Harmy's THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Despecialized Edition HD - V2.0 - MKV & AVCHD (Released) — Page 25

Harmy said:

No, it's just that for SW I'm just tweaking the current edit, while with ESB I'll be starting from scratch, colour correction and all.

Out of sheer curiosity, why are you starting from scratch with ESB and not just tweaking it like SW?

First of all, thank you so much for bringing these terrific flicks back from the distant past the way they were meant to be seen. Lucas can take his overpriced and further ruined OT Bluray's and shove them. I now have the only versions I ever wanted so I can now retire my 80's vids, '95 LD's, 97 Vids, and even my 00's DVDs. :P I'll also be going to a local printing company to get high quality prints of your high quality covers before hosting a proper Star Wars evening with my fellow aficionados.

As touched upon by someone else, If you are ever in my neighborhood (Dublin, Ireland), let me know and I will reward you with copious amounts of Alcohol (I'll give you my car and house if you can "fix" episodes 1 & 2 :P ) On a different note, the ESB copy I burned seems to have some audio glitches and will lose sound for a second or two every so often.

Any ideas what might be causing this? I used ImgBurn to make the AVCHD disc and burned at AWS speed. ImgBurn didn't prompt me to change the settings to UDF 2.50 so I did it manually.

I used Verbatim DVD+R DL discs and they are for use in my PS3 (720p via HDMI). The sound glitches do not occur at the same spot every time so I know it's not a scratched disc or anything (It was a brand new DL).

So, any thoughts on what might be causing the audio glitches? My thinking is the AWS setting - Maybe it was autoset to write at too fast a speed? Or could I have missed something when I had to manually set UDS to 2.50? Or could it even just be a PS3 setting I've overlooked?

Normally I wouldn't ask but I only had 4 DL discs [/dilema]

Downloading/seeding these now. These will make a great set of supplement discs for the official Blu-ray box. Or rather, the Blu-rays will make a nice set of supplement discs!

Looking forward to seeing your work on my TV, Harmy!

I've spent all day looking for the standard definition release of this (since I don't yet have a Blu-Ray burner or player) but everywhere I go seems to point me to some corrupted files. I've used Jdownloader to re-download parts the archive over and over but I always get an error message saying there's a problem with vob files 2 and 5. There's a torrent of the SD edition but there's only one (achingly slow!) seeder. Could someone PM me and maybe point me in the right direction?

Anyway, thanks for this! I've been wanting to do something like this for years, and from what I've seen this looks perfect! This edition is what my future children will be watching!

You know, I didn't want to be one of those guys, but I tried re-downloading it this morning and guess what--it worked perfectly. Hats off to ya, Harmy!

Just an FYI, you don't need a Blu burner.  AVCHD is burned on a standard double layer DVD-9.  However, you do need a Blu player to watch it unless you use your computer to watch.

Ric Olie said:

And if you're using your computer, you don't need any burner or disc.

:p

Hi guys i'm new to the forums! Good stuff to be found here i see. Harmy, could you please send me the links to your previous edits? Very curious about ESB and ROTJ, i'm downloading SW right now via a .torrent so i won't be needing that

Thanks in advance!

Mavimao said:

I just wanted to point out a quirk about the ESB DVD 5 despecialized version. So I guess this is for Chewtobacco...  For some reason, the pan and scan flag is set for the disk. So if your DVD player happens to be on the P&S auto setting, it'll zoom in on the picture.

Thanks, but that's what supposed to happen if your player is set to pan and scan; it won't come in to play for anyone whose player is set to 16:9.  I take it you have a 4:3 TV?  Just set your player to 4:3 not 4:3 P&S.  A number of commercial anamorphic widescreen discs have this setting.

.  I guess lucas is not the only one who finally has technology catching up to a vision ;)   

LOL

I was wondering if any one had thought of doing a Preservations

documentary. But doing it as a spoof on the Special Edition

Intro (1997

Star Wars A New Hope Special Edition VHS Intro (1997

Moth3r said:  Really? I've never seen a DVD that implements the 4:3 Pan & Scan option. A "centre of interest" offset is supposed to be encoded in the video stream, otherwise you just end up with the sides cropped and the scanned window stays centered (does not "pan").

I assumed that the behavior was a response to a sequence_display_extension of 540x480 being written in the MPEG-2 header info, which probably means that I inadvertently set the colorimetry in HCenc (which I shouldn't have done). I doubt that I flagged the VOBs themselves as 4:3, but I suppose it's possible.

I understand what you mean about forcing letterbox mode if the player is set to P&S now: if one doesn't encode a centre of interest then you have to do this or in P&S mode there is no panning. 

EDIT:  Moth3r, how do you determine whether a centre of interest has beeen encoded into the MPEG-2 stream?  Restream doesn't seem to show it.

I'll PM Harmy for the links to the DVD and AVCHD and take a look, and if necessary re-author the disc, but most commercial discs that I test seem to have a sequence_display_extension of 540x480 if they take NAB into account.