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After 3 + weeks of transferring 300 + GB of DYRL lagarith avi files from my Synology back to my main editing desktop, I still have to re-do the DYRL DVD up-scale.  Nuts.  The DYRL BD lagarith avi files are working okay.

It's a good thing I kept my editing notes for up-scaling the remastered DRYL DVD because the saved copy on the Synology NAS appears to be unplayable and corrupt.   Also, I noticed that the corrupted up-scaled DYRL DVD avi was in the yuv colour space rather than the RGB colour space of the BD lagarith avi video clips.

At this point, I am going to pm Dr Dre or Andraia to see what is involved with their Super Resolution process.

The Japanese subtitles I was referring to are the burned-in Japanese subtitles into the film itself whenever the Zentradi are speaking authentic Zentradi language and not a soft subtitle that you can enable or disable.  The remastered DRYL DVD does not have any Japanese subtitles or closed captioned subtitles for the hearing impaired.  For the next version of the DRYL Theatrical project, I would like to paint out the Japanese subtitles for the Zentradi speeches and then just have soft subtitles for any language option.  

The theatrical DRYL audio was originally in mono, but was then turned into stereo for the laserdisc and DVD.   Japanese and English (TOHO dub) mono audio and Japanese stereo audio will be a part of this project. A re-built 5.1 DYRL audio will not be included in this project because that is more work than I am able to do at this time.  Maybe, later.

The audio & video extras would be DRYL soundtracks and artbooks.  The censored scenes would not be included in this project because the scenes are just a short blurry mess. 

Yes.

1st version is the theatrical black only end credits, which were included on the BD DYRL as a branching feature.

2nd version of the DYRL mkv will have the Flashback ending.

The Clash of the Bionoids edit will be worked on once I get the hang of putting together the theatrical and special edition DYRL videos and re-timing / sync'ing audio files.  I'm not there yet though.

Progress Report:

That's two 1 TB hard drives having died on me in the last three months. 

I was able to recover pretty much everything including the DYRL lagarith avi files and DYRL audio files. Then I backed up and downloaded the rest of the files to put onto a nice, new Synology DS415+ NAS. I thought the expense for the Synology NAS was justitifed as a back up solution.  But, even with the Synology hard drives paired into Raid 1 for mirroring, there is still a possibility of hard drive file corruption while being mirrored when one of the mirrored hard drives wear out.  I might still need another back up for my back up.  Amazon Glacier?

Yesterday, I affixed an Acelero II 120 VGA water cooler onto my Geforce gtx 580 classified 6 GB.  I'm not sure how to get this modified video card installed with the supplied screws back into my editing computer.  I'll work on installing that video card for my next week off.  Currently, my editing computer has a MSI Radeon R2 290X installed and updated.  Either video card is very good, but the older geforce card still gets a lot recommendations for video editing.  

My computers are all updated and seem to be working okay for now.

Last week, I started a monthly subscription to the Adobe creative cloud, which will be really handy for After Effects and what not.

And now I'm transferring the 600+ GB of lagarith avi video files back onto my main computer for video editing using the Synology Cloudstation.   I tried just using the regular Windows file transfer and my router network kept disconnecting, which meant the one day's worth of file transfer had to be re-started.  Fortunately, the Synology Cloudstation has a resume feature for its file transfer function.

File transfers look like it will take at least two days to sync up all the files and then I'm back to work for another week.  One more week before I actually start assembling the video clips together.

Anyways, the forum thread for up-scaling SD to HD looks to be very interesting and relevant to my project.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-GOUT-in-HD-using-super-resolution-algorithm/topic/17552/page/31/

I have already used the Super Resolution when up-scaling the remastered DYRL DVD video to 1080p lagarith avi files.  If Dr. Dre shares very specific details about his SD to HD avisynth script, then I might use that method instead.  The Neat Video plug-in for Sony Vegas still needs to be tested out to smooth out the SD video aritifacts. Some colour correction will be needed to match up the video clips with the BD DYRL video.  

Then there is the audio and subtitles to contend with.

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1st version will be an .MKV with multiple audio and subtitle choices

2nd version will be Japanese subtitle removal, more thorough colour correction, better matching of original theatrical footage to alter the BD video back and branching ending with an updated Flashback ending (Super Resolution + Neat Video + 30 fps to 24 fps film simulation? + colour correction + new credits).

3rd version BD, audio / video extras, box art, booklet assembly

I am very interested in watching version 2.0 Theatrical Amadeus.  Could someone send me the links and password, please?

