caligulathegod

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Join date: 22-Dec-2005
Last activity: 2-Mar-2024
Posts: 298

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Post: #226778
Topic: Encore help needed from Encore users
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226778/action/topic#226778
Time: 17-Jul-2006 1:53 AM

I'm using 2.0 and you can actually adjust the synch a frame at a time (that is, you can highlight the audio and use the arrow keys to adjust it forward or back a frame at a time).

Post: #226690
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226690/action/topic#226690
Time: 16-Jul-2006 4:50 PM

My favorite freeze frame is near the end where we get a closeup of the Thief's flies, and they are all little Thieves. There's no way that would have been seen projected and there was no legit way for an average viewer to freeze it, so it was a little joke for the animator. It's just the attention to detail that is so amazing.

Post: #224072
Topic: Episode 7 in 2021..Is this a joke?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/224072/action/topic#224072
Time: 3-Jul-2006 4:46 PM

He had a cease and desist order years ago for claiming he was an ILM employee. Surely asking for money for Lucas' "personal email address" is enough to maybe shut this guy down for good?

Post: #223424
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223424/action/topic#223424
Time: 30-Jun-2006 7:16 AM

Originally posted by: Esn

So... any idea of what went wrong? It says in the image in my previous post that the VIDEO_TS.VOB file "is not referenced and should not be present". Does that mean that I should not copy it onto the DVD?

EDIT: Oh, and has anyone else had a similar problem or is it just me?

Try running it through DVDShrink. Mine did that, I think, because I had gotten to 99.7% and then Piratebay went down. I then restarted the torrent from Dememoid, but then copied the existing download from Piratebay. It didn't look like it was recognizing it, so I figured I'd have to just start all over, but then it finished as though it DID recognize the earlier download. Anywho, I was getting the same error burning it, so I ran it through DVDShrink and somehow it had ended up being just slightly oversized. DVDShrink fixed it with only a 98% or 99% compression, but it made it kosher to burn.

By the way, I've since switched over from Bitlord to Azureus, which would have allowed me to just do a check and then reloaded from where it left off.

Post: #223063
Topic: Info Wanted: Has anyone done any Unaltered Disney Classics preservations?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223063/action/topic#223063
Time: 29-Jun-2006 10:41 AM

Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
I thought the platinum releases of Beauty and the Beast and Lion King had the original versions available along with the new version on the same disc. At least that's what the dvds claim.

The DVDs are lying. Beauty and the Beast and Lion King "original versions" are just the IMAX version with the extra song cut out. There were alterations in the animation done for the bigger format.

Unfortunately, I don't have a page for Beauty's differences, but here's Lion King differences

Post: #221327
Topic: pal to ntsc conversion help needed
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/221327/action/topic#221327
Time: 23-Jun-2006 6:49 PM

Did you align the video and audio correctly? That small amount of time sounds like a misalignment on the timeline. Zoom in as close as you can and realign.

Post: #220471
Topic: 1977 70mm soundtrack recording (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220471/action/topic#220471
Time: 21-Jun-2006 2:21 AM

Really neat from an historical perspective. Kind of a shame someone had to read the opening crawl. Kind of reminds me of those two guys that ran the record-breaking home run with Hank Aaron.

Well, maybe a slight exaggeration

Post: #220357
Topic: ***//BUILDING EMPIRE\\: PAL & NTSC DVD - NEW EDITION NOW ONLINE! ***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/220357/action/topic#220357
Time: 20-Jun-2006 7:34 PM

I don't know why they make a big deal over the kiss on Hoth, even. It's obvious that it's to get Han's goat and not romantic. She barely says 2 words to Luke in the first two movies. Any hint at a love triangle is on the cutting room floor. I think it's all wishful thinking from when we were kids that was turned on its ear. Watching it as an adult it's fairly obvious they were telegraphing Han with Leia from the first "meet cute."

Anyway, can someone send me how to get to the easter egg, too? It's driving me nuts trying to find it through the menus. I should be working on my version of the NTSC BE this weekend.

Post: #219061
Topic: Idea: Spider-man - Pre-9/11 cut & No-organics cut
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219061/action/topic#219061
Time: 16-Jun-2006 3:07 AM

I was always under the impression that the scene was never intended to be in the movie, anyway. It was a teaser in the truest sense. I don't think it would fit as it's a throwaway scene.

Post: #218806
Topic: Greetings from Wookie Groomer; Split Screen Project (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218806/action/topic#218806
Time: 15-Jun-2006 3:44 AM

OK, fixed. Try it again.

Post: #218467
Topic: Greetings from Wookie Groomer; Split Screen Project (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218467/action/topic#218467
Time: 14-Jun-2006 5:52 AM

I did one for Jedi in the style of the other ones.

http://rapidshare.de/files/23019906/WookieGroomer_SplitScreen-Jedi.jpg.html

Post: #217708
Topic: ***//BUILDING EMPIRE\\: PAL & NTSC DVD - NEW EDITION NOW ONLINE! ***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217708/action/topic#217708
Time: 10-Jun-2006 5:33 PM

Actually, at least 2 people have said they are working on NTSC versions.

