Wait a minute, 720p, did I miss something? The work you're doing is amazing, unbelievably meticulous, so I don't understand why you'd do it on anything but the highest resolution source available. Given the amount of effort, it's not like you'd ever want to redo it. I'm sure there's a good reason for it, I just can't guess what it would be. Sorry if this is rehashing an old topic, it's a long thread. ;)

He went with 720p because a) his PC isn't powerful enough to edit 1080p footage properly and b) so that the gap in quality between the Blu-ray material and any SD material used isn't as jarring.

Think in terms of the lowest common denominator. 1080p would make the GOUT-sourced bits, among other things, more noticeable. 720p turns out to be a better end product because it blends together better. 

Harmy said:

That, plus there isn't that much more resolution on the 1080p BD to begin with

Right, because the Lowry restoration wasn't actually supposed to be used for an HD release (but lazy Lucasfilm did it anyway).

Gotcha. Well, I would have run a donation drive to get you a new system if I'd known that was a factor. I do see that there is likely minimal difference, and the real problem is that the source material from Lucasfilm is crappy (daaaaamn you George Lucas!), but I frankly feel like the reasoning of "SD material blended in would look worse" doesn't really hold up. You're basically saying we want the whole movie to look crappier so that the crappiest looking bits look better by comparison, which is kind of ridiculous in the first place, but then it also clashes with the example above showing there *isn't* that much difference. 

Anyway, it is what it is, and more importantly there would not be a dramatic difference in detail anyway. I could probably get a 1080p native equivalent result by just running a good sharpening post filter.

Thanks for the info, and all your hard work!

JavaJones said:

You're basically saying we want the whole movie to look crappier so that the crappiest looking bits look better by comparison,

The less of a clash between elements, the less the viewer is drawn out of the film experience.

timdiggerm said:

JavaJones said:

You're basically saying we want the whole movie to look crappier so that the crappiest looking bits look better by comparison,

The less of a clash between elements, the less the viewer is drawn out of the film experience.

 

 Indeed.

Harmy said:

So, some time ago msycamore pointed out that in the SE more shake was added to a few shots when the Falcon is caught in the tractor beam. I knew it would be really difficult to remove without removing the original shake as well, so I left it alone. But recently I saw a direct comparison of the two and the added shake is so violent that I decided to go through it and remove the added shake manually frame by frame and here's the result:

http://uloz.to/x9Si3nS/shake-sample-mp4

Egads, Brain, you as-tound me!  nnnnNNNNNAAAAAAAAaaaaarrrrrfff......On the other hand, do you realize how hard you make waiting, Harmy?

hey, could anyone possibly re-seed a copy of the ROTJ DVD5 SD despecialized edition to myspleen? i'm trying to run down a copy of it. 

i can't find a copy either, hence the ask to  see if anyone could re-upload it. 

Harmy when you do version 2.1 and 2.0 for the other two I think it would be pretty cool if you included some interactive menus and maybe even a little documentary, but that might be a little too much menus would be cool though

CatBus said:

Is anyone working on a bonus DVD for this release?  You know, a non-anamorphic, washed-out, shaky, dirty, smeared version of the Special Edition?  Maybe the 97 version but with the 2011 soundtrack?  So people could see what the Special Edition really was like, for objective comparison.

Or simply in black & white, just like in the theaters. :)

Harmy, just watched your DeSpecialized Episode 4, brought back so many memories.  I have the Laserdiscs, but my laserdisc player has long since died.

The original VHS of Episode 4 was the first VHS my family got back in the day when we got our first VHS player.  Was amazing to me back then.  

So amazing that thanks to your efforts, I will be able to share the same magic with my young Nephew in a few years when he's old enough :)

Sincerely, Thank You from a fan of the originals :)

Hello, all. New to the forums here.

Harmy, I would just like to take a moment to say thank you. I own the original trilogy on VHS and I remembering the dismay I felt at popping the first DVD release of a A New Hope into my player and finding there was no option to play the theatrical release. You're doing fantastic work to a dedicated community. Can't thank you enough.

I have the first Despecialized Edition of A New Hope and just got The Remastered Version (2.0, whatever people like to call it) via TehParadox.

I noticed on the first post of this forum 

!!!Important!!!

The 640Kbps 5.1 track has some bad compression issues.

The 77 Stereo and mono may have been affected as well.

Replacement tracks are available from tehparadox and usenet.

I was able, via TehParadox, to find Star Wars Despecialized Remastered on Usenet which was fantastic but I was unable to find any of the fixed audio tracks. The fixed Spanish and German tracks are on Usenet but not the English. Does anyone know if the English fixed audio remains available via Usenet?

Thanks for any help you can offer! Glad to be a part of the forums.

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