kk650's Star Wars Saga: Regraded and Semi-Specialized (Released) — Page 27

ott said:

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. :)

 I was trying to max out the bitrate and capture as much of the grain as possible so I don't think it'll fit on a bd-50. What i'd personally do is use mkvmerge to split the file in two with the 'link files' option selected so it fits on a bd-50 and bd-25. When both parts are side by side on your harddisk or media player the join should be completely seamless.

Is Jedi likely to show up on myspleen any time soon, or is it tehparadox or bust?

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!!

Thanks!

I am actually seriously considering creating an alternate version of ESB with the McDiarmid-Emperor scene instead, i'm not a big fan of the dialogue or the puffed up look of the SE emperor in that scene but you're not the first to request it and it is a very easy change to make.

I have no plans to reintroduce Coruscant, Naboo pr Tatooine Celebration scenes. Coruscant and Naboo were never shown in the Original Trilogy so they have no place there and just remind people of the Prequels by being there. Tatooine was of course but it just looks ridiculously overcrowded, blatently CG and OTT in general IMHO, like something out ot the Prequels.

joefavs said:

Is Jedi likely to show up on myspleen any time soon, or is it tehparadox or bust?

I've just been very busy working out how to go about regrading Jurassic World, these modern releases are hard to regrade in different ways to the catalog releases, finding the best balance across the whole film is tough and very time-consuming, i'm on my third encode now.

I imagine I should probably be able to have ROTJ up on myspleen by sunday at the earliest.

Smithers said:

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. 

Thanks! The Star Wars Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2L is actually my favourite with ROTJ and ESB a close second and third.

ott said:

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! :)

Episode I, II and III should mux seamlessly with the French blu-ray audio, I didn't edit the three Prequel regrades in any way.

Thanks for replying ! :) I'm gonna go ahead and mux the audio with your great work, then. :)

Also, about it fitting on a BD50; I'm gonna split it up into two files and burn them. I don't want to mess with your encode. :) Gonna look for a good place to split the file.

Thanks again !! I really appreciate it. :)

kk650 said:

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!!

Thanks!

I am actually seriously considering creating an alternate version of ESB with the McDiarmid-Emperor scene instead, i'm not a big fan of the dialogue or the puffed up look of the SE emperor in that scene but you're not the first to request it and it is a very easy change to make.

I have no plans to reintroduce Coruscant, Naboo pr Tatooine Celebration scenes. Coruscant and Naboo were never shown in the Original Trilogy so they have no place there and just remind people of the Prequels by being there. Tatooine was of course but it just looks ridiculously overcrowded, blatently CG and OTT in general IMHO, like something out ot the Prequels.

I have to say I agree with the poster you are quoting. I would LOVE a ESB edition with McDiarmid Emperor. Having a consistent actor (and one that does not look like an old lady with monkey eyes) is preferable, even with the dialogue puffy face and puffy face. I would love to see this verision!

I like Adywan's version of the emperor scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0q0CF5Y1cI but i would agree that since this is a semi-specialized version i would use the SE version of this scene.

That's pretty neat on the audio end of things, but the mouth reminds me of when Conan O'Brien used to have celebrities on "live via satellite" and it was just a photo with someone else's mouth superimposed.

(I personally love the original Emperor to bits and would choose him over McDiarmid every time, continuity be damned)

another question about The Phantom Menace (50GB): I used TsMuxer to make BDMV folders to burn on two BD25 discs. (I split the original mkv file with MKVMerge.) Everything went fine except (and I'm having this problem with the Nightcrawler Regrade, as well) that the picture fills the entire 16:9 screen on my TV, stretching everything vertically. It should be 2.35 or 2.40:1 with black bars on top and bottom of the picture. Adjusting zoom options on my TV or BD player aren't helping to get the right aspect ratio. I know there must be something to edit or remux with Display Aspect Ratio but I'm having a really hard time figuring this one out. :) Any help would be appreciated for this. :) Thanks!

The files were encoded without the black bars so they won't play back properly burned to Blu-Ray without re-encoding, which may or may not degrade the quality a bit. I believe these are intended primarily for people using PCs for playback.

Does it take up much space to simply encode the black bars on your re-encodes kk650? If you did, both Blu-Ray users and people playing the MKVs on your computer could both be happy. Not really a fan of having to re-encode your files to get something I can play off disk at a possible loss of quality.

btw, i just used UncropMKV on your Nightcrawler regrade--AND IT WORKED !! Burned to BD and the aspect ratio is fine on my TV. :) So excited. And I have to say, this is my first regrade of yours that I'm watching on my TV and it looks spectacular. :) Thanks for all your hard work on these.

ott, was any recoding required with UncropMKV? Sounds like it could be the perfect tool if not!

yeah. UncropMKV reencodes the file. and it can take a long time if you want the very highest quality but, even at Turbo speed, Nightcrawler looked terrific to me. :)

Its really frustrating that every single thread on the forum is full of people asking technical questions. It just dilutes the quality conversations about the projects themselves and makes it impossible to navigate the threads.

Harmy's Star Wars thread has over 500 pages!! And I dare say that a third of these posts are people asking how to burn it to a disc or how to play an MKV on their computer.

I understand that some people are not tech savvy, but can these questions be limited to a single tech discussion thread? And remove any posts that relate to "how to burn" or "how to play"? That would be a great rule.

Any takers?

Danfun128 said:

Those aren't going away anytime soon. :P

 Neither is Frink.

ott said:

btw, i just used UncropMKV on your Nightcrawler regrade--AND IT WORKED !! Burned to BD and the aspect ratio is fine on my TV. :) So excited. And I have to say, this is my first regrade of yours that I'm watching on my TV and it looks spectacular. :) Thanks for all your hard work on these.

Thank you for the kind words ott, its always great to hear that people are enjoying my regrades! :)

For all those interested, I've just put up both the latest Return of the Jedi Semi-Specialised Edition V2.15 releases up on myspleen, one with the original theatrical Yub Nub ending and one with the modified special edition Victory Celebration ending (replacing Hayden Christensen with Sebastian Shaw of course and removing the CG celebration scenes from the prequel trilogy locations, no more 'weesa free!!!' thankfully).

Here are screencap comparisons for all six Star Wars regrades:

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Star Wars Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2L:

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Blu-ray 1:



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Blu-ray 2:



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Blu-ray 3:



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Blu-ray 4:



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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:



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Blu-ray 3:



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Blu-ray 4:



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Blu-ray 5:



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Return of the Jedi Semi-Specialised Edition V2.15:

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Blu-ray 1:

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Blu-ray 2:

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Blu-ray 3:

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Blu-ray 4:

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Blu-ray 5:

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Blu-ray 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:

Regraded 2:

Official Blu-ray 3:

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I'm sure those that were waiting for it to hit the spleen are now grateful..thanks kk!

Hey kk just saw capablemetal just posted on the spleen new versions of the cinema DTS HD-ma. Not sure if those were the ones you wanted to use for your 5.1 mixes but it looks like the best quality of the 97 ones out there. Hope that helps!  

Here’s another interpretation of this Star Wars frame inspired by the frame piota posted recently of one of his prints.

Bluray:

kk650:

DrDre: