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#455137
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25fps PAL to 23.976 NTSC ripping without decimation or additional steps
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/455137/action/topic#455137
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Of course, R2-6 received this version of the film in PAL format and have been subjected to the usual PAL speedup issues.

Retiming 25fps to 23.976 during encoding is actually quite easy once you've figured some "secret" tricks -- here's an example involving the encoding tool AutoMKV 0.98.4:

(Assume you've ripped your PAL source media, merged the VOBs (or what-not) and now have a single large 25fps MPEG2 or VOB (etc) file prepped and ready for encoding.

* click the Advanced Profiles Editing tab, and look center-right

* for Change FPS, adjust the two associated boxes from "NONE" to, respectively, "Assume FPS" and "24000,1001".

-- That's it! (Set everything else up as you were going to anyway, and encode.)

If this needs to be an as-lossless-as-possible step in a sequence, select AVI/XVID with a Constant Quality profile and a Quantitizer of 1 -- this will result in a large, barely-compressed high-quality file.

(BTW, I can't speak highly enough of the adaptive degraining "LEM" filter included with AutoMKV)

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#455136
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***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/455136/action/topic#455136
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Of course, R2-6 received this version of the film in PAL format and have been subjected to the usual PAL speedup issues.
Retiming 25fps to 23.976 during encoding is actually quite easy -- here's an example involving the encoding tool AutoMKV 0.98.4:

(Assume you've ripped the PAL DVD and have a single large 25fps MPEG2 or VOB file prepped and ready for final encoding.

* click the Advanced Profiles Editing tab, and look center-right

* for Change FPS, adjust the two associated boxes from "NONE" to, respectively, "Assume FPS" and "24000,1001".

-- That's it! (Set everything else up as you were going to anyway, and encode.)

If this needs to be an as-lossless-as-possible step in a sequence, select AVI/XVID with a Constant Quality profile and a Quantitizer of 1 -- this will result in a large, barely-compressed high-quality file.

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#280245
Topic
Young Indiana Jones... a preservation (* unfinished project *) - a mass of info & ideas
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280245/action/topic#280245
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"Indy Jones Chronicles are currently being cleaned up, are having documentaries added to them and will be shopped as “films for a modern day high school history class.” He’s [Lucas] hoping they’re released on DVDs very soon."

Boy.....I just can't see anything good coming out of *that*, given all the political-correctness hoops such a project would have to jump through.
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#278255
Topic
Star Wars: Classic Edition 2.0 NEW from Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278255/action/topic#278255
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Originally posted by: lordjediOne thing that I love about this disc is the sound though. I don't know what other sets have had this mix, but I'm 99% positive that I've never heard that voice from Beru's mouth. When she started to speak, I stared straight at the screen in disbelief. Does anyone know if this mix was ever released on VHS or Laserdisc (I only have the Definitive Collection set)? I also honestly haven't watched all the VHS releases I have, so I may have it and just not know it.
That's the original Beru (and I sigh contentedly every time I hear her, just like I do when the Ewoks are partying down at the end of Jedi the way Lucas won't let 'em anymore). I'm no authority on which tapes and platters have her, however.
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#278231
Topic
Star Wars: Classic Edition 2.0 NEW from Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278231/action/topic#278231
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Originally posted by: pittrekOh my god, I'm just looking at these screenshots at work on a MUCH better monitor and they look terrible Any tips how to avoid it in MY project ?


* Your anamorphic DVD9-quality fan-edit project will need to look great on a huge, high-definition plasma wall-screen as well as a laptop, or at least as good as the source material at any rate-- because that's what people are going to expect if you advertise it as "anamorphic 16x9 wide-screen" or anything else promising rich, creamy lossless goodness. This means you should have a monitor like that at your disposal. OCP spent a lot of time making an 8gig movie that looks no better than a 700mb DIVX rip almost certainly for the reason that he didn't examine the output on higher-qualify platforms. Your output should look good when played from a PC, a Mac, or a stand-alone DVD-player.

* Don't do a damn thing until you've made an exhaustive check-list of every single feature of the film you want to change. Talk to fans endlessly. When you're about to begin....put it off for a little bit longer -- because it's guaranteed that a couple more items will pop up. Consult your check-list repeatedly: Pretend you're a airliner pilot -- don't let any niggling detail come back and bite you in the ass (e.g., Greedo's subtitles, et al).

* (Previous comments regarding filters, lossy formats, encoding, etc.) I find it helps to fiddle with minor test projects first. Like half-hour cartoon episodes with reduced color palettes -- then render quickly.

* Once you have application filters, tools, drivers and codecs all lined up perfectly and have had excellent results on your test projects, make sure auto-updating is turned OFF for everything -- you don't want some piece of software auto-updating in the middle of your work and suddenly reducing compatibility or introducing other errors.

* Provide samples to friends and fans regularly so they can critique the quality of your work. Submit samples for analysis in video-editing forums. The professionals in said forums will know as lot more about the suitability of various applications to your task.

* Don't ask for DVD cover art until the project is well along and you've built up good cred.

