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Well, I hope some generous Macross fan will do the same video upgrade that the VIP bittorrent group are doing with Macross 7 series. The remastering job on M7 is very nice. Doesn't change the singing though.

It took me 3 weeks to figure out why the remastered dyrl kept getting this venetian blind video effect when turned into an mpeg. Also, that the resulting mpeg audio and video file were not matched for dvdlabpro to turn into a dvd. Womble mpeg video editor is good for editing, but not at all good for encoding video files into mpeg files. I used Tmpeg software to get an mpv video file at 23.98 FPS from Womble and out came a video even better looking than the original dyrl. Less grain with same level of detail! So, from now on, I'll use Tmpeg for mpeg encoding and check at what frame rate is the original video files. When mixing video/audio files of different frame rates, I think I'll have to use ConvertXtoDVD to get the video frame rates of all the different videos to be all at 30 FPS. ***** Basically, I have a very good avi of the fixed remastered DYRL. It'll be a couple of weeks before I can upload to iMacross4 because I would like to get the english song subtitles on the tope margin. Better picture, perfect edition audio (no pops), 12 frame Bodolza fortress video glitch corrected and separate english subtitles. Gubaba and I have been updating Hurin's transliterated DYRL subtitles. I received his updated DYRL subtitles this evening, so I'm going to spend a little time tomorrow and Monday to double check the differences between his DYRL subtitles and my copy. Gubaba has attempted to make DYRL as accurate as possible, so I'm going to post on iMacross4 both versions of subtitles as soon as I check through both. I'm thinking that I'll hard encode the song subtitles into the dyrl video, so that they are placed on the top margin of the video and then leave both Gubaba's and the older version as separate subtitles. That will take me 3-4 days to title the songs with Womble video editor and then encode the Womble edit into an mpeg with Tmpeg and then use AutoGK to turn the mpeg into an Xvid avi. Gubaba has also updated the Macross Plus subtitles and he is also planning to do a lot more Macross translations this year for his Mega Macross Torrent Upload project. Thanks Gubaba! ****** Currently, I'm going to work on getting most of the Clash of the Bionoids done this week. Tomorrow, my younger brother needs me to get some stuff onto ebay. So, I can start on COTB Monday morning. Busy, busy. *** Since, I have figured out how to use Tmpeg, then for May, I'll redo SDF MML one more time. I would have to do a lot of retiming of subtitles and video editing because I now have the remastered Flashback and Macross 0 ep 1 is in the mail from cdjapan. There's a lot of video quality fixes needed. The Flashback concert scene needs the audio balanced better. The ending credits neeed realiging. oops. I would also like to figure out how to do photoshop better. Otherwise, I like where all the scenes are transitioned into place. I'm on holidays for May, so I can get SDF MML V5 done as a bittorrent dvd and an Xvid avi on iMacross4. Also, when M zero ep1 gets to me in the mail, I can get Hikuro's english dub M0 ep1 upgraded to dvd with some cover art. Then I hope I'll learn enough to do a good job with the Macross Plus Movie Extended edition "The Alpha and The Omega" I still have to watch M Frontier ep 2 bye for now

For this week, I'm working on a Clash of the Bionoids DVD with remastered DYRL video. It's slow going because the audio is for 30 fps and the DYRL video is 23.98 fps, so a lot of cutting and moving audio around. I also discovered today that Tmpeg software can encode the remastered DRYL video into something better looking than what I have on my remastered DYRL dvd. COTB special edition will most likely be available in 3 weeks as a DVD through bittorrent on MiniNova.org and as an xvid avi through iMacross4. See Macross Fan Edits under the Macross Fan Works thread for further information.

Hikuro has a huge collection of Macross sound effects that he uses for his english Macross fan dubs. Mac666er and Jay-Lew made some of the best Macross CGI I have ever seen. I was thinking about a Macross fan edit to composite in cgi models, but I'm nowhere near the skill level of doing that just now. Sounds really cool!

VF-25 Shiva destroyer of worlds!

