Hal 9000

Anyone know if the stereo version of Hairy_Hen's audio is affected by this problem? 

Do you know if the lossless stereo version was affected?

CatBus said:

That's fine, I was just being flippant.  Choice is always good, as long as the originals are an option.

Actually, there's just a few 97 changes I'm putting in for myself, mostly for ESB. For SW, mostly mono mix bits that were reiterated for various future mixes but that are absent in Hairy_Hen's mixes. 

BUT, my point is to say thanks for syncing this whole thing to the GOUT for all these flexible sorts of things to be possible for the crazies like me.

I love that this project is synced to the GOUT, because it lets somebody with feeble skills to cobble together a custom audio track for it using some of the 1997 SE changes that I got used to from VHS. 

Just sayin'. 

Anybody know how Adywan did the partial mono restoration for his Revisited project? 

Ah, well. I was thinking about trying to cobble together a custom GOUT-sourced sound mix, pulling in some of Adywan's audio where he used bits from the mono mix. 

So much of the mono mix ended up in subsequent home video releases, yet so did new changes.

Has anybody ever made a stereo or surround mix that incorporates parts of the mono mix's creative decisions? Adywan seems to have done this partially for his Revisited version, as seen with Beru's voice and the deceleration sound when they drop out of hyperspace.

Awesome resource! I'm excited at the prospect of having multiple GOUT-synced stereo mixes, and might take a stab at cobbling together my own custom version to mux into Harmy's projects. Thanks for this massive undertaking!

I finally watched the whole thing. 

Man, it is totally effortless to pretend I'm watching it in a theatre in the seventies. There are no loose ends or "mistakes" that distract me, much less an unsuspecting moviegoer. My only hang-up last time around was the lightsabers, and they are beautiful now. All the warts are restored, and it is so seamlessly blended. Version 1.0 was amazing, but somehow this seems twice as good. 

With a 16 GB MKV version, this is the best it's going to get until an even higher-definition home video source becomes mainstream. I know I sound like a broken record by now, but this release is genuinely fantastic. It's the best presentation of Star Wars that I've personally ever seen, and that's no mistake.

^Yeah, or alternate opening crawls, both for the '81 version and alternate languages. 

(Y'know, I wouldn't mind alternate angles for ESB and ROTJ that simply remove the "Episode X: Strike X of the Xers" marker in order to remove implication of the prequels from the OT.)

Harmy made love to our childhood.

I mean this in the best possible way, but I love how shitty the shot looks with Obi-Wan straddling the tractor beam. :)

(Because it looked shitty in '77, I mean.)

Thank you; I'm planning to hold a movie night with my relatively new speakers and am trying to find the best stereo mix. 

Does anybody happen to know the source for the 1977 stereo mix used in this release? Is it Hairy Hen's restoration, or an LD source, or something else?

Thanks!

Harmy, I did not mean to say that the colors looked similar to the Blu-Ray, or to imply that version 2.0 was a partial reversal of color work done for 1.0. 

I just meant to express surprise that the "true" colors of the film do, in some ways, look closer to the Blu-Ray than the GOUT. (The Death Star isn't just grey; it's got some blues in it too, for example.) 

Of course your Despecialized project looks a hundred times better color-wise than the Blu-Ray. It's just... I've never seen Star Wars look quite this way. But that's a good thing. 

Finally got it, and am seeding as much as my computer is able, which sadly isn't very fast. My ratio is only 0.25. (I had an impossible time seeding my LOTR fan edits a few years ago.)

Anyway, the project looks great. The colors seem so different than I've ever seen Star Wars, and the old footage is blended nearly seamlessly with the new. It has to be the best presentation of Star Wars in many years. It's interesting that some color tendencies (such as the bluish Death Star interior) were more similar to the official release than version 1.0, per the technicolor prints. The lightsabers were my only real disappointment from the first version, and so this feels very satisfying. 

Tremendous work!

I have 8 Myspleen invites available, so ask me too.

I couldn't find a list from Google of differences between the 1993 mix and the theatrical versions. Does anyone know of a list of changes made in '93 to the soundtrack?

I'd prefer silence for non-scored parts of the film for the isolated score track. If I wanted other sounds, I'd switch to another track. I'd vote for music only.

Good luck! I'd think these projects would be all the resume you'd need.

The lightsabers look fantastic. That was the main thing version 1.0 lacked, so I'm glad to see some last-minute improvements. 

And that red/green shirt guy is great too.

If George directed the Olympic coverage:

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/if-george-lucas-directed-nbcs-olympic-coverage/

lol, screw that crap

You only have to buy it if you want to download it. You can play it within the browser.

And I'd say the ad was about right; 3 to 5 laughs throughout the two hour running time.