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Post #391905

Author
Funcha
Parent topic
A new edit of Empire Strikes Back (Released)
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Date created
10-Jan-2010, 10:35 PM
Version 1.0 is done. This is essentially Adywan's 13 gig version with some alterations/replacement of '97 Emperor scene with 2004 scene (via Wookiegroomer Blu-Ray). This is my personal definitive version, with the exception of Adywan's revisited, which I think will take its place later this year. This is the official list of changes: 1) Shot of wampa with arm cut off removed. 2) Restored original "You're lucky you don't taste good." line. 3) New Emperor scene 4) New Slave 1 audio from 2004 version replaces original sound effects. 5) Old Boba Fett voice, of course. 6) No screaming Luke when he falls. 7) "Bring my shuttle" line and music cues restored. 8) ROTJ Vader arrival outtake removed. It's what I would consider about 99% what I set out to accomplish. The splicing in of Wookie's footage could use a bit of improvement as there's a split second jump cut that is noticeable if you're looking for it. Couldn't get it absolutely seamless. I have all the individual segments to be rejoined if anyone wants to take a stab at a completely seamless 2.0 version. Tools Used: Eac3to and Tsmuxer, mainly because I don't know how to use other software. I attempted to splice together the footage with Nero Vision but that involved re-encoding and all I could seem to get was a 1080i file. This took about 10 times as long as it should have, since I barely know what I'm doing. I originally tried to transform the new m2ts file into a Blu-Ray but that resulted in a movie with a huge black bar at the bottom and the theatrical 2.35:1 image pushed to the top. In the end I settled on a M2TS file containing the 640 Adywan audio with alterations and Wookiegroomer's commentary tracks. I had even edited the two-channel CD soundtrack for inclusion, but that didn't seem to get past tsmuxer for whatever reason. The final disk I created has the lightning sphere THX trailer for the first M2TS followed by the feature. The PS3 recognizes it as a data disk and if can play both files back together with no problems. Anyone interested in getting a copy of this? Wideload, I owe you one, so send me a PM if you'd like to check this out.