Thanks for completing this project!

Has anybody considered bitorrent sync and a Synology media box for sharing and backing up TeamBlu's creations?

I think the main problems with sharing large files would be the initial bandwidth upload and the storage space.  Bittorrent Sync pro seems to handle large file sizes alright.  Once the files are shared with others then other people can share just like bittorrent, but privately with a Bittorrent Sync key. 

For the storage space problem, I suggest getting a Synology 4 Bay media server with TB hard drives that do Raid 1 mirroring.  Recently, I had two 1 TB hard drives fail on me, but I was just able to back up all that data fast enough onto the Synology media server with 7 TB on Raid 1. Now I don't have to worry about losing all those video / audio files because Synology notifies me about failing hard drives and then I can swap out the failing hard drives.

And I think the Synology media server can act as a webpage server, but I bought it mostly as a long term, large file sizes back up system.

That's a neat idea.

Star Wars: The Audiology

Star Wars: The Audio-ssey (odyssey)

I have a quite a large collection of Macross pictures, but not so much Toy or Model box top related.  My favorite model box artists are Yoshiyuki Takani and the Macross fan artist inspired by Takani, Tenjin Hidetaka.  A lot of the Yamato Macross toy box art was simply a photograph of the toy itself.

That's too much to do that is unrelated to the theatrical DYRL movie, so I'm unlikely to do that as an extra for this project.

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I got back from my holidays last week and then went to work my night shifts.  So, I'm just getting my projects re-organized for this week.

In the next couple of days, I'll see if I can do a video test with Sony Vegas Pro to plug in the completed video I have so far and check if the Neat Video - Sony Vegas plug in was worth the money spent. 

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The initial DYRL theatrical HD release will be mkv / mp4 with the LD theatrical mono or stereo Japanese / mono English Hong Kong Dub + as many subtitle files that I can put together + OSTs + artbooks + video cover scans.

The 2nd version would be a BD with menu and a nice faux-Criterion BD cover.

The 3rd super deluxe version, which won't happen very quickly, would be colour-correction of the BD with DYRL Gold Book snapshots + grain / digital noise reduction because of the really heavy grain in some scenes + Japanese subtitle removal of the Zentradi scenes + a complete Flashback 2012 ending made more film-like that would have English credits.

And an HD Clash of the Bionoids fan re-creation would keep me pretty busy for 2015!

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In other DYRL news, I found someone who personally owns a film canister reel of 35mm DYRL film.   I don't know who that person is or whether s/he has the completed film or would be willing to have the film digitally scanned.  I'm making an inquiry.

May I have a Blu-Torrents invite, please?

I really enjoyed the Team Blu Conan the Barbarian release, thanks!

I just received an email contribution from an interested party,
which included the PILA-7008 LD audio in 48 kz PCM with
some DYRL English subtitles.

Here's how 2015 is starting off for the DYRL HD Theatrical Restoration project!

For the last month, I was just so busy working on another couple of
different projects and then getting ready to go visit
my mom for January that I put this project on hold.
I did get some stuff done for this project, but
I'm not re-starting this project until I get back
 home in February.

Audio update:

I, too, was able to capture the audio for all of my
DYRL and Flashback 2012 LDs in
44.1 khz  in wav PCM and FLAC.  But, I wasn't able to
get a 48 khz version because my M-Audio Audiophile
USB stopped working.  That audio file would be just what
I need for this project! 

I will have to buy another Audiophile box to
 capture the RCA digital audio from my other LDs
because it's the only capture box that has RCA digital audio in.
The power light on the Audiophile box is on, but the
Audiophile box is no longer recognized by Windows 8.1
or MacOSX 10 even after uninstalling and reinstalling different drivers. 

The Hauppauge USB capture box only has optical in, the Intensity Shuttle
Thunderbolt and El Gato Game Capture HD only have
stereo in or hdmi audio in.  

Alternatively, the Crystalio Video processor can take in the HLD-X0 RCA digital
output and then convert that audio optical for the Hauppauge box.  That might
work instead of buying another Audiophile USB box.  I would then need to set
up and test the Hauppauge capture box on my Windows laptop and MacBook.

I have to sort out all the different languages that DYRL have
been dubbed in to make sure that the audio files match the BD
video length.  I didn't hear back from the guy on youtube who
uploaded the partial Italian DYRL dub.
 
Would anybody be able synchronize the DYRL audio drama LP to the BD
video?  It's pretty tricky because the LP did not play at a constant rate.
Thanks!

