My LOTR Dvd project almost done.... [Archive]

Blind Voyeur

29th January 2002, 07:52

Dvd Maestro for the project.
The Menus are being done in Photoshop.
Here is some more progress

Chapters 2 (http://www.proppics.com/chap58f.jpg)

Chapters 3 (http://www.proppics.com/chap912f.jpg)

Chapter 4 (http://www.proppics.com/chap1316f.jpg)

Thanks for the compliments btw....

Also parts of the soundtrack play duing the menus....

Mnemonic

29th January 2002, 14:17

how the hell did you convert the SVCD pmg into DVD compatible MPEG? I cant find anything that wants to read the SVCD format, and once you do get it into said program, what are the steps/settings to encode it? if there is a guide, please advise.

Thank YOu,
mnemonic

Blind Voyeur

29th January 2002, 15:14

There is an excellent guide here in the forum already a few posts down...

int 21h

29th January 2002, 17:08

As far as the images themselves go, I assume you're highlighting the main person in the image.. then doing an inverse select and applying a slight blur to the rest of the image to make them standout? If not, what effect(s) are you using to make that very nice presentation?

Blind Voyeur

9th February 2002, 04:06

Dvd cover (http://www.proppics.com/cover.jpg)
Root Menu 1 (http://www.proppics.com/backf.jpg)
Chapter Menu 1 (http://www.proppics.com/chap14f.jpg)
Chapter Menu 2 (http://www.proppics.com/chap58f.jpg)
Chapter Menu 3 (http://www.proppics.com/chap912f.jpg)
Chapter Menu 4 (http://www.proppics.com/chap1316f2.jpg)
Chapter Menu 5 (http://www.proppics.com/chap1719f.jpg)
Special Features (http://www.proppics.com/special backf.jpg)
Easter Egg 1 (http://www.proppics.com/hobbit.jpg)
Easter Egg 2 (http://www.proppics.com/Sound.jpg)

It even includes 2 easter eggs now including the full soundtrack to the movie and the Full animated movie of The Hobbit!!

Thanks for all the compliments and nice E-mails

Coop920

9th February 2002, 04:12

congrats dude, now make an easy to follow maestro guide...hehe

great work

dopef1sh

9th February 2002, 07:02

For everyone that has used Maestro succesfully, what version are you using?
I have 2.0 build 2044 - 1234, and when I go to compile a project, it sits there for many hours and does nothing. I get a TS_Audio and TS_Video folder with 2 small files (~150k), but that's it. I have used the lotr 4 svcd to dvd pdf file and followed it to the letter, but alas, no dice.

The last lines appearing the the compile window are as follows:

------
Compiling VTS#1 (Movie 1)...
default blank image!
------

and sits there for hours.

any thoughts guys?

nkarnold

9th February 2002, 13:57

Well done,

Its very impressive,

How about a step-by-step guide to how you did this using Maestro?

Also do you plan to make the bitmaps and maestro project available ? (minus the video and audio obviously)

thanks

Atlantis

9th February 2002, 19:01

I hope this is appropriate here. Could someone please send me a private message to tell me where can I find the 4 svcd version? Not the 2 cd divx version!

Nogami

10th February 2002, 15:33

I'm working on the same project :)

For converting the SVCDS, I copied the SVCD MPG files to the HD, then using DVD2AVI to create a D2V VFAPI project file. Then convert that to a AVI with the VFAPI conversion program.

You can then feed that AVI into TMPGENC to re-encode to normal MPG-2 stream at 720x480. (3.1Mbps bitrate is what I'm using to make it fit, although since the original DVD is at 2.4, that should work too).

I demuxed the SVCD MPGS using TMPGENC to get at the MPEG audio - I'm going to convert them to .wavs by running them through winamp and having it save the .wav files. Then into soundforge to join them up, and output as a single .wav file. Then just re-encode with the AC3 encoder of your choice and done!

nkarnold

10th February 2002, 20:32

Why make your life complicated,

check out my simple guide at
http://forum.doom9.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=77882

Its 100% working, half the hassle.

