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Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1 — Page 53

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Harmy said:

Actually, I think that the original ESB emperor looks much closer to the ROTJ one than the bloated ROTS Darth Shittious they used in the ESB SE, even though it's the same actor. Plus of course, the new dialog is awful.

 Agreed, he looks like an ass with STDs, and the new dialog ruins the mystery and twist.

Prequel Fan-Edit thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Yet-another-series-of-prequel-edits/id/17329

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CatBus said:

chyron8472 said:

Re: blobs and matte boxes--Harmy, I thought you said that the contrast in the original theatres should have been properly adjusted so that they wouldn't have been visible to the audience, and consequently, having them appear would not fit to the actual intent of the project.

Some matte boxes are more visible than others, depending on the brightness of the background (there's one against a Star Destroyer in ESB that's pretty front-and-center).  It's a matter of degree--most of the matte boxes may have been barely visible in the theatres if you looked for them, rather than jumping out at you like they do on the home video releases.  Having them be as obvious as the home video releases would certainly not fit the intent of the project, but so would erasing them altogether.  But there's a few pretty obvious ones that were likely always pretty obvious.

 Having watched it on film again recently, the matte boxes are all pretty visible in a cinema if you look for them.

On home video, they will be more visible on some TVs than others, as many people don't calibrate their TVs.

I can understand removing them altogether for a reworking using the original material, to get something to watch when you just want to sit back and enjoy the SW universe. A preservation would leave them in, as it gives important information about how the effects were done, the state of film-making effects in the 70s and 80s, etc. but for something I'd want to just sit down and enjoy the story, I'm happy enough for them to become invisible.

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poita said:

On home video, they will be more visible on some TVs than others, as many people don't calibrate their TVs.

Oh my! I never thought about how bad they would look in the default "torch mode" for most TV's.  Or that the whole film might even be extra-widescreen from the stretching 4:3 letterboxed content to 16:9... yergh!

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Hope this isn’t taken as spammy, since I posted this in the ESB thread as well, but does anyone know what the MD5 checksum is for the MKV file? He lists it for A New Hope, but I don’t see that info in the opening post for the sequels.

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That last shot of Anakin’s ghost sticks out a bit. I can tell it’s being played in reverse, and that’s kind of distracting.

Ol’ George has the GOUT, I see.

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I understand why that happens, but why don’t people bother to check their posts?

Goddamn kids these days…

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TV’s Frink said:

I understand why that happens, but why don’t people bother to check their posts?

Goddamn kids these days…

I think the only way it can happen is if you don’t know you posted at all, right? If you press post reply, it’ll show the default garbage text, but if you click to enter text, it’ll disappear.

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TV’s Frink said:

So…you’re blaming fat fingers?

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All this computer hacking is making me thirsty. I think I’ll order a tab.

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You can’t have a Tab unless you order something, here have this Pepsi Free.

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To this day, I congratulate my dog for finding the floor when she spins around before laying down.

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For what it’s worth, I’ve received two PM’s already with informational text about MarkDown, and nothing else. It’s a pretty big problem.

Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)

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Maybe you just need a little extra help with how Markdown works.

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Someone recently asked about chapters, and these match an MKV of the HD release perfectly.

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Paquito said:

Hope this isn’t taken as spammy, since I posted this in the ESB thread as well, but does anyone know what the MD5 checksum is for the MKV file? He lists it for A New Hope, but I don’t see that info in the opening post for the sequels.

Bueller? Bueller?

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ESB MKV is listed in the first post, down a bit:

CRC32: C4BF0283
MD5: 1E34878403B05924F71354E961016FCE
SHA-1: 66FD71200749FE96123888228868789ACDBF34C5

I don’t think he ever posted ones for the 1.x series, so you’d need to ask someone for the one for ROTJ. I’ve already demuxed and remuxed my copy, so mine’s pretty useless for that.

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Dont shout at me as I am new but I am still not finding were to get this version. I joined My spleen but cannot find anything as of yet I have the first two and am loving the quality but this last episode evades me still. Thanks and sorry if I missed something.

update: ok thanks think I got it on the way now 😄.

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Darth Mallwalker said:

Paquito said:

Bueller? Bueller?

Post 753, Post 923

❤️ Thank you! For the post with the MD5 hash, is that for version 1, or the latest version of Harmy’s ROTJ?

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ESB MKV is listed in the first post, down a bit:

Thanks for putting the ESB hashes in the OP Harmy! When you get the chance, can you do it for this thread as well? Apologies for being annoying!

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Paquito said:

❤️ Thank you! For the post with the MD5 hash, is that for version 1, or the latest version of Harmy’s ROTJ?

Yes and yes.

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i was just thinking of how awesome it would be to see v2.0 of ROTJ before seeing TFA. Harmy, how far along is ROTJ?

It’s really sad when the “creative minds” behind something we hold dear are also guilty of its destruction.