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The description of the video says 1996, which is just barely pre-SE, so it could have been a 1983 70mm Jedi print, but point taken.
I don’t think 70mm prints were made of the SE, so it has to be the original, right?
This is awesome! Wish I lived out west right about now…
Oh, sorry, I misread your post!
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say “no” since it isn’t finished yet. 😉
There’s also 4K83 DNR v1.1 that’s out now, which uses Skydude’s DNR settings and Sanjuro’s color grade, which is the best I’ve ever seen ROTJ look. But of course, that’s ROTJ…
I definitely need to track down this 1.1 release. I tested Sanjuro’s v1.4, and while amazing work, the grain kills it for me on my 4K set. I definitely need DNR for my situation.
I was talking about ROTJ (4K83). The original Star Wars/ANH (4K77) does not have a Sanjuro-graded DNR release.
I can’t seem to find a no DNR, 4k version of 1.1
Could someone PM me a link?
And this is why GOUT syncing the video is a futile effort IMO - the video will be constantly going through incremental updates and improvements, and trying to GOUT sync every iteration of 4K83 is going to feel like the myth of Sysyphus very quickly.
OR you’ll get people demanding that this particular version isn’t GOUT synced and why isn’t it when you did THIS version and it can’t be that hard but it’s over my head so I won’t do it myself but I need this one specific audio track to work with this one specific rendering of the video and so on and so on …
Better, I think, to start transitioning everything over to the new frame-complete standard now.
Download the AVCHD versions, they’re intended to be burned to 8GB DVDs.
Mind you, they won’t play in a DVD player since they’re still HD, but they’ll play in most Blu-Ray players.
Was that ever released in the US? I know we got some OT box sets with the GOUT discs, but I don’t remember any of them being tin cases/steelbooks.
Definitely sounds like they’re just projecting the 2006 DVD…
Of the first six movies? Pretty much.
Honestly I have no problem with either of those changes.
This may be a thought for another thread (I’m new to the site), but I’d be curious to see someone rewrite the entire script from scratch without thought for any limitations in terms of editing something together, including (but not limited to) new characters, locations, and main plots. It would be interesting to even read a version of the prequel trilogy we should have gotten (the version we could have gotten if Lucas had done as many rewrites as, say, George RR Martin 😛).
While I feel vast improvements could be made to the prequels through editing, for some of us there is just so much that is wrong that it’s difficult to fathom a fan-edit that could truly fix it. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see that vastly improved version and admire those making the effort to work with what they have.
There’s an entire subforum on this site dedicated to exactly this! Check it out: https://originaltrilogy.com/discussion/Script-Writing-and-Re-writing/id/21
Oh wow, that actually looks pretty decent.
Seems to me like there’s even less detail in the BR, despite the obvious compression artifacts in the HDTV…
Changing the hair color of a character in every scene is extremely difficult and time-consuming, though. Assuming you can even get such a color change to look convincing.
I think the HDTV of AOTC has different cropping, so it might be closer to a full 1080p image with less scaling on most shots.
Of course, there’s more compression artifacting in the HDTV version, but it’s surprisingly pretty damn clean.
Did any of the international Blu-Ray releases of the Hobbit movies have soft subs? I know the US ones are hardsubbed, but the US LOTR trilogy is soft-subbed.
Because it’s a shit-ton of work for something that really doesn’t matter or change the movie either way…?
Anamorphic 16:9 PAL video isn’t that far off from 720p resolution, really.
That’s all pretty much the impression I was getting from the earlier clips he posted.
They do look nice, even if I’m not a huge fan of some of those posters.
One thing I will say - be careful bringing the blacks down too much like that. It looks nicer on a screen, where you can get the blacks nice and inky without crushing too much detail out, but that can tend to look … not as good when printed, in my experience. (I’m mainly speaking to your OT/ST covers and the textless TPM one, AOTC and ROTS and the rest look good.)
Of course, I haven’t printed yours, so you may have found the right balance and I’m just being overly cautious! (I’m also sure certain printers and/or printer paper will have better luck with deeper black levels than others.)
Can somebody tell me why we haven’t banned this Ivan guy from the site? Wtf guys.
He posted twice and then fucked off when we didn’t worship the ground he walked on, so that seems pointless. And yeah, I don’t think either of his posts actually violated any site rules.
Is he, like, putting the entire edit up to view on YouTube?
That’s a really bad idea. Especially if he tries to make it a monetized upload.
Best case scenario, it gets taken down and Disney sends him a cease and desist. Worst case scenario, it brings the hammer down on the entire fan editing community…
Sounded a lot more like a demand that someone else do all the work for you instead of a polite request to me.
Like I said, I know absolutely nothing about color correction. It’s too hard and too complicated. And I know, I’ve tried it. Now, because of these posts, I personally started to lose hope in ever doing an “Ultimate Edition” of the Star Wars saga.
Too hard and too complicated? Then start learning. That’s what all the rest of us have done. It’s daunting and there is a learning curve, sure, but giving up when you’ve barely tried and demanding other people do everything for you isn’t going to get you anywhere.
If you’re looking for non-Adobe software to learn on, DaVinci Resolve seems to be very popular recently. Sony Vegas has long been a top choice for fan editors, too.
Sounded a lot more like a demand that someone else do all the work for you instead of a polite request to me.