Harmy's THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Despecialized Edition HD - V2.0 - MKV & AVCHD (Released) — Page 94

Harmy said:

Yeah, it's supposed to be the TB 97SE.

Also, here's a completed comparison gallery:

https://plus.google.com/u/1/photos/109609428403596349302/albums/6044645069501365185

The time, patience, attention to detail, quality of work, and thoroughness..... BRAVO

jzilli said:

Harmy said:

Yeah, it's supposed to be the TB 97SE.

Also, here's a completed comparison gallery:

https://plus.google.com/u/1/photos/109609428403596349302/albums/6044645069501365185

The time, patience, attention to detail, quality of work, and thoroughness..... BRAVO

 This! ^^

The '93 mix of ESB contains a few glitches, so I did a bit of restoration work on it since it was the primary source for the new 5.1.  This includes declipping, declicking, and noise removal, all with iZotope RX 3; as well as patching editing mistakes in the laserdisc source.  I shall therefore upload this corrected copy in AC3 form to be included in the MKV.

Similar work was also done on the 35mm stereo mix.  Earlier it was asked whether there was a 1985 remix of Empire as there is for the first movie, and the answer is no: all home video releases prior to 1993 used the same mix.  Different masters of this mix exist, showing different EQ and dynamic characteristics, so I assembled the best possible version of it that I could.

Once I've finished doing such work on all three films, I'll make an archive of all the files that anyone can download, possibly as a myspleen torrent.  I'll also make a thread documenting this work in more detail.

bouvines said:

Hairy_hen, 

A follow-up question re the audio streams. Which is higher quality, the Digital Dolby (AC-3) bitstream or the "core" bitstream from the DTS-HD MA track? (The core stream is all I can ever get VLC to play from a DTS-HD MA track). I'm guessing the DTS-HD MA core is still better since it will still have almost three times the bitrate of DD 5.1 but wanted to ask you. 

This is a tough question, due to the radically differing nature of the audio codecs and the way they store/process the sound.  Both Dolby Digital and DTS are capable of delivering excellent results when used at their maximum bitrates (640 kbps and 1509 kbps respectively), so any demonstrable difference between them is going to be quite minimal.  Go with whichever one works best for the format you're watching in, and don't worry about it.

Gallery is beautiful, can't wait to watch this!

Harmy said:

Yeah, it's supposed to be the TB 97SE.

Also, here's a completed comparison gallery:

https://plus.google.com/u/1/photos/109609428403596349302/albums/6044645069501365185

 Amazing work as usual Harmy! Thanks again for all the time you spent.

hairy_hen said:

The '93 mix of ESB contains a few glitches, so I did a bit of restoration work on it since it was the primary source for the new 5.1.  This includes declipping, declicking, and noise removal, all with iZotope RX 3; as well as patching editing mistakes in the laserdisc source.  I shall therefore upload this corrected copy in AC3 form to be included in the MKV.

Harmy said:

The v2.0 MKV is now available from tehparadox! Info added to the first post.

 Awesome! Thanks again!

WooWW! Thank you, Harmy!

Really cool. Hopefully someone can upload to the spleen soon. 

Yesss !! thanks, thanks, thanks so much Harmy; can´t wait watching at last ! will start downloading as soon as it´s up on the spleen. If it´s up any time soon, of course :-)

I was going to point out a minor fix that in the line "preservations of the original audio mixes in DTS-HD" "DTS-HD MA" might be more appropriate, but it looks like the MKV is out the door, so disregard this minor detail.

BTW, Harmy, did you see my question a few pages back about the source of the opening scroll and the yellow bleeding at the bottom?

Harmy said:

The v2.0 MKV is now available from tehparadox! Info added to the first post.

 At long last! This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of the bastardised ESB, it will soon see the end of the butchered ROTJ.

Now, if someone can only upload this beauty to Myspleen...

Harmy said:

yoda-sama said:

BTW, Harmy, did you see my question a few pages back about the source of the opening scroll and the yellow bleeding at the bottom?

I have. Have you been reading this thread? I'm sorry, I don't mean to be an ass, it's just getting a bit tiresome answering the same questions a hundred times over.

 I've been keeping up as best I can, but whenever it was covered it must not have stuck out to me.  And, to beat a dead horse, good search options would be really nice here...  Anyway, as long as you're aware of it and are fine with it, then it must not be a problem.

Edit:  I've found mention of the yellow bleed back on page 67and it sounds like it has always been there, so that's good, but I still am curious what source you used for the scroll on this project, was it just straight from the Blu-ray?

I have watched this already three times and can't get enough of how good this looks and sounds. I just wish I had a way to burn it to a blu ray. 

Wow, that a nice evening :)