D+77 has been updated to v2.3 to fix a few things I didn’t like in the previous version.
v2.3 changes
I stabilized the end of the tiltdown a bit just before the flyover. It was quite jittery. I didn’t completely stabilize it, I just reduced the jitteriness of it. There is still some jitter (gate-weave) left.
The restored shot of Artoo in the canyon has the colour tweaked. I felt it was too red and too dark compared to the shots right afterward. It’s a closer match now.
The shot of the entrance to the Cantina is digitally recomposited now to greatly improve the quality. It’s a little less theatrically accurate now without the purple patch in the middle but the overall quality is much higher.
The “doors locked” shot has been tweaked to fix what looked like light leakage in the scan.
The shot of the Falcon blasting out of Moss Eisley has been redone to improve the quality. It had some textural stability issues before.
The shot of the Falcon backing out of the Death Star has been redone.
The shot of the Rebel guy scanning the horizon on Yavin has been redone.
The PG end notification is redone to eliminate the warping it had.
I tweaked the colour of another shot a bit to better blend.
Lastly, this version is NOT GOUT synced. Version 2.3 presents the full theatrical sync
of the film. It restores the one frame missing from the NTSC GOUT DVD which was present
in the PAL GOUT DVD and of course the UHD BR.
-For the stereo track I used hairy_hen’s 70mm 2.0 v3 flac audio file. - edited in Resolve. Rendered out to pcm. Transcoded to ac3 using ffmpeg.
-For the mono track I used the DTS-MA audio track from 4K77 v1.4. - converted to wav using eac3to. Edited it in Resolve to sync to the stereo track. Rendered out to pcm. Transcoded to ac3 using ffmpeg.
-For the 5.1 track I used hairy_hen’s 70mm 5.1 v3 DTS-MA audio file. - converted to flac using eac3to. Edited and synced in audacity using the stereo track as a reference. Exported to flac. Transcoded to ac3 using ffmpeg.
I was hoping our audio experts would have theatrically synced these by now but it hasn’t
happened yet so I did it on my own the best I knew how with the tools I had.
DTS-MA versions of these tracks are in a separate folder for those who want lossless audio.
AC3 files were muxed into the file for maximum compatibility.
This is how I always wanted to present D+77, in it’s full theatrical sync.
The 2160p is rendering now. It’ll be ready in a few days. 1080p is now in the usual place.
I’m content with this version and don’t plan any updates for a while.
enjoy!