 
Subtitles update:

I already have a version of the English DYRL subtitles that have
been made by Gubaba of Galaxy Network Subs  & Macross World
 and updated recently by HannouHeiki of Macross World for his own DYRL BD. 
I'll include any other subtitles I find as part of the initial bundle.
 
I was able to find a few more different subbed languages of DYRL, but I haven't
checked if the subtitles are sync'ed to the BD. 

Spanish (Sync'ed by HannouHeiki), Polish, Turkish and English.

I have not been able to download the VOSTFR French DYRL subs,
but the subs are hard coded into the avi file anyways.

Video update:

The first 1 minute and 30 seconds and the ending credits of the theatrical
DYRL are already on the BD, so it's just the 2 seconds of censored scenes that need work.
There might be more small changes or fixes in the DYRL BD,
but I haven't done
a close analysis of the differences with the DYRL DVD.

For video editing, I have Sony Vegas Pro 13 with the Neat Video plug-in.
I made two up-scaled 1080p videos of the remastered DYRL DVD.
I made a remastered DYRL DVD up-scale video using a couple of
the Video Enhancer's Avisynth plug-ins and then one up-scaled video without
using any video noise removal .  In Sony Vegas, I can compare
both videos to see if the Neat Video plug-in was worth the money spent.

Then I still have to colour-correct the up-scaled non-censored scenes.
I have all sorts of different colour-correction software to work with, such as
the free Davinci resolve and AAV Colorlab.  I think I'll start by taking
some snapshots of the BD video and then get the color and brightness
histograms to adjust the DYRL DVD up-scaled censored scenes.

The first version of this project is just going to be an .mkv with
bundled separate audio and subtitle files with some extras.
Then I'll figure out how to do a bluray disc menu.

So, that's it for now until the beginning of February.

Was there a previous post about some of the video editing or audio editing techniques used to restore the theatrical video & audio into the Amadeus bluray?  I have some fan edit animation projects in mind.  Thanks!

I do prefer the Amadeus theatrical cut, so I'm patiently waiting for the completion of your 2nd version with the LD mono audio track.  

Now I do.  I was hoping for French audio.

But, DYRL French subtitles would be okay, too.

I was able to properly install the M-Audio Audiophile USB software onto my Macbook Pro with Yosemite OSX 10.10.1.  Audiophile OSX 10.7 was installed by going into the OSX security option to allow the Audiophile software to install.

OSX Audiophile software has an option to directly record AC3 at 48khz.  I'll hear if that audio option can work to record a higher bitrate for the DYRL PILA-7008 LD audio.

I am currently looking on the internet for more DYRL language dubs.

1. Swedish, VHS
(The youtube audio might need re-aligning to the BD DYRL movie.)

2. French (VOSTFR)
(No seeders yet. Most likely French subtitles and not French dub.)

3. Russian
Found the Russian audio, but I was not able to extract a digital copy from the streaming video website.

4. Italian
(Only the second half of the DYRL movie is available on youtube. I sent a message to the uploader to request the Italian audio.)

Now that I have the up-scaled resolution for the remastered DYRL DVD sorted out at 2077x1155, I am re-encoding the video again with Video Enhancer to use a couple of filters.

1. MSU De-blocking: at recommended settings because of the mpeg artifacts

2. 2D De-noiser: at recommended settings

3. Super Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Output, 2077x1155 Scaled, non-interlaced at the highest processing quality

4. Lagarith codec: RGB output to match the BD color

The DYRL preview video in Video Enhancer is looking better already.

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Hello Video Collector:

That's a very nice DYRL BD cover! It's just needs a few details updated.  But, I am thinking that a fake Criterion Collection cover for this BD project would be a possiblity, too. 

Then there's also all the extras that could go along with this BD.

1. DYRL soundtracks
(.FLAC preferable)

2. DYRL LD cover scans
(I now have a scanner large enough for this.)

3. DYRL BD cover scans and printed materials

4. DYRL DVD cover scans and printed materials

5. DRYL VHS cover scans

6. DYRL picture collection

7. DYRL BD trailers and commercials
(and the PSX DYRL video!)

8. DYRL picture collection

9. DYRL art books

10. ?

SDF DYRL HD Theatrical project update:

VIDEO:

I just figured out last week how to best match and up-scale the remaster DYRL DVD to the DRYL BD.

Video Enhancer software was used for upscaling the DVD to 1920x1080 and re-sized to 2077x1155 to match the 1920x1080 DYRL BD.

