Plus there is a yet unproven but likely theory, that there were actually two different versions of the crawl in '77 - same elements but different compositing, with less weave of separate elements for the second one (the one on the GOUT DVD).
CatBus said:
yoda-sama said:
Not sure what version "present and correct" is supposed to refer to...
I'm assuming it's just a matter of taking the crawl/flyover from the Blu-ray, doing some processing (at minimum, scaling to 720p, but could also attempt better color-matching, laser despecialization, and starfield de-obliteration), and pasting it over the equivalent frames in the DeEd.
The result would be DeEd with the '81 crawl, with the same timing/cue glitch that it's always had. Any attempt to actually fix the timing glitch, or just paste text in front of Harmy's existing crawl, wouldn't be accurate to any version of Star Wars that's ever existed, so I hope no attempt is made to do that.
This is actually false! The BD contains the SE crawl and flyover, which was made in '97 and has the fast receding SW logo. The '81 crawl and flyover had a different starfield, whereas the '97 crawl has the same starfield as the '77 crawl, albeit shifted slightly upwards, so in order to "restore" the '81 crawl faithfully, one would have to recreate it or use a LD transfer for it and then you'd have to redo the flyover as well, because it was recomposited optically in '81 and has different matte lines than the '77 one and the '97 one, which was recomposited digitally. Plus the background has a slightly different look in the '81 version.
You could probably still use the '97 crawl, if you managed to separate it from the background, because I think what they did was that they wanted to recomposite the crawl and the flyover digitally for the SE, using the original elements, and they ended up using the original element of the '81 crawl and the original elements from '77 for everything else.
I have no problem with you using stuff from DeEd.
Well, in ideal world, a theatrical version would have a seamless branching choice between the '77 and '81 crawls, but since seamless branching is really difficult to do, I had to decide for just one, and given that choice, the most original will always win. Plus, like CatBus pointed out, the Episode IV crawl screwed up the timing of the scene.
Some time ago someone asked about the covers for v2.5. The plan is that there will be several different versions for people to choose from and they will come with the BD download both as .png and as .psd with editable parts - like if someone doesn't want theirs to say DESPECIALIZED EDITION, they'll be able to simply turn that layer off. Or if someone made their own disc with different sound and subtitle options, they will be able to correct the cover's info.
Have you seen Toy Story 3? Or Little Miss Sunshine? Anrdt seems to be a great character writer, which may be just what the new SW needs.
Feallan said:
Underwater city? Gungans? Pod race? Dumb Qui Gon Booze? It could't feel less like Star Wars. :C
Cloud city? Ewoks? (or even Jawas?), Speederbike race? Dumb cackling wicked-witch Emperor?
There's nothing inherently un-starwarsy about these concepts in your post; I'm not saying that TPM is a good movie, not by a long shot, but I do agree with AnctuFaalb, that it felt more like Star Wars than the other two prequels.
I never said I was almost done with it, I just said that I might try to do it, and I actually never got around to it.
Nope, I don't hear anything like that in the '85 mix.
NeverarGreat said:
I imagine that Harmy's watching this thinking:
"Hmm, higher quality Leia hologram."
Here we go again! ;)
Actually, what I was thinking watching this was: Cool, now everyone can see I wasn't making up the vertical scanlines :-)
Also, I used the NetVideoHunter plugin for Firefox and it downloaded fine :-)
Yeah, the videos are looking really good, guys!
Aren't the documentaries on the official BD release?
The content on the tapes is just the '95 THX VHS that was in all the other releases as far as I know, but what we should preserve is the packaging - high res-scans of everything from the boxes, the booklets, the cards and the cassette stickers. That would be a worthy preservation of this set. I think it is the coolest home video release of Star Wars EVER!
Here's a nice overview:
Well, my parents' Samsung HDTV does have some overscan when in default 16:9 mode. You have to switch to "fit-the-screen" mode to get rid of it.
I use my 27" computer monitor as my TV, even with my BD Player and am more than happy with it - it is very accurate and there's no bullshit going on - I'd take watching a film on that monitor over my parents' 32" HDTV any day of the week, because with all the doodles that the TV has (and all TVs seem to have them) it's practically impossible to get a picture as pure as with the monitor, which doesn't do any post processing to the signal.
People with that amount of over-scan should really throw their TVs away.
I use imageshack all the time but I usually link straight to the picture like this, so no interface problems.
OMG, guys, are we back to this? It looks like you compressed the 1080p video to 200Kbps and then took the screenshots. Samples like this are utterly pointless, because they don't show anything.
Definitely beats the $5,000 to $26,000 that Sonic Scenarist costs, depending on the version or the $50,000 for Sony Blu-Print.
Oh, I would be doing that anyway. Thanks :-)
That looks great and the 30 days trial should be more than enough. My question is though, can you make menus with moving backgrounds in it?
Oh, absolutely! I might be getting footage from Team N1, but it's not a done deal yet, so I'd be very interested in seeing this. Maybe other shots could be useful as well.
No refunds!
BuddhaMaster said:
1. What exactly is the Mos Eisley scene you've used from the team negative1 35mm LPP print? Is it the the part in the city where Obi Wan goes like "you don't need to see his identification" etc.
or the Cantina scene and later?
I had the part from the first shot of the speeder arriving to Mos Eisley to the shot of them getting out of the speeder in front of the Cantina.
OK, once more, the checksums are in the first post and are of the MKV file only.
The size of the MKV is 19,213,754,660 B.
What exactly is the difference in file size? Like what is the file size you've go and what do you think it should be?
