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STAR WARS V8 - A Final Attempt (Released) — Page 7

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I am interested in this as well. I'm curious to see how these look from the X-9.

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hint for interested parties


@TServo2049
EasyNews will get it soon-ish

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-Moth3r

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I have downloaded about 30% of the torrent yet and I'm watching it via VLC.

I must tell you something - this is THE Star Wars I remember. And this is also the BEST Star Wars preservation DVD I have seen. Everything looks so nice, much better than the official "GOUT" DVD, even when it has a lot of grain and noise.

 

I LOVE the brightness. All the "remastered" SW releases are very dark, both the '93 LD and the SE, but I always remember these movies being bright and full of colours . Speaking about the colors - they COULD need much more saturation, but the main important things is - Luke's saber is BLUE.

Well, ALMOST BLUE, but not "white with some thin blue border", and definitely not green. Is this how the LD looks or was this color-corrected ?

 

Thanks Arnie for making this, I can't wait to be able to watch the whole disc

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I'm glad you're finally able to get a hold of this DVD pittrek, I agree with you, it's one of the best SW-preservations out there, that's why it hurts so much when his continuation with the X-9 seems to have died.

The brightness of this transfer you're talking about, could it not be your nostalgia that is kicking in, watching SW on video in the eighties? IMO it is too bright and the colors is fu**ed up, but its strong parts are the lack of DVNR, clipped white levels and it also have more vertical detail and less gate weave than the GOUT. It's quite a revelation coming back to if you've gotten used to watch the GOUT transfers.

We want you to be aware that we have no plans—now or in the future—to restore the earlier versions. 

Sincerely, Lynne Hale publicity@lucasfilm.com

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msycamore said:

...that's why it hurts so much when his continuation with the X-9 seems to have died.

 That and he never got anything at all released for the other two movies =(

I'm sure there will be other projects in the future (not to mention the reconstructions and 16/32mm preservations). It just gets hard with all the waiting, sometimes.

I'm hoping the BDs will fix the colors and aid reconstructions even further, but......I'm not holding my breath...

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Did anyone design a cover for this?

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Is there any way someone could PM me about this? I am unable to download it from it's current site.

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I'm interested too, could someone please PM me about this?

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I'm sorry I was never able to finish a transfer. It's just that I began enthusiastically but in the end simply didn't have the time. Real life was catching up with me.

I don't even have the V8 version anymore myself. I'm kind of curious about the rainbowing in this version.

I ofcourse still have the raw X9 captures of the JSC. I'm happy to somehow give them to someone who can finish the project. However, the JSC isn't the holy grail. It has in my view 2 big problems. One is the rainbowing which I think isn't a capture artifact but was on the source itself. And second the ghosting effect, which might be a capture artifact, although I adjusted the sharpness of the capture card to minimize it.

Fez: I am so excited about Star Whores.
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Arnie.d said:

However, the JSC isn't the holy grail.

DAMN, I could not agree with you more, but some here really think it is the SHIT, the end all be all.

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Arnie.d said:

I ofcourse still have the raw X9 captures of the JSC. I'm happy to somehow give them to someone who can finish the project.

Are those files 20+ GB's each, uncropped and non deinterlaced? is this the RAW you are saying? because I am SURE you are well aware of the whole manual process of IVTC'ing this video and all the shit frames thrown in throughout, this to me is the hardest about this set, each film has some of these shit frames that need to be replaced.

Now you do realize that there are going to be a few here that are going to say, "I want", "I want", I could probably already guess who they will be, but read what Arnie.d said, "who can FINISH the project".

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dark_jedi said:

Arnie.d said:

I ofcourse still have the raw X9 captures of the JSC. I'm happy to somehow give them to someone who can finish the project.

Are those files 20+ GB's each, uncropped and non deinterlaced? is this the RAW you are saying? because I am SURE you are well aware of the whole manual process of IVTC'ing this video and all the shit frames thrown in throughout, this to me is the hardest about this set, each film has some of these shit frames that need to be replaced.

Now you do realize that there are going to be a few here that are going to say, "I want", "I want", I could probably already guess who they will be, but read what Arnie.d said, "who can FINISH the project".

 It's about 50 GB for each movie, uncropped, interlaced. I used huffyuv for lossless compression. Yes, manual IVTC is a lot of work (I only did this for Star Wars though). The constant changing of the interlace pattern throughout the movie is really shitty. When I was working on this I IVTCed the movie 5 times in virtualdub (since there are 5 possible settings) and I then reconstructed the movie by copying and pasting the correctly IVTCed parts.

