BOBA FETT'S WIFE said:
stevodevo said:
thx to everyone for the help! these HD versions are amazing! I put ESB HD in my Sony blu-ray and the 2004 DVD into my Oppo dvd to compare... incredible! Adywan is a legend! :)
Yes i agree also Adywan is a legend !. Think of how legendary he will become when he releases Jedi without Hayden at the end !!!
Ady i know youre a busy guy but im still counting down the days until some day in 2010 when Jedi is released .
Amen to that.
DIFTOW said:
vbangle said:
DIFTOW said:
The vocals in the LD 5.1 mix are not isolated completely to the center channel, they still have very substantial volume in the left and right channels, not just a mere echo. Is that how they did surround mixing back then, cause any movie I watch in surround sound today, there is either no vocals in the left and right, or at 'certain' moments in a movie, there are if they are extremely loud, or there is a huge echo.
I'm just curious about that. IDK honestly what sounds better, don't have the best surround sound system to test.
On another note, about ROTJ. This seems like the movie that has had the worst alterations done to it in the SE. The replacement Max Reebo scene looks like Pixar animation; if Lucas added this to remove the 'fakeness of puppets'.. he only made it look less believable with poorly animated creature movements (they are exaggerated for cartoon style, not realistic animation movements for film), and poorly rendered effects like the saliva in the creatures mouth... looks like the water from the animated movie Antz.
And the lips on the singer. Another example of this unrealistic animation usually associated with cartoony pixar.. So over done, did the lips need to stretch 10 miles into the camera so far that its a friggin macro shot. I half expected it to zoom in to the cellular level or for the other obnoxious creature.. for the camera to pan down his throat all the way into his stomach. Ugh, this is just sad.
The music sounds awful. If I had to choose from a jazz/funk music made in 1983 by one of the best film composers ever, and some ugly 90s style R&B... I'm going with the the first.
We have to replace this scene. I don't care if the rest of the movie is 1080, and this scene is only 320 pixels in height. I'd rather it abruptly switch to lower resolution or standard definition.. than watch that new abomination in HD. The scene has to go.
I can tolerate the stupid beak in the pit of carkoon, even though I think that was a pointless addition..
The other big issue is pretty simple to fix. The ending. Just remove the new 'scenes'.. The rest of the scenes are the same as the original, they just are re-ordered slightly.
Just readd the original mix from the LD, and remove Hayden's ghost. I feel sorry for the original Anakin Skywalker.. his role just getting tossed aside at the end to make room for this horrible actor.
EDIT: By the way, I am not the most amazing with animation yet when it comes to CGI, but I could probably handle space ship scenes no problem.
I have good experience with using 3D Studio Max.
Do you know what thread you're in? Obviously not.
Get over it
Get over what?
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DIFTOW said:
The vocals in the LD 5.1 mix are not isolated completely to the center channel, they still have very substantial volume in the left and right channels, not just a mere echo. Is that how they did surround mixing back then, cause any movie I watch in surround sound today, there is either no vocals in the left and right, or at 'certain' moments in a movie, there are if they are extremely loud, or there is a huge echo.
Only EP4 suffers with some bleed through but i wouldn't say its substantial. If you're getting the vocals loud in the left & right channels then i would check your setup. None of the other episodes laserdisc 5.1 audio has any dialogue in any channels apart from the centre, unless in places where its meant to be.
vbangle said:
DIFTOW said:
Get over it
Get over what?
Get over my handsomeness. I'm sure you're fine looking and all, but the sooner you realize you'll never measure up to me, the better off you'll be.
Ric Olie said:
Get over my handsomeness. I'm sure you're fine looking and all, but the sooner you realize you'll never measure up to me, the better off you'll be.
No!? Are you really the famous Nic Olié?
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ABC said:
No!? Are you really the famous Nic Olié?
Nic Olie is my brother. He's a pretty well-known Naboo politician, so yeah, I guess you could say he's famous. But the most famous Olie brother is intergalactic recording superstar Rolie Olie. And yes, his band name ("Observatory") was stolen from my garage band.
Ha !... Me and my spelling mistakes ! :+
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... And a clumsy double post... 'gonna hide somewhere now.
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I got ESB a couple months ago and decided to download ANH and TPM today. My mother-in-law is getting me a Blu Ray player for Christmas and I already got a dual layer burner from her computer last week. I'm excited to have color corrected movies in 1080p (eventually)!
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doubleofive said:
I got ESB a couple months ago and decided to download ANH and TPM today. My mother-in-law is getting me a Blu Ray player for Christmas and I already got a dual layer burner from her computer last week. I'm excited to have color corrected movies in 1080p (eventually)!
I wish I had a mother-in-law that would buy me presents like blu-ray players... no such luck!
I hope Ep.VI will come soon. I can wait for the other two prequel trilogy episodes for as long as is needed, but it will be something special when I can watch the whole original trilogy in HD. Adywan still seems to be predicting next year for EP.VI though.
