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"... but STAR WARS will be available very soon."
so can you tell us how soon? ;-)
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looking for HDTV of the Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Also HDTV of The Lord of the Rings trilogy
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It is quite simple. The Partly Despecialized Editions were crap - not only because of the fact that they were simple GOUT upscales spliced into 1080p HDTV rips. Mainly the HDTV sources used were already very low bitrate for 1080p and during the process of creating the PDEs they went through two more one pass lossy re-encodes, so the picture quality was awful. And I don't have them anymore and as far as I know aren't available anywhere.
The Despecialized Editions v1.0 are the only version available at the moment. They are nearly completely despecialized, restoring the original cuts of the films, albeit with some minor SE changes left in. The quality is somewhat higher due to it being sourced from higher quality HDTV sources and being a higher quality 2 pass encode in 720p at the same file size (more detail is lost from compressing 1080p to a DVD9 then from the downsizing to 720p as can clearly be seen here).
The Despecialized Editions v2.0 is in the works but STAR WARS will be available very soon. V2.0 will be more thoroughly despecialized, recreating the original theatrical version very faithfully, including the colour palette. This will still be 720p but being sourced from the Blu-Rays and the encoding should be even better than v1.0 with profesional editing software and lossless intermediate being used, the picture quality should be much higher. Plus a larger MKV and eventually a BD25 will be available as well. Later this year I wanna do ESB and ROTJ but I'll take a break after SW.
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Well, I wanna start rendering the lossless file later this week and then everything will depend on how fast the encoding and uploading will go. The MKV will be first, then the AVCHD. The BD25 will take some time, because I want to make some extras and menus and such but I have my final exams in September so I'll have to fit working on the BD in with studying. The MKV stream will be BD compliant though, so if people want, they can easily remux it into a BD with any audion options they choose.
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... So very soon then? ;-)
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So are you planning to make the MKV somewhat BD25 sized? (I guess 15 to 20 GB might make sense to leave enough room for some self-made audio options).
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Yes, 15GB video stream is the plan.
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Perfect!
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Harmy said:
Yes, 15GB video stream is the plan.
I have an Oppo BDP-93. Would this be something I could dump onto a flash drive and play that way? Would it be fast enough to handle it or will I need to use a hard drive?
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Well, Laserschwert, I assume that you're from Germany, and postage between our two countries should be quite simple, fast and relatively cheap, so if you sent me an external HDD I could send it back to you with the lossless encode to use for your German version.
@Jabbo: No idea.
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I'm a little clueless about all these different video formats. When going from mkv to blu-ray, do I need special software to convert the mkv stream to a blu-ray movie?
I'm on a mac if that makes a difference. Still looking for the best mac blu-ray burning solution as well.
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Harmy said:
Well, Laserschwert, I assume that you're from Germany, and postage between our two countries should be quite simple, fast and relatively cheap, so if you sent me an external HDD I could send it back to you with the lossless encode to use for your German version.
I'll think about it. How many GB do you estimate for that?
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I'm a little clueless about all these different video formats. When going from mkv to blu-ray, do I need special software to convert the mkv stream to a blu-ray movie?
I'm on a mac if that makes a difference. Still looking for the best mac blu-ray burning solution as well.
I am on a Mac too. I have heard Toast with the HD plug-in is the way to go for Blu-Ray for us Mac people
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ever since finding out V1.0 existed, I have followed this closely. to hear that it is just around the corner and nearly complete has me twitching like a caffeine junkie.
Harmy, your work with SW and restoring them to the versions they should be is appreciated 100 times over. Thank you for giving back that part of my childhood.
PS - for those that are on a Mac, like me, I am going to use a PC as I went through nothing but pain and agony when I was trying to burn V1.0 over to DL DVD. I think ImgBurn is easiest.
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@Laserschwert: It should weigh in at just under 150GB. I could also burn it on like 6 or 7 BD25s I guess.
To the Mac people, I suggest for burning this you borrow a real computer from a friend ;-)
EDIT: Slynger beat me to it in a way :-)
Also, thanks for the kind words slynger :-)
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jabbo5150 said:
Harmy said:
Yes, 15GB video stream is the plan.
I have an Oppo BDP-93. Would this be something I could dump onto a flash drive and play that way? Would it be fast enough to handle it or will I need to use a hard drive?
According to the Oppo Wiki the video stream used for the mkv should be playable. Audio and subtitles might be an issue though depending on the codec/format, which is unfortunately always an issue with hardware players. While they support certain codecs on Bluray or in an m2ts container, they don't when you use mkv.
BD compliancy limits the maximum bitrate to 40MBit/sec, which equals to 5MByte/sec. If the sequential read speed of the flash drive is faster than that no stutters should occur.
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I can burn an avchd onto a DL DVD, no problem, but I have no experience with blu-ray.
@Harmy - no way dude. :) I use both at work (graphic design) and wouldn't trade my mac for anything. I can't stand working on pc's.
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so without getting this thread off track too much, does anyone have any links for some good disc art?
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If it can help Mac users out there, I own both a 13 inch MacBook Pro running the latest build of Lion and a Hackintosh PC with a BD burner. Never tried burning a Blu Ray, all I know is they play fine in Mac Blu Ray player. While my MBP fails at burning all kinds of discs, my PC's burning all kinds of DVDs just fine on OS X. Why? I have no idea.
@Harmy: I wanted to extract the GOUT French audio tracks to add them to your mkvs but running times don't match by almost 5 minutes. Is that normal? I'll wait for the SW 2.0 mkv to try again.
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johnlocke2342 said:
If it can help Mac users out there, I own both a 13 inch MacBook Pro running the latest build of Lion and a Hackintosh PC with a BD burner. Never tried burning a Blu Ray, all I know is they play fine in Mac Blu Ray player. While my MBP fails at burning all kinds of discs, my PC's burning all kinds of DVDs just fine on OS X. Why? I have no idea.
@Harmy: I wanted to extract the GOUT French audio tracks to add them to your mkvs but running times don't match by almost 5 minutes. Is that normal? I'll wait for the SW 2.0 mkv to try again.
PAL audio is time-compressed and higher-pitched. Stretch it out by 4% and lower the pitch (there are utilities that do this for you, eac3to is one) and it will sync fine and be the correct pitch too.
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The US or Canadian NTSC GOUT have the French soundtrack so that would sync up perfectly.....
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In other news, the new pan-down is looking VERY good! Well done, once again, Harmy! This was one that I mentioned a few months back, and was distracting in the otherwise perfect opening. Also, have you gone back to a more saturated Tatooine in that shot? Looks really solid!
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Using tsMuxer, and provided the video stream is compliant (1280 x 720, or 1920 x 1080) it is a relatively easy process to remux the streams into a blu-ray folder.
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After I posted that, I realized I have an external hard drive I can probably use as well. I'll figure it out - or I'll wait for the AVCHD or get a Blu-ray burner and do the Blu-ray when that happens
Edit: And what Cobra Kai said. I love my Macs :)
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Imperial Slug said:
Using tsMuxer, and provided the video stream is compliant (1280 x 720, or 1920 x 1080) it is a relatively easy process to remux the streams into a blu-ray folder.
Thanks!
Although after testing the program, I'm currently getting an error message when I try to import an mkv file. I did some research on this and its a common problem. I just deleted the two Korean fonts as instructed but that didnt work, so now I'm going to try to clear the font cache and see if that does it.
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