V4.1, which truly ought to be the final form of these edits, has hit bittorrent. I’ll be submitting it to FanEdit.info soon as well. Thanks for all your patience. I’m sorry to make you guys download these so many times, but I’m finished.
I will hold off a while to see how things turn out, but if worse comes to worse, I could always just use the V4 video stream and just fix the bad audio. It’s not like the BluRay is a basket of fruit either, and the day for night scene won’t be that much more jacked up than the transfer of the rest of the film.
Attack of the Clones is a very ugly film.
This is why I don’t even read the comics at all.
I’m particularly interested in your regrade of AOTC. Looks pretty good from the screenshots. Any idea for releasing that one?
Was there a universal setting applied for AOTC you can describe, or scene by scene?
Thanks, and good luck completing what looks to be an ambitious but very nice project!
Yeah, I will update them when the new versions are finished, which hopefully will be sooner than later. The torrents should still work in the meantime. Thanks for your patience; Ep2 is taking a lot longer than expected.
I was working on this very thing a couple weeks ago. So I can probably help you out but it might be another couple weeks til I can get to it.
Wow, that sounds great. Can you elaborate on this at all? It might sound weird, but knowing you’re tackling the same issue fills me with relief. Please keep me posted. I’m moving onto Episode III in the meantime.
Out of curiosity, why switch to the Blu-Ray source?
The HDTV source is not as high quality, and very noisy. There are a few glitches throughout, and the only thing I really wanted from it was the color information. So it seemed like the BluRay with a few color tweaks would be the superior source to go with for the final version. Short answer: I flip-flopped.
First post updated with link to PCM audio output for those who would like to mux it in themselves.
Help needed, please, you guys.
I’ve been trying everything I can think of for weeks, and when I export the day-for-night kiss by the lakeside, it looks like shit. The BluRay is an ugly transfer of an ugly film, and there just doesn’t seem to be enough data in the video stream to survive being modified this much. Padme’s skin looks like a 256 color display.
Are there any video-people out there who could convert the scene from the BluRay into a day-for-night effect? You probably have a better way of doing it than I do. I’m going to move on to exporting Episode III in the hopes that someone can help me out with this scene.
I appreciate you all, and don’t want to leave you all with a crappy final archival product.
edit: by the way Hal is the audio file somewhere to be found now ?
Sorry, I’ve been trying to encode TAS and the day for night scene is making it very difficult. Plus I’ve been so busy I haven’t had as much time to do that anyway.
But once that’s done, I’ll work on the PCM audio for TFA:R before moving on to LOE.
Yes, I did. The discontinuity between hooded and unmasked Ren in that scene is known. However, it would require a very dedicated, thorough, and competent person putting in a lot of time to totally fix it.
If one such lunatic lurks here, be my guest. This scene is the one thing that bugs me about this implementation of the edit’s idea.
I did watch TFA:R last night, and I gotta say… it’s amazing how much it improves the film.
Sorry it’s been a while, you guys. I’m going to encode the lossless audio tonight and should have it up someplace before next week.
For all you people who like to imagine they can hear a difference. 😉
To clarify, I am not a proponent of using the Alec Guiness impression over McGregor.
It’s fine, but no, it wasn’t me who suggested it.
I think any edit’s going to have a few audio cuts that stand out to viewers, but didn’t for the editor. Often, it’s a hard decision between total seamlessness and effective editing.
That being said, there are very few of these in L8wrtr’s edits, no more than the best of the others.
That’s right. It’s nearly 5GB on its own, being much larger than the source itself (the 5.1 DTS track). Because that seemed weird, I shyed away from including it. But I’ll put it up as a separate download for anyone who wants to go hog wild.
Thanks for the kudos.
From the Spleen:
"has anyone successfully burned this to a BD25?
every time I create an ISO or BDMV the video does play smoothly"
I’m guessing he/she meant ‘doesn’t play smoothly’.
If it’s the same problem people were encountering with the prequel edits, the answer was to check the box “Do not change SEI and VUI data” in Tsmuxer.
