Harmy

Yeah, that's the idea behind taking it down eventually, I don't intend to do MKV for the other two. If someone specifically needs the MKV format, they can always remux the AVCHD's or BD's m2ts file to MKV and otherwise thinking back, it seems to have been pointless to rush out the MKV when the BD will be using the same stream and the AVCHD looks very good (personally, I can't tell the difference between the MKV and AVCHD).

It's up to you guys if you want to reupload it but I'd like for the MKV to be taken down when the BD is out.

ww12345 said:

I just wanted to make sure that Harmy and h_h didn't get the short end of the stick - they devoted hundreds (if not thousands) of hours making this for us.

Thousands, definitely thousands ;-)

But yeah, what I meant was I wasn't going to reupload the whole MKV, I'm just going to link to the fixed audio files and everyone can mux them in themselves.

OK, so, the AVCHD will get a reupload once I mux it with the new tracks. The MKV won't!!! I'm just gonna add the info into the nfo and that's that. I'll make sure all audio is OK in the BD release.

Actually, most of h_h's work was done in stereo using the 93 mix PCM, then that got a release and then it was upmixed and the LFE chanel was in the upmix was replaced with one that h_h made. OPr at least that's what I understand. Anyway, the stereo soundtrack listed there isn't h_h's mix at all, it's the original stereo captured from LD. I am afraid it may have been affected as well, becuase the problem apparently happened during AC3 encoding and I got the 77 stereo and mono mixes AC3  from h_h as well.

It already is ISO.

I took the links down from tehparadox, though I left them online for those of you who are already downloading. I'll reupload the AVCHD with the fixed audio once released.

That's some bad fucking news about the audio :-/

Try updating JDownloader.

OK, it's up on teh now. Here's the relevant part of the nfo:

Technical Specifications:

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FORMAT: AVCHD DISC (ISO)

SIZE: 7.9GB (DVD9)

VIDEO: 1280x720p H264 23.976 fps

AUDIO: (all Dolby Digital) Special thanks to hairy_hen and Belbucus

TRACK 1) 5.1 70mm mix @ 448Kbps 

TRACK 2) 1977 2.0 mix @ 256Kbps 

TRACK 3) 1977 1.0 mix @ 128Kbps

TRACK 4) 2.0 Commentary for visually impaired @ 192Kbps

TRACK 5) 2.0 Isolated score  @ 192Kbps (music only)

TRACK 6) 2.0 1993 LD Audio Commentary @ 192Kbps (silence filled with 1993 LD 2.0)

Subtitles: (Project Threepio) Special thanks to CatBus

English (en)

Chinese (Simplified) (zh-cn)

Spanish (es)

French (fr)

German (de)

So, the AVCHD is currently making its way to uloz.to at 5.5MB/s. That's why I love uloz.to...

Nothing wrong with LG BD burners. Mine works perfectly. I already burned quite a few BDs with it and they all work perfectly, even in my BD player.

Thanks. Some bad news, the final size of the AVCHD was really small with the bitrate I set, so I'm going to re-render it with higher bitrate. It should be done tomorrow.

Well, the bitrate of the MKV is still way lower than commercial Blu-Ray.

Thanks guys :-)

At the current speed, the rendering of the AVCHD should be done tomorrow morning and since I'm back at school (I just finished my undergraduate program and am continuing to postgrad) the upload should be superfast as well, so if everything goes well, the AVCHD should be available on uloz.to sometime tomorrow. I guess it will get reuploaded to other places soon after.

Don't forget that if they were uncredited in the original, they should remain uncredited in a restoration of the original, so this is more of an idea for The Secret History of Star Wars page, than the ssw.com.

It was an oral exam. We knew the results in under an hour :-) I did really well :-)

I hope to have the BD done by the end of Sept. But you know how it is with these things...

That is of course possible. I even considered calling it the Technicolor edition for a while, since it reflects the IB Tech colourtiming which may have been slightly different than the Eastman prints.

As to the colour of the sky - that's the thing - I started from the BD, so I couldn't make everything appear exactly as it does on the IB Print, all I could hope for was a close approximation - in this case, everything's almost the same, as you say, except for the sky. Although I'm only seeing a very slight blue/gray cast in the sky in that photo.

Exactly.

Oh and I just wanted to add something to that Obi-Wan scene: Let me explain, that I would have aesthetically preferred the scene the way it was on the last WP, so it was an internal struggle for me and in the end I decided to follow the reference as closely as possible, instead of my personal preference.

@Sunday: Wow! That's exactly what I want for my home one day, except for all the prequel junk, I'd replace that with some OT awesomeness ;-)

Just Bc. for now :-)

That looks a lot better, though still quite compressed, so all grain's gone. But from this, you can finally tell, that the final results will be amazing! Can't wait!

EXAMS SUCCESSFULLY DONE!!!! I'M FINALLY FREE!!!

Time to start encoding the AVCHD and then working on the BD :-)

@frank678: There were no LPP prints in '77, it was made in the 80s, probably for TV broadcast transfers, so it's very well likely its colourtiming could be different and even intentionally altered for telecine.

And don't you think it would be a bit weird that just exactly this scene from first frame of its first sot to last frame of last shot would be faded on the IB print?

Also, like I said, this stuff has already been discussed to death - it has been previously stated that due to the nature of the dye process, it's quite possible that the tech prints had slightly different colourtiming in some places than even '77 Eastman prints. But since all the surviving Eastman prints are faded, we may never know, so it's safer to adjust the colours to a print that we know looks like it did in 77.

@Sunday: Sorry if I've been a bit cross, you can imagine I'm a bit on edge :-) Yes, I did still leave it like that in my last WP and then I decided to change it in the end. That "adjusted" screenshot is really old and comes from before I had the reference scans.

@sunday256: Condescending much?

Anyway, this is not about me not being able to take constructive criticism, this is about starting pointless lengthy discussions about things that have already been discussed to death and I'm simply tired of that conversation and answering the same questions for the umphteenth time.

I'm glad someone posted this picture, I forgot it was there. It is much closer to my references, though still a bit darker - this can be caused by various things ranging from the brightness of the projection bulb to the settings of the camera it was taken with). And sorry, Sunday256, but what you remember seeing in the cinema 35 years ago is quite irrelevant to the objective facts. Some people swear to remember having seen Luke throw the grappling hook twice in '77... What definitelly is relevant however, is a professional scan of frames from a perfectly preserved print that was actually made in '77 - actually  it is the most relevant evidence to date - and that's what I used as a reference to time that scene.

Also, when you post screenshots from your monitor, if my or anyone else's monitor is calibrated differently from yours, the screenshots will of course display differently than they do on your monitor.