Dead Set Serious – Tech Info
as NTSC SL DVD and xvid avi
DVD DETAILS
- 114 minutes Single Layer NTSC 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen with AC3-5.1 audio
- LANGUAGES : ENGLISH (5.1)
- SUBTITLES : ENGLISH (selectable)
- MENUS : animated with sound
- SCENE SELECTION : yes
- EXTRAS: 2 Deleted Scenes Featurettes: Patrick (8:23) Big Brother (16:23)
- CBB info for all 31 fanedits
- COVER&Disc ART : yes, on DVD-Rom part
HARDWARE & SOFTWARE:
Hardware:
- Windows XP computer
- with an X2 6000 dual core cpu
- and 4 GB of RAM on an ASUS board
Software:
- Ulead Media Studio Pro 8.0
- Vegas Video 7.0
- Cinema Craft Encoder
- Virtual Dub
- Adobe Audition 1.5
- Pro Show Producer
- Jasc Paint Shop Pro
- PhotoZoom Pro2
- DVD Lab Pro 1.52
- Cyberlink Power DVD
- Irfan View
- PGCDemux
- AnyDVD
- DVDfab decrypter
- DGPulldown
- Womble MPEG DVD Wizard
EDITING DIARY:
1. Ripped the DVD with AnyDVD, extracted the movie with pgcdemux, converted the ac-3 to wav with headac3he, multiplexed audio and video with tmpgxrpess, created beginning credits in pro show producer, created sound for beginning credits with adobe audition, edited the movie in womble including all sound and video transitions, created end credits in pro show producer, created sound for end credits with adobe audition, encoded. result: video errors, audio out of sync.
2. tried with Ulead Media Studio Pro using the multiplexed video files. Result: fancy colors wherever I wanted to make a cut.
3. converted the video files with virtualdub to Lagarith Lossless avi, worked from there with Ulead Media Studio Pro 8. Result: video errors (several heavily pixelated scenes).
4. Read the DVD back and found out that they used Ripguard for copy protection.
5. Ripped the DVD with DVD Fab Decrypter, still no perfect result, but the best one of them all. Converted the video with virtualdub to lagarith lossless avi, corrected the tiny sync problems with adobe audition, muxed audio and video with virtualdub. Edited the video with Ulead Media Studio Pro 8, encoded to Lagarith Lossless avi, converted with virtualdub frame server + CCE (Cinema Craft Encoder) including multiple color and resize filers to mpg, used dgpulldown to correct the framerate to 29.97, created audio with Ulead, used Sony Vegas to turn pcm audio to 5.1 audio. Result: good.
6. Authored the DVD.
TIME NEEDED:
editing: 7 days, extras: 2 days, DVD menus: 1 day, quality checking and further corrections: 1 day, cover art: 1 day
ADDITIONAL TECH COMMENT:
On the tech level this fanedit gave me a hell ride. For the first in a long time I could not get a proper rip from the DVDs, thanks to Ripguard (yes, finally they really used it on an official DVD) copy protection and no ripper around to completely break it (DVD fab Decrypter gave the best result though). Womble gave me a lot of errors, every time I worked with it, Ulead gave me fancy colors wherever there was a cut, so I had to convert the movie to Lagarith lossless codec and resync the audio, to finally gain a version I could start editing with. Macrovision: you tried, but could not really stop me.


