SilverWook said:
I don't think I've ever heard Harrison actually disparage the character.
But whenever the conversation turned to his other cinematic rogue, Ford’s crooked smile tended to bend south and be punctuated with an eyeball roll. “He’s dumb as a stump,” the actor groaned.
I'll make an extra version just for you.
It doesn't matter if you or me likes it... it's the Despecialized Edition, remember? ;)
No, I won't correct that... that spelling error was part of the theatrical version and only fixed in the SE (while the THX version and everything since the 2004 DVD got newly created crawls anyway).
skywalker89 said:
Laserschwert said:
Somehow I have this distinct memory of one of the Jabba subtitles being too wide for this zoomed-in version, so they had to pan across the frame during the subtitles to make them all readable. Or was that on one of the VHS-releases?
On Sat1 the Jabba subtitles were equal cut of like the ones from Greedo:
Nope, just like I remembered:
Hat sich aber jetzt erledigt, die Aufnahmen von Haarspalter erfüllen ihren Zweck :-)
Actually I think pretty much everything regarding the content of the German 35mm version is pure speculation. If only we had access to that German print that was shown lately (at a private screening).
skywalker89 said:
Laserschwert said:
Ansonsten würde ich mich auch über die Untertitel-Stellen von ROTJ von deinen Video2000-Versionen freuen :)
Kann ich heute Abend oder Morgen früh auf youtube hoch laden.
Statt bei YouTube (wo sie nochmal Qualität verlieren durch die Neukompression) wäre mir ein Upload bei Wetransfer.com lieber. Geht ohne Account und du kannst als Empfänger auch deine eigene Mail-Adresse angeben. Dann bekommst du nach dem Upload einen Link, den du mir hier per PM schicken kannst. Außerdem ist es fraglich, wie lange das Video bei YouTube überleben würde ;)
@Haarspalter: Falls es dir nichts ausmacht, würde ich deine Version zum Vergleich trotzdem gerne noch haben
Und an Euch beide: Wie gesagt, am Vorspann wäre ich auch noch sehr interessiert. Den Abspann hat Sat.1 vermutlich nicht mit gesendet, oder? Wenn der komplett ist, wäre der für mich auch noch interessant, falls er sich irgendwie vom englischen Abspann unterscheidet (z.B. durch abschließende Texttafeln zur Synchronfassung).
Vielen Dank schonmal!
Somehow I have this distinct memory of one of the Jabba subtitles being too wide for this zoomed-in version, so they had to pan across the frame during the subtitles to make them all readable. Or was that on one of the VHS-releases?
Die Qualität ist gar nicht übel. Auf jeden Fall gut genug für meine Zwecke.
Wenn du mir die entsprechenden Stellen irgendwo hochladen könntest, wäre das großartig! :)
Und wenn du schon dabei bist, könntest du mir auch den Vorspann (Fox-Logo, Titel, Lauftext) zur Verfügung stellen? Ich habe davon nur eine Aufnahme der VHS, und vielleicht war die schon anders getimed.
CatBus said:
Laserschwert, any advice? Do you have something like an isolated score that you used?
No magic involved, I just added the track from the soundtrack CD (not sure if it was the Anthology or the SE release though).
The German GOUT definitely didn't have the music, as I had to add it back in for my German DeEd track. I wish there was a bootleg of the German theatrical version. I know that there was a private screening recently of a German OUT print of SW, but I have no idea how to get in contact with those guys.
Haarspalter said:
@Laserschwert
I digitized my old 1990 ROTJ Sat.1 VHS recording a few months ago. I made this well, let's say - amateurish - with one of these cheap 'SCART/Chinch-to-USB-whatever-adapters'. But the result should be adequate to analyse the theatrical timing and placement of the german Jabba subtitles.
Ja, das könnte tatsächlich reichen... neben Timing und Platzierung muss ich aber auch erkennen können, welche Schriftart verwendet wurde - das klappt natürlich nur bei entsprechender Qualität. Aber ich würde mir deine Aufnahme gerne mal ansehen. Kannst du sie (oder auch nur die Stellen mir Untertiteln) mal irgendwo hochladen?
skywalker89 said:
die Anmoderation am Anfang (sowie Interviews mit Fans)
Falls es schonmal hilft, gibt es sie auch bei YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40ru9vZDvY4
Ansonsten würde ich mich auch über die Untertitel-Stellen von ROTJ von deinen Video2000-Versionen freuen :)
Übrigens: Das Logo und der Lauftext der deutschen Special Edition von Episode 4 ist eine für die SE neu erstellte Version (konnte an deiner Anfrage nicht erkennen, ob dir das bekannt war). Die anderen beiden Filme haben jedoch auch in der SE die Logos/Lauftexte der Kinofassungen von '80 und '83.
