Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released) — Page 165

teoalcantara said:

1) Sound seems a little bit distorted, as if volume was a tad too high, but this can be due to mp4 compression or my codecs/player fault (I use MPC-HC);

2) I don't know if it has always been like that (and probably it WAS, due to Special FX technical limitations of the era the film was made), but at 00:56:18:23 and 00:56:58:18 (Luke's saber going off and on) it felt to me like there was a jump cut /missing frame;

The sound is indeed pretty distorted, but what you hear on the workprint is just a temp track.  I've been looking at them with the volume all the way off, anyway.  Be assured that the audio on the final version is of much greater quality than this.  ;)

Those jump cuts in the training scene have always been there.  Even the SE's never did anything about them.  The only place you can see non-jumpy renditions of those shots is in the version Darth Editous put out a few years ago, which used frame morphing to smooth over the transitions with surprisingly good results.

Grabbing it now, the screenshot looks beautiful.

Reel 4 looks great.  I love the color and detail, noticing all kinds of things in the background that I've never noticed before.  The special edition is stupid dark. 

I'm sure I missed it, but do I need to order a Blu Ray drive for this? Or AVCHD again?

Great, my TV is only 720p anyway.

Just watched WP3 and WP4 and they're both awesome. Very well done Harmy.

Harmy, Reel 4 looks amazing! Didn't see one thing that needs changed.  Best of luck on your paper!

Just watched reel 4 and it looks wonderful. Cheers to you once again Harmy!

The only quibble I have with it is Vader's cloak brightening, starting at 1:08:17. I don't think the benefits of making the cloak stand out more from the darkness make up for the high graininess swarming over it. Plus it looks like a matte is moving over it. I'm curious to see how others see it.

One other thing. Back on reel 1, the escape pod, during it's launch, has a visible blue matte box over it. Is that normal?

Anyway, it all looks so shinny and pretty! Can't wait for the next reel.

May you get a perfect grade on your term paper.

I didn't notice the Vader cloak to be honest, after you guys pointed it out maybe but it didn't stick out to me.

My favorite improvements over v1.0, the color and no more ghost Luke at the moisture farm! Can't wait to watch the entire thing!

As I've broken the psychological barrier to asking stupid questions for tonight, may I just ask one more then... Are all the changes you made 'stored' in a seperate 'execution stream' to the movie itself so that if you had a faster computer you could flip a switch and reapply the changes in a 1080p way? Or is it the case that it's more hardcoded now to 720p?

The reason of course I'm asking is if it's just a problem of a faster computer then there would be a queue of people donating whatever you needed.

I watched nearly all of your youtube clips and have fallen in love with the way you've done it (original colour timing).

Please don't start from scratch haha.  In my opinion, 1080p is just a waste.  They look plenty sharp enough at 720.  Considering the only other original version I have is the GOUT DVDs and VHS......I'm in heaven at 720

I agree 720 is heaven. It seems to have worked out very well. Maybe things happen for a reason sometimes, if Harmy had tried to do it in 1080p the sd elements may not have been so seamless and he might have felt the need to carry on in 1080p anyway. I actually agree with the poster above who said all factors considered that 720p is the sweet spot for this.

Thank you for replying,

hairy_hen!

I would love to see some capture of Despecialized running on 1080p Projector... Anyone?

Not sure what you're asking?  Download it and play it on a 1080p projector if you want to watch it that way...