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***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD — Page 29

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Originally posted by: Darth Editous
Removing NTSC is the only thing I'd ask you to change.


All too easy.

The covers have been updated. Same links as before.

As far as a close-up shot of Luke with the saber, IMO that's not necessary. The shot currently shown on the cover is the most needed fix (green saber) in the scene.

You know of the rebellion against the Empire?

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There's a grey bar above the ALL logo now You probably can't see it on your monitor. But otherwise, great!

DE
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Ug. Thanks for the cheap monitor, Dell.

OK. Fixed again. Please tell me the grey line is gone.

You know of the rebellion against the Empire?

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Excellent! Thanks for the covers. They will look very nice on my shelf. And in 2015 when the DE version of ROTJ is finished , the set will be complete!

O.T. or No T., baby!™

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No, no...2015 will mark the release of Version 18 of DE's Episode IV.

Seriously, I think it's pretty amazing that he keeps finding things to tweak. Things that LFL could have done themselves and that you'd think Lucas would be glad to pay for if it made the film look more current.

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I couldn't agree more. I believe the 'stated' original intent of the 97 SE's was to finally present the movies the way he originally intended them. Apparently, complete with inconsistent lightsaber effects, matte boxes, continuity errors, incorrect Death Star schematics, etc.

Thus, the reason I love the DE version. Everything I loved about the original theatrical versions, with all the little effects glitches and errors fixed the correct way, without detracting from the story. I also look forward to an ultimate HD version eventually...right DE?

A quick question for the Darth:

I'm looking at converting a PAL DVD to NTSC DVD. Is there a quick and dirty way to do it? Perhaps a program that takes a DVD rip and does an automatic encode to the opposite standard. This may be wishful thinking, but I can hope. I actually have other NTSC discs that were sourced from PAL materials and incorrectly encoded as to keep the speed-up, but be compliant for NTSC equipment. If I can just get the ~4% slowdown easily, I'd be very happy...

O.T. or No T., baby!™

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I know very little about this sort of thing, but they've apparently been having quite the field day over in the Building Empire thread about doing this type of conversion for that film. I think it was around here that the discussion got underway, but the last few pages have a lot of discussion around different conversion methods. Sounds like it's not too easy, unfortunately. Good luck, though!

Take care,
Sojourn
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Oops, wrong thread! Move along, nothing to see...

My suggestion for standards conversion is to look at AviSynth.

DE
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Yeah, I looked into doing this last year and it was too tedious (rip/avi encode/virtual dub mod/re-encode/dvd author). I just thought that maybe by now someone would have come up with an all in one program that could do the job pretty well with fewer steps.

Thanks anyway.

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I've just finalised the chapter points for the NTSC DVD, so seeding will begin tomorrow. Here's an updated list of the changes (I may have missed out one or two audio adjustments, as I can't find my notes).

Those in bold are new to version 3:

01. The receeding Star Wars logo has been slowed down to its correct speed.
02. The bottom left corner of the opening crawl has been straightened.
03. Laser blasts in the opening shot have been repainted.
04. A jump cut after C3PO and R2D2 cross the corridor has been fixed.
05. Another jump cut as R2 rolls away from Leia has been fixed.
06. Another jump cut as R2 rolls towards the escape pod has been fixed.
07. A white flap of material behind a wall as the Stormtroopers spot Leia has been painted out/.
08. R2's arm now contacts the lower half of the pod door, fixing a continuity error in the next shot.
09. The stars in the view from the escape window no longer recede.
10. Scenes of the droids in the desert have been desaturated.
11. Vader no longer adopts his "pantomime" stance when Leia is brought before him.
12. R2's restraining bolt no longer changes position between shots.
13. C3PO no longer "blinks" as he stands up in the sandcrawler.
14. The SE scenes of Stormtroopers on Tatooine have been removed, although one distant CGI Dewback remains. The preceeding shot of the sandcrawler has been shortened.
15. An extraneous wire on the back of C3PO's head has been painted out.
16. Some of Owen's lines have been re-equalised.
17. The red R2 unit which reappears in the line up after blowing up has been painted green.
18. The shot of Luke going outside to watch the sunset has been brightened.
19. Luke now says "Look" instead of "Lookit" in the speeder.
20. A bad cut in the music as the Sandpeople mount their Bantha has been smoothed.
21. A continuity problem with a disappearing wall hanging in Ben's hut has been fixed.
22. When Luke first activates Anakin's lightsabre, morphs hide the jump cut. The lightsabre now visibly extends.
23. The humanoid loading droid and the flying probe droid it hits have been painted out.
24. A small stone that rolls along the ground behind Ben has been painted out.
25. The scene involving Jawas riding a Ronto has been cut.
26. Some problems with the shadow of the speeder as it pulls up to the cantina have been fixed.
27. A ship in the background of the same shot now passes behind a foreground moisture vaporator.
28. Kabe (the bat-like creature in the cantina) has had his transparent eye painted out.
29. Greedo's subtitles are now burnt into the picture.
30. Greedo frowns at the end of his last line.
31. Han fires first and, since version 3, fires only once.
32. The single frame of Greedo before he explodes now matches his established appearance.
33. Jabba's scene has been cut.
34. Ben's line after the above cut has been properly synced.
35. The Falcon's radar dish has been added to the establishing shot of the docking bay.
36. A glimpse of Ben's back, after he has already left the Falcon's cockpit, has been painted out.
37. The Falcon now manouevres as the Star Destroyer chases it.
38. The stars now drift as in a previous shot just before the Falcon jumps into hyperspace.
39. The Falcon has been replaced as it goes into hyperspace (the original was poorly composited).
40. The poor projection of Alderaan in front of Tarkin has been replaced.
41. Much of Tarkin's dialogue has been re-equalised.
42. A jump cut in the stars' motion has been smoothed as the Death Star fires.
43. All lightsabre shots on the Falcon have been recoloured, and in many cases the blade has been shortened.
44. Two jump cuts, as Luke deactivates and then reactivates the lightsabre, have been fixed.
45. Vader no longer gestures in silence as he talks with Tarkin.
46. A gap in the glow from the Death Star docking bay lights has been filled.
47. Stars appearing through Darth Vader's head have been painted out as he approaches the Falcon.
48. The Stormtrooper's DVD-added line "There's no-one here." has been removed.
49. Jump cuts as the docking bay control room door opens and closes have been fixed (as well as the wobbling door).
50. The shirt of an imperial officer who passes Han, Chewie, and Luke at the elevator no longer changes colour between shots.
51. Two shots of a badly patched up elevator door in the detention block have been fixed.
52. A glimpse of the skin of one Stormtrooper's neck has been painted out.
53. A stray hair that appears across Leia's forehead after a very short cut-away has been removed.
54. The line "I had it all under control until you led us down here!" has been replaced by a better-quality version from the SE LDs.
55. When the shot cuts to Leia, ambient sound has been extended to smooth a bad sound cut.
56. The Stormtrooper no longer bumps his head as he enters the control room.
57. A jump cut as R2 rolls out of the cupboard has been fixed.
58. Two overhead shots of Ben at the tractor beam controls have had the colour of the matte painting adjusted to better match the set.
59. A single frame of Han's gun beginning to fire before a cut-away to Leia has been painted out.
60. The sounds of what sounds like Luke spitting has been removed (after the line "What good will it do us if he gets himself killed? Come on.").
61. A jump cut as the door leading to the unextended bridge has been fixed.
62. Some blue colouring in the corner of the screen as Ben approaches Vader has been removed.
63. A jump cut as Ben activates his lightsabre has been fixed (it was partially fixed for the DVD).
64. Two shots where the power cable for Ben's lightsabre was visible have been fixed.
65. Several lightsabre errors (bad colouring, disappearing blades, blades swapping colours) have been fixed.
66. Two shots where lightsabre burn marks are visible before the wall is struck have been fixed.
67. Ben's face can now be seen fading away as Vader cuts him down.
68. When Han asks "You in kid?", Luke now responds "Yeah."
69. The artifical shake effect used as the TIE fighters buzz the Falcon has been fixed.
70. A gap in the glow from the Falcon's engines (possibly caused by the motion control rig) has been filled in.
71. A brief glimpse of someone's head appearing behind R2 on the Falcon has been painted out.
72. Two shots of miscoloured TIE fighters have been fixed.
73. Several matte boxes around the TIE fighters have been painted out.
74. One shot of a TIE fighter has been reframed to remove a black area with no visible stars.
75. As the Falcon approaches Yavin IV, what may be part of the motion control rig has been painted out.
76. A tool knocked off a cart by a technician has been painted out.
77. The Death Star schematic has been corrected so that the weapon dish appears above the equatorial trench.
78. Biggs's scene has been cut.
79. All shots of the Death Star's attack clock now show a realistic countdown, and one has been colour corrected to match the others. The final shot of the countdown has been redone for version 3 to match the speed of the countdown to the other shots.
80. Shots of R2 in space have been coloured so that he no longer appears black.
81. A stationary white speck that appears in two cockpit shots has been painted out.
82. Stray hair has been painted out in two shots of Tarkin.
83. The fanfare (missing on the DVD) that accompanies the dive down onto the surface of the Death Star has been restored (it was still present in the rear channels).
84. Two trench shots showing blue "space" have been corrected.
85. Two shots showing grey "space" (as first Red Leader, then Wedge, exits the trench) have been corrected.
86. An X-Wing has been added to shot of the explosion as Red Leader crashes on the surface of the Death Star.
87. Some bad blue screening has been mitigated (when Luke says "You can't do any more good back there!").
88. A smudge on the lens visible in one trench shot has been removed.
89. The shot of Luke looking over his shoulder have been reframed, so as not to reveal an unexploded R2.
90. One of two identical shots of Vader's tumbling TIE fighter has been replaced with the other to remove some stray artefacts.
91. The video-noise blue sparkling around the exploded Death Star has been fixed.
92. Vader's eyes, visible underneath his helmet, have been blurred out.
93. A shot showing one rebel raising his hand behind Chewbacca has been painted out.
94. Leia's hands no longer start to move a few frames before the end credits.
95. Denis Lawson's name is now spelt correctly in the end credits.

