Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released) — Page 376

Author: YanniD
Time: 20-Jul-2013 5:26 AM (Edited)
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As suggested months ago, if you decide to release the mkv, perhaps do it with a few basic soundtracks that are not likely to change and then release the other soundtracks separately as they become available: it's really simple to mux additional soundtracks with mkvmerge and the consumer has total control over which soundtracks they want to download and incorporate, plus it means the mkv can be released sooner instead of being held up by other things.

I highly recommend releasing extras in the same way: it makes it easier waiting for the final BD.

I may not even grab the BD if all the material is available as mkv: menus are nice and all, but not really necessary to enjoy the most important aspect of this work (the content).

As far as soundtrack encoding: TrueHD should have an accompanying DD track for legacy system support, whilst DTS-HD (MA) is based on a DTS core that can be used for legacy systems. DTS is often less well supported in playback systems than DD due to licensing issues. My understanding is that DD 640 should be effectively equivalent to DTS 1536.

Author: lpd
Time: 20-Jul-2013 6:38 AM
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You've got to remember you can just decode the blu ray yourself, I myself dont have a blu ray burner my plan is to get hold of the blu ray file decode it and just put all the separate files on my media player. You can just encode the files to anything you prefer.

Plus it also saves Harmy having to do everything for us. If the final release is just a blu ray iso its no big deal.

Author: digitalfreaknyc
Time: 20-Jul-2013 10:21 PM
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Harmy said:

Well, what I'm looking for are the original '77 mixes (whatever the best current preservations of them are) encoded in DTS-HD MA format. I already have h_h's 70mm 5.1 but I still don't have the other two.

What program encodes to DTS-HD MA (or TrueHD, for that matters)?

Author: DoomBot
Time: 20-Jul-2013 11:42 PM
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dts-hd master audio suite does this.

http://www.dts.com/professionals/audio-software/dts-hd-master-audio-suite/overview.aspx

Author: digitalfreaknyc
Time: 21-Jul-2013 6:35 AM
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DoomBot said:

dts-hd master audio suite does this.

http://www.dts.com/professionals/audio-software/dts-hd-master-audio-suite/overview.aspx

Somehow I doubt the guys on here are spending $1500 on that ;0 :) :) :)

Author: DoomBot
Time: 21-Jul-2013 3:04 PM (Edited)
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Maybe this

http://www.minnetonkaaudioshop.com/epages/MASIShop.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=/Shops/MASIShop/Categories/SurCode/DTS

Author: doubleofive
Time: 21-Jul-2013 4:18 PM
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My Blu-ray player does not do DTS-HD, but does do Dolby. I can get DTS out, but it comes out the analog ports. It was cheap, but I'll always lean towards Dolby for more compatibility.

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Author: DoomBot
Time: 21-Jul-2013 6:01 PM (Edited)
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I have better luck with DTS-HD but i'm good with either.

Author: nicarran
Time: 22-Jul-2013 4:08 AM (Edited)
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Hello, where can I download the latest version? There is a torrent in TPB here:

thepiratebay.sx

If someone has already downloaded this torrent please confirm if this is the 2.1 version. Also if someone is willing to invite me to myspleen it would be great (I was a demonoid user with ~1.6 downlad ratio).

Thanks Harmy and you all to make this available.

Author: Harmy
Time: 22-Jul-2013 4:53 AM (Edited)
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A) Please remove the link before the mods get down on yo' ass :-)

b) Since it says v2.1 in the description, I would assume it is v2.1 :-)

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Author: The Griff
Time: 22-Jul-2013 6:19 AM (Edited)
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nicarran said:

Also if someone is willing to invite me to myspleen it would be great (I was a demonoid user with ~1.6 downlad ratio).

PM'd.

Author: TV's Frink
Time: 22-Jul-2013 9:47 PM
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The Griff said:

nicarran said:

Also if someone is willing to invite me to myspleen it would be great (I was a demonoid user with ~1.6 downlad ratio).

PM'd.

Man, you guys who reward those who don't bother to read the first post are killing me.

Author: YanniD
Time: 23-Jul-2013 12:31 AM
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I thought Harmy was only rendering SWD at 720p, which is why the mkv is better as it can retain 24fps: going to official Bluray at 720p means it must be 720p60 and therefore have frame repeats that introduce judder.

If I am mistaken and Harmy intends to render at 1080p24 for Bluray, even though I thought most of his modified source is 720p, then the Bluray will be a substantially larger download for no increase in detail and thus I would still prefer a 720p24 mkv.

Happy to be corrected if I have misunderstood anything.

Author: CatBus
Time: 23-Jul-2013 1:30 AM (Edited)
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YanniD said:

I thought Harmy was only rendering SWD at 720p, which is why the mkv is better as it can retain 24fps: going to official Bluray at 720p means it must be 720p60 and therefore have frame repeats that introduce judder.