May I piggyback on this and ask for a recording of the German TV broadcast of the non-SE "Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter" (which had its TV-premiere in March of 1990 on Sat.1)? Actually I just need the scenes with Jabba's subtitles, as I need a template for the German DeEd. Or did any of the other German releases have the original optically composed subtitles for the Jabba scenes?
I'm pretty sure all the German subtitles (both in SW and ROTJ) were redone for the SEs...
Erik Pancakes said:
kk650 said:
Agreed. Not only the quality varies widely from shot to shot though, the colours do too. I am too sensitive to sudden changes in colour during films to watch a release with colours constantly changing from shot to shot.
I didn't notice any variation at all in SW 2.5 or ESB 2.0, at least nothing that took me out of the movies.
That's why they were talking about Harmy's ROTJ 1.0 and not the other two.
With today's Kickstarter craze he could easily finance a release, Blu-ray production and all that...
I'm not exactly sure about the differences between the GOUT and the SilverScreen mixes, but the THX mix is a completely different mix, with much stronger bass and some timing changes when it comes to sound effects and R2's and 3PO's lines.
Adding to this I must say that my denoising is possible the most lazy thing imaginable, as I simply use MC_Spuds at it's default setting (so no further parameters). Note that the filter needs a YV12 source, so you have to use "ConvertToYV12" before this filter, and "ConvertToRGB24" after it.
I just love how much detail it keeps, but as Harmy pointed out, despotting beforehand is highly recommended. Unfortunately this is very difficult do to when dealing with stuff like starfields, as those are bound to be reduced by a fair amount of stars in the process.
For shorter shots it's advisable to remove the biggest dirt pieces manually. After Effects' clone brush is very cool in that it allows the offset for the clone brush to not only be set as x and y postions, but also as frame offsets. So usually I just leave the position offset at 0,0 and the frame offset at -1 or +1 (depending on which end of the clip I'm working on). By that I can just stamp the same area from one frame earlier (or later) onto a piece of dirt, which is usually close enough in brightness and coloring to work.
hairy_hen said:
I haven't heard anything about that, since the conversation concerning this information was only about the three English mixes. But I believe Lucasfilm has been digitizing many of their stored materials, so it's at least a possibility.
Were the English mixes restored during creation of the new Blu-ray mixes? In that case I'd have high hopes for the foreign dubs, since at least the German dub tracks (the raw voice recordings) were freshly digitized for the Blu-rays, with audio quality now pretty much on par with any modern film production - not as muffled and tinny as they sounded on every home cinema release that came before.
It would be awesome if they'd re-construct the German 1978 mix using these.
Do you happen to know if this is true for any foreign language tracks as well?
Oh man, it's so weird to see the Falcon cockpit with a green screen behind it, instead of the classic blue screen.
Works without problems, both on my PS3, PS4 and stand-alone Sony Blu-ray player. Are you sure this could damage a drive? Never heard of that.
bert41 said:
This may be a noob question, but which format has better quality MKV or AVCHD? My gut says MKV but I don't know anything about these formats really and all the research I did only told me how to convert these two into each other. So which is the higher quality?
Jonno said:
Generally speaking, though, AVCHD format is limited to 720p video and ~DVD video bitrates (because it's designed to play from DVD media), whereas the MKV container can accommodate pretty much anything you like in terms of video and audio streams.
I'd like to make a few corrections here: First of all, both the term MKV and AVCHD don't really say anything about the quality of a video file. MKV isn't a video format per se, in that it's only a so called container format, which can contain a video track in pretty much every conceivable video codec.
AVCHD on the other hand is a disc format, which in most parts is the same as a Blu-ray disc. Contrary to what Jonno wrote, AVCHD discs are not limited to 720p video or a DVD bitrate (I've created AVCHD discs on DVD-DL discs that were both in 1080p and at Blu-ray bitrates), it's just that they are designed to fit a movie inside the capacity of a dual-layer DVD (8.5 GB), so the bitrates are usually lower than those of a Blu-ray.
So the general question whether MKV or AVCHD has better quality can't really be answered, as both of them can contain video at the exact same quality... even using the exact same video track.
In the case of Harmy's TESB release things get even more complicate, as he's intending to release a smaller MKV alongside the "big" MKV, which in turn will have lower image quality than even the AVCHD.
Gogogadget said:
Seamless branching worked fine with me using Adobe Encore.
As far as I know Adobe Encore doesn't support seamless branching... again, playlists are NOT the same.
johnlocke2342 said:
RU.08 said:
TV's Frink said:
Have you ever tried seamless branching before? From what I hear, it usually ain't so seamless.
True for DVD but I think bluray is a different matter as the files are physically different.
I used seamless branching for a multilingual Blu-ray based on Harmy's DeEd and foreign projects based on it with multiAVCHD. Well I can confirm it's NOT seamless AT ALL. But I think professional software might be able do fix it.
Does multiAVCHD really support seamless branching? I'd think it just uses playlists, which is something completely different (and thus not seamless).
