Hey Harmy,

I really love your Despecializations! Since I'm German I want to create versions with the German crawls and German subs for Greedo and Jabba. Are there HDTV-versions of the subtitled scenes, but without the subs? Or did the subtitles look like that in the HD broadcasts? I'd like to re-create the German subs as they look in the US version, but I'd need clean versions of those scenes for that...

The next hurdle will be multi-angle / seamless branching or some other trick to allow choosing between the English and the German crawls and subs (and Adobe Encore, which I'm using, doesn't support either feature). Well, at least the subs COULD be realized through actual Blu-ray subtitles... but for that, again, I need clean versions of those scenes.

Otherwise the new Blu-rays might provide the solutions...

Harmy said:

Erm, that's exactly what I did in that clip...

You know, after watching the clip again, you're right. It's absolutely fine. Watched the GOUT scene again and it's pretty much the same. My bad, I guess I just remember the 77 effects being worse than they actually were. Sorry about that.

Just got turned on to this forum.  Can someone send me an invite to myspleen? (can't get the Jdownloader to work on my imac)  Thanks!  Harmy & co, thank you!

Harmy said:

Yeah, there is no HDTV broadcast without hardcoded subs, I had to remove them using the DVDs. But I'm sure the BD will be a better solution.

Oh, actually your result looks pretty much perfect to me... would it be possible for you to share the upscaled and color corrected versions without the subtitles of the Greedo and Jabba scenes? It would make it so much easier for me to seamlessly replace them...

My time to finally enjoy these has come! Problem is I don't have a pro rapidshare account or anything like that. How can I join myspleen? Torrents are way easier to handle for me, as to keep sharing once done.

Any advise? Thanks! :D

How about the Vader belt lamps?  This is an error from the 2004 color correction and I wonder if you think you can fix it? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ReF_G3Btg&feature=youtu.be&hd=1

Check out the green color on the right and the blue on the left.

I realize it might be too minor to bother with but if you think you can do it that would be cool.

Marty.McFly said:

Any advise? Thanks! :D

You can join MySpleen by invite only. I just sent you a PM so you can join. Hope you like the DeSpecialized Editions...

Hello Harmy:

Thank you for putting together these very fine SW AVCHDs!

Your SW AVCHDs are a big improvement over the 2004 SW DVDs!

I was reading in this thread that you were considering a SW 2.0 despecialized AVCHD depending on the deleted BD SW scenes.  At least, I think I did.

Anyways, when I first saw SW in 1977 in the movie theatre in Canada, there was the Biggs scene like the SW special edition but also Red leader was talking about how he knew Luke's father in the Clone Wars.  By the 2nd theatrical release, that SW scene was edited out by George Lucas.  If that complete Biggs and Red Leader scene becomes available on the BD SW set and you have the time and energy, then could you add that scene back on, please?

That would be the SW I remember from a time long ago...

Hmm... another forum member named Puggo believes they had that scene in theaters also; however, there has yet to be a confirmation. Even the theatrical bootlegs and 16mm prints show none of that scene.

Out of curiosity, is the DVD-5 version of this still up? I couldn't really get it to download from uloz.to.

The Aluminum Falcon said:

You can join MySpleen by invite only. I just sent you a PM so you can join. Hope you like the DeSpecialized Editions...

Wow, thanks! Really appreciate it man, thank you! :)

Here's a trilogy cover set I made that can be used for basically any OOT (click the images for the full size versions):

Leonardo said:

After seeing all the positive comments about your work, I couldn't resist any longer, freed some space on my hard drive and dl'd your DeEd. And it truly is fantastic, Harmy, excellent job!

Laserschwert said:

Hey Harmy,

I really love your Despecializations! Since I'm German I want to create versions with the German crawls and German subs for Greedo and Jabba. Are there HDTV-versions of the subtitled scenes, but without the subs? Or did the subtitles look like that in the HD broadcasts? I'd like to re-create the German subs as they look in the US version, but I'd need clean versions of those scenes for that...

The next hurdle will be multi-angle / seamless branching or some other trick to allow choosing between the English and the German crawls and subs (and Adobe Encore, which I'm using, doesn't support either feature). Well, at least the subs COULD be realized through actual Blu-ray subtitles... but for that, again, I need clean versions of those scenes.

Otherwise the new Blu-rays might provide the solutions...

I'm doing something similar, I'm trying to recreate the italian crawl in HD, episode-less, and then I'd need the Greedo scene without hard-subs, to make my own. But then, how to incorporate them in the movie, without having to re-encode? I'm pretty much clueless about HD and blu-rays and whatnot...

Yeah, I guess there's no other option than a re-encode. Also I guess I won't be able to make a multi-angle disc (for having both the English AND German crawls and subtitles), so I'll probably take the cheap route of putting the movie on the disc twice. After all the AVCHD-versions are small enough to fit on a BD25 disc twice with enough space left to re-encode at a higher bitrate and still allow multiple audio-options.

Laserschwert said: Here's a trilogy cover set I made that can be used for basically any OOT

Good idea!  They look great. :)