Star Wars OT & 1997 Special Edition - Various Projects Info (Released) — Page 43

Ooops. Actually it appears that I've been too lazy on this to search for (see strokes)

Gonna send this to D_J ASAP. Problem fixed.;)

Edit: pm sent D_J.

hi dark_jedi, I've been following this thread for a while, huge thanks for all the work you're putting into this release.

I know this has been asked before but I couldn't find an answer. Have you thought of making a x264 version for us heretics who prefer a MKV file to a DVD with menus? Sure it's easy to remux, and I'm planning to do so anyway to replace some of the audio options with lossless versions. But it would be better if it came straight from you; x264 should result in transparent quality at a reasonable bitrate, around 4000kbps from my own otherwise unsuccessful attempts at running g-force's scripts. Text subs would be a plus, SSA could be used to recreate the original subs while still allowing customization.

I was reading the thread about the image stabilization, and my head is now spinning!  Dark Jedi, you and your peers here are absolutely incredible and I am on pins and needles waiting for this!  The "bouncing around" has always driven me nuts and I look forward to popping these in.

Just so I'm clear and I didn't miss anything (43 pages!), these are going to be available as DL NTSC DVD as well as AVCHD?  Or, did I miss something?

I don't recall d_j saying anything about AVCHD.  Furthermore, since the GOUT is being used as the source, there wouldn't be any point.

Asaki:

DJ's GOUT V1 and V2 are almost the same - the only difference is the V2 moves the (yellow) subtitles from inside the letterboxing (as it is in the V1) to inside the frame itself (V2).  Also, the slow-motion scene in Empire (magic tree) required different settings for stabilization, which weren't applied to the V1, but were applied to the V2.

However, the V1/V2 used the same settings for everything else - which tended to scrub out too much grain and resulted in a loss of some fine detail.  As a result, it appears to be cleaner, but when you compare it to the GOUT, you can really see how much detail has been lost.  Edge enhancement is also an issue.

The V3 is an attempt to rectify these issues - stabilizing the image and cleaning it up without losing a lot of detail.  All the samples I've seen from the V3 script look substantially better than the V1/V2.

It will also feature recreated theatrical (white!) subtitles, and all the available audio mixes for all three films.

ikjacc:

I doubt that DJ will be making an h.264 MKV version available.  That's what I'll be doing for my own personal collection, but I doubt DJ will be doing it himself.

Also, even if he did, I'd prefer the alien subs to be burned-in the same way they will be on the DVD, as even SSA subs won't look right when viewed on my Seagate FreeAgent Theater+, and I'm really looking forward to having the proper, theatrical-accurate subtitles for the first time.

Kenobius Prime:

In the first few pages, AVCHD was indeed discussed.  But the idea was dropped very quickly, for the same reason Frink said.

ChainsawAsh: Thanks for the reply and yes, that makes sense.  You can't turn a turd into a diamond.

vbangle said:

Dark Jedi,

How goes it?

Not to bad, just been slackin a little bit again, just beat The Force Unleashed II, and then finally beat Splinter Cell Conviction so I could get more uPlay points, and now trying to beat Assassin's Creed II to get ready for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, these damn new games are just SO DAMN addictive! graphics, game play, story, score, etc. just friggin fantastic.

1 more thing, I will be sending you a PM later this afternoon.

OH and I forgot, I just beat God of War: Ghost of Sparta too! LOVE this series.

vbangle said:

No PM... stop pawning n00bs long enough to PM me. :)

Sent.

dark_jedi, you have PM!

Kenobius Prime said:

dark_jedi, you have PM!

 

responded.

ChainsawAsh said:

I doubt that DJ will be making an h.264 MKV version available.  That's what I'll be doing for my own personal collection, but I doubt DJ will be doing it himself.

I really don't understand why this wont be released in MKV. It would take almost no effort to make the encode from the source material.

That would be far superior to recoding from the down sampled audio and video of the DVD9. 

stplayahtn said:

ChainsawAsh said:

I doubt that DJ will be making an h.264 MKV version available.  That's what I'll be doing for my own personal collection, but I doubt DJ will be doing it himself.

I really don't understand why this wont be released in MKV. It would take almost no effort to make the encode from the source material.

 

That would be far superior to recoding from the down sampled audio and video of the DVD9.

dark_jedi has covered this before, but I am going to chip in and say this:

If .mkv will "take almost no effort" to do like you say, then it shouldn't be a problem doing it yourself from the finished material, once dark_jedi has finished.

Right now, he is trying to just get it 'done' and he has other worries like the recent GOUT problem he discovered in the other thread.

A suspected picture problem in certain frames. Have a look in the GOUT thread for yourself:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/GOUT-image-stabilization/topic/9038/page/40/

I am still checking the other 2, but for now it looks like it might only be in Jedi, I will keep you guys posted, but now this put a stop to the audio work so I can finish the video.