Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released) — Page 514

ScruffyNerfHerder said:

applesandrice said:

I'm still trying to produce my own Blu-ray using Adobe's Encore, and I'm running into a new problem. I re-encoded the video (raising the bitrate slightly to prevent introducing new compression artifacts while setting the profile to "Main") into something Encore will accept, but now it's rejecting the DTS-HD MA audio tracks. Is anyone else using Encore and having some success?

What version of Encore are you using? DTS HD audio is listed as a new feature in CS6, so if you have an older edition that's the problem. If you are using CS6, I'd check Adobe's site; hopefully it's something simple. 

Sorry for the slight thread derail! :)

Thanks for the reply -- I'm using CS6. I'll see what I can find on the Adobe site. I was just hoping to see if anyone else here was using Encore and running into the same problem. Figured it'd help track down the source of the issue, in the event that it's with the DTS files themselves.

Dumb question, but the version of ANH I obtained has a default language setting of Italian. Were I to burn this on a disc, would that be the audio track that appears by default?

I spent about 18 months working with MultiAVCHD (off and on) and FINALLY got it to put out a usable Blu-Ray of all 3!  A buddy of mine did some killer custom menu screens and we picked 12 good chapter points with motion thumbnails. (I find 50 unwieldy).  It plays movie music at the welcome and menu screens I did not find too cliche.  Anyway, I'd be happy to share the ISOs that I built packaged along with the killer Kopie box and disk art and case inserts of the poster and menu screen I used on the disk.  

If there are not many takers I would be happy to do a private file transfer but if more than a few folks want it, please give me a suggestion of where to host the files.

I've been a bit delayed in seeing both Harmy's 1997 HD SW and V2.5 despecialized edition, but I just wanted to say thanks to Harmy for both of these. Both sound and look absolutely amazing!

I haven't seen ESB v2.0 yet, but I'm kinda saving that for the right occasion at the moment.  

Appreciate your hard work, and to all those who helped/were involved.

Hope you had a good Christmas and New Year.

Would MySpleen be out of the question? Otherwise, TPB (when it comes back?)

CatBus said:

Lust-In-Phaze said:

Dumb question, but the version of ANH I obtained has a default language setting of Italian. Were I to burn this on a disc, would that be the audio track that appears by default?

The first audio track muxed into the stream plays by default, unless overridden by player settings or the disc menu system.  If someone changed the default track to Italian, you'd need to remux it with an English track as audio track #1 for that to be the default audio.

 So I just remuxed it and removed most of the extra tracks and subtitles (the only audio track I truly want is the 70mm six-channel). When I did this, the remuxed file was around half the size of the original. Is this normal?

What size was the original file you downloaded? What size is it now, with just the 5.1 audio? And is it the DTS-HD audio, or the Dolby Digital (AC3)?

Erik Pancakes said:

What size was the original file you downloaded? What size is it now, with just the 5.1 audio? And is it the DTS-HD audio, or the Dolby Digital (AC3)?

 The original size was around 4.4gb, and it is now 2.6gb. The remuxing process took only a few seconds or so, and I removed 8 of the 9 tracks in that process. The 5.1 is AC3. Everything seems to be running smoothly, but I haven't sat down and watched the entire remuxed movie to notice any issues with syncing and such.

CatBus said:

Looks like you didn't hurt it, but what you've got there is a re-encode someone else did, and based on filesize alone, I'd say it's dreadful compared to Harmy's original version.  That said, it's probably still worlds better than the Blu-ray, so that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it.

 Maybe this is the wrong thread, but where could I get the proper Harmy edition?

Lust-In-Phaze said:

CatBus said:

Looks like you didn't hurt it, but what you've got there is a re-encode someone else did, and based on filesize alone, I'd say it's dreadful compared to Harmy's original version.  That said, it's probably still worlds better than the Blu-ray, so that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it.

 Maybe this is the wrong thread, but where could I get the proper Harmy edition?

 Got mine from MySpleen.

I just got one from Kickass that seemed pretty official. ANH itself has a size of 3.73GB. Does that seem more appropriate. It should also be noted that the torrent I used included ESB and ROTJ, but I already own ESB Despecialized and am waiting on the superior version of ROTJ

Lust-In-Phaze said:

I just got one from Kickass that seemed pretty official. ANH itself has a size of 3.73GB. Does that seem more appropriate. It should also be noted that the torrent I used included ESB and ROTJ, but I already own ESB Despecialized and am waiting on the superior version of ROTJ

 The MKV version of ANH should be 17-18GB.

Star Wars Despecialized comes in an 8GB AVCHD and an 18GB MKV. Approximately.

Oh, everyone else beat me to it.

This is the one I got that had the most trackers:

Star.Wars.EPISODE.IV-A.NEW.HOPE.BRRiP.XViD.AC3-LEGi0N

It's an avi file and has the 70mm six-track audio as the only available track. I don't know if this is the right one still but I think I'm fairly content with this one if it isn't. It looks really good to me.

That explains it .... it's a LEGION re-encode with crappy xvid.  Total bummer to know that people are trashing this with re-encodes without letting people know where to get the originals.

A-holes .......................

satanika said:

Also it's a straight bluray rip and not the despecialized edition.....

 What do you mean? It's not the 2011 blu-ray. It has all the original theatrical special effects and no CGI that I can notice. It's a theatrical reconstruction of some kind. The only issue is that it's not Harmy's own v2.5 edition, it seems.

Wow, only 3GB? Must be downscaled to SD or lower, too, I'd guess.

Yeah, as others have said, the official Harmy releases of SW v2.5 are an ~18GB MKV and an ~8GB AVCHD (for burning to a dual-layer DVD and watching on a Blu-Ray player). There's also a ~4GB single-layer DVD re-encode that was done with Harmy's blessing, but not by Harmy himself, that has the 5.1 AC3 as the only audio track. And it's in DVD format (VIDEO_TS folder, or maybe an ISO image, not sure which), not a single AVI or MP4 or anything like that.