If anybody's willing to help out with epIV or V, please pm. I finally got a BD player :)
pm sent...
I'm unsure if this has been covered before, but will you be making a version available without the hardcoded subtitles? I don't know the first thing about colour correction, and a HD version of AOTC already colour corrected but without the hardcoded subtitles would be a godsend for me and anyone else working on their own edits where they may want to change the meaning of the alien dialogue.
I'd be forever in your debt if you uploaded such a video for other people to use as a base in their own edits (obviously giving you credit where it's due)
brash_stryker said:
I'm unsure if this has been covered before, but will you be making a version available without the hardcoded subtitles? I don't know the first thing about colour correction, and a HD version of AOTC already colour corrected but without the hardcoded subtitles would be a godsend for me and anyone else working on their own edits where they may want to change the meaning of the alien dialogue.
I'd be forever in your debt if you uploaded such a video for other people to use as a base in their own edits (obviously giving you credit where it's due)
It's highly doubtful as there doesn't seem to be any 1080p copies without hardcoded subtitles
Ah...that makes sense seeing as they're ripped from tv. D'oh!
any news on Jedi? To bad tpm is available before jedi
budwhite said:
any news on Jedi? To bad tpm is available before jedi
agreed... i read somewhere that ady had put together an HD ROTJ from the german broadcast but i've yet to find it anywhere. :) so far i have a crappy mkv version that is too large to fit on a DVD9 and having a heck of time preserving the HD quality while downscaling it to 8.5 gb (it was just barely over... grrr).
can't wait to dump that smirking retard in the last scene... man that just ruins it for me.
I believe he's going to do the Jedi AVCHD once he's finished with Empire: Revisited, before starting on Jedi: Revisited.
stevodevo said:
i read somewhere that ady had put together an HD ROTJ from the german broadcast but i've yet to find it anywhere. :) so far i have a crappy mkv version that is too large to fit on a DVD9 and having a heck of time preserving the HD quality while downscaling it to 8.5 gb (it was just barely over... grrr).
May I ask for a PM about where you found the other mkv? Incidentally, why shrink it? Buy a cheap HD media player such as the WD HD media player and play it on your T.V. without re-encoding. I never burn an mkv to disc, unless a friend wants a copy.
It would be a shame if Adywan's AVCHD really has to wait until after ESB:R. I am itching to see it in HD and might have to give up and find another version without color correction, if there really will be that long a wait. :-( If Adywan really did throw together a copy of the broadcast, it's (good) news to me.
Does anyone know if the colors are really bad on ROTJ? I thought they were worse on ANH and ESB.
I'll look into the HD media player - I guess I was just trying to use the technology I already have... pm sent btw.
Been trying to find these all week (just found this as I was looking to find a blu-ray of star wars). I own all these movies and 4,5,6 about 4 times each.
I have a demonoid account but, comcrap killed my giganews account so no NG access. Any torrents are not being seeded or only seeed by 1 or 2 people so 1 movie will take over a week to get. Only really interested in MKV/AVI
Any clue ?
Adywan, these look awsome from what I can see and I must have them !!!!
Have patience. Use the torrents.
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Hey all,
I've just acquired the "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back" AVCHDs; both very impressive releases. I'm especially glad to have "The Empire Strikes Back" since it is based on the 1997 SE which somehow was aired on German TV! Previously I was using the 'Five-Star Edition' I bought years ago off eBay whenever I had the hankerin' to watch this version.
As I'm still travelling, and stuck using an ultraportable laptop, I had a few jiggers getting them to work, but it's doable:
1) If you don't have a DVD+R DL on you, or are too cheap to buy one, you could try mounting the disc with something like DAEMON Tools Lite. If this doesn't work for you initially, it's probably because you don't have the file system drivers for UDF2.5, which a google search for "toshiba udf 2.5 winxp" or something like that should find pretty quickly for ya.
2) If you're stuck using a 2007 vintage ultraportable (with a CoreDuo or Core2Duo ULV) or an Atom-powered netbook, then you want to try to find the CoreAVC codec through the usual conduits for such things, and then set it up as an external filter with Media Player Classic Homecinema, while disabling internal filters for AVC formats.
Can't wait to view these properly when I get home!
cheers
-e
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bilditup1 said:
I'm especially glad to have "The Empire Strikes Back" since it is based on the 1997 SE which somehow was aired on German TV!
Adywan made changes to this to make it virtually identical to the 1997 SE, notably the restoration of Clive Revill as the emperor. It was not "somehow aired on German TV". The German TV broadcast was the 2004 SE.
Ah. Whoops, I guess I took the title of the torrent too literally then...that makes a lot more sense. Restoring of the original Emperor was clean enough that I didn't notice any difference in picture quality vis-a-vis the rest of the movie! I can retire the old Five-Star ESB without shame now.
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