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My problem with the ending is how much of a literal deus ex machina it is. But I forgive it because King has always sucked giant donkey balls at endings once he gets past a certain page count.
instead of JDownloader reassembling all of the .rar files I have an .iso file as well as 300+ .rar files in the folder that I designated the downloads to go to.
This sounds like exactly what you should have ended up with (the RARs should have contained the ISO file, so the ISO file is what JDownloader extracted from the RARs when the last one finished downloading), so I don’t know what the problem is. Did you have problems burning/mounting the ISO? Or were you expecting an MKV or similar video file and just assumed an ISO disc image file wasn’t right?
Gosh there are a lot of posts here, so I am probably repeating (sorry) but two things that stuck out to me in the list that I think you should NOT do:
Ewok eyes - they SHOULD blink. Greedo and others got to blink in revisited and it’s arguably a more important feature for the “lovable” Ewoks
The Dug in Jabba’s palace - I think it should be kept, similar to putting in the shot of the battle droid in ANH, it’s good for connecting the prequels texturally (or whatever)
I’m not against blinking Ewoks, but the Blu-Ray ones look creepy and unnatural.
As for the dug, it doesn’t make sense simply because it’s the only creature that isn’t asleep, and that scene kind of relies on everyone being asleep for Leia to sneak in unnoticed.
Sounds like the source you’re using was converted from 29.97fps to 23.976fps by someone who didn’t really know what they were doing then, which means there’s probably not a lot you can do about it, at least not using Handbrake.
Okay, but that’s kind of changing the entire point of Luke’s arc, which kind of makes the movie fall apart.
That’s an EXTREMELY low bitrate for 720p video…what was the bitrate of the original source? And the framerate?
In fact, if you could also post the MediaInfo of the source video, that’d be helpful.
I think with Rogue One some people were just upset that it wasn’t a Rogue Squadron movie. I know I had people I know constantly asking if I was excited for the Rogue Squadron movie, then getting disappointed or even upset when I reminded them that it wasn’t that at all. Then when the first trailer dropped I stopped hearing the Rogue Squadron stuff.
I like it, nice and minimalist, though I’d suggest dropping “A New Hope,” since Despecialized uses the 1977 pre-ANH opening crawl.
There’s a video game thread you could have used.
With an attitude like that, we’ll never get to 5,000 topics!
I always get sick on new year’s. This year it was a chest cold that started on Friday night/Saturday morning, got much worse Sunday morning, and while I generally feel better this morning, I woke up to a bed completely soaked in sweat, so I guess I must have a fever, too.
Happy new year.
I like Rogue One better every time I see it.
Maybe if like the rest of the Disney Ourvre, it didn’t constantly remind me of the OOT I can never see again, I might be more receptive to it. I’ll revisit it one of these days.
Please stop saying that. You know perfectly well you can watch the OOT thanks to Harmy.
Oh, on a side note, can a Blu-ray player play back 720/24p without scaling it up to 1080/60p?
Every one I’ve put a disc made from Harmy’s MKV files into has upscaled it from 720p24 to 1080p24. So it upscales, but doesn’t fuck with the framerate.
Well, Handbrake reencodes the video, so there will be a drop in quality to some degree. How much of a drop depends on your encode settings. If you’re just loading up the file and clicking “start,” you’re gonna end up with a not-super-great encode.
In my experience, find the bitrate of your source file and use a bitrate of about 500kbps higher than that. Use 2-pass encoding, and turn your encoder preset down to a slower setting (the slowest setting you can stand, really). That should give you an output file that’s roughly the same quality as your original.
Oh, and make sure you’ve turned off everything under “filters” and have your framerate/FPS set to whatever the framerate of your source file is. I don’t know how much “constant” versus “variable” framerate matters, but I’ve always checked “constant” and had no problems.
For audio, if you want to keep the same level of quality, it’s actually pretty damn easy. In the audio tab, there’s a drop-down menu labeled “codec” - just choose the “passthru” option that matches the source format (so, for instance, if your source audio is AC3, choose AC3 passthru; if it’s MP3, choose MP3 passthru; if it’s AAC, choose AAC passthru; and so on).
If you don’t know where to find any of this information for your source file, download MediaInfo and use it to open your file - it’ll give you all that information and more.
Didn’t NeverarGreat do something about the colors in the Blu-Rays?
Just ANH.
I like the changelist so far. Definitely with you on the eyebrows thing, believe it or not - it makes more sense “saga-wise.”