The remastered DYRL DVD film was cropped  just a bit more than the DYRL BD.  So, I used Video Enhancer to make a short video clip of the upscaled DYRL DVD to 1920x1080 with video cropped at 1920x1080.

MediaplayerClassic was then used to take 1920x1080 snapshots of the TOHO logo from the upscaled DVD video clip and the lagarith DYRL BD video clip.   

Both BD and up-scaled DVD image snapshots were then imported into paint.net software.  Within Paint.net, I changed the colour of the top and bottom black borders of the BD DYRL snaphsot.  Then I copied over the up-scaled snapshot onto the BD snapshot.  By selecting the non-overlapping area between the two snapshots, I was able to count up the additional pixels in height and width that the up-scaled DYRL snapshot & video needed to be adjusted.  I did this process 3 times and it looks like the up-scaled video now matches the BD video.

So, now I can import all the pieces together into Sony Vegas Pro and try to start matching the colour, remove the DVD mpeg artifacts with Neat Video and possibly add back in film grain if needed.

The first version will be .mkv video files where you can swap out audio and subtitles as needed.

AUDIO:

This week, I received an M-Audio Audiophile USB capture box from Ebay.  For the last 2 days, I have just been making audio captures of DYRL and Flashback 2012 LaserDiscs!

The Audiophile USB appears to work well with my Dell Windows 8.1 64bit laptop, but I needed a whole day to set up the audiophile USB.  The Audiophile USB is supposed to also work with a Macbook pro, but I couldn't quite get it to work.  So, I ended up using my Dell laptop with the Audiophile USB Windows 7 64 bit drivers from the M-Audio website.  For digital AC3 stereo or surround sound, I used the AC3 (RCA cable) from the HLD-X0 to the M-Audio box.

Once the M-Audio drivers are installed, an M-Audio icon shows up in the Windows taskbar.  The M-Audio icon opens up the M-Audio control panel which has specific selections for playback and recording. 

First, I need to select the right M-Audio recording settings. 

Analog or SPDIF (AC3) / 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 khz / 16, 24 bitrate

The M-Audio control panel selections used were SPDIF digital, 44,1000 khz and 24bit. I tried 48 khz at 16 or 24 bitrate and the recorded audio clips were too fast and pitched higher than the original movie audio.  I did some research and found that Audacity audio software can only record at the same khz and bitrate that the original audio is made of.  The 88.2 and 96khz options are greyed out and not available when I made the audio recordings.

Within Audacity, under Edit/Properties, I selected 44.1 khz at 24 bitrate using the Best quality Real time conversion and High quality conversion with no dithering.  In the main window on the top section of Audacity, 4 options were selected: Windows Direct Sound, Realtek Laptop speakers for playback, SPDIF USB for recording and stereo.  

I also had to make sure that these selections for 44.1 at 24 bitrate were the same in the Windows Sound Control Panel for the SPDIF USB device under properties settings.

Now, I have exported DYRL LD stereo audio from audacity into .wav (44.1 khz, 24 bitrate) and .flac (44.1 khz, 16 bitrate).   I don't know why .flac changed into 16 bitrate.  I didn't select that.

1. DYRL AC3 LD
Dolby Surround Stereo
PILA-7008
.wav and .flac (2 parts each)

2. DYRL Perfect Edition AC3 LD
Dolby Surround Stereo
BEAL-448
.wav and .flac (5 parts each)

3. DYRL Analog LD
Stereo
SF078-5022
.wav and .flac (2 parts each)

4. DYRL Analog English LD
Mono
TLL-2084
.wav and .flac (2 parts each)

5. Flashback 2012 AC3 LD
Stereo
BEAL-1332
.wav and .flac (1 part each)

Spanish DYRL audio and Spanish and English subtitles are being shared from a previous DRYL fan BD project.  I do not know of any other DYRL audio or subtitle files  that are available.

I still need to figure out how to get the 4 parts of the DYRL Audio Drama LP to match DYRL movie.  Sony Sound Forge is supposed to have a time shift option, but I'll need some kind of key framing for the time shift because the LP record player did not play the Macross LP at a constant rate.  I bought my own ION USB LP player to record my Macross LPs and to re-record the DYRL Drama LP.

That's it for now.

I didn't know that the Gaiam Fleischer Superman BD was such a hopeless mess.

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Max-Fleischers-Superman-Blu-ray/50279/

http://www.arthousecowboy.com/journal/2013/5/8/do-not-buy-gaiams-max-fleischers-superman-blu-ray.html

It looks like there are some 1080p up-scales on youtube. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UJphNPwDfk

Perhaps, up-scaling the DVD video with Video Enhancer (Super Resolution) and then using some sort of dust / scratch removal software, like Neat Video, might be an option for restoration?

