Hal 9000

Glad to hear you enjoyed the commentary. We recorded it right after Thanksgiving, before we had any idea it was about to be released because you were about to discover kewlfish’s old saber footage!

And I’ll check in on those audio related issues to fix them in due course. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the Jedi voices, though, as they sound perfectly normal to me. What version were you watching? I wonder if perhaps it’s only playing the front channels and you aren’t hearing the rears, either due to the process of converting for the two mp4 releases or your software player.

Krausfadr and I worked out a plan to hopefully export the video stream again in a better way, but I’m going to wait a little while before doing it in case any problems come up to address while at it. (And I’ll probably make the less-big, formerly 720p version a little smaller.)

So far there’s the “death of her son” being in the subtitles, and I noticed I accidentally applied the LUT to the space establishing shot of Endor.

And I really hope you all enjoy our commentary track!! I wish I could have included more people but I wanted to keep it to a manageable size. Went off without a hitch but I was afraid the chance would go up that there’d be someone whose recording would be screwed. I think we got out of it all right.

^ Darn. You’re right. Oh, well! Dialogue changes that don’t affect sync are tricky because they only get corrected if you specifically remember them in the moment.

Also… y’all really gonna make me have to spell out the hidden special surprise in this release, huh?

Hmm, I’m not sure I’m looking at the right thing, but I picked a specific moment to evaluate. That is when the serpent slides away and light from outside begins to shine in. I’m looking at the light itself, Rey’s face, and Finn’s silhouette. Doing this I see some fuzzy, compression-y softness. When I look at the ProRes output from FCPX (that is on the Drive) I see it as well. When I look at the FCP7 output (ProRes) that was imported into FCPX for grading, I see it as well. When I look at the raw source material (BluRay ripped to ProRes HQ) I do not see it, and instead see nice, fine grain.

I guess ProRes HQ must just be that much better? It wouldn’t take a lot of effort, just time, to run it through those export/import/encoding passes, leaving things in place. So, let’s see whatever else may roll in for feedback and I’ll tentatively plan to do that after a little while. (What convinced me was seeing it in the ProRes master output, because that’s something I would like to be able to always hand off and have someone do whatever might be needed at any future point.)

Pleased to report that now everything is fully in place!

I wonder if that has more to do with the color LUT, since I’m sure that darkness has less detail or color information to begin with.

All versions on Drive now, torrents of the last version coming soon.

I exported a ProRes master file from FCP7 to import into FCPX for color grading. Then exported a ProRes master from FCPX and fed that to Compressor 4 (current version) for multi-pass, max bitrate encoding to a BluRay-compliant format. (Source material was ripped from BluRay, after all.)

Can you give any examples of compression artifacting you noticed? I can compare and see if they’re in the source, or the ProRes master file.

Quite an efficient list.

I had the end credits playing while working on distribution tonight (bc why not) and got felt those heartstrings being tugged by John Williams’ little friendship motif.

The DVD and TinyEncode versions are now available, but the intermediate version will take a few more hours to encode so I’ll try to get that out in the morning. (It’ll be 1080p instead of 720p that I’ve gone with in the past, but still around 8 or 9GB.)

Also, there’s something special tucked into this V2 release no one’s picked up on yet. Hmmm….

Thanks so much, guys. I, too, marvel at what we’ve done over the past almost two years.

I was probably fatigued while typing this all up, and it was late at night. Hopefully it’s not too confusing, and I can update it for the listings, if not for the torrent-able released versions’ text files.

To be clear: none of those are mistakes in the edit, just mental flubs in the writeup.

Worse come to worst, you could still stream the TinyEncode version via Google Drive. But yes, absolutely hoping to give anyone who desires the chance to watch on Christmas Day.

CMMAP said:

I could dive in and make my seedbox available via resilio or torrent, if there is a demand for that.

That’d certainly be helpful. All the torrents for past and present projects are on the Drive and will be added as they become extant.

Also, anyone wanting links, please PM me directly rather than posting here.

Uploading the full 1080p version now, ETA for the other three versions is sometime tonight. (If the kids can get to bed WELL, I should have time to get the other three buttoned up and distributed ahead of tomorrow.)

“Transmitting. Transmitting.”

I didn’t export any that don’t have the civilian fleet, but there are versions both with and without the KoR voices. And if you remind me in a couple days, I can get you stems for that sequence from the theatrical.

Krausfadr has volunteered to do just that.

OP updated with final writeup of V2.

I think the Google drive that I have used the past year or more will be up to the task, as I haven’t had any problems since using it. It was graciously provided by somebody called Hondo’s Trove.

It doesn’t give me an ETA but I’d expect close to 24 hours.

There’s an 8GB or so 720p version and a 1-2GB very small 720p version.

And V1 was released November 2020.

Well, nothing else to do for the moment but wait a long time for it to encode. Unless I find anything show-stopping, I expect I’ll be able to get the big ‘ol 1080p version up sometime tomorrow. Then the two 720p mp4 versions, and then I will do the DVD5 whenever I can (I’m sure this is the least valuable).

So anyone hoping to make a Christmas viewing out of this, I hope not to disappoint.

Right now I need one shot from Luka and one from Nev.

Sending PM.

And as of a few minutes ago, it is.