RETURN OF THE JEDI 1983 THEATRICAL VERSION RECONSTRUCTION DVD by Harmy (MKV, NTSC DVD5 AND PAL DVD9 AVAILABLE) — Page 14

Sorry for the delay on the PAL DVD9 guys; I had exams until now, so in the little free time I had, I preferred to work on something (1,2) I'd actually enjoy doing. But I'm working on the DVD now and I hope to have it finished soon.

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Thanks :-)

Just to clarify, there will be no changes in the DVD9 version other then less compression artefacts due to the higher bitrate and encoding from the source files.

Actually, if you can play the MKV, you won't gain anything by getting the DVD9, because you get the same  audio options and thanks to the x264 codec the same or better video quality than an mpeg2 DVD9 and the MKV has full PAL resolution, while keeping the correct speed, so it is without a doubt the best way to watch this reconstruction.

Thanks to Chewtobacca's help, I was able to add Hairy Hen's new purist 5.1 mix to Harmy's awesome reconstruction. Yay!

Because of the size of HH's mix, the final files were just slightly larger than a DVD-5. I didn't want to bother with a DVD-9 and the layer break, so I had to run it through DVD shrink to get it to fit.

The final result is awesome!

Instructions sent via PM. Assuming you know how to use a computer and burn DVDs, it's not hard.

Harmy said:

I must say I am quite disappointed with the quality, it seem that GKAR Jedi is even more plagued with DVNR smearing than the GOUT...

 Really?

I was wondering why everyone was trying to color correct the completely butchered 2004 footage instead of just using the G'KAR. Though I haven't seen it for myself...are the other two movies bad too? I was under the impression that Adywan's EpV reconstruction was G'KAR sourced, and I didn't notice any smearing.

Also, if anyone were to PM me a link to the DVD5 of this... ¬_¬

Adywan's reconstruction uses colour corrected 2004 version. He only used the 97SE footage to reinstate the original emperor and even for that he used rotoscoping. But the overall quality of the 97SE broadcasts is quite low compared to the 2004 version (not talking colours here but resolution and artefacts) as they were likely captured through an analog receiver.

Also PM sent.

Are you referring to Harmy's Despecialized versions?

Wrong thread mate, you're clearly talking about the PDE Trilogy. But yeah, I'm sorry, I noticed that the last time I watched the PDE and I had to add delay in MPC. It happened now with the audio "fixed" version :-( I'm not sure what went wrong and it pisses me off to no end :-(

It's interesting too, because this ROTJ reconstruction should be the same frame count as the PDE ROTJ and the reconstruction seems to sync fine with the same mixes.

But to be honest, I can't really be bothered to do anything about it any more because I'll be doing a new version soon and I just downloaded higher quality encodes of the 2004SE in HD and in comparison, ROTJ PDE v1 is pretty badly plagued by compression artefacts (also because the source I used already was) and quite a lot of detail is gone due to that, so it would be polishing a turd really.

Just to make sure that nobody gets confused by this being in the wrong thread, the sync on the ROTJ Theatrical Reconstruction is fine as far as I can tell, it is the PDE where it's a bit off.

EDIT: OK, that's really weird, I just checked the ROTJ PDE again and it seems to sync just fine. Mysterious!!! But I'm quite happy about it :-)

Oh, forgot to ask, is this PAL then? Or has it been converted to NTSC?