DragoonClawNZ

Great pictures. :)

Shit, I just noticed George Lucas in the background. lmao That is gold.

poita said:

Is that still available somewhere?

It was on the first 35mm preservation thread but the links appear to be inactive now unfortunately.

The footage came from the Silver Screen Experience trailer negative1 released last year.

I just watched the featurette last night and I loved it. Didn't mind your voice at all too. :) Looking forward to seeing the rest when v2.5 is released.

Mine will be an obvious pick. I started pretty late in 2003 with the VHS of Prequels first, then the 1997 SE and 2004 SE after. But later on after watching Revisited and the OUT, I started to despise any of the SEs for the unnecessary changes.

Anyway, here's mine:

First is sort of a tie between Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars (1977), they're both really great to me in different ways. Both have amazing soundtracks (well the whole original trilogy did), Star Wars was the most fun and uplifting one but Empire had the more engaging story and plot to me (tend to have a thing for darker stories. hehe) and has my favourite lightsaber duel between Luke and Vader.

But if I had to choose, it'd be Empire Strikes Back first and Star Wars second.

And then Return of the Jedi after. As many have said, I didn't really favour the Ewoks as much but it's the Space battle and final confrontation between Luke, Vader and the Emperor that make up for it.

As for the Prequels, it would have to be The Phantom Menace as it felt more like a Star Wars film to me as opposed to the clean and sleek look in the other two, and I still really enjoy the duel with Darth Maul. But of course, Jar Jar and Young Anakin (when he's shouting Yippee, Oops, "accidentally destroying the Trade Federation ship) just can't be tolerated for me.

I can't really decide with AOTC and ROTS as they both have problems and have a fair share of bad acting and overuse of CGI.

Same here, I'm even in a position where I can't watch any of the SEs anymore. I just can't see how anyone could justify those changes in the 2011 version, especially since all it seems is to create more problems (consistency) than solve. Seems like just an excuse to change things for the newer release.

But at least there were a few changes that did things right, like making Luke's saber blue again on the Falcon (well not completely), extending the TIE fighters laser blast and removing the 'Humdinger' glitch.

Blu-ray Disc? Unless there was sarcasm there.

Finished downloading it yesterday. Fantastic job, Frink! :)

I believe that V1 of ESB Despecialised is time-synced to the GOUT (2006 DVD) also, so if you manage to find subtitles for the GOUT version, they should be fine with this.

A very good program to use if you somehow manage to get a licensed version is DoStudio Authoring. Unfortunately I've only been able to use the 30-day trial which seemed to have authored projects not function properly if there's more than 3 video streams but I found it efficient to use.

You can create pop-up menus for both main menu where it just overlays on top of a video like commerical products, and within what titles you choose it for.

There's others like Sony Blu-print which I've never used as well as being way too expensive and Sonic Scenarist BD which I found too complicated.

But if you're wanting something more simple, Sony DVD Architect is a good one to use, though that's payware too.

pittrek said:

Also look at the scene selection menus, they also have much better colours than the movie itself. Also one of the menus (not sure which it was) had Luke training on the Millenium Falcon with a BLUE lightsaber.

That would be the Video Games and Still Galleries menu on the Bonus Material disc:

I just watched the DVDs of Phantom Edit and Attack of the Phantom and I was really impressed by the edits in it, though I did think there was a bit too much Jar Jar at first, but watching it a 2nd time with the commentary helped ease me about it.

So I'd love to see an HD reconstruction of this also, especially if someone is able to reinsert Puppet Yoda (even if it was bad) into the Blu-ray footage, if it's used.

That's top-notch, Frink. Nice work.

I tried it briefly last year with Puggo Grande, but it wasn't going to be a simple 'delay it by xx seconds' job, it seemed like the speed was different in places too.

Though that could have been because of Puggo Grande, I haven't tried it with Despecialised yet.

