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I think I figured out why I have had problems with the aspect ratio when encoding this movie to widescreen 720x480. I remember that I had originally made an DYRL remastered .avi with AutoGk from the remastered DYRL dvd video. I picked out maximum resolution under AutoGk settings and AutoGk came out with an odd resolution of 768x432. So, I remade an .avi of remastered DYRL with AutoGk and the aspect ratio/resolution is now 720x400. The original remastered DYRL DVD video has a resolution of 853x480! I plugged in that new 720x400 resolution video through Tmpeg using settings 16:9 with Full screen (aspect ratio1). The bottom of the video is cropped to take out the Japanese subtitles. I think the video looks better. Even if I do not crop the japanese subtitles, widescreen resolution is 720x480 though my video editing software. Tmpeg might have a custom aspect ratio/resolution. I'll check again. ***** Tmpeg has center custom display settings that can be set at 853x480, which still doesn't look right and the movie still gets encoded as 720x480. I'll keep trying different settings. I think I'm close

DYRL without hard encoded Japanese subtitles? That would be handy for dyrl video edits and it would look great! Thanks for working on this!

COTB stuff I'm working on: 1. DAPDX commentary is encoding again. I re edited throughout the audio because SoundSoap2 does reduce the background noise really well in some places, but at other places I had to use the original audio because I could not hear the guys talking when the audio was filtered. So, the commentary sounds better for the most part and sync 's up with the dyrl movie, but I was not able to fix the audio as well as I thought I could with Soundsoap2. I'll put together an DAPDX DYRL special edition mp3 by tomorrow. The DYRL audio track will be a part of the commentary track now. I found that Soundsoap2 cleans up audio to a certain extent but not completely without some audio loss. In order to do music replacement like I had in mind for a couple of video fan edits, I would have to learn how to build a soundtrack from scratch using the original soundtracks, sound effects and voice actors as separate elements, much like Hikuro is doing for his DYRL dub. 2. I found I mistyped one subtitle "N(n)now I believe in your love" in the ending dyrl battle scene. Nuts! So, I'll correct that subtitle flub that occurs in both COTB and DYRL gubaba sytle videos. Then I'll repost a fixed avi for each and the COTB video will be ready for DVD. 3. I was thinking that I could do a fake 5.1 english and japanese audio soundtrack with womble video editor, since I am reducing the soundtrack size from wave to ac3. 4. I'm going to have to burn a test dvd and see how Tmpeg is keeping the aspect ratio. I cannot tell what aspect ratio has been encoded by Tmpeg encoder. I know I encoded the video as widescreen (16:9, full screen, keep aspect ratio2). When I watch COTB with Videolan player to a widescreen aspect ratio, I get a squashed picture with huge top and bottom black bars. COTB video can be unsquashed when I set Videolan as 4:3 aspect ratio instead of widescreen. What the?

Audio commentary is encoding now. 25% takes 6 hours, so commentary will be done by 6 pm tomorrow. I went through a video editor to get this audio commentary done, so I can see how the audio tracks line up. Heartbeats are quieter and most of the hiss is gone in the 2nd half of the commentary. Soundsoap2 is a good purchase. I hope it will come in handy for removing background music as well for music replacement. I have all these DAPDX Macross commentaries on hand for fan edit extra features, so I'll see if I can do this for other Macross fan edits in the future, if that's all right with Ginrai and company. I'm going over to my mom's tomorrow and then to work a nigh shift, so I'll see if I can post COTB 2.0 DVD Friday. I need to pick up some more Dual Layer DVD+Rs. Here's a snapshot of how COTB will look like. Aspect ratio is the same as remastered dyrl and it looks like the film grain is back in. I did some slight video editing to COTB 2.0. I took out the "boinger productions presents", redid the Macross Fan Edit logo, and stuck in my name and Gubaba as translator in the end credits. Looks a little nicer that way!

