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#296986
Topic
Different colors in AVI and MPG
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Hello,
I have a problem.
I am currently working on an Episode IV restoration project and I was "recoloring" the whole Tantive 4 sequence. After I've achieved that 3PO is gold, stormtroopers are grey and the walls are white, I have exported it (from VirtualDubMod) as uncompressed AVI file.
Then I did put this AVI into good old CCE and created an mpg2 file. The problem is that while the AVI file looks exactly as planned, the resulting mpg has completely different colors (for example the walls are light grey) and is much darker.
I think the problem is that the AVI is RGB24 and the mpg is YV12, but I have absolutely no idea what to do with it
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#296985
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Info Wanted: Pittrek's "pure" '04 DVD/GOUT hybrid OT project...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/296985/action/topic#296985
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There's nothing like ANH in my world I simply call the movie Star Wars.

The current status -
Episode 1 - done, but it's a combination of the official DVD and a DivX of the theatrical version, so the source changes are terribly visible. I'm currently working on "smoothing" the source changes.
Episode 2 - I think it's done, simply because I can't find a better source for the theatrical version.
Clone Wars - I have edited the 2 official DVDs together to make one movie, I plan to add there the title crawl from ADigitalMan's edit to make it more "complete".
Episode 3 - done, but the re-created transition in the only changed scene is kind of "jerky", I'm seriuosly thinking about redoing it once more.
Star Wars - done, it has all 5 existing sound mixes, but I have realised 2 things - the special edition changed the sky behind 3PO when he's aruing with R2 in the desert, so I have to change it back, and the restored mono mix is available, so I'm currently working on a new version. But I have a big problem, the Tantive 4 sequence. I have "recolored it" to be more stable and have correct colors, the uncompressed AVI looks perfect, but the resulting m2v has much worse colors. I plan to put some screenshots to the technical forum.
Episode 5 - the video track is ready.
Episode 6 - nothing yet
Bonus discs - only to SW (deleted scenes, holiday special and Making Of), I'm still searching for some unreleased prequel documentaries (I have absolutely nothing)
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#292383
Topic
Help: looking for... ADM's Star Wars: Episode II.V - The Clone Wars
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/292383/action/topic#292383
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Originally posted by: lordjedi
I can probably seed this some more tomorrow. One of you will need to take over for a bit once it's complete. I think I originally seeded this out to 12+ people.


If you're the one seeder who appeared yesterday evening, thanks a lot, don't be afraid, I seed everything to at least 1.5 ratio and delete the files after nobody downloads from me at least a week.
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#291191
Topic
2006 DVD OOT
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/291191/action/topic#291191
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The original theatrical versions were NEVER released on DVD. The shit commonly know as GOUT are NOT the theatrical versions. They are the "definitive collection" masters transfered to a incredibbly BAD looking video.
The differences between the theatrical versions :
1) The colors are different on many scenes - just look at the Tantive IV segment on E4 (the walls, the rebels shirts) or the blue snow on E5. I don't know if these are color anomalies created by the film ageing, or "deliberate creative decisions", but they were NOT on the original movies, just look some older laserdisc or VHS transfers.
2) The digital video noise reduction which was done to this masters fucked the complete video, now we have a video with a very small detail, trails, 4-eyed stormtroopers and similar shit which was not on the original film.
3) Some frames are missing
4) The audio is NOT from the theatrical versions, it is from the DE version. It is VERY similar to the theatrical stereo, but not the same.
5) At some countries (like Austria) the audio suffers from PAL speedup.

I really can't tell anything good about this "Fuck you, fans" release. Those are NOT the theatrical versions, they look and sound like shit.
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#290910
Topic
Star Wars - The Vintage Edit (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/290910/action/topic#290910
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Well, the method I've mentioned makes exactly what I have written, simply takes the GOUT video as the base layer, and puts over this layer the same video from the 2004 release with black being transparent. That's why the code doesn't work.
Both Layer and ColorKeyMask expect a clip as their parameter, and not an avs script, so you should have it ALL in one script, and you should start it with for example

GOUT = mpeg2source("path_to_GOUT_clip.d2v")
SE = mpeg2source("path_to_SE_clip.d2v")

GOUT = GOUT.Trim(..., ...) #the start and end frames if you want to do it only with one scene
SE = SE.Trim(... , ...) #the same

GOUT = Crop(... , ... , ... , ...).Lanczos4Resize(720, ...) # crop it and resize, the numbers are depending on the format you're using (NTSC / PAL)

#and later use
Layer(GOUT, ColorKeyMask(SE, $000000, 10), "add", 255, 0, 0)



That's one method. If you don't wanna do it this way, tellan wrote a couple of month ago a different method on chroma keying in his "Lancer project" thread. Maybe it's worth reading.