Would you mind posting a screencap or two from v2.2 of Ben's saber? I'm looking at v2.1 and it seems like there is a lot of odd pixelation around it both in the cantina and on the Death Star.
So, what do we do in the meantime?
Apologies. I will tread lightly here. But I'd wager Spock dies at the beginning, and it turns out to just be a training session.
I wasn't planning on making the jump until the next trailer, but the particularly strong warning on the last bit of news startled me enough.
I have a guess about which of the big three would be most likely to bite it, though I'd rather not read about the specifics ahead of time. There's just no way to imagine what it would have been like to see the three-hilted saber for the first time in the teaser trailer, rather than beforehand online. The moment was less of a, "whoa, what's that?" and more of, "oh, so that rumor was true."
Forming a habit of kneejerking away from spoilers will be tough. I didn't do that at all for the prequels, since we knew what would happen broadly already.
I'm bumping this in the hopes of stirring up some conversation in this thread. I decided to go ahead and join the spoiler-free crowd.
Yeah, yeah. "That's okay, I'm never coming back to this planet again."
But thanks for the interest. ;)
V3 is 100% finished, and currently available at the usual venues. *fistpump*
Keep a lookout on myspleen for a 1080p-only "V3B" of Ep2 and Ep3, the only difference being Jackpumpkinhead's source used for Mace Windu's lightsaber. But V3 proper is utterly completed.
The only thing I could foresee to cause me to re-do any of my work is either A) if they were to release the prequel deleted scenes in HD, and/or B) emanswfan releases his (final version?) regraded source material some sunny day in the future. Even then, I wouldn't plan on making any creative editing changes.
I apologize if I came across as short. I just wanted to know what this project was about.
So, what're the goals of this project? To help the small subsection of the OT films that consist of sabers and laser blasts appear as though they were done recently?
Unless the figures include Wolfman and Sebastian Shaw's ghost, I won't get too excited.
So, what is being done other than the lightsabers?
Tobar said:
satanika said:
Nocturnaloner said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
If they're going to bring in another planet-destroying superweapon, then it should be scaled down, something relatively small and maneuverable -- a rocket with a cannon strapped to it, you could say -- not another moon-sized space station.
Pretty much exactly what I was thinking. I'd rather it be a space gun than another Death Star.
Like The Tarkin?
Or The Sun Crusher?
Or The "Death Star"?
Incredible! I'm glad to see your hard work has gotten you a real world opportunity. Congratulations!
Thank you for the feedback and I'm always glad to hear people enjoy it. I think you accurately restated my philosophy, particularly about using deleted scenes for Ep1. These are on the conservative end of the spectrum in the interest of functionality. It might sound silly, but thanks for the compliment about restraint!
And I think the awkward cut you mentioned was to trim Anakin's dialogue: "You'll never reach the outskirts in time! Sandstorms are very, [very] dangerous. [Come on!] I'll take you to my place." I see how that'd be a little jarring. Oh, well.
I used a fragment of a deleted scene for the podrace just so I could recreate the scoring how I remembered it from editing the DVD version years ago. Sort of a personal thing, though with the music-less soundtrack option it's there without that purpose. To me the original reads as boring now, like playing the Death Star attack without score. (You can still see the video I was trying to recreate, on my old YouTube channel 'Plutoneam.') There is another point where I cross faded the music this time around when I removed some twoheaded announcements before Anakin flies up the ramp. So if I wasn't going to use the music, I would have probably have edited the podrace a little differently.
Well, I just wanted to borrow from the incredible work from the fan editing community and bake a prequel trilogy that I can enjoy. As good as, say, L8wrtr's edits are, it would have been very hard for someone who has spent a good deal of time editing the DVDs ten years ago to "settle" for something I didn't do myself.
All this being said, someone please help me.
I left in a little more of Ric than my more logical side told me.
Excellent timing for that first pic.
Seems like many of these devices have spotty luck with stuff like this. But one thing that would tell me something is wrong is if someone has an issue with v3 that they don't have with v1 or v2. Otherwise I'll have to conclude, even for my own device which once played them, that it's inherit. At least in that event, I wouldn't have to start over with this 1080p versions.
EDIT: V2 is causing the same choppy playback for me. I have to conclude that my issue has to do with my Roku, rather than the video. In other words, I have no better clue why some of you are having problems than I did before. *shrugs* But if you are able, you could reencode it yourself to a known good format, or get the 720p version.
I have played v1 on my Roku 2 XS from start to finish when they were first released, with no issues. I just tried playing v3 and found... stuttering video, as if it just can't quite keep up. I rendered three test clips of varying bit rates, and all of them stutter regardless.
So, I am going to (try to) reacquire V1 or V2 from myspleen and test it. It's possible that a software update on my Roku could explain this, rather than any changes with my encoding settings. The most helpful thing right now would be to have people experiencing stuttering problems download v1 or v2 of any of the films and test them as well. If they have the same problem, I'll have to conclude that it is unavoidable and give up. If the older versions work fine, I'll keep investigating. (Though even lower bitrates than what I used before cause my Roku to stutter!)
I'm interrupting my encode of the 720p version of Ep3 in order to render a very small test clip with a lower bitrate. I'll upload it for you guys to test out on your devices and see if it solves the problem. If so, I'll plan on dedicating yet another set of three weeks of CPU time to reencoding them. Stay tuned; I definitley want the final version I turn out to work for the majority of people who would be interested in it.
Thanks for the information. I believe my maximum bitrate for v3 was 37mbps.
You're probably right, but I suppose the bit rate could possibly be higher than the source material, as it would still help retain quality as I encoded to an ultimately smaller file.
I'd also like to hear if anyone tried and had or didn't have this problem with v1 or v2. I believe I raised the bitrate very slightly this time around, but still low enough to easily fit onto a BD25 with room to spare.
If indeed that's what's causing this problem, all versions must have been straddling this very fine line. I doubt it, though.
Unless they figured any BR components would be as good as any other and cut costs that time around. Maybe.
Is there a way to test your existing disc with a different player? I wonder if, like with DVDs, some BR players can't handle the full bitrate spectrum the format supports.
Am I right to assume that it plays fine on a BluRay player through USB? I'm sorry to hear that you have wasted resources trying to get this to work. I don't have any prior experience authoring BR discs, and don't have any myself. All I did was use Compressor's build-in BluRay video preset. Stuttering makes me suspect the bitrate, but I authored it well within the appropriate range, so I really can't say what's causing this problem.