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(glances at my multiple 2-4TB external hard drives which contain multiple 80GB copies of 4K77 and 4K83)
Yeah…20GB is a pretty standard file size for high-quality HD releases.
If you want a “remastered” look, 4K77 1.4 is not what you want, since it has no DNR and is extremely grainy. You’ll probably want the 4K77 DNR release (which currently only has one version; ohteedee is working on updating it now but that’ll be a long process). It’s much cleaner, but the color timing is a little more inconsistent.
For 4K83, it’s less clear since the print was very, very clean. I’d recommend v1.3 since v1.2.2 is the “heavy DNR” version and ROTJ really didn’t need such a strong noise reduction applied to it.
Here’s a comparison between 4K83 v1.1 (no DNR) and v1.3 (minimal DNR): http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/DWDW7NNX
Just in time to watch the series finale with the rest of us around Christmas? 😉
That’s why Poppasketti’s idea to shift the music is such an excellent idea.
If it’s the theatrical version I seriously doubt it would be a different master than has been used in the past, so the edge enhancement will likely still be an issue.
This video essay blew me away:
https://youtu.be/f9mv2Ad8nzI
Wow, that was great stuff! Thanks for sharing!
I think he meant a link to a press release or other official news for the new Koch Blu-Ray release…
Laserdisc.
Okay.
No, the LaserDisc audio would be better. It has digital PCM (uncompressed) stereo and AC3 5.1 audio. And yes, it’s Japan only.
For VHS, PAL would have higher resolution picture-wise, but it would have PAL speedup issues (24 > 25 fps), meaning it would run 4% faster and the audio pitch would be higher than the original 24fps.
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I should also note that I did find a proper version of Spicediver’s Alternative Edition Redux on YouTube, uploaded by Spicediver himself, upload date October 3, 2017. I’m not linking it here due to forum rules, but it’s not difficult to find - just avoid any other uploads than that specific one. (The Ignacio Garcia upload just seems to be the official extended cut, and the Sam Wong upload is a “butchered” version of Spicediver’s edit [Spicediver’s words, not mine]).
Whoa, that’s not something I was aware of at all. I’ll have to take a look at that next time I get a chance to …
I might be able to help with that after work tonight. It appears none of the YouTube uploads I found are the actual Spicediver “Alternative Edition Redux,” or at least not the version I have.
I mean, you can try it, but 99% of UHD Blu-Ray players will not accept a burned UHD disc, be it a BD50 or BD100. Some can play back M-discs, but you’ll need to find a burner that can do M-discs, and ensure that your player can accept them. Most can’t.
Spicediver’s Alternative Edition is on YouTube. I prefer it to the Third Stage Edition anyway (which does seem to be tough to find nowadays).
Thr PS4 Pro doesn’t read 4K Blu-Ray discs, and even if it did, software for authoring such a disc is prohibitively expensive (the ones that claim you can do it that aren’t thousands of dollars don’t really work, at least not in a universally compatible manner).
So the answer to “Can I burn 4K77 or 4K83 to a 4K Blu-Ray disc that a 4K Blu-Ray player will be able to play?” is, unfortunately… no, not right now, but hopefully someday.
And sadly, the PS4 Pro cannot play video files encoded with H265, which is what 95% of all 4K media (including the 4K releases of 4K77 and 4K83) uses. You’ll have to reencode it yourself to H264 in an MKV container, and you can’t use DTS audio either because the PS4’s media player doesn’t support DTS.
Thing is, if you have a 4K TV, it’s almost always easiest to just put the MKV on a flash drive and plug it directly into your TV’s USB port. That’s what I do and it works great.
Only issue there is some TVs won’t support DTS-HD MA, so you might have to remux the file with an AC3 or PCM audio track instead of the DTS.
Or just take the 5.1 audio file and split it into mono WAV files (one for each channel) using software, of which there are many options. I use eac3to myself (yes, it works with DTS-HD MA).
The problem is, it’s still mixed - the center channel usually has some sound effects and music in it, the front left and front right often has some dialogue in it, and the front left, front right, surround left, and surround right are still a blend of music and sound effects.
Isolating just the sound effects or just the dialogue is next to impossible, but using the individual channels from the surround mix is helpful and standard practice for most fan editors.
VHS and Laserdisc.
TROS poster is more red than orange and more cyan than teal. Though I’d also say the TFA poster is more blue than teal, but there’s definitely a ton of orange in it. Either way, the colors in the TROS poster are more pleasing to look at and less garish, as is the composition.
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No. It’s pretty much impossible since there’s shots that were shortened/removed (can’t remember which, maybe both) in the Anakin/Padme garage scene in order to cut in the new dialogue, and if you’re trying to match to the 35mm version, there’s shots (like Anakin’s mechanical hand at the end) that we only have in bootleg cam form.
Plus there’s supposedly other visual changes made from the digital theatrical cut to the DVD/HDTV version (similar to the added moss on Kashyyyk huts in the ROTS BR version), but we don’t really know if that’s actually true because we don’t have any sort of a real reference for the digital version at all, and any similar visual alterations from the 35mm theatrical cut to the DVD/HDTV are hard to gauge with certainty from the bootleg cam due to the poor visual quality of it.
I’ve tried to match the bootleg 35mm audio to the HDTV video just to get an approximate version, but that fucking garage scene throws it all off. I couldn’t get it to sync with the available high quality footage.
I’ll admit that it’s been a while since I sat down to watch Rekindled, but that doesn’t seem any different to me than how Poppasketti already has it in the edit.
T2 on 35mm looks nowhere near as detailed as the bluray. I’d say the resolution in the print is a lot closer to 1K than it is to 2K.
Is this due to the fact that the negative is Super 35, and any print would be an optical crop and blow-up to anamorphic 35mm?
That vid actually makes me think of something that would’ve been in Petrovelly’s Star Wars Remastered project.
Did you see the username of the video’s uploader?
They didn’t clean up prints, they cleaned up the negatives. Negatives don’t have color grading applied. Any restoration that goes back to camera negatives will need to do the color from scratch.