ChainsawAsh

No, they're not.  Fixing them would require splicing in those shots from a different source, or manually isolating and recoloring the affected portions of each shot.  In other words, more work than it's worth for a GOUT enhancement project, IMO.

The bonus set (JSC transfer) doesn't have these issues (but it has other issues that may or may not be worse), as they're inherent to the 1993 master for some reason.

ESB:

- The hotline recordings are really cool, nice addition!
- Picture looks fantastic, as expected
- All audio tracks sync perfectly
- The chapter issue I mentioned with Star Wars is also present in Empire
- The cave scene issue from your V1 set (never got V2, so I don't know how well it was fixed for that) is simply not there at all, it looks just as good as the rest of the film

ROTJ:

- Same chapter issue
- All audio mixes sync just fine
- Picture seems a wee bit bright, but I'm thinking that's just the GOUT and I'm not remembering correctly (Jedi is the one I watch least of the trilogy, so I don't have the same frame of reference I have for the other two).
- Again, subtitles are perfect!

I also figured you'd like to know that I checked out the subtitles for Star Wars and Empire on my old, standard-def 20" Toshiba CRT, and no letters or punctuation are lost in the overscan, it's all there and looks great.

Oh yeah, I remember using my lightsaber as a flashlight in Jedi Knight.

God, I miss that game.

I think it's more of a case of "pretend it does in the other movies" than explain why it doesn't.

That might be the best thing to do - select audio track, then the menu selection defaults to "resume film" after the audio track is selected.  The user can either press "enter" to resume the film, or press "main menu" to go back to the main menu.  I've seen a large number of retail discs like this.

Yeah, that's just the DVD format.  It's a little weird.  DVD-9's will often have 7 or 8 VOB files for one title track.

Well, I finished giving the "review screener" of DJ's ANH '97 V2 a once-over, and everything about it is 100% perfect.  I have no complaints, not even minor ones (well, the smearing, but that's inherent in the broadcasts, and it's not nearly as bad as the GOUT anyway).  Looks and sounds great, no sync issues, and no glaring compression artifacts.

I did notice that it seems like the color palate changes with each reel, or something along those lines.  Some shots look exactly like they should, others are a bit too blue, and most of Tatooine is too pink.

Oh, and I have been proven wrong about the "STAR WARS" receding logo - I thought it was redone for the 2004 DVD, which is why it moved way too quickly on that disc.  But it turns out it's been that way since 1997.  Surprised me a bit.

I was the same way while making a DVD for a short student film a couple weeks ago.  DVD Studio Pro is fucking awesome, though I wish it could author Blu-Rays (my director was very upset to discover that we couldn't do this).

Updated list, since I now have the preliminary release of DJ's V3 ...

... all 3 movies are DJ's V3.  Ady's and Harmy's theatrical reconstructions are the secondary options after the V3.

It's George Lucas' first film, set in a dystopian future.  The prison in the film is a vast, endless, white room.

Yeah, for Star Wars, most (not all) of the prop lightsabers had something on them that reflected the studio light.  They were rotoscoped over in post when the effect didn't work as well as intended (I think Luke's training on the Falcon may possibly be unrotoscoped, but I could be wrong).

Oh, well that's just the first VOB file.  I'm guessing there will be 4, the first 3 being 1023.97MB, the fourth being smaller.  VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, and so on.  When played on a DVD player, they're seamlessly joined.

Yeah, sorry.  I got excited.  Probably shouldn't have mentioned it.

If I find any more similar Easter Eggs, I'll keep my mouth shut.

HOLY SHIT there's a hidden isolated score track on Star Wars!  :O :D

--edit--

In setting up HandBrake to make my MKV, this is what the audio tab looks like (the last 2.0 track is the isolated score, that's how I found it):

A recent screening of a 1977 Technicolor print shows that the death star's interior is supposed to have a subtle blue hue, which was also present in the 1997 SE (which actually has very accurate colors, since it was timed to match Lucas' 1977 reference print).

The 2004 DVDs radically screwed up the colors, though, so they are not a good reference at all.

And the 2006 letterboxed DVDs of the theatrical versions are rather desaturated, so they're also not a great color reference.

Are you talking about adding ambient light to lightsabers in the movies?

Lightsabers definitely cast ambient light in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, but they don't in any of the other movies.

I believe Adywan is adding some ambient light to the lightsaber duel at the end of Empire for ESB:R, but not in every shot, as it's quite difficult to do.

Alright, well, I've received the discs in the mail.  Preliminary report (I've only skimmed a bit of SW):

- Image quality is simply awesome compared to the letterboxed GOUT.  The MKV sample is a very good indicator of the overall quality of this release.
- Subtitles are perfect!
- Chapters start slightly too early each time.  It's like the chapter stops are timed for the PAL GOUT instead of the NTSC, so while they start just fine, by the end they start about 10 seconds too early.
- There's a little bit of a blue tint to the stars in some scenes, but it's hardly noticeable, and it's nowhere near as bad as the ROTJ GOUT.
- I really wish that choosing an audio option either took you back to the main menu, or started the movie, but that's a nitpick
- I've spot-checked every audio mix at each chapter stop, and they all seem to sync perfectly

Further updates as I have them.  I will say this, though - from everything I've seen so far, this by far the definitive GOUT enhancement project, and possibly the definitive representation of the OOT on DVD.

My suggestion was that the audio wouldn't need to be changed, but the video would need to be ever so slightly slowed down from 24fps to 23.976fps, and that might (might) solve the issue.

If that doesn't work, than Doctor M's method will be the way to go.

Actually Adywan has released DVD reconstructions of the original theatrical Empire and the 1999 theatrical Menace.  On top of that, he's also released an AVCHD 1080p version of Menace, and one of Empire that's a reconstruction of the 1997 SE (and another AVCHD of ANH that's the 2004 SE, but with Han shooting first instead of Greedo).  So lordsidi is correct.

And yeah, the reason most (such as myself) have a problem with the SE's is that they've replaced the original versions, which Lucas simply refuses to restore and release properly, unlike Ridley Scott (all 5 versions of Blade Runner available in 1080p on one Blu-Ray set), Spielberg (all 3 versions of Close Encounters, same thing), James Cameron (both versions of Aliens, Terminator 2, all three versions of Avatar, etc.), and other directors who are more than willing to make all official versions of their work available to the public in high quality.

If Lucas would only do that, we'd all stop bitching pretty damn quickly.

I'm guessing it's an ROTJ outtake, like the rest of that atrocious scene extension.

I feel your pain, bkev.  I really do.

I see a little bit of a tint, but I think that's in the GOUT source.  I doubt anything an be done about it.  Can't compare at the moment, unfortunately.

Ha, you didn't miss too much.  My bitchy post was only up for about 5 minutes or less before I calmed down and realized I was being a dick.

My apologies for cluttering up your thread.  I'll step aside and let the discussion continue uninterrupted once again.

Wow.  That looks absolutely stunning, DJ.

I'm so looking forward to sitting down and watching this!

Nah, it was my bad.  I should have waited to respond until I was in a better mood (car broke down a couple hours ago on the way back from the grocery store ... bad day).