Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released) — Page 619

Rask40 said:

tlbauerle said:

For those of us sorry sad sacks without BluRay burners, what resources do we have for obtaining nice copies on printable media? I’d love help if anyone has an extra disc!

Thanks, Todd

In my opinion the best way is by streaming the mkv-files from a PC to your PS3. Universal Media Server software is needed on the PC. Once you have it all set up, playing movies is easier than inserting a disc in your blu-ray player. Don’t even need to get off the couch!
And subtitles work great too.

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Three words: Plex Media Server.

There are Plex clients for numerous different set-top and mobile streaming devices, including PS3.

I’m assuming that there won’t be any animation in 3.0 since they’re replacing everything from the GOUT with 35mm and presumably the animation with that as well.

Editroid said:

Someone mentioned how obvious they felt the rotoscoping in Star Wars Despecialized 2.5 is, that the opening crawl wobbles and then speeds up weirdly at the end, and wishes the picture quality was more consistent.

flametitan said:

The gate weave of the crawl is supposed to be there, though I agree the acceleration feels artificial (as far as I can tell, SSE suggests it should be a more gradual acceleration).

Wazzles said:

It’s the GOUT crawl, so it should be equivalent to the GOUT at least.

I just compared DE to Team -1’s Silver Screen Edition, and SSE indeed doesn’t do that. It speeds up, but not so suddenly. Made me realize, when looking on Plex to compare them, that I had deleted my m4v of the GOUT version. Guess I ought to reencode it.

The DeEd version is just a 3D recreation using the letters extracted from the GOUT. It’s been done years ago and I did the best I could at the time but it’s certainly far from perfect. Today, I’d go about it very differently and would do a 3D track of the GOUT crawl. But I won’t have to, because we now have HD (and even 4K) scans of the original crawl, so there’s no need to recreate it.

Harmy said:

The DeEd version is just a 3D recreation using the letters extracted from the GOUT. It’s been done years ago and I did the best I could at the time but it’s certainly far from perfect. Today, I’d go about it very differently and would do a 3D track of the GOUT crawl. But I won’t have to, because we now have HD (and even 4K) scans of the original crawl, so there’s no need to recreate it.

I haven’t been keeping up on recent events here, so at the risk of being called out for asking questions already recently answered (or else seemingly blatantly obvious), are you currently working on SW:DE 3.0? Not that I’m trying to be pushy about it. I’m just inquiring.

It seems like this project is never fully completed… albeit that fuels my continued fixation with the OT, and Star Wars in particular as my favorite (read: most watched) film of this or any other franchise.

Well, right now I’m talking a bit of a break, as I started a new job, which keeps me plenty busy but I am planning v3.0 in the future.

ray_afraid said:

Hey, Just wonderin’ if maybe the thread title should be updated to reflect the 2.7 version instead of the 2.5? It seems like there’s some confusion as to what the current version is and, if I recall correctly, even thought the 2.6 and 2.7 updates were done by Towne32, it’s endorsed and approved by you. Harmy. Harmster. Harmy Harm Harm. Ok, back to my drinks.

CatBus said:

I believe the OT.com approved term is Hammy.

Blackout said:

I thought it was Harry.

You’re a Jedi wizard, Harmy.

This guy is still up to no good: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Wars-Despecialized-Trilogy-3-Disc-Blu-Ray-Set-/182472276426?hash=item2a7c31f9ca:g:6dsAAOSwa~BYWjo2

I’m sure I’m not the first to report him, so we clearly need a louder voice for ebay to hear us.

Yeah, * sigh *. I imagine quite a number of people can’t be bothered to download and/or burn a copy themselves, and so are willing to basically pay someone to do it for them.

I feel like I’ve mentioned Star Wars Despecialized a lot, such that anyone who has had any Star Wars-related conversation of any kind with me has heard me mention it at least once.

And at this point I kind of feel like–if someone says the original Original Trilogy is “hard to find and thank God for my copies on VHS”–as a fan, it makes me bummed and slightly irritated that they like it enough to complain about George but still aren’t interested enough to bother downloading PT fan edits and OT restorations.

I mean, sure, it’s all well and good to be annoyed about Star Wars being ruined if there was nothing you could do about it, but there is. And if I mention Star Wars Despecialized in real life, people’s reactions are almost always like “that’s cool. :” and become quickly disinterested in discussing it further. Like, they seem to be a fan, and that makes me excited to talk about it, but they really just wanted to vent a bit and move on. I have yet to have someone say “Hey, where can I find that? Can you burn me a copy?”

So I imagine a large portion of people who are actual fans and would be interested in obtaining a copy, are still altogether disinclined to make it themselves.

It’s not exactly easy for most people to burn a blu-ray disc, heck I still just watch Despecialized on my computer. Also, it’s not obvious where to get the how-to guide on burning Despecialized to disc. For example, on the first page there are several broken links:

The ISO image can be burned to a DVD-DL and should work in most Blu-Ray players.

To burn, you can use image burn following thse instructions: http://onlineitpro.com/?p=181

and

More information can be found here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD/topic/12713/

Also, you must first go to the Ultimate Introductory Guide (an excellent source btw) then another site to get to the disc burning instructions.

I expect that this is too much for many people who aren’t expecting so many technical steps. I think it could be more streamlined from the first post, perhaps listing the resources needed before detailing the steps kind of like the ingredients in a recipe.

And yet, if acquiring a copy is made easy to understand how to do, the project risks bringing the wrath of Disney down on it. And so there’s a line between ease and obscurity, with many still too lazy to bother no matter how easy it is.

jedimasterobiwan said:

I hope it doesn’t make all the star wars fan edits not be available anymore. 😦

George Lucas himself had long since known about fan edits. When asked about it in an interview, he said, while bitter about people doing it, he just cared that he had his version with his name on it (the article in question was actually about SW:Revisited).

Disney has had more than enough opportunity now to drop the hammer down on fan projects, but they haven’t. I was just saying, and I stress hypothetically, that making it too easy can bring it more mainstream, which has the hypothetical capacity to annoy them into action.

I also doubt a small handful of third party sellers on eBay are on Disney’s radar.

KimmieParker said:

Forgive me for asking what is probably an annoying question, but what about Empire Strikes Back 2.5?

Next if that has not changed.

Chris Botcheos said:

If someone ends up with a copy of the despecialized edition, what happens to them?

Well, when a fan and a movie love each other very much…

Oh, er, you mean legally? IANAL, but IMO the biggest risks are in distributing it/showing it to others, not in having it yourself. If you’re really worried, when you’re done watching them, just eat them.