Also, the BD50 version is now on Myspleen, and I’m getting it ready to be listed elsewhere too.
Yeah. If anything, it makes it a little less weird (on an intuitive, totally non-scientific level) that the new star appears to be as big as the planet, rather than much larger as clearly visible earlier in the movie.
It’s… it’s weird no matter which version you’re talking about.
Okay, guys, it seems like this issue is indeed simply the result of sheer compression. It doesn’t matter the method, just the amount of compression needed to fit onto a single-layer BluRay disc.
So, I’m going to encode it at full bitrate and release that. If you want the best quality, that’s gonna be the way to go. It’ll be the more future proof option, keeping the quality as close to the source material as possible. If you already downloaded the first 1080p release, it’s fine as is, just had to be compressed a little.
I see the compression that you’re talking about. I will pull the 1080p release I’ve already started to put out, and replace it with a new one. I tried to use Compressor 4 this time around, but I guess Compressor 3.5 will have to do its thing again. I’m glad you pointed this out so quickly.
after SKB destruction, when they arrive back to the resistance base, people seem too happy considering the Republic has been destroyed just a few minutes ago. The complete landing scene (including Leia hugging unknown Rey while Chewie is in the background walking…) should have been removed; following shot to be “sad Chewie and the others mourning”.
I felt the semi-happy scene was acceptable; the same number of planetoids blew up as in the original and they did destroy the base. The only thing I removed about this was the short beat when the X-wings spot the Falcon taking off. Porkins Jr.'s, “Yes!” was too giddy, but the rest seems acceptable given what sort of movie this is. I wasn’t trying to radically altar the feeling of “Success! We blew up their new Death Star.”
By the way Hal I’ve taken the 21 Go file and I’m surprised by the video quality, which is heavily compressed (it’s really noticeable during “dark scenes” such as Snokes; even with daylight interior scenes); an issue which does not appear on your PT edits (this edit weights roughly the same for a 30 minutes longer cut, resulting in a very lower bitrate). I don’t know if it’s feasible but if you happen to have a less compressed file I would very like to keep it in my SW achives (even if it’s a 30/35 Go file). Thanks in advance.
Are you doing a direct comparison to the BluRay itself? Also, for context, be aware that there are four shots that have been upscaled from 720p due to Jackpumpkinhead’s computer limitations: First shot of the first interior scene with Snoke, the shot where we see Hux and Ren looking up at Snoke in the second scene, and the two TIE descent replacement shots.
Please confirm whether you still see a problem given this insight and comparing directly against the BluRay. (Not sure of a better method of exporting the project, so I hope this’ll clear it up.) Thanks.
Also Hal, I noticed there are a lot of nitpicky continuity errors with Kylo Ren’s hair/hood in the edited Snoke scene, will this be fixed? No worries.
We knew about this but decided it wouldn’t have been a big deal, even if the filmmakers switched the scenes around like this and left it. I’m not sure how Jackpumpkinhead would do it anyway.
Additionally, if you make another version, would it be possible to have the STAR DESTROYER move in the sky, even if only at a slow pace?
I don’t see the reason for it. It appears for a few brief shots. Any orbital movement would be indiscernable.
By the way, I’m working on getting this listed at Fanedit.info, but in the meantime it’s already hit other parts of the Internet in a torrential downpour.
Yeah, the strength of the edit is its simplicity and elegance. I wouldn’t have much to say in a commentary. But I’m flattered you’d care to hear me prattle on.
Tiny thing: The BR cover doesn’t mention that the audio is 5.1, like the DVD does. But I think it’s arrive otherwise.
Yeah, for the DVD cover please remove the specs; I think pretty much all DVDs are 480p and AC3 audio is nearly a given. But I’m happy with them otherwise. Thanks so much!
EDIT: If you do include specs for the DVD, they’d be 480p video, 448 Kbps AC3 5.1 audio.
Well, everything is ready. The 1080p mkv, 720p mp4, and DVD5 are sitting on my hard drive ready to be uploaded.
To fanedit.info?
¡Sí!