Under the tmpeg encoding settings is full screen, center and keep aspect ratio. Oops. I'll get onto re-encoding with the right aspect ratio: 16:9 525 line and full screen (keep aspect ratio 2) ***** Here's the all Tmpeg encoder aspect ratio settings that I'm looking at. Source aspect ratio: Tmpeg encoding software automatically picks out 1:1 VGA for me, but I've been choosing 16:9 525 line ntsc. I could also pick 1:1 VGA 16:9 525 line* 16:9 display 4:3 display 2.21:1 display Video Arrange Method: I picked Full screen, but that distorts the aspect ratio. I could also pick Center - aspect ratio is off Center (keep aspect ratio) Center (custom size) Full screen - aspect ratio is off Full screen (keep aspect ratio) Full screen (keep aspect ratio2)* No margin (keep aspect ratio) Center and 1:1 VGA has black bars on the left and right of the screen, so I'll be using 16:9 525 line with full screen (keep aspect ratio2). That looks like what I would like in an aspect ratio for COTB. I'm working on the english commentary with soundsoap now.

I re encoded the video with Tmpeg encoder software and then compared it to the remastered dyrl video. There is not much video quality difference between the new cotb and the remastered dyrl that I can see, so I would suppose that that tmpeg filters don't necessarily help the video quality. The tmpeg filters were most likely the cause of the gamma changes from frame to frame. But, I'm not a big fan of film grain, especially in the remastered dyrl. Here are snaphshots of dyrl remastered with subs and the cropped cotb version of one zentradi scene. So, it looks like I can plug this version of COTB into the dvd. I was able to filter out a lot of the hiss and heartbeats with Soundsoap, but then the guys sound like they are speaking through a brass tube. So, I'm going to play around with soundsoap and DAPDX dyrl commentary some more. I converted the lpcm/wave files to smaller .ac3 files with AoA Audio Extractor, so the resulting dvd will be smaller as well. I fixed up the dvd menu "resume movie" button though dvdlabpro2. If S-47 Berkut would like to paint out the Japanese subtitles for the Zentradi scenes, then that would be a cool project for him. Ulead Videographics lab does not work on Vista for me and it would take weeks to do. Besides, I wanted the COTB movie to look cropped just like how I saw it on VHS long ago. So, it looks like I can get COTB version 2.0 together in a couple of days. I'm not sure if I would be better off deleting version 1.0 right away from mininova or just wait until I get 2.0 working. Somebody might come up with some more good video editing ideas just by looking at my mistakes?!

1. I remember that imgburn gave me 3 choices for dual layer dvd break. I just picked the first layer break option in the list given by imgburn. The resulting dvd does play on my sony dvd player okay. 2. Most of COTB looks okay, but at some spots it does look blurry. I'm encoding cotb again through tmpeg, but this time I'm not using ghost reduction, noise reduction, colour correction and sharpen edges filters and seeing how it looks. Then I can also try changing the video aspect ratio. I've been using full screen/widescreen because I like how it fills up my widescreen monitor, but I'll try 1:1 vga or keep aspect ratio to see how that affects picture quality. "source of (blurriness) problem is upsizing to compensate black bars. " 6 hours to encode COTB without all the Tmpeg filters, so I'll take a look at the new COTB tomorrow morning. It could be that I've edited this movie one too many times and the multiple encoding makes the video blurry. The zentradi scenes where I cropped the japanese translation definitely don't look as good as I hoped. To fix the blurriness of the movie: a. I could try powerdirector to crop the zentradi scenes and see if the picture quality stays the same. If I just put black bars over the zentradi / japanese subitles then the video wouldn't look like the COTB video like I was working towards. I'm afraid that I would be better off getting the video from the remastered dyrl again and starting over with powerdirector instead of womble video editor. b. I''ll definintely try out that Video Enhancer software. It looks just like the thing to improve flash videos as well. Thanks! (Double movie image by 2 and then crop zentradi video back.) c. I have no knowlege about avisynth edge aware filters. Does that work through tmpeg or virtualdubmod? Just point me in the right direction and I'll read up on it and try it out. 3. Dvdlabpro2 is awkward, but it has a lot of useful functions. I just have to get used to dvd menu creation. 4. I'll see if the trial Premiere CS4 is working on vista64 after I try out the bunch of other ways to improve the video quality of the COTB movie. I have not touched up any gamma settings with womble through tmpeg encoder. Maybe, it's the tmpeg settings? Otherwise, I'm not sure how to adjust frame by frame gamma problems. The end credit scene does come from the remastered Flashback 2012 video though. I"ll have to take a look at Ulead Video Graphics Lab and see if I can use it on Vista 64 bit. But I think a black border over the Japanese subtitles wouldn't look good either. I could only get top margin english song subtitles by hard encoding them with Womble video editor. Dvdlabpro2 dvd creator only uses .srt subtitle files, so the subtitles would only show up on the top or bottom of the movie, but not both top and bottom subtitles at the same time. **** That's a lot of stuff I never considered. Thanks S-47 Berkut!

