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#286543
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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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Ok. i thought i would give you all a list of all the changes / fixes that i have done so far....and its going to be a long list. Here Goes:

1. Recoloured the Tantive troopers shirts to match from shot to shot. Now a grey/ blue instead of the over saturated blue in a lot of shots.
2. Changed 3P0's line from " there will be no escape for the princess this time" to " there will be no escape this time". Fixes an error when Luke sees the hologram but 3PO has no idea who she is but hasn't had his memory wiped.
3. Re-Edited the Tantive troops battle to fix continuity issues with troopers dying more than once.
4. Re-rotoscoped all lasers to closer match the PT
5. Added blast flashes to all troopers throughout the movie that get hit but originally had no blast flashes.
6. Fixed the jump cut where 3PO & R2 cross the corridor on the Tantive IV & the doorway explodes.
7. When Vader enters the Tantive IV a stormtrooper lets go of the head of a dead trooper but that you can see that the actor slowly lowers his head. This has been fixed and the troopers head now drops at speed more like a dead body.
8. Added blinking lights to Vader's chest plate
9. Vader's eyes recoloured to remove the red tint.
10.When 3PO is looking for R2 a trooper falls to the floor behind him as if he has been shot but there is no laser fire. Added some lasers & a flash as the trooper is hit.
11. Smoothed / fixed the jump cut as R2 extends his third leg and heads for 3PO & the one where he leaves 3PO
12. In the scene where Vader is strangling Antilles the trooper in the background changes position in one shot. His legas are closed and his blaster is in a totally different position. Fixed this error.
13. Recoloured the interior of the escape pod to blue due to continuity issues in this scene.
14. On Tatooine the escape pod canopy has been recoloured to remove the odd blue colour.
15. In the same scenes the sky has been changed to match other shots
16. Added a new sandcrawler to the shots where 3PO thinks he is rescued
17.Completely new canyon wipe so the rocky surroundings that R2 travels through matches closer to what Tatooine looks like in the PT.
18. Fixed a placement continuity error with the restraining bolt that the Jawas fix to R2
19. Added a battle droid to the scrap inside the Sandcrawler.
20. Fixed R2's eye dome in the shot inside the sandcrawler where it looks like you can see Kenny Baker inside.
21. Inside the sandcrawler 3PO's eyes blink as he stands. Fixed
22. When Beru calls to Luke as they are about to inspect the droids, bushes appear & disappear from shot to shot. Removed the bushes from the shots of Luke to fix this error.
23. Removed the wire from the back of 3PO's neck when Owen calls Luke over.
24. Removed the repeated shot of R2 & the red R5 unit to fix a continuity error. Replaced with a new shot.
25. Fixed the pink sky effect just before this scene fades out.
26. Added the missing glow from R2's holo light in the garage.
27. Re synced Leia's " help me Obi-Wan" lines so this now matches each shot.
28. Brightened & desaturated the sunset scene.
29. Fixed the colour problem in the shot where 3PO jumps as Luke activates the restraining bolt in the garage. In the 2004 DVDs this shot was sepia. An example of some very bad colour problems with these DVDs .
30. As Luke races out of the Garage to use his macro binoculars i have added 3PO running out of the doorway to fix an error that he suddenly appears out of nowhere.
31. New macrobinocular graphics that add in 3PO. All other macro binocular graphics changed too
32. Removed the droids tracks from a previous take make it look like it is being pulled along by a cord.
33. When Owen shouts Luke the treadwell droid is in a totally different place than the previous shot and a fly lands on the camera lens. Fixed both issues.
34. Re-edited the music where we first see the Tusken Raiders to fix a horrible music edit.
35. Added Obi-wans' original scream to frighten the Tusken Raiders instead of that horrible whistle.
36. Smoothed the jump cut where Luke ignites the sabre in Obi-Wan's hut
37. Added the missing ornament on Ben's table in the shot of Leias hologram.
38. New Death Star reveal sequence.
39. Fixed the music track drop-out as Vader approaches the detention cell
40. Changed the torture droids syringe arm. Removed the writings and added a laser effect.
41. Mos eisley approach re-edited. Removed some of the creatures on the first shot & completely removed the Ronto/ Jawa sequence.
42. Removed both Rontos from the checkpoint scene.
43. Removed the probe droid from this scene also.
44. Fixed the ship that flies in front of the vaporator making it look tiny.
45. When Luke looks over to the cantina it is heavily cast in shadow but as they approach there are no shadows. This has been fixed.
46. Added facial movements to some cantina creatures.
47. In the shot where you see Ponda Babba's severed arm I have removed the blod & replaced the hand with the hoof like one we see him with in other shots.
48. More facial movements & blinks for Greedo
49. Han is now the only one that shoots.
50. Removed the Jabba scene
51. Fixed the sync issue with bens line "If the ship is as fast.."
52. Re-added the fade wipe as they approach the falcon.
53. Added the falcons dish in the docking bay shot and expanded the docking bay.
54. Re-edited the docking bay shoot-out to fix some continuity issues
55. Added the missing middle strut to all the Falcons cokpit window scenes.
56. Added the blue glow back to the Falcons engines.
57. New Alderaan for all the view screen shots
58. New Alderaan explosion
59. Re-rotoscoped all lightsabres and fixed lukes wobbly sabre during the training session.
60. Re-composited the holo chess character so they look more like holograms now.
