Harmy

As for ESB, yes, that’s the whole point of v2.5.

I DID use 35mm for the whole shot - well the beginning of it anyway. And the jump in brightness, sharpness and grain amount and structure is most definitely there in Grindhouse, just less noticeable with all the extra grain.

Hi guys. I need advice setting up my home theater sound. Are there any audio enthusiasts here, who could help? Thread here.

Hi guys. I need advice setting up my home theater sound. Are there any audio enthusiasts here, who could help? Thread here.

Hi guys. I need advice setting up my home theater sound. Are there any audio enthusiasts here, who could help? Thread here.

Well, the main thing is what are you using to make your color adjustments. I’m going to assume Adobe. If so, you definitely don’t want to encode h264 straight from Adobe, because their h264 encoder sucks balls. You’ll want to export lagarith or some other form of lossless avi and then encode with x264.

This is the script I used for SW v2.5:

“G:\FINAL ENCODE SW\FINAL ENCODE\x264.exe” --pass 1 --bitrate 15000 --bluray-compat --level 4.1 --preset slower --subme 10 --keyint 48 --sar 1:1 --slices 4 --vbv-bufsize 15000 --vbv-maxrate 25000 --open-gop --weightp 0 --colorprim bt709 --transfer bt709 --colormatrix bt709 --me umh --merange 64 --deblock -1:-1 --qcomp 0.8 --stats “.stats” --output NUL “G:\SWv2.5.avi”

“G:\FINAL ENCODE SW\FINAL ENCODE\x264.exe” --pass 2 --bitrate 15000 --bluray-compat --level 4.1 --preset slower --subme 10 --keyint 48 --sar 1:1 --slices 4 --vbv-bufsize 15000 --vbv-maxrate 25000 --open-gop --weightp 0 --colorprim bt709 --transfer bt709 --colormatrix bt709 --me umh --merange 64 --deblock -1:-1 --qcomp 0.8 --stats “.stats” --output “T:\SWv2.5.mkv.264” “G:\SWv2.5.avi”

So, I was thinking about getting a proper receiver for my home theater but I’m not sure if it would be worth it or what else I’d need to be able to get HD audio from my PC. Currently, I have this Panasonic home theater, which only has one HDMI connector, which I use to hook it up to my projector.

For watching movies on the projector, I also have my computer hooked up to the Panasonic HT via toslink through this ASUS soundcard (I have a separate set of 5.1 PC speakers hooked directly to the soundcard for when I’m using the PC normally with its monitors on the other side of the room).

Now, I’m very happy with the audio quality when I play BDs directly on the Panasonic (my living room isn’t huge and I live in an apartment building, so it’s booming enough for my needs) but the toslink PC audio definitely leaves something to be desired, because I can only get 5.1 audio from it through lossy Dolby Digital Live.

Since I prefer to play movies (including BDs) though my PC’s MPC-HC, because the PQ is better that way and it gives me a lot of options that hardware playback doesn’t (like adding grain on the fly, changing subtitle font and size or adjusting colors and contrast without f*cking with my projector’s settings), I’d like to get the same lossless audio quality I get from playing BDs directly on the Panasonic Home Theater system.

What are my options?

Well, sure, Team Negative 1 are working on those but it’s probably gonna take quite a while.

The audio is the same as in Despecialized - LD audio with bugs fixed by hairy_hen.

I’m sorry - Poita provided the print through an undisclosed source and I can’t tell you how or where it was scanned. It was done on a top-tier scanner though.

Yeah, the Silverscreen edition isn’t really a Grindhouse release - I would say that rather we now have the whole trilogy as complete 35mm transfers.

The DTS and DD tracks are the same. Missing frames were filled with black.

Yeah - they are authentic scratches from the print too 😄

Here’s a more complete gallery of images from this: http://picsurge.com/0tEQP5

This gallery includes some screenshots: http://picsurge.com/g/ow51Oo

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Harmys-RETURN-OF-THE-JEDI-Grindhouse-35mm-LPP/id/48258

HARMY PROUDLY PRESENTS…

RETURN OF THE JEDI - GRINDHOUSE 35mm LPP

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This is a fan preservation made for culturally historical and educational purposes.
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This can be found the same way as the Despecialized Edition: https://goo.gl/1WGHBA - a particularly helpful & useful guide by HanDuet

Team Negative 1 have expressed several times that they had no plans to release a grindhouse version of ROTJ and since we now have 35mm transfers of both SW and ESB, and I do have a complete 4K scan of an LPP print, I decided to go ahead and do it.