1. I did use Imgburn to make the .iso 2. I have no idea how S-47 Berkut is able to extract any usable images from 17% of COTB .iso downloaded from the current bittorrent. Blurry images? Which ones? Any suggestions? I used tmpeg encoder with womble video editor and then dvdlabpro2 for dvd creation. CCE encoder? 3. Two wave/lpcm audio tracks and one .mpa audio track were plugged into this dvd with dvdlabpro2 because that is what audio files came out of tmpeg encoder (and one from Womble), which were accepted by dvdlabpro2 dvd creator. I did not know that I had the option to convert lpcm/wave audio to .ac3 without audio corruption. I was just happy I was able to get the dvd to work for the most part. 4. I have windows Vista 64 bit and found I was unable to use adobe premiere, vegas video or Edius for any audio or video editing. These softwares were terribly unstable on my computer and wouldn't accept most of my video files for editing. So, I ended up going with Womble and Cyberlink PowerDirector. You can see the final version Clash of the Bionoids v. 2.0 video xvid/avi that I worked with in the iMacross4 Macross Fan Edits folder. I think I read on faneditforum.com that Vegas Video was made stable for 64 bit computers this week, so that software might be an option in a month or so. I would have used professional video editing software, if the software didn't crash so much on my computer and would recognize a variety of video and audio file types. So, if I could fix up the COTB video blurriness, the dvd menu "resume movie" button and filter DAPDX audio commentary, then this COTB would be acceptable? If somebody would like to improve or remake any video edits that I have done or come up with Macross Fan Edits of their own, then go right ahead and I'll post them up through iMacross4 or mininova. I wish more people were keen on video editng, since I'm just learning this video editing stuff as I go along.

One audio problem found on the SSFM COTB dvd: I listened to the DAPDX commentary audio all the way through the dvd and the last 4 minutes of the commentary are silent! Somehow after editing and encoding the audio commentary track with Womble mpeg video editor, the angel's paints scene didn't encode. To top it off it looks like I deleted the edited DAPDX audio file I was working with completely from my computer without backing it up somewhere. The original Japanese audio and COTB english movie audio work just fine and all the special features play just fine. So, I think I found all the possible mistakes I made for this dvd. You can still watch the movie with the subtitles and all audio tracks via the dvd remote control. So, if Hikuro gets stumped with making his DYRL english dub dvd, I've made a few mistakes already that he can learn from. It's the DAPDX commentary that I would have to fix up or not for any future version of the COTB dvd 2.0. The last 1/2 hour of the commentary has a lot audio hiss and heartbeats that I couldn't figure how to filter out with Audacity audio software and the last 4 minutes are the worst for audio quality. So, I'm not sure if it's a big loss. But, I was upset any way. You can download the original DAPDX dyrl commentary audio file under iMacross4 Audio Drama folder or from DAPDX website and listen for yourself. I was reading on faneditforum.com about a useful audio software called Soundsoap by Bias that does a terrific job of filtering out audio problems and separating out speech from music. That would come in really handy for for filtering out the DAPDX dyrl audio problems as well as rebuilding english Macross plus episode 4 soundtrack. A little expensive at $129 US, so it would cut into my macross toy budget, but I think a necessary video editing purchase. So, I've uploaded 17% of the COTB dvd .iso file so far. I could buy soundsoap, fix up the DAPDX commentary, fix up the dvd menu to include "resume movie" and post up to iMacross4 as 77 one hundred megabyte files for the dvd .iso. I think uploading the dvd .iso to iMacross4 will take 1-2 weeks. Or repost the SSF COTB 2.0 on mininova. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Super Space Fortress Macross: Clash of the Bionoids DVD now available as bittorrent! 7.44 gb .ISO format You can use Imgburn software to get the .iso to a dual layer dvd or use DVDShrink with Dvddecrypter to shrink the 7.44 gb movie to 4.5 gb standard dvd movie size. I also updated the COTB DVD cover to correct a spelling mistake and revise the special features list. Don't worry about the the size of the download, I'm seeding this one for at least a couple of months. *** Slight problem with this DVD is that you need to use your dvd remote control to get the subtitles or audio selected to access the extra subtitles and audio tracks. Today, I fiddled around with the dvd menu some more. and found the "resume movie" button had to be added into the dvd menu to get the movie to automatically choose the selected audio and subtitle files when starting the movie. Otherwise, the posted DVD on mininova works fine.

