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#178727
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ADigitalMan's Guide to MPEG2/AC3 Editing
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/178727/action/topic#178727
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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.
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#178648
Topic
ADigitalMan's Guide to MPEG2/AC3 Editing
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/178648/action/topic#178648
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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.
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#178202
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Idea: a 2005 King Kong edit...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/178202/action/topic#178202
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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.
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#170026
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*** The Official DigitalFreakNYC Release Thread*** (SW, Indy + Others!)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170026/action/topic#170026
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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.
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#170025
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Blade Runner HDTV (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/170025/action/topic#170025
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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?
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#168750
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Idea & Info: Combining all the Criterion Efforts?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/168750/action/topic#168750
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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.


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#166732
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Idea: a 2005 King Kong edit...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/166732/action/topic#166732
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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.
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#166388
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Idea: a 2005 King Kong edit...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/166388/action/topic#166388
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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.