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#285917
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The "Stereo Mono Mix" / XP Series - comments and ramblings / suggestions welcome
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Originally posted by: Molly
Hm, my 2004 has only English, French, and Spanish...no German :/, but then again I have the R1s, where you probably have the R2s.


The French & german tracks are very similar and the HDTV French 5.1 has the clean Klaxon in the surround channels so its a good bet that if your DVD has the French 5.1 then you can get the audio. My R2 DVDs have only English so i had to acquire the foreign tracks from elsewhere. If you can't get it then i could always post the audio for you.

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#285908
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The "Stereo Mono Mix" / XP Series - comments and ramblings / suggestions welcome
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In the scene where Ben& Luke are stopped at the Mos Eisley checkpoint, you can use the troopers voice from the 2004 DVD. The timing and the voice is exactly the same as the mono mix, whereas i'm pretty sure that on all the other mixes (LD, VHS etc) the troopers voice is timed different.

Also the original Tantive klaxon can be heard during the Death Star battle where Vader & the TIE pilots head for the ships. In the German 5.1 track the rear channels have the klaxon with no music so you could mix this (using loops) with the centre channel from the 2004 DVD and add music & ambient FX to recreate the mono mix. Takes a bit or work but it can be done.
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#285558
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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Originally posted by: eros
Adywan I want to make a temporary OOT avi for my portable using both the 2004 se and editdroid. what would you say are the best levels to use overall in vdub for the 2004 se colour and brightness levels to match the OOT?


I attempted doing this at first and found out that an overall setting just wouldn't work. There are so many colour issues with the 2004 DVD's that you can get a great setting for the first section of the movie but then the scenes aboard the Death Star have a green tint to them, and thats only an example. The way i had to do it was to do 2 encodes with separate settings and then , almost shot by shot, had to tweak the colours & levels in both Vegas & Adobe After Effects (with a great plug-in to remove the horrible blue colour of the Death Star interior).

If you really need to do just one pass for colours then i would suggest using the white balance filter for Virtualdub (available as a free plugin on the net, just google it) and play about with various custom white balance settings, testing each setting using the preview feature, until you get a balance you prefer. For the brightness levels i would suggest using the "levels" filter, but try to keep the mid range settings pretty much the same or you will encounter video noise issues. At the end of the day just play about with the settings, do a quick encode of a short clip of a few scenes with different brightness levels (one best one to test is any shot with a starfield background to check for video noise) each time you change the settings and preview them.

just have fun, its a mess
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#285454
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285454/action/topic#285454
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Originally posted by: DGC General X
Hey everybody. nobody has posted for a while. I just wanted to know how everything is going. I f you need help with anything, just let me know.


Things are going pretty slowly at the moment. I've reached the hardest section of the movie and with so many FX shots to either touch up or redo its turning into a very long and painful experience.

I decided to redo the complete opening sequences that i posted for the audio test. i wasn't too happy with the Fx because they were done when i was a total newbie (I still am though too. lol) So the sequence you saw will look different in the completed edit, but it looks much better now.

I'm estimating that i have at least 4 months of work left to do on this so i can only apologise that its going to be a longer wait than i had originally planned. But these things happen.
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#285451
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Help: looking for... 1997 SE TB Digital Broadcasts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285451/action/topic#285451
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Originally posted by: Marvoloadywan, how did you download it so fast? I have only been getting 1.5kb download speed for twelve hours now, and it is getting annoying. I think my problem might be because it is on the pirate bay. If someone could up this on Demenoid it would be much appreciated.


Yeh, pirate bay can be a total pain. I've been seeding since it finished downloading now for for about 6 hours and , apart from the first hour, no one is even connected to me.

EDIT: spoke too soon. there's one person connected to me now @ 73KB/s. I take it this is you Marvolo. Hopefully you're getting better speeds now
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#285272
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Help: looking for... 1997 SE TB Digital Broadcasts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285272/action/topic#285272
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Originally posted by: wainscoI'm on an OC12 connection to the internet, so 622Mb/s. I've limited the connection (have to keep the campus up) to 800KB/s, which is 6.4Mb/s, which should do quite well. Perhaps your ISP rate limits torrent connections. I know my provider at home is obsessed with throttling torrent traffic.


No, my ISP has no throttling for torrents and i usually downlaod torrents at around 8MB/s. I wonder if pirate bay trackers have speed limits though as this should be going super fast.

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#285263
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Help: looking for... 1997 SE TB Digital Broadcasts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285263/action/topic#285263
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Originally posted by: wainscoI'm on a ridiculously fast connection, so if anyone out there has a pristine copy of all 3 broadcasts, I'd love to set up a torrent so that they're made available.


Fist off let me say thank you for this.

Secondly I'd love to know what you mean by "ridiculously fast connection because" i am the only one connected to you and the max its reporting is 56kB/s. have you limited your upload speed for this because if you haven't then i wouldn't call this "ridiculously fast" because my upload speed is 80kB/s and i'm on a standard UK 8MB connection.
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#284753
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284753/action/topic#284753
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Originally posted by: tellan
ady, if you need spacey sound effects ie final battle stuff, the xwing games are a good source.
all of the in game sounds are stereo wav files so there's lots there like hyperdrive, engine noise, lasers etc.


Thanks tellan, i've got a couple of the games so i'll check them out
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#284714
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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I think i need to clear a small matter up before i go any further. There will be only 2 versions that will be doing. PAL & an NTSC DVD versions. The PAL will be the first release followed a short time later by the NTSC.\I will leave it up to someone else to do other conversions.

