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#716659
Topic
All Things Star Trek
Time

It's Neelix, not Nelix.

And yes, I hate his character. The funny thing that Voyager is the first show where I hated main or secondary characters.

- Neelix

- that little girl - Naomi? The first time I was hoping a character dies

- the borg kids - another time I was hoping I see a character die on screen

- the holographic doctor - I must admit that I like Picardo's performance, there's something about the character that I just hate. Maybe the fact that they portrait him as a character, even though he's supposed to be a piece of software

- that annoying bitch Neelix used to date in the first episodes - can't remember her name, I just found her extremely annoying

- I originally hated Janeway, Chacotay and Tuvok, but I learned to accept them over the years. ACCEPT them, NOT LIKE them.

I think the only characters I liked on Voyager were Tom Paris and Harry Kim. Which is weird. I used to love all TOS characters. I used to love all TNG characters (including Wesley, who seemed to be hated by the "general public"). Then Voyager came with its horrible characters. And then they brought a horrible character to DS9 - that jazz singing idiot - I can't remember his name - I absolutely hated that guy and can't understand why they gave him more and more space. Absolutely useless and badly written character.

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#716592
Topic
Comparing 2 videos using Avisynth
Time

Can some of you Avisynth experts help me with this one?

I started a youtube channel where I try to post comparison videos of the classic Star Trek episodes, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVO_FV66VctfXLf9ClmrEg .

I have an avisynth script prepared which stacks the 2 videos side by side, but I have to do a manual comparison of both videos. Because it's manual work, it takes a lot of time and there is a BIG chance I will miss some of the changes. Is there a way how to do this in Avisynth?

I thought that I could maybe do something with overlays or something similar ....

What I am trying to achieve is a video, which will FOR EXAMPLE be black when the two videos are identical, and FOR EXAMPLE be white when there is ANY change on that frame.

In other words, I want to know immediately if the frame is identical in both versions or if there are any differences (the black and white frames are just examples, I don't care HOW will I get the information). Or maybe is there a chance to write a LOG FILE from Avisynth? You know, a file which would contain just the numbers of the frames which are different?

Could somebody help me with this? Thanks a lot

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#716590
Topic
4K restoration on Star Wars
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emanswfan said:

So wait, the GOUT doesn't have the original mix?

 Nope. It's the 1993 version of the movie with everything, including different colouring, darkening of some scenes, the horrible noise reduction and the 1993 stereo remix. The only "change" they done was a last minute change of the 1977 crawl to Star Wars, otherwise the movies are the 1993 versions

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#716589
Topic
4K restoration on Star Wars
Time

Octorox said:

Um, isn't the 81 version just the 77 version with the Episode IV crawl and a slightly different sound mix?

 Doesn't it have also different colouring? You know like the artificial darkening of the "R2 in the canyon" sequence, or the different colours of the binary sunset sequence ....

And the shot were the fighters take off to fight the Death Star was redone - I don't remember if it was for the 1978 mono mix version or for the 1981 version.

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#715769
Topic
Info Wanted: So how bad is the 2011 Star Wars sound mix really?
Time

I haven't heard the DVD mixes for many, MANY years but I remember the most distracting thing for me were the different takes. There were scenes, where literally each line of one man's monologue was taken from a different take! So each line was in differrent pitch, different speed, different sound quality, different tone ... For example when Tarkin speaks to Leia, or when Han talks to the gang on the Falcon during the holographic chess scene etc.

The 2011 mix is much better because Matt Wood who did it KNOWS what fans hate :-) And he intentionally fixed or "minimised" the stuff

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#715156
Topic
Harmy's THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Despecialized Edition HD - V2.0 - MKV & AVCHD (Released)
Time

Harmy said:

I'm using Firefox and have absolutely no trouble with it.

 Actually I'm using Firefox too and I DO have trouble with it.

The problem is that the URL

http://s25.postimg.org/ezzxpmfil/Purple.png

gets translated into the URL

http://postimg.org/image/okjkci4uj/

Which is actually an HTML page showing the image, not the image itself.

The URL of the image itself is

http://s25.postimg.org/qccj7eo7h/Purple.png

So I'm not sure why for some people the first URL gets redirected and for others not, it should be a server setting independent from the client, shouldn't it?

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#714867
Topic
team negative1 - star wars 1977 - 35mm theatrical version (Released)
Time

team_negative1 said:

Luke sells his landspeeder, and a spy watches them:

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k2BMSRPGc44Fcl8hktc

Team Negative1

 I have seen both this and the new Empire clip and there is something very weird with the picture. I don't know the correct English terms right now, but the bright parts are too bright (all the bright parts actually "meld" into white) and all the dark parts are basically black.

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#714543
Topic
Harmy's THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Despecialized Edition HD - V2.0 - MKV & AVCHD (Released)
Time

So wait a moment ...

Version 2.0 will be out next week and will have rounded corners and be AVCHD, and version 2.5 will be in mkv and will be out ... when? Days? Weeks? Months?  And then there will be a version 3.0 when you get more 35mm sources?

Correct?

Sorry but I am totally confused by the numbering here

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#714177
Topic
Harmy's THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Despecialized Edition HD - V2.0 - MKV & AVCHD (Released)
Time

chyron8472 said:

I don't currently have the WP. And not that I actually care about a couple of pixels, but can someone post a screenshot of exactly what everyone is complaining about?

Really the biggest issue I had with v1.0 is the bleeding/crushed reds from light sources.

 Check this comparison gallery : http://postimg.org/gallery/4dk3t698/

In my opinion you will notice the rounded corners only if you search for them. Just open shots from version 1 and 2 in separate tabs and switch between them