Does anyone know of a software that can hard encode .ssa or .ass subtitle files into an avi? I tried alltoavi software and the timing and font styles are off.

Gundam Sentinel scans, translations, pictures and video on iMacross4! Just because I like Gundam Sentinel so much.

iMacross4 UPDATES: 1. Macross Frontier a. BD Episode 2,3,4 .mkv, 6 parts, HJSplit english subtitled by THORA blue ray quality and good subtitles! b. Frontier subtitles winrar, by GG c. Macross Frontier OST 2 .mp3, 2 parts, winrar 2. Macross DYRL a. Flashback 2012 remastered avi, 15 parts, HJSplit use separate english subtitle file Same great video and audio quality, but I redid the video resolution to 720 width. 3. Macross Plus remastered a. Macross Plus the movie avi, 29 parts, HJSplit Same great video and audio quality, but I redid the video resolution to 720 width. 4. Macross Audio Drama a. DYRL by maki .mp3, english version b. DAPDX Macross Frontier 1 and 2 .mp3 5. Macross 7 remastered a. episode 21,22,23,24 .mkv, 4 parts, HJSplit english subtitled by VIP and Central Anime b. M7R DVD 3 subtitle patch by Xeros Thanks a bunch! 6. Macross Games a. Macross Ace Frontier PSP game 4 parts, winrar Ask on Macross Games thread how to get this working. I wouldn't know. 7. Macross Zero a. episode 1,2,3,4,5 .ass subtitle files b. Macross Zero custom dvd file .ncd, use Nero DVD cover software to fix up this dvd cover to your liking 8. Macross miscellaneous video a. Mari Iijima Live 1984 DYRL .mp4 **** That's all for now!

Not much happening for macross fan editing this week. M3 notes: I pieced together the M3 videos,t intro and 1-8, and found it to be 2 hours and 38 minutes! It could use a little editing due to the cut-scenes flipping back and forth in a letterboxed aspect ratio. \ I was also thinking about how to snip out the the parts of the video game to make it look a little less like a video game and more like an ova movie. 1. take out the music video beginning and just keep it as a music trailer 2. take out the game screens as much as possible 3. take out the ending points screen 4. every separate part from 1 to 8 is actually a 2-4 year time gap. Some transitional scenes would be nice to bridge that time gap between parts. I have two M3 free-play videos that have poor quality video, but the audio could be salvaged, if I only understood Japanese. 5. M3 movie title 6. end credits Maybe, an M3 ova would be better as 7 mini episodes of 10-15 minutes, like a serial? COTB notes: dvd menu is plodding along mostly because I was sidetracked by working night shifts and also putting together a comic collection for bittorrent. 1. I need to write out a dvd menu screen for describing this project and emphasizing the fan edit nature of this dvd 2. Once that's done I need to burn the dvd to test out that it actually works on a dvd player and regular TV. 3. Then I will post it up on mininova.org M zero music video notes: I shifted around video clips so much, I'm not sure how to make it come together. **************** I noticed this week that I had accumulated 1500 Macross pictures over the last 5 months. I need to sort out the pictures to the Macross Picture Collection just so I can find the pictures that I need for any future Macross projects. I also have a bunch of Macross files being uploaded to iMacross4 this week. Every day, I'll do something related to Macross!

Here you go! Wow, nice vf1a!

iMacross Server Macross Request List: Updated on 1st page of this thread.

