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I watched the dyrl theatrical DVD in my limited edition boxset and it had the bodolzaa video glitch. The colours of the theatrical dyrl did not look faded, but the contrast/brightness was definitely darker than the remastered dyrl movie. At times, I could hear faint pops/crackes in the remastered audio, but not in the theatrical audio. There are no deinterlacing issues on the remastered dyrl that I can see as Hurin was pointing out as a problem with the perfect edition dyrl DVD. It might be possible to clean up the remastered dyrl grainy-ness of the picture with Tmpeg video encoding software, but the picture details could get blurred. After seeing multiple versions of DYRL, I think DYRL has room for improvement for a blue ray release.

When S-47 Berkut is able to remove the japanese subtitles out of DYRL nicely, then the DRYL fan edits won't need blurring or cropping. I'll have to ask S-47 Berkut what resolution he is using for his DYRL fan edit. In order to get the closest aspect ratio, I ended up using 864X480 to try to match to the original remastered DYRL video. Once S-47 Berkut has done his magic, then a even better edition of the remastered DYRL can be put together plus fixed up versions of DYRL fan edits. I did a little sound filtering soundsoap2 for the remastered DYRL stereo audio for pop/crackle removal. I couldn't hear any pops on the filetered audio, so I'll just save that .wav sound file for now.

iMacross4 UPDATES: 1. DYRL a. Do you remember extras DVD Disc 3 of the remastered DYRL LE 19 parts, Winrar Contains remastered PSX DYRL videos, trailers, commercials 2. Macross miscellaneous video a. Macross M3 flash video collection 7 parts, winrar b. Macross Sega Saturn/PSX DYRL flash video collection 2 parts, winrar c. Macross VFX2 flash video collection 7 parts, winrar These flash videos supposedly can be fixed with video enhancer. I have not figured out how just yet. 3. remastered Macross Plus a. OVA 1,2,3,4 subtitle files Edited by Gubaba, .srt 4. remastered Macross 7 I retimed the central anime subtitles to most of the remastered Macross 7 video extras as .srt subtitle files. I have 3-4 more to go and will be uploaded by next week. a. Macross 7 plus Spiritia Dreaming .mkv + .srt b. Macross 7 plus Top Gun Gamlin .mkv + .srt c. Macross 7 plus Bridge Seven Staff .mkv + .srt d. Macross 7 plus City Police 24 hours .mkv + .srt e. Macross 7 plus Good Morning Mylene .mkv + .srt f. Macross 7 plus Gubaba's Planet .mkv + .srt g. Macross 7 plus Holy Lonely Light Live .mkv + .srt h. Macross 7 plus Milia the President .mkv + .srt i. Macross 7 plus Ray and Akiko and Stephen .mkv + .srt j. Macross 7 My Friends .mkv + .srt k. Macross 7 plus Blazing Love Heart acoustic version .mkv + .srt l. Macross 7 plus Fire Bomber 1st Live Planet Dance .mkv + .srt m. Macross 7 Try Again acoustic version .mkv + .srt n. Macross 7 plus Veffidas Drummer Girl .mkv + .srt o. Macross 7 Oh, But Baby! .mkv + .srt p. Macross 7 Dynamite Explosion Live .mkv + .srt q. Macross 7 Seventh Moon .mkv + .srt r. Macross 7 Parade .mkv + .srt 5. Macross Audio and Drama a. Macross Frontier Ace soundtrack .mp3, 2 parts, winrar 6. Macross Frontier a. Macross Frontier Radio 12 and 13 .wmv videos b. Macross Frontier 2009 calendar preview camera pictures, .cbr 7. Macross miscellaneous a. S K Design Works 2008 Macross Selection .cbr ********** I have 3-4 more Macross 7 music videos to subtitles for next week. I also want to work on DHE Macross Zero episode 1 english dub DVD. You're welcome.

I'm going to try to see if there is a difference in video quality for the M zero BD .mkv files compared to the Macross Zero SD DVD video when I use the higher resolution m zero .mkv files in the video editor. I need to experiment a bit to see if I can output high resolution video onto a SD DVD. I don't think DVDLabpro does high def for dvd creation. So, at best I might be able to do a high def .mkv or .avi. This high definition video editing is new to me, so we'll see how it goes. For now, I'll use Hikuro's first version of the DHE M zero ep1 audio. I can always swap out and retime the audio if needed. Hikuro, I was watching your DYRL footage and it looks like you have a 4:3 full screen aspect ratio instead of a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. 4:3 looks like a square like box made for regular tv s 16:9 looks more like a rectangle with black borders on top and bottom. Maybe there's setting in your video editor for aspect ratio? I used tmpeg encoder to set my aspect ratio as 1:1 VGA, then full screen (no margins, keep aspect ratio). *** I moved the Misa vs. Minmay audio drama DVD back into potential Macross fan edits, since I haven't heard from lynn2009 for months and Gubaba is focused on Macross Chronicle issue 1-50 for the next 5-6 months.

