Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1 — Page 39

I've gotten it to work using Burn. I can't remember if you have to make a CERTIFICATE folder. I think you use the Data tab, not video.

Best of Luck, Brade.  If it works, please let us know what you did.  Just thought I'd mention this to you in case you're not aware, Harmy is working on Return of the Jedi Despecialized V 2.0 right now.  Might want to save your discs for that instead.  No word yet when it will be complete, but some of the "de-specialized" parts will be using a much better source (35mm film scans).  Should be a significant improvement.

Cool, hope it works for me... Does anyone actually have a ROTJ burned disc they can check for the existence of a CERTIFICATE folder, and whether their disc plays on a PS3? If not, that's fine. Just curious what works for people.

JT 1138 said:

Best of Luck, Brade.  If it works, please let us know what you did.  Just thought I'd mention this to you in case you're not aware, Harmy is working on Return of the Jedi Despecialized V 2.0 right now.  Might want to save your discs for that instead.  No word yet when it will be complete, but some of the "de-specialized" parts will be using a much better source (35mm film scans).  Should be a significant improvement.

Yep, I've been reading the forums today and discovered that v2.0 should be arriving hopefully soon this year. I'd still like to get my 1.0 working as a matter of principle =] but it's nice to know that a newer version will be available and likely in the ISO format that's simpler to burn.

Brade said:

Cool, hope it works for me... Does anyone actually have a ROTJ burned disc they can check for the existence of a CERTIFICATE folder, and whether their disc plays on a PS3? If not, that's fine. Just curious what works for people.

 Mine includes the certificate folder and plays on the PS3 without a hitch.  It also works on a Panasonic blu-ray player.   Inside the certificate folder is a folder named "BACKUP" with nothing in it.  It probably doesn't matter, but my permissions for the certificate folder are read only.  My disc is a Verbatim DVD+R DL.

Yeah, I'd use Burn, make it a data disc, put the BDMV (and, I guess, CERTIFICATE) folder in there, and burn it to disc using the UDF 2.50 file system. Hopefully that should work.

Oops, I thought I was going to do some reading about a ROTJ preservation project.  Unfortunately, I seem to have wandered into the tech forum by mistake.

But if a preservation can't be watched on one's device of choice, has it truly been preserved? #Riddles

BTW using "Burn" with only UDF still didn't work, so I guess I'll try the WINE/imgburn method later.

Last post from me on this topic! I finally got it to work with the Wine/Imgburn method. I obtained the Mac-friendly version of Wine here: http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/

Then I was able to install and use Imgburn easily. I had to use the "create image file from files/folders" method since Wine couldn't detect my dvd drive directly.

I think the reason this must have worked is because Imgburn correctly sets the version of UDF for you (2.50). All the Mac programs only let you set UDF without ever specifying a version, so who knows which version they were using.

I was then able to burn the ISO to disc using the "Burn" app like I did for the other two movies, and now all 3 movie discs play correctly on the PS3. WINNING!

That's awesome.  How long did ImgBurn take to create the ISO?  Did it run fairly smooth?  I haven't used WINE before so I have no idea how well it works.  What version of OSX are you using and is your Mac a quad core or dual core?  I have a late 2009 iMac dual core, so I have my doubts that WINE would work well for me.

TV's Frink said:

Oops, I thought I was going to do some reading about a ROTJ preservation project.  Unfortunately, I seem to have wandered into the tech forum by mistake.

Indeed, this is the tech forum, please stay on topic, we are discussing how to burn ROTJ, it's been out a while and the methods are the same as always but it's nice to keep the info fresh, if you want to check on Harmys progress, please go somewere else, thanks.

Kingherb said:

Harmys progress

 Now there are two of them?

I trust that the wait will be worth it. The 2.0 stuff we've seen so far is looking pretty stellar.

Harmy said:

Slowly. I'm super busy IRL.

 As long as it's a good sort of busy and not a bad sort of busy, that's fine. If it's a bad sort of busy, well, good luck!

Harmy said:

http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/112796

A color correction sample - the colors of the BD are unbelievably effed up - I had to try and match the colors of the N1 scan as precisely as possible here, because part of the previous shot from this angle is missing from the BD, so it had to be replaced by the scan and this one had to match as closely as possible.

 Ow! So magenta! My eyes! Please, no more!

*rolls over image*

Oh, thank goodness for Harmy.

I'm not sure if anyone else brought this up, but the movie doesn't end on a black frame; it ends on the credits and they don't fade out completely. At least this is how it is on the DVD5 version, not sure about the 720p. So I just wanted to bring that up so that in the next release it doesn't just pause on the almost-faded out credits. Also I noticed that it's on a loop. So when it ends, it starts playing again. The DVD5 of Star Wars and Empire just stop after they're done.

BobbyDigital said:

I'm not sure if anyone else brought this up, but the movie doesn't end on a black frame; it ends on the credits and they don't fade out completely. At least this is how it is on the DVD5 version, not sure about the 720p. So I just wanted to bring that up so that in the next release it doesn't just pause on the almost-faded out credits. Also I noticed that it's on a loop. So when it ends, it starts playing again. The DVD5 of Star Wars and Empire just stop after they're done.

 Yeah, there's something a little wonky about the credits and extra time at the end. I think it has been discussed before (probably several times).

It's not really an issue, since it's just the Harmy et al. credit addendum. The feature credits play through properly. I'm sure all of this was re-worked in the new version anyway, so little risk of accidental carryover. 

So I used imgburn to put ROTJ on a Blu Ray disc, and not only will it not play in any program or platform I've tried, it also appears to say it's ~900 minutes long. What did I do wrong?

I just watched ROTJ today with my 5 year old daughter (Jedi is her favorite Star Wars movie) and noticed something that seemed odd. At 0:29:05-0:29:10 the video seems slowed down and has choppy frame-rate, I'm guessing this was intentional to keep things in sync, but if not I wanted to let you know before you finish ROTJ v2.0. Thanks again for all your hard work, and congrats on the new job!