Harmy

You heard the man, Ady, if you want to  add the breaths, you'll need to make everyone's noses red first!!!

;-)

Oh, right. Well that doesn't change the fact that the scene looks like crap in GOUT.

@josh: Well, no, I have the shot from DJ's project Blu and it still looks like crap. Like I said, sometimes you really just can't polish a turd enough to not look bad between pretty flowers ;-)

Well, of course the shot doesn't stand out in DJ's GOUT - it's all GOUT, so the whole scene looks like crap, so there's nothing for it to stand out from - no disrespect to DJ, he's working miracles with it but sometimes you just can't polish a turd enough and this whole particular scene is pure turd in the GOUT, which I suspect may have to do with there being a lot of subtitles in that scene, so a different source was used for it:

Thanks, that's a great compliment coming from you :-)

The main hero's red head girfriend (Ginny)                The main hero's red head girfriend (Mara)

Oh, me no understand goodly, me from other country behind big water...

;-)

But yeah, it's definitely not because I'm lazy. I'd spent hours experimenting with it before I decided that this solution will be best for everyone.

Yeah, I don't know what else you'd have me do. The GOUT would stand out really badly and there's no other source I could use. It is a cop out, I admit it, it just seems like the best possible solution. The only other thing I could do is keep the SE Boba Fett shot and I'm not doing that.

On a different note, here's a comparison of some of the subs that are in the Empire of Dreams documentary. Top is EoD, bottom is DeEd (before colour correction):

Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it (although slightly saddened that not the HD version).

As to your comments, there is no such shot anywhere near 54:30. If there are any encoding problems like that, I'd definitely like to catch those for v1.2.

As always, only if someone else makes it.

Try switching the site to Czech before you search. The English version seems buggy or something.

Or it should also be available through Torrent from myspleen.

OK, I was tired of sending the links all the time (and the people subscribed to this thread were surely tired of reading about it), so this is now on tehparadox. Just go there and search for Harmy, if you want to get this.

I don't know, I think making fun of someone who keeps doing something after having been repeatedly told he shouldn't and why he shouldn't isn't necessarily a personal attack.

But I can see how we come off as a bunch of bullies to him.

That looks fantastic!!! Nice and subtle. It would add a lot of realism but I can imagine how difficult it would be to do.

Yeah, for shame guys! SilverWook posted a video hoping for comments and you guys start arguing about this instead.

It's great SilverWook, cool idea :-) I LOLed :-)

I'm hoping I'll get to watch it on a projector, that would be cool. You know what would also be interesting? If you could include an alternate mix that would have a slight projector clanking sound added as a constant background sound (ideally in 5.1 and have the clanking only come from behind :-) ) and maybe add slight dropouts at reel changes. It would add to the atmosphere of actually watching a 16mm film at home :-)

Thanks :-) Yeah, the problem there is that the elements are slightly shifted in the recomps, so they don't align well. The KGar footage is pretty good in terms of resolution (as far as anamorphic DVD goes) but it has pretty bad compression and even worse DVNR artefacts. And the GOUT doesn't suffer from these problems as much but it's even lower res and is quite grainy, so I think I will have to just keep the recomps.

I'm sorry you didn't manage to DL. I know it's a bummer but if you're going into this kind of trouble for getting it, wouldn't it be better to wait for V1.2? But it is of course up to you, it won't be that much better but it should be an improvement nonetheless.

Yeah, and these broadcasts have been online for ages (since like 2007 or 2008). You can DL Episode II and III in HD, no problem.

Yeah, I was just going through my download folder deleting stuff (millions of little clips and stuff) and I just watched all the samples you posted again and kept them, this is gonna be great!

There's no discussion going on  there...

Let me try too.

Harmy's OT.com version of TFN forum's SW on Blu thread post:

Everyone, please repeat after me:

Guys, you wouldn't believe how unexcited I am to see all six STAR WARS films in 1080p (because I already have and because three are shit and the other three are f*cked with horrible CG and f*cked up colours) and with (quite likely horrible) new 6.1 DTS HD audio mixes.

There are a few shots in there but they seem to be from the same or a similar source as GOUT.

Darth Bizarro said:

Are you going to be using any of the GOUT footage for the Rancor scene like you did in the theatrical reconstruction?  The change over was really distracting.  Since you did remove the garbage mattes in SW DeEd I don't see why you'd want to keep the matte lines in Jedi.

A) I don't see what garbage mattes have to do with this. Garbage mattes are something completely different than matte lines. Matte lines were visible in cinemas every time since opening day until 1997 or 2004. Garbagge mattes, under ideal conditions, should not be visible - they are there but you don't see them - and that's exactly what I did in SW DeEd: I adjusted the levels to make the garbage mattes invisible. If you pumped up the brightness in those shots, you'd find the garbage mattes are still there.

B) I don't think the original Rancor was distracting in the Reconstruction - all the shots except for maybe one blended in really well, because I used natively anamorphic footage from GKar 97SE.

C) The GKar footage would look like shit in HD and so does the GOUT in this scene, so after unsuccessfully trying to somehow restore the original compositing, while using the HD footage (like I did here or here for example), I decided to just leave in the 04SE shots. I'm seriously not happy about it but it seems like I don't really have a choice in the matter.

Oldschooljedi said:

Do you rearrange (cut) the audiotracks also, then?

I'm asking, because I replaced the czech audiotrack on SW and ESB with the audiotrack in my motherlanguage. Therefore I had to demux my PAL GOUT DVD's, slowed the audio down from 25fps to 23,9 fps and remuxed the video- and audiostreams. My new created audiostreams matched perfectly with your videostream.

So, I will probably have to cut my ROTJ audiotrack???

No no, the whole point of inserting the shot in there was to keep it in sync with the GOUT audio. I'm really bad with audio editing, so I'm trying to avoid it by making the video sync with the audio.

No, it will stay the way it is here. It's a reverse shot of Chewie from later in the scene. I always said I was gonna have to do that in order to remove the stupid added shot of Boba Fett flirting with the SE dancers. I did it exactly like this in the PDE and I think it works really well. In the ROTJ DVD Reconstruction I decided to use the GOUT shot and it stands out like a sore thumb even at DVD resolution, because that particular shot looks like crap in the GOUT. I experimented with only using Jabba from GOUT for the missing part but the quality difference is so huge that it just wouldn't work.

Yeah, the funny thing is that while where you guys are it seems to be hot all the time now, here in the Czech Republic (central Europe) it is god damn hot now with similar temperatures as you describe but it was pretty cold just last week.