Clash of the Bionoids 2.1 DL DVD now available on miniNova.org! That's as good as I can make it for COTB. ******** The COTB 2.1 .avi will be uploaded in the next 3-4 days. I'll be working on the DHE Macross Zero Episode one DVD. Music video, trailer and upgrading the video for the episode with blue ray video. I'll update the details on the first page of this thead. That'll keep me busy up until Christmas! And then a whole new year and another Macross video project.

Looks like we'll get to see VF-4 s in action! Alright!

All 8 weblinks for all 8 parts are on 1st page of this thread. Use HJSplit software to integrate 8 parts back into 1 .avi.

Thank you and congratulations to you and your team! I'll download this asap.

On Videolan media player (Vista 64), COTB 2.0 DVD looks and sounds just fine the way I expected. And then I went to Futureshop to pick up some more dual layer dvds to test out with my sony and yamaha dvd player. Then I found that this DVD is best watched on a computer and not so well on a regular dvd player. Fixes needed: 1. all the audio tracks have to be .ac3 on the dvd, othewise the .wave files of the extra videos play silent on the dvd player. I need to swap out the .wav/pcm audio of trailer, music video and both original end credits. Womble video editor creates the mpeg audio files, then Tmpeg encoder software to demultiplex out the .ac3 out of the mpeg file and finally plug in the new .ac3 files into the dvd. 2. COTB fan trailer had 1 frame glitch that wasn't obvious when I was watching with Videolan player. 3. DVDLabPro dvd subtitle fix: a. uncheck 16:9 letterbox b. move bottom margin up 40 pixels 4. Gubaba asked me to change his end credit to english script editor and I flubbed that because I forgot about swapping out the new edited end credits would take 3 steps because of the 2 layers of english credits and song subtitles. 5. COTB 2.0 was encoded as 1:1 VGA with no margin/keep aspect ratio. COTB now looks letterboxed on my tv and on my computer, so I think the aspect ratio problem is fixed. Videolan player works too well as a dvd player. So, I'll check if testing with Nero Showtime or Windows media player would be more like playing on dvd players. 6. The "over scan" error happens when I watched the original COTB ending credits. It's an easy fix that I thought I fixed a while ago, but didn't. A little bit of the left and right of the credits are chopped off. So, I just move the credits inside of the video frame and now it's fixed. 7. Then I noticed a big difference in video quality when watching COTB 2.0 DVD on my LG LCD monitor and on my Samsung 50" DLP TV. I'm just griping about my TV. Movies don't look quite as good as on my computer LCD monitor. The DLP TV smudges and blurs colours and details. I'm not sure if it's broken or just not set up properly. It looks like it's a combination of the remastered DYRL film grain and Samsung's digital noise reduction filter that makes the video look so-so on my DLP TV. I'm picking up 10 night shifts in a row, so by the time COTB 2.0 is seeded, I'll have COTB 3.0 fixed up. For now, I could just play COTB 2.0 with my computer hooked up to my TV. I hope I learn from my mistakes or somebody else does.

New power supply is working just fine.

I just came back from groceyr shopping and found my desktop computer not working. I turned off all my electrical appliances just in case there was a power surge from the Hydro guys fixing something. Looks like the desktop computer powersupply is dead. I'll go buy a new one asap. I hope that's all it is.