Here's an mp3 of this English DYRL song by Sumi .

iMacross4 UPDATES: 1. Macross Frontier a. episode 1-14 .mkv, subtitled by Menclave-AonE-Gekkostate 4 parts each episode, HJSplit high resolution and you can extract the subtitles with MKVextract software b. Yaak Deculture episode 1 .mkv, by THORA 11 parts, HJSplit blue ray resolution and good subtitles! c. Macross Fofonfia (Frontier mini episodes) episode 1-5 .mkv, subtitled 2. Macross Zero a. episode 1,2,3,4,5 .mkv, subtitled by AonE 9-10 parts, HJSplit blue ray resolution and good subtitles! b. Macross Zero dvd booklets 1,2,3,4,5.cbr 3. Macross Audio Drama a. DYRL in English by Sumi .mp3, 320kb/s, stereo b. Angel Voice (Basara and Minmay Duet version) .mp3, 320kb/s, stereo 4. remastered Macross 7 a. DVD ISO subtitle software patch available for disc 1 and disc 2 ******* I'll be uploading the .ssa subtitle files for Macross Zero episodes and Macross Frontier Yak Deculture shortly.

Thank you!

Picture removed. I thought I had a picture without the lines on the top left.

Here's the updated DHE Macross Zero ep. 1 dvd cover. It looks a little more like a regular dvd. If anybody else would like to come up with dvd covers for any macross fan edits, then I would be happy to keep them on iMacross4. Onto the next part, Macross Zero music video. I'm also slowy figuring out how to get the Macross M3 flash videos into .avi files. I tried vdub with deblock and the video still looked just as blocky as ConvertXtodvd or AlltoAvi. I'm trying out EnhanceMovie software now.

While looking over Macross Compendium, I found three more Macross dramas! 1. All Macross 7 Special 2. Macross 7: Longest Noise Day part 1 of 2 3. Macross 7: The Basara Elimination Project part 2 of 2 Looks like they are only on audio tape cassette. Has anybody ever heard these Macross dramas?

Macross Frontier episode 1 fan edit = yaak deculture + deculture + broadcast + episode 2 and maybe 3 is on my fan edit idea list, but I'm not sure how to do it just yet. I think I would have to watch each episode and make notes on where to cut and move around scenes. The audio changes for any cuts will need to be worked out as well. A whole bunch of Macross fan edits have cropped up this week. The Macross radio drama dvd: "Misa VS Minmay" will take a while to do, since 1. I'm depending on Gubaba and lynn2009 to do the translation and 2. I've never done this before. But, I'll slowly plug along on this because I would like to see it finished. I have Gubaba's third part of his recently translated Miss DJ to time out the subtitles. I think I have enough pictures of Minmay and Misa, but I'll have to do some video grabs of the bridge bunnies and the Zentradi trio for their pictures. Production schedule: 2-3 months, just in time for Christmas? I"m back to working nights again, so I'm just reworking the Macross Zero dvd cover. I would like the cover to look a little more like a dvd cover. So, this time, I'll type in dvd features and cast names. I'll have to play around with the typeface, since I'm not sure which fonts to use. Then once I'm done fiddling around with this dvd cover, I'll focus on the COTB dvd. I just happened to find Macross: M3 and SDF TV PSX2 flash videos, while looking around for Macross stuff on the internet. So, I grabbed those videos and now I'll try to figure out how to piece them together as movies! I also found that Torii from MacrossWorld has been playing and uploading VFX2 videos to youtube, so I'll keep track of his videos for a VFX2 movie. Thank you Torii!

I'm glad that Hikuro was able to get the subtitles working the way he wanted. Now, he's the subtitling expert. ****** I found Macross M3 video game ep.1-8 of 8 flash videos on google video. So, I snagged those, but was unable to get the 8a bad ending video or any other game play videos. If only I thought to check on google video sooner. The video quality is okay, not great. Once I get this game together as a video; I would hope somebody could find the time to do a translation. I also found some really nice game captures of vfx2 on youtube and so I sent the guy a message of encouragement in hopes that he would be able to complete the whole vfx2 game, so I can make a movie out of it. Here's hoping! I finished up a dvd cover for DHE's Macross Zero episode one. Anbu-Aone's Mzero episode 1 is ready to be put into a dvd and the All that VF m zero video is ready. I just need to figure out how to get this M zero music video into shape and then subtitle and then the M0 ep.1 trailer. I haven't quite gotten the COTB dvd into working order.

Would this mean that more remastereed M7 ISO patches will be made available? Please?