darkhelmet

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Join date: 23-Apr-2006
Last activity: 21-Jul-2015
Posts: 520

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Post: #256053
Topic: ADigitalMan's Guide to MPEG2/AC3 Editing
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/256053/action/topic#256053
Time: 10-Nov-2006 12:58 AM

ADM, are any of the tools you use in this process good for analyzing the specs of an unknown MPEG-2 file?

I'm needing to find the bit-rate and audio/video codec for a mystery file here at work. Thanks.

Post: #249682
Topic: your buying the PT all over again in Blue ray !!!!!!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/249682/action/topic#249682
Time: 5-Oct-2006 2:55 AM

Originally posted by: Mike O
Agreed. The HD formats may not work out. Most people just upgraded to DVD. I can't see most people doing that for so much money.

True, it will probably take a while for HD of any kind to become the dominant disc-type, but with the push to HD televisions, it's just a matter of time.

Don't worry about your DVD collection, though, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will be backwards compatible ( Blu-Ray: DVD-compatible, HD-DVD: DVD-compatible [click the FAQ Flash link in the left-hand contents column] ).

Post: #249162
Topic: Your first reaction to Hayden is ROTJ
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/249162/action/topic#249162
Time: 3-Oct-2006 1:06 AM

Originally posted by: SilverWook
One of the Dark Horse Infinities comics actually depicted Hayden's face when the mask comes off shortly before the '94 versions came out.

Post: #249161
Topic: Original Trilogy Extended Footage
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/249161/action/topic#249161
Time: 3-Oct-2006 1:03 AM

Awesome.

Post: #249158
Topic: Info: Auto-correction from SE colours to GOUT colours (lots of information)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/249158/action/topic#249158
Time: 3-Oct-2006 12:47 AM

Welcome, Rune! Just had to state the obvious: your colormatch composites look AWESOME! Makes one wonder why Lucas didn't see fit to do this kind of thing for his precious SEs.

Post: #247953
Topic: Your first reaction to Hayden is ROTJ
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/247953/action/topic#247953
Time: 26-Sep-2006 12:42 AM

When I heard the rumor, I hoped beyond hope that it wasn't true. When the rumor was confirmed, I was disgusted and not even morbidly curious; I didn't see the footage until this year, which looked completely out of place in visual tone and with HC doing that stupid "I'm-a-tough-guy-looking-out-from-under-his-brow" thing; ughh! Lucas couldn't direct traffic!

Post: #244863
Topic: Sudden blockiness of video while editing in PPro 2.0 - Problem solved!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/244863/action/topic#244863
Time: 16-Sep-2006 2:18 AM

Originally posted by: Marvolo

Originally posted by: darkhelmet

Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Are you Italian?

LOL! So, what say you, Marv?

No, that was just a typo, but I do have a passion for Italian food.

Mmm... Italian food.

P.S. SweHanzon, we love to see new people on these boards. It means this happy family is getting bigger and bigger.

Here, here! Nice to get another editor with technical experience, too. What you found may come in handy for me as I've never ripped a DVD like you've done, and I'll be needing to rip one eventually for some audio editing. Thanks, SweHanzon.

Post: #244861
Topic: DVD WRITING CAMPAIGN - WEEK TWO - "Sound & Vision" Magazine
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/244861/action/topic#244861
Time: 16-Sep-2006 2:09 AM

Cool, Mielr! Thanks for the in-depth explanation. It's off to the rental store for me!

Post: #243949
Topic: DVD WRITING CAMPAIGN - WEEK TWO - "Sound & Vision" Magazine
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243949/action/topic#243949
Time: 14-Sep-2006 12:44 AM

Awesome spotlight letter in Home Cinema Choice, AOW! Thanks for joining in.

Mielr, so are the DVDs really cool enough to consider buying? What would you say on a scale of 1 to 10?

Post: #242120
Topic: Sudden blockiness of video while editing in PPro 2.0 - Problem solved!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242120/action/topic#242120
Time: 7-Sep-2006 10:45 PM

Originally posted by: Marvolo
Thanks, darkhelmet. This helps a so much!

You're welcome! Glad I could help.
Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Are you Italian?

LOL! So, what say you, Marv?

Post: #241589
Topic: Sudden blockiness of video while editing in PPro 2.0 - Problem solved!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241589/action/topic#241589
Time: 5-Sep-2006 11:29 PM

Marvolo, I did some digging in AE 6.5 and this is what I found:

Top tool bar: Composition: Make Movie: save file as "[your title].avi" (".avi" is the only file extension the Render Queue will allow you to have, but the final file type is not locked-in by this).
Render Queue: find your file at the bottom of the render list; Output Module: click "lossless": Output Module Settings: select "MPEG2" or "MPEG2-DVD".

I convert most everything I do for work to a DVD-compliant MPEG2, though I haven't done it in AE yet, but I imagine you want your MPEGs for DVD. So, you probably want "MPEG2-DVD" at the highest quality you can get, which in 6.5's standard codec profiles are "NTSC DV 4x3 Low Quality 6MB VBR 1 Pass" and "NTSC Progressive 4x3 High Quality 7MB CBR 1 Pass". There are versions in PAL, too, as well as 16x9.

I hope this helps!

Post: #241342
Topic: Sudden blockiness of video while editing in PPro 2.0 - Problem solved!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241342/action/topic#241342
Time: 5-Sep-2006 2:57 AM

Swe, I haven't yet experimented much with ripping DVDs to MPEG-2, but, since the problem is consistent across multiple tests, maybe it's due to copyright protection? Maybe try another piece of software to rip the DVD.

