@Tobar: Yes, to Frederik you listen! :-) I've seen a very reliable reference of that shot and the lightsabre was almost exactly this colour and so were the lights in the background!

@Cobra Kai: The brightening of the skintones was done on purpose but I'll have to go through it and apply it more selectively.

@Troy: Yeah, I'm not sure what colour the display is supposed to be, whether it was enhanced by Ady or it's an SE mistake.

Harmy said:

@Troy: Yeah, I'm not sure what colour the display is supposed to be, whether it was enhanced by Ady or it's an SE mistake.

Well, my new BD player plays MKVs and it plays them from DVD without problems. The thing is that the MKV will be around 15GB, so it won't fit on a DVD but I can also connect an external USB HDD to  y BD player and it plays MKVs from that too.

Alternatively, you could split the movie over two DVD9s. In MKV Merge, you can "link" the files, so when they're in the same folder, they simply play as one file, so if you wanted to play it from an HDD or burn to a BD you should have an uninterupted viewing and if you, like me, don't mind switching discs midway, you can burn it to two DVDs.

Harmy said:

@Cobra Kai: The brightening of the skintones was done on purpose but I'll have to go through it and apply it more selectively.

Are you brightening even more than was in the WP?  I thought the skin-tones looked great in that scene initially.  I'm just worried that it will get too bright, and the skin-tones will look unnatural as they do now.

doubleofive said:

 

Harmy said:

@Troy: Yeah, I'm not sure what colour the display is supposed to be, whether it was enhanced by Ady or it's an SE mistake.

The screen behind the trooper getting shot? It's Revisitedly enhanced, so the colors are new.

 

That's good to hear, I was afraid I was gonna have to fix it, this way it just adds another advantage to having redone it.

Cobra Kai said:

Harmy said:

@Cobra Kai: The brightening of the skintones was done on purpose but I'll have to go through it and apply it more selectively.

Are you brightening even more than was in the WP?  I thought the skin-tones looked great in that scene initially.  I'm just worried that it will get too bright, and the skin-tones will look unnatural as they do now.

Well, yeah. I'm not quite sure this aspect is correct in the GOUT either. I'm hoping to soon get some reliable references for every sequence, so I'm gonna go through the colours from the beginning and adjust them again. Nothing's final.

Harmy said:

Cobra Kai said:

Harmy said:

@Cobra Kai: The brightening of the skintones was done on purpose but I'll have to go through it and apply it more selectively.

Are you brightening even more than was in the WP?  I thought the skin-tones looked great in that scene initially.  I'm just worried that it will get too bright, and the skin-tones will look unnatural as they do now.

Well, yeah. I'm not quite sure this aspect is correct in the GOUT either. I'm hoping to soon get some reliable references for every sequence, so I'm gonna go through the colours from the beginning and adjust them again. Nothing's final.

OK, thanks.  It just really jumped out at me last night, as I noticed mid-tones and shadows looked to bright and made the faces look weird in that particular setting.

BTW - I'm a little confused as to how you accomplished that shot of the Imperial officer getting shot, but it looks awesome!  What is your source?

The BD for the most part. For the missing frames a combination of the GOUT and ANH:R for the officer and the laserblast and an animated custom matte (made from several successive frames of the BD) for the background.

jabbo5150 said:

I have an Oppo BDP-93, which seems to be able to handle this format. Is this burnable to a disc though? Would I need a Blu-Ray burner?

mkv format that is. Meant to include a quote in my reply

My BDP-93 plays AVCHDs and mkv's just fine.  Note that mkv is just a container format and if you put weird enough streams in it, it won't play.  I'm assuming Harmy's mkv would be fairly standard.  However I will probably choose to burn to Blu Ray regardless of what Harmy makes available, just because I like physical media.

Well, the thing is that the MKV will be released first (or possibly 2nd, right after the AVCHD DVD9). And the BD might come out later (and I mean weeks later) so for those who want to burn to BD it may be a good idea to DL the MKV and play it it from a USB or the AVCHD and burn to DVD and wait for the BD release (or possibly the decision not to release it - don't forget I'm still not 100% sure on that) to burn to a Blu-Ray disc.

Just to verify, is this what you're planning?

1) Lower-bitrate AVCHD DVD9

2) Higher-bitrate MKV

3) Possible Blu Ray (same encoding as MKV, maybe with some extras)

I'm also assuming that, if I download the MKV, I could demux the streams and make my own barebones Blu Ray that I can live with until the fancy one comes out, and #2 and #3 would have the same video quality.

Is that how you see it happening (at least right now)?

Probably, yes. When it comes to encoding this, I'm gonna need some advice by some more knowledgeable members here to make sure everything is as it should be to be compatible.

LOL, we're already talking about the eventual release but haven't seen the second half of the WP yet! Let's put thing in perspective guys :)

Oh, yeah, forgot about that. Probably yeah.

Is the bitrate  going to be the same as V1 on  the  AVCHD DVD9  for V2?

Well, it stands to reason that with the same length and the same size, it will have to be more or less the same bitrate, yes ;-)

I thought about it. Possibly but I'm not decided yet. Maybe, similarly to what I have planned for foreign dubs, it could be available as a separate download that anyone can mux in themselves.