This is a high quality scan of a 1983 35mm LPP print of Return of the Jedi. Special thanks to Poita. This is a Grindouse release, meaning only basic color correction has been done and nothing else, so it’s shaky with lots of grain, dirt and scratches, but for those who enjoy that grindhouse theater experience, it should serve very well.

The colors on the print weren’t faded at all, but the scan did have a very heavy blue cast and was very dark, so I still had to do a lot of hokery-pokery to get the colors to look decent, and each reel, and sometimes each scene, needed completely different settings, so that also means it can hardly be considered
a faithful color reference. Pretty much all scans are like that before correction, so 35mm scans can only be considered a color reference, if they were color-corrected by someone actually looking at the 35mm print being projected traditionally.

This release is 1080p - I tested it and there would be virtually no benefit in releasing this in 4K and everything would take four times as long and have to be 4 times bigger.

The video is NTSC-GOUT-synced, so any NTSC-GOUT-synced audio track or subtitle file should work with it.

Technical Specifications:
 

CONTAINER: MKV

SIZE: 21.3 GB

VIDEO: 1920x1080p H264 23.976 fps 18MB/s

AUDIO: (Special thanks to hairy_hen, Schorman and CatBus)

TRACK 1) 2.0 DTS-HD-MA [English] (1983 mix)

TRACK 2) 2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (1983 mix)

TRACK 3) 5.1 DTS-HD-MA [English] (1983 mix)

TRACK 4) 5.1 Dolby Digital [English] (1983 mix)

TRACK 5) 2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (1993 LD Audio Commentary - silence filled with 1993 LD 2.0)

TRACK 6) 2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (2004 DVD Audio Commentary - recut to fit this release)

TRACK 7) 2.0 Dolby Digital [English] (2011 BD Archival Interviews Audio Commentary - recut to fit this release)

TRACK 8) 2.0 Dolby Digital [Music] (Isolated Score)
 

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All subtitles are from “Project Threepio v9.0”

More info here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/id/13794/

The Project Threepio subtitle folder also includes all the information on using the subtitles.
 

To verify that your file has downloaded correctly, you can use the free MD5 and SHA Checksum Utility (http://download.cnet.com/MD5-SHA-Checksum-Utility/3000-2092_4-10911445.html).

Just click “Browse” in the utility and load the MKV file and when your checksums are generated, you can use these checksums to verify the integrity of your download:

MD5: A439558143BF4B51B12999ABEA460C6A
SHA1: 99D085DBB71A86F7FB783BD77462DE3049B602B0

Yeah, I think I can send the .psd files to people wanting to make international versions - only on request though, I will not be including them with the main download.

Now, that the whole trilogy is on v2 I’m working on updated despecialized covers - they will be the same style as my v1.0 covers (there are plenty of different looking covers available from other people) but with updated info in a few different versions - for AVCHD, BD muxed from MKV and one without any audio or subtitle info for custom remuxes.

I’ll be trying to keep the I.B. feel for v3.0 but with less obvious tints.
The colars will be fixxed!!! 😄

Cool 😃

Well, actually that look that GroovyLord shows in that screenshot is somehow inherent to the BD and I just wasn’t able to get rid of it. For v3.0, I’m actually planning on using Neverar Great’s corrections - we have been cooperating behind the scenes for quite some time and his results are amazing. He’s currently matching the BD to the I.B. reference with unbelievable accuracy and then I will probably use that as a basis and do something very similar to what Towne32 shows above, in eliminating some of the I.B. Print’s color biases.

BTW. Towne, you 100% have my blessing to start your own thread if you wish to do so. I clicked though the render you sent me and I think it looks great! The only problem with it is the compression - it’s really not handling the grain well.

The thread titles can no longer be edited it seems. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next forum software update 😃

Pretty much every scan is this color-shifted and has to be corrected - again, this is a very high quality scan done to the standards of great restorations - colors on the print itself are in perfect condition and the dirt and scratches are actually pretty minimal, compared to for example the I.B. Technicolor scan TN1 previewed recently - that doesn’t mean it’s not dirty and scratched up, just not as much as some other prints I’ve seen. And some parts are dirtier than others - for example the blurry-bluray part had more dirt than this scene (that will be my next comparison and I’ll throw the BD in there) but you’ll see that in the Grindhouse - I’m hoping to encode it over the weekend. I plan on using very slow settings, so I need to wait until my computer isn’t busy with work stuff.

Yeah, this print is actually in a pretty good shape and it’s actually really high quality scan.
And actually, no it’s not from Team Negative 1.