I know you're trying to help me, but I get a little lost with all the technical details. I appreciate it. The remastered DYRL R2 DVD can be extracted as a 23.98/24 frames per second (fps), noninterlaced video. But, then dvdlabpro does a 3:2 pulldown and converts the 24 fps to 30 fps for the DVD creation. I'm not sure how to get 24 fps nonconverted video as the standard in dvdlabpro; I'll need to read up some more on 3:2 pulldown. Maybe, there's a button in dvdlabpro I missed. I double-checked the remastered dyrl encoded with and without Tmpeg encoded deinterlacing. I couldn't see any difference in visual quality between the two video files. Videolan media player does have options to change the deinterlaced video from bob (separate the interlaced video frames, instead of slapping them together) and weave (blur the two intelaced video frames into a smooth blur). I noticed Bob deinterlacing in Videolan player looked bad for the subtitles, so that made me think that there might be deinterlacing issues in the remastered DYRL video. So, that's as good as I can make the remastered DYRL video for COTB for now. COTB 2.0 DVD actually looks really good to me. When S-47 Berkut has figured out how to remove all the Japanese hard-encoded subtitles, then a new improved remastered DYRL could be done. Just a touch of videoediting for the 12 frame Bodolzaa fortress video glitch, with Japanese subtitles removed and some audio editing for the remastered audio with all those little audio pops and DYRL is super remastered. I hope soundsoap2 or audacity can fix those little audio pops in the remastered dyrl soundtrack because the remastered audio sounds a lot cleaner than the theartrical audio. Anyways, that's for later. I'll be offline for uploading today because my condo has test the new electrical system for the building.

SSFM COTB 2.0 is now available! So, I'll just be seeding COTB 2.0 from now on. Improvements: 1. Higher resolution used for remastered DYRL movie. 2. Film grain is intact with no Tmpeg video filters. 3. Aspect ratio is more accurate now, except for the cropped Zentradi scenes. 4. English audio dub is fixed up even more. 5. DAPDX commentary is complete and SoundSoap2 filtered whenever possible. 6. The song of an angel's paints re-edited with improved video. 7. DVD menu button "resume movie" fixed 8 "N(n)ow I believe in your love" dyrl song subtitle fixed 9. English/Japanese audio in stereo and 5.1 .ac3 Thanks for seeding! boinger ************************* For now, I'm just going to work on getting M7 plus videos subtitled and timed for Xeros remastered M7 DVD project. The .srt subtitle files will work with the .mkv M7 videos if the subtitle file name is changed to the video name. 3 done, 15 more to go. *** The more I read up on interlaced and deinterlaced/progressive video, the more unsure I am in that I did as good a job for picture quality for COTB. The remastered DYRL is 23.97 fps uninterlaced video. I've been checking on "deinterlace" in the Tmpeg encoder settings every time because of all the problems I've been reading about interlaced video having overlapping, jagged images. I'm encoding the remastered DYRL video againe without the "deinterlace" option and see if there is a difference. COTB 2.0 appears to look okay at first glance, but there could be interlacing artifacts or jagged edges. It could be Videolan player.

I went through all my Frontier episode 1 subtitles. I couldn't find the last 3 minutes of the deculture edition translated neither. I think the DYRL song is translated in episode 24 or 25, but it would need to be retimed and fancied up. Translators needed.

Wow! What an improvement! You look like you're on the right track. Keep up the good work! ****************** COTB 2.0 update: I'm just re encoding the video into a higher bit rate to check to see if the video quality looks better for a DL DVD. You can always re encode the movie with DVDShrink (or DVDrebuilder supposedly) into a single layer DVD. Otherwise, this version sounds better overall and looks a bit better with the higher resolution and trying to maintain the aspect ratio whenever possible. Macross Music DVD update: I went through the youtube thread and looked over what macross video files I have. It comes out to about 30 files or 100 minutes. Some are in a lot better video quality than the others which would need to have the video re edited. Here's a list of some I would like on the DVD. You can suggest other macross music videos. If you have a really good video copy of some of these videos then send me a copy please. 1. Macross Digital Love by maboroshistudio SDF TV, 4 minutes Very good! maboroshistudio gave me a really nice version. He has a website with download links for his videos; just check his MW signature. 2. Information High by maboroshistudio M+, 7 minutes Maboroshistudio is planning to get this video redone with remastered M+ video. 3. another one macross music video by maboroshistudio M+, 4 minutes He's working on this one now and then he'll post up an .avi link for the high quality video. 4. The song of an Angel's Paints by boinger Flashback, 5 minutes 5. Dogfight by boinger M zero, 4 minutes I'll be working on that this week. Inspired by the two other M zero music videos that looked pretty good, but not quite what I wanted to see. 6. One day more by SDF TV/Miserables musical, 4 minutes 7. Angel Voice Duet by M7/DYRL, 4 minutes 8. DYRL music video of DYRL by sumi by boinger DYRL, 7 minutes I'll work on this one next week. 9. Ash like Snow by mast3rsniper Frontier, 4 minutes 10. Bye Bye Beautiful by mast3rsniper Frontier, 4 minutes 11. Taking over me by mast3rsniper Frontier, 4 minutes 12. The escapist by mast3rsniper Frontier, 4 minutes mast3rsniper makes good music videos. I'm not sure right now if it would be better to make 2 DVDs of Macross music videos. 13. Top gun VS Macross plus by M+/Top gun, 5 minutes 14. Macross Love slideshow by SDF TV, 4 minutes 15. Macross Memories slideshow by SDF TV, 4 minutes 16. Macross Tribute slideshow by SDF TV, 4 minutes 17. Minmay attacks by Macross Game, 2 minutes 18. Galaxy Angel by Flashback/DYRL, 4 minutes 19. Macross DYRL and Linkin Park by DYRL, 4 minutes 20. Macross New Frontier by Frontier with New Frontier song, 5 minutes I like this one, but the flash video is blocky. I was thinking that it would be good for a possible trailer or alternate beginning credits for Frontier episode 1 extended. 21. Macross Frontier Violin Duet Trilogy by Screamer and Darth Vader Frontier, 4 minutes each song 22. Metamatics Norken by Frontier, 4 minutes 23. Macross Frontier DYRL song by Frontier, 3 minutes ******* That's the video list for now. I might have to re edit the video for a lot of these if I can't get Movie Enhancer software to improve the flash video.

