Erik Pancakes

1. Nah, the PAL DVD's, even though they're at proper speed, definitely have more compression artifacts and ghosting to worry about. The Blu-Rays are a much better choice for your source.

2. If it were me, I'd go 1080p25 for mkv for sure, with the DVD audio. Not sure about any BR or AVCHD release though, as 25p isn't allowed in the BR spec, so it'd have to be 1080i50, and I don't think many US Blu-Ray players would play a 1080i50 disc...so for complete compatibility, it'd either need to be 1080p24 like the existing BR's (i.e., slowed down, in which case you should just use the BR audio), or 1080i60 like the older US Region A releases were (which preserves the running time/speed but can introduce interlacing artifacts; in this case, I'd use the correct-speed DVD audio).

3. Agreed, but as I said before, the Blu-Rays are much better quality visually due to more efficient compression alone, even with the speed changes.

4. I was just joking about the prequel thing, really, but I'm most definitely interested in a DW regrade project, especially since I really want Series 1-4 in 1080p but at the correct speed and, frankly, I'm too lazy to make my own 1080p25 files from the 1080p24 Blu-Rays. And your sample screenshot looks absolutely fantastic - I'd love to see all the S1-4 episodes with a visual look that's closer to the current feel of the show.

So yeah - definitely consider me interested, at the very least!

A couple questions:

1. Are you using the Blu-Ray upscales, or are you using the DVDs and upscaling them yourself?

2. If you're using the BR's, are you converting it back to 25fps from the slowed-down 23.976 of the BR upscales? How are you handling the audio if you're converting 23.976 back to 25 - using the DVD audio, or speeding up the BR audio?

3. If you're using the DVDs, are you using the PAL discs as a source or the NTSC's?

4. How's that prequel regrade project coming? ;)

Congratulations Harmy, that's fantastic news!

Though I can't help but be jealous at your Internet speeds now that you've mentioned them...25 down, 5 up for me - stupid Comcast...

I suppose I may be a bit biased against the idea of a new superweapon, since the fact that everyone and their mother seemed to be building one in the now-defunct EU was one of the reasons I never really liked much of it.

I will admit that the idea of us finally seeing Leia really deal with the loss of her entire planet is appealing to me, though. We'll just have to see how this all shakes out in December.

Anchorhead said:

FFS.. There are people here who are going to draw the line at a Death Star or Solo offspring, but they repeatedly watched and purchased all the prequels and SEs?!  That's a damn head-scratcher for sure.

 I saw the prequels once each in theaters, but bear in mind I was 10, 13, and 16 when they came out, and I was honestly dragged to Episode III by my 13-year-old brother. Any re-watch of the prequels since then has been various fan edits. And I haven't watched any of the SE's since the 2004 DVD SE, and only purchased the Blu-Ray set so I can get all the awesome fan projects based on them in good conscience. Haven't actually watched any of the BR discs once.

I don't draw the line at Solo children - I pretty much expected at least one of the new characters to be either a Solo or Skywalker offspring - but yeah, I definitely draw the line at rehashing the superweapon thing that was already rehashed once in Jedi.

I'm still hopeful, though, and I still think this "Death Star III" leak is a bunch of crap. I'm not going to let rumors that are probably false sway my opinion of the new movies at all - I'm going in with an open mind. But TFA is definitely the litmus test for whether I'm going to bother with Disney's version of the post-ROTJ Star Wars universe. I forked over money for one trilogy that I kept hoping would improve but never did - I'm not doing that again.

I've gotta say, that whole "leak" sounds like a big load of bullshit to me. I really can't believe they'd be stupid enough to go the Death Star route again.

Of course, if I'm wrong, and this ends up being true, then The Force Awakens will probably be the last Star Wars movie I ever see.

I do know that v2 1080p won't play on my Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ player, but the 720p has no issues. That doesn't help much, really, but again, the same v2 1080p files converted to BDMV with tsmuxer and burned to a BD-R play just fine on my PS3. I'll try them on my PS4 tomorrow if I get a chance and report back.

For what it's worth, I've never had an issue playing BD-R's in my PS4. I haven't tried any of these edits on it, though, only my PS3 (and those were all v2, not v3, which I've just been getting in 720p until I have more free HDD space).

It seemed more like the shock whip from TCW (which is canon) than a laser whip to me.

#2 was pretty decent. I like how the Vader/Luke "duel" was handled, though Vader was a little over-talky for my taste. Not a big fan of Threepio's antics, but everything else was good.

Fine, I'll be the one to tell him.

The 1080p V3 was just uploaded to Myspleen today. Go nuts. No, I don't know when the 720p and DVD5 will be up.

I mean, if you really go back, it was Jaws and Star Wars that started the modern blockbuster/tentpole era...

I think v2.0 made the switch to Blu-Ray, v2.1 was the first to incorporate 35mm footage, and v2.5 was essentially a color fix of v2.1 with a few other tweaks on top of it.

But what are the "right" colors for these movies? All we have to go on are various home video transfers, all of which could be incorrectly color-timed.

HAL 9000's trilogy edits are my preferred ones, but Seciors' are good, too. So are l8wrtr's. Probably the top three I've seen. (None of them do the voice change/dubbing thing, though.)

Go to the off-topic section of the forum and post in the MySpleen invite request thread.

It's just a downscale of the 720p...not sure why the color would look different to you...you downloaded the one via the v2.5 link I PM'd you, right? Not an earlier version?

There are a lot of prequel edits that do things similar to your suggestions already. MagnoliaFan replaced Jar Jar and the Nemoidians' dialogue with a mashup of various foreign and reversed language tracks, then gave them new lines with subtitles, and most edits I've seen reduce or eliminate the droid voices entirely.

That's pretty much what my plan is for that sequence - follow Bilbo when he falls, then we don't see the Dwarves again until he does.

I'm also considering having Thorin/Azog's battle occur off-screen - cut to black when Bilbo is knocked out, then fade back in as he wakes up. Because that fight was awful, and doing that will let me cut out Tauriel and Legolas easily, too.

Yeah, Empire didn't need a 2.5 - Star Wars was upgraded from 2.0 because 35mm material became available after 2.0 had been completed, but Harmy already had access to 35mm stuff for Empire for its 2.0 (and now does with Jedi for its 2.0).

Or, if it's something you want to see, you could take the time to learn how to do it. That's how the rest of us started.

People aren't going to take the time and effort to do a project just because you want it. If you want it badly enough, learn how to do it yourself, or wait and hope someone else decides they want to see the same thing.

Why don't you?

He didn't realize Myspleen is an invite-only tracker, that's all.

The Myspleen links most certainly aren't dead.

PM sent.

Yes, there are many ways to do those things.