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You could too.

Honestly, what’s stopping all of you “Man, I wish someone would do X” people from actually doing some research and giving it a try yourself? That’s what almost everyone here who makes edits and preservations did - there’s only a small subset who were already experienced when they started doing this stuff.

Yep, that’s the one, though it doesn’t appear to be the same blog post (or maybe they changed their software and his formatting got borked).

Thanks for finding that though, I was too lazy!

You could.

I also much prefer 1.4’s colors over 1.6’s and they feel more accurate to me (a guy who wasn’t even alive when ROTJ was in theaters so bear that in mind).

This is everyone’s friendly reminder not to ask for ETAs on fan projects, particularly Revisited - there’s a reason Ady no longer provides ETAs and people constantly asking when it will be finished got really really really old during ESB:R’s 8+ year production.

The two sequels to the Franco reboot are both significantly better than Rise and much different in tone, and I say that as someone who thought Rise was surprisingly good. That trilogy was way better than it had any right to be.

Someone made a “chronological” order that’s partly based on the Nolan films’ concept of “escalation” - early episodes focus more on street gangs and realistic villains and it gets more “out there” as it goes along - but I’ve never sat down and done a watch of the series in that order before so I don’t know how well it plays.

Most people working on AOTC outright abandon the Blu-Ray version and use Schorman’s HDTV preservation since it has good colors and the Blu is so fucked there are things that can’t be fixed with color grading/LUTs.

Yep, that.

Come on, man. Just 4 posts above yours.

You could probably use an SDR encode as a proxy and replace the proxy footage with the full 4K HDR at the end.

This will be used for an update of 4K77 that williarob is currently working on. It will be a big upgrade on top of the color - no more upscaled Blu-Ray frames, no-DNR and DNR will be brought into the same “fork” so updates to one can be applied to the other easily, some redone/additional cleanup, etc.

I don’t know if there will be zero frames from the new 4K UHD Blu-Ray, but since the team now has a 4K scan of a 1997 SE print, that is possible. But at minimum there will be no more 1080p upscaled frames.

Williarob has said that when he got some project files from Mike, the techniques actually used in the project files were often not at all what he showed on his Vimeo uploads, so I’m not really surprised at more contradictions.

I can confirm that the PlayStation Classic is super easy to “hack” using a USB 2.0 flash drive to install the initial payload using controller port 2, then once that’s done, copying everything over to a proper USB drive (in my case a 2TB portable HDD) and plugging it in using an OTG cable. I’m using Project Eris.

It took a little bit of tinkering but I now have the complete NES, SNES, MSX2, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Atari 2600/5400/7800, Sega Game Gear, Nintendo GameBoy, Nintendo GameBoy Color, Nintendo GameBoy Advance, and PSX libraries on the drive and most of what I’ve tried works great! I’ve so far finished Final Fantasy I-III on the NES and will be starting up Final Fantasy IV in the next day or two.

As long as you aren’t trying to emulate N64, Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, or newer, the PlayStation Classic is a very solid choice. (Though apparently a couple N64 games do work.)

The 2015 Blu-Ray is solid, probably the best one out there and it has both cuts on the disc.

I used to like the extended cut but over time I’ve come to prefer the pacing of the theatrical. One of these days I’d like to do a hybrid cut with just a couple of extended cut scenes restored…

(FYI I’m talking about the primary extended cut; the Easter Egg one has the cheesy alternate ending, I think.)

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Yeah, there’s individual releases.

LOL

Broom Kid said:

It’s more about not smashing straight to the Palpatine reveal. If nothing else, the Mustafar provides a little buildup and anticipation of the Palpatine reveal.

I don’t know that it provides any buildup or anticipation, though. Theoretically it could, but the structure of the story (and its execution in the film itself) prevents that. I agree that Mustafar is supposed to possibly function as buildup, but I don’t think it does that at all

+1000

Mustafar sucks

Kill it

Nice work! I dig the logo. Did you make that or find it?

Criterion cases have a different spine size, right? Meaning you’d have to expand the size of just the spine while leaving the front and back sizes intact. You’ll need to do some selective resizing in Photoshop or another image editor to get that to work. Or just use regular, blue BR cases.

poppasketti said:

jonh said:

I personally still think that the movie should start with this clip. And completely erase mustafar. (Which doesn’t seem to mustafar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4k12QPAh_c

Good call, jonh! Here’s a quick mockup of that idea:
TROS - Alt Opening without Mustafar
pw: fanedit

Ooh, YES! I actually was thinking of keeping more of the TIE flight than this (start with him navigating through the nebula using the Wayfinder), but this works really really well.

JEDIT: Holy crap I didn’t realize how many more pages there were after this…my bad!

I still will advocate for removing Mustafar entirely for any TROS edit. That’s getting ever closer to being a “TROS edit deal breaker” for me (much like how keeping the droid factory is an “AOTC edit deal breaker” for me).

DominicCobb said:

Not my thread, but if we were to remove Mustafar I’d much prefer starting the film at the point where Kylo’s TIE is flying through space with the Wayfinder, rather

Was anyone ever suggesting to open the film on Exegol, skipping the TIE beat?

I’ve been saying to cut Mustafar since day 1, but never meant to suggest we pan down from the crawl to Exegol, I always meant for it to pan down from the crawl to see Kylo in his TIE following the Wayfinder to Exegol. Is the reason everyone dismissed this idea until apparently just now just because people assumed we’d skip the TIE beat, too?

jonh said:

I personally still think that the movie should start with this clip. And completely erase mustafar. (Which doesn’t seem to mustafar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4k12QPAh_c

Yes…yes…to jonh you listen…

NeverarGreat said:

So I watched TROS again a couple of days ago and took some notes as to potential edits:

• Since Kylo is oddly communing with Vader’s mask after Palps tells him he’s been ‘every voice in his head’, it might work to place this scene right after the opening crawl. The mask could be Vader telling him exactly where to find the wayfinder on Mustafar. Cut to him slaughtering the Cultists.

Fuck yeah, this is a great idea that hadn’t occurred to me! As someone who’s been saying “cut Mustafar entirely” from day one, this might be a way to salvage the Mustafar sequence for me.

• As a benefit to moving Kylo’s mask communing scene, Rey’s training montage could be uninterrupted by Kylo. Just show her vision, preferably cut like Dom’s proof of concept. Also, have Rey merely say ‘I’m starting to think it’s impossible’ and cut the ‘contact the spirits of the Jedi’ since that is implied.

Also on board with all of this.

I also realize after seeing it again that it’s highly unlikely any Palpatine as illusion plot would work since he is unmoored from the mechanical arm by the end.

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