Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1 — Page 146

Element said:

I wanted to print some blu-rays, but I can’t seem to find the download for the covers still up anywhere. Would anyone be able to help me out?

There’s a bunch of Despecialized covers listed and linked to in:

An Index & Help Thread for Case Covers, Disc Labels, and Fan Art in the Case Covers, Disc Labels, and Fan Art forum.

Some amazing looking box sets with individual covers for them as well.

RETURN OF THE JEDI - DESPECIALIZED EDITION V3.1 IS OUT NOW!!!

Here’s HanDuet’s excellent (and wonderfully updated) guide on where to find it: https://goo.gl/1WGHBA

There may be a short delay before the public torrents option is available, but the Multipart RAR method is active and previous DEED releases have an official public torrent option now too, so hopefully, there won’t be any trouble getting it to download this time.

Detailed info can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQS4B0y0YeESsVoayO4D134DzvPB7Vk8iVg7ZnnF1gC--BsCdMuhyC2SK7X0dKuv_lejjqMxO4lf7tj/pub

For v3.1, minor fixes were made, the biggest of which include adding a Jabba subtitle, which was missing in 3.0,
and replacing the 5.1 English audio track, where in v3.0 a custom track with additional music in the Obi-Wan ghost scene
was used by mistake.

The MKV version contains a large number of audio tracks, including the latest versions of the preservations
of the original audio mixes in DTS-HD MA, three different commentary tracks, an isolated score and dubbing
tracks in many different languages.

For v3.1, the encode has been done by a professional studio, so the compression quality is better
and the stream is now compatible for remuxing and burning a UHD Blu-Ray disc.

Big thanks to Poita, hairy_hen, schorman, Mavimao and CatBus!

More information can be found here:

originaltrilogy.com/topic/id/12905

facebook.com/despecialized

youtube.com/HarmyDespecialized

All subtitles are from “Project Threepio v15.0”

Big thanks to CatBus!

More info here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/id/13794/

Thank you, Harmy!

With this latest version of Harmy’s Despecialized Edition for Return of the Jedi, I’ve also published a HUGE update to my guide! HDG v7.0 features completely revised download methods graciously provided in collaboration with other fans of the Despecialized Editions. This includes use of a more modern download manager and a public torrent option!

As always, my guide is available at this persistent URL: https://goo.gl/1WGHBA

Check out the Change Log at the bottom if you’re interested in the details of this update, and please feel welcome to message me if any errors or issues are discovered with the guide. I hope this guide update makes it easier for those who own copies of the Star Wars films to enjoy Harmy’s incredible projects!

This is the real deal, kids! Thanks, Harmy!

https://youtu.be/TjHT2DjgT_c

Short video announcement 😃

JoshWebs said:

There is a typo on the download page I noticed when it was updated yesterday. The Star Wars and ESB movies files are listed as 1080p but are only 720p. Is this a hint at a future release of both in 1080p. I’d love to see them both in 4k to go with ROTJ.

Thanks for the feedback, I’ve fixed those typos in the Download Sources guide. The correct resolution is 720p for SW v2.7 MKV and ESB v2.0 MKV. I do believe Harmy intends to provide high resolution releases for future DEED version of Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, but I’ll let him to speak to that in his own time. 😃

Fantastic!

FYI, I threw together this little comparison:

The top row shows that 4K is an extremely subtle improvement over 1080p with these films. It’s there, but many would be perfectly satisfied with 1080p. The difference at 1080p is little more than grain resolution, and it’s possible that a different 1080p encoder tuning could even retain that. There’s a bigger, but still not huge, drop-off at 720p, so that’s actually still a solid resolution for presenting these reconstructions – basically the grain gets obliterated, but differences in actual image detail are still pretty minor. That’s good news for the other Despecialized films, which are still at 720p, and most of the grain was added at 720p, so it’s not lost in the downscale.

