Harmy said:
Here's the latest rendition of Greedo's subs:
Hi Harmy and everybody at originaltrilogy.com, this is my first post here on this forum. I've been lurking here for a while now (mostly looking for information about changes made to the star wars special editions/blu-ray) but only just got round to registering. Harmy, I'd just like to say that I and i'm sure everybody here really appreciate all the time and effort you've put into making these despecialised releases. I have been doing a similar project to yours on and off with the star wars original trilogy films myself (regrading and editting them) for the last fews months so I can really appreciate how much time and effort you've put into these!
I just watched the clip you put up of Greedo with the subtitles and a few things struck me as strange. First was the height of the subtitles relative to the bottom bar. The subtitles seem really high up in the image to me, intruding too much into the scene IMO. I'm sure that subtitles are usually a fair bit lower than that. Another thing I thought was strange was the way the subtitles fade for a frame when they appear and disappear, I found it a little distracting. Did you make them do that on purpose or is that just what the program you use does as default? As for hard-encoding the subtitles into the image, wouldn't it be better to have them as an optional subtitle track on an AVCHD so non-english speakers can have their own alien subtitles without the english subtitles being there? The scene also seems a little too yellow to me. This scene from my project is also a little yellow due to the removel of the blue tint running throughout the film but this clip seems too yellow to me IMHO.
Apologies if I come off as very presumptuous for nitpicking from my very first post. If I see something that seems strange I can't help but point it out. I liked what you did with your initial releases and I'm really looking forward to checking out the latest versions of your despecialised editions and want them to be as good as they can possibly be. If I can help in that, all the better.