Great news guys! The Return of the Jedi Semi-Specialised Edition V2.15 with both endings, Yub Nub and Victory Celebration, is now done! :)
I should have them both up on tehparadox in the next few days, then i'll get them up on myspleen.
Amazing that you went back and did a shot by shot clean up for those scenes. much appreciated on this end! thanks for all your hard work.
kk650 said:
Great news guys! The Return of the Jedi Semi-Specialised Edition V2.15 with both endings, Yub Nub and Victory Celebration, is now done! :)
I should have them both up on tehparadox in the next few days, then i'll get them up on myspleen.
And there was much rejoicing... :D
This is great news! Been off the site for a few months and had been hoping the end was here or near for Jedi release. Can't wait for that and the eventual dts soundtracks!
Thanks guys! I'm very happy to announce that the Return of the Jedi Semi-Specialised Edition V2.15 is 100% finished and now up on tehparadox. I'll soon have it up on myspleen as well. There are two versions, one with the Yub Nub ending and one with the Victory Celebration ending. All six Star Wars films are now complete. Here are the screencap comparisons:
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Star Wars Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2L:
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Blu-ray 1:
Regraded 1:
Blu-ray 2:
Regraded 2:
Blu-ray 3:
Regraded 3:
Blu-ray 4:
Regraded 4:
Blu-ray 5:
Regraded 5:
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The Empire Strikes Back Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2:
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Blu-ray 1:
Regraded 1:
Blu-ray 2:
Regraded 2:
Blu-ray 3:
Regraded 3:
Blu-ray 4:
Regraded 4:
Blu-ray 5:
Regraded 5:
Blu-ray 6:
Regraded 6:
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Return of the Jedi Semi-Specialised Edition V2.15:
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Blu-ray 1:
Regraded 1:
Blu-ray 2:
Regraded 2:
Blu-ray 3:
Regraded 3:
Blu-ray 4:
Regraded 4:
Blu-ray 5:
Regraded 5:
Blu-ray 6:
Regraded 6:
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Regraded The Phantom Menace Regrained Edition V2
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Official Blu-ray 1:
Regraded and Regrained Edition 1:
Official Blu-ray 2:
Regraded and Regrained Edition 2:
Official Blu-ray 3:
Regraded and Regrained Edition 3:
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Regraded Attack of the Clones V2
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Official Blu-ray 1:
Regraded 1:
Official Blu-ray 2:
Regraded 2:
Official Blu-ray 3:
Regraded 3:
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Regraded Revenge of the Sith V2
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Official Blu-ray 1:
Regraded 1:
Official Blu-ray 2:
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Official Blu-ray 3:
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Beautiful work kk650! I forgot to ask/make a suggestion but would it be easier for you to just release your 5.1 mixes as audio only and have us mux it in ourselves as a separate audio track for the videos? Just seems like alot of uploading for you!
That's interesting, I posted a frame from the bluray, that I color matched to a Technicolor IB print reference, and it's pretty close to your regrade:
kk650:
DrDre:
Of course there's always debate about how these scenes should look, but it's always interesting to make comparisons.
Crap. Those both looks so good, I want one half-way in between both!
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Congrats on finally finishing up the saga, I look forward to checking out Jedi soon since your other releases were top notch! Do you anticipate getting these up on my spleen by the weekend or so?
DrDre said:
That's interesting, I posted a frame from the bluray, that I color matched to a Technicolor IB print reference, and it's pretty close to your regrade:
kk650:
DrDre:
Of course there's always debate about how these scenes should look, but it's always interesting to make comparisons.
That does look remarkably similar, especially the fleshtones.
To my eyes the Star Wars Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2 screencap looks more natural though, the sky actually looks blue rather than green, so its definately the one I prefer.
Its definately nice to see that I got the fleshtones pretty spot when comparing to the Technicolor IB print, never seen reference frames from this section before. One of my main aims with these V2 releases was to replicate the fleshtone colours of the IB print frames i'd seen of Star Wars and then regrade the other five films to maintain fleshtone colour consistency with the first film.
MrToad883 said:
Beautiful work kk650! I forgot to ask/make a suggestion but would it be easier for you to just release your 5.1 mixes as audio only and have us mux it in ourselves as a separate audio track for the videos? Just seems like alot of uploading for you!
