[FF7PC-98/Steam] FMV Restoration (Discontinued, use Steam FMVs)

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There is still that DVD of uncompressed FMVs that shipped with a DVD player...
 
Unfortunately those are/the CD is:

1.  Interlaced.
2. Positioned with borders which means any use of them will need the borders chopping out and the edges chopping away because the colour has blurred into the black borders.
3. Are often missing sections of video at the start and/or end
4. Are missing the orignal audio
5. Missing the vast bulk of the FMV's.
 
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It is easy to use the 2012's FMVs with the original version of the game? Do I need to downscale them ?
 
since my computer is too sad to run them up to speed, how do i reverse the registry entries?
 
Modify the registry entry to point to the CD-ROM movies folder.



ff7moviedirr2.zip                               Covarr          Registry Edit to set Movie Dir          Qhimm FILE

 
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dont make me laugh the 2012 fmv are encoded using virtualdub. that to me seems like a piss poor of doing things cheap. if it was profressional my media info lite would not have got the info stating virutaldub and instead would have used something more professnal(sony vegas or adobe for example). i think sqaure enix did was like sega did with sonic 06, the fans wanted a new sonic game asap and what did they get a game that rushed. its no differfent then the re-release of ff7 pc everything is the same i checked it 100%. sure they added filters but thats in a seprate folder
 
Whoever did it knew what they were doing regarding the filters at least.  Overall it is a smoother and better game experience than my own, although the colour is worse and let's face it, using psx videos is always going to be shit.  I did not know they used VD though!

The 2012 is a nasty cash in though, and everyone fell for it again, so prepare for more.
 
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*bump*

I've decided to take FF7 and play it once again, without Bootleg or anything (not a big fan of graphical mods and all that fancy stuff, just some basic stuff), and this mod was one of the few I installed. I noticed eidoslogo.avi is missing. I used FFVIII's one (which I always use anyway) but thought I'd point it out.
 
This has already been noted several times.  The Eidos logo is not a FF7 related video so it was not done.  I did the TA Eidos one though.

Also, I have to say the new 2012 version videos are better than mine in terms of clarity and in-motion (they are also smaller in size).  Their colour and sound is worse though.  I have no idea why the sound suffered so much.

There are a few videos like the car one where mine may be a better alternative also, since I corrected spelling mistakes.  Such as Makou.

Generally 2012 versions are the best i've seen from anyone.
 
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Support for this mod has ended.  The FMV's in the new 2012 version are superior in all but sound (and a few fixes I made).  At a later date I will release only the ones that are an improvement on these, and that's a few.

I will leave all links here.  This thread now needs locking.

Dan
 
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