I did not buy the Raiders DVD - it was crap. I did buy the BD though, where everything was back to the way it was originally, including the color timing. The only change on the BD is the cobra reflection having been erased and it does bother me a lot - I'd love for it to be there.
Yeah, I don't like that idea either.
If they only made the colors of the sabers consistent, while keeping the original look of the compositing, I wouldn't be too upset - but then, they were far more consistent in the original, then they are in either the DVD or BD versions.
And I would outright refuse to buy that crap, if they erased the matte-lines.
OK, first of all - please catch up on what was posted over the last couple of weeks (from pg.487 and mainly this post) before posting comments.
Second of all - I am quite happy with Mavimao's narration but I guess our voices are similar enough for people to think it's me doing the narration, which is definitely something I'd very much like to avoid because then it has the effect that MoiseMust talked about, so I'm very sorry Mavimao (I really am, because you were very helpful and I really appreciate it) but your services will no longer be required.
So, I guess female would be ideal but I think pitpawten's voice is also different enough from mine for the difference to be clear enough. What do you guys think?
NO! This is unfinished and I only post it here for feedback and definitely don't want it posted outside of this forum, least of all YouTube!
No, they are definitely not upscales - the BDs come from the same master as the 2004 DVDs - the 2004 DVD master was done in 1080p and some HDTV stations did broadcast it in 1080i, so those are native HD (high quality HDTV captures are now available on myspleen).
And there were native HD broadcasts of LOTR as well but only TTT was shown in the EE version - so the EEs found online were usually 1080p for the theatrical scenes and DVD upscales for the extended scenes.
The narration is not me, which you would know, if you bothered to read the last few pages. I think I'll need a woman to do the narration for me, so it's like super-clear, that it's not me talking.
Here's a more polished version of the Introducing the DeEd doc:
http://uloz.to/xDwpUt87/01-introducing-the-deed-wp2-1-mp4
mirror:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0dtCY1O9WXzWC02Yk1tdjBlYkk/edit?usp=sharing
I cropped it and resized to 720p to make the file size smaller, as it is still just a demo and the sound is still very much temporary and there may still be some tweaks to the video (I'm still open to suggestions here, guys).
And the chair too!
This is just weird - where the hell did the extra frame come from? I mean, I had it side-by-side with GOUT video in the project.
But yeah, if there is an extra frame at the beginning, it should be easy to remove in the next version.
Won't that recode the audio? And wouldn't it be easier to set the delay in MKV Merge/TS Muxer anyway?
Did you notice any delay?
Wow, that's awesome!
Is the PAL GOUT of by that one frame?
You'll find some answers in the description of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHfLX_TMduY
Yeah, I answered a few of her questions over the phone and then I sent her the video I posted recently and a lot of useful links, like some of the savestarwars.com articles and stuff :-)
That's strange - when I put the ESB MKV in TS Muxer, the chapters work perfectly fine. But either way, here are the chapter times I used for ESB:
00:00:00.000
00:00:21.021
00:01:55.115
00:04:15.822
00:08:17.863
00:10:07.072
00:12:49.301
00:15:03.835
00:16:20.945
00:18:18.562
00:19:36.040
00:21:13.971
00:23:49.526
00:25:41.003
00:29:19.922
00:31:20.275
00:33:29.137
00:35:46.607
00:36:42.663
00:38:24.498
00:40:27.187
00:44:10.676
00:45:59.751
00:50:04.495
00:52:06.117
00:53:47.985
00:57:08.185
01:00:25.915
01:03:15.518
01:05:12.468
01:07:40.415
01:12:52.293
01:16:01.348
01:17:46.453
01:18:54.020
01:22:03.109
01:24:45.972
01:26:51.030
01:29:28.520
01:33:39.504
01:37:28.132
01:39:25.583
01:40:45.729
01:42:51.520
01:46:02.177
01:48:16.511
01:52:36.637
01:54:42.996
01:58:14.941
02:00:25.571
And here are ROTJ chapters (they are not tested, so you should probably check, if the chapters are in the right places before burning):
00:00:00.000
00:00:21.021
00:01:55.115
00:04:59.465
00:08:11.123
00:12:23.107
00:13:55.933
00:17:07.390
00:21:41.664
00:24:40.309
00:29:08.777
00:30:44.773
00:36:58.446
00:38:45.887
00:44:31.232
00:47:37.918
00:50:49.876
00:52:46.993
00:53:38.544
00:56:08.494
00:57:58.104
01:01:55.073
01:05:32.857
01:07:01.712
01:11:14.764
01:15:06.396
01:17:29.038
01:21:44.293
01:25:20.275
01:26:05.320
01:27:04.712
01:29:18.679
01:32:32.839
01:35:54.907
01:39:38.864
01:41:36.715
01:43:41.372
01:44:40.764
01:47:55.859
01:49:54.378
01:50:51.201
01:53:50.713
01:54:21.477
01:55:10.992
01:56:53.494
01:58:47.975
02:01:12.285
02:04:04.257
02:04:40.526
02:06:28.534
If someone felt like responding to those "it's already on VHS/LD/DVD" cooments, here's a tool for you:
Well, these are not so bad - some people are simply ignorant to picture quality and good for them after all, I wish I could still enjoy the movie on VHS, like I used to but the fact is, I got used to watching movies in HD and the bad quality just becomes a big distraction - for the most part, I can't even stand watching DVDs any more.
Plus, a lot of the comments are positive and it's good to see, that even a lot of people, who aren't huge Star Wars geeks do know about this issue and want the original version.
Well, I've never been able to tell the difference so far but what I really meant was, using this equipment, should the difference be more noticeable through those headphones than through those speakers?
Well, I'll take all the better sources I can get but right now, the Sarlacc pit scene isn't really the priority to me, because it's probably the best despecialized scene of all v1.0s - there are a couple of shots I'd like to have better sources for there too but the eyebrows and Lapti Nek definitely take precedence for v2.0.
What about headphones? I mean I know these also vary greatly in quality and price but for example, I have this audio card, these pretty cheap head-phones and these fairly old speakers (although their previous owner swears they play as well as the day he bought them). Should the difference be clearer in the headphones? Plus, I'm not even sure whether, when playing in MPC-HC I'm actually hearing the lossless audio at all, or just the core, now that I think about it. But I do have some music in FLAC, should I be able to hear the difference from an average mp3 there?
Also, can someone give me the time-code of where the missing crash is in DeEd? I'd like to check it out too :-)
I'm really not sure - on the other hand, since from my understanding, all official releases of the mix contained those glitches, they are basically a part of the '93 mix, so if you want the same mix glitch-free, just use the stereo mix, which, according to hairy_hen, is an identical mix, with the exception of one speeder crash sound, which is missing in the '93 mix - so the '93 mix is basically jus a buggy version of the original stereo, which is why I decided to only add an AC3 version of it.
To be honest, I'm not sure now, what source I got the 93 audio from - remember asking for it here but can't recall who ended up sending it to me.
In its heyday, Czech dubbing used to have excellent quality (this was in the 60s and 70s and to a lesser extent in the 80s and 90s) - it used to employ famous Czech film and stage actors, so the acting was actually very good - this has changed in recent years and most current Czech dubs are very sub-par.