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Hi You_Too. I love your color correction on this so far. I keep running into a problem trying to apply the deepblue filter though. When I input the code I get this error message...

Script error: ‘\’ can only appear at the beginning or end of a line

Script.avs, line 73, column 41

You_Too, thank you so much for helping get these Blu-Rays looking as good as they can. With your most current Star Wars settings, are there any particular scenes you still think need some fine tuning a bit? I too am looking to do a render of this, but really a one-size-fits-all with maybe just a bit of tweaking of a few shots that still look wonky. I'm kind of getting burned out on having to fix Lucas' work each time a new video version of these comes out.

Also, you planning to post any Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi settings? Either way, thanks again for all your work! :)

Sorry to start a new thread, but does anyone know where online the 15 gig MKV of Adywan’s Empire Strikes Back '97 may be found? Torrent or usenet? Thanks!

… is anyone planning on making any edits with them (doing color correction ala Adywan, changing dialogue, restoring scenes to the original versions, etc.). I have some ideas on stuff I want to do, just curious if anyone has any iminent plans for anything.

I think one positive of this set is that it's officially setting the bar higher for fan editing. I for one, am hoping to see some really nice DTS-ES 6.1 fixes for the problem issues with this release. Really crossing my fingers someone will do a real color correction on these after they come out (Adywan you're our only hope?). Completely and absolutely ridiculous that average joes on their home PCs have to fix arguably the biggest Blu-Ray release in history. It's almost stunning that Lucasfilm would hold a big press event trumpeting the fact that they "listened to the fans" and corrected the technical glitches, when apparently 90% of them are still there. Realistically, I'm not a fan of the extensive changes but I could live with them, but for f%^%s sake PLEASE FIX THE G$%$^MN LIGHTSABERS!!

Good to know that Matthew Wood has Star Wars in his DNA and Krayt Dragon blood in his veins, though.

Wow... just.... wow. So much for the various online sites trumpeting all the supposed fixes for this. Here's what Lucas should have done a few years back....

1) Hire Adywan as the sound designer/continuity fix person.
2) Refer to #1

I think this is really a testament to Adywan's skills that ONE MAN using his home PC could do a fanedit that completely trumps the real thing. And now, here we are in 2011 and they still can't fix what should be minor minor issues.

George Lucas really should stop treating his fanbase like Marcia Lucas.

I wouldn't mind. Really depends on the learning curve. :) I want to have this completed within a few months, tops.

Hey everyone. I’ve just recently completed my version 1.0 of Superman II, combining arguably the best of the Richard Donner cut and Lester versions. Best of all, this is in full 1080p video from the new Superman Anthology set and in full DTS-HD Master 5.1 Audio.

There were some technical hurdles I had to overcome before completing this edit. Richard Donner’s cut is in VC1 and Lester’s cut is AVC so that right there was a major stumbling block. Luckily I found an excellent re-encode program called Ripbot that allowed me to re-encode all the video to join together seamlessly. Being somewhat of a perfectionist, I encoded all segments at pretty much maximum Blu-Ray bitrate (38 Mbps average video). Now many of you are going to raise your eyebrows at this one, but I used eac3to and tsmuxer exclusively to put together this edit. Unfortunately, I don’t know Vegas and the few times I’ve tried to learn it have taken me way too long to make any real progress. I can’t begin to describe how tedious it is to edit down to the millisecond level without a frame-by-frame point of reference like Vegas offers. If I used the other programs I’d likely still be working on it.

Now, my goal of posting about it is to see if anyone would be interested in teaming up with me to whip my final edit into shape with full Blu-Ray menus, chapter stops, etc. which my current version is just a movie only disk. I’d also welcome suggestions for perhaps other ways of arranging scenes if anyone thinks something works better.

Now with the technical details of how I put this all together out of the way, this is the breakdown of my edit in order of scenes as they appear…

