Harmy

Oh, I assumed he meant the one in the picture because that one was almost B&W in the 2004SE and there isn't much colour in the shot before in the GOUT either.

Oh, this is disappointing. But then, from what I've seen, the transfer had a much worse case of crushed blacks than even the 2004 transfer. I considered asking n-1 if I could use the lifting of the x-wing from the posted clip but in the end, I decided to use Ady's recreation of that shot with some of my own tweaks to it because of the crushed blacks. I would post some screenshots to show what I mean but I'm not sure if I'm allowed.

This looks really interesting. As to the size, how about 2 DVD5s, same (or even slightly better) quality, quater (or less) the price of the media (well at least where I live).

Well, do you mean this one? :-)

Well, I was hoping to encode an AVCHD straight from the source files but for some reason I just can't get that to work. So I'm going to encode a high bitrate MP4 and then use RipBot or multiAVCHD 2pass HQ conversion to make the AVCHD. The 2pass encoding is gonna take a really long time though.

I thought V8 was DJ's? If not, that's what I meant, the V8. I guess RGB would be preferable but not necessary. Thanks :-)

Well, the test encode didn't go so well, it took almost 12 hrs and it doesn't work in anything else than VLC but I know how to get around it, only it will take like two days to encode. Also, I skimmed through it and found a few more things I want to fix, so the release is more likely to be sometime next week.

Well, I would certainly like a capture from the smear-free '92 one, that would be great :-)

For the JSC I would prefer DJ's cleaned up version.

msycamore said:

I could upload those scenes from the "V8"- disc for you.

The collars will be fixxed ;-) Maybe...

Well, the final version isn't done yet but I'm test rendering it right now, so the workprint is also not an option any more. But it should be out by the end of the week :-)

Well, they're improved and closer to the original but I didn't replace them like the ones in the cave, just fixed them through colour correction.

Oh, and I forgot, for the lifting of the x-wing I used Ady's recreation that he made for the ESB Reconstruction, so the credit should go to him. But I'm gonna remove the shadow and make it HD for the most part while I'm at it.

Thanks 005 :-)

 

doubleofive said:

I wish the "Long Time Ago" was clearer. Maybe the titles could be recreated? It's not the best first impression for "HD".

 

The workprint ones were just temporary but I won't be recreating the title cards but I think the ones I'm using now are better. 

Could you recolor the thruster blasts from the pods, I miss the blue. 

That's why I needed you, an easy fix that I missed. Check here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHcSllYWspg

While you probably couldn't lower the probe droid down, could you put out the fires and darken the smoke back? First SE change, and its the first thing I look for when I'm IDing which version something is.

It was on my TO MAYBE DO list, I gave it a shot but I couldn't get it to work to my satisfaction, so I decided to leave it.

I would recolor the last transport, I've never liked the blue, even if it "blends in better".

Maybe consider recoloring the Falcon back to its blacker color as they approach Cloud City?

These are the same case as the probe droid.

The SE mistake of seeing Veers through the wall of Vader's screen remains, which while replacing the frame of the screen would be easy, the fancy wipe at the end of the scene (which is probably why they recomped that last shot anyway) might be hard to match. 

I don't know which shot this is, I couldn't find it in your comparisons. Could you maybe post a link to the corresponding comparison pic?

The distant shot of Cloud City before Leia's apartment needs some more atmosphere/blue. And the Cloud Car isn't exactly right, but that's not a giant deal.

Yeah, that was a colouring problem and I think it is a lot better in the current version of the colour correction.

The distant hallway as Han and Co head to dinner: as people pass over it, their clothes turn orange. Especially noticable as the last lady wearing all white passes in front of it. Maybe matte out the characters, or even just do it halfway so the color change isn't as noticeable.

I was never really happy with that shot but no matter what I tried, it just made it look even worse, so I'll probably just keep it as it is now.

Is it just me, or does the frame jump around a little when the elevator window appears (well, disappears)?

Yeah, I noticed that too, it should be better now.

Lando's lips could use some more work. Good idea only using the lips from the GOUT, but maybe use the bottom half of his face? It looks off.

Yeah, I was gonna try doing some more with that but I must say I'm quite proud of that whole sequence. It's still far from perfect but it was a really difficult one (even Ady gave it as an example of a difficult sequence  in his reconstruction when refusing to release it in HD) and I think it turned out OK considering the sources available, just compare it with Ady's version, I think it's definitely an improvement (well he challenged me to it, so challenge accepted ;-) )

Overall, I'm very impressed. There's a lot of work (un)done here, and I'm really just nitpicking at this point.

Thanks a lot, I'm glad you liked it and I hope the finished product will be even better :-)

BTW. DJ, may I suggest you finish and upload the Blu project one movie at a time. It would shorten our wait (that would be nice ;-)  ) and solve (or at least minimize) your upload problem :-)

Guys, the f*ck is up with you? The DVDs DJ sent out were just for testers (i.e. they weren't the finished product) so obviously he doesn't want those to get out. So unless there's something I don't know, you guys should calm down.

Damn you Frink, making me lose The Game like that!!! And damn Anna C. for ever telling me about it!!!

OK, Empire is finished, I looked into all that you guys commented on on the workprint and fixed what I though needed fixing. I'm just waiting for 005's review of the workprint, because I know his eagle eyes will spot mistakes mine wouldn't ;-)

If you have the G'KAR version, which is likely, then it is a dTV rip and it's generally considered to be the best one for Jedi 97SE (sadly, because it is quite bad quality.)

BTW, I was also looking for the 97SE Jabba without subs and couldn't find it. It think it's quite possible that the only version that has that might be some LD rip.

Looks great, Mattman. Let me just say that mild sharpening isn't necessarily a bad thing, it can definitely help the picture, it just shouldn't be overdone. 

Sorry, I'm not gonna repeat that again, when it was discussed on the previous page (or maybe the one before that) ;-)

No, that's the whole point of this version, same picture, better sound :-)

PM sent :-)

Sure, I'm gonna do that once it's all done :-)