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That’ll do, Bunny.

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Yes, there’s a few programs that clip the last line from SRT files, not just tsMuxer. That’s part of why I like to pre-render SUP files, to avoid that and many other little software quirks out there. If you want the SUP files, send me a PM. They’re nice, but a little large 😉

Also, that 35mm scan is very, very clean. Since it’s near the end of a reel, I’m assuming it gets more beat up as it goes on? What’s the overall condition?

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Holy…

That is fantastic.

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Danfun128 said:

Wait…seriously? There are people who genuinely believe that?

The lack of any newly remastered version of Star Wars for twenty years and three generations of home video formats has led to some odd thinking about the films among the public. Many people have quite simply never seen the films at all – they just watch the Special Editions and hear stories from old people at the nursing home about how much better Star Wars was when they were a kid, like everything else, and they don’t believe it. “No thanks, Grandma, we don’t need to hook up your VCR for this right now, I believe you” (rolls eyes).

Someone here ran into a store clerk who must have misheard that there were a few barely-noticeable moments where the lightsaber effects hadn’t been placed over the props the actors held, so he thought that ALL of the lightsabers just looked like cardboard props for the entire film in 1977, until Lucas came along and finally made them glow twenty years later. When people can’t easily verify if some crazy statement is true or not (aside from people who are already Star Wars fans, who even owns a VCR anymore?), all sorts of strange and fantastically wrong ideas grow and spread. That’s the most insidious part of suppressing these films for an entire generation.

EDIT: Found the link to the clerk story – http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/592462

I’m not really in contact with him outside this forum, but seriously all his PM’s to me read like that, and come in clusters. He disappears for three months, then one day my mailbox is full. I really don’t think there’s anything unusual going on.

Benign Viewer said:

LOL I learned how to do it in about a day. Compared to video editing, Markdown’s a cinch! … Or am I just suffering from Markdown syndrome?

Whoosh! Sorry, the joke was that people new to navigating our large forum often end up posting the Markdown tutorial text, often several times, before they finally understand that you need to scroll around a lot to see what you’re doing here, or give up.

Also, FWIW, MPC-HC allows you to add an external subtitle file to whatever video file you’re playing (File/Load Subtitle), and it works with the SUP format too.

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No, lexsanor’s not a native English speaker, so sometimes you have to decipher a little. I think he just wants links to Puggo Strikes Back and Return of the Pug, not the scans per se.

Return of the Pug isn’t available yet.

I understand. I just wanted to give you all the frames so you could look through them and assess severity/difficulty for yourself. Some of them are pretty bad and (to someone who knows nothing about video) also look pretty easy.

Hey, the bright side is that someone might finally tell us how to use Markdown.

Okay, I think I’m a pretty easy reviewer, I don’t have doubleofive’s gallery memorized or anything. On the other hand, I don’t watch this particular film as much as the others, so there may be things I spotted that have always been there 😉

2:06 death star moves as screen pans down (was it always like this?)
5:29 matte paining extension still there?
Alien subtitles have not been updated to match theatrical timing and appearance
14:16 missing subtitle “I have come for the bounty…”
Some Rancor shots seem a little too dark (they always had crap black levels, I think you may have overcompensated here)
27:38 missing subtitle “Bring me Solo and the Wookiee.”
27:41 missing subtitle “The will all suffer for this outrage.”
30:34-30:36 vertical line on sarlacc shot
1:42:25 sparky the circus droid
2:04:45 35mm footage is awfully shaky
2:06:19 35mm footage a little shaky
visible damage to credits on the following frames:
182773,183073,183117,183796,184045,184572,184740,184926,185158,186008,186251,187002
187239,187372,187522,187561,187645,187665,187677,187702,187713,187779,187787,187818
187905,187930,188205,188449,188800,188855,188919,188944-188947,189099,189135,189202
189266,189282,189374,189379,189380,189392

post-credits: “bought” is spelled wrong 😉

credits damage is a “blink and you miss it” or a “watch the wrong part of the screen and you miss it” scenario, so I’m sure I didn’t even get half of them

[In before obligatory “I don’t know who you’re referring to”]

Welcome back.

I aim to please, Towne32.

I have lossless DTS-HD English tracks (1983 5.1, 1983 stereo, 1993 stereo), with caveats. New files from h_h would be better. I think I may even have a lossy isolated score track around that would do in a pinch. I’ll just send what I’ve got, and let you know what the problems are. I’ll have to upload some of these, so there may be a delay.

I will send you a big-ass PM with the dubs.

The 1.0 version used PAL GOUT frames, and it looks like you’ve just confirmed the 2.0 workprint uses NTSC frames as planned. This was by design, and should fix more sync issues than it causes. The audio for 1.0 was largely NTSC-synced.

I’ve sent Harmy a subtitle file that will patch over the missing alien subtitles in the workprint. If anyone wants it before he makes it generally available, PM me. You will not be able to use this subtitle file and also watch using other subtitles. There’s a SUP file which should blend pretty seamlessly with the film, and an SRT file for people who can’t use the SUP file.

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