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#208063
Topic
Darth Vader the Musical
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/208063/action/topic#208063
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Um... production? This is just a video I edited together, using footage from the 2004 DVDs of ESB and ROTJ, and music from the original London cast recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber's POTO with redubbed vocals (by me).

It has no relation whatsoever to the wonderful Star Wars musical that someone composed.

(Edit: OMG I can't believe I said ROTK at first!! LOL.)
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#208058
Topic
The Phantom of the Opera Resynched (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/208058/action/topic#208058
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I've uploaded a new torrent of the single-layer DVD to Pirate Bay. I'd been having trouble uploading a multiple-file torrent (for whatever reason) so I uploaded an NRG (Nero image) file instead, hope that's okay.

(Edit: Oops, when I first posted this, I hadn't actually uploaded the torrent, but it should be there now. I'll put up my LOTR DVD later.)
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#208037
Topic
The Phantom of the Opera Resynched (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/208037/action/topic#208037
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Sorry to disappoint you, Boomstick. I do have it in DVD-5 format -- as to whether it meets your quality standards I cannot say -- I encoded it at a very high VBR rate, BUT I worked with XviD source files. The reason for that is that I didn't want to bring my DVD collection with me to college, so I just ripped what I wanted onto my hard drive. Still, the DVD is definitely of superior quality to the AVI, and includes chapter menus, so I'll post a torrent for that soon if you'd like. (Or I'd be happy to send you a copy in return for something else you have.)

Quality issues aside, I'd very much like to hear your thoughts about the editing itself.
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#207955
Topic
The Lord of the Rings - Special Abridged Edition (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207955/action/topic#207955
Time
Hmmm I'm not really sure what you mean by "shakes during movement". There is a slight bit of jerkiness, I'll grant you that, but frankly it doesn't look all that bad to me. I'll post a DVD-5 version for you soon for you to evaluate. Hopefully that'll be better.

I know that there is some -- "jerkiness" would probably not be the right word to describe it -- in the audio at some places, especially in the loud brass sections. After ripping my DVDs to my hard drive, I changed the framerate from 23.97 to 24 and used BeSweet to speed up the audio to match it (while keeping the pitch the same) and I guess that process came with a price. (Yes, by speeding up the movie ever so slightly, I guess I was cheating, in a way, since part of the "abridgement" came from the 0.125% increase in speed, which is really unnoticeable but adds up over time.)

If enough people show an interest in this project, maybe one day when I have time I will go back to my source files and try to fix all the problems. Till then, though, this is all I have to give.
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#207908
Topic
End of SE ROTJ...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207908/action/topic#207908
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Here's my take on this. Nobody ever actually "sees" the Jedi spirits -- Force-sensitive people like Luke just feel them through the Force. BUT, you need some way of representing that on film, so you make the spirits visible. Now, prior to the scene in question (in the episode 1-6 continuity), we have never really seen Sebastian Shaw as Anakin -- even during Vader's unmasking, Sebastian Shaw's scarred face does not resemble his spirit visage at all. Since we are more familiar with seeing Hayden Christiansen as Anakin (having seen the six films in order), we are more likely to recognize him than Sebastian Shaw. (I remember that, as a kid, I was so confused as to who the third spirit was, since I'd never seen him before.) But that's just a way to represent the invisible spirits on film, so it doesn't really matter.

If you have a problem with Anakin taking his younger form again, consider this -- why didn't you have a problem with him as a fine-looking (albeit old) man, instead of a badly burned and scarred figure?
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#207905
Topic
The Lord of the Rings - Special Abridged Edition (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207905/action/topic#207905
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Originally posted by: Moth3r
I'd be interested to know what "compatibility reasons" you've read about that prompted you to change the 4CC?

Actually the compatibility issue I spoke of is that, for some reason, Adobe Premiere doesn't display XviD files in its editing workspace unless its 4CC is DivX. This, of course, would not affect a final output file that I have no intention of editing with Premiere, but I just leave the XviD settings that way for all my encodes. So in a way it's more of a habit thing, I guess.

XviD files should normally be split into CD-sized files for archival, i.e multiples of 700MB (the exception being short TV shows). For a film length of 3 hours, a 2-CD rip would be the most appropriate.


I see. I guess I generally keep my AVI files on a hard drive, which is why I don't usually bother to split them into CD length. (In fact, for multiple AVI files that I download, I usually concatenate them for archival on my hard drive.)
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#207898
Topic
The Lord of the Rings - Special Abridged Edition (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207898/action/topic#207898
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Originally posted by: boon23
Dude, I envy you for your connection and upload speed. i have been seeding 3 days in a row with my last upload (3 gb) to have one other seeder. Oh, US, I love your technology but not your president.


Unfortunately my upload speed is way higher than my download speed. I have no idea why that is, but downloads are really slow for me. I think the system administrators at my college may be blocking something that affects our torrent downloads, but not uploads (?).

Haha, don't worry, lots of people here don't love the president either.
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#207857
Topic
The Lord of the Rings - Special Abridged Edition (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207857/action/topic#207857
Time
Well, I know what I know just by fiddling around with video editing for a couple years, and with a little help of a wonderful thing called the Internet.

I must confess that I did not work with full-quality source material. After ripping the DVDs I converted them to XviD before editing them in Premiere. I had to do this because of space considerations -- otherwise I would have been working with six full-length DVDs plus bonus material (the maps), which I did not have the hard disk space for. That being said, I think the output quality is decent, though that's for you guys to decide . . .
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#207853
Topic
The Lord of the Rings - Special Abridged Edition (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207853/action/topic#207853
Time
Originally posted by: boon23
The strange size of 1.1gigabytes seems to implicate you did not use gordian knot to encode your edit. I find GK pretty cool and it produces very good xvid quality.


No, I've never used GK. I used a Premiere plugin to frameserve the video to VirtualDub, which I then used to encode it to 2-pass XviD and the LAME ACM to compress the audio to 192kbps MP3.
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#207852
Topic
The Lord of the Rings - Special Abridged Edition (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207852/action/topic#207852
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In my edit, when Pippin picks up the Palantir at Isengard, he immediately sees the eye of Sauron. Here's a screencap of that scene (basically a zoomed-in version of the scene later in the movie when he looks into the Palantir):

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a159/wmgan/LOTR%20Abridged/PippinandthePalantir.jpg


I removed all references to the Mumakil ("Oliphaunts") entirely, so I had to zoom in portions of the Eowyn-Witchking confrontation in order to keep those creatures (mostly) out of sight. Here are some examples:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a159/wmgan/LOTR%20Abridged/Witchking1.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a159/wmgan/LOTR%20Abridged/Witchking2.jpg
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#207836
Topic
The Lord of the Rings - Special Abridged Edition (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207836/action/topic#207836
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OK, I figured out how to do it. I've posted a torrent of it in DivX (in reality XviD with "DivX" as its FourCC for compatibility reasons) on The Pirate Bay. (Mods, am I allowed to say that? I know I'm not allowed to post a direct link to a torrent.) Please let me know whether it works.

Once I reclaim some hard disk space, I can also post my DVD-5 version if you'd prefer that, which includes chapter menus.