Did any one attempt to make a video restoration of the Fleischer Superman cartoons? Davextreme's project looks like more of a audio restoration.

I suppose the bluray logos could be patched with an up-scale of the DVDs and then some colour-correction done.

Thanks!

Yesterday, I was looking through the preservation posts to see when the last update was done for this project.   Good to see you're still plugging along on this series!

Video Enhancer only has a non-working demo of the Neat Video plug-in.  I'll buy that plug-in next week.  Neat Video looks like it does a good job in reducing the mpeg artifacts that will be even more visible when up-scaled.  You can see demonstrations of Neat Video on youtube.

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I'm working to next week-end and then I can get back to up-scaling the DVD letter-box, 480p video to match the BD anamorphic, 1080p video.

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I wonder if the DYRL? BD can also have dust reduction.  In some scenes, the movie looks like some dust was trapped in between the stacked layers of plastic, painted cel animation sheets.

PFClean  software supposedly does a good job of dust removal, but it is quite expensive.  Alternatives?

In Video Enhancer, the Super Resolution first re-sizes / scales each frame by width x height and then has a manual output width x height.  I take a snapshot of the BD avi and then compare to a snapshot of the resulting up-converted DVD avi. 

Scale: 1920x1080

Output: 1920x1080

The result is that the 1080 DVD avi is letterboxed and just too small compared to the BD avi.

I have to increase both width and height for scale for the DVD video, but not change the output width and height numbers to better match to the BD video.

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Unfortunately, the remastered DYRL DVD video is not the same film print as the DYRL BD video.  The opening BD Toho logo is slightly cropped at the top.  I can't say for sure if the whole BD movie has been likewise cropped as the Toho logo.  I will keep adjusting the Scale in Video Enhancer until the DVD avi fills the same area as the BD.

So, the up-conversion 1080p DVD avi is just a little smaller in scale than the 1080p BD avi.   The DVD avi is letter-boxed, while the BD avi takes up the whole screen with with small black bars on the top and bottom.

Sony Vegas might allow a little zooming in, but that would likely decrease the visual quality more.  I'll look in Video Enhancer and see if I can crop or scale up just a little bit more to match the BD avi.

Tmpeg Encoder was only able to encode the mpeg at 8 bit no matter how many different variations I used in Tmpeg settings to enable the 10 bit processing option.  The original DVD mpeg is 8 bit.

But, I was able to remove the 2:3 pulldown flag with DGPulldown software!

I read the ADM guide forum thread that was also posted on the Original Trilogy forum and found the DGPulldown software advise there.  In DGPulldown, the mpeg video is loaded in and I just type in 23.97 fps convert to 23.97 fps to remove the pulldown flags.  And after removing the pulldown flags from the mpeg, I ran that new 23.97 fps through the Womble GOP fixer again to correct for potential time errors.

Now, I have a 23.97 fps, 720x480, no pull-down flags mpeg that I can use for Video Enhancer.

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Video Enhancer does use the loss-less lagarith codec to up-convert the mpeg to an .avi !

I learned that I have to install the latest lagarith and K-lite codec pack to enable Video Enhancer to recognize and process the mpeg video otherwise the mpeg video does not work and a "can't get length" error occurs.

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In Video Enhancer, I used the Wizard option for up-scaling. 

1. MSU De-blocking: at recommended settings because of the mpeg artifacts

2. 2D De-noiser: at recommended settings

3. Super Resolution: 1920 x 1080 p, non-interlaced at the highest processing quality

4. Lagarith codec: RGB output to match the BD color

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The Video Enhancer preview video looks pretty good so far.

3 hours and 10 minutes to up-convert the mpeg into a lagarith .avi !

And success!

Remastered DYRL mpeg is now 23.97 fps, 720x480.

Decapitation scene

49 frames

Same frame length as censored BD decapitation scene.

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Media Info and Sony Vegas report the prepared DYRL mpeg as 23.97 fps. Womble Mpeg editor keeps mis-reporting the video as 29.97 fps and sneaks in some extra frames to make up for the increased frame rate!

In Womble, I can't find the project settings for editing to keep the video at 23.97 fps.  So, I'll have to use Sony Vegas for snapshots or just use Video Enhancer to up-convert the video.

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I looked around on the internet to see what is causing the 23.97 fps video to be recognized as 29.97 fps in Womble. 

