Harmy

I personally define the terms by their semantic meaning -
Preservation - to preserve something is to make sure it stays in its current state - so scanning the film, not cleaning it and only correcting the colors to what is on the print is a preservation.

Restoration - to restore is to return something to a previously existing state - in this case then it would mean to scan the print, color-correct it to original colors, if there’s fading, and clean any dirt and scratches that happened to the print itself.

Alternatively restoration could mean to use whatever sources to get to the quality of an earlier generation copy but not to get something that is better than the original copy when it was new - anything beyond that isn’t, at least semantically, a restoration any more, so from this point of view, Legacy is neither a preservation, nor a restoration - the closest term IMO is Remastering - creating a new master, which may well be better than the original master.

Lots of factual inaccuracies too. The guy was really nice though!

I think, seeing as how much more footage from the BD will be left in than in Despecialized, it makes more sense to make the Respecialized from v3.0 at full HD.

Well, to that I can only say that you should visit your ophthalmologist as soon as possible. And you should have someone drive you there because with your sight, you shouldn’t get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle!

Well, they don’t look that bad on their own - they just look waaaay worse than a decent bitrate file or even just a well-encoded low bitrate file - here’s a comparison of the 4GB version posted above with a well-encoded 5GB version someone (I forget who) made and posted on torrents with my blessing:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/169716

and here it is compared to my 7GB AVCHD version:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/169717

and here’s the 5GB vs 7GB (here, the difference is much smaller, of course, but the grain structure and fine detail is still better preserved in the 8GB version):

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/169718

That’s just terrible 😦 I mean, it depends, of course on the size of the screen you watch it on but there’s just so many compression artifacts in those screens!

Wow, that looks godawful even for 4GB! I’ve seen 4GB 720p rips that looked pretty decent - judging by the screenshot, this is not one of them.

You probably got the ITA remuxed version someone made - all you need is to remove the Italian audio.

towne32 said:

Altered color palette, I cleaned up some of TN1’s shits to replace GOUT shots

I’m wondering if that’s a typo or intention 😄

I don’t think I’ll be doing a Grindhouse v2.0.
As for the cropping - the framing isn’t always the same shot to shot in 35mm prints, so I had to use a cropping where there was no visible print edge on any given shot.

That is the plan.

Holy shit that’s sad…

Well, I’m really not surprised now that after that nightmare she didn’t want anything to do with any of it 😄

I have seen the trailer and can’t guess 😄

vagina.org?
Watch out very NSFW 😉

Yes, that would definitely be the preferable approach. The colors of the IB seem fantastic, especially after Poita’s corrections. I’m sure when he said he’d restore the shots to match the BD, he meant more in terms of grain and sharpness and stuff, not color.

I don’t (like I said, I’ve never even seen it) but I’m sure someone does. And then yeah - with the changed scenes restored in a quality like this, it should be a piece of cake for me to despecialize it. I sure hope to get a grindhouse version first, because I really wanna watch the film before I start tinkering with it 😉

The cleaned up version looks just marvelous! Can’t wait to see this!

No, I definitelly wanna do v2.5 but I’m not anticipating any month of release - I anticipated a early march release and look where that got me 😄

Can’t your BD player play back stuff from USB?

Too far, man! 😄

So, with the imminent release of The Force Awakens on Blu-Ray, I decided to drop everything else and start working on TFA Despecialized. I will be starting a new thread as soon as I have some samples to post. The plan is to make TFA look like it was shot immediately after ROTJ - this means getting rid of CGI characters and replacing them with puppets or prosthetic makeup, adding matte-lines and matte-boxes to all spaceship shots and probably re-shooting some with models or replacing some backgrounds with more hand-painted looking matte-paintings. Kylo Ren’s lightsaber should also be replaced with something that looks more hand-animated, like the old sabers - the jury’s still out on the cross-guard.
I would like to cooperate with Adywan and the rest of the Revisited team, because those guys already have experience with shooting models and stuff.
Since this is probably going to be very time-consuming and I expect it to take at least a couple of years, all other Despecialized efforts are on hold for now.

The new ones work like a charm! Thank you!!!

Cool 😃

towne32 said:

There were several scenes where I went back to the BD and regarded from scratch to remove yellow tones. These include the cockpit scenes leaving Tatooine and approaching the Death Star.

But you did keep the shots where I removed the extra shake, right?