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#633200
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Info: Films re-color timed on video releases
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Nick66 said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Nick66 said:

Just curious, does anyone know if there's been an attempt to colour correct the awful green tint on the Fellowship of the Ring Extended BD?  I've been looking for something like this for a while now.

From our own You_Too: http://fotrfix.blog.com/

Thanks!  But that's way to complicated for me. :)

If anyone has a link where I can get a CC version of this, please by all means PM me...with much gratitude.

This version is up on usenet:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/regrading-editing-original-trilogy-using-blu-rays-and-german-hdtv-streams-to-remove-bad-but-not-all-specialised-blu-ray-changes/post/553622/#TopicPost553622

 

 

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#632334
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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Harmy said:

valinkrai said:

Hey, I'm normally not one to be interested in the original cuts of Star Wars, being perfectly okay with the Blu-rays myself (Minus that awful new Krayyt call), but your despecialized opening crawl will be nice for my speech on the history of ILM. Just wanted to say thanks for giving me the chance to use a historical version of the opening crawl in HD.

You're welcome :-) Though I must say I don't understand how someone who's interested in the history of ILM can be happy with the BD version of Star Wars, which replaces like 90% of ILMs historically first ever work (academy award winning work, I might add) with CGI, which now has practically no historical value whatsoever.

Wow.  90%?  I didn't realize that it was that bad.

 

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#631743
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Help: looking for... Best Original Trilogy/Prequel Edits for newbies?
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doubleKO said:

I love the first thirty minutes of Q2's Episode I; the extra dialogue cuts (no battle droid voices at all, less Jar-Jar, Anakin and Padme) and the removal of Sidious and the droids works in its favour.

I don't like how he changed the die-roll scene though, and prefer L8wrtr's edit from that point; a no-name pilot destroying the control ship doesn't work for me. I would have made a cut 'n' shut edit of the two, except the missing characters then show up out of nowhere.

I'm surprised at how much I like The Phantom Menace now, thanks to these guys. I try to avoid watching the other two, but I remember enjoying Stankpac's ROTS right after watching the DVD version and hating it.

You should try out Seciors' Episode I.  That one is a tie for me with Q2's as the best.  Stankpac's ROTS is still my favorite version of Episode 3.

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#631643
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Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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dabest13 said:

Just came across this silly opinion article:

http://screencrush.com/jennifer-law...tm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_44045


now obviously a young han solo as a girl idea is completely bogus... but the author may be on to something... Jennifer Lawrence would make a damn good daughter for Han and Leia in episode 7.

 

https://www.facebook.com/jenniferlawrencestarwars

 

 

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#631209
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Last movie seen
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CP3S said:

I think two is actually my favorite Back to the Future movie, which isn't saying much. About a year ago I went back and watched the whole trilogy and was thoroughly disappointed. These were some of my favorite movies when I was younger, and after not watching them in so many years, they came off as really cheesy and over-the-top. But I still felt the second one was a ridiculously fun revisiting of the original, and I really enjoyed the cross over. Three on the other hand, I felt was just silly through and through.

Part one is and always will be the perfect movie.  It's my all time favorite movie and I watch it at least once a year.  Thoroughly disappointed?  The only part of the trilogy that's disappointing to me is the future setting (2015) in part two.

 

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#630897
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***//BUILDING EMPIRE\\: PAL & NTSC DVD - NEW EDITION NOW ONLINE! ***
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chyron8472 said:

Well, it's Frink, not Davdar.

When I looked on fanedit.info after he posted that, it wasn't there. Also, I didn't know what he meant by upload "list." Did he mean he added them to the RAR on fanedit.info? No. There was only one .dlc, and its links are dead. Besides, I thought Davdar was in control of that. Did he mean he uploaded them to MySpleen? No. None of those are NTSC, nor are any of them recent uploads.

You can understand my confusion.

 

Frink is going to upload them to Fanedit.info.  The 'list' he was talking about is various fanedits he's going to upload to Fanedit.info.  Davdar's could be further down the list so it could be a while.

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#630881
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***//BUILDING EMPIRE\\: PAL & NTSC DVD - NEW EDITION NOW ONLINE! ***
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TV's Frink said:

chyron8472 said:


Fanedit.info has a .dlc file for RARs on Rapidshare, but all the links are offline.

I have added all three NTSC versions to my upload list.

For me this exchange between chyron and Frink was enough information but I guess it would have been better for you guys if Frink would have said he's uploading them to Fanedit.info which is where he always uploads.

