Harmy said:

Um, you mean would be equally problematic to despecialize, right?

 I guess that would be a better way to describe it, yes.

Harmy said:

I knew these were recomposited the first time around and chose to leave them and nothing's changed.

Well, I didn't come in here to say you didn't know.

Sorry, man, didn't mean to get snappy :-)

Harmy said:

Sorry, man, didn't mean to get snappy :-)

It's cool, man. You have all the reasons to get snappy sometimes. :)

Thank you :-)

I know about that lightsabres issue and I really tried to do it differently but it just wouldn't go. I was using Ady's 97SE HD version as a basis (which had the same colours as his reconstruction) and the sabres were definitely too dim there, making the cores dull. But when I increased brightness and contrast to compensate, it created this haloing issue, so there's not much I can do about that. I agree that the colours of the sabres could use an improvement though, I'll definitely work on that.

Harmy said:

Thank you :-)

I know about that lightsabres issue and I really tried to do it differently but it just wouldn't go. I was using Ady's 97SE HD version as a basis (which had the same colours as his reconstruction) and the sabres were definitely too dim there, making the cores dull. But when I increased brightness and contrast to compensate, it created this haloing issue, so there's not much I can do about that. I agree that the colours of the sabres could use an improvement though, I'll definitely work on that.

 I would much prefer the dull cores to the haloing issue. This is the only scene that really bothers me in any of your Despecialized Editions, it also happens to be the best scene in the Trilogy. The dull cores have to be closer to the original presentation than the halos, and they would be much less distracting. It's my opinion that many preservation efforts and edits nowadays are placing to much emphasis on brightning the sabers, often to the point of oversaturating the colors. Except for ROJ, I remember the sabers being much more dull in the theater, on tv, and vhs.

All of the .7z files are part of the same archive. If you extracted one file you extracted them all, because if you didn't have all the appropriate files your extractor would have complained. If you really want to find out if you needed it, you can move that file elsewhere on your hard drive and try extracting again to  see if your extractor complains or not.

In any event, now that you have successfully extracted the files from the archive it doesn't matter anymore whether or not you know you needed the file (though I'm sure you did.)

BTW, Good job Harmy. I downloaded the SD version and it looks great.

In an attempt not to further pollute another thread, I'm referencing MySycamore's post here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/regrading-editing-original-trilogy-using-blu-rays-and-german-hdtv-streams-to-remove-bad-but-not-all-specialised-blu-ray-changes/post/553819/#TopicPost553819

Harmy, if a Laserdisc rip would be helpful to get more "out the window" detail than is available via other sources, PM me.  I may not have the best source available, but I've got something.

Yeah, I don't know if I'd want to go that far. Besides, I'd really rather focus on SW right now.

That's fine.  Keep it in mind for later though.  As for "going that far", aren't you the same guy that added a vague rectangular block around the Greedo subs to simulate the compositing elements?  You've already gone that far and back again, I'm afraid ;)

Not really, because putting that matte around the subs took about 5 minutes, rotoscoping a new background into numerous shots from a low quality source, just to make something that is already there more visible and which would take hours, perhaps days for each shot is a whole different league. If I did that, why not go through the films and rotoscope out all the crushed blacks as well? Because it would take ten years, that's why ;-)

I'm currently waiting to see how the whole thing goes with the SOPA and AKTA things before I start uploading anything. To be honest, the fact that they shut down MU like that scares me a little bit. At the moment, there are some well seeded (or so I'm told) public tracker torrents (not uploaded by me), so anyone who does a Google search can find them there.

pmc2 said:

Please, could you upload the three covers of SW despecialized version?

 

If you're referring to these, Harmy just posted a link to them recently in the Star Wars Despecialized thread:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-AVCHD-DVD9-and-NTSC-DVD5-AVAILABLE-see-1st-post/post/561548/#TopicPost561548

Did you do that in Photoshop or After Effects?