The fan editor from FanEdit.org saw SDF MMLv4 and knight26 probably saw SDF MML v1 or 2 Raul2106 also posted a review on SDF MML v1 or 2: "Your DYRL edit is truly unique and should be appreciated and cherished for all the hard work and dedication you have given it. I personally love it and believe your edit to be a new favorite. I don't know what kind of equipment knight whatever used to watch your film but I watched it with my HD-DVD A-30 and connected my Sony wireless DTS headphones into the optical audio jack and had a beautiful experience. Not to mention the fact that my first viewing of it was with my wife and she enjoyed it. My wife doesn't really even like anime much. So all that being said if fanedited rejects your work I say it is their loss. Thanks again for a truly beautiful viewing experience. Looking forward to CLASH OF THE BIONOIDS!" So, that cheers me up a bit. ***** I'm just getting the remastered dyrl into shape for uploading to iMacross4 and then I can work the remastered dyrl avi into shape for the Clash of the bionoids. Converting the mpeg into an avi with autogk now. Gubaba is still working on updating the dyrl subtitles. I'm doing a lot of backing up for iMacross4 and one of my computer's hard drives died. So, that kept me busy last week. I found a whole bunch of stuff to upload to iMacross4. Stay tuned for next week to the iMacross4 FAQ for updates.

Hi: I just thought I would post some reviews on SDF MML. Here's a quote: "I like the entire idea behind this ... This is not going to be approved on fanedit.org, the reason being is technical. The film as a whole suffers from a lot of artifact noise, macro blocks during most scene changes and movement, slight film stutter when one framerate is not converted properly to another, but the biggest issue, an odd kind of noise that appears every other frame for the entire film. This odd artifact literally looks like venetian blinds you may have in your house if they were vertical. When I first saw them I figured it might have been from the video game footage but as I watched/skimmed through, it is there for the length of the film. The fact that you made this a DL disc and it looks the way it does will have many people complaining. The making lacks quality so much that there is a good chance, people will not be happy at all, which could result in really bad reviews and a bad reputation." knight26 also posted a review. "The new prologue parts and PSX footage really doesn't mesh well, there is just too great a difference in animation, and story wise they don't work becuase you have no idea of the conflict going on there. The zentraedi fleet scene, that was completely unneccessay and looked very bad. Integration of the 2012 footage to the concert, sorry that really hits me the wrong way, none of it meshes correctly, justy put it at the end where it belongs." ************ So, I won't be able to post this movie on FanEdit.org beacause of numerous technical flaws. The fan editor reviewer has not seen if my inserted extra scenes actually fit in with the movie's main story line. I'm not sure how to fix the mistakes I made. I was hoping that knight26 would point out specifically what my mistakes were and how to possibly address the mistakes I made. He was saying that he much preferred the perfect edition DYRL just the way it is. I'm guessing the video problems stem from using G_P's DYRL v2 video, which was filtered and using it in the fan edit. Then there's the differences in frame rate (16-30 fps) between the SDF, DYRL and Flashback video footage that caused audio / video synch problems. I solved the audio sych problem by running the movie through ConvertXtoDVD as 30 fps, so I could have some video files that could be used by dvdlabpro. I just felt happy that I was able to get some result from all the effort I put in. I was a little bit deluded. Oh, man. I'll see if anybody can make some suggestions on how to fix my mistakes. I'm stumped. I'm not sure if I should just pull the plug on the MiniNova.org bittorents right now or wait a bit to see how disappointed people can get. ************** I"m just waiting for Gubaba to look over the DYRL subtitles and then I'll upload the remastered DYRL avi to iMacross4. The Clash of the Bionoids fan edit is not as complicated as SDF MML, so I can't make as many mistakes.

Problem solved: "Right Click Mouse and Save As", when you get a bunch of garbled text when downloading from Rapidshare.

