Harmy

Now, this is pod-racing!

CC15 sucks! Hopefully, they will fix it in time but for now, I reinstalled CC14.

I'm more interested in what's in those cans.
WHAT'S IN THE BOX???!!!

I wouldn't be surprised if it was them selling one of theirs :)

I love it!

I wasn't really planning on it but I might cut a few things from Empire and Jedi in for the final versions of these docs.

OK, is it just me who can see it or did the video get unblocked?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXifjbxZDAM

No, digital cleanup could eat up detail but not in this manner - it's clearly compression artifacts and I'm pretty sure that the heavy compression is already in the source of this encode.

I don't think pan and scan VHS has better resolution than widescreen LD, let alone digital PAL anamorphic broadcast.

Did we watch the same preview? I thought it looked just awful! I am sincerely sorry to say this but it's true - I've seen some of the scans TN1 have and they looked waaaay better than this. I think the main problem though is that the compression is so awful it's hard to tell anything from it as it ate up a lot of detail but the colors are really bad too - and not just in an uncorrected scan way - though I guess that could be the compression too because it's especially bad in the dark scenes. On the bright side, there's very little dirt, so I'm assuming the dirt cleanup is really well done, though again, it's hard to say. 

It's been a long time but I think I just used curves in Premiere to raise the black level.

Wow! Those look fantastic! The only thing I'd suggest is to try and bring out some more detail in the dark areas as well but otherwise these look amazing - the increase of detail in that explosion is especially eye-opening!

Plus, aren't 70mm prints more cropped on the sides?

OK, here's the new link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0dtCY1O9WXzMUJMNEdLUGNKSmc/view?usp=sharing

Yeah, will reup to GDrive and post a link soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NppV0E7DLs

A newer and more complete 20 minute version of the documentary.
Still work in progress but it will have to do for a while, I think, so I'd welcome it very much, if people made English SDH and foreign subtitles for this, so I can add them :-)

https://youtu.be/QXifjbxZDAM

If your priority is crystal clear audio, you're going to pick the Czech Dub that was made in 2011 for the BD.

I'm still unclear on where the non-SE version of the 1995 CZ dub would have come from - I don't think ESB and ROTJ were shown on TV here before 2002 when CT1 showed The SE Trilogy and TPM to tie in with the premiere of AOTC - I could be wrong though and I can't find the date of the Czech TV premiere anywhere.

Still, the translation of that dub is truly horrible, so I'd rather stick to the 1992 one.

Yeah - as far as I know, there never was a 1995 Czech VHS release and there were no TV airings of ESB and ROTJ before 2002, which was of course the SE, so those "1995" dubs are likely the ones that were used (and first appeared) on the '97SE VHS release, so I think they only exist in the '97SE cut form and since there were some dialog changes, you can't really use them for the original without patching them up with the old dubs.

Plus the '97SE dubs had awful translation.

OK, cool :)

team_negative1 said:

Harmy,

Can you comment on the 4k clip we sent you. You seem to be the only one that can play it at full resolution.

Also, some monitors support 10 bit color, however very few applications support it. You need the right cable, and OS support also.

Team Negative1

 OK, I finally got around to testing this clip on my 4K TV - it looks great! BUT! When I scaled it down to 1080p and back up to 4K, there was absolutely no difference whatsoever - I mean zero - like when I made that sample of the 1080p vs 720p for the BD, there was a difference but just very little, however here, I can see no difference at all and I'm looking at a 58" 4K screen from the distance of about one foot (I can clearly see the individual pixels that way but no difference in image detail) and I continue not to see any even when I pretty much press my nose against the screen, so I would say staying at 1080p for the final release is justified, at least with this transfer. If the team allows, I can post screenshot comparisons.

Ronster said:

yours sounds More Work Monitor than for Living Room TV Harmy...

Nothing wrong with that. Can you get full HD on a normal HDMI cable through your HDMI 2.0 port?

If we're talking about the Panasonic, that's definitelly very much a TV, it's just a high-end model:

http://shop.panasonic.com/TC-58AX800U.html

I got it cuz it's THX certified and supposedly covers 98% of all professional DCI studio color standards and delivers the same color gamut level of a plasma display.

My Panasonic has 3 HDMI 1.4 connectors and one 2.0, as well as a Display Port for 60Hz 4K computer connection.

The Samsung monitor has two HDMIs (not sure which version) and one Display Port.

Oh, sorry, I'm visiting my folks, so I haven't had a chance to take a proper look at it yet.

Well, I recently bought a 28" 4K Samsung monitor and it looks absolutely marvelous - it's sitting right next to my old 28" 1080p monitor and the difference is staggering! When I got the 58" 4K Panasonic, the pixels on it were pretty much the same size as on the 28" 1080p monitor, so the image quality difference wasn't that amazing compared to what I was used to but with this new monitor, which is close to retina resolution, the difference is amazing - I now understand why some people say that 4K is just a stepping stone to 8K. I don't think we'll ever need 8K content but heed my words, 8K screens are coming, because as we get used to retina displays on our phones and tablets, we become more sensitive to seeing the pixels on our TVs.