I'll see what I can do. I don't know about the interactive stuff though, that wouldn't exactly be the original, now would it? Maybe as a bonus feature ;-)
I wasn't implying that there's anything wrong with the DVD, Puggo. You've done a top notch job on it, but that's the unfortunate thing; you can't really squeeze anything much better from Mpeg2 DVD on a source this grainy.
Puggo, this is wonderful. I can't really appreciate the mix as I don't really have a good ear for this kind of thing but it's interesting that there is another alternate version and if you ever provided your captures and someone did a GOUT sync, I'd be interested to include it in ESB v2.0. No rush though :-)
The PQ is definitely better than PG but I do believe this would benefit greatly from an HD upscale (the horizontal resolution of the capture should after all be much higher than here, especially with the wider than 2.35:1 AR) but mainly a better encode using a more modern codec and higher bitrate, because I think the worst problem PQ wise with this and PG both is the compression of the grain, especially in dark areas, which makes a lot of it look not like film but noisy video. I believe it would be a much more of the experience people seem to want from it, that is to relive the time they saw a run down print back in the day, because I can guarantee that in no official cinema projection in the history of ever people saw huge compression blocks and such.
Oh, and can anyone confirm that despite the error codes, the first Zip file was fine? I wouldn't want to share anything that is broken.
I didn't mean to imply I got this sent by Puggo. Sorry if I caused confusion for anyone. I got my spleen checked with the first Zip tool and it seems to be ok.
Really? Someone just sent me a package from USA and it arrived in under a week (except then it got held up in the customs office for like two weeks).
Those are in fact definitely not VHS. I'd be willing to bet they are from cable broadcast. Most likely the Reivax version.
Definitely both around the same time.
No need for those specifically. If you could get them to me in some decent quality, I'd be very grateful :-)
Well, definitely not those used in the WP, those were bad SD upscales. But if someone could get me HD scans of those countdowns, I'd probably go for it.
I didn't get any PM from you.
b0bafett said:
Hey Harmy, the past few pages have been a lot of talk of audio fixes and a 2.1 release of the AVCHD. Just out of curiousity, are you still targetting the end of this month for the blu release?
To be honest, I don't think so. Not because of the v2.1 though, like I said that's almost done. But the extras will probably take a bit longer to finish.
Oh, and someone asked what I'll be using for authoring. Probably Scenarist.
Chewtobacca said:
ROFLRICK said:Has anyone noticed the cropping that is occurring on both the right and left sides of the frame? This is not present in any other version, and as best as I can tell, it is actual cropping. Information visible on the MKV, AVCHD, etc. is seemingly missing on the DVD-5.
It's not. The eight pixels of black bar on either side of the image are nominal analogue blanking. No cropping has occurred.
Good to know :-)
And thank you guys for the compliments. V2.1 is not really all that much work (I'm done with all the fixes now except the Obi-Wan scene, which should be a piece of cake).
Yeah, the distortion is there and it's not just the side either, it's the top and the bottom too. It simply has a curve to it, centered somewhere on the left of the frame. I wish it could be compensated for somehow because it always gives me hell when trying to do GOUT/SE composites, especially stuff like the lightsabre duel, where there's movement of the composited element along the whole frame. I had to keep realigning.
On the other hand the distortion is not big enough to throw off the cropping percentages taken from overlaying it with an undistorted source in any significant way.
I came to this thread to say... what Mavimao just said... To the letter.
Thank you SilverWook. This is exactly why I was kinda apologizing for making another version, some people just approach this as if it was some kind of official release. So, let me repeat, I'm making these mainly for myself and I'm sharing them for free, so if I do decide to make v999999999999.0, it's my business and your choice to download it or not.
@DVD-BOY: Thank you but that didn't answer my question at all. I understand that the size won't always be exactly the same but what is the average size of a 5.1 DTS-HD track? And how big will the stereo tracks be in whatever lossless format is the best for those. I have zero knowledge of this stuff and I'd just like to know the approximate numbers.
@pvanb: The changes I have planned for v2.1 so far are as follows:
Slightly darken some of the very bright shots in the Luke meets Ben scene.
In the scene with the flying droid, the droid's shadow can still be seen towards the end of the shot.
Try and make the shot of Luke going through the rebel hangar just before the Biggs scene was inserted in the SE look better. It currently looks worse then in v1.0 but I can't use v1.0 either because it has some missing frames.
OK, I will do the v2.1 AVCHD :-) As to the MKV, what Mavimao said is absolutely right. And you can also make one from the AVCHD just as easily - most MKVs of films this length "obtainable"online are the size of the AVCHD or smaller. I wanted to do the MKV as a really high quality release before I get the BD out but to my surprise, the AVCHD is so good, it wasn't even necessary (I expected the AVCHD compression to be similar to the v1.0 but apparently the quality loss in v1.0 was caused by the editing process using lossy files and non-professional software rather than the final encoding).
As to h_h's 2.0 mix, I didn't include it because it simply doesn't really represent any of the theatrical or official mixes. I was even considering not using the 93 mix but in the end I did because that is a high quality stereo if you need one - 320Kbps encoded from LD PCM.
This leads me to a question about audio - how large will the lossless mixes be? I need to account for them when deciding on encoding bitrates of the other features on the BD.
Wow. That is awesome!
Yeah. My dad bought an HDTV and he still couldn't give a rats ass whether he's watching Blu-Ray or a 700MB DVD rip.
Yeah, no.
Laserschwert, I was always considering maybe doing some fixes for the BD, as I consider it the ultimate version, but it wasn't until a few days ago when somebody PMed me something they noticed that made decide for sure. I will PM you the changes I already know I'll be doing (three or four so far) but if someone notices anything else, there may be more, so it probably would make sense to wait. I'm sorry about this. I know it really complicates things for everyone but I'm just a perfectionist. I just really wish I'd started with the AVCHD and not make people download these huge files only to make them redownload them later.
Most people still don't have BD burners (got beaten to it), so the AVCHD may be their only way to watch this in HD on their BD players na the encode quality is still very very high. And I think that if there's another SD DVD, it will be a DVD9, because this is very grainy and that doesn't agree well with mpeg2 compression.
Oh, yeah, there will definitely not be another MKV. Now that I think about it, I'd consider doing the v2.1 AVCHD if there's demand (it only took like 10 hours to render and an hour to upload, so it would be no biggie).
For me too.
Not this kind of DVNR.