iMacross4 UPDATES: 1. Frontier a. Episode 15 english subtitled by AonE/Gekkostate/Menclave .mkv, 4 parts, HJSplit b. Macross Fufonfia episode 1,2,3,4,5,6 english subtitled by FLF, .avi c. BD Episode 5,6,7 english subtitled by THORA and Shinsen Subs .mkv, 5-8 parts, HJSplit 2. DYRL a. remastered Macross Flashback 2012 english subtitled by A-C, FLF, L-E .mkv, 4 parts, HJSplit 3. Macross Fan Edits a. COTB DVD cover revised.pdf b. cotb.ncd Nero cover software file that you can adapt to your liking. c. dyrl extended dvd cover.ncd 4. Macross Audio Drama a. DAPDX DYRL special edition .mp3, 128 kbps 5. remastered Macross 7 a. M7R dvd 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 DVD english subtitle patch .exe, by Xeros and Central Anime You will need the .iso of the remastered M7 dvds. b. Episode 25, 26, 27, 28 english subtitled by VIP and Central Anime .mkv, 4 parts, HJSplit 6. Macross Miscellaneous a. Macross CGI winrar, updated b. Macross model box art winrar, 2 parts, updated c. Macross pictures Nov 2008 winrar, 10 parts, updated Macross line art included and categorized, but not in detail. d. VF_Variations_Custom_Coloring_MacrossWorld winrar, updated e. Macross Chronicle 1.cbr just for preview, not quite legible f. Macross 7: Mylene Beat .cbr, untranslated Also on Macross Share in .pdf form. Thanks for scanning! 7. Macross Zero a. Macross Zero episode 1 DHE english dub DVD cover .pdf 8. Macross miscellaneous video a. Macross Digital Love SDF TV music video and Daft Punk edited by maboroshistudio .avi 9. Gundam: Sentinel folder a. Gundam: Sentinel SD video avi, 2 parts, HJSplit b. Gundam_Sentinel_by_Masaya_Takahashi Full book scan.cbr, 3 parts, HJSplit There's an untranslated mini comic that leads up to the main Sentinel novel in this book. c. Gundam Sentinel novel translation .doc, .pdf d. Gundam Sentinel artbook compiled by GEARS online winrar file

Were there more Frontier Manga Chapters to be scanned or did Graham get too busy? I seem to remember there was at least one other Frontier manga that was a sidestory.

All .ac3 audio tracks of COTB are as fixed up as I can make them. COTB 2.0 video is just fine, so now I'm re authoring and testing the DVD. Probably done in a couple of days, so I'll post here with a mininova.org link for the bittorrent. remastered DYRL video: resolution 863x480 aspect ratio maintained throughout movie except for zentradi scenes Tmpeg settings: 1:1 VGA no margins, keep aspect ratio 16:9 display ******* Harpnotedx on youtube has put together VFX2 video game captures up to episode 10b! But, it lacks the character dialogue of the inbetween game play. Torii is pretty busy with school right now, but he's interested in getting those scenes included with his version of VFX2. So, VFX2 the movie does seem a possibility in the future. ***** maboroshistudio has put together a cool macross music video on youtube: Macross Digital Love. So, I was thinking if anybody else has some cool Macross music videos, we could put them together in to a Macross music video DVD. 1 hour appoximately all fan-made music videos of Macross 1. Macross Digital Love 2. Macross Plus Information High (remastered footage will be used) 3.another Macross music video that maboroshistudio is working on 4. The song of an angel's paints 5. I'm working on a Macross zero / Dogfight by MOVE next week. 6. DYRL english song by Sumi and DYRL footage 7. ?? etc. I'll take a look at my collection of Miscellaneous Macross videos and see if I have a few more. If anybody has a good copy of a Macross music video or would like to make a Macross music video send me a pm.