Marvolo, I just checked Adobe.com and found that you can export to MPEG-2 with AE 7.0; not sure about 6.5, but I'll dig a little deeper if you still need the help.

Post: #241338
Topic: Star Wars DVDs, etc. on Home Shopping Network - Labor Day
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241338/action/topic#241338
Time: 5-Sep-2006 2:45 AM

Originally posted by: skye_solo
One thing, are they sending these purchased on the show out before the release date?

They said that buyers would receive them on the normal release date; basically, they just pre-ordered them like people have done at retail outlets.

One misleading thing that the hostess was saying was that HSN was the only place you could do this; probably true that HSN is the only place that has them in stock already while they take pre-order sales, but you can obviously pre-order them elsewhere that won't have them in stock until distribution sends them out.

Post: #241069
Topic: Star Wars DVDs, etc. on Home Shopping Network - Labor Day
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241069/action/topic#241069
Time: 4-Sep-2006 3:26 AM

The DVDs (100 copies per title) sold out before the first 15 minutes of the show were up, and they were hocking them for $29.98 each! Can you believe that there was no mention of the specs for the presentations or the fact the original versions were relegated to "Bonus Disk" material? And there were no "bonus material" stickers on the display boxes either! (boy, I'm yelling a lot...)

Oh, well. The hostess didn't even know the difference between the originals and the SEs; that's gotta be the public's perception of the whole thing. It was good to see her SW fan co-host stand up for the people who prefer the originals, though.

Post: #241034
Topic: Sudden blockiness of video while editing in PPro 2.0 - Problem solved!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241034/action/topic#241034
Time: 4-Sep-2006 12:13 AM

I am not familiar with editing m2v files as I normally work with DV AVIs, but could this be a "frame blend" or "field option" problem, something you accidentally toggled on or off after bringing the source file(s) into the timeline or after chopping them up in the timeline?

Post: #240986
Topic: Sending the SEs back
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240986/action/topic#240986
Time: 3-Sep-2006 8:35 PM

Skye, I think you nailed it on the head, and I'm still up for sending the SE discs back to Lucas.

You know, each of us who would be doing this could check with our local paper to see if we could get a small article on our SE Send-back movement in the Entertainment section; then we could clip those articles and send them to Lucas; so we'd have a two-part mail attack.

Post: #240982
Topic: Sending the SEs back
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240982/action/topic#240982
Time: 3-Sep-2006 8:30 PM

Originally posted by: Mielr
BTW, the OOT's current Amazon.com rankings are: 24, 32 and 35 (SW, ESB and ROTJ respectively).

Yep. Well, there Lucas has it! No one wants the OUT!

Post: #240980
Topic: DVD WRITING CAMPAIGN - WEEK TWO - "Sound & Vision" Magazine
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240980/action/topic#240980
Time: 3-Sep-2006 8:13 PM

Yes, thanks a lot, fedtho!

It'll be interesting to see if S&V makes anything out of this.

Post: #240976
Topic: Star Wars DVDs, etc. on Home Shopping Network - Labor Day
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240976/action/topic#240976
Time: 3-Sep-2006 8:01 PM

Mielr, thanks for the news flash. I definitely want to see some clips to check out the quality.

Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Now we'll see for sure how many Home Shopping Network viewers want that musty old unaltered trilogy ...

Oh, George... He's the greatest, bestest, mostest creative movie creator of all time, and he's got the brains to prove it.

Post: #240634
Topic: DVD WRITING CAMPAIGN - WEEK TWO - "Sound & Vision" Magazine
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240634/action/topic#240634
Time: 2-Sep-2006 3:00 AM

Hello? <echo: hello, hello, hellooo> Anybody?

Post: #240633
Topic: So, this is how the DVDs are going to look...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240633/action/topic#240633
Time: 2-Sep-2006 2:53 AM

Originally posted by: Mielr

Originally posted by: Vigo

A little trivia: the speeder sequence on the OOT Laserdiscs has already been tampered with....

Really? How?

Yeah, what was done to the LD speeder sequence?

Post: #240632
Topic: So, this is how the DVDs are going to look...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240632/action/topic#240632
Time: 2-Sep-2006 2:50 AM

Post: #240630
Topic: So, this is how the DVDs are going to look...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240630/action/topic#240630
Time: 2-Sep-2006 2:49 AM

Originally posted by: vbangle
You've got to fight *BOOM BOOM* for your right *BOOM BOOM* for loowww qualllityyyy!

LOL!

Post: #240203
Topic: What it was like to experience Star Wars for the first time in 1977.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240203/action/topic#240203
Time: 31-Aug-2006 9:32 PM

Originally posted by: Mielr

Originally posted by: auraloffalwaffle
Why does everyone have a problem with the Wolfman in the cantina?!

I don't! I like him.

Me, too. Mostrously vicious. And having a drink?

That's a nice memory, Obi. Wish I could've been old enough to have one of those in-theater experiences. It's great to hear the details of those audience reactions.

Post: #240104
Topic: What it was like to experience Star Wars for the first time in 1977.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240104/action/topic#240104
Time: 31-Aug-2006 4:39 PM

Renner, thanks for sharing; I wasn't old enough to experience SW in the theater. Great story; I never realized there was so much humor in it for the original audiences, and your commentary about the original impact of the cantina aliens was very refreshing; sometimes more is not better.