Chewtobacca

Don't worry, my friend, you didn't!  :-)

If Funcha is feeling brave, he could add some more AT ATs to the Hoth battle and make the rebels heavy laser gun emplacements do more damage.  They always seem a little too ineffective to me.

Oh well, I don't wanna derail this thread.  We'll have to agree to disagree!  :-) 

I just wanna propose ADM's solution for the emperor.  If you can revamp how Ian looks to make him look even better I'm with you!

I've uploaded Adywan's ANH AVCHD re-encoded to 23.976 fps to rapidshare.  I've PMed those who expressed an interest already, but PM me if you are interested too.

I'll keep the files up for 2 weeks, maybe more.  Then it's up to one of you to torrent it if you like it.

Let me know how it works.  I've tested it on two blu ray players and a PS3 already, but cannot guarantee it will work on all machines.  It's just the HD Video and surround sound.  No commentaries, no subtitles.  Cheers!

Change Yoda's line in ROTS to "sexual relations I have with the wookies".

I would use adigitalman's solution for the emperor - new emperor, old dialogue - achieved by careful editing of the audio.

Really don't see why people are so attached to the old emperor.  Looks like what it is.  A girl in half a chimp mask.  And Clive Revill's line delivery is uninspiring - to say the least. 

It was an absolutely awful element of the original and quite right it was changed to match ROTJ and everything else.  Just a shame Lucasfilm messed up the dialogue.

Great idea for an edit, Funcha!

Excellent idea, guys!  Have you decided whether you're going to keep the films as they were broadcast, or change elements like Adywan did?  Any thoughts about colour correction?

Best of luck!

Indeed, no more blue movies from Lucasfilm!  :-)

Yeah; Ep 1 does look much worse than IV and V.  Everyone that saw my copy of the AVCHD said so, but I didn't want to point it out, as I was sure Adywan did everything possibe to sort it out. 

If anyone has been following the re-encoding instructions, and finds that the disc they produce registers as a data disc, rather than an AVCHD, on a PS3, here is why and what to do.

Tsmuxer has undergone a change in the latest build.  Now, instead of selecting blu ray as your output, you must select AVCHD.

If you have already muxed your streams together, just import the m2ts stream back into tsmuxer, make sure all the streams are checked, select AVCHD for your output, and start muxing as usual. 

Then burn the BDMV and Certificate folders as usual, using imgburn, and making sure you select UDF 2.5.  Cheers!

miker71 said:

Before EU went nuts and before I'd seen a lot of preproduction material. I GM'd a great campaign 88 - 90, too :-)

There's stuff in here that turns up in the prequels, too IIRC

Oh I just love that book!   I bought it when I first went on the Star Tours ride.  I used to love reading the explanation of the different spaceships and starfighters, as it took the real SW universe seriously.  Never been a fan of the EU.   The writing was so cool!

Moth3r said:

He wasn't referring to you. Fredstar posted a direct link, which I removed.

Moth3r, if I do manage to get Ep IV uploaded to rapidshare, how do I let people know where?  Do I have to use PM?

Okay, thanks to Ady for giving permission.  I'll upload this when I can, but it will take a while on my connection.

Fredstar, I don't think everyone will know what to do with an mkv, but thanks for the suggestion.

Yeah; you tell 'em vbangle. 

Yeah; I meant small in terms of mass.  I don't like the line, however it's meant.

Would be cool to take the best of the two Jabbas.  The Phantom Menace Jabba looked so much better, just in terms of colour.

I know you're interested, Sluggo mate! :-)  I think we'd need a few people to make it worthwhile.

It would only be the HD video and the surround sound, as the subtitles don't work after the re-encoding.  I didn't bother to re-encode the director's commentaries either, as I don't listen to them. 

I do need to know if Adywan did anything special to make the ISO.  I can make an ISO of the BDMV and Certificate folders with imgburn, but I'll need to know if there are any special settings to be used for making an AVCHD one, as I've never done it before.

Sluggo said:

 This line would have been interesting as it would have shortly followed the (then) cut line of "Jabba, you're a wonderful human being."  The contrast of these lines close together is interesting.

That line's always really irritated me, regardless of how it was meant.  I'm glad Ady cut the Jabba scene just for that, let alone because of the CGI.  Although the second attempt was better than the first, Jabba always looks too small to me.

Strange.  I find newsgroup downloads to be amazingly fast and you don't have to seed, or rely on other people, and you don't have to worry about some idiot having unpacked the ISO or otherwise messed with it.  No contest in my book.

I figured out how to do the conversion to 23.976 fps!  It played back perfectly on my Pioneer BDP 51FD, so Adywan's second solution does work on Pioneer players.  If Adywan gives his permission, I might consider uploading it to rapidshare if people are interested.

Okay.  I'm not tense as such: I'm just trying to put across that I really am a bit out of my depth.

Sorry.  I took your post the wrong way; that's all.

I actually think the DVD 9 holds up pretty well compared to HD, especially when upscaled.  I can see the difference, but it's not huge IMO. 

What does that mean?

Okay.  I followed the steps about converting the audio to 25 fps in Besweet - no probs.

I'm now using a GUI of eac3 to convert from 25 to 23.976 fps.

Is it okay to decode using libav/ffmpeg?

Can someone confirm the runtime for me?   1:59:35?

PLEASE HELP!

Bingowings said:

Lots of people hear the voices and take them to be dead people asking them to do something.

There may be a scientific explanation for Force powers (but not lifeforms living inside all cells unless they are a very exotic form of life that aren't built on cells themselves) and belief in something isn't the same as something actually existing.

We don't know how lightsabers work (plasma blades contained inside a force field might be possible for a civilisation capable of faster than light travel).

No sound in space but there would still be sound inside ships caused by shock waves travelling through space.

So it's possibly doable, if someone wants to.

There's no current scientific explanation for any of those things, so you'd have to make one up, so you could make one up for anything, so you could include anything, because you'd have no criteria by which to exclude anything, so anything still goes.

Back to square one.  The original film.

Ripplin said:

^A "scientific" cut of the movie would be interesting.

Interesting but impossible.  No lightsabers, no sound in space, no "the force", no voices from dead mentors, no nothing.

Unless, we postulate that scientific rules have changed in the future.  In which case anything would become possible again, and we'd be back to the same old SW without any changes being needed...

Darth Venal said:

But what footage would you use? Fan editors are restricted by the source material, unless you can get Jimmy Smits from something else, but there are all sorts of problems making it all work. You could possibly lift some of the footage from the end of Episode II and age him, but it's not easy.

I'm trying to show him getting away on a ship and getting killed in the planet debris.

Plenty of footage from NYPD Blue DVDs!  Maybe you could CGI his beard back on.

I think the original looked best from a purely aesthetic point of view.  I think vbangle is right, but we shouldn't forget that we needn't be 100% scientifically accurate in what we prefer in a piece of entertainment, and that we all have different preferences.

Let's not forget that a real explosion in space would be silent.  Hands up for a silent Death Star explosion!  

No one?  I didn't think so....