Harmy

The thing is that the GOUT is a bit to washed out and needs a bit of dark level boost (I haven't really seen that much of V3, so I don't know how dark it is, but if it's anything like Project Blu, I think DJ struck the darkness levels just right). And believe me, the official blu-rays are way worse in that aspect, as they're the same transfer as the 2004 DVDs, which had severely crushed blacks.

budwhite said:

The earlier TPM shots must be taken from bad rips. This is suppose to be from the real BD and it looks kinda good me thinks. The pic with the kid has some excellent detail.

 

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5184/thephantommenace3.png

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/2918/thephantommenace2.png

http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/8075/thephantommenace1.png

OK, those look awesome. I really hope this is what the whole transfer looks like and the others were just a bad rip.

Oh, and this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3o_Ax6MIkU&feature=related

In a way, it works better that what LFL did, it makes him look intentionally creepy, while in the BD version, the creepiness seems quite unintentional.

Well, v1.2 of STAR WARS is indeed being worked on now but it won't be done for quite a while and I do plan to do v2.0 of ESB but that's months down the line.

I'm afraid you may have to reDL, no one else reported similar problems.

No, he's apparently already unrared the files, as he's got the ISO file. I don't know what the problem could be. It is possible, however unlikely, that your laptop indeed can't burn DL-DVDs. You may want to try and burn on someone else's computer.

Here's a guide anyway:

http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/G/Burning+ISO+Images+with+ImgBurn

@Spence: I'm glad to hear that, pal :-)

The only way it's not real is if it is a deliberate hoax (which is of course possible,) no compression or unintentional change would give it this look.

Yeah, I for one am more upset about this than about the OT changes, because we already have that transfer of OT in 1080p but the DVD transfer of TPM (used for the HDTV broadcasts) was really bad and I was hoping that we'd get a nice new transfer but if the new BD transfer has this level of DVNR, then the ugly old transfer is still preferable :-(

Wow, if that's real, that is unbelievably bad!!! I wouldn't put it past them though that they'd do something like that to make it look more like the other two prequels. I guess we can consider ourselves lucky that the same wasn't done with the OT.

Well, most Hoth battle shots were recomped, I didn't use GOUT, I just kept the SE ones. In v2.0, I'd like to replace some of them using PSB.

Sorry, guys, my bad, I had the visibility set to limited. All the links should work fine now.

Weird, it works for me. Try this: https://picasaweb.google.com/109609428403596349302/HarmySRetunOfTheJediDespecializedEditionComparisons#5648932612431332306

A list of changes with picture comparisons and explanations of how the shots were despecialized can now be found here.

I'd probably recommend going with the 5.1 mix or the 93 mix. The way I understand it is that the 1980 mix is from an lesser source.

May I ask what is the point of upscaling it though? When you re-encode, you always loose some quality and your Blu-Ray or media player is capable of upscaling it as you go without any loss of quality due to yet another recompression.

Well, the are a few more things I'd like to Despecialize - some of the Hoth battle shots and Falcon coming to cloud city and some of these shots had really bad DVNR smearing on them in the GOUT, so Puggo's version should be much better for those.

Also, I recently learned that there is many more of those zoomed in cockpit shots, so I might try and do those too.

Thanks :-)

I'm working on the comparisons right now.

joshdv said:

hey harmy,

love the latest clip.  i noticed that obi wans saber turns from a rather vibrant blue to a more lighter blue.  also vaders saber has a thick glow about it in the beginning and at times the glow isn't as present. 

did you use different sources for the sabers at different times?

 

Yeah, I used the 97SE for some shots and GOUT for others. But it was all an incredible amount of work and the colours of the sabres were not perfectly consistent in the original, so I think I'll leave it this way (except for the overall colour correction in this scene, I'll be making some changes there for the final version).

That's probably just temporary, try downloading what you can and then switching JD off for a few hrs and try again.

Oh, sorry, man, this is no longer available. Check out the Despecialized Edition. And if you can't do HD, the NTSC DVD5 should be out soon.

Links to the Despecialized Editions can be found at tehparadox.com, just sign in and search for Harmy.

I quite agree. I love this community, we work together towards a common goal. I'd also like to add, that we're a bunch of normal guys - I don't think there's anyone here who'd consider themselves a celebrity who is above helping other members, everyone here is happy to help if you ask nicely :-)

Thanks :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrzn1Ffq98Q

I'm afraid there is indeed something wrong with those screens none, they seem to have increased brightness (this is clearly visible on the black bars), which I'm sure isn't the case with the HDTV captures.

jpeters, if you go to tehparadox.com, sign up and search for "Harmy" or "Adywan," you'll find what you need. I'd also recommend the work of dark_jedi's, whom you can also ask for an invite to myspleen, where you can find all my and DJ's projects as well, if you'd prefer torrent.

Could you post some comparisons please? Ideally the same frames as those posted at AVS.