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#242733
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Info: Anyone Got A Spare 1300 Bucks? Star Wars 16mm on ebay...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242733/action/topic#242733
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NTSC has 480 lines dude.
The main problem would not be the telecining though, a 16mm print from the 80s would today be in a very bad shape, with scratches and dropouts and stuff. Okay, you could take the audio from the LDs (LPCM), but you would have to repair the video to a very high extend.
And also, the 1080p "resolution" of 16mm film is only valid to high quality prints. I doubt that a home theatre print would be that clean and sharp.
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#242552
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Idea: Miramax Kung Fu Re-Edits?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242552/action/topic#242552
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Originally posted by: lint
last time i checked Hong Kong was part of china.


Since 1997, yes. But Hong Kong has a high degree of autonomy, it even has it's own government. Read more

And when it comes to DVDs, there actually is a difference in DVDs. Hong Kong produces it's own DVDs -> NTSC, region 3 while China mainland itself uses PAL, region 6. Also Hong Kong DVDs are in general considerably better than China DVDs.

So yes, it is very important to distinguish between Hong Kong and (mainland) China DVDs.
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#241947
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Info Wanted: Anyone Planning on making Anamorphic versions using 2006 OUT DVDs?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241947/action/topic#241947
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Originally posted by: Laserman
Hard to say as I would be doing it all on the mac, I'm not really an avisynth guru, I tend to work out how to do something on *Nix or OSX and then pass the conceptual procedure onto people who know the PC free stuff to achieve the same results.


I'm also a maccie, would be nice from you to explain what tools you use to improve the image of non-anamorphic DVDs, especially when there is no tool like AVIsynth.
For encoding I normally use MainConcept Encoder (I think the resizer is superior to compressor), and it's much faster also.
But what to use for "improving" the image?
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#241523
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Star Trek Fan Edits (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241523/action/topic#241523
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Originally posted by: TheFixer
Star Trek: Bring Back Kirk
This is an extended trailer, using footage from the tv show, mixed with new CGI footage, to show a way to bring back Captain Kirk. Paramount should defo make this as a full length movie.
Download Here

That must be the single worst idea I've ever heard of. Okay, maybe Kirks end in Generations wasn't that glamurous as you'd hope for, but noone should ever consider bringing that old tart back! I mean, he's like mid 70 or so, he could never portrait Kirk in a believable way. Some dead guys should stay dead.
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#241093
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Info: Original episode cuts of TV series...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241093/action/topic#241093
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Sooo, this morning at 4am, I was done with principal editing for the Battlestar Galactica miniseries
Just to give you an idea how I did it:
I first thought I would use FCP4.5 (I'm a mac user), but then thought, that it would be a waste to reencode everything just for two little scenes. What I used was MPEGStreamclip to cut and demux the VOBs (and the two AVIs from SciFi). It was a pain in the ass to do it that way, especially only being able to cut at keyframes, but I didn't have to recode a single frame from the DVD material
To convert the AVI from SciFi, I used the MainConcept Coder. Pretty fast and nice quality (also the resizer is better that the one from compressor).

The first episode was very easy, just a cut after the music silenced when Adama thinks Lee is dead (I had to use a few frames more, because the music cue is slightly longer on the DVD), then I hard cut to the end credits from the mini series DVD (I thought about a fade to black, but this way the impact is better IMHO).
Second episode was more complicated. Problem is, the SciFi version used an alternate take at the beginning (reversed angle). So I used two seconds or so from the SciFi version, cut to mini series DVD until the hangar scene when the credits started. Then DVD again in the scene when Baltar sees Six for the first time until the very end. Also I had to use a few seconds of the SciFi versions audio track, again because of the fact the music cue was a little bit to long on the DVD, but I did a upmix to 5.1, so everything stays at 5.1
However, I did not incorporate the audio commentary (I prefer watching the AK as a whole).

No colour correction yet, but video and sound stay in sync, so the next step will be colour matching and authoring it using DVD Studio Pro (maybe I will upload a three minute sample later if anybody is interested how it looks).
For colour correcting I have a question though:
The x0-project used AVISynth to set new white and black levels (link to article). Sadly, there is nothing that powerful on mac. Has anybody a suggestion how I could do that on a mac? AVIdemux offers some tools for colour correcting, but not an option to set new black/white levels....