yoda-sama

Wow, the more I go back into this thread, the more I feel bad for all of you people waiting for me to put out something actually good of the series, while I spent a few years enjoying it exclusively on my own (literally the only person on the planet with the whole series… then I got hit directly by an “out of season” tornado, and knew i needed to finally release it…) I’m sorry… Hopefully actually putting my release out there makes up for that on some level…

Especially some good rips of Peking March 1910, Austria Early August 1917 and Barcelona May 1917 (those are some of my project’s rougher or missing/restored episodes that are covered by the laserdiscs).

Funny enough, I realized that what yt-dlp grabbed by default was just too much for what many of my computers could handle, I looked into lists of what formats it could see, and was able to make a combination that is MPEG4 AVC1 compatible, rather than a webm, av1 or VP9 combination that just might not play depending on the CPU… So, I definitely have something you may be interested in, just contact me.

JadedSkywalker said:

I’ve already seen it, but there is no download option unless you have youtube premium.

Simple enough on Linux with yt-dlp… There’s browser add-ons, too, but those have gotten less free over time. I can upload a rip to you, if you’d like.

So, the first thing said in this thread was a wish for a higher quality rip of the Japanese laserdisc’s making of, I found a fairly recent upload of it on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZZ2LVt4B3o

Go to myspleen, you’ll find I uploaded my project where I found and digitized my personal VHS recordings of almost the entire original broadcast run (and filled in some gaps accurately). You’ll find that a great starting point for other projects like syncing the French video, or whatever you want. The good news is Chronicles is no longer “lost”, at least not as hopelessly as it seemed before.

Regardless, I’d LOVE to see good laserdisc rips.

Okay, if you are on myspleen, I’ve uploaded my project. At the same time, by putting that up, someone has shared with me a better copy of s02e01, so hit me up for an updated copy of that episode…

Jeez, I need to get off my sorry ass and put my stuff out on myspleen and just get it over with…

Japanese Laserdisc is basically the original version (with some Japanese subtitles), but it doesn’t come close to covering the full run of the aired series.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that my VHS transfers actually look pretty good.

JadedSkywalker said:

I keep wondering how Young INDY fits Crystal Skull or Dial of Destiny, it’s better to not try.

Young Indy straight up ruins Dial of Destiny, as you find that not only has he been to Tangiers as a kid (and briefly sold into slavery), but he picked up Arabic language while there, which he later mentions being his first foreign language in a foreign language battle of wits against Elizabeth Hurley… So, Indy needing Helen to translate for him in a place he’s already been just shows that the people who wrote that movie had no idea what they were doing. (Also, the diamond in Temple of Doom’s opening is supposed to be the Peacock’s Eye.)

I guess we should talk. I have my own project I’m ready to release, where I have almost the entire aired series personally recorded to VHS, which I’ve digitally transferred and, with editing help from deadakaalive (he did the FRIENDS HD+Extended edit), made as complete as possible. I can certainly help you know what is and isn’t supposed to be in the original Chronicles version, and you’ll have my video and audio to work with for whatever fixes you are wanting to make.

I’m down for a PM, as well. This sounds great, and my wife would love it (we own the DVD and BD sets, and would love to have the mashup).

TV’s Frink said:

Already used :p

That’s why it is a perfectly appropriate reference. Rather than a huge mistake.

DuracellEnergizer said:

TV’s Frink said:

I know this will be hard to believe, but I made legitimate progress today.

There’s a workprint currently in my DVD player.

I don’t believe you! It’s another trick!

Well, I certainly do, but that’s neither here or there…

LordZerome1080 said:

tbird97 said:

pittrek said:

If I understood the TOS situation correctly, or in other words if the people in the comment sections under those videos were correct, the Blu-rays are not source from the ORIGINAL negatives, as the promotional material suggests, but from new internegs created in early 80’s for syndication. That’s why they include unified opening credits (originally each of the first 13 episodes had slightly different opening credits) and fixed some of the effects scenes, like the planet shots in The Naked Time.

This is funny. I’ve seen many Star Trek posts get hijacked and go into a discussion of Star Wars, but rarely the other way around!

I was curious about the Star Trek original series as well. I did some digging and found that there are some audio on the blu-ray set which is not entirely. I was kind of surprised some enterprising (no pun intended) fan had not taken the audio from the laserdiscs and set it to the blu-ray picture or something.
I don’t know exact episodes, but I know some of the opening credits there is dispute about which music played. There is a found effect of a phaser rifle being thrown in “Where No Man Has Gone Before” and one of Spock’s lines in “The Trouble with Tribbles.” There may be others as well, maybe some musical cues were messed with and they added some ship engine noise for the DVD release. Anywhere, I have the set and enjoy it, but there are purists who would love to have the original “night of broadcast” audio and that doesn’t truly seem what was provided. I will end my Trek discussion on this Star Wars thread so as not to run afoul of the moderators. Feel free to PM me to continue the discussion if you feel the urge.

