CatBus

Robot monkey pirate ninjas?

Safe from ninjas?

While he was off signing the documents, they could send ninjas to his house.  Just sayin'.

DavidMerrick said:

The 1.0 versions of all three movies, which draw primarily from the DVDs and laserdisc footage, are all released. Harms has put out HD versions of Star Wars and Empire (2.5 and 2.0, respectively) that use the Blu Rays as their basis and use more 35mm footage. He's working on 2.0 of Jedi currently.

Actually, FWIW, the 1.0 versions were mostly HD-sourced as well, using the HD broadcast of the 2004 SE.  2.x were the first versions to use the Blu-rays as a source.  The 1.0 versions were also much more heavily compressed than the 2.x series, but they were still HD.

AntcuFaalb said:

CatBus said:

Dang, that was your cue to trash-talk CRT's! Oh well, maybe next time.

CRTs are wonderful. >:-{

That was my custom-made troll-bait lovingly crafted to target you ;)

Agreed about CRT's, though.  I spent a large part of last weekend with the kids cooped up in a vacation rental with one of those crappy 16x9 SD-CRT's, with a bottom-shelf DVD player putting comb artifacts over everything, and a weird zoom setting cropping off huge amounts of the edges of the image, and yet... I just couldn't stop gaping in awe of the perfect motion handling on this setup that probably cost $100 total, outperforming (in this one metric, 3:2 pulldown notwithstanding) what I've seen in ridiculously-priced OLED demo units.

Dang, that was your cue to trash-talk CRT's! Oh well, maybe next time.

Owyn_Merrilin said:

Drifter1989 said:

I think these DVD re releases are a lucas attempt at trying to trick people to buy altered versions. I've seen a few DVD releases claiming to be 'origonal versions' but weren't unaltered. 

The DVDs that claim to be the original that you're thinking of are probably the 2006 release.

Actually I think he's referring to the fact that Lucasfilm insists on using the term "Original Trilogy" to talk about any release of the Special Editions (to distinguish them from the Prequel Trilogy), when it's perfectly logical for Star Wars fans to interpret "Original Trilogy" to mean the original films, to distinguish them from the Special Editions.  That difference in interpretation has certainly padded their sales figures with accidental sales.

While I think the "Original Trilogy" term is vague enough, I think the fact that they no longer use the words "Special Edition" anywhere on the packaging definitely qualifies as a bait-and-switch.

PM sent.

This project is not available in AVI format, unless you got some low-quality third-party re-encode off a torrent site.  I'd suggest downloading the real thing, as the quality and compatibility are both undoubtedly much better.

PM sent.

DrDre said:

So I would say if it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's a duck.

Or a witch.

Something strange going on with Motti's eyes... but in general, yeah, I like these better than your previous iterations.

hairy_hen said:

The answer to this is 'all of the above', but the source must remain undisclosed.

HELL-o...!

TV's Frink said:

What have I done?

You have finally achieved Maximum Derailment!

And they said it couldn't be done...

PM sent.

PM sent. Yes, we have complete Japanese subtitles for all three films, but for ROTJ they are still currently graphical-only.  I've contacted my Japanese translator recently and they are still on board with making text subs for ROTJ, but no timeframe yet.

Beyond the normal motion blur of an LCD display? 'Cause that dwarfs most other motion artifacts IMO.

PM sent.

I don't really have an SRT-only download, but I PM'd a smaller alternate link that may work.

PM sent.

Crap, now I have to change my password.

Darth Lucas said:

Could be a cool feature for ANH.

Yeah, but it doesn't work very well for SW. ;)

LeChuck: PM sent.

When tsMuxer creates subtitles from SRT files, it has limitations.  Usually not very important limitations, but occasionally critical.  For example, it's limited to one font for all subtitles.  I've found Arial works really well for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, but Thai is way better in Tahoma.  And CJK languages all need totally different fonts.  Then there's sizes.  Thai and Arabic typically use a larger font size than your typical Latin text, because that makes them easier to read.  I also do some text alignment business that tsMuxer can't do at all.  Then there's the black background on SDH subtitles, repositioning subs for alien dialogue, Japanese subs for ROTJ not even being available in text format yet, and so on...

All of this is, to some degree, my personal preference, but I read up on things and like to think it's a least a somewhat informed preference for how things should look.  I'm always going to suggest using the SUP files if it's even remotely possible.  The SRT files really only exist for when the SUP files won't work for you.

I PM'd a link to the complete Project Threepio.  Don't use the SRT files at all, use the SUP files in the SUP-720p subfolder, which are already pre-rendered with the right font, size, positioning, etc, and work with tsMuxer.