1. Before the opening WB logos, the film now begins with the tribute to Christopher Reeve.
2. After the WB logos, the DC logo from Donner’s cut appears
3. From here it’s Lester’s opening, until the villains get snared in the rings…
4. Immediately cutting to Brando’s opening in Superman I, starting with “These indictments that I have brought you today” following until he says “This mindless abberation,” then immediately cutting to the Richard Donner cut for the rest of this scene.
5. Donner cut continues until the flashback from near the end of Superman II, after the missiles launch I cut all the Lex Luther/kryptonite footage and went directly to Superman chasing the missile. From here it’s all Donner cut all the way through the beginning of the Niagara falls sequence.
6. First honeymoon suite scene using all of Lester’s footage here, vibrating bed and all.
7. Luthor’s finding the fortress (Donner cut). A minor trim in this scene to delete the “Fortress of Solitude toilet.” Never cared for it.
8. From here, the niagara falls rescue scene (All Lester footage, including the stuff Donner cut out of his version).
9. The villains arrive on Earth (Lester cut footage, but using Donner’s approach to ending the scene with the fisherman tossing his coffee).
10. Donner cut reveal (Yes, I know the footage doesn’t quite match in a few shots, but I think it works great as a continuation of Lois trying to get Superman to reveal himself. The bear scene, although good, just doesn’t follow that spirit, to me).
11. Second half of villains arrival scene, starting with the rattlesnake (Lester cut) Non tries to use his heat vision restored.
12. Donner cut arrival of Lois and Superman at the fortress followed by the villains harassing the cops
    13)Re-inserted the end of the cop scene from the Lester cut, where Non rips off the siren. Scene now ends with Zod rolling his eyes, not continuing to the goofy shot of Non cradling it.
13. Superman’s romancing Lois (all Lester cut–getting the flowers and returning with dinner)
14. Lester’s Villains Arrival in East Houston (this scene has been cut down a bit, mainly to eliminate all dialogue from THE ANNOYING BOY who sounds like a British girl.) The sherrif arrives and starts to inspect the damaged tire, cutting to the bar confrontation. When Zod lifts the man with the shotgun, there’s no dialogue with the boy pleading. Zod lifts him up, gets bored and drops him faster.
15. Superman’s dinner with Lois (all Lester).
16. East Houston battle (Lester cut until the military orders Zod to lay down his arms, followed by Donner’s cut. Re-inserted Lester’s line about the nuclear strike being called off and back to Donner’s cut for remainder of scene.
17. Superman’s depowering (Donner cut)
18. Aftermath of battle (Donner cut). When Zod says “…or else all his cities will end up like this one” it immediately cuts to…
19. Villains defacing Mount Rushmore, followed by Clark and Lois in bed, cutting to…
20. Fall of Washington Monument
21. White House attack… from here it’s all Donner cut until…
22. “Care to step outside!”
23. Back to Donner cut until Zod asks Luthor what he wants for revealing the fortress location. Luthor says Cuba, immediately cutting to…
24. Ursa approaching Lois and grabbing her (Lester cut)
25. Donner’s final fortress approach and final battle
26. Trim to eliminate Superman destroying the fortress.
27. Memory Kiss
28. Diner rematch and end credits.

All in all, the edit is about 95 percent of what I wanted to achieve. With the exception of just two minor cuts, the audio appears seamlessly edited. I want to take it further though, so that’s where one of you may come in. I’d ideally like to release this as a beta version and get input, someone to make menus, etc. so this can be one fan’s definitive edition of the film. Wow, I wrote a book here. Anyone interested in seeing this version?

The Star Wars Holiday Special is like some alternate bizarro reality of Star Wars where Fox kept the rights to Star Wars and started crapping out Sid and Marty Krofft inspired insanity. Would have loved to have seen Lucas' face the night he saw the special for the first and probably last time. Did any of you know there is some footage out there somewhere for an Empire Strikes Back Holiday Special?

I'm working on an HD edit based off of Adywan's superior Empire Strikes Back MKV, restoring some of the 1980 version audio and re-inserting the 2004 Emperor scene. My issue is that the Emperor scene is in 1920x1080 and Adywan's footage is in 1920 x 816. How do I go about doing the conversion? As it stands now, when I splice the footage together there's a noticeable jump for a split second at the scene transition. I want to make it seamless. Anything I can do in Vegas or with MultiAVCHD?

I've been searching the newsgroups for these. They hidden somewhere else?

First off, a 5.1 remix in as high a bitrate as possible (640k?) would be preferred. Before I go any further, are you planning a high bitrate video version too?

I'm curious, are the dark_jedi versions upconverts to 720p or 1080p? I can't seem to find any info on resolution. Any benefits to upconversion?

I don't think you'll realistically find many people interested in a preservation. I was a huge War of the Worlds fan and the best way I can sum up season 2 is that it was an alternate reality version of the show. There were many many contradictions with the first season and the change was just too drastic for the show to pick up any new fans. Harrison Blackwood suddenly grows a beard and uses a gun for one thing. It's supposedly six months after the end of season 1 and the entire world is suddenly some dystopian madhouse. I sat through every episode hoping that things would get better, and some episodes weren't too terrible, but compared to what came before it was like watching another show entirely. Adrian Paul's character wasn't actually bad, but overall season 2 = epic fail. Epic, epic fail. It's Galactica 1980 all over again. I think Heroes may be on the verge of going this route too. Season 4 is a bore....