Clash of the Bionoids is on hold this week. I'm re organizing and backing up iMacross4. It's a lot more work than I thought because there's a lot of files and I'm backing up to dvd s and to an extra hard drive. I accidentally deleted the Macross Frontier files from my rapidshare folder when transferring to a rapidshare free collector's account. I was trying to make more room on my premium rapidshare account for the upcoming Frontier series. No files were lost; I just need to upload the Macross Frontier stuff onto iMacross4 again. 2-3 weeks for uploading, since I'm also using bittorrent to upload my macross fan edits. Macross Share website still has Macross Frontier stuff on his first webpage for downloading. So, my macross project for this week, other than backing macross stuff up, is re doing the remastered dyrl with english subtitles. G_P dyrl v2 is really good, except for using Hurin's old version of his subtitles and the karoke subtitles. Some people on Macross World would have liked the original grainy version of the dyrl movie rather than the filtered G_P dyrl version. Then there's also the audio pops on the remastered dyrl dvd, which don't sound to be on G_P's dyrl and the 6 frame bodolza video glitch. Fixes: 1. original remastered dyrl video 2. perfect edition dyrl audio (had to adjust the audio synch a bit to match the remastered video) 3. 6 frame bodolza video glitch (easy fix with womble mpeg video editor software) 4. I have my updated version of Hurin's dyrl english subtitles ready to go. I'm just running the remastered dyrl dvd though autogk to get the .avi video encoding fixed up for the womble mpeg editor. In womble I'll do my video and audio fixes. Then I can add the subtitles with autogk and get this uploaded in the next 2 weeks along with the Frontier files. Then I'll get back to Clash of the Bionoids by next week. **** After the Clash of the Bionoids, I was going to do a mini dvd of Hikuro's Dark Heroes Entertainment : Macross Zero episode one english dub. Maybe, M0 episode one needs an english title? 1. upgrade the wmv video 2. dvd menu 3. cover art 4. any macross zero extra features? trailer or Macross 0 zero After the M0 upgrade project, Macross Plus remastered dvd s will reach me by the end of next month for my next project. Macross Plus - The Alpha and The Omega Extended Edtion, which will include mecha footage from the ova s back into the movie.

iMacross4 UDATES: 1. Macross Frontier iMacross4 Macross Frontier folder has no files in it. While transferring macross frontier rapidshare files from premium rapidshare account to free collector's rapidshare account, I lost the files. Apparently when I put the files into a rapidshare folder, I still have to keep the original copy in either my premium account or the collector's account. You can expect 3 weeks for the files to be uploaded back to iMacross4. Bitttorrent sharing is slowing my upload speed to RapidShare account. Fortunately, I am in the process of backing up all the files for iMacross4. Please go to Macross Share website for Macross Frontier for now. 2. DYRL a.Flashback remastered with separate updated english subtitles (thanks Gubaba!) b. DYRL trailer subtitles 3. Macross 7 remastered a. episode 1 by VIP group 4 parts using HJsplit software. It looks really good.

Hi Knight26: Thank you for watching and leaving some comments. Is there anything that I could have done to make my edits better? Or basically, I just shouldn't have bothered? I can't help that the psx dyrl or sdf tv animation don't look on par with the dyrl movie, but I thought the scenes fitted with the movie. The prologue does explain the opening conflict with the zentraedi. The zentraedi are an alien race coming to reclaim their ship, at least that's the initial understanding from the human perspective. Then later in the movie, you get to find out more about what's going on. Any suggestions on how to fix up the zentraedi earth orbit picture? I'm still learning how to use paint.net. I was thinking I could have composited a few moving Zentraedi ships in the background. My intention with the Zentraedi earth orbit scene was to bridge the opening psx dyrl scene to the opening dyrl scene with britai and exedore. I had the idea of putting the FB 2012 concert part 1 scene within the movie by watching M Frontier epsiode 1. Within the dyrl movie, hikaru and minmay had fun with holographs on their date. So, I figured why not? The FB concert at the end of dyrl perfect edition never quite made sense to me when it was tacked on to the end of the dyrl movie, so I thought that the FB concert part 2 would work as a better epilogue. Anyways, I felt I just had to try this. There's always the remastered dyrl, which I still watch and love, too. boinger

iMacross4 UPDATES: 1. Macross Fan Edits Super Dimension Fortress : More Macross Loving v4 xvid ac3 avi 27 parts, 2.6 gb use HJSplit to reintegrate to avi 2. Macross Miscellaneous Video a. Zero g love b. super deformed SDF tv opening c. Graham transforms the 1/48 valkyrie I'm slowly backing up all my macross files. So, iMacross4 will get updates for games, pictures and Macross Miscellaneous folders. That means weekly updates with new "old" macross stuff. enjoy!

Super Dimension Fortress : More Macross Loving v4 xvid ac3 avi 27 parts, 2.6 gb, use HJSplit to reintegrate to avi now on iMacross4 under Macross Fan Edits

Super Dimension Fortress More Macross Loving Version 4 DVD now available ***** I'm also uploading SDF: MML v4 xvid ac3 avi to iMacross4, but that will take at least a week to upload.

Hi: I was just wondering if anybody picked up the The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Memorial Box [Limited Pressing] dvd set. I have my animeigo sdf tv dvd box set when it was first released for $400! Is there a big difference in video or audio quality with the new remastered sdftv set? boinger

iMacross4 Updates: 1. Macross Frontier a.Sagittarius 9 PM Don't be late found by GGemini b. Macross Frontier Manga 1,2,3 .cbr 2. Macross Miscellaneous Video Macross Slideshows (non-Frontier) in flash video format I found on youtube a. Macross Tribute b. Macross Tribute DRYL c. Macross Memoriesd. Macross Love e.Macross: Fastest Lift-off (goofy interviewers review Macross from SDF to M7, no english subtitles for good reason.)

