[Proposal] Halloween 2020 pipefan413 preservation: THE EXORCIST (1973)

[pipefan413]

Hi. I apologize for asking about something a bit off-topic (I can't seem to send PMs), but

You can't send PMs because turning up on a forum as a new user and bothering someone in a PM as your very first move is not only incredibly bad form, but literally against the rules. Incidentally, asking them the same question you were going to ask in PM in a thread about something that isn't what you're asking about isn't much better. The fact that you don't know this suggests that you've neglected to read the forum rules and just went straight to trying to PM me before posting here, which does not exactly serve you well as a first impression. There is even a dedicated "presentation" subforum which new users are enocouraged to post in before doing anything else, but no, you jumped straight over that as well. You don't *need* to post in Presentation, but you do need to read the rules, which you evidently didn't, despite apparently being here without posting for almost a year (going by the account creation date).

I'm curious how that "Exorcist" video was created. I know it was done with Virtualdub. I ask because I'm planning to start making such videos soon-ish, as I've finally procured some video capture equipment. Some pointers would be nice.

It wasn't, it was done with AviSynth. There's not really a simple way for me to take you through the entire process from start to finish; you really need to research what AviSynth is, how it relates to VirtualDub, and how to get it to do what you want. The general gist is that you write a script in AviSynth (potentially using an editor with some realtime feedback like AvsPmod, though you don't have to), then potentially feed that script through VirtualDub to preview it with sound, then render the output if you want to make an actual stored video/audio file once done. AviSynth is essentially streaming an "avi" (or if you prefer, serving frames, hence "🔍frameserver") to whatever output you use (e.g. VirtualDub, which is itself a frameserver, or something else like ffmpeg) with whatever processing applied that you've put in your script. So in this case, I was doing things like adding and removing frames of video (and cutting the audio to match), resizing and aligning the videos beside each other, and adding timestamps ("ShowSMPTE") and frame numbers for reference.

The good news is there's a crapload of info online (much of it on this forum, written by people who are far more knowledgeable and experienced) for you to read. I'm far from being an expert myself; if I can do it, so can you. I can give more specific help if you ask more specific questions, but please keep it elsewhere in either a more relevant existing thread or in its own new one.

If it helps, if things go well, I might be able to handle some of the other jobs in the future. (I've got most of the LDs from the poll.)

Thanks.

I'll be doing all of these anyway, just not all before Halloween. THE EXORCIST is kind of a s**tshow because it's missing massive chunks of the audio so it's going to need a lot more attention than some of the other resyncs I've looked at, and I want to do it justice. I may or may not try to do a slightly "easier" one (maybe HALLOWEEN) in the meantime, but we'll see. I have some Actual Life Priorities that also need attention at the moment so I need to make sure I'm not just sitting in a room fiddling with audio all month.