satanika

Re: the usb powered hd, if you have a powered usb hub, try plugging it into that, or if it's already plugged into that try the usb ports on the back of the computer. Believe it or not, this solves this sort of problem very often.

Leonardo said:

satanika said:

Just a quick note regarding the clipping...
Well, there really shouldn't be any clipping/digital distortion, what you usually do if there are some 'outrageous' peaks is put a brickwall limiter at the end of your filter chain, it will catch anything over 0db (digital 0db) and avoid digital distortion.
Feel free to PM me if you need help with this or something.

I disagree satanika. if you just cut away stuff or compress with limiters and compressors, you're modifying that audio's dynamic range, and that's not good for an audiophile. I think that in order to avoid distortions of any kind, you should work with your data at a lower volume in the first place, by setting your filters (in this case the equalizers ABC's using) at the right volume so that we avoid clipping but just loud enough to be powerful. I've done this  several times trying to enhance some old cassette tapes.

No. I am talking about peaks that are out of the 'normal' dynamic range. And since there is already clipping, a brickwall limiter would have been the ideal way to handle it.

Just a quick note regarding the clipping...
Well, there really shouldn't be any clipping/digital distortion, what you usually do if there are some 'outrageous' peaks is put a brickwall limiter at the end of your filter chain, it will catch anything over 0db (digital 0db) and avoid digital distortion.
Feel free to PM me if you need help with this or something.

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Maybe he meant to say "Your very welcome prick"...

lol sorry ;)

"The War of the Stars" - sounds like a new celebrity reality show.. ;)

Thanks for all the info, a little surprised you have such a 'lo-tech' setup, but I guess your ears are the most important tool.. ;)

Were the relative levels on v1 correct? I mean, did you go over every track and set a new max. volume or turned up everything the same amount.
For example cd1 main title vs. cd2 imp. march, the imp. march should get a little more volume than the former, or??

It must be difficult to set the relative track volume for a set with so many edits as this, some tracks probably have/should have much lower volume because they weren't played as loud as others.

ABC, I'd really like to know a bit about what kind of software/hardware you use for this, editors or plugins or whatever.. Do you work with mastering professionally or are you just insanely talented? ;)

I agree it looks like sumthin's up with the saturation, in the 2nd pic the troopers face has purplish-pinkish spots..
Maybe a few raw screens to compare? :)

http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/pdf-editing-creation-50-open-sourcefree-alternatives-to-adobe-acrobat/

Perhaps try besplit/besliced or ac3fix? Don't know the proggies too well, but they should be able to detect stream errors and possibly correct them. Would be interesting to know if the files were reported as clean or with lotsa errors..

With your ears ;)

It should be obvious when played simultaneously, it would sound off-key if the pitch doesn't match.

Hmm, is this the raw ac3 stream? Is LD ac3 48kHz or 44.1kHz? Was it ripped digitally? Did the capper already convert it in some way?

Did you compare the pitch of the audio, is it lower/higher?

Have you checked the samplerate (kHz) of all the parts, are they the same?

Yeah, maybe they modeled that head after that photo..

Is it just me, or does Han's head look incredibly big in that last Hoth one?

Well, I'll say that the fake ice they used probably didn't have any blue in it.

But the way the entrance is carved seems to be like a glacial wall, like this

But however it'll end up looking, it'll still look good, so... :)

Well, I am not one to go on endlessly about a topic, but I'm not talking about reflections, or light or whatever. Simply that ice is blue.

Actually I believe the blue would be even more pronounced in a cave. Look up ice cave on google images to see tons of blue caves. ;)

vaderios said:

I see ady's approach like the camera shoots as natural as can with no special stylised photo effects. I just noticed that ady's version has plenty of blue in it(played wiht some sliders)

The modernize of 2004 was to set moods and situations. Tinted cyan blues was set a stylised cold environment as we see in decent movies( Michael Bay anyone?) Or with several tints manage to make the old elements blended together with no further work.

Hmm, I'm not really talking about a stylized coloring, I just believe ice masses has some blue in it.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_%28glacial%29

A quick mockup.

adywan said:

Bingowings said:

The ice cave looks a little bleached out for my eyes, it's nice to have the snow no longer purple or blue but some of the darkness of the cave seems to be lost.

Look at the sides of the cave entrance for example.

This is rough because the images don't exactly match (so ignore the legs and the saber obviously) but I tried over laying some of the lower contrast/higher detail information of the GOUT version over the ESB: R version.

It's darker but you get some of the detail back :

Don't trust the colours of a pic posted on facebook. many times the colour has been changed of pics i have uploaded there. Not sure why it does it because it doesn't do it to them all but here is a true snapshot

even here the image looks a little brighter than it does on the actual video

Compacted ice will usually have a bluish look to it though I think...

As an interior shot it just seems too white to me.

Lol, kinda funny this ignore stuff... Just checked and someone named cutnshut is ignoring me... I wonder what I did?

Well, at least Ric is my friend!

Did you try it yet?
Grab the BluerayDisc.ai (link #3), drag it to photoshop, it should pop up a box with options... Select something suitable for rez/size, also I needed to select 'Crop to - Media box'. It should then render a perfect image layer with no background...

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j/k

But seriously, you can render the .ai at least, mebbe the others as well, in any resolution, also it doesn't have any background.

If you can't figure it, lemme know what rez you need.

I just tried the blue theme, and I think I turned into a mogwai there for second before I turned it back.

Bright light! Bright light!

I hope you'll like these pics, Ric.