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- .: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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Zion
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- #70812
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- #70801
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- #70656
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Blasphemy!
How dare you speak ill of CRT. No wonder you want to create a 16:9 version. Because of the limitations of fixed pixels and the inability to change resolution on LCD/Plasma screens, hey? My CRT computer monitor is feeling very sick after displaying that blasphemy, goaghhha CRT FOREVER!
Daniel
How dare you speak ill of CRT. No wonder you want to create a 16:9 version. Because of the limitations of fixed pixels and the inability to change resolution on LCD/Plasma screens, hey? My CRT computer monitor is feeling very sick after displaying that blasphemy, goaghhha CRT FOREVER!
Daniel
lol. I just meant I'd like to see what it looks like on an actual tv. Besides, flaws in images show up much better on LCD/Plasma screens than they do on the not-as-bright CRT's.
And on that note, I didn't get to test out my disc today. Too much football on.
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- #70604
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- .: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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laser rot
It's true you have to have three exact copies. Even if the color is off on one of them, it makes things look a little wierd and creates some crazy artifacting. In my tests yesterday, the three source captures I used were lined up perfectly and the filter worked like a charm. And you're right, the filter does do a little noise reduction, which is always a good thing.
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- #70590
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- .: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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Well, I'm making a test disc to take around and play on a few tv's to see how the image quality looks. My friend has a 50" HDTV that should do quite nicely, as I'm anxious to take a look at this thing on something other than my CRT.
What I've done is taken various scenes from ANH and cut them together in Premiere. I've taken the audio stream and saved one copy as PCM and another as AC3. As soon as the mpeg is finished encoding, I'll throw all three of these into scenarist and burn a test RW disc. This should make my Sunday....after the Bronco game of course.
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- #70570
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- .: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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- #70561
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So now without the noise and sharpen filters, I am getting similar results to what you have posted, only the color is looking much better.
I'm going to start experimenting with this TOOT filter now...
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- #70495
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Now I'm off to update my screenshots for the screenshots thread.
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- #70482
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- .: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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On the top is the raw capture, the middle is the filtered video, and the bottom is the color corrected video:
As you can see, the filters Laserschwert suggested make a world of difference, as the ghosting is now gone. Thanks again man.
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- #70471
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- #70428
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- #70393
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- #70299
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- #70295
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Just read your edited post. That's a great workflow, and very similar to what I'm doing currently. Let's see now if I can make those filters work...
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- #70292
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- .: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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Laserschwert, I see what you're saying now with the brightness thing. I'm going to start tinkering around with it right now.
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- #70284
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- .: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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I'm going to play around with these filters you have mentioned. I've tried out guavacomb, but the rest of them are new to me. Hopefully I can correct the haloing problem. Even if it ups the brightness a bit, it's not that big of a deal since I can always adjust that when I color correct in Premiere.
More screencaps coming tomarrow...
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- #70257
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- Using the '04 SE DVD version to restore the Original (with lots of info)
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This is the coolest thing I have ever seen. Kudos to you, my friend. There is definitely a difference between the work of a pro (you) and the rest of us amateur bootleggers.
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- #70243
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- .: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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How am I resizing? In AVIsynth:
lanczosresize(720,360)
addborders(0,60,0,60)
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- #70236
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- .: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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- #70214
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- .: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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Originally posted by: Laserschwert
By the way, Zion, there are still several artifacts I notice on your screenshot. One being a slight "stairstep"-effect on diagonal lines. Did you deinterlace the source? Another thing being a slight ghosting effect... you can see this effect very good on the screenshot of Luke at the homestead watching the binary sunset. The ghosting shows as a slight dark shadow of the video itself, left of Luke's head. There's a good filter to fix that contained in TMPEG, so maybe you might want to take a look into that.
Furthermore, your image looks a bit fuzzy... I guess some sharpening would be appropriate here. Since you're using AviSynth inbetween, I would use the WarpSharp package for it, and add these commands to your script:
Lanczos4Resize(720 * 4, 480 * 4)
XSharpen
Lanczos4Resize(720, 480)
Maybe some noise reduction afterwards would be needed. The video size, of course, depends on what you work with, but I guess you're working at this resolution.
EDIT: Mmh... I guess the first thing should be the removal of the ghosting effect (it would only get worse when sharpening and filtering the image with the ghosting)... although I don't know if there's a VirtualDub-plugin for this. After all, you can't do it in TMPEG, since TMPEG is your last step.
By the way, Zion, there are still several artifacts I notice on your screenshot. One being a slight "stairstep"-effect on diagonal lines. Did you deinterlace the source? Another thing being a slight ghosting effect... you can see this effect very good on the screenshot of Luke at the homestead watching the binary sunset. The ghosting shows as a slight dark shadow of the video itself, left of Luke's head. There's a good filter to fix that contained in TMPEG, so maybe you might want to take a look into that.
Furthermore, your image looks a bit fuzzy... I guess some sharpening would be appropriate here. Since you're using AviSynth inbetween, I would use the WarpSharp package for it, and add these commands to your script:
Lanczos4Resize(720 * 4, 480 * 4)
XSharpen
Lanczos4Resize(720, 480)
Maybe some noise reduction afterwards would be needed. The video size, of course, depends on what you work with, but I guess you're working at this resolution.
EDIT: Mmh... I guess the first thing should be the removal of the ghosting effect (it would only get worse when sharpening and filtering the image with the ghosting)... although I don't know if there's a VirtualDub-plugin for this. After all, you can't do it in TMPEG, since TMPEG is your last step.
Yeah, that "stairstep" effect bugs the hell out of me. I'm going to mess around and see if I can get rid of it tonight. I've never heard of the warpsharp package, but I'll take a look at it. I'm already employing a number of filters including noise reduction and sharpening. I'll post a few caps of my raw capture to show you how much better the finished product is looking.
As for the black bar issue, you guys pretty much already said it. They have to be encoded into the video.
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- #70133
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- .: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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Oh, and here's one hot off the encoder:
As you can see, the official DVD's still show more than what's on the LD.
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- #70124
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yourmother:
On a regular 4:3 tv, anamorphic looks exactly the way any widescreen movie looks - it has the big black bars on the top and bottom. Since the Star Wars Trilogy was shot with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, it will still show bars on a widescreen tv because it is actually WIDER than 16:9. Those bars are normal, and yes mine will also do this.
My transfers will look as close to DVD quality as I can make them, but I'm not going to go out of my way to make them look like the DVD's. The official DVD's were transfered straight from the original negatives and employ color correction techniques that I cannot even fathom. There is no way to get such vivid color off of the LD transfers.
As for the cover art, I used Adobe Photoshop. Anyone could whip up a decent dvd sleeve with enough patience and know-how.
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- #70104
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- .: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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According to ebay, a DVL-91 goes for about $200 with two days left. I bought mine on ebay for $39.99.
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- #70095
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