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kitt1987 said:

Lol I can only imagine how tired of Star Wars you might be!  I definitely respect your ability to work on these until they're "right." 

I don't think I could ever be tired of Star Wars, I love the film too much!

Being a perfectionist is definately a pain in the ass a lot of the time but when you get it just right, its a very satisfying feeling. I feel that i've reached that point with Star Wars. Others here on this site probably prefer the more red fleshtones of the GOUT, most likely because thats what they're used to, but that sunburnt look is not for me.

As far as i'm concerned this V2.2 Star Wars release looks the best I can make it look and personally for me as a releaser thats always been the most important thing, that I am 100% happy with the release. If others agree with me that's great of course but if they don't it doesn't concern me a great deal, ultimately I make these releases and all my regraded releases for myself and nobody else.

I now have my own perfect version of Star Wars and until a 4k remastered Star Wars release gets announced, i'm going to be a very happy man lying back and enjoying the fruits of my labour and forgetting about the 4 years of work that went into creating this. :D

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As far as i'm concerned this V2.2 Star Wars release looks the best I can make it look and personally for me as a releaser thats always been the most important thing, that I am 100% happy with the release. If others agree with me that's great of course but if they don't it doesn't concern me a great deal, ultimately I make these releases and all my regraded releases for myself and nobody else.

Agree 100% (and more...)

I now have my own perfect version of Star Wars and until a 4k remastered Star Wars release gets announced, i'm going to be a very happy man lying back and enjoying the fruits of my labour and forgetting about the 4 years of work that went into creating this. :D

"only" 4 years? crazy guys these project makers... (^^,)

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kk650 said:


As far as i'm concerned this V2.2 Star Wars release looks the best I can make it look and personally for me as a releaser thats always been the most important thing, that I am 100% happy with the release. If others agree with me that's great of course but if they don't it doesn't concern me a great deal, ultimately I make these releases and all my regraded releases for myself and nobody else.

Agree 100% (and more...)

I now have my own perfect version of Star Wars and until a 4k remastered Star Wars release gets announced, i'm going to be a very happy man lying back and enjoying the fruits of my labour and forgetting about the 4 years of work that went into creating this. :D

"only" 4 years? crazy guys these project makers... (^^,)

I thought you might agree with me Andrea :) As far as I'm concerned its the only way one can function as a releaser, to go into creating a release with a different mindset would be insanity IMHO, you'd be getting pulled in all directions at the same time and end up with nothing coherent.

Yeah, 4 years is kind of crazy when you think about it but of course I wasn't working on them in my free time all of those 4 years, there were many other regraded releases in between I worked on as well to allow me to return to these films with fresh eyes.

I never imagined at the start that i'd be working on these Semi-Specialised Editions so long. Its like Peter Jackson said when he was making LOTR, he never focused on the mountain he needed to climb to make the three LOTR films all in one go because he would have been too afraid to start, he focused on overcoming obstacles on a day by day basis, taking step after step until he finally looked up at the end and found himself on the summit of the mountain. It kind of happened for me that way as well, I wasn't focused on when it would end, only overcoming the problems directly in front of me at the time, only to be faced with a new challenge.

It took me 4 years but I finally got there in the end, learning a few things along the way. I just hope that if/when the new 4k remastered OT releases come out, creating these Semi-Specialised Editions from the new sources won't take me quite as long haha

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I know what you mean. Being happy with what you've done is the only endpoint.

I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently.

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Just about to sit down and watch. :)

BTW, kk650, I think I read you're planning on redoing your episode 1 regrade. Are you intending to color correct this time, or use the broadcast as your source? If you do choose the broadcast, I would like to request that you replace the Yoda scenes with the ones from the blu. I much prefer the cgi version - but I know that depends on your personal preference, of course.

Preferred Saga:
1,2: Numeraljoker extended
3: L8wrtr
4,6-9: Hal9000
5: Adywan

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nightstalkerpoet said:

Just about to sit down and watch. :)

BTW, kk650, I think I read you're planning on redoing your episode 1 regrade. Are you intending to color correct this time, or use the broadcast as your source? If you do choose the broadcast, I would like to request that you replace the Yoda scenes with the ones from the blu. I much prefer the cgi version - but I know that depends on your personal preference, of course.

