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#205285
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205285/action/topic#205285
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Don't use Bitlord. It's believed to be adware, and it's just a ripoff of Bitcomet.

As far as making torrents Bitcomet has a built-in torrent file creator, or you can use a program called Maketorrent.

A while back in one of the LOTR book-cut threads, I posted a really long and in-depth guide to creating a torrent file with Bitcomet, but that thread has been deleted. So here's a couple sites with some guides for creating torrents with a few different programs:

http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-create-a-torrent/ (This gives brief explanations for a bunch of torrent clients)
http://forums.torrentbox.com/viewtopic.php?t=11407&sid=f41b255368f0dcbcc6449eeb667e5e21 (Uses Bitcomet, lots of screenshots)
http://wiki.theppn.org/index.php/BitTorrent_Tutorial (search for "making a torrent", covers Azureus and Bitcomet).

Next time I write a guide, I'll actually save the damn thing.
Good luck.
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#203360
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203360/action/topic#203360
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Oh my god. That's amazing. I never imagined that the final edit would entail so much work beyond what you've done. The only thing I see that is an issue is the edit of the Nanny scene. The border between the new face and her cloak is really sharp, which is in contrast with the soft borders on everything else in the shot. Is that apparent in the scene, or is that a bi-product of the scene being screencapped?

But really, beautiful work. The scene with the flower sketches over the background looks amazing. What is the background from?

So, what is there left to do? Are you still contemplating other over-involved, completely deranged restorations of certain scenes?
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#202648
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202648/action/topic#202648
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Originally posted by: ocpmovie
You're talking about the Recobbled Rough Cut here?


My hands are slightly tied here as far as cutting things. I'm trying to remain pretty true to the workprint, since I'm not Richard Wiliams and not allowed to make these decisions ...

Still ... gimme some "forinstance"s.


Off the top of my head, I think there's a shot in the polo match where they cut back to the King for a couple seconds, and it just killed the humor of the Thief getting his ass kicked. Like you yourself noted, the workprint is a rough cut. Although I fully understand how delicate this whole operation is. One false move, and Williams gets really, realy sad.
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#202060
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202060/action/topic#202060
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Spent a while on getting the formatting right on the OCR stuff--for those that don't know, before you can OCR an article or whatever, the program has to figure out what's text, what's an illustration or picture, and what's just garbage (specks of dust, blots on a xerox, etc). So you just tell the program to automatically figure it out. Then, you get to go back and FIX what the program just did. For 60 pages, it took about 2 hours.

So now I've OCRed the pages, and I now I have to fix that. Some of the pages are pretty good, and only take 5 or minutes or so to spell check. The most common issues are lower-case Ls and capital Is being recognized as the number "1," or as exclamation points. In contrast to this are the pages that are poorly copies, and use small, funky fonts, and I get crap like this (note, this is actually copied directly from a paragraph that I have yet to spell check):

"H rearm anlMaty apprcprLBle Irtal Williams lurrnd on io anirfa-lion al age Swb ntar lacing Snow rtfitfa irtd tna Senm t>wtlfl F4&H J4 r* li Hii dra »*4 By mc« raponiHl at "boyish.' dw in pan |D rul -nletliOLn enimiuasfn lor ta wort Born "1 TotWfc wtvE hia met**' Trtxhod al ¦« HuatrBbt and Kri IVrtot *ta* ¦ Cinhmercal "rmf. William? K"jfc lo Irtfl OrawinQ bcvrQ V an eH'ly aga and wn> ImtKmJ by lid Disney chB/aclflf* AF 14. Tie mi»fl ¦ pihjmnflQd [Pj Thi^) Id Ihfl Oi*nay studia Vi Bur bank. CaJilo*r*ir and Ihtuugrt a FlVnd dF hil mo[r>wrE mam9«tf ID gam mjrfW-lariCB Ha «poX* 10 IrtB Di*r*y ¦n.naicr? i*lwis* wort r<e riad flffmk*!. Bjid Ihey in ftun vrero Impaiawf *lh lr« younpHflr"? .JadkiaHofl and Ulant ¦ Loll Df peop* al ¦» Ikne *H'a Dh"*T ivi«dcir' I* Of» I0U ar> 4nlBiviai-flr, "ftiil I cduM *clij#lty drt» aHaFir"

I shit you not. Those first three 'words' (H rearm anlMaty) should read "It seems entirely". I think I see five words in that mess that actually OCRed correctly.

Ahh, the joys of OCRing shit...
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#201421
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/201421/action/topic#201421
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Gonzo-

If you can deal with it right now, it's yours. I sent you the necessary documents, and an explanation of what's going on. If you can't deal with it right now, let me know. Otherwise, when you're ready to hand it off, let me know. I just can't deal with a project of this scale right now.

Garrett-

I know the OCR stuff isn't the greatest priority right now, but I didn't fully realize what I was getting myself into, and I just don't have time for it at this moment. So I'll get the OCR stuff out of the way for the moment, and then take the big project off of Gonzo's hands whenever he's ready--assuming he's ready for it at the moment.
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#201405
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/201405/action/topic#201405
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Just a thought Garrett--

Seeing as how I have experience OCRing stuff (probably a lot more than anybody else you would run into), if you want, the book project could be handed off to the next person (haven't started yet), and I could start OCRing the articles.

If you want to do that, post here or drop me an email, letting me know what format(s) you want, such as PDF, Word, txt, etc. I'm pretty sure you want to just archive the text itself in rtf format or something like that, but secondarily, it is quite easy to OCR the text while leaving the images in the articles intact, if you want to preserve the actual pages themselves in PDF format.

Like I said, let me know what you think of the proposition.
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#200325
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/200325/action/topic#200325
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Garrett--

Got your sweet, sweet care package today. Can't wait to start tearing into that stuff. Took a look at the new workprint--it's light years beyond the copy I had from Myspleen. The AVI compression is a troubling, but it's beautful compared to what's been circulating the last few years. As you said, it's come a long way.

Faceman--

I like the screenshots. I take it the one with the pink dude is from the workprint? If so, very nice job. Really brings the color out. Quick question...could you post a couple more screenshots showing how Nod and Zigzag came out? There was one scene in particular that I was looking at a few days ago...

http://www.hostimage.org/img/6685248.jpg

Where there was an obvious orange/brown tinge to the picture. I did a quick and dirty color adjustment, which seemed to indicate that the color could be restored very nicely--

http://www.hostimage.org/img/4898074807.jpg

Anyways, would it be possible to give us an idea of how well the rest of the workprint came out? I'm anxious to see how your work paid off.
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#199974
Topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199974/action/topic#199974
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I still think "Once..." should be the title for the final cut, especially seeing as how the term "Recobbled" has been thrown around so much for the rough cut. It'd be a good way to distinguish the two, and it really gives a feel of the sad history of the film.

I don't know...on the other hand, it's not very descriptive, and not Google-friendly. Eh...your call.