SDF MML Special Features DVD bittorrent 1. PSX SDF Macross DRYL video game footage with English subtitles from Macross 20th anniversary 2. Macross Flashback 2012: angel's paints video clips with English subtitles 3. SDF Macross DYRL DVD covers video slideshow from MacrossWorld.com picture collection 4. Original SDF Macross DRYL Trailers with English subtitles from Macross 20th anniversary DVD 5. Original SDF Macross DRYL perfect edition ending credits with English subtitles 6. SDF More Macross Loving movie trailer 7. Original SDF Macross DYRL movie trailers 8. Macross DVD cover collection All English subtitled. SDF MML v3 xvid ac3 being uploaded to iMacross4 in the next week. Tomorrow, I'm working on the dvd menu for SDF MML v3 and then I'm done.

SDF MML v1 deleted from iMacross4 to make room for SDF MML version 3 xvid ac3 avi, which I'm uploading now. SDF MML v1, v2 and Extras are still available through bittorrent. See above posts. *************** UPDATE: I'm working on the final version of SDF MML for the dvd. Fixes include 1. Flashback concert 2 with redone subtitles 2. M 0 clips cropped a bit, so they fit in with wide screen 3. no "untill" in subtitles I hope I'm almost done. The last trial run of the dvd worked just fine. It's just a matter of little details then tmpeg takes a day to encode the video. I think I can post the dvd .iso by this weekend. I think I actually learned something about video editing that will make the SDFM Clash of the Bionoids a little easier to do.

I have been posting progress notes for this fan edit on the Macross Fan Works thread. I know one guy here on MacrossWorld who downloaded SDF MML version one 700 mb avi and he was happy that I did the movie edit. But I keep seeing parts in the movie that need fixing. On MiniNova.org, I have posted: 1. 700 mb avi 1st version 2. 2.5 gb xvid ac3 2nd version (zentraedi scout fades too quickly. I redid the composite of panning of the background picture and didn't pay attention to the foreground picture at the end of the scene. oops.) 3. DVD extras, .iso is of version 1.5 that still needed fixing (audio sync loss by 1-2 milliseconds, 1 frame jump in one scene. You can download the extras and skip the .iso for now.) SDF MML 1st version is also available on iMacross4 in the Fan Edits folder If you see any errors, then send me a pm and I'll see if I can fix it. I'm working with version 2 right now to get it into shape for the final version of the dvd.

SDF MML version 2 xvid ac3 avi now on MiniNova.org SDF MML Extras bittorrent 1. SDF Macross DYRL soundtracks 2. SDF Macross DYRL: This Is Animation book c(omic)b(ook)r(eader) file 3. Macross: Flashback 2012 graffiti (incomplete) cbr file 5. SDF Macross DYRL DVD booklet cbr file 6. Macross: Flashback 2012 DVD booklet cbr file 7. PSX SDF Macross DYRL video game booklet cbr file 8. SDF More Macross Loving Teaser poster 9. SDF More Macross Loving DVD cover art 10. Macross DVD cover collection ********* minor note: I think we'll be seeing a version 3 of sdf mml for the dvd sometime in the near future. I've been having difficulty getting the sdf mml mpeg to go into dvdlabpro's dvd menu without losing audio sync when I use the demuxed Tmpeg video /audio files or the womble mpeg demuxed by dvdlabpro (24 fps). When I try a work around by converting the mpeg to dvd with ConvertXtodvd, I get a pixellated picture, but matched sound (30fps). Dgindex and cc encoder software will be finished giving me some more demuxed video and audio files to play with by tomorrow. After viewing multiple combinations of demuxed video/audio files, I noticed that sdf mml v2 has an error with the zentraedi scout ship fading before the end of the scene. That needs fixing for the dvd version. (Fixed: Under womble mpeg video editor, I need to encode all of the work file into an mpeg in order to match up the womble audio to the better quality mpeg video of Tmpeg software.) Gubaba was telling me that he's keen on updating DYRL and Flashback subtitles for his Mega Macross bittorrent for next year. So, if he can send me the .srt file, I could then reupdate the subtitles for sdf mml. If anybody spots errors that could be fixed in the sdf mml v2 video, then send me a pm and I'll see if I can get it to work. (For example, pixellated video in 2 second Flashback concert part 1 is fixed for version 3, by pasting in a clip from my copy of remastered flashback dvd)

