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#372835
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A new edit of Empire Strikes Back (Released)
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Sorry for the lame title of this thread. I’ve been toying around with the idea of doing my “perfect edit” of The Empire Strikes Back in anticipation of ESBR. There’s a few things that just drive me nuts about the 1997 version. Here’s what I want to do:

  1. Remove shot of Wampa writhing in pain with its arm cut off
  2. Restore Vader’s original line of “Bring my Shuttle” when leaving Bespin
  3. Removing additional shot of Vader walking to the shuttle
  4. Removing Vader’s shuttle arriving at Super Star Destroyer scene (I would deleted the shuttle flying to the Super Star Destroyer scene too, but the music cut is too jarring, unfortunately).
  5. Keeping the new Emperor scene from 2004.
  6. Removing Luke’s falling scream, yet again.

Here’s the elements I have:

  1. Adywan’s 14 gig color-corrected version
  2. Wookiegroomer’s 40 gig color-corrected version (for new Emperor scene)
    3)Adigitalman’s Edit of Episode V (with Bring my shuttle line-will need to re-encode at 640k Dolby)

I have the following software available for use:
TsMuxer, Sony Vegas, DVD Lab Pro, Sound Forge 9

I’ve done some basic editing at DVD level before but don’t have a clue on where to begin for HD editing. Unfortunately I don’t have any knowledge or time to properly learn Sony Vegas so I’m hoping someone can briefly, if possible, walk me through this.

Essentially, the work itself shouldn’t be too difficult. I think TSmuxer will let me cut segments out of the M2Ts files although I’m not quite sure how to do it. I just want to cut out the few shots, re-encode the DVD audio for the Bring my Shuttle line to 640k and replace the audio in that scene to what it was before, and then finally–rejoin the files.

Does anyone have some ideas on the easiest way to go about doing this? I plan to post this to Usenet once completed! 😃

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#370490
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Wookie Groomer's 1080p Star Wars Saga project (Released)
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Recently uploaded the Return of the Jedi Blu-Ray. The quality is excellent. For those of you without a Blu-Ray burner but have a PS3 (like me). You can transfer the M2TS file directly to the PS3 with PS3 media server. It's 40 gigs and may take hours, but it's well worth it. The only criticisms I have is that the crossed sabers issue still hasn't been fixed, but that's a limitation of the original source anyway. The colors also still seem a bit off on Vader's saber but everything else looks very very nice. Great work Wookiegroomer!

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#364026
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Wookie Groomer's 1080p Star Wars Saga project (Released)
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Wookiegroomer... is your work on these Blu-Ray releases turning you to the dark side of the force? I can feel the hatred swelling in you now. ;) I'm probably not in the minority thinking this has become way too much drama for something that's supposed to be enjoyable for all of us. Anyone else on here manage to get this and want to share some details on the edit?

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#334114
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Idea: Shall we make Star Wars Blu Rays?
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Hey everyone! I’m thinking of tackling a bit of an ambitious project here. What I would like to do is get ahold of the German Broadcasts and the Sky Broadcasts of the prequel trilogy, edit them together so the English subtitles all appear where they belong and edit in the original DVD AC3 audio. Wookiegroomer and Adywan are already in the process of doing this, but what I want to do is make full BDROM versions without any compression of the video whatsoever. I think that would require 18 - 20 gigs, which fits on a 25 gig BDROM just fine. Of course, I would need to change the framerate to 24 fps from 25 (PAL). Anyone know what I would need to do to accomplish this or where I can find these original files? I’m not going to tackle the original trilogy since the color correction is way beyond my capabilities at this point. Anyone interested in getting full uncompressed Blu Rays of the prequel trilogy? I would love to try doing this.

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#328636
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THE STAR WARS SAGA - 1080P AVCHD DVD-9 for PS3 & Blu-Ray players - Episodes 1, 4 & 5 available now
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It's funny, because a lot of people automatically assume a DVD-9 just can't contain a high quality 1080p encode. It can, and I'm completely impressed with the quality of the AVCHD disks based off of Wookiegroomer's encodes. Will the Blu-Ray look better? Probably (If Lucas fixes the horrible color timing issues). I only have a 52-inch 720p DLP, though. Of course, some would consider that crap because "you can't get good quality unless you have at least 100 inches." I wonder if anyone with that mindset is ever trying to compensate for anything. I kid, I kid!

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#325975
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THE STAR WARS SAGA - 1080P AVCHD DVD-9 for PS3 & Blu-Ray players - Episodes 1, 4 & 5 available now
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Adywan, your work is truly amazing. I'm sure you probably hear that all the time, but I thought I'd say it again. If you're not working in computer animation you should be. I was blown away by all the changes you made for Star Wars Revisited. I didn't expect anything as high quality as what you produced. I am very much looking forward to your HD versions of the original trilogy.

I'm currently trying to get ahold of the AVCHD PS3 releases and usenet.com is driving me insane. I found the files under filesearch but none will download. Now the alt.binaries.x264 server is apparently down completely. I was luckily able to get ahold of the DVD 9 version of Star Wars Revisited pretty quickly. I'm a Usenet newbie, so I'm still fumbling around a lot.

If anyone can't get on usenet and wants some help obtaining any of these, let me know.

I currently have Ep 1-6 Wookiegroomer DVD-9 HD.

Wookiegroomer's Ep 4-6 12 gig versions.

Star Wars Revisited DVD-9.

Anyone want to help me obtain the PS3AVCHD files I would greatly appreciate it! :)