Harmy

OK, STAR WARS PDE v2.0 is finished.

I'm converting to AVCHD now and I hope to start uploading tmrw.

I fixed the framerate issues and I used a different way of upscaling the GOUT than for the first version and I think it looks a lot better (you can check for yourselves here, there are basically all the changes that I made in that video, exept for very minor stuff like trimming a few frames here and there). I didn't use any footage from ANH:R this time, just Ady's AVCHD and GOUT.

Then I can start working on TESB:PDE, it's funny how it all stared with Empire and in the end it will be the last to go :-)

OK, I got hairy_hen's approval. Furthermore I'll be adding the monomix restoration from Moth3r's LFL_PWNAGE DVD, so in SW PDE v2.0 there will be:

1977 English 70mm 5.1

1993 English 2.0

1977 English 1.0

Czech dub 2.0

OK, the fix is up. If I forgot to send the link to someone, plese PM me.

Oh, and here's another one of my creations that I wanted to share with you guys :-D

OK, here are instructions on how to remux the fixed audio that even my grandma could follow:

You'll need:
Deamon tools, TS muxer, ImgBurn (all are free)

Mount the original ISO with Deamon Tools (or something similar) and go to "My Computer." Right click the virtual BD disk called "ROTJ_PDE" and choose "Open". Go to "BDMV\STREAM" and you should see a file named "00000.m2ts".

Open tsMuxeR GUI and drag the "00000.m2ts" file into it.

In the column "Tracks" uncheck the 1st audio file (track 2).

Unrar the fixed audio (pass: harmy) and drag it to TS muxer too.
Highlight the new sound (track 5) and choose English in the column "Language" Then press "up" 3 times until the new audio is track 2.

In the column "output" choose "AVCHD disk" and hit "Start muxing".

When the muxing's finished, you'll end up with two folders: "BDMV" and "CERTIFICATE." You can burn them with ImgBurn. Here are detailed instructions on how to do that:

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/burn_avchd_with_imgburn.cfm

I'm uploading the fix. The file is over 600MB in size (it's a 640 Kbps AC3) and my current upload speed is 90.3 KBytes/s so it will take some time.

Btw. Chewtobacca, did you burn it a watch it on a stand-alone player? I'm still not 100% sure how well compatible it is.

Thank you, Chewtobacca, that's encouraging. I'm actually glad I screwed up the framerate on STAR WARS as it gave me an opportunity to go back and make an overall better version (i hope). Also I'm home for holidays and all of my uni friends live quite far so I'm bored to tears and this project keeps me going. You guys will probably be my best friends for the next two months ;-)

The Jedi fix is finished, I will be uploading it as soon as the exporting's done and I test muxing it with the video.

Can I put the links here as it's just audio and custom made at that?

Also it seems that doing the 5.1 for STAR WARS v2.0 this way would prove even more difficult so I will be adding the 5.1 upmix of hairy_hen's Star Wars 1977 70mm sound mix recreation instead (if I get approval).

I will, now that I took a look at it I found out that the problem is that there is both the sound contained in the video plus the sound added for the mix playing at the same time in that scene and that's what makes it so loud and that this is not the only instance where this happened so I will definitely be fixing it.

No, I don't think that would work but don't worry, I'll give you detailed instructions on how to mux in the new audio.

Thanks for the feedback Chewtobacca.

DON'T STOP DOWNLOADING! Sorry guys, I'm not reuploading the whole thing again and the 5.1 sound was ment to be more of a little bonus anyway, there should be no such problem in the 2.0 as it is taken directly from GOUT.

I might just upload the fixed audio, so you can mux it in yourselves, it is quite easy with TS muxer.

STAR WARS PDE V2.0 is almost done. I'm currently working on a 5.1 sound and hopefully will be exporting the 1st workprint overnight.

OK, Jedi's finished and up on RS. I took the GOUT audio and adjusted the HD version to it.

I restored the original musical number, original Sarlacc and the original ending using GOUT and KGAR and did a little color correction including fixing the lightsabres. It is a DVD9 23.976 fps 1080p AVCHD. There are both 2.0 GOUT and adjusted 2004 5.1 soundtracks plus 2.0 Czech dub. PM me for the links if you're interested.

Here are some sample videos:

Lightsabres test and a splitscreen comparison

Musical Number

Sarlac (it's a bit different in the final version)

Ending celebration

OK, just to make it "official": I started working on STAR WARS PDE v2.0. I will be fixing the frame rate issues and hopefully increasing some other quality aspects. This time it will be a 23.976fps AVCHD. I will probably be using less (if any) Adywan's work this time to make it more of my own project. (exept ofcourse the AVCHD, Ady's color correction's awesome)

To Chewtobacca: Well, it did encode the 1080p video at 25fps when I chose PAL but I'll be doing these at 23.976 after all.

To snowtrooper: Thanks for the feedback. As I'm gonna be doing this again, I'm open to sugestions, what else would you change back?

That's interesting but a little bit off topic, maybe you should make a separate thread about it.

Back to the menus: There are some awesome new shots in those menus that would IMO be cool to use in ESB:R.

OK, Jedi's something something something complete :-D

I made it a 1080p 23.976 fps AVCHD in TS muxer so hopefully it will work for most people. I already started uploading but based on previous experience it will probably take like 3 days. System stays the same, if you're interested, PM me and I'll send you the links once the upload's finished.

Well, in multiAVCHD there is a choice between PAL and NTSC but I can't seem to find any other frame rate option, can I do it in TS muxer?

Like I said, I didn't even realize there was gonna be a problem and didn't notice it at first even after it was done.

Only Jedi is AVCHD, the other two are mkv and the original source file for Jedi is 25fps as is my GOUT so I could just work with it as it was. Power DVD still won't load the disc even after using v3.0 so I'll try converting Jedi to 23.976 like Ady said and I'll see.

Also, I think I'll redo STAR WARS from scratch once Jedi is all done and maybe even EMPIRE. This is also me saying sorry to all those who already downloaded it and to those who are patiently waiting for it because it seems it will take a lot longer now, but the results should be a higher quality ones.

I decided to scratch the menu in favor of compatibility and am currurently reencoding using MultiAVCHD v3.0.

Yeah, I remember reading this article back in '04, it was the first time I've ever heard of after effects. I've always said that these menus were the best damn thing about the othervice horrid 2004 DVDs. I mean, they're awesome. And they aren't even based on the same shity transfer as the DVDs.

Thanks.

I was using the 4.1 because v3.0 can't do motion menus but I decided to scratch the menu in favor of compatibility and am currurently reencoding using v3.0. I have always used ripbot for mkv but the AVCHD in ripbot didn't seem trustworthy to me.

Thanks for the info, Ady. I do have the ultra version, it says: There is a disc with an unsupported format in drive F.

Will it work if I just do the AVCHD without the menu?

OK, I'm trying to make an AVCHD with a motion menu in MultiAVCHD and it just doesn't seem to work (POWER DVD 10 won't load it). I tried the "relaxed AVCHD" option and a "any Blu-Ray player" option and then created an ISO with ImgBurn. Media Player Classic HC loads it but it only plays the film and not the menu. Could anyone help me with that? Is it gonna work on Blu-Ray players?

Also with 1pass FAST option the film took me over twelve hrs to encode I can only imagine that the 2pass VHQ would take ages.

Here's a background video I made for Jedi AVCHD and DVD menu.

Sorry, I won't be doing NTSC, but it really should be easy to do it by yourself.

But I am gonna do the 5.1 version of Jedi, I'm actually working on it right now. I don't have the 97 mix though, so I'll have to base it on the 04 mix but that should be quite OK for Jedi, right?