I'm relived that the new sound mix is on the right track. It's going to be a while before i can afford a new surround system so I'm glad that the surround headphones are doing their job. The PA announcement is actually from the radio plays and i added some Fx to convert it from normal speech to that of a PA & thanks infodroid for the speeder sounds. they have been very useful. I did have these sounds that i downloaded from somewhere but they became corrupt so its good to have them again. I think they were from one of the games. I know that i downloaded ripped audio from Star Wars galaxies but none of the ambient sounds from Tatooine worked, along with a lot of the others which would have been invaluable for this edit. Has anyone managed to rip the audio from Galaxies successfully and would be able to somehow post them for me?

Tellan, i know there are a couple of issues with the Tantive shots. these were actually some of the first shot i ever did so theres a strong possibility, if i have enough time, that i will be recompositing the whole sequence.
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#284590
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284590/action/topic#284590
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Originally posted by: bkevHmm, crawl seems a bit sped up in the video; pry just me. I am damn near technology-illiterate (at least in this subject,) so don't take my word for it.
Actually the crawl is slightly slower, it just appears earlier . the crawl now appears along with the music cue to match the pre ANH crawl. the crawl after the ANH addition caused the music cue to be off and i always preferred it the way it was originally intended. So for this to happen the speed was slightly slowed or it disappeared too fast.
Didn't you say you'd colour corrected the explosion shot on the Tantavive (spell)? Possible wrong render shot?

No this shot is the final one and it has been corrected. Just look at this comparison and you'll see just how much the colours have changed:
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3144/correctedfb4.jpg

corellian77, many thanks for the landspeeder clips. they were just what i was looking for.
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#284512
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284512/action/topic#284512
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Originally posted by: Marvolo
I would gladly help with the soundmix check to if you think two sets of ears is better than one set.

It's open to anyone really. having more opinions really would help.
The mix still isn't 100% complete in this clip. there are some stereo Fx yet to go into it to surround & l/r channels but i would like some opinions on how its sounding so far. The music for the opening titles is a new mix and not taken from the DVD, but a surround mix from the audio cd's which, to me, sound higher quality.. The reversed music in the surround channels have been fixed (in the most part is a new resynced track from the audio cd's). Only the center channel remains for the most part. I've added ambient FX to the surround channels (which for the most part on the 2004 dvds was just the reversed music & some sound FX.)

With this i'm aiming for a more theater surround experience, with more Fx in the rear channels when they should be, to give more of a feeling of being in the movie.

Also this is a quick video render and a few shots have been rendered with the wrong source selected ( the first few shots of 3po & R2 have the other droid looking bleached and not the finished colour). Oh well.

heres the video file:

Surround test clip 130mb approx - megaupload
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#284489
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284489/action/topic#284489
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Originally posted by: DGC General X
Sorry Adywan, the PIC was a low rez screenshot from the game Rogue Squadron 3 Rebel strike. Not as cool as I remembered. Darn, I would of loved to see what you could have done with it.

Anyway. That part in the Yavin battle where the x-wings first fly into the trench, The DS seems to be a painting at first but then there's a flash from the turret, and it's all of a sudden a miniature set. It happens twice in the film. I know you are probably aware of this already, and I want to know if it can be fixed?
hey, no probs about the pic.

I've been looking into fixing this issue but so far i haven't found a solution.

Sluggo, love the background you prepared. it would have saved me a lot of work on this edit

Originally posted by: MasterObiSwan
I'm in the US, so can you please make an NTSC version as soon as you can? And please make sure the speed is correct. I have a PAL DVD that was supposedly NTSC converted and it runs much faster than normal and the voices sound sped up like chipmunks.


A true NTSC version will be available after the PAL version is finished. Also i won't be fixing the wobbly hologram table. I just don't think that its necessary.

Now i'm really hoping someone can help me with a couple of problems i have:

Firstly i desperately need some clean landspeeder sound effects. Because i've edited the mos eisley scene the music no longer fits but i will have to build the FX track from scratch. I have a pretty good library of star wars effects but the one thing thats missing are any landspeeder Fx. I really hope someon can help me with this cuz i'm pretty stuck.

Secondly i need someone who has a 5.1 cinema system to help me out. My system has just packed up and i cannot test the audio track until this gets fixed. If i post a section of the movie that can be burned straight onto DVD, could someone test it through their system to see if the levels are correct? At the moment i am working with some high quality true 5.1 headphones, and in the past the mixes have been true to what i am hearing through the headphones but its still not the same thing as hearing it on a proper system. It will probably be the first section of the movie from the opening 20th century fox logo to the opening of the Tantive IV corridor battle and will be a few hundred MB in size.

If anyone can help with these matter then just let me know.

Thanks
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#284487
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Sample Rate Woes
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This is a pretty common problem with virtualdub when combining xvid 7 divx clips that have been encoded separately. You best bet would be to search google for an avi joiner program. There are free ones out there that should be just what you need.

Alternatively you can load the 2 video files into Nero Vision express, set the output to the same settings encode settings as your clips and it will just join the clips together without re-encoding.
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#284227
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284227/action/topic#284227
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Originally posted by: Mojo_LA
Adywan, can you tell us how much of the film you've completed? 50%? 80%?
I'd say about 80% of the video work & 60% of the new audio mix is complete. I really can't give a definite release date at the moment because the work on the Death Star battle is probably the hardest part of the movie to do.
Originally posted by: Sojourn
I have great confidence in your abilities, adywan, so I'm not too worried about this -- but I was just wondering how well the Death Star schematics in the briefing room will work with a blend of old and new. What I mean is this -- the new schematics you've had done for this edit look awesome -- will the old wireframe Atari-ish graphics (even though they will have been colored red) fit in with these more advanced new ones?

Actually they fit in pretty well. I haven't finished this sequence yet but things are looking good.