rockin

Hey bobgarcia74,

Love what you are doing with this edit.

I have a question, and I had a look through the pages and didn't see what I am about to ask covered, but if it was please forgive me.

I am wondering if you are going to be doing anything with the way we see anakin get wounded on Mustafar?

I always thought the way he loses his legs wasn't very dramatic, nor the way he burns, and the way the burns look. I remember thinking back to the OT and how when we only saw Vader's head, it always signified he had gone through a really torturous and brutal transformation. For me in ROTS it never sold that part for me. And so, I am wondering if something more graphic could work - a bit like how murphy is shot to pieces and becomes Robocop. For me, that would sell the transformation I think better, as it allows the audience to really sympathise with what has happened to anakin.

Hey dark_jedi that sounds like a good deal.

But you do realise people are probably going to be sending you packs of DL's now you've said that? You'll probably end up with more than you would know what to do with. LOL :D

Any updates?

Wow, love that everything is coming along ady. I see our donations for your powersupply came in handy in the end, which I'm pleased about.

How do you do it? How does one balance doing this edit, working, family life, social life? This is the one reason why I think many of us can't/won't do edits on the same level as you. Which, I suppose makes your edits that extra bit special because you're prepared to go the extra mile.

On another note, I'm familiar with Vegas myself but I've always been curious how you do those new mattes for video footage. Do you make them in photoshop and insert it into a piece of video as a filmstrip, frame by frame?

Well it's just one of my own personal edits of The Phantom Menace DVD, I am using the VOBS from the DVD in Sony Vegas. I'll try the lossless render, but I have a feeling that is going to use an absolute immense amount of space. :S

Hi guys, I'm using Sony Vegas to do a couple of my own edits but I'm struggling to find the best format to render my edit in. I've probably been through every preset format and even configured them to my own liking, but the quality is always lower than a standard DVD. I want the quality to be the same or as good, not worse! In searching for this, I did find some formats that offered similar quality, namely the HD ones such as the mpeg4 1920x1080 presets but they take too long to render under those profiles.

Can anyone recommend a decent one to use or maybe a codec I can use in conjunction with sony vegas that isn't already there?

thanks

Yep, if we really want to see this happen, we got to help make it happen.

Is Adywan's email address his paypal too?

thanks

My pc is pretty fast, it isn't quadcore but it certainly isn't slow. It's a Core 2 Duo E6400 overclocked at 3Ghz, 4GB ram, 250gb seagate barracuda hdd, running windows vista 64bit ultimate edition. God only knows why it's encoding so slow. Might have to try another encoder.

adywan said:

ok, a quick update:

Not very happy today. Some little asshole decided it would be fun to try and break into our car by trying to force the passenger window open and they knocked the whole window into the car door and screwed the electric mechanism up. A nice little extra bill for us to pay. The police won't do anything because he is under social services care and a smack head, so he is just getting a slap on the wrist while we have to fork out over £100 to fix the car and we can't  leave it outside the house without a window in this area and the wife needs it for work. What pisses me off is that it was at 5pm and the neighbours were all just watching him do it. And to top it all is that i may be having to go to court because i hurt him when i tackled the little asshole. Don't you just love the great British justice system. God i hate chavs. So there is no way i can get the powerpack now until after xmas. The money we had spare to go towards the powerpack now is gone (apart from the couple of donations i received so far, that isn't being touched).  I really need your help for this guys, and you know how much i hate asking. There is no possible way i can afford over £100 for a powerpack without some help. I was thinking of just getting a cheap powerpack to tide me over but i was advised against it due to the amount of hard drives and power that my machine needs. I have to have at least 1000w now (true power because many so called 1000w supplies are actually only 700w true power) I can't afford to risk any damage to this machine so i'm not risking a low grade one. If anyone can help it will be greatly appreciated. My paypal account address is in my signiture. thanks

anyway, sorry for the lack of updates but i don't get much of a chance to go on the net at the moment because i have to use my wifes work laptop. But i will try and catch up on all the suggestions as soon as i can

Heck, I'll chip in to help buy the power supply for you just to get the wheel turning again Adywan. Love what you are doing, I really enjoyed Star Wars revisited. I've tried doing this type of thing myself on my own computer; a colour filter edit. It is very, very time consuming and in the end I gave up on it. Plus you're doing more than just a fixing the colours, so you must be a very dedicated man.

Okay it's all working good now - well seems to be. It's encoding that's the main thing!!! Only, it says it's going to take 33 days... :/

WOW! Thanks Oldschooljedi!! I'll give it a go and let you know how I get on.

Cheers!

Oldschooljedi said:

rockin said:

Hi thanks negative1 I found that really helpful. I got the DVD ripped to my HDD, I made myself an avisynth script (using G-Force's script), I put the VOB's along with the script through DGIndex and saved it as a d2v file. I then used CCE encoder to encode it all but I got a buffer overflow error and it failed on me. Is there another encoder I can use for the d2v file?

Have you the fft3dfilter installed in your system32 folder?

You can get it here. Make sure, that you install this filter into your "system32" folder, this is a subfolder of your "Windows" folder.

You should also try HCEnc from here. I have the same problem with CCE too, but not with HCEnc.

 

Yeah I've got ff3dfilter installed. I just want to check something though, once I've ripped my DVD to my HDD and encoded it using DGIndex with the avisynth script, why does it need to be a d2v and encoded again? Is to mux the audio and video again or? I'm still a little confused by that part. Also with HCEnc, how can I make it use the avisynth script? I can't find an option.

Thanks

Hi thanks negative1 I found that really helpful. I got the DVD ripped to my HDD, I made myself an avisynth script (using G-Force's script), I put the VOB's along with the script through DGIndex and saved it as a d2v file. I then used CCE encoder to encode it all but I got a buffer overflow error and it failed on me. Is there another encoder I can use for the d2v file?

Hi G-Force wonderful topic here. One thing that has always made me very angry was the transfer GL provided us with for the originals on GOUT dvd. I'm so glad that there is something we can finally do about it to make the best of what we have.

Can I ask how I can do this image stablization, like maybe step by step? I've been reading this thread but not much of it is making any sense to me. Excuse me for the newbie intellect when it comes to this kind of thing. :-)

Thanks