Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1 — Page 82

I am looking for german subtitles of DESPECIALIZED RETURN OF THE JEDI.
Any chance to find them somewhere in the interwebs??!

May the force be with you!!

Really looking forward to the next version of this. No need for me to help viewing the WP, so will be patient an wait. Many thanks for all the effort that goes into these.

Harmy said:

OK, so I have v2.0 cut assembled and I have the audio tracks from hairy_hen but I’d still like a few volunteers to check out a final workprint before I do the final release. Any takers?

If it is not too late I would like the chance to assist.

Harmy said:

OK, so I have v2.0 cut assembled and I have the audio tracks from hairy_hen but I’d still like a few volunteers to check out a final workprint before I do the final release. Any takers?

Count me in, I was able to help out when you did the same thing for Empire.

yoda-sama said:

Harmy said:

OK, so I have v2.0 cut assembled and I have the audio tracks from hairy_hen but I’d still like a few volunteers to check out a final workprint before I do the final release. Any takers?

Count me in, I was able to help out when you did the same thing for Empire.

Humble brag.

Well, it made it easier to compare differences, and I was able to argue a noteworthy change into the final version. I do humbly point it out to people when I show them Empire.

Luke’s lightsaber coloring during the Wampa scene. You were going to leave it white at first. I was just stoked to have a visible contribution to the project, however small.

So, is there any chance of getting links to the comparison WP?
Thanks, Harmy, I’ll give it the ol’ college try first chance I get.

Harmy said:

OK, so I have v2.0 cut assembled and I have the audio tracks from hairy_hen but I’d still like a few volunteers to check out a final workprint before I do the final release. Any takers?

I’d love to take a look of course!

So does this mean a final release will likely be out within the next week or so?

Harmy said:

OK, so I have v2.0 cut assembled and I have the audio tracks from hairy_hen but I’d still like a few volunteers to check out a final workprint before I do the final release. Any takers?

I’m down. I’d love to help out.

I’ll give the 2011 a once-over tonight. I was having trouble figuring out what to watch anyway.

I’m at about the 70 minute mark and I’m thinking I’m going to put a pin in this and finish in the morning. So far I haven’t noticed any sync issues. The mix is a little awkward for Lapti Nek, but I’m not sure what else you could do with it. The song is right on the edge of being too loud for the commentary, but if you bring it down the snatches of Jedi Rocks that come through will be more noticeable and distracting. I don’t think it’s worth messing with; anyone who’s interested in watching it with the commentary is going to have a good enough understanding of what this project is to be willing to roll with it.

I haven’t watched / listened to these, and I don’t really know what you’re trying to do with the commentaries, Lapti Nek, and Jedi Rocks, though it sounds like you’re trying to replace Jedi Rocks with Lapti Nek by playing Lapti Nek loud enough to drown out Jedi Rocks.

If that’s the case, you could find a music file of the Jedi Rocks song, sync it to the Jedi Rocks that plays during the commentary audio, then flip the polarity / phase of the Jedi Rocks song that you synced to the commentary version, and that should cancel out the Jedi Rocks that plays during the commentary. Then you could add Lapti Nek at normal volume.

Just do whatever minimizes Jedi Rocks as much as humanly possible.

I think I might have made it sound worse than it actually is. Jedi Rocks is largely drowned out by the added Lapti Nek track, but there are a few big horn hits that make it through. It’s very similar to the bits of dialogue from the Han and Jabba scene that are audible on the Star Wars commentary, but the fact that these are two pop songs played on top of each other rather than dialogue and ambient score makes it jump out more for me.

Right, well Lapti Nek is the only part I noticed where the background volume was a little loud for the commentary, but it’s still clear enough that I don’t think it needs adjusting.

Well, the Rancor scene is pretty much spot on now, much easier to make out what is going and all around fits more naturally with the rest of the film, can’t wait to see it fill the screen. Including puggo’s version at the beginning was a good call, it helped the subtitle timing make sense, and as I thought more about it, it IS the timing I remember from VHS, etc. Glad to see the subtitles back where they should be.

One big issue I have with the comparison print is that the GOUT was so small it was pretty much useless for a reference on what did or didn’t get fixed from the SE in general. At best it could be a reference for color grading, but the v2 WP would have been better shrunken into that spot instead, since it seems the v2 WP was mostly there JUST to show off the new colors (which go from subtle to striking in many places, but all around pretty natural, good job on that so far). There are some things I noticed this time I haven’t seen before and really would have liked to be able to make out from the GOUT, but it seems a 64" plasma is too small a screen to use for comparison.

The one thing that really stands out to me that I would have liked to compare (no time code, I don’t have it in front of me) was the shadow Leia (in disguise) casts on the wall after she sneaks across the throne room, just before approaching the Han-sicle (wall Han-ger…?). It is a shaky, but well defined shadow, which looks a lot like it was done in post, I just wonder if it is original to the theatrical version or an effect added in the SE.