Harmy

The AVCHD version is meant for DVD, for those who don't have a BD burner - it could of course be burned to BD but that would be a waste of space - if you have a BD burner, you should download the MKV version and either burn it directly to BD, if your player can play MKV or use TS Muxer (freeware) to create a BD ISO from it, which won't lose any quality and can be easily burned on BD and played back on all BD players.

Maybe you should devise a new method of sharing? This must get annoying.

The peaking interest may have been caused by me posting this on the Despecialized FB page:

For those looking for where to download - I can't reply to all the messages, I wouldn't be doing anything else all day. Please check the "Long Description" in the "About" section here.

because the descriptions of the Despecialized downloads do include a link to this thread.

Many cinemas actually use BDs for showing older movies.

Actually, I think that the original ESB emperor looks much closer to the ROTJ one than the bloated ROTS Darth Shittious they used in the ESB SE, even though it's the same actor. Plus of course, the new dialog is awful. But Adywan was able to create something that has the best of both worlds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0q0CF5Y1cI&ab_channel=Adywanrevisited

Great!

I downloaded a program called Briz LUT Converter and used it to convert the .cube to .3dl and that loaded fine in AE - but the Briz converter trial only lets you convert 10 files and then you have to buy it - I don't know if there's any freeware that could do the same thing.

Here are the .mat, .cube and .3dl files from my test, so that you can check them out DrDre:
http://uloz.to/x5Qg2nnT/luts-rar

Yeah, I agree - the behind the scenes clip is definitely the most goose-bump-inducing thing released so far - it gave me hope for the movie. This new trailer did nothing for me and I don't much like what little of the story it revealed. And all of the spaceship shots still look like 90s video game cutscenes, which is very disappointing to me.

OK, thanks. I'll test it later.

I don't have Resolve. Will the free version suffice?

In After Effects I'm getting "Unable to apply LUT from selected file". 

So, I fired up the projector to watch the new trailer and there was a power outage just as I was in the middle of it - that was a pretty dramatic moment - I'm watching the trailer and suddenly crack and I'm immersed in complete darkness.

I really hope the lamp in my projector survived this (you're not supposed to turn the projector on for a couple of hours after it's been turned off, so I can't test it right now).

Well, you certainly shouldn't post it here :P

Fascinating! I could have sworn my eyes weren't moving, so I shot it on video and you're right, they were moving quite a bit!

But then our brains do the same thing when watching a movie, as evidenced by that video you posted.

Hm... I'm sitting here now, moving my eyes side to side like crazy but I am seeing everything in their path.

I guarantee you that you've not seen the Hobbit projected at 8K - best case scenario it was 4K and probably 2K, which is what a lot of theaters still use (including digital IMAX). But either way you saw a 2K copy of the film, because the whole trilogy went through a 2K DI process. And I think any hyper-realism stemmed from the 48fps, because I felt the whole thing actually lacked detail, especially in people's faces, compared to movies shot on film.

If he meant 720x480, his argument wouldn't make sense.

Well, most people complain that the colors are too unnatural, which only goes to show the absurdity of this whole color argument :D

Yeah, that comparison supports what I said - If they had cropped the pillarboxing on the NTSC master, they'd have had to resize it by a tiny amount and that'd have hurt the detail, but they seem to have cropped the pillarboxing for PAL, since they had to resize it to PAL dimensions anyway.

I've noticed a tiny framing discrepancy between PAL and NTSC GOUT of SW before but my guess would be that for NTSC, they simply encoded the master as it was, whereas for PAL, since they had to resize it anyway, they decided to crop of the pillar boxing while they were at it.

I would suggest that since the crawl came from a new (and so likely HD or at least anamorphic) source, the PAL DVD should theoretically offer better resolution for that - should be an interesting comparrison (I don't have NTSC GOUT, so I can't do it myself).

As for Jedi, it is by far the best looking of the three GOUT masters, especially the PAL version, which, unlike the other two, actually seems to come from a PAL source.

Yes, the matte boxes are very much there but I fiddled with the contrast to make sure they were visible as little as possible without loosing too much detail - and I did the same for the Emperor's blobs in ROTJ v1.0 and I will probably use HDTV and do the same for v2.0 as well.

That looks great. I wonder how accurate those frames are.

Looks great! Could you post a few comparison images?

Awesome!

LOTR FOTR EE what I was hoping to use this on! If someone else does it, please share!

Well, I based that decision on the fact, that they supposedly used an I.B. Tech print as a reference for the '97SE grading.