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Andrea, please clear your inbox. :-)

I acquired it from Usenet not torrent.

Andrea, I recently acquired your BD 2.0.  It looks very good – better than I expected, given that the sources were LDs.  Great work!

The original framerate of the films is always the same: 24.  However, NTSC laserdiscs were always hard-telecined, so they are all 29.97i.

In what ways is the WOWOW HDTV of DAF better than the BD?  I know that some prefer the HDTV, but I've just synced them and can't see much difference, aside from the fact that there might be a bit more DNR on the BD.  I can post screenshots if necessary.

I realize that this is technically a LD thread, but it seems to be where all the Bond-related discussion goes.  Perhaps the thread title should be changed to read simply Bond Preservations?

I have.  It looks good.  :)

Yeah, I know where the threads are.  I think I'll wait for someone to put synced audio up in another format.

EDIT:  Thanks for posting the info though.  I didn't see it before I posted.

How does one decode them though?  Eac3to seems not to recognize them.

Demux the BD with Eac3to.  Then remux.

In order for a sequel to feel like part of a larger story and not be seen simply as a sequel, it will need to contain plot information which is absolutely essential to understanding the nature of the primary conflict, information which was not in any way present in the original movie. In this way, ESB excels...

What you say is true, but I can never bring myself accept the way in which ESB does it, as the big reveal is the point at which the shrinking universe that so plagues Star Wars really kicks in.  Your conception of how your Episode VII will function within the series is undeniably well thought out though.

Is placing your Episode VII thirty years after Endor absolutely necessary though?

I see why you'd replace head into exile with toil in exile, but if you do want it thirty years after I would make it have toiled in exile. I would also change Narrowly escaping... to Since narrowly escaping....

I'm glad I've converted you to the Dark Side of the Star Wars sequels; in time, you will call the true Emperor "Master"!

Haha!  While your idea is intriguing, my interest was primarily linguistic. 

It's great to see enthusiasm for the notion of writing alternative Star Wars episodes though.  I'd rather have an edit of ESB (with no big reveal) as Episode II and a completely rewritten third episode.  ROTJ is beyond saving (unless extensive refilming can work miracles).

^ Along those lines...

I dislike the fact that gathering new strength... is attached to escaped into exile.  Luke and Leia can scarcely gather new strength whilst escaping, so I would write something like: The rebel heroes Luke and Leia Skywalker narrowly escape into exile, determined to gather...

Moreover, if it were my crawl, I would be unhappy with its heavy use of the simple past.  Star Wars crawls, at least the OT ones, tend to use the simple present and present perfect, which give them a sense of immediacy that (after the first sentence) I don't feel when reading yours, promising though it is.

Here's a very quick and imperfect example of how I might re-write the crawl.  It is partly on the wording of Jambe Davdar's alternate crawl for ESB.

It is a time of galactic tyranny.  Lured by the Emperor's twisted decoy into destroying the new Death Star, the rebels have suffered a sudden and unexpected defeat at the hands of the Imperial Starfleet, which has regrouped and laid waste the forest moon of Endor.

Across the galaxy, worlds that celebrated the Alliance's short-lived victory now feel the oppressive Imperial grip tightening once more.

Narrowly escaping the destruction on Endor, the rebel heroes Luke and Leia Skywalker head into exile, determined to gather new strength in the fight for justice and freedom among the darkening stars....

I hope that this is constructive criticism, NeverarGreat.  While I initially didn't like the idea of a decoy, it is an ingenious way of explaining the fact that two actors played the emperor.

NeverarGreat said:I'm just not sure anyone else will want to deal with the confusion.

You have a point. Maybe there's a way of saving all your settings to a file that someone else who has the program can open.  One can do this in VirtualDub, so it should be possible in Premiere Elements

Whatever happens, I'll look forward to your release, and it's rare that I look forward to watching the 2004 SE.

You could render just the problematic section again and use Avisynth to splice in the corrected footage.  There's no need to re-render everything.

AntcuFaalb said:msycamore: Good point(s). I will reconsider my position.

That's admirable, AntcuFaalb.

In answer to the original question, I would say no.

NeverarGreat said:  So perhaps it's time to scuttle this project and start a complete color correction. I would be dissatisfied with releasing any settings which didn't fix the binary sunset or the Death Star explosion, for example.

That's one way to look at it.  Another is to look at the blanket setting as a starting point for someone else's project, like the one You_Too provided for Harmy, in which case it wouldn't matter that certain shots were not perfect.

I was thinking the same thing.  Recreating NeverarGreat's settings in Avisynth would take a long time, and I'm not even sure if it's possible.  The only current option is for someone with a fast computer to purchase Premiere Elements and apply the same settings.

Sorry.  I misread your post.  I was referring to the superficial changes that you mentioned.

NeverarGreat said:  I've actually wanted to do a scene-by-scene correction for a while...

Great!

NeverarGreat said:  One reason that I've stuck with this method for so long is quite simply the lack of good sources for scenes.

I can help you with the scenes that were changed between 2004 and 2011, but not much else.

NeverarGreat said:  The short of it is that the purple in the skin tones helps other aspects of the movie more than it hurts this one.

Understood.  Compromises like this are inevitable with blanket settings.  Do you ever plan to go scene by scene?  It's understandable if you don't: scene-by-scene correction is a huge undertaking.

Thanks for the demonstration. :-)  The result is better than expected, but I'd still prefer to stick to the theatrical BD of FotR, despite its shortcomings.  Unfortunately, I could never locate the HDTV broadcast itself.

stretch009 said: One seeder at the moment.

Thanks.  It's downloading very slowly.

You've more than made up for the long silence with your last post, NeverarGreat.  Your results are fantastic.  Can you do anything about the purple in Obi-Wan's hair?  I see it was present in the DVD.

Spaced Ranger said:If you had used gamma and mid-tones, OT forum members would have fair-chance at restoring the original colors. But you used low/high adjustments and crushed a quarter of the Red channel to achieve your effect.

Thanks, Spaced Ranger.  Your post on FotR confirms what I have long suspected: it's impossible to color-correct the EE BDs satisfactorily.

Is anyone still seeding the Italian cut of THX-1138?

CatBus said:  Isn't that pretty much what hairy_hen's ESB purist mix (stereo version) was?

I don't know.  I didn't realize he released a stereo version of ESB.

Possessed said:Maybe they should all be smoking cigars while they are fighting

Good idea!