For TAS, the only differences are the fixed audio and inclusion of subtitles.
Every prior release had a weird audio problem where the left and right channels were identical. Since I didn’t want the final product presented to end users to be “here’s instructions on how to mux things,” I had to do a V4.1.
I am not planning on it, but I’d remail open to it if a regrade project that knocks my socks off comes along. I doubt I’d do it just for that one scene. That’s why I used the same video stream as V4 for V4.1, because it didn’t have so much pixelation during that scene.
Yeah. I resorted to an HDTV source for my fan edit of AOTC despite a high level of video noise just because the colors looked correct. The BluRay colors for AOTC are very off-putting.
Is that a Chevy '69? How bizarre.
It’s on the spleen and has been submitted to .info.
Thanks for taking the time to see it and give your thoughts. The project is very much finished and settled on my end, but perhaps one of the people who are doing edits based on mine will use your ideas. I could go on with this forever, but I’m holding to my statement that V4 is the final form (4.1 being a bugfix with no creative changes), and has had a sufficient incubation period.
I totally understand. I played around with finding a way to reinclude a shortened droid factory scene a number of times, but ended up concluding that I just loathe the sequence in just about every aspect. I felt including the scene with Dooku and wiping away to the Senate afterward worked reasonably well, because I couldn’t just have Anakin and Padme land as its own scene.
Have you ever known me to mind things like this? This is what this meta-project is all about.
Posting this here so I don’t bump my other thread too:
Exciting bit of fun! This final release of Labyrinth Of Evil contains the Backstroke Of The West subtitles synced up. Now it’s hands-down the best way to experience Episode III.
No, OnlyOneKenobi did the covers and I haven’t heard from him in a few years now. I simply do not have the skill set to be able to modify the covers as you describe. 😦
I was seconds away from burning 4.0 to discs. Very happy I checked the thread.
[Rey] That was lucky.[/Rey]
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.