If I am mistaken and Harmy intends to render at 1080p24 for Bluray, even though I thought most of his modified source is 720p, then the Bluray will be a substantially larger download for no increase in detail and thus I would still prefer a 720p24 mkv.

Happy to be corrected if I have misunderstood anything.

Blu-ray supports 720p24, but HDMI does not. So Blu-ray players convert 720p24 to either 1080p24 or 720p60. The player decides whether you get judder or not, (hopefully) according to the capabilities of the display.

Author: michaelkirschner
Time: 23-Jul-2013 9:26 AM
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Harmy why are you going to release 2.5 before project blu finalizes version 2? I got the impression from the Youtube video that previous versions utilized a complete version 1.0 but this upcoming one would just use samples from an upcoming version 2. In my honest opinion I would rather wait for all the sources to be perfect before doing 2.5 otherwise you'll just need to do 3.0 later on and I think that it would be better to stop at a certain point and decide that the project is complete

Author: Harmy
Time: 23-Jul-2013 10:16 AM
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Well, I already got the shots that I felt might benefit in any significant way from using Project Blu V2 and in some cases I actually stuck to V1 even where I had the V2 shots, so no, I will definitely not be doing a v3.0 when Project Blu V2 comes out. I may do it when the N1 project comes out, unless there's an official release by then.

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Author: lightman
Time: 24-Jul-2013 3:16 AM
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Thank you for all your work on this, Harmy!

I just got v2.1 and it looks great.

Author: chyron8472
Time: 24-Jul-2013 9:31 AM (Edited)
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why do people keep talking about Harmy releasing an MKV? He already said the m2ts will be separate. Encode the MKV yourselves, people.

Also, what's the latest word on 2.5's progress?

EDIT: nevermind. I see Harmy's post on the previous page. In any case, for myself it's the Bluray extras and menu that I'm looking forward to, so I'm sticking to 2.1 until the whole Bluray is out.

Oh, and Harmy, I think the yellow text on the documentary should have a black outline as sometimes it's hard to read the text for which source is being shown when the text is yellow and the source is bright. It's especially noticeable to me when showing the footage fixed by Laserschwert that the yellow text is hard to read.

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Author: Harmy
Time: 27-Jul-2013 7:28 AM
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OK, so it is rendered. Now how should I approach this? Release the mkv with just the basic AC3 '77 mixes and let everyone mux in other tracks themselves or wait for the lossless and newly encoded tracks to become available?

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Author: johnlocke2342
Time: 27-Jul-2013 7:38 AM (Edited)
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Woot!

I'd just mux the basic mixes available and let everyone mux other tracks, and let us grab the new mixes when they're available so we can mux them. But it might be too much work to send these wherever we are supposed to find them and everyone can't be aware of how to do that.

these are just my two cents.

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Author: Luke1988
Time: 27-Jul-2013 8:22 AM
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O my god, finally i find a great edition of the first Star Wars in 1977! but i have a question, the archive M2TS can burn into a DVD9?

or, the version ISO on Dvd donde esta? i can't find this version to burn into a DVD9.

Thank you man, you due a great job on this!

I'm new in the forum :)

Author: Troyig88
Time: 27-Jul-2013 8:33 AM
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I say put it out.

looking for HDTV of the Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Also HDTV of The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Author: chyron8472
Time: 27-Jul-2013 8:56 AM
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Harmy said:

OK, so it is rendered. Now how should I approach this? Release the mkv with just the basic AC3 '77 mixes and let everyone mux in other tracks themselves or wait for the lossless and newly encoded tracks to become available?

For the MKV, I'd say release it and let everyone mux in other tracks.

What tracks are you missing for the Bluray?

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chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

Author: Feallan
Time: 27-Jul-2013 9:31 AM
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IMO relase it with tracks you have now (main audio, 2.1 bonus mixes - isolated score, commentaries and all other cool stuff in english) and all subtitles from Project Threepio encoded. Then people could mux in whatever other tracks they'd want (e.g. other language dubs).

Also, I tried to do Polish audio, but ran into a lot of problems. I tried to find someone to help me, but no one could/wanted. I don't know if I finish it, but even if so, it'll take a while.

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Author: CatBus
Time: 27-Jul-2013 11:45 AM (Edited)
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I'd say if you're going to do an MKV, put it out now. I think MKV isn't really going to benefit from the things you're waiting for on the Blu (EDIT: and certainly a DVD downscale wouldn't), so it's already as good as it's going to get for that format. Plus, you know, we'll be able to spot how you forgot to remove one of Luke's CGI eyelashes, so you'll have to re-render for the Blu-ray anyway ;)