Harmy

I've seen it twice so far and I'm still thinking about maybe going to see it again, maybe this time in 2D.

Unlike the rest of the movie, I couldn't f*ck around with the levels in the duel scene, because any such adjustment immediately ended up creating the halos around the lightsabers seen in v1.0 (to brighten the saber cores, I had to separate them from the rest of the image in order to avoid the haloing artifacts).

God I hope not ;-)

Well, I can't really afford a new HDD right now, but I think I should be able to backup the most essential DeEd files on the remaining HDD I already have - the lossless renders, if nothing else.

Yes, also very important - I sort of counted that as part of the dance number footage, when I asked TN1 for clips from Jedi.

Yeah, it is actually, which is I am reluctant about trying to freeze it. But yeah, my roommate said, that when his HDD died, it took over a month to get it sorted out :-/

Well, the walls have similar angles but over-all, the design is completely different.

Oh, wow, wish it  was under happier circumstances :-)

Like I said, I can browse through it no problem, it just seems to spin too slowly to get a proper read. I've read on many occasions, that the freezing method doesn't actually work - do you have some personal experience with it working?

Do you think it could really predict that the HDD would die two years later, where one day it was working perfectly fine and the next day, it was dead?

And well, it actually isn't completely dead, you can still browse through it and see all the files and they even start copying when you try but it's going super slowly and in a couple of minutes you get a "can't read file" error message. And it makes these terrible noises. I think the spinning mechanism is broken.

Damn! I think this super moon thing is bad for HDDs! Adywan reported a crapped out HDD like a week ago and today, my 2TB external HDD died in agony (seriously, you should have heard the noises it was making!!!) :-/ It was a backup HDD, so no important data was lost but now I don't have anything backed up :-(

The eyebrows definitely have priority over everything except the dance number!

The Sarlacc pit is already pretty good in v1.0 except for a few shots, as is the ending celebration - they definitely could use the improvement but the dance number and the eyebrows need it more!

Yeah, that's what I figured - in the case of DeEd, it couldn't practically use any data at all from the BD.

So, such a file could basically make sure, that whoever downloads will first need to own the BD? That sound like a good idea, except that would mean that the person would have to have a BD drive in their computer and it would also probably take ages for a slower computer to do it.

Really? I mean, he permanently sacrificed like a third of all the frames in the movie... ;-)

But having re-cut the SE back to the original cut, I can tell you with a fair amount of certainty that, but for a few exceptions, there are no frames missing on the ends of shots neighboring with SE additions.

Looks perfectly fine to me. It's square.

DominicCobb said:

Have to say I'd be disappointed if Episode VII was basically GOTG. I'm hoping for something better than that.

 In my opinion, it doesn't really get much better than that (already saw GOTG twice, probably will go see it at least once more) but as TheBoost (perhaps unwittingly) demonstrated in this post, making this a Star Wars film would take half the fun out of it.

I have no idea yet.

Yes, that's is partially correct - if Adywan was willing to share his unzoomed shots, I would have had the finished shots from a 35mm source combined with the BD - since he wasn't I had to use the '97SE to do the unzooming myself. However, after that N1 offered to send me the unzoomed 35mm shots that they provided for Adywan but I declined, because it would be a crapload of work, like several days', possibly several weeks' worth, because of the color correction needed for the faded 35mm print and the frame by frame manual stabilization needed to match it to the Blu-Ray source and it would be super annoying to do all that work knowing that Adywan already did it all.

So I just kept the ones using the '97SE DTV capture or GOUT for the edges of the image, but I think the resolution difference is pretty small and in most cases quite unnoticeable (like I don't think there is any discernible difference in the resolution between here for example) and so are the color differences now.

Yes, I certainly could do that, which is why I have.

I don't recommend that - it will re-encode the video and you'll probably end up with worse-looking picture than if you downloaded the AVCHD - read the NFOs for info about sound tracks - if you want to preserve the DTS-HD track (which is not on the AVCHD) you can mux it in from the MKV.

deusxanime said:

I created an xdelta patch for going from the pre-fix version to the final fixed version (with correct audio labels, etc.). If you have the old version and don't want to redownload ~20GB or muck about with mkv editors, you can use this. Just extract it to the same folder as the mkv video file and run the .bat file. You need to make sure to have the same name as originally downloaded or to edit the .bat file if you've changed it. And be sure to have another ~20 GB available before starting as it will create a whole new file!

Dropbox link, hopefully will work here

I tested and verified, the fixed version should match the official md5 of 1e34878403b05924f71354e961016fce after completion.

 That's awesome - thank you!

Here are some screenshot comparisons between v1.0 and v2.0 AVCHDs, showing the difference in the over-all picture quality:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/87208/picture:0

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/87208/picture:1

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/87208/picture:2

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/87208/picture:3

Since you can only compare two sources this way, I decided for the AVCHD, as it is a more fair comparison. Though the difference between the v2.0 AVCHD and MKV is actually super tiny - not that it's not there but you can only really see it in full-screen on a larger TV or monitor.

Thanks! Downloading now :-)

Yeah, unfortunately it is but I so am not uploading another version now - the info is clear in the readme file.