The best versions for the Original Trilogy so far on this site that I know of are:

Harmy's Despecialised Edition where he's using the 2011 Blu-rays as the source and he's eliminating all the SE changes by using various sources and is using a colour reference from an unfaded Tech IB print. He's currently working on v2.1 of Star Wars but v1.0 of all three are available:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-REMASTERED-is-now-released/topic/12713/

Dark Jedi's Blu-ray trilogy, where he uses an upscaled version of the GOUT/2006 DVD as the source and has extensive colour correction, fixing smearing problems and reinserting missing frames. He's said that this release is more about the audio options as opposed to the video:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Original-Trilogy-Theatrical-Editions-Info-ALL-versions-SEE-FIRST-POST-FOR-INFO-AND-AVAILABILITY/topic/10550/

Puggo's 16mm trilogy, where he's using scans from original 16mm film, though this is more of a grindhouse presentation as opposed to clear HD quality. The names for each are:

Star Wars = Puggo Grande (completed)

Empire Strikes Back = Puggo Strikes Back (completed)

Return of the Jedi = Return of the Pug (still working on)

and negative1's 35mm trilogy, where he's using scans from original 35mm film, though this one still has a lot of work left.

In the end, if you're looking for the best presentation so far, definitely go with Harmy's Despecialised Edition, also as it's easier to get too.

I'm guessing DTS-HD Master Audio Suite?

Well that's what I use and is very convenient, though my only gripe is that I have to disable my internet everytime I encode since it seems to refuse whenever it's on.

Interesting development, -1. I wasn't around for the last blog either but I'll definitely be interested for this new one. Looking forward to see more.

New MGM logo? Didn't know that. But as long as the new remaster isn't somehow a bit faster or slower than the 2006 version, it shouldn't be too hard to sync up. If no-one does this by the time I get it and sync it up myself, I'll reupload it.

Making a DTS-MA track shouldn't be too much of a worry, I've made a few myself using DTS-HD MA Suite Encoder which can also support up to 7.1. My only nitpick about that is it doesn't seem to encode if the internet is on, so I've had to disable my router whenever I encoded on there.

canadianbs101 said:

Just finished watching this; awesome work Puggo and co! Thanks for the hard work.

Did anyone else need to click 'next' on their remote during the reel 1-2 change-over? Reel 2-3 went on its own, but the first change-over needed a little push from me. Bad burn maybe?

Yes I noticed this as well. I doubt it'd be a case of a faulty burn, probably a glitch or something missed when he authored the DVD.

Another nitpick I forgot to mention was that there were no chapters set whereas PG did. Another thing that was possibly missed?

I just finished watching this (as well as revisiting Puggo Grande) and I have to say, it was better than I expected, Adywan's also done a brilliant job with the colour correction on this. I would love to see an HD version of this too with an H264 encode.

What actually took me by surprise was the differences in the 16mm mix (I haven't focused much on the sound mixes) like the two added lines C-3P0 and Han say in the Carbonite scene. But I was confused on the intensity of Chewie's growl when Leia says 'Do you think that after what you did to Han we're going to trust you?' and Vader says 'Ugh' instead of 'Ack' when falling as I thought these were done in the SE mixes.

Nonetheless, can't wait to see how Return of the Pug turns out.

I may be a bit behind but does anyone plan to reupload this to any file hosts? Since I'm unable to download torrents here.

nveleven22 said:

INTERESTED!

 

Please tell me you're still willing to share the Laserdisc PCM audio.

 

It means I can throw away my VHS I've had all these years. Don't even have a VCR anymore.

 

:(

I've reuploaded the Laserdisc audio if you're after it. Just drop off a PM.

Wow, I was amazed by how the opening and ending credits turned out. So looking forward to seeing this when it's released.

I'm not entirely sure on this but there was something on this post: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD-REMASTERED-is-now-officially-released/post/557865/#TopicPost557865

Mverta was talking about the bulbs used when this was being projected and that a bulb from the 70s had a warmer yellow hue to it.