8:09 PM

Has anyone gotten this strange error with Womble? For the first edit I made, everything worked out fine. Unfortunately, for my second, things have gotten rather annoying.

After encoding the new MPEG file, it plays fine on media player, etc. However, when I go to author it, the video and audio go out of sync. I've tried this on TMPGENC DVD Author and DVD-Lab Pro. Both have the same error. I figured there might be a demuxing problem, so I used Womble to demultiplex my MPEG file and the resulting files were still out of sync. Still, the MPEG file plays fine on my computer, it's just during authoring/demuxing that it goes out of sync.

Post: #178215
Topic: King Kong (1933) - Criterion Commentary (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/178215/action/topic#178215
Time: 6-Feb-2006 10:03 PM

I'm definitely interested. A few months ago, I made a plea for someone to do the same (upload the commentary as an audio file) after their LD preservation project fell through.

Tried to send a PM but it didn't go through. Are your PMs turned on?

Also, maybe you can upload one of the files to yousendit.com or something?

Post: #178202
Topic: Idea: a 2005 King Kong edit...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/178202/action/topic#178202
Time: 6-Feb-2006 9:31 PM

I also worked on an edit shortly after the film was released. Just to keep things short, I cut the entire first part of the film (everything up to Denham's meeting with the executives), some lines here and there, some of the Bruce Baxter stuff, A LOT of the boat stuff, cut most of the Jimmy & Mr. Hayes stuff, trimmed the brontosaurus & bug sequences, and some other things here and there. It also ended up around 2:15.

Post: #177389
Topic: Idea: The Lion King - Deluxe Edition LD Box Set [14 hours left if you want to do this!]
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/177389/action/topic#177389
Time: 4-Feb-2006 7:34 PM

The new DVD does have some altered animation. The one that I remember most was the crocodiles.

The DVD also doesn't have the "Making Of" documentary I believe it is also missing most of the other stuff from the LD.

Post: #174504
Topic: Idea: for an edit of Batman Begins
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/174504/action/topic#174504
Time: 30-Jan-2006 2:31 PM

Just to give proper credit where due, the Batman Begins score was a Hanz Zimmer/James Newton Howard collaboration, not a Zimmer solo.

I like it myself, but both have done far more memorable stuff.

Post: #174033
Topic: Blade Runner HDTV (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/174033/action/topic#174033
Time: 28-Jan-2006 10:41 PM

How's the quality on the "On the Edge of Blade Runner" doucmentary? I already downloaded Rikter/Citizen's version. Is this one worth replacing it?

Post: #173784
Topic: Blade Runner HDTV (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/173784/action/topic#173784
Time: 28-Jan-2006 12:24 AM

Did digitalfreaknyc capture this from HD? I just assumed he obtained the 15 GB HD files that were available from the newsgroups a few months ago.

Post: #171641
Topic: Idea: babyhum's proposed new <strong>Studio Ghibli</strong> project (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/171641/action/topic#171641
Time: 20-Jan-2006 12:10 AM

Issn't there some Japanese featurette that's on the Spirited Away DVD release that isn't found on the menus? I think it isn't subbed though.

Post: #170851
Topic: Info: If... (1968)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170851/action/topic#170851
Time: 16-Jan-2006 10:25 PM

Malcolm McDowell has said that he's recorded a commentary for this, but alas, no DVD yet.

Post: #170026
Topic: *** The Official DigitalFreakNYC Release Thread*** (SW, Indy + Others!)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170026/action/topic#170026
Time: 13-Jan-2006 3:36 PM

I was looking through my junk and I found a disc I labelled "Blade Runner HD XVID." I forgot I tried making an xvid version from the HD files I downloaded.

Looking at it, the video looks pretty good. I didn't know how to make an xvid, so I just used one of those automatic programs. The bad thing is there's an annoying gray bar at the bottom. I guess it wouldn't be hard to crop out though.

Post: #170025
Topic: Blade Runner HDTV (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170025/action/topic#170025
Time: 13-Jan-2006 3:31 PM

How's the video on your version? I downloaded the HD files a while back and made a simple conversion for myself. I used the HDTV2DVD program that you mentioned but I noticed my results were a little off. I'll describe it as best as I can. Whenever there's a moving shot or something moving within a shot (for example, the ceiling fan in the first scene), the motion isn't very smooth as though frames were dropped or something (though I don't know if this is the actual problem). Does your version have this problem?

Post: #169056
Topic: KING KONG - The Spider Pit Restored Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/169056/action/topic#169056
Time: 9-Jan-2006 8:35 PM

Yeah, I guess for fun. The scene's been lost for a long time now, so I guess they figured it'd be fun to recreate it. Remember, not only did Jackson and Co. work on the 2005 remake, but they actually produced the big documentary on the 1933 King Kong DVD. So I guess whatever they wanted to put in it went in.

