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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released) — Page 27

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I can has PM?

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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EyeShotFirst said:

I can has PM?

Little Ani said:

Oops!

See new thread title.

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TV's Frink said:

EyeShotFirst said:

I can has PM?

Little Ani said:

Oops!

See new thread title.

My bad. Harmy's such an awesome fellow that I has PMs anyways!!

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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Harmy said:

You should lower your expectations or you may be disappointed ;-)

My high expectations brought on by your past achievements were exceeded. 

I feel like all the 'roadblocks' to enjoying watching the film have been removed. There's no SE garbage, and no significantly distracting artifacts of their removal.

It's just awesome to both, say, make out the individual whiskers on Kenobi's beard while also avoiding any obvious CGI. It's the almost fully original version restored in crystal picture.

My stance on revising fan edits.

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My bad. Harmy's such an awesome fellow that I has PMs anyways!!
So True!! ROFL

Anyhoo I will review this when I get the chance! I've downloaded about 1/3rd... :) I'll get the rest later when I have time (apparantly I have to do some FKING overtime at work...) Let me say that I consider my own script a success and I expect better from this release since it was done with more than just avisynth and the official DVD's :)

Harmy- you don't need to thank me bro.. I was too lazy to get started on ESB, and besides I had PM within seconds!!!! (I exagurate, it was more like 2-3 mins which is still pretty freaking impressive).

To all: I is using Flashget to get all parts at same time... unfortunatly speed is limited more than advertised; and when you pause u need to go get new links and make "alternate DL"... buit the good news is u can dl all 4 parts at once and resume as long as u get new links when u resume :)

PS: I still prefer torrents: GET OFF MAI LAWN (re: mother) ROFL

PPS: I may.... possibalieee beee .08 right about now ;)

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I'm still downloading. Anticipation is killing me, and I know I won't be disappointed, because Harmy's work blew my mind on YouTube.

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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I watched this last night with my 2 sons. What a great experience.

I think I finally have an original version of Star Wars that I can watch on my 50" TV, without being distracted by jaggies, dinosaurs, or the color blue. Thank you Harmy.

Most of the de-specializations were perfect (like the detention block, sandtroopers, cantina). But in some places the GOUT upscale is the best source to work with (mostly the dogfight scenes at the end of the movie). Thanks to Harmy and those who contributed, I don't think this movie could get any better without a new source of the theatrical version. And, of course, Hariy Hen's great 5.1 mix is a treat.

I'm also humbled to be included after the credits, along with greats like Adywan and Dark Jedi. I am not worthy :) . But my oldest son did get a big kick out of seeing my name on TV!

Mr. Lucas, the bar has been raised.

You know of the rebellion against the Empire?

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That is your best WP reviewer prize ;-)

And sending me the 97SE discs is also a highly appreciated help :-)

I guess h_h would deserve that prize for WP review as well but he was a bit late to the party (and he gets his credit anyway for both his WP check contribution and the wonderful 5.1 mix) :-)

And thanks for the positive feedback :-)

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LOL, so much for saying see first post huh Harmy? looks like you are still going to have page after page asking for PM's.

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 btw will there eventually be a NTSC dvd5 release for this?

 

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stretch009 said:

 btw will there eventually be a NTSC dvd5 release for this?

 

Oh, sorry, must have overlooked it before. Well, only if someone does it. I haven't seen Chewtobacca around for a while.

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I just remembered another option.  You could download the AVCHD and take the m2ts file from it and convert it to SD DVD with the AWESOME free program AVStoDVD.  I recommend using the HCenc encoder included.

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Harmy said:Oh, sorry, must have overlooked it before. Well, only if someone does it. I haven't seen Chewtobacca around for a while.

*waves*

I'll make an NTSC DVD of this.  PM sent.

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I tried getting it via the instructions in the first post, but after several hours, my computer quit at around 200 mb...   The links work, but is there a way to use jdownloader or something to get this?  It'd be really helpful to be able to pause & restart where I left off as needed...

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Wow, i feel dumb....  Shows how computer-illiterate I am.  I've only used Jdownloader with rapidshare, & mostly with whatever those files are people make that automatically add all the links to the queue.....  Thanks!

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Outstanding job Harmy, the Death Star Battle in particular looks great. Probably the only part that breaks the ilusion of seeing the original is the saber duel, but there's nothing you could have done there.

Thanks a lot for this wonderful release.

 

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hi harmy,

i really feel bad about doing this because i don't want to seem ungreatful but i've found a problem.

it looks like (at least to me on my computer) that the colors have been brightened alot in some shots.  with the result being almost gray looking blacks.  because of this it looks like faint greys popping up where they weren't before.

the worst example i've found so far is when han says


"stay sharp there's two more comin in and they're gonna try and cut us off"


when i look at the stars in this shot there appear to be little grey halos around them.  could someone else confirm this so i know it's not just my crappy laptop that's doing this.  i looked at adywans A NEW HOPE 1080p color corrected and it doesn't seem to do it there.

 again i don't want to seem like a nit picky ass hole. 

 

Despecialized

 

 

 

adywan

"I will laugh my ass off a hundred years from now when the only version of STARWARS people remember are harmys despecialized editions.  They will project it on a 20' by 40' screen with perfect quality."

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Oh, yeah, I know about that but it's this bad only in a few shots. In theory, it should be that bright and you should be seeing fields of smaller stars where there are the grey areas but they're eaten up by compression because the compression algorithm knows that it's so dark that those details wouldn't be visible anyway, so when you brighten the picture, these compression artefacts are brought up along with some additional detail. This is an unfortunate side-effect of doing colour correction on a compressed source but until the blu-rays come out, this is about the best source there is.

I'm not denying that it's a mistake on my part, because I could have simply not brightened it so much but I didn't notice it until after the final encode and didn't think it a big enough issue to go through the whole encoding ordeal again, because like I said, it's just a few shots.

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I've been away on a much-needed vacation, so I haven't had a chance to check out the final version yet.  Sorry I wasn't able to get you those Greedo subtitles in a timely manner; but it looks like you did a good job with them.  I'm glad my notes on the colour correction were helpful.

I can only play any kind of HD files on my laptop at this point, so I'll have to wait for the dvd before I can watch it completely, but I'll look for the high-def version anyway since it would a shame not to have it around for whenever I do manage to upgrade.  Based on what I saw from the workprint, I am sure it is going to be fantastic in any resolution, and I'm really looking forward to it.

Thanks for the props on the 70mm mix, as well--I'm always glad to hear that it's being enjoyed.  ;)

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Well, I wish I could see it, but my internet is wonky. So the download is taking forever.

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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When I tried (& failed) downloading the links directly from the site, it was taking forever & eventually froze up.  But now that I've put the links in Jdownloader it's going insanely fast!  It's downloading all 4 pieces at the same time & going over 200KB/s per file!  I've gotten over 7 GB in about 2 hrs & only have about 30 mins left.  I need to go grab some dvd9's...