Harmy

Well, I'm still planing on doing this eventually but I'm occupied with other projects right now.

Here's the whole Sarlacc pit scene partly despecialized. There will be some minor differences (hopefully improvements) in the final version but this is what it's gonna be for the most part.

Thanks, I'm glad you like it.

When someone finishes downloading SW, please let me know if everything works as it should, thanks.

I use a program called AVI recomp.

Here's a new clip from ROTJ:PDE. It is the Lapti Nek scene. It is for the most part just upscaled GOUT but I think it's quite ok...

The colors on Jedi are almost finished. The music number is done and I decided in the end to just replace the Sarlacc shots with the originals because I just couldn't get the beak removal to work to my liking because of the telecine wobble on GOUT, so that's finished too.

Now I really need someone to post the 97 SE ending to RS for me, PLEASE!!! I want the best quality source possible for the original Anakin ghost and I can't find TB or KGar Jedi anywhere. Could someone PLEASE just extract those few seconds of the ghosts from either one of those and post a clip to RS. PRETTY PLEASE!!!

OK, here's the nfo.

STAR WARS: PARTLY DESPECIALIZED EDITION 1080p

NAME: Star.Wars.1080p.PARTLY.DESPECIALIZED.Harmy.mkv

This is largely based on Adywan’s work (I used  Ady's AVCHD of ep.IV as the main source and a few shots from ANH:Revisited and GOUT.) I used the 2.0 soundtrack from GOUT and adjusted and trimmed the AVCHD to fit to it, so I virtually recreated the theatrical cut. Then I also replaced some of the most glaring CGI and other offending changes with either the GOUT or ANH:R where Adywan did it (Ronto blocking the view of stormies stoping the speeder and the flying droid in the same scene and the two censored shots of the imperials being shot).


The quality difference between the sources is unfortunately quite noticeable but I still prefer watching this over any other version out there as it’s HD for the most part and it’s a lot closer to the original.

I also adjusted the original Czech dubbing to this because I want my little brother (and some time in the future my kids, although I'm hoping that by that time there will be a proper Blu-Ray release of the OOT) to be able to watch STAR WARS in a better way than the old fullscreen VHS.

And I added the audio description track as a little bonus but unfortunatelly I didn't manage to sync it very well.



Format                           : Matroska
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Duration                         : 2h 1mn
Overall bit rate                 : 9 000 Kbps
Movie name                       : Star Wars ep V 1080p PARTLY DESPECIALIZED
Encoded date                     : UTC 2010-06-08 02:30:07
Writing application              : mkvmerge v2.4.1 ('Use Me') built on Dec  5 2008 15:43:32
Writing library                  : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1

Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : AVC
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Format profile                   : Main@L3.0
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 3 frames
Muxing mode                      : Container profile=Unknown@3.0
Codec ID                         : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                         : 2h 1mn
Bit rate                         : 8 260 Kbps
Width                            : 1 920 pixels
Height                           : 816 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 2.35:1
Frame rate                       : 25.000 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.211
Stream size                      : 6.84 GiB (89%)
Writing library                  : x264 core 80 r1376kGIT 3feaec2
Encoding settings                : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x131 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / wpredp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=8260 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=10000 / vbv_bufsize=10000 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Audio #1
ID                               : 2
Format                           : AC-3
Format/Info                      : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension                   : CM (complete main)
Codec ID                         : A_AC3
Duration                         : 2h 1mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 256 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L R
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Stream size                      : 223 MiB (3%)
Title                            : EN 2.0
Language                         : English

Audio #2
ID                               : 3
Format                           : AC-3
Format/Info                      : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension                   : CM (complete main)
Codec ID                         : A_AC3
Duration                         : 2h 1mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 256 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L R
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Stream size                      : 223 MiB (3%)
Title                            : CZ 2.0
Language                         : Czech

Audio #3
ID                               : 4
Format                           : AC-3
Format/Info                      : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension                   : CM (complete main)
Codec ID                         : A_AC3
Duration                         : 2h 1mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 256 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L R
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Stream size                      : 223 MiB (3%)
Title                            : EN Audio Description
Language                         : English

OK, the RS upload of STAR WARS PARTLY DESPECIALIZED EDITION is finally finished, so I PMd everyone who expressed their interest. If there's anyone else just PM me :-)

My problem with Luke's Tatooine line isn't the clarity of pronunciation, I never had a problem understanding what he was saying there, but he says it like he's trying to remember and for a second he can't figure it out: I'll meet you at the randevous point on... erm... Tatooine.

Just listen to it, you'll know it to be true...

Yes, that's what I assumed. And then I had to adjust the GOUT footage to the same speed and that's where the issues are the worst...

No, that is not this project, mine is only an 8GB mkv. But I must warn you not to expect anything better from this project, it is basically the same thing, Adywan's HD with shots from revisited and GOUT spliced into it and it also has some framerate issues. But like for that guy, this is also only my personal version, which I only offer in case anyone may be interested but I'm well aware of it's shortcomings. The videos on youtube are actually a pretty good representation of what this actually looks like.

OK, I finally got round to uploading STAR WARS in 1080p. Unfortunately I'm home for the holidays and the bandwith here is not very good so it'll take ages. But if you're interested, just say so here or PM me and I'll let you know as soon as the upload's finished.

I'm sorry for the lack of progress, guys, I'm going through some tough personal problems now... :-(

But maybe I'll do an AVCHD of Jedi when it's finished.

I'm really sorry, from the information I got, it seems I would have to reencode once more, thus loosing more quality and it would also take ages.

Well, kamyio sent me an e-mail and said that because you stinking skunks were mocking his efforts, he's only gonna share the first pictures with me. But I decided to f*ck him over and post them here. So here goes, STAR WARS VHS21080i3D converted to anaglyph so even us losers without 3D screens can see it. You must enlarge to full ress to fully appreciate the oustanding image quality:

:-D

Yeah, I did, they're basically just scans of the original VHS covers adjusted to a DVD size, I don't think I have the files anymore.

And that's interesting information about the boxed set, because I'm 100% sure that the German fullscreen versions of this release were in a beutiful box which included the Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi documentary.

So maybe it was just the widescreen versions that came out separately.

Well, I'm trying to get closer to the originals i.e. rerotoscoping the lightsabres is definitely not an option. You'll have to wait for Adywan to do that.

It's unbelievable how bad the 2004 release is...

OK, I gave it a shot. Here is a demo clip and here's a splitscreen comparison.

I think it's not bad. There is one problem though. The lightsabre problems in the 2004 version are due to contrast and brightness issues and increasing contrast brings out compression artifacts present in the source file. But IMO it's still better than the pink lightsabre.

Yeah, I said I'm gona try to do some basic color correction but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do the sabres. I'll certainly try.

Oh, and I used After Effects.

EvilSupes said:

I can't wait to see what else you have in stored for ROTJ as there are so many things to correct/fix/change in trying to de-specialize it.

Really? Like I said, I'm open to suggestions. I was really only going to do the musical number, Sarlacc and the orig. celebration. Just to make sure I wasn't forgeting anything, I went through this list and didn't really find anything else to despecialize. Exept maybe some little trimming t fit to the orig. audio.

Wow, now I really want to know what DS said in that post :-)

I just did a similar thing, I adjusted Czech dub to my SW and ESB partly despecialized. It was quite hard and I can't really imagine how hard it would be to try and make it 5.1...