 Is the broadcast missing the edges of the frame like the DVD?

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@nightstalkerpoet: I didn't actually regrade episode 1, I didn't feel that it was necessary, I just regrained it to give the DNRed blu-ray a more filmic look. It also had the unexpected effect of drawing out a lot of the detail hidden by the DNR in the blu-ray transfer, at least to my eyes.

As a source I plan to use the regrained bd50 master I created over a year ago, the one that took a week to encode. Is the broadcast version you're refering to the 16gb german hdtv transport stream? That one looks very poor if I remember correctly and its been massively cropped. I'll be sticking with my own regrained master that looks much better IMHO, so no return of creepy puppet Yoda.

@towne32: If you're talking about the german hdtv broadcast, yes if I remember correctly its also been massively cropped on the left and right side of the frame compared to the blu-ray.

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Anybody know how to make an AVCHD with the first subtitle playing as default in tsmuxer? I've been trying to work it out for the Star Wars Semi Specialised Edition V2.2L AVCHD release so the alien subtitles will play automatically but I haven't been having any luck, tsmuxer doesn't seem to have that option like mkvmerge does.

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I had the same problem... no way to have a forced subtitle track using TSmuxeR... maybe MultiAVCHD would work, but never tried!

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I had the same problem... no way to have a forced subtitle track using TSmuxeR... maybe MultiAVCHD would work, but never tried!

Yes I tried MultiAVCHD and it seems to have the option of 'forcing' the first subtitle but without burning it in so it can be removed if you want, but it seems to require that you reencode the video/audio file, which i'm not willing to do because it will result in loss of image quality.

Anybody know if there is any way of using MultiAVCHD to create the AVCHD structure with the forced first subtitle while leaving the video and audio completely untouched?

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If I well remember, it could be done using BDedit... good luck with it! (^^,)

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Create the avchd/bluray with tsmuxer, then load the folder into multiavchd.

The other option could be bdtoavchd, bdremux mode

Preferred Saga:
1,2: Numeraljoker extended
3: L8wrtr
4,6-9: Hal9000
5: Adywan

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nightstalkerpoet said:

Create the avchd/bluray with tsmuxer, then load the folder into multiavchd.

The other option could be bdtoavchd, bdremux mode

Thanks for that nightstalkerpoet, very helpful indeed!

I can't get a handle on multiavchd, it seems to require reencoding whatever I do but I have managed to get bdtoavchd to work in bdremux mode like you said, leaving both video and audio untouched, and it allows the forcing of the first subtitle without burning it in.

Only one problem though, it just supports one subtitle. I do believe I have got round that though.

If you take the avchd created by bdtoavchd and open it in tsmuxer and leave the first subtitle as it is, it seems you can add more subtitles and the first stays forced when you create the avchd again in tsmuxer, so you get the first subtitle forced and also a choice of multiple subtitles. I just need to find a dvd9 to test it out with now, to see whether it all works as it should.

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I've actually had some success with Multiavchd. Good news, you DON'T have to reencode the video at all. When you go to the Media directory to manipulate your video files, click on the transcode button. Once you get in the transcode menu, near the bottom there's a prompt that (if I remember correctly) says something along the lines of BD or AVCHD compliant. You can click on that, which brings up several encoding options including NO RECODE or somesuch.

On a side note, I've been using Multiavchd to create custom Blu-rays with working menus. Although the menus are a bit rudimentary and the program has some annoying limitations, it beats not having any menu at all for a disk with a movie and extras. Even better, knowing what files to edit, you can also label the disk and create a thumbnail icon for PS3 (requires some extra steps outside of using the program).

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so tehparadox is down at the moment, is there another way i can get the prequels? also looking forward to the new TPM

“You can’t polish a turd. But you can shape it to look like candy.”

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nevermind, tehpradox is back up. however all the links are dead )c;

“You can’t polish a turd. But you can shape it to look like candy.”

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Okay, good news guys, after many hours and much testing I think i've finally found the right settings to use for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi Semi-Specialised Editions! :D

With my previous Semi-Specialised release of Empire Strikes Back I used very similar settings to what I used with Star Wars and in hindsight I realise that that was a mistake, Empire Strikes Back is a totally different animal colourwise to Star Wars and Return of the Jedi, blues play a more important part in the colour scheme than with the other two films.

This latest Empire Strikes Back Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2 will be noticably different from my V2.1 retro release, with the blues being more prominent throughout the film, as I am pretty sure they were in the theatrical release.

This weekend i'll be releasing a 20-21GB release of The Phantom Menace with grain added to counter the extreme DNR of the blu-ray and make the transfer far more filmlike and enjoyable to watch. It'll also include the DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1 track.

@Jackpumpkinhead: I've replied to you on tehparadox. I should have AOTC up by tomorrow, i'll send you a PM there when its available.

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kk650 said:

Okay, good news guys, after many hours and much testing I think i've finally found the right settings to use for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi Semi-Specialised Editions! :D

With my previous Semi-Specialised release of Empire Strikes Back I used very similar settings to what I used with Star Wars and in hindsight I realise that that was a mistake, Empire Strikes Back is a totally different animal colourwise to Star Wars and Return of the Jedi, blues play a more important part in the colour scheme than with the other two films.

This latest Empire Strikes Back Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2 will be noticably different from my V2.1 retro release, with the blues being more prominent throughout the film, as I am pretty sure they were in the theatrical release.

This weekend i'll be releasing a 20-21GB release of The Phantom Menace with grain added to counter the extreme DNR of the blu-ray and make the transfer far more filmlike and enjoyable to watch. It'll also include the DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1 track.

@Jackpumpkinhead: I've replied to you on tehparadox. I should have AOTC up by tomorrow, i'll send you a PM there when its available.

 Hey KK,

I'm familiar with your Episode I version with grain added back. I think it's very useful for distracting the viewer from the DVNR plastic. But are you also adjusting the color on this version or is this your old release?

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towne32 said:

kk650 said:

Okay, good news guys, after many hours and much testing I think i've finally found the right settings to use for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi Semi-Specialised Editions! :D

With my previous Semi-Specialised release of Empire Strikes Back I used very similar settings to what I used with Star Wars and in hindsight I realise that that was a mistake, Empire Strikes Back is a totally different animal colourwise to Star Wars and Return of the Jedi, blues play a more important part in the colour scheme than with the other two films.

This latest Empire Strikes Back Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2 will be noticably different from my V2.1 retro release, with the blues being more prominent throughout the film, as I am pretty sure they were in the theatrical release.

This weekend i'll be releasing a 20-21GB release of The Phantom Menace with grain added to counter the extreme DNR of the blu-ray and make the transfer far more filmlike and enjoyable to watch. It'll also include the DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1 track.

@Jackpumpkinhead: I've replied to you on tehparadox. I should have AOTC up by tomorrow, i'll send you a PM there when its available.

 Hey KK,

I'm familiar with your Episode I version with grain added back. I think it's very useful for distracting the viewer from the DVNR plastic. But are you also adjusting the color on this version or is this your old release?

I'll probably regrade it to adjust the fleshtones so they don't look red and sunburnt.

Apart from that, it will be a larger higher quality version of the old release with better encoding settings and the best audio, the DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1 track.

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Here's a comparison for The Empire Strikes Back between the blu-ray and the Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2:

Blu-ray:

The Empire Strikes Back Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2:

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do you plan on doing a 7gb version of TMP or only the 20gb version

“You can’t polish a turd. But you can shape it to look like candy.”

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Looks great!

Will it only be released on tehparadox or is there a chance it will also be on MySpleen?

“Meesa Stooopid”

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@kane1138: Glad you like it! :)

@Jackpumpkinhead: I was planning to do only a 20GB release, the grain is captured better at higher bitrates but I could do an 8gb release as well if there was interest.

@Melatius: Thanks! I upload all Star Wars Semi-Specialised releases to Myspleen as well so you'll be able to get them from there if you prefer. :)