Darth Lucas

So, disc three only includes the 2011 “Saga Edition” unlike the other two discs which both have two versions of the film. As such, there will be quite a bit of extra space on the disc and I have decided there will be a special surprise addition to that disc.

I won’t reveal what that is until disc 3’s release, unless someone manages to guess it. 😉

HINT: It is something that has never been officially released in any capacity, neither theatrically, or on home video.

I’d be interested in looking at this when I’ve got the time towne32. 😃
If it’s ok with you, I may use this for some of the scenes I haven’t corrected in my version like the Death Star interiors and such.

Mavimao said:

Hope the data recovery is successful. In the meantime, I just read this and found it pertinent:

http://gizmodo.com/optical-data-storage-squeezes-360tb-on-to-a-quartz-disc-1759359652

I was about to post this then I saw someone beat me to the punch. Could’ve saved you a lot of trouble recently haha

Technology neve ceases to amaze me. Imagine how much could be stored on a DVD sized disc! I imagine someday we’ll be popping these into our media players.

Thinking pretty far ahead here and technically wrong thread but this is a fantastic running joke:

Cuts off Luke’s hand. WHAT HAVE I DONE?
Throws the emperor down the shaft. WHAT HAVE I DONE?

Since I’m gonna have to do this too, what secondary encoder would u recommend for x264 Harmy?

Yeah, I’ll probably work on ROTJ next for that reason, but ROTJ and Empire will be worked on somewhat simultaneously because I’ll have to essentially do my own recreation of the 97 version of ROTJ in order to have it be comparable quality to every other version in the set, and hopefully by the time I’m done with that, ESB 2.5 will be out.

towne32 said:

This isn’t something I’d have noticed unless I was staring directly at these few pixels, but it looks like the Tantive’s engines are in front of the Star Destroyer for the first few frames of their overlap.

I’m not sure I see it, but the Tantive layer is most definitely below the Star Destroyer’s, so if that’s the case then it’s a problem with the original composite of the film and there’s not much I can do about it without doing some serious Frankenstein work, which I think is overkill for something that is probably in the '81 version anyways.

Yeah, the occasional damage on the stars bugs me just a little, but not enough for me to spend a ton of time fixing it. I really want to finish the CC and then get to authoring.

In between my finishing this project and waiting for Harmy’s 3.0, I’ll work on recreating it again completely from scratch in 1080p to pair with Harmy’s v3.0 in what I guess you could call v2 of this set.

Looks good. 😃 can’t wait to see how it turns out

I did not create the crawl. That was created by Harmy apparently some time ago. I suspect the crawl itself was sourced from film just due to the occasional damage that shows through, but like you said, nothing bad, but then I think the starfield was something else, probably sourced from Empire.

I took the crawl he sent me, recreated the rest of the starfield for the pandown, and did all the rotoscoping and everything for the flyover. You can’t see it but there’s a blend after the crawl disappears from Harmy’s video to my starfield for the pandown. Everything before the pandown is Harmy, everything after the crawl is me.

Does anybody know the bitrate for the mkv of v2.5?

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

Speaking of labels and such, is there a thread I might have missed for folks like myself that want boxset covers, labels, and all that jazz? I will gladly pay for shipping or materials or whatever. This set deserves to shine in our collections and the images of the homemade boxes are awesome!

http://originaltrilogy.com/discussion/DVD-Covers-Disc-Labels-and-Other-Fan-Artwork/id/20

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Blu-Ray-and-other-HD-box-size-STAR-WARS-covers/id/11843

Here is the video preview of '81 crawl/pandown/flyover. Internet compression was hell on this, but it should still give you an idea of the final product.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2bJjDvnfW0YM3FxdmRhcnBFUHM/view?usp=sharing

Well if we’re trying to portray him a some vile evil gangster, then isn’t the home of the most “wretched hive of scum and villainy” the perfect home for him?

rmclain73 said:

I have been looking forward to this Jedi 2.5 release for a while now. Can someone hook me up with a PM of a Myspleen invite?

Thanks Harmy once again!

I don’t want to be a jerk but clearly you haven’t looked very hard for it. I was on a certain public torrent site that “kicks ass” yesterday, searched “harmy” and it was the third one from the top. I understand Myspleen is convenient for those of us who are getting just about every project that comes out of the woodwork here, but if all you want is get despecialized and run, there are plenty of other ways to get it. uloz, tehparadox, public torrents.

Yeah I’ll render a video preview when I get the chance. Not sure I’ll be able to at any point today but I’ll see.

The crawl is completely unchanged from when Harmy sent it to me. The colors looked good to me so I didn’t mess with it. I’m not sure if it’s matched to 2.5 colors or not but looking at both, it seems pretty close to my eyes.

Any updates on this?

I’ve got the '81 crawl/flyover to a place where I’m pretty happy with it. I’ll continue tweaking little things pretty much up to the point of release, but it’s at a point where, for general viewing purposes, it works well.

It’s not going to be 100% accurate, but I think it’s about 80-90%. Not meant to be a perfect restoration of the crawl/flyover, I’ll leave that to far more capable hands, just meant to be a pretty darn close approximation for general viewing purposes, and in that endeavor, I’m really happy with how it’s turned out.

So with that more or less done, I just need to do one final pass of the color throughout the film, then it’s on to authoring the disc itself. Discs 2 and 3 I don’t think will take nearly as long, since I don’t need to do anything to the films themselves for those discs. Disc 4 might take some time as it’s alot of material I need to make sure is all gathered and authored correctly.

Then come Empire and Jedi.

Damn, that’s awful poita. Hopefully you get your station back up and working and anyone you sent scans to can send a copy back.

Sith happens, man.

Ah. Well ok then the matte line will be painted out in the final version.

That’s a very good question that I don’t know the answer to. Anybody know for sure? It’s hard to tell on my laserdisc transfer. I’m pretty sure the elements were reconposited in 81, but I’m not sure if the matte line was there or not. If not I can paint it out for the final version.

Yes, each element: the tantive iv, the star destroyer, tatooine, the moons, the blue lens flare from the engine - they each were individually rotoscoped out and added onto the new star field. The engine flare, being semi-transparent, had to have the stars behind it individually painted out and then the blending mode changed to make the new stars have the same level of visibility behind it.

Yeah I know I threw some black bars for framing on just for the sake of showing you guys and misaligned it a little bit.

This is obviously still a work-in-progress and there are some little issues I’m still needing to fix, but it’s far enough along now that I feel comfortable sharing some screenshots. Of course huge thanks goes to Harmy for supplying me with the crawl portion of this.