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Even with the tb panupped to the laserdisc?

Actually, using a PAL vhs capture couldn't you use Andrea's PanUp method to combine with the laserdisc and get potentially even better results? Or is the TB pal and you could do so with that?

Just watched a bit of this I don't remember ever hearing Jar Jar say "where is the wrench" that audibly... like ever. 

Alright, Phantom Menace Cinema DTS synced and upped.

I'm happy to extract, sync, and encode these one at a time, if you'll provide me with either the isos, or pull the aud files from both discs and zip them all up together (my preferred approach). Maybe toss them on Mega and send me the links? I'll do them in whatever priority order you prefer :)

Put them out as NSFo Releases?

Myspleen for now, we'll see moving forward.

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Just jumped through the .dtshd file before uploading it. It sounds friggin STELLAR, both the core and the lossless. It's 24bit/48hz - While the initial file was 16 bit, the speed change and syncing was done at 32. I figured might as well go as high quality with the lossless as I could.

Thank you Jetrell Fo for leading me to something I didn't know that I desperately needed! :D

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If you already have Ady's restoration, it's quite easy to mux together with mkvmerge. Just drop the old mkv into the program, then the new dtshd file.

Alright the corrected 48khz release should be hitting the web soon.

I will say that unless you are intending to watch/release on a disc format, the 44.1khz files are fine and are technically truer to the original source.

However, due to some friends that have far deeper pockets to fill their PCs with cool software than I do - I am releasing this as a full DTS-HD track (and a 448kbps AC3 for DVD releases.)

The extras dvd shot of him saying that was discussed on page one ;-) 

Bluray is lossless, with a plain dts core that is effectively double the bitrate of the cinema track. However the dvd mix was very poor and the Bluray was completely re mixed which pushed it even further from the original mix, despite the fact that it is rather brilliant.

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I had a major facepalm moment on this. The ac3 and dts files i releases were 44.1khz... Which, while representative of the original sampling frequency, is not compliant with dvd or bluray specs. As such, i will release one more torrent of this. However, it will take a couple days because i believe i need to do the 48khz conversion prior to the the speed conversion and aligning to retain as much of the original audio as possible. I may even compile my master track at 64 bit 192khz for maximum retention, which the lossy files will then be generated from. However I fear this may be too much and introduce anomalies. Anyone have any suggestions?

My ears might be tricking me. But it almost seems some of the nemoidian lines are different, better articulated takes.

Which I find incredibly disappointing because I think 35mm scans of AotC and RotS would be far easier to bring in line with the OT than the pristine Digital sources we have.

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Any ETA on this? Really excited to see your final results. :)

With a few Phantom Menace projects popping up lately (and my own that I’ve been throwing together) I thought it was about time that the Cinema DTS CD isos that Jetrell Fo had released a while back finally get some love and attention and see the light of day.

With that goal in mind, I set about ripping the audio to an editable format.

I’ve long been rather unhappy with winamp for audio tasks (which is the only way I’d found previously to decode the discs), so I set out to find a different way.

Luckily, there is a plugin for foobar2000 that not only decodes the 5 channels present on the disc, but also simulates the theater system in generating an lfe track.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdadecoder/files/foo_input_apt-x100/

Using foobars quick convert to wav, I loaded the resulting file into audition. To convert cinema 24 fps to home theater 23.976 fps, I sped it up to 100.1%. Then found the individual track split points, resplit the file and matched them up where the waveforms were identical. <span style=“line-height: 14.3999996185303px;”>Using a mono mixdown of Adywan’s restoration ac3 as a guide, I found the track start point and endpoint.</span>

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<span style=“line-height: 14.3999996185303px;”>With that said, I have released 2 cuts of this.</span>

<span style=“line-height: 14.3999996185303px;”>The first is my initial lossless foobar merger wav with Ady’s ac3 to make your own.</span>

<span style=“line-height: 14.3999996185303px;”>The second is an MKV with my initial workprint DTS attached to Ady’s reconstruction so that you can hear it when matched with the video.</span>

<span style=“line-height: 14.3999996185303px;”>My third and probably final release will be out today - it will include my final sync as a 1509 kbps DTS file and a 640 kbps AC3. This should be perfectly adequate as the initial Cinema DTS was 882 kbps.</span>

<span style=“line-height: 14.3999996185303px;”>A big thanks to Jetrell Fo for the initial files and to Adywan for giving us an amazing reconstruction.</span>

Thoughts and comments appreciated. All of my edits are release through torrent.

I second seeing these with a dehalo added

I'm perfectly happy with the added noise vs the depth loss. Honestly, this is by far the best I've seen your examples look and I'd be happy if the final release was done with SR11 Raw.

Any chance at seeing some 1080p results?

These new shots look far less flat - the 3 dimensional aspect has been restored.

I didn't really want to expleen myself. Sorry.

Also - Thanks to Adywan for his amazing original restoration. While this MKV is an unofficial release of mine to showcase the Cinema DTS, nothing of Ady's has been reencoded - They are all direct stream copies of his original release.

An MKV of this with the Cinema DTS track may have just arrived in a torrential download... ummm.... downpour. ;) 

 Oh also on the leaving dagobah. Cut the second time Luke says Lando. It sounds unnatural based on how people normally talk

With the addition of the Jerjerrod scenes i just figured you have more flexibility

Perhaps the next scene "Move the fleet to the far side of endor" could now be moved to the place where the Emperor arrival scene originally was?

Ok - half hour in and so far I like the way its set up. 

Only thing I'd change is slow down the video/audio when Yoda says "Obi-Wan wouldve told you long ago had I let him." so that it matches the scene, and deepen his voice a bit.

Then when Obi-Wan appears, cut the line "Why didn't you tell me" because we now know why.

After Luke arrives on Tatooine but before the cave scene, show the emperor arriving on DS2. Then show the cave scene WITHOUT the Vader voice over.

Torrent needs seeders please :D

Kk650s look really good but his aotc suffers noticeably in dark areas

Pm sent

Happy with the list. I want to see this. Now!

Let us know when it's up!