nightstalkerpoet

Sorry for the double post...

But I should have an SD capture of the ORF1 2013 German Theatrical TPM broadcast on myspleen this evening. In case anyone is interested :-P 

Apparently this channel runs a SW marathon every September. Anyone up to trying to capture and see if it's theatrical? I know OP said they switched to DVD sourced, but there's always hope for a happy accident ;)

http://www.fernsehserien.de/star-wars/folgen/episode-i-die-dunkle-bedrohung-661794

@Alexrd That was me. I only asked because I hadn't seen that shot in that high of quality before and was curious of your source.

Apparently I need to feast my eyes on the blu shot :P

@Valeyard this is a VERY quick and dirty comparison of the Sebulba scene (gimp lanczos3 upscale of GPVOD vs your lossless upscale of the extras dvd) 

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/139232

I figure if a rough scaling can put them that close, your scaling script will probably work wonders.

I'd just drop the brightness (or contrast - hard to tell which sometimes) and saturation down a tiny bit each, otherwise these look stellar.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/139222

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/139223

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/139224

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/139226

The last one may be slightly too desaturated, but I always felt that SW looked more "authentic" that way, and Carrie Fisher's face was always rather pale.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/139201

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/139229

Here's a quick comparison between the crowd shot in Ady's reconstruction and the GPVOD.

hold off anyway, im tweaking it a bit.

PM sent Valeyard

Doing my best to get you something usable. I grabbed the Google Play version - sadly, it appears their releases are just Youtube videos (viewing on the play store points to youtube in the source code - followed the code and ended up watching on a standard youtube page). 

RU.08 - I will paypal you half the money to buy the digital version of TPM for the podrace sequence if you're interested in using it. Where are you at with this?

I can't remember if this has been touched on or not, but which sound mix are you using as your base Ady? 

So you'd have to spline up to 720x540 before starting?

I'm just very intrigued by the potential of anamorphic 1080p to provide an alternative resolution that is Blu-Ray compliant and is able to squeeze higher quality into the same bitrates. I know a lot of projects use 720p as a way to incorporate lower quality footage in without standing out - I'm curious if 1440x1080p is capable of that as well, or if the seams show through. Considering the vast majority of fan projects are going to end up on SL 25gb BD-Rs, this resultion could be the sweet spot for providing quality. I'd imagine it might also reduce upscaling artifacts from projects attempting to scale to 1080p.

Any chance at getting that 1440x1080 anamorphic example? ;)

In any case, having spent a lot of time looking at and working on different color corrections, your color matching technique appears to be working very well.

RE:1440x1080 Any source is fine :)

As for the color correction, your matching skills there are pretty stunning and I'm quite happy with either GOUT or corrected. The corrected version brings to mind dark_jedi/Team Blu's efforts.

Hey  DrDre -

was wondering if you would try something for me.

Bluray Spec allows for anamorphic 1440x1080.

I'm curious how SR to 1440x1080, then Spline stretched to 1920x1080 looks compared to full blown SR to 1920x1080. (The spline stretch is simply meant to emulate the bluray player applying the anamorphic stretching)

Ignore me.

Just in case its true...

Strange how many of you seem to have tied Frink only to the Ridiculous Saga, forgetting his origins as the cut-list curator and 5.1 connoisseur. I knew there was a man under there.

Not sure if this would be possible, but any chance a 35 mm print could be scanned at 1080, stabilized to match the blu, and the film grain only lifted frame by frame and applied to the blu? 

Am i the only one that feels PT film transfers should be prioritized higher before they begin to deteriorate?

Grabbing this now. I really suggest staying away from the term "revisited" though.

Dude, don't you know it's rude to talk about your spleen in public?

Im not sure why, but i found i got better results in foobar loading all of the aud files in and converting the them to wav in a single output file. Otherwise the results were strange, occasionally devoid of surrounds at all.

Thank you for that, it helps a lot. I see your point on the credits - while it may seem useless to some, perhaps a simple script that checks the final size of a CRF encode, and discards it if over a certain size, starting over to encode again with a CRF value one lower (a smart script might even be able to judge how much larger the encode is than the desired size, and choose between 1, 2, or 3 lower depending on the overage).

Oddly, I see the potential in zones evening out quality in projects using different sources. Maybe CRF 16 for Upscaled HD footage, while bluray footage gets CRF 20+ to degrade the quality of the film through encoding the same way SD footage was originally degraded through encoding. I'd imagine this would work far better than any unsharp tool.

I’m searching for a way to encode a file for best possible constant quality, based on a specific size.

I was wondering if there was a way to tell an encoder to CRF up to the credits (specifiying a specific frame), at which point the credits are encoded using two pass to achieve an overall average bitrate, acknowledging the size of the CRF encoded portion as well.

You would set a minimum bitrate so that the credits weren’t totally botched. The encoder would look at the CRF portion, then see if the credits could be encoded at the minimum bitrate to reach the desired size. If not, the encoder would repeat the CRF encode at one value lower, and repeat the process. Otherwise, the two pass would be completed on the credits to allow for potentially better quality

All of you scripters… has this been done, or is there any way that you could look into a way to do this for mpeg2 and h.264?

Any news?