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I can't wait to see this! Where is it going to be torrented?

Congratulations on this release, DE!

Take care,
Sojourn
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It'll be on Demonoid first, and then hopefully it'll spread as v2 did.

DE
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I love Darth Editous and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
I am fluent in over six million forms of procrastination.
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
I love Darth Editous and I'm not ashamed to admit it.


I agree completely.


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This is flipping fantastic, I cant wait to watch this

"The Empire can't stop us now..now its our turn" -Luke-

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Wow.

Eat your heart out, all who worked on the official 'Special Edition'. You've all been put to shame.

I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently.

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Amen to everything said so far! I'll be seeding as soon as I can and for quite some time! Let us know once it's been up'ed.

O.T. or No T., baby!™

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Originally posted by: Savage
Let us know once it's been up'ed.


Seconded! And once I get back to a better connection, I'll try and seed for a while, as well.

. . . oooh, I can't wait to see this!

Take care,
Sojourn
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Seeding on three versions has started, albeit at a modest 256kbit/s. This will go up to 2048kbit/s between midnight and 6am GMT every night.

Get downloading! I hope those of you who can get it via Bittorrent will be nice enough to burn and send physical copies to those who can't

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I don't know nothing about torrenting no movies, but I will happily participate in a PIF chain.

You know of the rebellion against the Empire?

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here we go again, thanks DE !!
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I have looked back through this thread and cannot find the answer to a question I have so here goes................


V1 was released as a PAL and NTSC DVD. Correct??

V2 was released as an avi file only. Correct??

V3 has just been released as a PAL and NTSC DVD as well as an avi file. Correct??

Basically, is V2 "out there" in DVD format??

Thanks in advance for any clarification. I need the info to update my website.

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