The bottom row shows some more interesting things. The DVD downscale looks, frankly, like crap. And that’s an anamorphic DVD downscale from 2160p that I made, considerably better than the recycled Laserdisc master which is the best thing we have from Lucasfilm. The GOUT would look even worse!

The 4K83 images show two things: first, that I really like the colors of Despecialized (but that’s just a matter of opinion). The other thing it shows is the advantage of using the UHD source over a projection print source. You can see more fine detail in the UHD-based source, even at some lower resolutions, because of the generational loss baked into projection prints.

I’m sorry, but if someone can point me to a simple torrent or something, I’d appreciate it. All of this info is a bit much. I just want to watch Harmy’s work.

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

I’m sorry, but if someone can point me to a simple torrent or something, I’d appreciate it. All of this info is a bit much. I just want to watch Harmy’s work.

Check your WORKPRINT PM thread.

Harmy and others were having trouble with the public torrent website, which may display prompts to download some bogus VPN before allowing download of the magnet/torrent. While a privacy-focused browser and/or good ad-blocker extensions should prevent these predatory ads, we’ve now added a “Direct” download link for the .torrent file so that those having trouble with the torrent website can bypass it entirely.

Please don’t share those links directly. Ideally, refer people to the HDG (https://goo.gl/1WGHBA). If they can’t be bothered to read the guide, link directly to the Download Sources page: https://goo.gl/5Sif60

It’s important that people read the legal requirements (i.e., you must own a copy of the Star Wars films to download fan edits of them) and other cautionary notices!

Jedi122 said:

How did you make a lossless DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack out of the 1983 70mm Magnetic Six Track Mix?

That’s the hairy_hen project (it’s a separate project from despecialized, synced to the same standard so that the audio is interchangeable and can be included with many preservations). IIRC this is a reconstruction of that six-channel mix using what we know of the four-track master, the matrixed Laserdisc stereo run through a dolby decoder, and some love (and some educated guesswork when it comes to the LFE). From what we can tell, it’s very close to the real thing. Then you just encode it in a slightly more home-video-friendly format (5.1) instead of the original 4.2.

Hey Harmy!

Do you have an “official” DE logo graphic that I could use for menu pages and whatnot?

Verified, I burned this to a BD-50 and played it back in a hardware player. It’s glorious.

Keep in mind, I do have some general caveats about this sort of endeavor. While all of the streams (video, audio), may be individually UHD-compatible, there can be problems when you try to burn them to disc collectively. There is both a maximum bitrate for the disc, and a maximum number of audio and subtitle tracks. Some UHD authoring tools (e.g. tsMuxeR) will let you blow right past those limits without so much as a warning, and create an ISO which plays fine on your PC, but not in a hardware player.

So while you may be tempted to make a super-ultra-universal UHD with every conceivable audio track and subtitle (er, well, at least that thought has tempted me…), that is not going to happen. Put it out of your mind. You are limited to 32 audio tracks and 32 subtitle tracks, and you may be limited to fewer than that if you decide to pile on multiple lossless tracks.

Me, I played it safe, because I don’t like making coasters. My disc had 12 audio tracks, and only the primary 5.1 track was lossless – the rest were lossy. I also showed a lot of restraint and only included 19 subtitle tracks, but those are far less likely to put your disc over the edge. You could probably be a lot less conservative and still make a playable disc.

Also, burning discs beyond BD-50 capacity is probably asking for trouble. Stick to BD-50 and avoid worries.

Ftmch said:

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

I’m sorry, but if someone can point me to a simple torrent or something, I’d appreciate it. All of this info is a bit much. I just want to watch Harmy’s work.

Would also love a link for the 1080p-version.

You click on the link and you read. That shouldn’t be to hard.

Pretty sure I know the answer before getting this, but is it possible to strip enough audio tracks and burn a BD25 or is a BD50 necessary for this without re-encoding?

The 1080p version is designed for a BD25, if you keep only the English audio and one or two dubs.

The 2160p version is over 40GB just for the video.