ChainsawAsh

Frankly, I’d prefer to go the Hal 9000 route and not have Yoda ever confront the Emperor at all, but that’s me.

Okay, so Google your TV model and see what video and audio formats it can play. I’m sure there’s a list on the manufacturer’s website, or discussions on home theater forums that will answer your questions better than people here that don’t own your TV can.

Or look at your manual.

Or just put the damn thing on a flash drive, plug it in, and see if it works. It’s not like you’re going to break anything or waste a disc.

Cameron Samurai said:

There’s also a quality issue…many classic DW eps I rip have a ghosting effect.

This is why you need to make sure you’re working from a PAL source instead of the awkwardly standards-converted NTSC versions.

Of course, there’s still ghosting in some of those thanks to restoring from film conversions instead of original tapes, but your brief description sounds like PAL-to-NTSC interlacing issues to me.

Actually, the Atmos mix is a remix of the 2000 remix, it has all the same shitty new aspects of the remix - BUT the 5.1 AC3 included on the same disc is the original 1978 70mm six-track mix, not the 2000 remix!

crissrudd4554 said:

Additionally some BD releases of Halloween and Mad Max have mono tracks that are actually downmixes of the surround track. The recent UHD release of Halloween sadly is one of them.

Yeah, don’t be fooled by studios simply claiming that the original tracks are included. Superman: The Movie is one of those where the first few BR releases claimed to have the theatrical stereo when it was really a fold-down of the modern remix.

Then there’s also the fact that a lot of times, when original mixes are provided, they’re in much lower quality (say, 192kbps AC3) compared to the modern remix (often lossless). Older laserdisc releases’ uncompressed PCM audio will often be superior, even if it’s the same mix.

The Dark Lord said:

The sizes of the 2160p files on a USB was too much for my 2018 LG TV to deal with. Smaller 2160p files (such as the TeamNegative1 fanfare) played directly on the TV on problem, but it refused to play any big files (~87 GB).

Really? That’s bizarre. Was it that they wouldn’t fit on the USB (possibly because of FAT32 formatting instead of NTFS or ExFAT), or the TV didn’t recognize the files? Or did it start to play, then stutter?

My other thought would be that the TV doesn’t support h265, but that seems unlikely to me with a UHD TV.

I’ll let you all know if I end up attempting to author the 2160p files onto 100GB discs, but considering how well the software handled the authoring of 1080p discs, I would assume it would work just fine.

I’d be more concerned about playback compatibility in UHD BD players than ease of authoring.

Why does the remote matter? My remote is absurdly simple - it’s got arrow buttons, an Enter button, a Back button, a Home button, and a Power button. That’s it. The audio/subtitle switching is all handled within the on screen display on my TV when the video file is playing.

I guess my point is, why don’t you just try it instead of saying “what if it doesn’t work?” over and over on here for days on end?

I’d be massively stunned if a Roku TV can’t handle playing an MKV file from a flash drive. Worst case scenario, it might not like the DTS-HD MA audio.

poppasketti said:

Luke’s milking the alien for me is enough to suggest his connection with nature and the force. The shot of Luke actually drinking it with the scornful look on his face (as if he was deliberately trying making Rey uncomfortable) felt a little too strong to me. Rey was already uncomfortable, so, for me, the purpose of the scene is already achieved without having Luke rub it in her face.

Yes, all of this! Honestly, before, my only real issues with your edit were keeping the “cowl” line and the milking scene. I think your fix for the milking scene solved my issues enough to say that this is almost certainly going to be my go-to TLJ edit - I can deal with one line that makes me groan. 😉

Super looking forward to this! I’ll have some actual free time over the holiday weekend, so if you want another set of eyes on your edit for QC before you officially release it, shoot me a PM, I should be able to watch it and give you notes on any issues that jump out to me by Sunday.

Also, if you’re working with lossless audio and want a DTS encode (though sadly not DTS-HD), I can do that for you once your audio is finalized, provided you can give me each individual audio channel as a mono AIFF or WAV file.

Oh, and:

poppasketti said:

Also, regarding FE.org submission, I have not heard back from DominicCobb, and my first PM to him was 2 weeks ago. I sent a follow-up three or so days ago. Could there be something I am doing wrong, or should I keep waiting? Any advice would be appreciated! I’m not in any rush, just thought it was a long time without reply.

They can get pretty busy over there, so it indeed might take a while, but have you started a thread like this one in their Fanedits In-The-Works section? That would get you a little bit more visibility and allow your edit submission to stand out among the dozens sitting in the queue waiting to be reviewed by the Academy.

They’re both pretty damn seamless to me, and I particularly like the Luke trim - I was in favor of cutting the milking entirely, but that simple trim surprisingly makes me pretty much fine with it!

You shouldn’t have any problem downloading and transferring it to a flash drive as long as your hard drive isn’t FAT32 formatted (4GB file size limit). And the 1080p MKV (DNR or no) should play just fine from a flash drive on a Blu-Ray player.

Yes.

I wouldn’t know about a TCL TV but I’d be surprised if you couldn’t do that somehow.

I have no problem switching audio or subtitles when it’s connected directly to my Samsung.

That seems to be skirting the rules of the forum at best.

emanswfan said:

I’m wondering what’s with the differences in color timing for the binary sunset, the death star interior, and the rebel base interior? In the binary sunset it seems to be more uniform in color, and both the death star interior and rebel base interior have the weird blue tint to the shadows, which I thought was part of the bluray and dvd’s color issues.

