Chewtobacca said:

ROFLRICK said:Has anyone noticed the cropping that is occurring on both the right and left sides of the frame? This is not present in any other version, and as best as I can tell, it is actual cropping. Information visible on the MKV, AVCHD, etc. is seemingly missing on the DVD-5.

It's not.  The eight pixels of black bar on either side of the image are nominal analogue blanking.  No cropping has occurred.

Good to know :-)

And thank you guys for the compliments. V2.1 is not really all that much work (I'm done with all the fixes now except the Obi-Wan scene, which should be a piece of cake).

Harmy, don't let the naysayers get you down. I can see you've put a ton of work into this and I thank you for wanting to share your efforts with us all. So many of us have wished for ages that this film could be available in high-quality, without the hideous blue tinting and awful SE changes. Finally we're getting that, and we all owe you a huge collective thank you. It's amazing that some will pick you apart just because you've decided to go back a make a few changes before finalizing it. I can't think of how many times I've bought retail blu-rays and find out that they are recalled due to errors and screw-ups. Halloween II was recalled and replaced due to a missing opening credit, Deadly Spawn got recalled due to a poor DVD upconversion, The Star Trek Next Generation discs were recalled due to the audio tracks being mixed up, Sunshine got recalled due to forcing a pop-up track, and Event Horizon was released in an incorrect, stretched aspect ratio. Just to name a few examples. So if the big studios can screw up, I think you're entitled to put out a 2.1 version of despecialized.

I like the idea of the film countdown like you used to see in theatres. That would be great to see on the blu-ray as an opening title before the film starts.

And thanks for deciding to do an AVCHD. Like you said we can always make our own mkv if we choose from the blu-ray, but honestly it sounds like the AVCHD will offer the same quality anyhow, so thanks!

Out of interest, what tools are you using to make the Blu-ray, authoring-wise?

Harmy said:

I'm done with all the fixes now except the Obi-Wan scene, which should be a piece of cake.

Piece of cake to make the change, sure.  Piece of cake to satisfy the picky, picky masses? Maybe not so much. ;)

  I know he has made me a very happy person with his editions. I hope that he continues to release a tweak version every couple of years. Even if it maybe a new menu or tweaking a scene, or uncropping a scene even add new special features or even going full 1080. I look forward to it all and I love cake.

Troy 

Why are people criticizing you,and your work.

Sigh, Where's TV's Frink when we need him?

b0bafett said:

Hey Harmy, the past few pages have been a lot of talk of audio fixes and a 2.1 release of the AVCHD.  Just out of curiousity, are you still targetting the end of this month for the blu release?

To be honest, I don't think so. Not because of the v2.1 though, like I said that's almost done. But the extras will probably take a bit longer to finish.

Oh, and someone asked what I'll be using for authoring. Probably Scenarist.

Hey, Harmy, I think I detected another flaw. PM sent.

I didn't get any PM from you.

CatBus said:

Kingherb said:

You know Harmy the only thing i missed in the finished mkv of 2.0, was the old cinema countdown like you had in your test parts, would you consider bringing that back for the Blu-Ray?

 ++ Those countdowns were awesome and would make great menu transition lead-in/outs.

I was not sure if you missed this before Harmy, as the thread had some hate spamming going on, i just wondered what you thought about it?

Well, definitely not those used in the WP, those were bad SD upscales. But if someone could get me HD scans of those countdowns, I'd probably go for it.

Harmy said:

Well, definitely not those used in the WP, those were bad SD upscales. But if someone could get me HD scans of those countdowns, I'd probably go for it.

hmm..

digs around in raw scans..

we don't have THOSE countdowns,

but we have a few different ones..

later

-1

No need for those specifically. If you could get them to me in some decent quality, I'd be very grateful :-)

Harmy said:

No need for those specifically. If you could get them to me in some decent quality, I'd be very grateful :-)

a-ha!

but we have a few different ones..

(not sure what format to put them in)..

hmm.. a high quality scan of low quality leaders....... ha ha!!

check your pm harmy.. 

later

-1

Harmy i did not realise they were bad upscales, anyway thanks negative1 for keeping the countdown dream alive :) 

vbangle said:

Sigh, Where's TV's Frink when we need him?

The irony in this question is delicious.

TV's Frink said:

vbangle said:

Sigh, Where's TV's Frink when we need him?

The irony in this question is delicious.

I knew you'd be pleased.

Definitely both around the same time.