Mylene Beat manga .cbr and .pdf has shown up on Macross Share. Thanks to whomever scanned that one. It's 100 double pages! So, any Macross book, manga, article, song or video you can finish translating would be happily appreciated.

I remember updating womble within this week. So, I'm downloading a previous womble update and hearing if the audio pops go away. The audio source has no pop sounds and then within womble there's pop sounds I was just thinking that if I remove the crop filter, zoom in to the scene to block out the Japanese subtitles and then make some adjustments by panning the scene, then aspect ratio will not be affected. I'll play around with that tomorrow and see if it looks okay. **** Fixed the pop sounds in womble. The problem pop sound wasn't due to the womble update patch. I was re using the audio from the COTB 2.0 avi file, but Womble can't decode the sound from the .avi properly as a sound file. So, I extracted just the .wav audio file from the COTB 2.0 .avi and now the pop sounds are gone. I tried zooming the japanese subtitles out, but when I tried to pan down to get a better view, the whole picture pans down insteand of just within the frame panning down. Maybe, if just use the pan function and skip the zoom? ************ Just before going to work, I tried just panning the zentradi scene while maintaining the aspect ratio and found that it was what I expected: too much of the picture frame is cut out . That's that. I need to double check for audio pops in the english commentary and the japanese audio.

I finished encoding the video for COTB 2.0 and now I'm encoding the audio files. I'll see if I get all the audio files into .ac3 format and have 5.1 sound as well as stereo. So, when I crop the subtitles and keep the aspect ratio, the scene has different sized top and bottom bars. It looks like if I keep the aspect ratio, crop out the Japanese subtitles and pan into the scene, then I would lose a lot more of the scene then if the aspect ratio is a little off. I tried panning into the scene with the right aspect ratio and the video editor started zooming in to the video with the right aspect ratio instead of making the video sceen size larger to match up with the other video. I haven't figure that out yet. I have been cropping the zentradi scenes because that's how it was on Clash of the Bionoids and that's what I wanted for this fan edit. If you would like to extract the audio from the Clash of the Bionoids fan edit and put it to together with your version of DYRL, then go right ahead. S-47 Berkut is looking into painting out the Japanese subtitles, which is a big project in itself and would fix the resizing/cropping/aspect ratio completely. Once he's sorted that out, I would be willing to match up the dyrl and the cotb audio for S-47 Berkut's fan edit dyrl into an .avi on iMacross4. ***** I just noticed all the pop noises in the COTB english audio. aargh!

I do have the central anime subbed Macross 7 plus episodes and Macross 7 lyrics on hand for subtitling. I'm just finishing up Clash of the Bionoids 2.0, so I can get on to timing Macross 7 mini episodes by Thursday. I can do .srt subtitling, but I've stayed away from Aegisub due to Vista 64 shutting down the Aegisub at random times. Gubaba was planning to translate the Macross 7 slideshows eventually: Galaxy fun net cd, Galaxy Network 0 and Macross Festival 95.

I know that around disc 6 or 7 there are the Macross 7 plus mini episodes, music videos and slideshows. Were you able to get subtitles for those videos as well? I haven't gotten around to typing up and retiming the Macross 7 plus mini episodes yet, so those would be nice to have as separate .ass/.ssa or .srt subtitle files. Thanks !

DAPDX DYRL special edition .mp3 now available! 128kbps, mp3 DYRL movie audio is a part of this commentary now. ********* I tried using 863x480 remastered dyrl .avi using AutoGk. It doesn't matter so much what resolution I use even if higher resolution does look better. If I keep cropping the japanese zentradi scenes from DYRL, then those scenes will not be in the right aspect ratio. I did find "maintain aspect ratio" button in the video editor, but when I used it for the cropped zentradi scenes the black bars on top and bottom of the video increased or decreased depending on how many pixels I cropped from the video. At this time, I have the english commentary as fixed as much as I could and the japanese dyrl movie audio is working fine. I just finished cropping the japanese subtitles again with the new 863x480 dyrl video. The Flash back concert scene needs to have 863x480 resolution to get the same aspect ratio to fit in with the rest of the movie. It's slowly coming back into shape.

Hooray!