I haven’t checked out kk650’s regrades of the OT, but I really liked his TPM regrade (not the most recent one, I don’t have that yet).
Re-reading all of these posts, some of you people are WAY too nitpicky. Like with the humor — you DON’T need to cut all of it. Maybe just trim it a little.
The opening dialogue between Hux and Poe was too drawn out, but if it were just one line, it’d still be humorous and fun, without being silly. The same with Chewie eating the Porgs — keep the first part of that scene, but cut out the “sad eyes.”
And so on… a little humor is fine in Star Wars, people.
This 100%.
JEDIT: To keep from having three posts in a row. Interesting that Rian Johnson used the same font for his title in the crawl as ROTJ and the prequels, again making TFA sort of an odd one out. What do you think JJ will do for IX?
Yeah, I noticed that, too. I guess that makes ANH, ESB, and TFA the “odd font trilogy” in a way.
I use CS6 as well, it’s pretty great! If you have any specific questions about it let me know. I’m far from an expert, but I do have more than a little experience with it.
There’s already 35mm scans of original prints done by fans available, and Harmy used some footage from them in Despecialized (including, if I’m not mistaken, an entire reel in ROTJ 2.5 due to a Blu-Ray master focus error). There’s also ongoing projects looking to better restore these 35mm sources.
Man, that whole fight reminded me of my TFA rewrite idea I had shortly after it came out. If you’ll indulge my slight off-topicness:
TFA would mostly play out the same way, but there’s no Starkiller Base. Instead, there’s a huge Super Star Destroyer or Dreadnought (sound familiar?) at the center of the First Order fleet. (It would also have been implied that said fleet is all there is of the First Order.)
The Republic doesn’t consider one fleet of ships in the Unknown Regions to be a threat, Leia starts the Resistance, yadda yadda.
Takodana would play out pretty much as it does in HAL’s Restructured, then Rey is taken aboard Ren’s Star Destroyer for interrogation. Finn tells Leia about the First Order fleet and the Dreadnought. Resistance Intel finds out that the FO fleet is headed to Hosnian Prime.
The final battle is a massive space battle between the First Order fleet, the Republic fleet, and the Resistance arrives to assist…
…just as the Dreadnought fires on Hosnian Prime, destroying the capital and the Senate with it. The rest of the battle is fought to allow the rest of the Republic fleet to escape.
Meanwhile, Finn, Han, and Chewie board Ren’s Star Destroyer to rescue Rey. That all plays out mostly as it did in TFA (Han dies, etc.), but during the lightsaber duel, the Resistance cripples the Star Destroyer, and the duel plays out on a collapsing capital ship…much like Finn and Phasma’s fight in TLJ.
The “ground splitting in two, separating Rey and Ren” thing could’ve made more sense this way, and you could’ve had Finn and Phasma’s fight parallel to Rey and Ren’s.
Anyway, sorry for the long derailment, but that was all I could think about when watching that whole part in TLJ.
Your cutlist sounds very close to what I’d want to do, HAL, which makes a lot of sense considering how highly I regard your prequel edits.
Your ideas for trimming the humor are nicely balanced - this movie needs some comic relief, but everyone seemed to react so poorly to certain specific jokes that they want to gut all of them, including the ones that worked.
Personally, I’d also cut the “clothes iron” bit and I’d definitely get rid of the “cowl” joke. I don’t mind the Jakku joke, but so much important shit happened on Jakku in canon after Endor that it isn’t really “nowhere,” so I have no problem seeing it go.
What are your plans for handling that Leia scene? I like the idea of cutting away after the explosion and the next time we see Leia, she’s being carried away on a stretcher.
Oh, absolutely. There’s no reason to rush v2.1 when the whole point is to polish off the roughness of v2.0, which was only “rushed out” to get it out there before TLJ.
Haha, literally one minute apart, too!
I second the Premiere recommendation. It’s not that hard to use once you get a little familiar with it, and assuming you get your source files in a format Premiere likes. I use Lagarith in an AVI container, but that’s a lossless codec so while you don’t lose quality, you do lose a lot of hard drive space…
Handbrake’s site is perfectly safe. And yes, you can import SRT files and burn them into the video. Or just mux them in as a subtitle track.
I’ve got one that I’m 80% of the way through, but my laptop can’t keep up with 1080p past a certain point in Premiere.
Haven’t seen anything about Neverar’s, but I’m interested in seeing as many as I can - I already plan to crib 90% of my Five Armies battle from Spence. 😛