I'm about to start burning discs. RotJ will be in the mail early next week (contact your usual sources). I still hope to see these torrented at some point.
I finally found the balance of sharpening that I was pleased with. I attempted to achieve as close a level of sharpness to the first 2 films without making a mess.
I will be the first to admit that there ARE artifacts, but it was a good trade off. ANH and ESB both had some haloing so if you didn't notice it there, you probably won't here. On the whole it's a subtle difference yet absolutely worth the 25 1/2 hours of encoding (frameserved with VirtualDub. Be smart kids, learn to use AviSynth).
For those keeping track: Unsharp Mask, Lowered white point 4% (to brighten whites), Yellow/Green increased 10%, and Red/Blue/Cyan LOWERED 15%.
The cropping change that takes place in the last 1/4 was repaired by cropping the left/right margins and enlarging the frame. This keeps the aspect ratio consistent throughout the film.
Now what you really want, the screenies (pictures are postfilter pre-recoding):
Top = moth3r's screen, Bottom = RtW
And if you act now, clippie:
http://rapidshare.de/files/13601412/rotjrtw.mpg.html
(If you haven't seen my version of ANH and ESB, please don't judge them on this clip, they are much better.
)Btw you can also grab the SFV checksum file here (but it will be on the disc too): RotJ's SFV.
For those unfamiliar with SFV it is a way of verifying the integrity of files. I used Easy SFV Creator, but there is other software that can read it.
I'm still looking for a volunteer to do cover art for this set.