Oh, crap, I didn't think of that. If that was the case, I'd have to push the release of the BD. But in that case, at least v2.1 AVCHD should be out before xmas.
@analog:
The Falcon in hangar shot is this dark on my IB Technicolor print reference and it's a good thing too - when you look at the GOUT, you can clearly see that it's a painting and you can see the painting's edges, because the black levels are way too low. Now, you're comparing it to v1.0, but there it is not completely the original painting, it's put together from several different, not always original, sources and the starfield is brighter because it is a different one from the SE - in v2.0 the whole painting is put in from a single 35mm frame scan, so it's 100% faithful to the original.
Should be the same, yeah.
Well, the thing is that it wasn't so much about issues where it is a matter of opinion, like color or which particular source looks better, but issues that are indisputable imperfections which I'm unable to fix but most people won't notice them until they are told about them. And then you get into a situation, where I can't fix it anyway, so the criticism didn't have any positive effect on the project, but it did have a negative effect on the viewing experience of dozens of people.
But g-force's arguments convinced me that that isn't a sound enough reason to censor what people discuss in this thread.
Yeah, I guess you're right. I'm sorry. Feel free to criticize openly, guys. I promise not to shout you down. I was a bit on edge around the time of the release, because of my exams, so I overreacted sometimes and thinking back, I feel like an ass.
Just so you understand, the screenshots aren't indicators of any overall change - they are specific shot that were fixed. Here's a brief explanation of those chages:
1) Changed the color of the letters very slightly to be less green.
2) Improved the blown out whites and god rid of the pink tint that somehow got into that shot. There is one more very brief shot from the same angle, which got fixed as well.
3) In v2.0 the whole window is put in from GOUT. In v2.1, I superimposed the module in from the HD SE footage, while keeping it's original placement, in order to gain some extra detail (you can see this quite clearly when you view the picture at full resolution)
4) I toned down the green in the shadows, because it was a bit too much in v2.0.
In other news, I was working on reel 2 and I set out to darken the Luke meets Obi-Wan scene but having compared it to the IB Print scan again, I decided to keep it the way it is in v2.0, because darkening it a bit just made it look worse (and less faithfull to the IB Print) and I don't want to rework the colors from scratch and give the scene a totally different look, because I want to keep the look it has on the IB Print.
And I'm still confident I can get v2.1 done before Christmas.
Nor me. :-)
OK, here are the v2.1 changes for reel 1 (v2.0 top, v2.1 bottom). Note that the screenshots come from a compressed source and don't represent the final quality of the BD or even the AVCHD.
It looks prety much the same in the "enhanced" versions as well, except they added a little blue to the sabre's glow (and that only since the DVD) but the blade looks the same-
Well, George being on as creative consultant might not necessarily be a bad thing. He played a similar role in the creation of TESB after all.
@dr.olds: Sent you a PM.
Well, it's true that it kind of sucks having to go through these obscure ways to download something as small and simple as subtitles. I can tell you that if those were the only means to get the subs, I couldn't get them.
Wow, you really spent an hour making that skin for me? THANKS!
LOL. Just LOL... Sorry.
Tyrphanax said:
Mrebo said:
Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine, Toy Story 3) is writing the screenplay...is this good?
Oh wow. Confirmed... here we go, I guess.
I've never seen any of his work, and his career has been short so far. But I have heard good things about the movies he's done.
I dunno. I guess I'm in the same boat as before where I can't really say if it's good or bad yet, haha. Not too excited about the meetings with Lucas so far, but we'll see.
So, Toy Story 3 was awesome, probably one of the best Pixar films ever, and that's saying a lot - and mostly it was because of the script/story.
Now, I'd not seen Little Miss Sunshine until today, because I always kind of thought it was about a little girl beauty contest and I find those exceedingly creepy but hearing the news that the same screenwriter was going to write the new Star Wars, I decided to watch it... and it was TOTALLY FUCKING AMAZING!!! Wow!!!
The rightmost fighters were missing in each row, plus the fighters disappeared in some frames because they were composited in from the GOUT.
I also cleaned up the matte.
I've read somewhere that the 3D conversion of EpIV is like 90% done already.
Wow, that's ugly - both in their unique way. I wonder if that BD shot is actually from the BD or from some rip, because look at the background to the left of Qui-Gon - that is seriously horrible.
Well, on my 27" full HD monitor, I can see a slight difference in detail in those pictures but it's really tiny - nowhere near the physical resolution difference between 1080p and 720p, which means that the current master has the amount of detail of a slightly above average theatrical print.
Does Disney now own the Indiana Jones franchise as well or does Paramount own those rights?
Even if it was so, the current version is still stuck at 1080p plus it isn't really all that detailed to begin with:
720p has approx. half the resolution of 1080p, yet when scaled down to 720p and then upscaled back up to 1080p, the BD master definitely doesn't lose half the detail, so that effectively means that the 1080p master doesn't really use all the resolution 1080p has to offer.
Awesome, thank you!!!
Wow, that's great! Thanks!
Firefox at the moment (Chrome just stopped working properly for me for some reason). Thank you!
Thanks for the advice. If you were so super nice and made a script that would change the appearance of this site like I described it above, it would be awesome, since I have no idea how to do that myself.