Post: #216597
Topic: The Phantom of the Opera Resynched (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216597/action/topic#216597
Time: 6-Jun-2006 8:53 AM

Hey, Wmgan. I sent you an email attached with a quick and dirty flaming sword effect. Let me know what you think.

Post: #216077
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216077/action/topic#216077
Time: 4-Jun-2006 1:41 PM

I finally got it and have watched it 3 times. How great is this? I had read the same article in Comic Scene years ago and was just as intrigued. So glad to have finally seen it and it holds up to the hype. The War Machine finale is ungodly. How could human beings DO that?! I'm going to have to break out Roger Rabbit just to savor the animation. It's too bad we don't have much output from this man. He is incredible in his personal animation and what he got out of his team.

Great work, Garrett.

Post: #215960
Topic: Help Wanted: 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' Laserdisc Footage - censored scene
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215960/action/topic#215960
Time: 3-Jun-2006 11:19 PM

Just curious, did the OP ever get the laserdisc footage? I have the laserdiscs in CAV and CLV first pressing.

Post: #215771
Topic: ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215771/action/topic#215771
Time: 2-Jun-2006 11:34 PM

Originally posted by: Darth Editous

Plasma and LCD have fixed pixels, that means 720x480 fixed pixels in NTSC countries

I was under the impression that Plasma/LCD panels had higher resolution than that (obviously the HD ones do, but SD too), and everything was scaled (it all gets horribly processed anyway). Could be wrong though.

DE

I believe they are 852 x 480 for SD. The HD ones are 1280 x 768.

Post: #215532
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215532/action/topic#215532
Time: 1-Jun-2006 8:53 PM

Originally posted by: ocpmovie
Yes, it is possible to continue the download from Mininova. This has all been discussed before if you read.

Yes, of course I read. Nothing has said how to actually do it, though. It's a completely different torrent and tracker so starting it downloads it completely from scratch. I copied the existing files from the piratebay download and it has still started the download over from scratch. The files that were allllllllmost completed were the VOB files, so even if they were 4 MB from finishing, now I'm looking at 3GB again. I was asking if there's a trick to get it to recognize an unfinished torrent from Piratebay to Demonoid/Mininova.

Post: #215490
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215490/action/topic#215490
Time: 1-Jun-2006 6:03 PM

Ugh. Is it possible to take the files partially loaded from the piratebay and continue the torrent from Demonoid where it left off, or will I have to start the entire download again?

Post: #215321
Topic: The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/215321/action/topic#215321
Time: 1-Jun-2006 11:33 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay

Says Piratebay should be back up in a day or two. I'm one of the 99.9-ers. Ugh.

Post: #213005
Topic: snag in vhs recording
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213005/action/topic#213005
Time: 24-May-2006 12:40 PM

Yeah, try copying that VHS over to another VCR. You'll get the same problem.

Post: #212970
Topic: Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212970/action/topic#212970
Time: 24-May-2006 10:43 AM

I bought a DVD rip once and was so disappointed at how it looked that I was convinced that I had actually gotten a VHS2DVD dub. So I went ahead and bought the laserdisc for $90 and it turns out that it looks that way on laser. It really is a terrible looking laserdisc. I've considered doing my own version of the KINO to Moroder cut eventually.

Post: #211418
Topic: MPEG2 in Premiere?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211418/action/topic#211418
Time: 19-May-2006 11:33 AM

I've had good luck with VideoRedo. It edits mpg2/VOB files directly without reencoding, that is, it only renders the few frames you change. The rest of the file is left as is. It is blazing fast, too. It's $50 and well worth it.

Post: #211415
Topic: Subtitle position
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211415/action/topic#211415
Time: 19-May-2006 11:23 AM

Have you tried these guys?

Doom9.org Subtitle subforum

Post: #210382
Topic: What is the rarest video in your collection?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/210382/action/topic#210382
Time: 17-May-2006 6:35 AM

Maybe Little Shop of Horrors with the alternate ending. I bought it the day it came out.

Also, Trilogy of Terror is pretty rare, I think.

Post: #210379
Topic: Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/210379/action/topic#210379
Time: 17-May-2006 4:51 AM

Originally posted by: velocityengine

Originally posted by: OgOggilby
Well, the idea I proposed was to take the DVD and keep it in its proper restored form, but simply re-edit the Moroder score to fit it. That way you get the proper version of the visual, but also with this music.

Very do-able. I haven't seen the Kino print yet though. is it really that much better than Moroder's? I know the Kino is like 3-4 minutes longer than Moroder's but is that due to replaced scenes, different framerate, or lengthened titles?

The Kino print is amazing and makes it look like it was shot yesterday. It is the same frame rate as the Moroder version, that is 24fps. There was a bit of controversy, but no one has ever been able to prove that Metropolis was ever intended to be shown in anything other than "sound" speed. All indications are that despite being filmed 16-18 fps, it was supposed to be projected at ~24fps. It might look unnatural to modern viewers, but silent films were supposed to be sped up. Film studios supplied cue sheets for local music and they all indicate projection speed closer to modern sound speed and none of them indicate 16-18 fps.

http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/18_kb_2.htm

http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/18_car_1.htm