No, all the reference sources (namely the various film prints obtained by Mike Verta, Poita, and Team Negative 1) that have come to light since ANH:R was made have proven pretty conclusively that both of those things were intentional. They were over-exaggerated by the shoddy BR color grade, so early color grades like Adywan’s overcompensated.

Although I think Adywan did say that he made the Death Star’s walls more of a stark gray as an artistic choice even though he was aware of the intentional blue tint, it seems like he’s changed his mind on that in the years since.

Mocata said:

ChainsawAsh said:
… how do you develop characters? By giving them screen time. You could argue that he should have had more development in RO-

That’s a bingo.

I still don’t understand what you’re trying to say between this post and the one I was replying to in the post you just quoted. He didn’t get enough development in one ensemble movie, therefore he shouldn’t be allowed to be in a TV series? Why not?

Yes, it was. Possibly a phone autocorrect. My bad.

Fang Zei said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Fang Zei said:

Putting aside the GOUT issue, I’m really just curious if 3.0 will simply be the unaltered stretches of the blu-ray (color-corrected, or course) using only the 35mm scans for the parts that were altered. For example, there are still some ‘97 recomps in the most recent version of the despecialized ESB if I’m not mistaken.

I would hope we finally have a viable alternative, but that may have to wait until Poita’s project is done.

I’d be surprised if poita’s project releases before 4K80.

Isn’t 4k80 already expected to take a while?

Yes, but - and I mean no disrespect to Poita here, he does great work, has helped the community in immeasurable ways, and his real-life job keeps him busy, not to mention the various health problems he’s had - of all the film scanning projects he’s begun over the many years he’s been active here, how many of them have actually been finished and released?

The movie theater where I work does a Star Wars marathon for the employees-only every year at the end of November / beginning of December, one movie per night. This year it will be Rogue One, OT, TFA, TLJ, in that order. Last year they simply hooked up a bd player to the 2k cinema projector and the sound system and used the official blu-rays. In one of the previous years they hooked up a laptop to watch despecialized, or so I’m told.

I’d love to change things up a bit this year but I don’t want to use despecialized for the OT since it’s stuck at 720p. So I’m wondering if I should just go with TN1’s OT or if the ideal lineup for now is 4k77 non-DNR 1080p, ESB Grindhouse, 4k83 non-DNR 1080p.

Yeah, that seems like a good way to do it. The official 1080p Blu-Ray releases of 4K77 and 4K80 4K83 will be out in a couple weeks, but then again, that’ll be the DNR 4K77 and a new pseudo-DNR 4K83 (with adjusted contrast and reel change markers removed), so you might wanna stick with the 1080p MKV versions instead.

Fang Zei said:

Putting aside the GOUT issue, I’m really just curious if 3.0 will simply be the unaltered stretches of the blu-ray (color-corrected, or course) using only the 35mm scans for the parts that were altered. For example, there are still some ‘97 recomps in the most recent version of the despecialized ESB if I’m not mistaken.

I would hope we finally have a viable alternative, but that may have to wait until Poita’s project is done.

I’d be surprised if poita’s project releases before 4K80.

Mocata said:

I don’t get it. This is them holding back on the spin offs for a while?

Spin off movies that are box office risks post-Solo. Both of these live action shows are in service of propping up Disney+, which is an entirely different type of risk. It’s also easier to course-correct a TV series with a poor reception than a big-budget movie.

Also Cassian Andor? That’s not a character.

I, for one, thought he was the most interesting character in Rogue One. Besides, how do you develop characters? By giving them screen time. You could argue that he should have had more development in RO, but his being underdeveloped in a movie shouldn’t be an argument against using him in a series where he can get more development.

Anchorhead said:

Rogue One is my favorite Star Wars film. This pretty much guarantees I’ll be a subscriber to their streaming service. I was already interested enough in The Mandalorian. This seals the deal. Two new shows, both free of the weight of The Saga. Looks like we may be getting actual EU stories.

I never thought I’d see the day you put any SW movie above the original, let alone got this excited over not just one, but two SW TV series! 😉

But yeah, I’m pretty pumped for this. Moore would be a great fit if they approach him for it - his tendency toward religious themes might even work if young Cassian was a believer in the Jedi/Force/Whills, though I hope they don’t tread any more deeply into Jedi/Force stuff on the show than Rogue One did.

It’s hard to tell, but the starfields aren’t 100% monochrome, particularly ROTJ, in which the starfields are more blue-on-black than white-on-black.

I’d describe it as “willingly sacrifices himself to save his friends and preserve hope for the future,” but if you think he “just dies,” then okay.

snooker said:

Nope. He’s accepted his father’s sword after rejecting it twice in the movie.

Yeah, as much as I really wished we’d seen him with the green saber outside the couple flashbacks, when someone pointed this out to me on here a while back (forget who, sorry!), I finally “got” it. It should be Anakin’s saber, anything else misses the point.

Unless, I guess, you are ditching the projection angle and making Luke physically present, in which case that symbolism isn’t as important. Though then you’d have to age Mark back up to look like he does in the rest of the movie on top of rotoscoping the hilt and blade, which just seems like far too much work for so little gain over the way it is in the film itself.