Harmy

Wow, that deran print looks amazing for 8mm, it's hard to believe it could hold so much detail and that's only a blurry photo of a screen. I believe this would be a much better source for a home film projection preservation than the 16mm print Puggo used, if only because it seems to have awesomely preserved colours (I can vouch for them being very accurate). 

OK, cool :-)

Maybe, if you do that for ESB and ROTJ, you could provide it for me, like You_Too did for SW? That would be awesome.

And CatBus now released his project Threepio, which contains subs in several different languages in both DVD and BD formats.

OK, cool. Thanks :-)

Hm, interesting. How do you separate the channels in AE?

Did you do that in Photoshop or After Effects?

1080p?

;-)

But seriously, looking forward to the news, I always enjoy reading your articles.

@snicker: I never touched that shot and the gate weave of the stars tells me that it wasn't digitally recomped either, so I assume it was always that way.

^This.

But also this: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=star+wars+despecialized+edition+720p+torrent

Thanks :-)

And oh it can be improved, I was quite proud of v1.0 but in comparison with v2.0, it is a complete peace of crap, believe me.

Yeah, like I said before, I tried predicting how long it would take and was terribly wrong (I believe I predicted a couple of weeks being left like half a year ago :-D ) And even though it may not seem that way, I do have a life, so it will take as long as other stuff will allow.

But we're getting there, I now have all the materials I need, so there will be no more waiting for anything.

@ stst415: 1) Welcome to the forum. and 2) Yes, absolutely. Though it may be worth burning ESB and JEDI v1.0, because I'm definitely taking a break after I finish STAR WARS. After the break, I think I'll do Jedi v2.0 next, because there will be very few changes from v1.0 other than the quality increase from using the BD as a source and Premiere for editing, so it should be a quicker job.

@CatBus: That's interesting. It's definitely true about the noisiness, I noticed it with my BD player, though I don't understand why that is. Can anyone explain? It seems logical to me that if you have the film compressed to fill a disc of the same physical size, the information required to show say one second of the film should take up the same size physical area on the disc, only on DVD it will be less actual information but the rotation speed should then be the same.

Guys, I did it! It took three tries and about 8 hours of work on the last try but here it is:

http://uloz.to/xCEarBM/window-mp4

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=star+wars+despecialized+edition+720p+torrent

I think there's open registration now.

LOL, "Harmy, king of nerds" 

That's cool, thank you :-)

Thank you guys.

To the covers, no I don't plan to release the source files, for several reasons; A) they're pretty huge, B) they're really messy but mainly C) I'm quite proud of the design and I'd like the covers to stay the way they are and I definitely don't want them to be used with something else than the Despecialized Edition, I'm sure you'll understand.

The way I understand it, dts-hd contains the dts core track + extentions to make it lossless, so there should be no need for adding a separate dts core soundtrack. On the other hand, I think that even on the official BD, the video track itself is only about 30GB, so maxing out the bitrate to fill the disc seems to be a bit overkill.

OMEN!-_-! said:

As for what program I use, it's my little secret (mostly because I don't want Dark Jedi, Harmy and other editors here taking the piss) but its neither of those two you mentioned, I tried changing to Vegas Pro recently and it seemed way too complicated for me. I haven't tried Adobe Premiere but I'm guessing its also very complicated with a steep learning curve.

LOL, I can relate. I have been using Power Director for all my projects until SW v2.0 :-) I too tried Vegas and found it too complicated so I gave up for a while and stuck with Power Director, but then when I found out the PD is just not gonna cut it for v2.0, I tried Premiere and it's great and it made things so much easier too, I can do a lot of stuff that I couldn't before and it was surprisingly easy to learn.

Yeah, not worth it. I'm not even working with the raw blu-ray, I'm working with You_Too's over-all colour fix rendered at 720p.

Here's  the latest version of the flyby shot from DeEd v2.0:

http://uloz.to/xzMDjDE/flyby-deed-v2-0-mp4

Here's a little teaser for reel 3 - Three shots with a Ronto removed:

http://uloz.to/xzMDjDE/flyby-deed-v2-0-mp4

Yeah, I see what you mean snicker but you didn't explain how you did that, is it complicated?

Slim to none, unless someone provides it done and ready to go.