Harmy

Yeah, more than likely.

Actually, having recently seen a 35mm screening of the 97SE, I can confirm the matte boxes were totally still there and very visible in the theater.

Since UHD BD standard expects a larger disc, I think you should be fine with whatever you can fit on a BD50.

The English tracks are theatrically synced, not sure about all the dubs but for dubs, falling out if sync by one or two frames shouldn’t really matter.

Doctor M said:

My complaint is, while fake grain seems more natural, if it wasn’t there before you add it, you are just destroying more detail that wasn’t scrubbed out of the film with the grain.

digitalfreaknyc said:

Thank you. That’s precisely my point.

And the answer is precisely the same.

Sure, in cold mathematical terms, there may be more actual detail but at the end of the day, this is art, not maths, so it really is about what’s more pleasant to watch.

Nice work! I always cite this shot when someone asks me which shot was the hardest to despecialize.
Of course, back then, I was still using the GOUT as the unaltered footage source, so the reault was nowhere near this good 😃

The 1080p version is designed for a BD25, if you keep only the English audio and one or two dubs.

The 2160p version is over 40GB just for the video.

https://youtu.be/TjHT2DjgT_c

Short video announcement 😃

RETURN OF THE JEDI - DESPECIALIZED EDITION V3.1 IS OUT NOW!!!

Here’s HanDuet’s excellent (and wonderfully updated) guide on where to find it: https://goo.gl/1WGHBA

There may be a short delay before the public torrents option is available, but the Multipart RAR method is active and previous DEED releases have an official public torrent option now too, so hopefully, there won’t be any trouble getting it to download this time.

Detailed info can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQS4B0y0YeESsVoayO4D134DzvPB7Vk8iVg7ZnnF1gC--BsCdMuhyC2SK7X0dKuv_lejjqMxO4lf7tj/pub

For v3.1, minor fixes were made, the biggest of which include adding a Jabba subtitle, which was missing in 3.0,
and replacing the 5.1 English audio track, where in v3.0 a custom track with additional music in the Obi-Wan ghost scene
was used by mistake.

The MKV version contains a large number of audio tracks, including the latest versions of the preservations
of the original audio mixes in DTS-HD MA, three different commentary tracks, an isolated score and dubbing
tracks in many different languages.

For v3.1, the encode has been done by a professional studio, so the compression quality is better
and the stream is now compatible for remuxing and burning a UHD Blu-Ray disc.

Big thanks to Poita, hairy_hen, schorman, Mavimao and CatBus!

More information can be found here:

originaltrilogy.com/topic/id/12905

facebook.com/despecialized

youtube.com/HarmyDespecialized

All subtitles are from “Project Threepio v15.0”

Big thanks to CatBus!

More info here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/id/13794/

Either way, the answer will be no - only the 1080p version will be h264.
I don’t want to make more variants, as that would be confusing and make distribution too complicated.

No, I meant about the PS5 playback. It seems incredible that such an advanced console couldn’t do what most cheap media players can do these days. What a ripoff 😮

Really?

Yes. And the UHD should be UHD BD compatible as well.

Just a quick update. ROTJ v3.1 is all finished. I’m just waiting for the encode, which is being done by a professional company and they’re testing all kinds different settings to make sure we get the best possible compression quality. And since they’re doing it after hours in their free time, it’s taking a while but should be worth it in the end, as I wasn’t very happy with how the ROTJ v3.0 turned out in this regard.

I did get some of the raw scans used for 4K80, plus scans of some other prints from TN1 but I don’t want to go into details, as I’m not sure what they may want to keep under wraps.

I will likely now switch to 4K80 v1.0 as my primary source anyway, as most of the cleanup work has been done, which will make my work easier.

I know you’re just trolling but you’re still wrong. In film restorations, it’s normal to use scans of multiple prints where the best copy has been damaged or destroyed, which is basically what I did here - using a scan of the original negative and replacing damaged parts with scans of other prints. 😄

The latter, I think.

Merry Christmas to all 😃
I didn’t quite make it to a Christmas release but the final v3.1 master is rendered and uploaded to Poita, who generously offered to do proffessional grade encoding on it. He’s a busy guy, so it may take a little while but we’re almost there 😃

I just found out about this project and I couldn’t be more excited 😃 Finally somebody is doing what I thought might be the best chance to finally get the best of all worlds in terms of the LOTR, especially FOTR, official releases - each HD version of FOTR has it’s own flaws and it always annoyed me that whichever release I chose to watch, I had to choose between bad colors (EE BD), bad DNR (Theatrical BD, 4K BD), and/or bad resolution (Theatrical BD) - this project seems to be aiming to fix all of that and that’s amazing.

Any links?

I think it maybe would have but it’s probably too late now. Not to mention,I don’t think you can rename a fb page anyway.

So, facebook is sending me some mixed messages.

First I got this notification:

When I disputed I got this email:

A while later I got this notification:

Yet, I can still access the page and the “page quality” tab says this:

But the page is clearly inaccessible to people, so I guess that’s it for Despecialized on FB.

DvdPlayerHacker said:

If you get a chance, have a look at 00:40:34. Is it just me or does the grain from the UHD has some weird artifacts around yoda?

The UHD Blu-ray is unfortunately plagued with frozen grain all over the place, so there’s no chance of really fixing that short of scrubbing whatever grain is left and regraining and that would destroy even more fine detail.

CatBus said:

I lied about not seeing anything else.

In 3.0, I noticed a mid-wipe grading shift at 1:21:38. Not sure if theatrical or not.

Also, did you take a look at the Boba Fett flyby? I know it’s supposed to look janky, just want to be sure none of that is due to source problems.

The mid-wipe grade shifts are definitely part of the original - they are very obvious in all the 35mm versions, including the raw scan I have. I did try to make them a little less distracting but I don’t want to go as far as masking elements and such.

EDIT: Actually, for this specific one, you’re right, it doesn’t come from the 35mm! Thanks for pointing it out!

The Boba shot is also definitely supposed to look like that.

The things I fixed already:

A bit of further cleanup of the 35mm footage in some places.
Color of the tie-fighters during the initial flyover sequence.
Added the missing “There will be no bargain” Jabba subtitle.
Replaced the shot at 00:13:55 with 35mm, because it looks like ass on the UHD Blu-Ray.
Fixed flashing of lights behind Vader at 01:48:13.

And I’ll use the correct 5.1 audio track this time around.

Am I missing anything else?