 

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#630875
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***//BUILDING EMPIRE\\: PAL & NTSC DVD - NEW EDITION NOW ONLINE! ***
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djchaseb said:

darth_ender said:

I was trying to do more of this a couple of years ago, and I got really irritated with the judder that most converters produced when going from PAL to NTSC.  I'm not very technically savvy and couldn't follow that complex guide from Doctor M.  I preferred the cheating method with IFOedit, as at least my video was smooth when watched on a proper player, and it was easy for my little brain to do.  But I just now did a little more research, and it appears this little program might work miracles...and it's freeware!

http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/CD-DVD-Rip-Other-Tools/D2MP.shtml

Everything I read about it says that it perfectly converts and brings the menus along for the ride!  I'll have to check it out for a few of those videos that I had to cheat with.

Can't find a tutorial and when I tried, it won't accept any of the files in the Video_TS folder.  Would be so much easier if whoever has the NTSC version of Building Empire could tell us where they will upload lol

I told you, Fanedit.info.  The links are dead right now, but like Frink said above they're on his list to upload to Fanedit.info.  So until he does that you're going to have to make do with those PAL versions. (or download the Vimeo ones with Jdownloader)

 

 

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#630715
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***//BUILDING EMPIRE\\: PAL & NTSC DVD - NEW EDITION NOW ONLINE! ***
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djchaseb said:

stretch009 said:

djchaseb said:

stretch009 said:

djchaseb said:

Yeah my cheat trick pal to NTSC doesn't work on my ps3. Too good to be true lol

Try this, it's worked every time for me:

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/convert_pal_to_ntsc_page_5.cfm

 

Nice! I'll give it a shot tomorrow, thanks!!

If that doesn't work I recommend the program AVStoDVD.  This, unlike the IFOedit patch cheat option, will give you a 100% NTSC DVD.  The only reason this is my last-ditch option is because you might lose a little quality.  The first option I gave you has no loss in quality, of course.  I use the HCenc encoder in AVStoDVD which is a phenomenal encoder so you can't really lose with this either.

 

I have a program that will convert the main video file, but I was trying to preserve the menu and extras. Not sure if that's possible. 

What's the name of the program you're talking about?  There are different ways to preserve the menu and extras but it's time consuming and a pain.  From what I've read it appears you need an extensive amount of software which is freeware or otherwise.

FWIW here's a guide for this:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Doctor-Ms-berGuide-for-Full-PAL-to-NTSC-DVD-Conversion-v20/topic/10111/

 

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#630699
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***//BUILDING EMPIRE\\: PAL & NTSC DVD - NEW EDITION NOW ONLINE! ***
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djchaseb said:

stretch009 said:

djchaseb said:

Yeah my cheat trick pal to NTSC doesn't work on my ps3. Too good to be true lol

Try this, it's worked every time for me:

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/convert_pal_to_ntsc_page_5.cfm

 

Nice! I'll give it a shot tomorrow, thanks!!

If that doesn't work I recommend the program AVStoDVD.  This, unlike the IFOedit patch cheat option, will give you a 100% NTSC DVD.  The only reason this is my last-ditch option is because you might lose a little quality.  The first option I gave you has no loss in quality, of course.  I use the HCenc encoder in AVStoDVD which is a phenomenal encoder so you can't really lose with this either.

 

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#630518
Topic
Windows 8
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Ziggy Stardust said:

I'm still doing just fine with my Windows 95 and Nokia cellphone.

You can't update perfection. 

December 31, 2001 was the end of support for Windows 95.  Apparently that doesn't matter to you.  I am curious though about 'End of Support' because I kind of would like to use XP after support ends.  I thought I read somewhere that if you have a good firewall and antivirus as well as a good anti-malware program like MalwareBytes you should be able to use XP after end of support.  Any thoughts on this?

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#630506
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Windows 8
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"Yes you do - even if you're just passing through on your way to the desktop. You must boot into the metro ui."

Nope, you can boot directly to the desktop using the program Classic Shell. :

http://www.classicshell.net/

It also gives you a start menu which is lacking in Win8.

I don't actually have Windows 8 but because of programs like Classic Shell I've been getting more interested.

Does anybody here have Windows 8?  How's it working out for you?  Should I stick with Windows 7 or upgrade?

Edit: You can use classic shell in Windows 7 too.  It brings back certain features from XP that were removed.

 

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#630423
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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Yeah the search function is really screwed up why the admin insists on using an obscure forum software rather than something like vBulletin is beyond me. If you want to search just type in site:originaltrilogy.com/forum "search term" on google.

Nope.  All you need in google is:  originaltrilogy.com "search term".  

Also, I made a bookmark/favorite in my browsers so I don't have to type that every time I search.