Apparently, when Tmpeg encoder creates the m2v video, it puts 2:3 pulldown flags on the 23.97 fps video, so that the video will be easily used in NTSC 29.97 fps video projects.  The Tmpeg encoder does not allow me to remove the 2:3 pulldown flag option when encoding the video.  Womble recognizes the 2:3 pulldown flags in the 23.97 fps video and mis-reports the video as 29.97 fps. Thankfully, Sony Vegas is able to bypass the 2:3 pulldown flag when I set the video project as 23.97 fps.

I am re-encoding the DRYL mpegs again with Tmpeg encoder at 10 bit video and highest quality.  The default settings of Tmpeg encoder were 8 bit video at fastest encoding level.  And so, I will have to use Sony Vegas to keep all the video at 23.97 fps for editing.

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Sony Vegas is recognizing the mpeg videos in the editing time-line. 

Do I need to convert the mpeg videos into lossless lagarith .avi videos to keep consistency with the BD lossless lagarith avi videos?

Currently, I am getting the HD DYRL Region 2 DVD and the theatrical DYRL Region 2 DVD into shape for snapshots or up-conversion by using the ADM guide.   I think I have one too many DYRL DVD rips on my hard drives, which led to my confusion as to which mpeg was the properly prepared one for editing.

Here are some notes that are helpful in using the ADM guide.

Step 1: Decrypting DVDs

The Region 2 DVDs decrypted into m2v videos just fine. 
I will go back and decrypt the DVD audio once I get the hang
of this DVD video preparation.

Step 2: Fixing the GOP

Womble mpeg video editor does fix the decrypted m2v video from
2 hours 55 minutes back to the correct 1 hour 51 minutes.
But, the fps is still 29.97 at this point.

Step 3: IVTC to convert the 29.97 fps NTSC to 23.97 fps

1. If I install the latest DGIndex 1.5.8., then I need to copy the newest dgdecode.dll from DGIndex 1.5.8 over to the DGIndex in the Gordian Knot software package to get Gordian Knot to recognize the .d2v file.  Then I can load in the .d2v file from the 1st page of Gordian Knot on the bottom left corner.

2. I need to download and install Gordian Knot .35 and not AutoGK.

3. I edited the DYRL m2v AVS file to not use cropping or re-sizing because the m2v video is already 16:9 aspect ratio and 720x480 resolution.  So, cropping and re-sizing were disabled by putting a # in front of the AVS line.  Then I un-commented / removed the # from:
 
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\AviSynthPlugins\d ecomb.dll")

Telecide(order=1,guide=1).Decimate()

Tmpeg only scales to NTSC / PAL DVD resolutions, so I would have to use a software like Video Enhancer with Super Resolution to do the job of up-sizing.

4.  When the AVS file is loaded into the Tmpeg Encoder 2.5 software, the
initial settings say "NTSC, 4:3, 704x480" for the aspect ratio even after I chose NTSC, 16:9. I loaded up the AVS file, ignored the initial aspect ratio and followed the guideline.

5. The preview video in the Tmpeg Encoder software makes the DRYL video letter-boxed, which has black bars on all four sides of the video. So, I might need to crop the up-converted mpeg video to match the BD video when replacing the censored scenes. 

The HD DYRL DVD mpeg is currently encoding as a DVD NTSC, Mpeg2, 720x480, 23.976 fps, CBR 8000 Kbps.

The newly encoded mpeg will be ready in 72 minutes then I can use this new mpeg to take snapshots or up-convert.

Next, I'll take a look at the number of snapshots on this new encoded mpeg through Womble and Sony Vegas to see if the mpeg scenes now match up to the BD scenes.

That's cool!  OZC does great work for subtitling, encoding and editing dubs.

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Oh, I see what you mean.  Use the Clash of the Bionoids VHS audio and edit the BD DYRL around that.

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I think that it would be better just to use the unedited DYRL Toho English dub for the Clash of the Bionoids edit and edit both the audio and video into the Clash of the Bionoids version.  I already have two FLAC audio files of the DYRL Toho English dub.  And the Toho English dub as one audio file: stereo, ac3, 192 kb/s.

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First, I would like to get the original theatrical version of DYRL editing done and then I am likely to attempt the the Clash of the Bionoids edited version. 

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I am not quite ready for any editing yet, since I am having difficulty getting the mpeg into the proper 23.97 fps, non-interlaced format.  I think I might need to apply IVTC in a specific way to the 29.97 fps DVD mpeg video.  I have to re-read ADM's guide and try again.