I most certainly will.

Beware LordZerome1080’s urges…

If anything, it is fun to use their official footage and throw it back in their faces that all of their problems are fixable. I won’t say that Empire couldn’t use some attention to get rid of all the SD footage right away, but it is waiting on certain improved elements anyway. Might as well continue the effort as is, as this is a project we know the community gets heavily involved in and we have a lot of say in what happens, we will have this GOUT synced as a guarantee, with all of the wonderful community produced audio and subtitle options that come with that. It is great that film scans have progressed as well as you say they have, but there’s nothing wrong with having options. I love Harmy’s work, and I want to see more of it, and I’ll watch the other stuff, too.

BrightestDayFan2814 said:

Don’t You Remember Star Wars Trilogy Partly Despecialized Edition

https://uloz.to/live/!rjyuD3UU9/star-wars-trilogy-partly-despecialized-edition-trailer-mpg

My explaining which v1.0 releases I understand to have been official Harmy encodes and what file format RotJ AVCHD may or may not have been released in has absolutely nothing to do with a question of the existence of Partly Despecialized Edition…

oojason said:

BrightestDayFan2814 said:

Harmy said:

It seems he’s just a kid and English may not be his first language. I’m sure he meant well but he kept commenting on every single one of the pictures in my ESB comparison albums saying variations of:
“This Shot Needs To Replace With 35mm Print Scan (Team-1) or Poita’s 35mm 4k scan For The Empire Strikes Back Despecialized v2.5”

and he kept at it even after I replied a few times with:

“I know you’re probably trying to be helpful here but all you’re doing is spamming my email (I get a notification every time someone comments) because I know very well which shots need to be replaced using 35mm sources - all of them. There’s no reason to use old standard definition sources in the new versions any more and all shots need to be redone, since the next versions will be 1080p.”

So, I ended up blocking him from commenting.

Ok, Ok, Fine, I Will Stop

Could you explain you posting this as a reply to what Harmy wrote? I don’t get it.

Are you implying anything he said around it made sense to you?

TV’s Frink said:

I Just Want To Know What Is Up With All The Captials

Haha, I knew something more elusive–yet in your face–was off here…

BrightestDayFan2814 said:

Harmy said:

It seems he’s just a kid and English may not be his first language. I’m sure he meant well but he kept commenting on every single one of the pictures in my ESB comparison albums saying variations of:
“This Shot Needs To Replace With 35mm Print Scan (Team-1) or Poita’s 35mm 4k scan For The Empire Strikes Back Despecialized v2.5”

and he kept at it even after I replied a few times with:

“I know you’re probably trying to be helpful here but all you’re doing is spamming my email (I get a notification every time someone comments) because I know very well which shots need to be replaced using 35mm sources - all of them. There’s no reason to use old standard definition sources in the new versions any more and all shots need to be redone, since the next versions will be 1080p.”

So, I ended up blocking him from commenting.

Ok, Ok, Fine, I Will Stop

Dammit… Harmy has a stalker. Welcome to celeb life!

towne32 said:

BrightestDayFan2814 said:

Harmy Despecialized Is Now Restricted On Google+ Account Because I Shouldn’t Have Done That After I Was Trying To Help, I’m So Sorry Harmy, I Should Have Text To You, I Should Never Do That Again

What?

I don’t think we want to know, don’t engage him…

solkap said:

However, according to him, the SW 1.0 DVD5 has no seeders. And he can’t seem to find anything about any 1.0 MKVs at all. So my questions are as follows:

1. Does anyone here still have a copy of the SW 1.0 DVD5, who would also be willing to seed that myspleen torrent?

solkap said:

But if it was never posted in that form by Harmy, I won’t worry about it. I’m not interested “preserving” something that was never really there in the first place.

Of note, while DVD5 versions have been approved of by Harmy, and in some cases I believe given access to higher quality video elements to compress from, they were generally not produced by Harmy himself. So DVD5s and the like you might be able to consider as a stretch goal, with the core goal of getting all Harmy produced files being much more attainable.

Also of note, while all of V1.0 was released as AVCHD, I think Jedi was not in an .iso container, which might be the difference about it you guys are trying to remember.

TV’s Frink said:

Bump. Any thoughts on the above?

I was actually about to finally watch and comment without the bump, haha. When you say choppy, how do you mean?

Is it that you reuse the same footage over where Obi-wan walks over and puts his hand over his mouth, or that the Vader/Robocop bit gets interrupted?

If either of those, I’d say neither is a big problem.

Actually, having the Gauntlet bit completely by itself makes for an overall less jarring, easier to follow transition to the Gauntlet material than the previous non-ice-cream version did.