Harmy

A discussion started in another thread about audio delays.

I just uploaded this to YOUTUBE:

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Oh, no, that's waaaay too complicated for me. I'm using the latest version of PowerDirector (btw. a great improvement over the previous one).

I love Jon Lajoie B-)

Here's a little taste of the DVD menu:

Background video for MAIN MENU

Chapter menu page 1

It's nothing special but I don't have time or will (and maybe even skill) to do better ;-)

I colour corrected on a scene by scene basis in my video editor.

Having colour corrected the whole 2004SE Jedi myself, I assure you that the lightsabres aren't a screwup in themselves, it is the overall colour and brightness issues that cause the lightsabres to look like they do.

Look at this clip of ROTJ lightsabre fight comparison between the 2004SE and my PDE. All I did was adjusted the contrast brightness and colours, I didn't rerotoscope or anything.

Thanks for the kind words. I used the SE credits but cut out the SE part :-) There's a visible transition where the SE subs originally started but I figured it shouldn't really matter, I think that being anal about the credits is just being anal for the heck of it. I only cut out the SE credits to make it approximately the right length. 

It's one or two frames, that doesn't make it out of sync. And there are two aditional frame, one is missing so in the end, you end up with one frame difference. When I was editing, I'm sure a few frames were lost in the process anyway, I don't think it's a big deal. Could you actually tell when the audio is one frame out of sync? Because I definitely couldn't.

vbangle said:

Harmy said:

Although, in the light of the most recent findings, it seems that the SW and ESB colours might actually be quite accurate.

Are you referring to the 04 dvd's? if so they're not even close sorry.

Whaaaaat? You crazy? No, I was referring to the 70mm scans.

You may have noticed one of my previous posts: 

Harmy said:

I have been reading this tread with interest and I must admit that I got a little scared that we may have complained injustly about the 2004 SE colour-timing but I did a little comparison and there's just no way that the 2004 SE is anywhere near the correct colour-timing but it's true that the GOUT footage could do with a little colour boost, though I'm pretty sure that the GOUT's colour-timing cannot be quite trusted either, boosted or not. I'd think that the trailer should actually be a pretty good reference.

 

A bit more from Robert Harris on the SW preservation at HTF

I think he was reacting to my post.

And sure, the trailers might not be the most accurate source but what I was considering is that the colours in the trailer are almost the same as the GOUT although being from a different transfer done at a different time, while the 2004 colours are totally different, so it's more likely that the 2004 colours were screwed up, than that all the previous transfers were.

edit: and the 70mm frames are mostly quite faded - blue or pink shifted, so that's hardly an accurate source either:

EDIT of EDIT: Although, in the light of the most recent findings, it seems that the 70mm scans of SW and ESB  might actually have quite accurate colours.

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Maybe it's not that far removed from the o-neg, maybe he did develop a way to only use one of the 3 masters for fine detail (which would be the equivalent of using an IP in terms of grain and detail but the resulting image would be black-and-white with wrong levels) and then using all three to give it proper colouring. It would be a process similar to colourizing a black-and-white movie.

Yeah, I guess that's true, it was just a problem I saw with using them but I'm no expert and I was hoping that someone like Zombie could give us more insight.

Those aren't fan edits though, they are preservations of commercially unavailable materials.

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bkev said:

OT: I'm still not getting this set. I have the DVDs, which leave me in the clear for fanedits... I think... I hope...

Strictly speaking no, less strictly speaking only if it's the same transfer and even less strictly speaking it's up to your own conscience, after all it is in a legal grey area in any case.

But I think it would be a bad idea to use all 3 separation masters, because it would mean combining 3 different film strips together, thus combing four different grain patterns (that of the o-neg plus one for each of the seps), so the sep-masters combined would have to be 3 generations worse than the o-neg and that's assuming they were stuck directly from the negative.

Come on, guys, Robert Harris is on our side (although it may not seem so from that particular post). He's the guy who offered Lucas that if he gave him the materials to work with, he'd restore the OOT for free.

There will probably be no extras  (I don't really have any ideas for extras).

I will be designing menus and adding chapter stops and stuff though (which is why it might still take some time before release).

OK, the 4,3GB mkv is available now.

It contains:

720x576 - 23,976fps - 3389 Kbps - h264 video encoded straight from the source files

AC3 2.0 384 Kbps EN (converted from Belbucus' 1993 LD PCM audio captures)

AC3 5.1 448 Kbps EN (hairy_hen's purist audio mix)

AC3 2.0 256 Kbps CZ (captured by me from a 1992 VHS)

I'm starting work on the PAL DVD9.

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