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- Info: OT Bootleg DVDs
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I can see you have been preparing for an very high quality capture!! Perhaps it will turn out as one of the best ever made, and I just want to help you out on doing it.
I read that you were using TMPGPlus as a MPEG2 encoder. I think the best should be CinemaCraftEncoder, you should really use that one.
As regards to making anamorphic, and people saying its uselles because it is done when taking the movie out of the reel and all of that....you are right, at least in a way.
To make it clear, since the original isn't anamorphic there are no quality gains. We will have to resize the picture, and some can say that it will degrade quality, I say it will but if done right, it's so litte its impossible to teel the diference.
Using as a resizing method Lanzcos for example, will give superb results. It wont be better, but it won't be worse to the eye either.
And then everyone with their widescreen TVs will be happy
LaserMan, I suggest you use AviSynth scripts. I don't know if you are familiar with it, but it's an extremelly powerfull way of editing video, and gives you amazing tools.
An excellent place to get advice on video capturing, editing and encoding is www.doom9.org.
To sound, just get the PCM track directly from the LD and its done.
Quality wise its the best option.
Two possible versions:
Non-anamorphic video, PCM sound, no extras or menus, just the dual layer disc full with the best possible quality audio and video.
Anamorphic version, PCM sound (AC3 if not enough space), menus, comments, extras, etc...
As to reauthoring the upcoming DVDs, I'm already warming up for it also
If the deleted scenes came clean and remastered as extras it would done in a few hours, if not it's gone be something to get busy for a long time.
Then we can think about seamless branching and making a SE/OT DVD.