Also, Harmy, I don't know if you're planning on including subs in the initial release or if that's more for the Blu-Ray, but I'm pretty much done with 5 more languages for my project--but only for Star Wars.  I don't plan on actually releasing them until I finish all 3 movies, but I would make an exception for you.

That would be great :-) I'm not going to bust my hump too much about having complete audio and subtitle tracks in the MKV and AVCHD releases, since it's so easy for people to mux in their preferred tracks if they're not there but I'd really like to have everything complete for the BD, since I want to have menus and stuff.

OK I'll keep working on it and will release it either when it's done or when you ask.

Cool, thanks :-)

Laserschwert said:

The workprint looks great! Still, I've noticed a few things:

During the crawl and the pan down you've got a wonderful gate-weave effect going on, but it stops after the pan down, so that the stars, the planet and the moon now are rock solid, which is slightly distracting. Would it be possible to add a slight movement to the background, or - if that's not possible due to the layers - the whole image? I bet it wouldn't really matter if the ships flying by are moving a bit as well...

That's actually one of the things on my list.

In the shot of Luke igniting and swinging the lightsaber for the first time, the background (wall) is flickering.

Yeah, there's more of that going on. I think it's already in the source but it gets more visible due to the brightening I did.

In this shot the dome on the R2 unit (and the sunlit parts of the stormtrooper armors) is really blown out, and although I know that it looks like that on the GOUT as well, the JSC version (and the Blu-ray as well) definitely shows that there was more detail in those highlights before:

Have you thought about darkening your whites just a tiny bit and overlaying the JSC highlight onto those areas, to get the missing detail back in there? If I had both versions of the shot here, I'd really love to try that...

Well, if you want, I'll be happy to upload the lossless version of the shot for you (it's something like 600MB) and you can give it a shot.

Oh, I thought you had the JSC because you posted the screenshot. I don't have it unfortunately. Only got that one shot of the speeder flyby from msycamore.

adimifus said:

I got the links to the final workprint (thanks harmy!) but I'm having trouble with a few of the parts. JDownloader can't seem to connect to parts 7, 10 and 12. It keeps saying "Hoster Problem?" and if I try to download the parts directly, I get 502 Gateway errors. Did anyone else have problems downloading any parts?

I'm getting the exact same thing right now on those three files.  Not sure why.

*edit - working now.

Laserschwert said:

Nah, that image was taken from THIS thread. But I've PMed msycamore about it - maybe he can upload the whole JSC shot.

Based on a quick test with the still it's rather easy:

But it might look horrible in motion, who knows...

Yeah, I was gonna say, this would be totally easy in photoshop but in motion, it might be really hard - gate weave is the worst enemy when doing these.

Anyway, here's the shot in uncompressed AVI: http://uloz.to/xc63pRd/ronto-butt-4-1-avi

Harmy said:

Yeah, there's more of that going on. I think it's already in the source but it gets more visible due to the brightening I did.

Is it possible the HDTV capture doesn't have this issue?  i.e. maybe it's a problem with the Blu-ray encode, rather than the HD source?  I sure don't remember seeing any sign of this in v1.

Actually, the shot mentioned there (Luke first igniting the sabre) is actually sourced from the HDTV broadcast in v2.0 because I did it before I got the BD.

Laserschwert said:

In that case I'll add this shot to your to-do list ;-)

No way in hell :-) Also, I don't really see that much of a flicker in that shot, it seems more like the compression having a hard time dealing with the grain.

Is the color timing of the Blu-ray identical to the HDTV version? In that case switching footage shouldn't be that much of a problem.

More or less, yeah but I can't find the original project file for the shot.

Also, I've found another thing: The matte painting with the speeder flying into Mos Eisley has no gate weave either.

I'll see about it.

Harmy said:

Laserschwert said:

In that case I'll add this shot to your to-do list ;-)

No way in hell :-) Also, I don't really see that much of a flicker in that shot, it seems more like the compression having a hard time dealing with the grain.

Works for me, maybe less compression will take care of it.