CatBus

stretch009 said:

CatBus said:

Also, if anyone has Blu-ray case cover art for this, or even scans of the official Director's Cut cover that could be modified for this, let me know!

 There's a really good custom cover on  http://www.cdcovers.cc/.

Having a heck of a time navigating that site, possibly because my virus scanner is going bonkers over it, so I'll probably just wait for another source.

PM's sent.

Slart said:

Personally, I haven't even watched Star Wars since I retired my CRT and VCR a few years back. Sad, really. I used to re-watch the OT every once in a while.

I'd gone about 10 years Star Wars free before I found this place.

Hopefully my daughters will love it and it will be the beginning of a new era

That's what did it for me. To quote another forum member, it's all fun and games until little Timmy comes home wearing a Jar Jar backpack. The movies really are magical, and they come right back to you just the way you left them.  Except, you know, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher look like these young kids now, and you're positive they used to look like grownups...

and (extra hopefully) maybe someday Disney will decide to clean up and release the unaltered trilogy. Hard to tell. Always in motion is the future...

Have to go with Tom Petty over Yoda on this one.  The future ain't what it used to be.

Harmy's Despecialized Editions are how I've introduced the complete three-film Star Wars saga to my kids*.  No need to explain why things don't look as sharp as an official release, because it does.

Also, FWIW, a fan preservation is the ONLY way to watch the theatrical version of Star Wars.  VHS releases have the "A New Hope" crawl, and the GOUT has the 1993 revised audio.  If you're not so much of a purist to care much about those distinctions, then Harmy's Despecialized Editions are definitely the way to go.  It's actually quite difficult for your average fan to tell it's not the real thing.

* And if they get curious about Star Wars beyond the Original Trilogy, I've got the Holiday Special too.

Also, if anyone has Blu-ray case cover art for this, or even scans of the official Director's Cut cover that could be modified for this, let me know!

PM sent.  Hadn't seen that one, thanks ;)

TV's Frink said:

team_negative1 said:

We're confused.

 Sheesh.  Can you at least pretend to be just one person posting?

JEDIT: Unless you can show us the email log where you passed the story amongst all members of the team and you all agreed to be confused.

Clearly he's more than one person, look at how there's actually two different fonts used in the post. [Venkman] No single human being would format text like that. [/Venkman]

Either that, or it's text copied and pasted from a text editor.  Except an advanced text editor that doesn't require hard returns at the end of every line.  But who posts like that?

We may never know if they're really confused--but the question is: are they amused?

Yep, when Empire came out labeled Episode V, that led me and my friends to hold numerous discussions on what must have happened in the three missing episodes between Star Wars and Empire, since Star Wars was clearly Episode I, just not labeled as such.

TV's Frink said:

I knew I shouldn't have hung up.

Your call is very important to us. It will be answered in the order received. Please hold.

[ Kenny G ]

Wow, and some of those frames are real aliasing torture tests, too.  Good results.

Somehow I missed the V2 release.  Please PM me a link!

Also, FWIW, I have a Perl script that can sync subtitles (graphical or SRT, doesn't matter) from one frame reference into another frame reference quickly and easily, so if I had the raw materials and a full understanding of those differences, that ultimate International release could be ready in a few minutes.  Well, on the subtitle side anyway--dubs are harder.

I just got my first request for Icelandic subtitles, and I couldn't be happier!  It's the language we support with the fewest speakers--well under half a million--and all that effort with the Blu-rays and OCR finally paid off.  Another happy Star Wars fan (er, well, at least I hope so!)

Harmy said:

I'd also like to point out that I typed the previous msg on my phone after having drunk 5 glasses of wine in abouz two hours, so you'll have to exuse the typos :-)

On the other hand, Stinky-Dinkins seemed completely sober in his last post.  It's Bizarro World, I'm sure of it.

PM sent!

From what I understand, the next ROTJ DeEd's where you'll see these prints used first, but there will be also a full release of Jedi from -1 later*.  The correction/cleanup processes are different, not to mention -1 is working with multiple prints, the entire film rather than brief scenes, sound capture & sync, etc.

* possibly much later

PM sent.

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AntcuFaalb said:

I'll grab a frame from our 35mm IB scan tonight. Do you have any particular frame in mind? I have reels 2-6 currently.

Probably any large object with high contrast at the edges, sharply defined.  That way when you're counting pixels, there's less error.

I'd say a Vader closeup in the Tantive IV corridor should be good.  Well-lit, sharp, black and white.

This is the way to get an absolutely correct AR, and thanks for the resources.

AntcuFaalb said:

Cropping a D-1 master from 720x486 to 720x480 and dumping to DVD (as is the case with the GOUT) does not result in an up-to-spec DVD.

I think it's fairer to say you just end up with a distorted AR than an out-of-spec DVD, but I know what you mean.  The distortion is baked in.

I think that puts a point on the question of what exactly this project is doing--a warts-and-all GOUT fixup (in which case distorted AR might be preserved), or something more akin to the actual theatrical prints (in which case they may want to skip right past the D1 master--which might have its own issues--and go to a theatrical print as the reference)

DrDre said:

It was CatBus who provided this information thankfully. So all credit should go to him. I didn't know about this, but was struggling with getting the correct AR.

This will get you the AR that the people who made the GOUT (or more accurately, the Definitive Collection Laserdisc) intended for that video release to have.  What relation that has to the actual film's AR is a matter of debate.

If you're aiming for "just the GOUT without extra fix-ups" then what you've done is right.  If you're actually aiming for correct, I think you should refer to another reference, although I'd try to use footage from -1, rather than the Blu-rays for that AR reference.

PM sent.

PM sent.

PM sent.  Right now, the full Japanese subs are graphical-only, but they're very good quality, so don't shy away from them.  They are on the radar for conversion to SRT, but my translator is currently swamped with real life.  I did recently confirm that they are still committed to doing it though.  Japanese requires more than just transcription, they need some translation too.

Bingowings said:

S&M Thursdays have a 10th anniversary?

Well, according to Frink's earlier link, 10th anniversaries are aluminum, steel, diamonds, or PVC.

TV's Frink said:

CatBus said:

TV's Frink said:

The randomness of this 9th anniversary got me thinking to check what gift would be appropriate.  Apparently it would be willow/wicker, pottery, or leather.

Let the S&M jokes begin...

Come on, there's an obvious joke there.  You're not really trying.

 Having never seen Willow, it generally doesn't cross my mind.

S&M, on the other hand...