After making and watching two dvd versions of SDF MML and listing the whole dvd and extras to bittorrent, I found a few more fixes that needed to be done. I'm going to post the final dvd with fixes to rapidshare in the next 2 weeks. 1.Audio synch was lost 3 times in the movie by a few milliseconds. It's not noticeable if you haven't watched this movie as much as I did and haven't watched lots of Japanese shows. 2.Flashback concert part one has smoother transitions. 3. The first introduction is a bit choppy for some reason. I had a previous mpeg of the whole movie that has a smooth introduction video. I encoded that old introduction scene and the edited main movie separately to plug back into the dvd menu. 4.Videolan has a problem with two of the video files, but the dvd plays just fine with any other software dvd player and standalone dvd players, so I'm just leaving these videos as is. I think I have the movie just the way I would like it for now. Time to start my next project.

Super Dimension Fortress: More Macross Loving SDF MML DVD Extras Available on MiniNova.org!! *** I posted SDF MML v2 xvid ac3 on MiniNova.org that looks just fine, but I'm having difficulty getting the movie to go into the dvd menu properly. I found that the audio was slightly off synch or the psx video scenes look pixellated, so I'm re Encoding the movie now. *** It's a whopper big file, so you can expect it to take 2-3 weeks for downloading because there is just me uploading. But don't worry I'm going to be seeding this dvd for a while. I will look into uploading dvd and extras onto a collector's rapidshare account, but that will take me about 2 weeks to upload as well.

iMacross4 UPDATE: I need to reUpload Macross Frontier Manga 1. It's missing page 08 and I need to renumber the files, so the pages flip through in the right order with comic book reader software. oops. 1. Macross Miscellaneous Video a. Macross: a future chronicle avi (3 parts, HJSplit software) b. Macross game flash video (compiled in Macross Game Video collection) c. Macross 20th aniversary subtitles .srt file *** This .srt needs to be retimed and a little better english translation. d. Yamato 1/48 vf1s toy commercial video e. Macross 20th anniversary 700 mb avi, no subtitles (8 parts, HJSplit software) 2. Macross Drama and Music a. Macross_7__OP_Single__Seventh_Moon 15 minutes version (2 parts, HJSplit software) b. Macross_7__ED_Single__Dakedo_Baby 15 minutes version (2 parts, HJSplit software) 3. Macross Miscellaneous a. Macross Perfect Memory i. webpage of written details ii. Outside story, original Japanese .cbr file iii. Lost Two Years and The Plundering Fleet pdf, winrar, translated by Renato b. Two nice Macross Timeline pictures in Macross Miscellaneous(It would be nice if both could be combined in an english poster jpeg version.) ***************** The macross picture collection is eventually going to be reorganized to take out some redundancies. The macross music collection is going to be a lot smaller, since Macrosshare has the majority of Macross music. The miscellaneous macross video collection needs a little reorganizing to take out some redundancies. Macross Games and Macross Miscellaneous need a little tidying. enjoy!

Here's page 28 and 29 as a splashpage. I did some internet searching on this because I was interested in doing some comic scans for later. I used paint.net. 1. make a "new" blank file 2. click "image", then "canvas size" 3. uncheck maintain aspect ratio 4. type in new pixel dimensions width 2882 length 4000 5. open up each page of scanned comic jpeg in paint.net 6. select all for each page 7. copy onto blank file 8. line up and save as jpeg I shrunk the file down to 523kb with microsoft picture manager

The video on the dvd will look sharper because Tmpeg software does a better job of rendering video for a dvd than Womble video editor does. The 700 mb avi is the womble mpeg rather than the Tmpeg video. The psx dryl video game scenes look a little fuzzy at edges straight from the Macross 20th dvd, so I'm not sure how to fix that. *** Keep in mind that there's a big video quality difference between an 8 gb dvd and a 700 mb avi. *** I fixed the "untill" subtitle for the main dyrl movie and Tmpeg is working at encoding the final movie. The other video files are fixed and ready for the dvd menu, so all I would need to do is plunk in the sdf mml mpeg into the dvd menu, fix up the dvd chapters, compile the dvd and turn the dvd into an iso ready for bittorrenting! It's that "easy".