Der REMASTERS

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:22 pm

I am remastering all of my 2001 videos. I will place them all here.

Available now is the remaster of my 801st TTS Airbats video "Self-Induced Danger Zone" or "SIDZ" for short.

This was a trial, because I originally chose to remaster this video so that I could go start to finish entirely on my macintosh and not use the PC at all. Both to learn how to do it, and also finish my mac guide. Previously, I have used my mac and pc symbiotically. But I really felt I could not provide useful tips to the general org mac user if I hadn't been stuck in a position of relying only upon mac-related resources. So I stuck to my guns and treated using the PC as "cheating."

Source-wise, this presented a lot of problems, as I didn't get this near clean enough. Airbats source is not good, and my lack of Cleaner and my inability to get avidemux to run severely limited my ability to clean up terribly telecined footage, but I did the best I could.

As stated, this video was made entirely on the macintosh. I used MacTheRipper to Rip, DiVA to convert, Final Cut Pro to edit/export, and D-Volution 2 to encode to h264 MP4. Most of my previous MP4 encodes have been with D-Volution, so the quality you see is because of DiVA's inability to handle outrageously bad telecining. Had I been able to use AviSynth, I probably would have been able to handle it a lot better. As it is, this remaster does look leaps and bounds better than the original, and it lis ighter by a few megs as well.

Also, there were orphan frames in the original I did cut out of the remaster, but otherwise, the remaster is almost entirely frame to frame accurate to the original. I even kept the retro old school editing bumper style when creating new bumpers.