* Distribution of finished product: You can break your piggy-bank buying DVD9s to ship to all hither-'n-gone, support the spam merchants at RapidShare, indulge the arcana of usenet RAR-segmenting or IRC servers.... Or you could shoot for the much, much larger bittorrent audience by composing a decent multi-tracker .torrent of an ISO file (or folder full of VOBs) that will self-perpetuate after you're done seeding. I hereby offer my services to anyone in this, latter regard. (Ensuring that a torrent reliably self-perpetuates takes very little additional time, but the learning curve to knowing exactly what to do is moderately steep and filled with frustrations.)
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#278002
Topic
Star Wars: Classic Edition 2.0 NEW from Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278002/action/topic#278002
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This is one scene which was particularly bad -- a veritable pixel-blizzard. I can't fathom that OCP would spend so much time on this without noticing such problems if they were capable of being so noticed on his equipment, and, that being the case, can only surmise that the output looked good on whatever display he was using. (And this is the lesson for all of us: Any video project should be watched on a variety of platforms before being marked rock-solid.)

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#277970
Topic
Star Wars: Classic Edition 2.0 NEW from Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277970/action/topic#277970
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Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
Originally posted by: mike18xx
Could anyone else who's downloaded and viewed this corroborate this disappointing review?

Yeah, more or less. The brightness was kicked up a lot rather than any overall color correction, so the result is some ridiculously grainy dancing blacks that's insanely distracting.

I finally got the Demonoid torrent downloaded this evening, ran the folder over VLC (1024x768 laptop screen with 32bit resolution)....and boy, you aren't kidding. There was an obvious flickering in the starfield after the text crawl (annoying, but willing to forgive) -- but the graininess is horrible. The shot of Vader walking up the corridor after taking the door down; his black cape is just swimming in errant pixels. Followed by Leia loading the card into R2 (pixelation in dark shadows), then 3PO walking through a doorway -- lots and lots of dancing pixels in the flat blacks especially to the right.

What a shame.
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#277480
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Classic Edition: The Empire Strikes Back by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277480/action/topic#277480
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Originally posted by: Hoichi, the Earless
Why doesn't everyone upload .ISOs instead of those stupid VTS_folders with all those .vobs? I recently downloaded the fanfiltration of Dune, only to have to delete it because it wasn't an .iso & i couldn't find a program to burn it with. Seriously, why can't everyone just upload .ISO (???)
Because, if it's a torrent, it's easier to DL part of a VOB and quickly determine quality. Or snarf the extras first (they're usually a separate, smaller VOB). And because "fake"-makers always post in ISO because they want you to waste the maximum amount of time and bandwidth before discovering that you've been hosed.

For PC, ImgTool is a handy utility for generating ISOs from subdirectories. Nero has no trouble with them at all (no arcane monkey-business whatsoever), and I can also drag-n-drop them onto VLC Media Player to see if all the menus are working properly.
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#277453
Topic
Star Wars: Classic Edition by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277453/action/topic#277453
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Awesome....this looks like the best it's going to get until somebody crowbars loose a hi-def/blu-ray copy and lays into it.
Originally posted by: ocpmovie
LOL. I love the pro-Mac vibe this thread has developed.

Pay the Devil his due -- that's a lot of tools available to us Windoze users that Mac just doesn't have (and many of us Windoze users are also Mac users who feel the same way about being "abandoned" by Steve Jobs as SW-fans do by George Lucas). Decent P2P tools being a glaring example -- and P2P transmission is apparently a problem here (ref: page12 of this thread). Usenet? Jeez, mon; this is 2007, not 1997. RapidShare? <retch>.

For example, in uTorrent, I can design a multi-tracker torrent so my upload is not enslaved to a single hosting site. Then, I can use MakeTorrent and Edxor to shuffle new tracker announce URLs in and out as I please, and upload new .torrent files to new places, and keep my torrents fresh without having to re-up megagigs.

Let's try using some of this ho-hum Windoze technology to get this film out in front of thousands of fans.... Hmmm... It's March 14, 2007, almost two years after the May 19, 2005 date of this thread's creation, and where is SW:CE being trading presently? Demonoid, apparently, is the only current repository (since Myspleen yanked a torrent there -- Cluebat: If they'd do this, why continue patronizing Myspleen? With all the hosting site competition out there, it's an uploaders market). Current traffic in the torrent is 2 seeds and 9 peers. The seeds are doling it out at starvation ration speeds, because on Demonoid, if a torrent ever goes without a seed, the clock starts ticking and the torrent will be deleted after a set period of time.

Keep that 2/9 seed/peer in mind, and I'll show you some tricks of the trade. Within a few days of this post, it's going to be WAY, WAY higher.

* First I DL the torrent from Demonoid (which has only been there four weeks as I post, with no pics and a poor choice of names and not much of a description), and open it up in my client of choice, uTorrent. I acertain that Demonoid's announce URL is the only one on the tracker list. Unfortunate, really. If you had a shiny, new car to sell, would you advertise in only one city? Of course not....

* I open up a "master" .torrent file in the text-editor Edxor, and cut-n-paste a great, heaping gob of tracker announce URLS, most public, some private, into the rescued-from-Demonoid torrent. (I've previously tweaked my master using MakeTorrent.) Freighted along with the cut-n-paste are any torrent comments I have (these are a list of URLs to my TorrentBox and Mininova pages). Right-click, save. Drag-drop new .torrent file onto uTorrent (while it has the original open and trading) to see if the "torrent already exists; add new trackers to it?" alert comes up, indicating to me that the all-important hash number hasn't been disturbed. I make slightly different .torrent files for sites that require their announce URL to be first in a multi-tracker list.

* Off I go to Torrentbox, Minninova, Piratebay, Fenopy, IsoHunt, etc, to upload the new .torrent. Bazillions of new peers line up at the turnstiles, and happily begin trading the already existing torrent being seeded over DHT.

Results: Torrentbox, TorrentPortal, Mininova, Torrentz mega-index

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