Harmy

It seems like with the new episodes approaching, the OT nostalgia is kicking in in the marketing department. Check out this trailer for the new Battlefront game - not a single prequel thing in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yKv45X_OIo#t=55

I remember some Mac users haing trouble creating an ISO or burning an AVCHD or BD. In Windows, it is simple stuff done with freeware but I don't know about Mac.

OK, well, the answer is simple - when I was uploading the v1.0s, multiupload.nl didn't exist and uloz.to was a great choice, becuase A) I get 5MB/s upload to uloz.to (without any paid account) and people who used JDownloader, like I said a million times already, could have it from uloz.to in a matter of an hour or two as well (I know this, because I myself have downloaded many a file from uloz.to a 10MB/s with no paid account using JDownloader). The alternative back then was stuff like netload or rapidshare, both of which only allow one file to be downloaded at a time and have even slower caps for free users.

Use JDownloader, force download and you can download like 20 files at the same time each at 300Kbps.

The guide I used in this case was consistence.

Here's the cover I made for myself, if anyone wants it:

You can download it at full resolution here: http://uloz.to/xMAdnyP3/jsc-rar
Don't expect very good quality though - the sources I used were pretty low-res.

Oh, I totally forgot about that. It may be easier if Chewtobacca sent me the script to convert it to DVD5 myself - that way it can be sourced from the lossless master and with the new computer it should be done in a jiffy.

Well, like I said, I used Team Blu's upscale and I think they used the TB version as a source.

flanneltie said:

Darth Mallwalker said:

A similar thing happened in the last page(s) of Harmy's ROTJ thread.
Did you try DL'ing that one part again?

Some write 91.5MB to mean 91.5 MiB or 91.5 x 1,048,576 = 95,944,704 bytes.
which round up to 96MB

 I did DL a second time with the same result, unfortunately.  Thanks for the math; I'm horrible at that!  :)

I do get an ISO file, but it won't open.

 What are you trying to open it with?

Not much really. I won't start throwing any ETAs around though, because whenever I do that, I end up having to take them back - last time I gave an ETA was just before my PC crapped out, preventing me from keeping it, so maybe I'm cursed :-)

Here is a tweaked second half of the second part of the duel:

http://uloz.to/xRibF6tg/duel-2-2-compar-mp4

And here's the third part of the duel:

http://uloz.to/xYknqaU9/duel-3-compar-mp4

Here are some screenshots:

http://postimg.org/gallery/a65nbn5o/

Anamorphic standard definition digital broadcast recording.

I'm now writing this from the fixed desktop computer running on the ASUS board with full 32GB of RAM.

I still can't be 100% sure it will run smoothly, especially since I didn't re-instal the OS, but so far it has. I was trying to pick a mobo with similar enough specks to the old one to increase the probability of not having to re-instal and it seems like it worked.

Now we'll see how attempting to return the old one will work out.

Holy shit...

There was talk of two different audio tracks, which to me seems like the best option.

It's a bug that happens in VLC - it's been discussed before - it's because the audio is shorter than the video.

Some more pictures: http://www.tmz.com/2014/06/03/star-wars-episode-7-millennium-falcon-set-photos

Well, I certainly plan a respecialized release of all three but not before I can get my hands on projects with the 97 dts sound synced.

Some day maybe but as of now, ROTJ seems to be getting the least attention in terms of fan 35mm restorations. I would add that the scene in ROTJ that needs a 35mm source the most IMO is the musical number.

I definitely didn't use any VHS :D The '97SE source is a standard definition anamorphic PAL digital broadcast recording. As to 35mm scans - no I have only received those for two or three shots so far but I'm hoping to get many more for v2.5 - the thing is, I'm already pushing this further than I originally intended - I wanted v2.0 to be a quick new version that would replace v1.0 mainly for the reasons of v1.0's poor picture quality, rather than making any huge leaps in the despecialization department. And I think that as soon as I get my computer fixed, I will finish v2.0 fairly quickly and then do v2.0 of ROTJ in a similar fashion and then just wait until I have the better sources for v2.5s.

Yeah, even in the GOUT and other OOT transfers, Vader's sabre tends slightly towards magenta/pink sometimes but never this much. It doesn't seem as far off as you might think though - setting the hue to about -6° or -7° seems to give the more or less correct colors.

Yeah, they are mostly very short. Still very annoying though.

Some printers have a special deck for printing directly onto discs, which is definitely the best option (I was specifically looking for this function when selecting my printer, so I can tell you, that not all printers have it and you can definitely forget about it in the low-end category) and another thing to look out for is that you need printable discs. Light-scribe is ok but it's only black and white and the support for it was discontinued some time ago, so you could find it hard to find the right discs. And yes, I would definitely not recommend sticker-labels, because you can never get them to be perfectly centered and then they slowly destroy your reading device's rotation mechanism, because of the imbalance.

New pics from the set:
http://www.tmz.com/2014/06/02/star-wars-episode-7-set-photos-secret-pics-new-creature/

Looks like we may be getting some flashbacks:

Perhaps we'll finally get an answer to the long debated question of which charred skeleton is Owen and which is Beru ;-)

Those mistakes were an integral part of the original - if I had been able to convincingly restore the matte lines on the Rancor in v1.0, I would have and I'll certainly be attempting it again in v2.0.

This is a great article, about the advances in optical compositing made by ILM for the SW Trilogy - it is perfect to illustrate the point I was always trying to make about how digital recompositing destroys the artistic integrity of the FX shots, even if it uses the same elements, because the method and quality of the optical compositing was a huge part of the original effects. Just look at the article's conclusion:

It took every ounce of ingenuity our crew possessed to make these sequences work. Discussion, planning and storyboarding were a key to the successful realization of these shots. After one-and-a-half years of extraordinary labor, ILM's optical crew composited a total of 415 shots, making George Lucas' The Empire Strikes Back a cinematic reality.

And all that work is lost by re-compositing the effects digitally.