If I will ever capture an LD again it will be the French Coffret Trilogie because it's PAL so no need for IVTC :)

For years now, I'm only looking at frames of Star Wars. It would be so nice to just watch the movie instead of searching for artifacts or checking brightness, colors, sharpness, haloing, ringing, grain, noise, rainbowing, audio sync, etc. Making a transfer really spoils the movie sometimes. I can barely watch any movie anymore without checking the quality.

Fez: I am so excited about Star Whores.
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And even after all that manual IVTC'ing you still have some shit frames, I really hated this LD Set personally(at least from a working with it point of view) but I am glad I finally got my V2 set done, it was one of the projects from my past that bothered me, so how exactly were you going to share your caps with a potential project finisher?

I am actually kind of shocked some are not here already lining up saying they want it LOL, I think some here just want to want.

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dark_jedi said:

And even after all that manual IVTC'ing you still have some shit frames, I really hated this LD Set personally(at least from a working with it point of view) but I am glad I finally got my V2 set done, it was one of the projects from my past that bothered me, so how exactly were you going to share your caps with a potential project finisher?

I guess HDD.

Fez: I am so excited about Star Whores.
Hyde: Fezzy, man, it's Star Wars.
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dark_jedi said:

Arnie.d said:

However, the JSC isn't the holy grail.

DAMN, I could not agree with you more, but some here really think it is the SHIT, the end all be all.

 It's not the Holy Grail, but unfortunately, as the years go by, it seems more and more likely that this is as good as it's ever going to get.

I'd love to take up the project myself, but I don't really know much about this sort of thing.

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Asaki said:

dark_jedi said:

Arnie.d said:

However, the JSC isn't the holy grail.

DAMN, I could not agree with you more, but some here really think it is the SHIT, the end all be all.

 It's not the Holy Grail, but unfortunately, as the years go by, it seems more and more likely that this is as good as it's ever going to get.

I'd love to take up the project myself, but I don't really know much about this sort of thing.

You think this is as GOOD as it is gonna get? LMAO! obviously you have not worked with it before.

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It may not be as easy to work with as the GOUT, but as far as sitting down and just watching the theatrical movies without DVNR, it's obviously not going to look any better until we have 32mm preservations (and even there, it's looking iffy).

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Asaki said:

It may not be as easy to work with as the GOUT, but as far as sitting down and just watching the theatrical movies without DVNR, it's obviously not going to look any better until we have 32mm preservations (and even there, it's looking iffy).

 I guess you mean 35mm.

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I'm sorry I was never able to finish a transfer. It's just that I began enthusiastically but in the end simply didn't have the time. Real life was catching up with me.

Nice to hear from you, and I'm also sorry to hear that you were never able to finish them, but it's also understandable, real life is more important, you did however put out one damn fine DVD in "V8" when you were at it. :)

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I ofcourse still have the raw X9 captures of the JSC. I'm happy to somehow give them to someone who can finish the project. However, the JSC isn't the holy grail. It has in my view 2 big problems. One is the rainbowing which I think isn't a capture artifact but was on the source itself. And second the ghosting effect, which might be a capture artifact, although I adjusted the sharpness of the capture card to minimize it.

I agree, the rainbowing and ghosting are pretty horrible on these, it looks like Empire have less ghosting than SW though, or am I wrong?

And the JSC are definitely not the holy grail, and I don't think anyone has made them out to be that either, that's the Technicolor prints IMO.

We want you to be aware that we have no plans—now or in the future—to restore the earlier versions. 

Sincerely, Lynne Hale publicity@lucasfilm.com

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msycamore said:

I guess you mean 35mm.

 Yeah. I've been doing too much programming lately, so I've got powers-of-two on the brain.

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I got this a a few years ago (I think). There are many parts to it that I prefer over the GOUT, namely less smear and a few bits look more detailed. The only thing it truly lacks is colour, but it's an excellent version to watch still.

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Anybody else notice this on the newsgroup?

SW said:

- Aspect Ratio Corrected


http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/152/ratioy.png

Wondering if "SW" is somebody we know . . . ?

However, in practice you must take into account the “fuckwit factor”. Just talk to Darth Mallwalker…
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I've noticed that this had an slightly incorrect aspect ratio, so someone have actually posted a corrected one? that is nice.

We want you to be aware that we have no plans—now or in the future—to restore the earlier versions. 

Sincerely, Lynne Hale publicity@lucasfilm.com