We'll feel like idiots if Disney just hands this over to Lowry or something.
Seriously though, there's no guaranty of that. From what I understand Fox owns ANH in perpetuity, even if their rights to ESB and RotJ run out in a couple years.
NeonBible said:
Yup, US cut is HD and extended Japanese cut is an extra in SD.
Thanks. Disappointing, but I'm sure you just saved someone from buying it unknowingly.
What is it then, both versions of the film on the disc and the U.S. cut is HD but the extended is SD, or are they actually selling SD movies on BDs?
I was looking at this disc again today and was surprised that it was stereo with dingy looking video.
That's not meant to be a slam on the Rev. The fault is most definitely the source material.
Interestingly, it turns out JM has gotten a Blu-Ray release in Japan.
I'd love to see an upgrade of this if anyone is capable.
TehParadox is a good alternative to torrents if you have a premium account on a file storage site.
If the Spleen thing works out, I guess we need to talk SotS and Aladdin.
I thought the Little Mermaid had a pretty open release at the time.
@monks19 - By 'revisit' are you saying something else needs to be done with the edit?
That doesn't seem minor... and I mean that in a good way.
In situations like this the DVD will usually contain more than two subtitle tracks for English.
There will be the fully subtitled track of all dialog and one called 'forced' subtitles that will turn itself on to give you subs for non-English dialog.
You have a couple of different options here (most aren't fun). If you haven't altered the runtime at all, you can extract the forced subtitles and use them as they are.
If you've changed the length of the program you need to use OCR software to generate a text version of the subtitles. With subtitle editing software you can retime it to match your new edit, and then generate new graphic (DVD format) subtitles.
The only other answer is using something like avisynth with a vobsub filter and 'burn in' the subtitles while re-encoding the video. You can then use the re-encoded version in your edit.
Anyone have any other suggestions?
nightstalkerpoet said:
I did a very simple DH Part 1 Extended Edition HERE
Other than the two scenes I added in, and a couple subtitles to help along the passage of time, I don't really think any of the others would make a difference (Ron talking to his dad is a good scene, but kills all pacing).
Yeah, I keep going back and forth on this. Some of the scenes make no sense without further info, a lot have green screens, a couple don't fit because they were replaced with a montage. It's pretty thin for what's useful.
Considering they needed to stretch a really slow story into 2 movies, I guess that's to be expected. I'm currently looking into doing this though only to add some high dynamic range gain to it.
It won't be anywhere near what I was showing in my tests.
I'm curious what others think, but on a well calibrated TV there are several scenes that are just black with some blobs moving around. I don't know if the people that built the DVD were crap at their jobs, if the movie was intended to have bits with effects shots that can't be scene(?) or if they assume everyone has LCD televisions in torch mode that has to be compensated for.
I assume the last is true. Anybody with a professionally calibrated (or pretty well amateurly calibrated) TV find some scenes to be too dark to even make sense in Deathly Hallows?
Aladdin was released by ADigitalMan. The Little Mermaid was also released a long while back.
The SotS is available as a BBC TV2DVD rip from Mentor and an 2 disc NTSC conversion with extras (I think that was finished at v2.)
I don't know about any of the others. Maybe someone else knows about the rest.
It wouldn't hurt for us to start a list some where tracking these.
Edit: Just checked the thread, the final version of SotS was v1.1. Mostly the addition of subtitles and a fix to some authoring glitches.
v2 was a proposed reconversion with more modern filters, but the quality difference was minimal.
I've been looking at the Deathly Hallow entries. The deleted scenes are a bit crap, aren't they.
When they aren't boring or pointless, there are green screens everywhere.
I don't think there's a point to trying to edit them unless someone with After Effects skills wants to finish the fx shots first.
I went back and did some technical reading online about this. That stuff really makes my head hurt.
I'm still not sure when or where, but I suppose it's becoming less and less important.
And I assume then that going from DVD to DVD or HD source to DVD you would not need to check the ITU box?
Yeah, I think I understood that much, but I'm just never sure under what conditions it should be used in the calculator.
Stupid question at this point but can someone explain the "ITU-R BT.601-4 standard"?
In all this years I've never selected the option because the results seem suspect. When should it be used?
I honestly hadn't thought about it.
The stereo track might be better. At least you'd be able to extract the audience with some creative upmixing.
A mono track you're pretty much stuck with as is.
I dropped this project... and I really don't remember why. I'm afraid I just lost interest.
What does the LD audience track contain that the first DVD release does not?
Not to get anyone's hopes up, but post 16 turned out to be prescient.
Option 5 it was. 4 hours straight of remixing and re-encoding most of the audio and I have a build ready to preview.
I was actually getting ready to delete the files to clear some drive space (which IS a larger drive) and I realized how much work was already done.
All the deleted scene video was color corrected to match and edited in. An English subtitle track was synced. Chapters already marked.
I'll also probably be rewriting my Stereo to 5.1 guide soon too.
Please don't PM me for details, it's way too soon.
Now my toughest decisions are if I'm going to bother with menus and if this will be DVD5 or 9. I've sort of stopped burning DVD9's now that I'm considering the leap to Blu-Ray.
Anyway, still alive, and evidently not retired from editing.
AntcuFaalb said:
Doctor M said:
No. It is not good.
While the buildings have cleaner edges, the fine detail of the shot suffers.
Windows in the buildings are more blurred and the speeder and its occupants are less distinct.
Since this is upscaling to HD, sacrificing detail seems like a bad idea.
So you'd rather have a severely-blurry upscaled image than an upscaled image with less fine detail?
That was a ridiculous comment.
I said that you are trading one blurring for another. The edges of the buildings are stabilized, but the details of the building, windows and the speeder are blurred. C3PO is pretty much a gold blob.
No. It is not good.
While the buildings have cleaner edges, the fine detail of the shot suffers.
Windows in the buildings are more blurred and the speeder and its occupants are less distinct.
Since this is upscaling to HD, sacrificing detail seems like a bad idea.
I like that the red stripe on the ship looks more accurate too. Nice.
Whatever came from all this talk?
There are like four Indy4 edits around and none have some of the better improvements talked about here (including Indy firing his gun).
Just an update, the BDSup2Sub jittering issue may only be apparent if you play back on a 480i device. (Not many people have noticed it.)
Someone new has taken up development of the software and has stated that he will take a look at the issue in the future, so I can't see making a modification to the guide at this point.
If anyone does have an issue with subtitles displaying badly with the guide as it currently is, PM me and I'll post the old (longer) method as a stop gap.