Harmy

That's beginning to look like dutch ;-)

I believe he once said he was going to keep all the files. I doubt he'd release them though.

I thought about it. Possibly but I'm not decided yet. Maybe, similarly to what I have planned for foreign dubs, it could be available as a separate download that anyone can mux in themselves.

Well, it stands to reason that with the same length and the same size, it will have to be more or less the same bitrate, yes ;-)

Oh, yeah, forgot about that. Probably yeah.

Probably, yes. When it comes to encoding this, I'm gonna need some advice by some more knowledgeable members here to make sure everything is as it should be to be compatible.

Wow, I love it! Seriously. If you allow me, I might just make this the official v2.0 artwork! Though my personal preference would be to use the slipcase for 4 individual boxes with their own covers in this style. Would you please be willing to share your psd files for me to make the individual covers? I'd give you full credit of course.

Well, the thing is that the MKV will be released first (or possibly 2nd, right after the AVCHD DVD9). And the BD might come out later (and I mean weeks later) so for those who want to burn to BD it may be a good idea to DL the MKV and play it it from a USB or the AVCHD and burn to DVD and wait for the BD release (or possibly the decision not to release it - don't forget I'm still not 100% sure on that) to burn to a Blu-Ray disc.

The BD for the most part. For the missing frames a combination of the GOUT and ANH:R for the officer and the laserblast and an animated custom matte (made from several successive frames of the BD) for the background.

Cobra Kai said:

Harmy said:

@Cobra Kai: The brightening of the skintones was done on purpose but I'll have to go through it and apply it more selectively.

Are you brightening even more than was in the WP?  I thought the skin-tones looked great in that scene initially.  I'm just worried that it will get too bright, and the skin-tones will look unnatural as they do now.

Well, yeah. I'm not quite sure this aspect is correct in the GOUT either. I'm hoping to soon get some reliable references for every sequence, so I'm gonna go through the colours from the beginning and adjust them again. Nothing's final.

doubleofive said:

 

Harmy said:

@Troy: Yeah, I'm not sure what colour the display is supposed to be, whether it was enhanced by Ady or it's an SE mistake.

The screen behind the trooper getting shot? It's Revisitedly enhanced, so the colors are new.

 

That's good to hear, I was afraid I was gonna have to fix it, this way it just adds another advantage to having redone it.

Well, my new BD player plays MKVs and it plays them from DVD without problems. The thing is that the MKV will be around 15GB, so it won't fit on a DVD but I can also connect an external USB HDD to  y BD player and it plays MKVs from that too.

Alternatively, you could split the movie over two DVD9s. In MKV Merge, you can "link" the files, so when they're in the same folder, they simply play as one file, so if you wanted to play it from an HDD or burn to a BD you should have an uninterupted viewing and if you, like me, don't mind switching discs midway, you can burn it to two DVDs.

@Tobar: Yes, to Frederik you listen! :-) I've seen a very reliable reference of that shot and the lightsabre was almost exactly this colour and so were the lights in the background!

@Cobra Kai: The brightening of the skintones was done on purpose but I'll have to go through it and apply it more selectively.

@Troy: Yeah, I'm not sure what colour the display is supposed to be, whether it was enhanced by Ady or it's an SE mistake.

No, I like them the way they are :-)

Well, I'm still not 100% decided on the BD. I'll only release it if I can make a really cool BD with menus and stuff. But there will definitely be an MKV which should be comparable in quality to a BD25.

https://rapidshare.com/files/4009005822/Censored_compar.mp4

I decided to redo this one from scratch. In v1.0 the whole shot was just an upscale of Ady's revisited, which brought three problems with it:

A) It was just an upscale

B) It had Ady's redone laser bolt

C) It was heavily cropped.

Before you say anything, I know it doesn't really look much better but it's more accurate.

Well, actually 2K is 2048x1152 but that's a difference hardly worth getting excited about and it is doubtful that it will be the next home format, since the difference would be practically unnoticeable, so there would be no good reason to make a whole new format for it.

I just read somewhere that there are currently some 4K TVs being introduced to the market and 4K capable Blu-Ray players should be introduced soon. When that becomes standard, the prequels are screwed and in the current state of things, so are the OT SEs (and so is Avatar for that matter).

That looks good, way better than the official one, I'm considering ditching it and using these instead.

The resolution is better, everything else is pretty much the same, because they come from the same master, so it's simply perfectly true.

Sorry but there's no DL button that I can see and rightclicking the picture doesn't work either. Picture sharing through Google was never great and now with the new look it's totally screwed.

EDIT: Oh, I actually found it, you need to click the little "options" button at the bottom of the page first.

Exactly.

These are really great! I think I'll use them for some LD preservation or something.

Mike O said:

...and if this continues, I'll never have the opportunity to see Ran or Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen, a longtime dream of mine...

Why not? Lawrence has been digitally restored to at least 4K by Richard Harris, so a digital projection looking like a newly struck interpositive should be totally possible and the same goes for most important catalogue films, except for STAR WARS of course.

I finally seem to have found a way to increase saturation in Premiere without introducing those artefacts, so if you find a scene or shot that you think could use a saturation boost, feel free to point it out :-)