Cheers

dopef1sh

10th February 2002, 21:37

hey nkarnold

I used your tutorial to make the lotr dvd, and was wondering if the aspect ratio you got was slightly squashed? To keep the correct aspect ratio the file should be 720x576 (which is PAL), or 640x480 (which is neither). Any thoughts?

--josh

nkarnold

10th February 2002, 21:53

Remember the TCF MPEGs are 480x480 to start with,

all we do with DVDPatcher is change it 352x480, import into DVDMaestro and then patch it back to 480x480, so the actual DVDMaestro compile, will take the 480x480 file.

Look at the bottom of Page 9... did you do that ?

If you can improve things, please drop me a line and i'll check it out and amend the guide.

Nogami

11th February 2002, 02:44

Hmm... Good guide there - wasn't aware that you could just modify the size of the m2v file to fool maestro into loading it.

Thanks to the other forum member who helped me out with the software!

N.

Mnemonic

11th February 2002, 04:35

please email me links to find these...
richard@yhti.net

dopef1sh

12th February 2002, 03:12

Originally posted by nkarnold
If you can improve things, please drop me a line and i'll check it out and amend the guide.

Hey man, that guide was great, and I followed it to the letter, but I still have a slightly squished aspect ratio.

If a new version of DVD Patcher (1.5?) came out that would actually allow you to patch the vertical resolution to something besides 480 or 576 (there is a custom setting, but it doesn't actually do anything, try it), then the aspect ratio problem may no longer be. If I've done my math right, patching the virtical res. to 400 should be enough to counteract the squashed video. As to whether or not that file will actually play in a dvd player remains to be seen, however.

ps/fyi/whatever...
I have not tried changing the settings on my set-top dvd player to pan/scan or letterbox, etc... I just thought of that but I'm at work right now...

...anyway, the movie works well enough as it is, and I am in the process of adding menus and the like to it... you guys here have been a lot of help

Atlantis

13th February 2002, 12:09

I’m wondering is LOTR 100% perfectly in sync? I’m trying the DVL DIVX and when I try to make perfectly in sync one part of the CD 2, the other part of the CD2 goes a very little out of sync. For example at the end when Frodo says “can you protect me from yourself”. I hear the “can” when his mouth is closed and the rest is OK. Can someone check this please with whatever version he has? The “can” part!

Nogami

14th February 2002, 07:06

I found that using the method supplied by nkarnold, using TMPGEnc to up-convert the joined mp2 to 48khz caused a nasty hi-frequency ringing on the upper end of the audio. I decoded to a .wav using soundforge, resampled it in SF using the highest quality settings, and am re-encoding into AC3 to see how it compares.

dopef1sh

14th February 2002, 07:53

Nogami-

I too found out that having tmpgenc change the audio from 44 ->48kHz sounds like ass. I just exported the whole thing to .wav (all 2 gigs =) and resampled it in SoundForge, re-encoded that back to mp2/m2a with tmpgenc, and it works just fine. I've already got my dvd working, with some really nice menu work... I'll post some screenshots soon.

Nogami

15th February 2002, 03:19

I just finished putting the same thing together. The version converted with soundforge sounds much, much better than a straight conversion with TMPGENC - I assume because of SF's anti-aliasing filter after the conversion.

I encoded mine to AC3 afterwards and it sounds great. I put the two audio tracks together so I could flip between them and there is a big difference.

N.

nkarnold

15th February 2002, 09:30

Guys,

really appreciate the comments about my guide (see me on irc as ____Jester)

Im going to update it with the audio bit corrected/enhanced/fixed as per your suggestions.

cheers

nkarnold

20th February 2002, 23:54

OK, Ive fixed the audio, and placed the instructions into an addendum.

hoogs

21st February 2002, 01:19

NK you are GOD! Im gonna try this when I get home tonight. One thing though, I just downloaded the guide and I dont see a fix for the audio......is that some other attachment I need to download or what? Thanx again man!!

