ThrowgnCpr

yeah, i have this edit.  It has a ton of problems, and I cant watch it because of them.  The video is greenish, and a really bad cheap "film effect" was applied to the movie.  While it was a good idea, I wouldnt waste your time trying to get this DVD.  A new edit on this concept would be cool.  I have been thinking about doing it, but it would be a long time until I ever have time to get to it.

superawesome!!!

congratulations focuspuller!!!  such wonderful news.

great to hear from you Galactus.  Cant wait :)

pity, this was a really awesome  project.  someone definitely should keep it alive.

haha, its funny how these fonts can be so recognizeable for one film series, yet go unnoticed for another.  These look like just about the same font.

Someone just pointed out to me the other day that the "Terminator"  font was also used in SPACE CAMP during the credits.

lol.  ozzy + gene simmons + 1986 movie = awesome

Looks like the font used for Indiana Jones.  try SF Fedora.  Its free.  Just google that, its all over.

Ripplin said:

EyeShotFirst said:

I cant stand when I buy a cd (metallicas new album) and it sounds distorted. Louder is not better.

I haven't really heard that album yet, but just about every review I ever hear about complains about the sound quality, which is a shame. Maybe some talented editor will take a stab at it. ;) Think it could be done, based on what you hear? (if it's simply too loud and gets distorted/farty, maybe nothing can be done about it) I wouldn't be surprised if they release a remastered/fixed version someday.

 

not to get too off topic here, but that Metallica album had a different (read: much better) mastering for the video game "Guitar Hero" (I think it was that game).  Anyway, there were fan-rips of this floating around.  And Metallica (read: Lars) claimed that it was bullshit, and they wouldn't release another version of the album

To veer back on topic... I am really looking forward to listening to this set.  Sounds amazing.

BTTF: the animated series.  There was a preservation project done for this.  I believe it was up on 'spleen for a while

great work Falle.  love it!

yeah. it was a way cool site.  sucks that it is down

Great news Puggo.  This will make a cool bonus feature on your Grande project!

sounds great!! thanks for the update puggo :)

hahaha, yes, I agree with joebshmoe.  I would like to watch this one again.  Source looks nice.

very cool puggo!!

thanks for the updates guys.  thanks for all your hard work on this one.  I really look forward to it.

I've been out of the country for a bit, and just got back and chatted with Invisiblewolfman.  We'll try to get the ball rolling on this again soon.

wow, the boost in contrast there really washes things out.  Its hard to see much detail now in the dark areas and the bright areas.

Nice.  thanks for the comparisons Puggo.  I for one prefer the straight version a little better.  Really I don't see the benefit of a couple extra pixels in some areas (and also it shows some edge artifacts), and the straight crop seems more natural and less distracting.  Its not an extreme curve though, so whatever you choose will be fine in the end I think.

IIRC, the name does sound familiar.  We may have had something over at fanedit.org that wasnt approved for lacking technical quality.  Still though, maybe the editor has improved, and this should go right along with the other firstlings over there.

JasonN said:

Octorox said:

I'm thinking that we should see Sidious's "sith eyes" there in the darkness.

Eh, no - the whole point is of those edits to keep Sidious's identity (and face ) a secret until the third and last film of the trilogy (The Black Knight Rises).

I don't think he was referring to a feature that would identify or allude to it being Palpatine, but rather just wanting to see some evil looking eyes (akin to some sith) peering through.  Either way, I dont think it makes a difference, though from your test shots, the last was the most realistic/believable, and this had no eyes at all.  So I say leave them out.

yeah, I am not really into that feathered look.  it is a bit distracting.  I cant wait to see the tests, puggo.  I think that will help to actually see it.  In the meantime, have fun skiiing!!!

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

ThrowgnCpr said:

If you do end up creating a mask externally, I don't think you would have too many problems with a jagged or stairstepped edge.  How would you render from Vegas?  You could save it as a lossless AVI, or frameserve directly to something like CCE for a good DVD render (I usually do not render to DVD straight from Vegas).  Either way, I think that the result would be fine.

I would probably use avisynth/virtualdub to do the resize, then - and this presupposes that I am using Vegas to do the curved border instead of avisynth - I would take the resized .avi file and open it in Vegas to add the curved additional border.  I'd render that as an avi, and use TMPGEnc to encode the final result for DVD.

sounds good.  I cannot imagine that this would produce any sort of stair-stepping or pixelation, if you are encoding to a lossless AVI from Vegas.  and the translation to DVD through TMPGEnc should be fine too. 

It might be interesting to see some samples eventually with the different "fixes" you proposed.  A picture is worth a thousand words.

...oh, and if I hadn't said it before.  This project totally rocks!!!! Keep up the great work Puggo :)

well, how would ice react when put into contact with something as hot as a lightsaber?  I think some ice falling would help, but I am sure some would also turn to a gas, and this could create a little cloud.

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

So it may require building a mask externally.  As ThrowgnCpr said, that's actually not particularly hard either.  The hardest part may just be playing with it and verifying that it is good quality after encoding, that it doesn't get all jaggy.

If you do end up creating a mask externally, I don't think you would have too many problems with a jagged or stairstepped edge.  How would you render from Vegas?  You could save it as a lossless AVI, or frameserve directly to something like CCE for a good DVD render (I usually do not render to DVD straight from Vegas).  Either way, I think that the result would be fine.