Nah its fine. I'll provide the tracks seperately as well but those that are less tech savvy i'm sure will appreciate me doing all the muxing legwork for them. Reuploading these releases isn't a problem, I'm just happy that i've finally finished, at least on the video side of things.
kitt1987 said:
Congrats on finally finishing up the saga, I look forward to checking out Jedi soon since your other releases were top notch! Do you anticipate getting these up on my spleen by the weekend or so?
Thanks kitt, I appreciate that! Regrading all 6 films has been a hell of a lot of work. As far as i'm aware, i'm the only releaser to have achieved that. I'm just really happy to have finished with Star Wars in general and be able to move onto other stuff.
I'm busy creating the last 22gb regraded release of Avengers: Age of Ultron right now, all the other releases are currently available on tehparadox, but in the next few days I should hopefully be able to get the two ROTJ releases up on myspleen.
Your ROTJ looks a million times better than the bluray. Just got it off the paradox place and your regrading is excellent.
i got kk650's 50GB Phantom Menace... as anyone been able to put this on a BD50?
I don't really feel like reencoding it so my only other options are USB or splitting the file up on two discs?
thanks for your help. :)
Nice! Really pleased with how the colours look on the OT (looking only at screenshots for IV and V, but I've watched your RotJ). Looking forward to the 5.1 releases.
My only request, if I may make one, is that with ESB if you could have an alternate version with the McDiarmid-Emperor scene instead (with your wonderful colour correction, of course). Planning a saga watch before the release of VII, and ESB's original Emperor may seem a bit out of place. Maybe even a recut, as ADigitalMan did on DVD, to be closer to the original dialogue but with McDiarmid's voice.
Loved watching your RotJ. The colour was great. Jabba's Palace played out well with the music. Nice to see the original Anakin again. Only suggestion I might level, is that Cloud City seemed awfully lonely being the only city in the celebration at the end. I grew up with the '97SE though, so maybe that's just me. Glad Naboo is gone though.
Thanks for the effort!!
Pretty happy about ROTJ semi-specialized edition, although the other two are also great, I'm sticking with the theatrical versions of those two. You've managed to make ROTJ way less offensive when it comes to changes but still keeping the special effects improvements intact.
Prequel Fan-Edit thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Yet-another-series-of-prequel-edits/id/17329
TRIFORCE89 said:
Nice! Really pleased with how the colours look on the OT (looking only at screenshots for IV and V, but I've watched your RotJ). Looking forward to the 5.1 releases.
My only request, if I may make one, is that with ESB if you could have an alternate version with the McDiarmid-Emperor scene instead (with your wonderful colour correction, of course). Planning a saga watch before the release of VII, and ESB's original Emperor may seem a bit out of place. Maybe even a recut, as ADigitalMan did on DVD, to be closer to the original dialogue but with McDiarmid's voice.
Loved watching your RotJ. The colour was great. Jabba's Palace played out well with the music. Nice to see the original Anakin again. Only suggestion I might level, is that Cloud City seemed awfully lonely being the only city in the celebration at the end. I grew up with the '97SE though, so maybe that's just me. Glad Naboo is gone though.
Thanks for the effort!!
Kk650 has said that he is done with star wars (besides the 5.1 mixes) so don't expect any video changes. He's been working on these movies for many years and is happy he can take a step back from the saga.
Yes, and he has addressed the ending and emperor before.
IIRC: He removed the emperor mostly due to being unhappy with the effect/look itself rather than dialogue. I've already tried to get him to do what Adywan did :P
For the ending he was unhappy with how populated Mos Eisley was, I believe.
Nice colours. I'll be sure to pick them up at the earliest opportunity. It appears I may need a reseed though.
Ol’ George has the GOUT, I see.
I got the Regraded Episode I and Episode II; one question: I need the French audio--could I seamlessly mux in the French track from the Star Wars Blu-ray? I believe kk650 didn't tweak anything to do with the timing of the films but I'm asking to make sure. Thanks! :)
Definitely getting anxious to check this out when it comes available on my spleen.
What's with all of the spleen requests? Why not just download a dlc file?
Prequel Fan-Edit thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Yet-another-series-of-prequel-edits/id/17329
I'm personally not a fan of the file sharing sites so when/if kk650 shares this on myspleen I know I'll be grateful. for my experience the spleen suits my purposes better is all.
I was previously a critic of the file locker method due to some of the sites used (50 kbps upload, caps, waiting periods, captchas), but the one he's using currently is great.
MrToad883 said:
Your ROTJ looks a million times better than the bluray. Just got it off the paradox place and your regrading is excellent.
Thanks for the kind words, appreciated!