Post: #169055
Topic: Info Wanted: 'Willow - Special Edition'?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/169055/action/topic#169055
Time: 9-Jan-2006 8:32 PM

For this release "Special Edition" was just used to describe the DVD and not the film.

Post: #168750
Topic: Idea & Info: Combining all the Criterion Efforts?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/168750/action/topic#168750
Time: 8-Jan-2006 9:41 PM

Bram Stoker's Dracula -- a unique Coppola commentary, editing workshop that I want to adapt to DVD format, and an isolated score found nowhere else. I believe DigitalFreakNYC started work on a transfer of the Dracula Criterion a few weeks ago. Nice cover though!

Ghostbusters -- deleted scenes. not sure if they have been released on other releases, but it's one of my favorite childhood movies. This one has already been tackled. Not sure if it was complete though.
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=11&threadid=3550

Boogie Nights - One of their last releases. It has a commentary and documentary that haven't been released on DVD yet.

I believe the commentary was released on the New Line Platinum Series 2-Disc set.

Raging Bull - The CAV edition has a Scorsese commentary that hasn't been released elsewhere. I read somewhere that it is one of the more candid of his commentary.
Taxi Driver - see Raging Bull. same thing.

The Raging Bull commentary IS available on the recent Special Edition released by MGM. Criterion licensed it out to them. However, I would love to hear the Taxi Driver commentary! At the least, if anyone has the LD, maybe they can do a simple audio capture and upload it as a an mp3 file or something.

Post: #168577
Topic: Info Wanted: Titanic - has anyone done an extended edit?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/168577/action/topic#168577
Time: 7-Jan-2006 11:07 PM

I was browsing the newsgroups and it looks like someone did an extended edit. It was PAL though and I didn't want to go to the trouble to download it.

Post: #167620
Topic: Idea: a 2005 King Kong edit...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167620/action/topic#167620
Time: 3-Jan-2006 9:14 PM

Whoops. Missed that.

But Catofong's first post was pretty unclear. This is a thread for the 2005 King Kong, and when he said he thought it'd be good to overlay the natives over the "new version" I assumed he meant the 2005 film.

Post: #167046
Topic: Idea: a 2005 King Kong edit...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167046/action/topic#167046
Time: 1-Jan-2006 8:57 PM

Catofong, give it up. It'd be much easier to get a couple of African Americans to dress up like natives, film them yourself, and iput them into the movie than to insert the natives from any version of the original King Kong into the 2005 film.

Post: #166732
Topic: Idea: a 2005 King Kong edit...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/166732/action/topic#166732
Time: 31-Dec-2005 2:24 AM

All that the Skull Island Orcs scene missed was a burning cross. It's been a while since I saw a major film with such a repulsively racist scene.

What's so racist about the natives? It may be a stereotype of natives, but I wouldn't put race as a factor. The natives don't really look like Africans to me. They actually look more like how I originally imagined Gollum from the Lord of the Rings! I did read though that Jackson took the look from actual photos of natives that even had the red eyes, though he undoubtedly took it to the extreme.

I do think their depiction is a bit over the top though. In Jackson's film, they're complete savages. The natives never killed anyone in the original film.

Post: #166388
Topic: Idea: a 2005 King Kong edit...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/166388/action/topic#166388
Time: 30-Dec-2005 12:44 AM

I'm not a huge fan of the natives either. I read somewhere though that their look was heavily drawn from actual natives that Jackson saw in National Geographic or something. One thing that can be tried is simply cutting most of the closeups of the natives. I think the witch woman and maybe the kid can be kept, but cutting most of the closeups may help. They'll still be in the film, just not so freakish.

Post: #166267
Topic: Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/166267/action/topic#166267
Time: 29-Dec-2005 12:25 PM

Looks like some great work!

Post: #166136
Topic: <strong>Grinder's PAL widescreen project</strong> (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/166136/action/topic#166136
Time: 29-Dec-2005 1:23 AM

Sounds like a good project!

Post: #166134
Topic: Info Wanted: Episode I with The Beginning opening... crawl?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/166134/action/topic#166134
Time: 29-Dec-2005 1:11 AM

Does anyone know if Episode III had a working title? I remember reading Episode II went under "Jar Jar's Great Adventure."

Post: #165943
Topic: Idea: a 2005 King Kong edit...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/165943/action/topic#165943
Time: 28-Dec-2005 9:29 AM

After watching the film in theaters, I do agree that it's rather excessive. I read an interview with Jackson who basically stated they were shooting a 2 hour film with a short script and were surprised they ended up with a 3 hour movie.