61. In close-up shots of R2 the background has the control light from the Death Star interior. These shots now have the correct background.
62. Fixed the jump cut as Luke turns off his sabre.
63. Added the colour to the remotes laser that was missing from the 2004 DVD's
64. In the scene where Vader says "I told you she would never...." he gestures after he has stopped talking. This has been fixed.
65. More asteroids when the Falcon reaches the Alderaan system
66. New docking bays for exterior shots to match the new interior ones.
67. Removed the blue screen pole that is visible as the Falcon enters the docking bay
68. Added a glow to the shield light to all shots of the docking bay interior.
69. Added the censored shot of the officer being hit as they break into the control room.
70. Fixed the tractor bean display graphics so they now fill the display screen.
71. The Death Star's interiors are now metallic grey instead of the horrible blue.
72. When Han, Luke & chewy wait at the elevator a trooper walks past them wearing a light coloured uniform but in the next shot it is a dark uniform. Recoloured the light uniform to fix this.
73. Added the censored shot of the officer being hit in the detention cell shoot-out.
74. In the final shots of this sequence a trooper falls down the stairs but only the scenery was hit. The trooper now gets hit.
75. In the scene where the stormtroopers are about to blast their way into the detention cell, the elevator door has visible signs that it has been rigged for to blast apart and looks a mess. Fixed this issue.
76. New tractor beam matte shots.
77. New wider shot of Luke & leia as they swing across the chasm. They now look to be a lot higher up.
78. Re-edited the ligtsabre duel to give it a faster pace & added music.
79. Removed the visible power cable from the lightsabre up Ben's sleeve.
80. As Han & chewy reach the docking bay you can see the shadows of Luke & leia awaiting their cue. Removed the shadows.
81. Replaced the dummy of Ben as Vader kills him. You now see his face and Vader actually slices through him and you see him disappear.
82. When Luke blasts the control panel the door blast door closes, but in the next shot it closes again. This has been fixed.
83. As the Falcon leaves the docking bay it originally left very slowly even though the engines ignite and it should have accelerated faster. It does now.
84. Removed the horribly bad motion from the shots of Luke & Han in the gun port as the TIEs approach
85. Redone the TIE battle sequence so the falcon no longer appears to be just sitting there.
86. Added a moving starfiled to all interior window shots of the gun port.
87. When 3PO is entangled in the wires after the battle, again the close up of R2 has the death star interior background. It now has the correct Falcon corridor background.
88. After the battle you now see the falcon enter hyperspace.
89. Added he Hyperspace wormhole to the following cockpit sequence.
90. The Falcon now can be seen exiting hyperspace as it approaches Yavin.
91. In the shot of the Falcon as it flies over the trees on Yavin IV the clouds have been changed to matched the rest of the sequence. I've also added the falcons shadow on the trees as it flies over.
92. New interior shot of the Hanger bay. Removed the cardboard fighters and given the hanger greater depth.
93. Fixed the following flip shots as they step off the transport vehicle.
94. New Death Star schematics.
95. Darkened the rebel briefing scene and once it is over the lighting becomes brighter.
96. A lot of the Rebel pilots have Blue insignias on their helmets but there is no blue squadron in the final draft. Recoloured all blue insignias to red.
97. Fixed the horrible jump cut of R2 as he is loaded into the X-Wing while Luke talks to Biggs & Red Leader.
98. As the X-wing lifts off it now flies forward and not just straight up.
99. As Luke leaves the temple you can now see the exterior of the temple from the rear cockpit window.
100. Re-edited all Rebel command centre shots to fix issues where the image has been flipped ( you can tell because 3PO's dent on his head keeps swapping sides) Also leia keeps changing position.
101. Added Yavin to the rear cockpit windows of the fighters as they report in.
102. Recoloured R2 so his dome is now blue and not black in all space shots.
103. Fixed few flip shots of various pilots during the battle (the microphone keeps swapping sides)

Overall colour correction and brighter image than the 2004 DVDs
About 95% of all FX shots have either been tweaked or replaced by new shots.
New 5.1 audio mix track with reversed surround channels fixed & a greater surround experience. The Imperial March has been added in places (but not to a great extent)


..... and that's as far as i have got so far. I'm sure there's more but I'm losing track of what i have done so far

I'm adding this list to the first page also.
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#286433
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1980 Empire RSO 2 LP set (Released)
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Originally posted by: LexX
How about the 1997 soundtrack releases? Those are the best out there, does the LP differ from those, too?

Yes, it does. If i remember correctly the final track (rebel fleet/end title , but i can't remember what it was called on the LP) contains a longer version of the rebel fleet music than has been released on any of the CD's and i'm sure there are more differences too. hopefully 20th Century Mark can confirm this because it has been a very long time since i have heard the Double LP version.
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#285917
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The &quot;Stereo Mono Mix&quot; / 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 &quot;Stereo Mono Mix&quot; / 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.