Morgano

19th March 2002, 18:54

WOW those images are fantastic any chance of getting hold of the menu for my project they look realy professional

:)

Morgano

Ragornette

19th March 2002, 22:17

hi
because I'm very lazy
I was wondering if anyone got the chapter points of the movie according to images blind voyeur gave us?
:p
thanks very much

RAgornette

My project is also almost done, I added the trailer, the complete soundtrack, a concept art gallery, the chapters. I wish I could get the subtitles (french or english) and the chapters points.

neo_sapien

7th April 2002, 11:05

I just thought of something. There were 2 versions of LOTR released with the original AC3 soundtrack. One was a DVD-R by HBODVD, and the other was a 3 CD DivX/Dolby 5.1 internal release by DVL. If you could get ahold of the Dolby 5.1 soundtrack somehow, your DVD project could be that much nicer.

h**p://www.isonews.com -info about what groups released which versions.

fletch

8th April 2002, 08:20

If you could get ahold of the Dolby 5.1 soundtrack somehow, your DVD project could be that much nicer.

I totally agree. If some kind soul was willing to upload the AC3 file (the true Dolby 5.1 one) , I think I can vouch for everyone here and say it would be totally appreciated :D

If storage is needed , pls do not hesitate to let me know.

Cheers

Fletch

neo_sapien

8th April 2002, 10:39

Does anyone know how to merge 3 AC3 files together?

neo_sapien

8th April 2002, 11:37

I figured it out by reading through other posts with a search of "AC3 AND MERGE". Here's what you do:

(You need BeSweet and HeadAC3he for this)

copy /b audio1.ac3+audio2.ac3+audio3.ac3 output.ac3

You then have a single AC3 stream, but the time stamps may not be correct. To solve this:

Open up HeadAC3he, select output.ac3 as your source file (you'll get Warning: Source file's last frame incomplete (or corrupt AC3 stream). This is normal), select AC3 as your destination format, and press start. This will give you a new AC3 file that works, and is 1KB less than the previous one. We now have a single, working Dolby Digital 5.1 track.

I tested this on my 3 CD DivX/Dolby 5.1 copy of Gladiator, and it works. The final LOTR AC3 should be ~520MB.

Now we just need to acquire the audio stream, something I'm working on right now (DLing the 3 CD DVL LOTR rip with AC3 5.1). I can rar the audio or something, then upload them. Can someone get access to a server with necessary bandwidth?

We're one step closer :D I can smell the DVD already...

amirkhan

8th April 2002, 17:40

Would'nt it be easier just to get the dvd screener? ;-)

neo_sapien

8th April 2002, 20:22

lol
That's not exactly circulating in great abundance :)

s0nyguy

10th April 2002, 16:32

I have the dvd screener, its got the copyright warnings now and again through the film though.. great quality though.

CorkSucker

24th April 2002, 06:34

After many weeks of finding the shortcomings with CCE, VDUB. I finally have my project finished and ready to burn. Problem is even with AC3 audio, my project is 5,290,000,000 bytes. Too much to fit on one DVD-R.

I think since I am already over the 1 DVD-R mark, I might as well add PCM audio in addition to fill up the 2nd DVD-R.

My question to you guys is as follows:

Would I go ahead and create the project in Maestro, create the VOB's and then use the DVD-9 to 2 DVD-5 guide to IFOedit the vob's into 2 dvd's?

Using this guide, what does the 2nd DVD do? Does the first know it is going to stop and continue on the next one? What if it starts on the 2nd DVD? How would the second side know that I chose AC3 for the first side?

If you had access to any product Except Scenarist or hardware related tools. how would you do it?

Also, did Blind Voyeur ever publish his Maestro LOTR project?

Ragornette

24th April 2002, 09:04

why did you reencode the video?
if you follow the lotr guide, you don't need to
my DVD contains the complete film with 3 different audio, 2 mp2 and 1 ac3 (600 Mo) + 9 subtitles + the soundtrack and trailer. I have 400 left on the DVD. And the DVD works prefectly on home player.
If you decide to encode video in 720x480, you'll loose space for sure. :confused:

Have fun

Ragornette

CorkSucker

25th April 2002, 03:21

Ragornette
I had the 3 DIVX DVDRIP version of it. The DIVX files before re-encoding were 2.4GB. So I had to go from AVI->M2V. the original avi is 640x272, so I letterboxed it to 640x480. resulting m2v files were huge. the wav file for this beast is 2GB alone

Anyway, how would you get this either down to a single DVD-R, or will I have to maestro the whole thing and then IFOEDIT it?

Any help appreciated,

Corky