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#310294
Topic
.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310294/action/topic#310294
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I don't think the demand for this has really gone down. I think that people have just been fooled by the GOUT, and are just exasperated waiting for George to do the right thing. Sure, the "limited edition bonus disc" trilogy is better than the Quality Broth release I picked up on Suprnova 4 years ago, and it's probably better than most of the other Star Wars fan preservations. But come on, is that really the best that they could do?

Now I am not a guy that couldn't go on living without a PERFECT, HD copy of Star Wars, even though it is one of my top films of all time. But I'll be god-damned if that comparison shot between the GOUT and X0 didn't get me all dewy.

So, sure. Maybe in 10 years when HD has run its course, HVD is taking over, and George L. finally puts out the OUT on Blu-Ray in the last dying days of said format, I'll be able to get rid of my X0 disc. But until then, I'll wait patiently for the day when my X0 disc shows up, and I can slide it into my PS3, to view some cleaned up, anamorphic, cleaned up Star Wars goodness on 98 inches of HD love.

Thanks for all your work guys.
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#310163
Topic
ADigitalMan's Guide to MPEG2/AC3 Editing
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310163/action/topic#310163
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I have just finished editing a project in womble, and exported it successfully. My only problem at this point is with the transitions.

I had made my first cut, exported it and then dumped that back in to clip a couple of extra frames, and to tweak a couple of tiny spots. I authored the the DVD in DVDlab Pro2 and then shrunk it down to a DVD5 and burned it with Nero Recode.

When I watch it on my Optoma (HD70) projector, some of the scene changes are really obvious, due to a large amount of horizontal lines showing up for a split second during the scene change. Some are worse than others, and some of them are fine. It all looks fine in Womble, and when I play the demuxed Mpeg in Nero Showtime, but that could be due the fact that it's on a tiny little 19" screen, and not on my projector.

Any ideas?
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#310160
Topic
Transformers The Movie: Resparked (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310160/action/topic#310160
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I'm about 98% done, I just have to fix a couple of glitches that should be (hopefully) easy to fix.

Here is a list of all the changes I can remember. There are a couple of minor SPOILERS. Not really plot spoilers, more like suprise cuts than anything.



Trimmed end of soldiers talking. no more "what's your favorite day or whatever.

Cut Lennox talking to his wife and kid (fart joke).

Cut first time Epps looks at Blackout with binoculars, it's a little ludicrous to think that he would sit there so long and look at him twice.

Cut out spitwad scene. Tightened up classroom scene.

Cut out second naval tool innuendo "joke/laughing/"stop sign".

Cut "the compass makes a great gift for columbus day".

Cut "the man in the green car".

Cut Sam from "alright Mojo, i've got the car, now I need the girl" all the way to parents introduction. No more mirror/zit scene, ebay scene, mojo crack addict scene, etc.

Cut Mikaela's boyfriend saying "allright guys, I know of a party, let's head"

Cut Mikaela's boyfriend saying "this is not a toy, these 22's, i don't want you grinding them"

Cut Mikaela's boyfriend saying "you'll call me."

Cut large part of Mikaela and Sam talking in the car (big arms, etc.)

Cut Sam saying "I like to go fast" (creepy!).

Cut the President saying "yeah, could you wrangle me up some ding-dongs?". Bush is dumb jokes are so 2004.

Cut some of Frenzy's goofiness in elevator.

Cut "join the air force, bring the president ding dongs"....etc.

Cut Frenzy saying "uh-oh."

Cut "should I be? Yes you should! etc...." These people are supposed to be "the top of their class".

Cut some more Frenzy "wackiness, and Frenzy saying "Witwicky!"

Cut frenzy's slapstick walk through tons of govt. agents.

Cut lots of Frenzy "wackiness" inside Barricade. Shortened Barricade sitting next to air force one.....waiting.....for....?

Cut Maggie saying "there is nothing on earth that complex (obvious).

Cut Maggie saying "what about an organism?..............dna based computer, and I-I-I-I-I know that sounds crazy..."

cut Sams dad saying "you know, little chihuaha".

Cut some of the indian phone guy (trimmed pause at start, cut "i'm going to ask you to speak....). True story, but a little bit stretched out.

Cut "you got 10 back pockets! left check, left check left cheek!"

Cut second phone guy/"no i don't want a premium package!"

Cut Epps saying "bring the rain" , shifted audio to cut mouth movement. I've talked to several people I know from the military, and they all told me the would never talk like that on the radio.

Trimmed (panasonic) memory card commercial. Made Maggie stealing the card a little less freaking obvious.

