Harmy

It is only a work in progess version. I'm still hoping for a higher quality source for the Anakin ghost, so if someone could please upload a HQ clip of the ending celebration in ROTJ from TB or GKAR SEs, especially the ghosts and PM me the links, it would really help me. Thanks.

Could someone please upload a HQ clip of the ending celebration in ROTJ from TB or GKAR, especially the ghosts and PM me the links. It would really help me. Thanks.

Sorry, but I don't get the joke at all...?

Added a video of the ROTJ celebration partly despecialized:

YOUTUBE

Thanks, that is indeed helpful.

Well, I'm sorry too.

:-D

Oh, no, that would be ages from now, Ady just moved the release date of ESB:R to 2011 and he won't be doing Jedi AVCHD until after that. I'm just gonna use the HD broadcast I have now. I will do some basic colour correction myself, it won't be as good as from Ady but it should be better than watching the 2004 version or GOUT.

I know it's a little late but there goes. But it would be quite a lot of work to do that for the whole scene because there is cameram movement.

Harmy said:

RETURN OF THE JEDI - PARTLY DESPECIALIZED EDITION

 

I didn't really start working on Jedi yet but the plan is to work the same way as with Star Wars; i.e. take the GOUT audio and adjust the HD version to it.

The plan is to restore the original musical number and the original ending.

There are two things I might try, I might try giving mr. Shaw his eyebrows back (probably not) and I'll try to partly despecialize the Sarlac:

But I'm not sure if that'll work.

If you have any suggestions, please comment.

If you didn't notice the change in the first post...

bkev said:

Looking good.  Any chance it might be pitch-corrected, by any chance?

Oh, no, sorry, I din't touch the sound.

OK, I've got a question which will probably expose me to riddicule :-D but I'm gonna ask anyway: Can I create a working AVCHD from an MKV just by remuxing it in TS Muxer or would I have to reencode?

Well, that is what I meant of course, I didn't mean he'd be flying around like a bird, only hover just above the ground.

OK, here's an interesting thing, I'm adjusting the 97 SE Czech dubbing to this, for my little brother to watch and they apparently used the same translation as for the originals, Luke says "you're lucky you don't taste very good" and Vader says "bring my shuttle." I always thought I remembered Luke saying "you're lucky you don't taste very good" in the SE and now I know why :-)

I'm now tempted to buy the fullscreen 2004 DVD box but I just don't want to buy the goddamn 2004 DVDs for the 3rd time. But it would look awesome to have the silver boxes on one side and the golden boxes on the other. I'm torn :-(

OK, I added a few new babies to my collection:

And I know EU isn't exactly aknowledged as a reference here, but in the Han Solo trilogy Hutts are said to be using anti gravity sledges, i think it would have been quite a reasonable solution.

Well, I meant if they had to put it back, they should have at least done it right :-)

It would definitely be next to impossible to put the original ROTJ Jabba in the scene digitally using just the ROTJ footage, but a way in which it would be doable would be shooting a bluescreen puppet. Luca$film should have done that, I'm sure they still have the original Jabba puppet in storage somewhere, they could have just shot the scene with it, with Jabba being on some kind of antigravity platform, and as Han walks around him, Jabba could have just turned to keep facing Han and no stepping on tail would have been necesary. But well, the Jabba scene is redundant anyway...

Oh, and I'm not sure what exactly the 2:3 pulldown means but the ripped videos are 23.98 FPS.

Chewtobacca said:

I wonder if Adywan's made any progress on an HD version yet.  Even if an HD version isn't possible, a DVD-9 would probably be a substantial improvement all on its own.

You would have found that by browsing the thread :-D

adywan said:

Now unfortunately doing a HD version just won't work. Downscaling the 1080p colour corrected master to 720p still retains most of the detail, but upscaling the GOUT to 720p just really brings out just how bad the quality is when spliced in with 720p video. It just doesn't blend in at all. So the DVD version is all there will be, i'm afraid

You can find a thread about my shot at it in my signature.

OK, that's a lot of questions to answer, so I'll start from the begining.

OK, I'm really a total amateur so I don't use much professional tools. I used a freeware DVD ripper to rip to uncompressed AVI and then used a program called AVI Recomp to upscale. I cut in Power Director, which is not a professional tool but it's got many usefull functions and it is quite user friendly. I tried Sony Vegas but for me it was just too f**king complicated. From Power Director I saved a 25 GB Mpeg2 and then compressed that with RipBot X264.

I'm making this mostly for my own use and I'm quite satisfied with the results, I only wanted to share it with anyone who'd be intrested, I'm not pretending it to be a professional work.

And to the screenshots, yeah I kind of figured the source files would look better (and that goes to the HD files as well) but I must work with what I have.

I've made both a DVD5 720p version to watch on my computer and a DVD9 1080p to watch on my tv.

And yes, I did tweak the colours  here and there just to make it fit with the rest of the footage. I mostly just worked with the contrast as the AVCHDs are a bit more contrasty than the DVD. Only in the case of the Wampa cave I deblued the shots a little and also applied a denoise filter because there wasn't much detail, only grain (and the GOUT kind of grain at that,) so I felt it fit better if it was just smooth.

And as to what SE scenes I'm keeping, well I kept all those I didn't change, so all those not mentioned in the first post. I only forgot to mention that I did ofcourse remove Luke's scream when he falls down the shaft.

Also, I managed to fix the sound, so it is now fully 5.1 and there should be no dropouts anymore. It was a pain but once I figured it out it was doable.

I may have figured out a way to fix the audio myself but we'll see.

Thanks Frink, I'd already known you were interested, the sad part is that you seem to be the only one. Oh, and maybe EvilSupes, I might consider uping the 720p version even just for the two of you but I'd really like to get the sound fixed first. And also ofcourse I want Adywan to approve.

OK, I still have not heard from neither Adywan nor any sound editor willing to help.

Also it seems that people are not interested in getting this but I'm happy to at least share information about my efforts.

I've now finished a similar project with STAR WARS and will post about it soon.

Thanks.

PM sent.