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Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1 — Page 70

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I would like to thank Harmy for the incredible work he has put into making this trilogy available in its “non-special edition” form for us, it really is a public service and it beats the hell out of watching my old VHS tapes. I’d also like to give a special commendation to Deathalo for your contributions as well!

I would like to add though that the disappearing TIE fighters don’t disappear. It’s pretty unnoticeable though unless you’re obsessed with seeing those TIE fighters disappear in 720p.

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So, after watching the whole Despecialized trilogy this week, I saw that ROTJ and ESB v2.0 are already far ahead of SW v2.5, which has a lot of issues in comparison.

So here’s the new plan:

I decided that for v2.0 of ROTJ, I will only make the most necessary fixes from the workprint, so that I can have a official final 2.0 version soon to finally replace the comparatively subpar v1.0.

And then I will make v2.5 versions of both rather quickly with only minor fixes (kind of like what SW v2.5 actually did for v2.1) so that the entire trilogy is on the same version and so the difference between v2.5 of SW and the other two isn’t even more huge.

And then I will start working on v3.0 of the entire trilogy, because SW really needs it and the other two are already pretty close to what I’d consider as good as Despecialized is ever going to get (and will be even more so in v2.5) but can be improved with a little extra love.

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I shall look forward to marathoning the Despecialized 3.0 Trilogy.

Just repeat to yourself “It’s just a film, I should really just relax”

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That are awesome news Harmy!! Made my weekend after the TFA premier yesterday here in Germany!

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Please, use time, instead of frame number - much easier to find. I just included the frame number in case we need to talk about specific frame, in which case I’d ask you to use both time and frame number.

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Please report any quality issues you find here.
I would also like to request that if you already reported an issue, that you re-post in that thread. Thanks!

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I am unable to get an invite to myspleen. Why did they shut down the invites? How is it possible to get these if you can’t get an invite?

YUB NUB!

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Harmy said:

Please report any quality issues you find here.
I would also like to request that if you already reported an issue, that you re-post in that thread. Thanks!

I also suggest that everybody should delete their reports here when they are reposted in the new thread, so you can check if some reports are missing.

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n00b said:

Harmy said:

Please report any quality issues you find here.
I would also like to request that if you already reported an issue, that you re-post in that thread. Thanks!

I also suggest that everybody should delete their reports here when they are reposted in the new thread, so you can check if some reports are missing.

What? No. We shouldn’t break the conversations that are recorded here. Editing the post to say that it was added to the QC thread would be a good idea, though.

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Amazing work. Thanks for your efforts!

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No one’s done a standard def dvd-5 version of the work print, have they? I’d like to make a set of the DVD versions of these for my friend for Christmas, but the DVD-5 for Jedi 1.0 on Myspleen isn’t very good.

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joefavs said:

No one’s done a standard def dvd-5 version of the work print, have they? I’d like to make a set of the DVD versions of these for my friend for Christmas, but the DVD-5 for Jedi 1.0 on Myspleen isn’t very good.

By all accounts ‘BD Rebuilder’ is very good at converting HD to SD-DVD.

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The finished version of 2.0 will almost certainly be out in a few weeks, so the new DVD will be available soon enough. There’s not much point in converting the workprint.

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Chewtobacca said:

The finished version of 2.0 will almost certainly be out in a few weeks, so the new DVD will be available soon enough. There’s not much point in converting the workprint.

Didn’t realize it was coming so soon, I kind of checked out of this thread after the workprint hit and focused completely on TFA. If that’s the case, I’ll give him the other two and get the proper 2.0 to him later.

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Is the RotJ 2.0 Workprint available on TehParadox. Don’t have a myspleen invite so thats my only way to download.

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Hey guys. I can’t get Jedi 1.0 to extract on JDownloader. All the files are downloaded but the extraction fails every time. I’ve extracted Star Wars and Empire with no problem and those were the much larger MKV files. Can anyone help me? I’m on a MacBook Pro, OSX 10.10.5 with JDownloader and RAR Extractor.

UPDATE: I’m getting this error in the extractor program “CRC failed in FINAL AVCHD/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts (password incorrect ?)”. But isn’t the password “harmy” like everything else?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Congratulations on your TWIT appearance , Harmy!

Are you ever concerned about getting too much exposure??

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I think at this point it doesn’t really matter any more - there’s been so much exposure that I’m sure the powers that be must have been aware of this for a long time.

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Quite true.

I was thinking more in terms of becoming a celebrity yourself.

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I think at this point it doesn’t really matter any more - there’s been so much exposure that I’m sure the powers that be must have been aware of this for a long time.

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Hey Harmy I just wanted to say how much I appreciate these edits you’ve done. I’m not a huge Star Wars buff, but I really like the OT (particularly the first 2) for the sort of rogue filmmaker feel they have, and when Lucas edits them, they kind of lose alot of that honestly.
Either way I’m so terribly thankful that you were able to release a workprint for RotJ before me and my friend from PA (and maybe some others) have a Star Wars marathon with the your versions of the OT and a shortened version of the prequels called “The Phantom Edit”. It’s gonna be great.

Also I wanted to apologize to whomever it concerns (probably TV’s Frink) for creating an account here and only posting asking for a MySpleen invite. I regularly check the forums, but I honestly have very little to say.

Forthwith and Forthright

- Gene Kaufman

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GeneKaufman said:

Also I wanted to apologize to whomever it concerns (probably TV’s Frink)

Don’t apologize to Frink, you’ll just encourage him 😉

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