Cut Maggie saying "there's only one hacker in the world who can decode this signal". rearranged video to cut this scene.

Cut dance-dance revolution scene. More useless filler.

Cut Glen saying "let me work my magic."

Cut Glen's grandma saying "are you playin them video games again, making moment of door being kicked in more dramatic.

Cut news report in Sam's room. too much info for the network news to have on the base attack.

Cut Sam calling Miles and telling him that "satan's camaro is stalking him". Ha-ha.

Cut out a few frames of Sam flipping his bike over. The editing was poor, and if you looked at it, they were repeating footage, making it seem like he was in the air too long.

Cut several seconds of Sam making small talk with Mikaela after falling off bike (while being chased by his car... that was driving itself...and had turned into a robot the previous night).

Cut several seconds of Sam's hesitation to get the f#*k away from a car that just turned into a giant f@%king evil robot....

Trimmed "this must be a bad dream" along with a few frames of transition from Sam on roof of car to Barricade slamming his fist down.

Trimmed a few frames of Barricade's two swings at Sam (he's a lightning fast ninja when fighting Bumblebee, but a lumbering hulk when trying to swat a human?). I also trimmed it to again make Sam look as if he is trying to get away from a GIANT F#@*ING ROBOT!

Cut "the car won't start. at least we ditched the monster, right?" keeps the tension in the car higher.

Trimmed Bumblebee's "engine trouble". He starts himself up and punches it at the right moment. Sam is surprised.

Trimmed Mikaela lingering and staring at the sawzall (there is a freaked out robot attacking her boyfriend after all).

Cut out Frenzy's Looney Tunes running in place/some silly noises during fight with Sam.

Cut Sam saying "not so tough without a head, are you?", trimmed transition.

Left Wilhelm scream!

Cut frenzy shaking his head and saying 'ooooh" to Mikaela's purse.

Cut "it's probablyJapanese, yeah, definitely Japanese"

Trimmed Sam and Mikaela drooling over Bumblebee's interior/Bumblebee taking his time sitting in traffic inside a tunnel (while in "disguise").

Cut "excuse me? are you the tooth fairy (barf)?

Cut "what's crackin little bitches?"

Cut the second (Sam's) Ebay plug.

Slightly trimmed "Scorponoks tail" scene, making it a little more of a suprise.

Cut "the donut scene".

Cut kid cutting in on female reporter.

Cut Sam and his parents being dragged outside (you touch my dog....don't talk to anyone until we have a lawyer...etc.).

Cut Sam saying "what you mean like ET? pfffft" I know it's a reference to Spielberg, and it's real cute, but Shia's acting at that point is a little iffy.

Cut "criminals are hot!"

Trimmed Optimus slamming into Sector7 SUV for effect (to make it more of a suprise/shock).

Cut Bumblebee pissing scene. I know that the agents are wet in the scene after that, but I'm going to chalk that up to sweat. If anyone can teach me how to clean that up digitally (or do it for me. Adigitalman? Adywan? Darth Editous? Anyone?), I'd be glad to, but for now, I just had to get rid of that ridiculous scene.

Cut "where's Sector 7? Wouldn't you like to know?"

Cut Frenzy's landing/more goofy noises from his fall off dam ledge.

Cut Simmons saying "they know the way of the samurai."

Cut Maggie saying"that thing is freaky! he's like the little bitty Energizer bunny from hell, eh?

Trimmed end of phone-bots rampage and Simmons saying "aww, he's breakin the box...."

Cut Frenzy saying "beeta, beeta, beeta!!"

Cut "ok, you want to leave the fate of the world on a kid's Camaro?"

Cut Sam asking Bumblebee, "they didn't hurt you, right?" (Awww, poor wittle robot).

Merged footage of bumblebee looking around and then slamming face shield down. (it was a pain in the dick to line up video/sound spent 4 hours alone on that one 10 second scene. Eat your heart out ILM!). Cut out Sam talking in between shots.

Cut Frenzy saying "duh/uh" when he tries breaking into the room with the crew. Trimmed scene slightly.

Trimmed 4 frames of Secretary of Defense Keller breaking glass to make the timing more realistic.

Cut Simmons "get out of the way..." trying to blowtorch frenzy.....frenzy shooting discs into room, Goodburger screaming about it, Keller sending message, Air Force responding.

Cut smiley, dipshit kid saying" COOOL MOM!" I worked on this longer than any other shot, and should have given up quite frankly, but god I hated it. I'm pretty proud that I got it to work.

Cut FRENZY "OH SHIT!" (I know it's a G1 reference, but it's gay here.)

Cut Epps saying "that ain't friendly".

Cut "I'll drive, you shoot!". It's a weird little mix-up of cuts, that mostly works, but being my most hated line in the whole movie, it just had to be removed. I had to steal sound effects from a different battle to get this one to work. I'm pretty happy with it, considering I got to remove one of the worst lines from the movie.

Cut Lennox saying "uh this isn't going well."

Cut Mikaela saying "SHOOT! SHOOT!"

Cut the "advertisement-bots". I kind of like Mountain Dew bot, but it was impossible to cut the scene up (without rebuilding the audio track from scratch, fuck that.) to remove the other bots. I'm happy with it, and it keeps things rolling. Besides, there was some awful acting in the whole scene.

Trimmed a couple of seconds in the Allspark hand-off to try and trim the hang time, and increase the urgency. It seemed as if Sam was taking his time to get rid of this thing that giant fucking robots were chasing him for.

Left in michael bay getting flicked into a car by megatron.

Cut "bring the rain" #2

And finally, I cried about not being able to cut Linkin Park song from the end (yet...).



As I've mentioned before, this is the first of three progessively different cuts, so if it seems like I left something silly in, it's because I wanted to. Some people like the humor in this film, and I wanted to leave some of that in, and some of the human character development. There were also a couple of scenes that my meager skills couldn't take care of. I'm hoping to cut a lot more of that stuff for the "hard cut", and may remove entire scenes and/or subplots to achieve it.

I'm getting together my ideas for the "Hard Cut" and the "G1 Cut", so if anyone has any suggestions or ideas, please post them here.

Also, if anyone has any ideas for the names of these cuts, please feel free to suggest them.

"Until all are one."
Post
#310157
Topic
Info: When does fullscreen show more than widescreen?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310157/action/topic#310157
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Since I finally found the retail DVD, I was just about to toss my TV>DVDRecorder rip of "Cloak and Dagger", when I decided to compare them I wanted to see what had been missing in the Fullscreen picture. Come to find out that the TV version actually had more picture.

I'm not sure of the OAR for this movie, but I'm hanging on to my TV rip now. I looked on IMDB and around the net, but I can't find any info on this, or anyone complaining about the Widescreen picture cutting some of the screen off.

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t196/jenkinsjoinery/cloakdaggertv.jpg
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t196/jenkinsjoinery/cloakdaggerretail.jpg
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#310116
Topic
Info: Cheapo Marvel Superhero Movies
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310116/action/topic#310116
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Originally posted by: Moth3r
Just found out the complete season 1 & 2 of The Amazing Spider-Man was uploaded to Myspleen (last June - shows how often I check that site).

Episodes are VHS rips, Xvid-encoded video in AVI files. I don't know what the quality of the capture is like.


Those are probably the same rips I grabbed a while back. They're OK, but I would like a DVD rip of them. I'll have to grab them and see if they're the same.

Post
#310001
Topic
How much longer will the format war last?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310001/action/topic#310001
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I agree. As bulky, and silly as Laserdiscs were, I was sad to see them go. Yeah, you had to flip them, but the audio was great (I flip my records every day, and I'll keep buying them until I die). DVD's are compressed all to hell. I'll still buy them for regular movies, but for "big" movies, I'm going HD.

This whole "war" was ridiculous. I'm glad it's over, and I can finally jump into the HD arena. I've had an HD projector, waiting at home, just itching to be hooked up to an HD player. Bring it on!
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#309993
Topic
Burning Dual-Layer Discs For The First Time
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309993/action/topic#309993
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Well, I tried it a different way and it worked the first time. Thanks to everyone who has steered me through this. God, for a technology that is so old, you'd think it would be easy by now.

If anyone else is having trouble, here is the guide that I used that finally worked for me. Someone else told me that I just needed to use ImgBurn by itself, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. This explains it perfectly:
Burnin', burnin', burnin'....DL!
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#309940
Topic
Burning Dual-Layer Discs For The First Time
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309940/action/topic#309940
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Wow. A year later and I still can't burn any f*%#$ng DL discs. Everything runs smoothly, I make it through Pgcedit, imgburn takes over, burns the disc, and then tries to finalize and sh*#s out on me. I have a good burner, good discs and good files. WHAT THE F#@*!?!?!

Sorry about my outburst, I'm just a little exasperated. Are there any other ways to do this? Do I need a mds file? I've tried to burn ADM T1 extended about 6 times now, and I'm about to just say screw it and shrink it down (boy, won't that look great on my projector).