Yeah, it almost seems like the BD source you're using for the comparison has gone through some faulty frame-rate conversion or something.
Yeah, it's good to see you guys managed to remove it so seamlessly. Is the color inconsistency between the two shots so pronounced in the LPP print?
timdiggerm said:
Re: Stalin: he didn't found the Soviet Union, and the post-Stalin USSR was very different (de-Stalinization took place).
This is only true to a point; Stalin was actually one of the founders of the USSR and played a key role in the 1917 revolution. Also it was 15 years after Stalin died when the USSR (with the obligatory help of other Warsaw Pact members) invaded my country to stop us from changing our political system to democracy, so the USSR didn't exactly become mellow after Stalin's death.
I can totally see the post-Stalin USSR situation happening to the Empire - the Empire would denounce the Emperor but continue to rule oppressively and a lot of political infighting would take place between the lower-ranking officials (and this is actually what happened in Rome after Caesar died as well). And this is pretty much what the EU describes and it seems like a perfectly logical and historically sound approach, so saying that the Empire would fall immediately and using history as an argument is in my opinion erroneous.
No no, if you want that, you'll have to wait at least 'till 2027.
Oh, really? So when Joseph Stalin died in 1953, the USSR just fell apart within a couple of years, did it? Or do you think that if Hitler was killed in say 1941, the National Socialists would have just called it a day and capitulated? (Without Hitler's egomania, they may actually have had a better chance at winning the war). Or you can go even further back; When Caesar was murdered, was the Roman Republic automatically restored?
Well, my advice would be get a BD player - they're getting really cheap now. But if that's not an option, you can always use MKV Merge to simply split the file into several files of smaller size without loosing any quality and it'll only take a few minutes.
OK, you wanted a date, no problem, here's a date: I feel confident, that it should be done by December 24th 2025 at the latest.
I wondered what that was about over at AMPS.
Wow, I had no idea. I though you were just doing the 8mm. Is there anywhere to discuss this?
Is there any point in keeping pointing that out? They have obviously also been scanned from faded prints, so it seems to stand to reason that they would look similar.
I have been asked in PM whether it would be eventually possible, using a more powerful computer, to simply re-render the Premiere project for the edit in 1080p.
Putting aside the fact that I had other reasons to go with 720p (although admittedly, computing power was the main one) this is not possible anyway, since the last work I did in Premiere was on v2.0 - I've been using the lossless master for v2.0 in After Effects to create v2.1 and v2.5 and I wasn't even working with the BD in Premiere for v2.0 but rather with a 720p lossless encode of a preliminarily Avisynth color-correction by You_Too, which I don't have any more and which would be pretty much impossible to re-create, since it was split rather randomly into several parts. Plus all the despecialized shots were done and rendered individually in After Effects, often with many intermediate steps and pre-renders. And all this was done with very little organization (a mistake I'm trying to avoid on ESB and ROTJ v2.0s) so it would probably be easier to redo the edit from scratch, than to try re-rendering everything using the project files.
Yep, the Criterion BD is far superior to the other transfer out there and unfortunately out of print.
AntcuFaalb said:
Harmy said:
BTW. this is how I watch all 1.33:1 films - the red curtain makes it feel like I'm actually watching it in an old cinema.How do you add it in?
MPC-HC -> Right-click -> Filters -> FFDShow Video Decoder -> Properties -> Bitmap overlay.
FFDShow filters have been loosing popularity to LAV filters lately but they are unparalleled in all the on-the-fly options they offer. You can add grain on the fly for example, which can improve overly compressed or DVNRed picture, or adjust color settings on the fly, which can improve bad color timing (like for example when I watch LOTR FOTR on BD, I can adjust the colors to be less green and look more natural) - most standalone players just can't do these things.
I wouldn't say it's the best movie ever personally but I did like it a lot - definitely liked it a lot more than Citizen Kane, that's for sure.
BTW. this is how I watch all 1.33:1 films - the red curtain makes it feel like I'm actually watching it in an old cinema.
I'm running an HP elitebook 8440p with RAM upgraded to 8GB and an LG external BD drive.
Yes, there will be remastered versions of ESB and ROTJ.
As to the HTPC, I for one use my PC for most of my movie playback. I pretty much only use my BD player for bonus discs with complicated navigation (since I use MPC-HC for BD playback on PC and it can't do menus) or when my PC is busy doing something else, like rendering. I love all the options I get from PC playback - I can shift 2.40:1 picture higher or lower on the screen according to how I'm currently sitting, to keep it in my direct eye-line. I can zoom in and out as needed. I can change subtitle placement font and size, which is always great, because I usually find BD sup subtitles to be annoyingly large and I usually prefer for them to be in the black bars. I can take a screenshot whenever I want. I can search through the film using mouse, so that I can jump to any time in the movie with a single click - it is just generally more flexible.
And I can do this:
Wow...
Sorry guys, I have been really busy with real life stuff lately - I moved to a new flat and I had a friend visiting the last few days and schoolwork kinda piled up, so I haven't really made any progress on anything Star Wars in the last few weeks.
Thanks for those kind words. And let me just say, that I will never get sick of watching this film as long as I have someone to share in the experience - I recently watched it with my brothers and it was awesome, even after all the hours and days I'd spent working on it :-)
Seconded.
Well, the WP is just a first pass and the correction is more scene by scene than shot by shot, so thing will still likely change quite a bit. That being said, Team Negative1 also recently posted a comparison of the two prints they are using for ESB and they are both severely faded, so to get rid of the fading, they have to be heavily color corrected and therefore can hardly be used as a literal reference.
That's great. It'll still be a while before the docs are ready for any subtitling but once they are, I'll ask for volunteers again and send them SD workprint versions to use for subtitles. I will first need some kind soul to make English subs for others to use as a basis but again, it will take a while before it's done.
djchaseb said:
Saber, sabre, color, colour, it's all good! Harmy's English is better than mine and I'm an American
Well, I'm very flattered :-)
Now that is very close. Good job, sir!
It can be, sure, but not quite as much as some people say, especially when your output is still just 8bit anyway.
Not really - these have been done in 8bit, quickly through color correction tools only, no manual separation of elements:
