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Harmy's THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Despecialized Edition HD - V2.0 - MKV & AVCHD (Released) — Page 60

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Looks nice! I like the changes on those screenshots. Nice balance. None of the "cold" look of the blu ray, and skin tones looked better than 1.0.

Glad the new mobo didn't give any grief. Usually if it's close in specs like that, and CPU doesn't change, Windows doesn't care.

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Looking good as always!

Ol’ George has the GOUT, I see.

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Thanks for the screenshots. I have some questions if you don't mind.

In shots 5 & 11 Vader's saber appears pinkish in both the GOUT and the BD, however the v2.0 shot has it much more red. Can I ask what reference you used to establish that a redder saber is more correct here?
In shot 8, the GOUT shows the sabers as being much brighter than in v2.0 to the point where the whites are blooming dramatically at the point where they cross. v2.0 looks closer to the dimmer BD look. Again, was there another reference used here?

Thanks once again. None of the above is meant as criticism, I'm just really interested in your decision-making process when it comes to colour references. :)

George creates Star Wars.
Star Wars creates fans.
George destroys Star Wars.
Fans destroy George.
Fans create Star Wars.

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Just a request: when v2.0 is released, can you upload them to multiupload like you did for the original SW? The current host (without a DL manager) for ESB and RotJ only lets me download one part at a time and at a slow speed.

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ComputerGeek said:

Just a request: when v2.0 is released, can you upload them to multiupload like you did for the original SW? The current host (without a DL manager) for ESB and RotJ only lets me download one part at a time and at a slow speed.

 Agree. Multiupload, as used for the 97 respecialized, worked fantastically. 

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Also agree. It took me three days to finish downloading ESB, compared to three hours for SW.

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Same. The original SW took a little over an hour and a half for me, and i gave up on ESB after I saw the 300kb per second download speed being offered.

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Use JDownloader, force download and you can download like 20 files at the same time each at 300Kbps.

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ComputerGeek said:

Same. The original SW took a little over an hour and a half for me, and i gave up on ESB after I saw the 300kb per second download speed being offered.

 That's rather good compared to the 35kbs cap I've seen with 'netload' and 'uploaded'.

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Harmy said:

Use JDownloader, force download and you can download like 20 files at the same time each at 300Kbps.

 I would, but I'm a mac person and I didn't see a mac installer. Either way, I'll just wait for v2 so I don't use more discs than I have to

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ComputerGeek said:

Harmy said:

Use JDownloader, force download and you can download like 20 files at the same time each at 300Kbps.

 I would, but I'm a mac person and I didn't see a mac installer. Either way, I'll just wait for v2 so I don't use more discs than I have to

 I'm a Mac person too and I can tell you cause I'm using it: There IS a Mac version for Jdownloader.

"Let's face it, the Ewoks sucked, dude" -Hurley, Lost 5x13-Some like it Hoth.

Please bear with me if I tend to get too excited about anything or say too much, I have issues.

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johnlocke2342 said:

ComputerGeek said:

Harmy said:

Use JDownloader, force download and you can download like 20 files at the same time each at 300Kbps.

 I would, but I'm a mac person and I didn't see a mac installer. Either way, I'll just wait for v2 so I don't use more discs than I have to

 I'm a Mac person too and I can tell you cause I'm using it: There IS a Mac version for Jdownloader.

and now I realize that [after selecting 81 lines of text one by one to download the SW AVCHD]

i still might wait for v2 just because I don't have many discs left to burn it  

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towne32 said:

ComputerGeek said:

Same. The original SW took a little over an hour and a half for me, and i gave up on ESB after I saw the 300kb per second download speed being offered.

 That's rather good compared to the 35kbs cap I've seen with 'netload' and 'uploaded'.

 I will never get all the bitching about download speeds.  People are content to wait months and months for Harmy to do his (excellent) thing but they can't wait one or two extra days for all the parts to download.

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I don't actually have a problem with Harmy's speeds.

It's more of a matter of:

Okay, I've decided to use html based file hosts to distribute my stuff. Do I choose a site (like Harmy did on the last one I grabbed) that people can get 7MB/s? Or do I choose a site that caps things at a rate that seemed mediocre in 1999? And disconnects randomly. And can't be set to download overnight (lets be honest, about 5 overnights), because it needs a new Captcha to be completed after each part finishes.

I don't think it's really bitching or ungrateful. It's just, if you're going to upload to one of these (for profit) sites, why not choose one that A. sends it to a bunch of other sites, like the "multi" ones, and B. Is accessible and gives the best service? I can't say enough good things about reconstructing a film from 1977 or even 1997. I don't understand reconstructing download experiences from 1997.

It's not immediately obvious why some services are used over others. I got Harmy's 1997 in an hour or two. I'm attempting to get someone else's work, and it might take me a week for each release. That's fine, but it's hard to imagine a reason for choosing the bad one other than lack of awareness of how immense the difference is. 

edit: Having said all that, instead of complaining or explaining all this, I should just be promoting the site that Harmy recently used, so that he and others continue using it: multiupload.nl was great. Thanks.

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OK, well, the answer is simple - when I was uploading the v1.0s, multiupload.nl didn't exist and uloz.to was a great choice, becuase A) I get 5MB/s upload to uloz.to (without any paid account) and people who used JDownloader, like I said a million times already, could have it from uloz.to in a matter of an hour or two as well (I know this, because I myself have downloaded many a file from uloz.to a 10MB/s with no paid account using JDownloader). The alternative back then was stuff like netload or rapidshare, both of which only allow one file to be downloaded at a time and have even slower caps for free users.

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I've downloaded all 41 parts of ESB, but when I use UnRarX (Mac software for extracting/combining rar which worked for the original) I get a folder with just a BDMV file in it. No iso. Any help would be appreciated

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You have to create the .iso yourself. There should be a readme that explains it.

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I'm actually doing that now in disc utility. I figured it out like two minutes after making the post. Thanks anyway

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I remember some Mac users haing trouble creating an ISO or burning an AVCHD or BD. In Windows, it is simple stuff done with freeware but I don't know about Mac.

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Just an extra step. It creates a .cdr, had to run a command to convert to ISO. Thanks again for everything harmy.

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Two things, even a Linux version of JDownloader exists, so there shouldn't realistically be anyone here that method does not cover.  Second, whatever issues people have with native programs for creating/burning ISO's, imgburn is designed specifically to work well with WINE, so Mac or Linux users can always fall back to that if nothing else works.

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I got ESB and RotJ working. Thanks to everyone here! I'd also like to share DVD labels i designed using the image from the case Harmy created. They use the same font as the cases and are quite simple, but personally, I like them. They are saved in a .png format and can be easily loaded into a Word template for printing.