Laserschwert

Fine by me. Make it so. ;)

That is indeed better, though the wobble around the dish is still there, as is the shakyness of the landing gear (which I guess is caused by the key being too noisy). I think this could be good enough though. But what's with the underside being so dark?

Harmy said:

Here's what I've been working on for the past couple of weeks:

http://uloz.to/xryMPWu2/167-168-compar-mp4

Top is v1.0, bottom is v2.0.

Looking good, especially the matte paintings. What I don't really like is the WAY too dark underside of the Falcon and the wobbly masks (when the ship touches down). I know that rotoscoping is a pain in the ass, but fading the background into the Falcon a bit more might help cover up the shakiness of the masks slightly. So I'd actually work with two (identical) masks: One like now (although they seem a bit too blurry compared to the sharp details), and the other softer and shrunk down accordingly to fade the edge into the background.

OBI-WAN37 said:

Laserschwert said:

OBI-WAN37 said:

The whole "there's too much CGI" is not true.

 It's still true. There were tons of physical models AND too much CGI.

 Yet people never seem to mind the amount of CGI in say Avatar or the new Star Trek movies.

Better movies and better CGI. At the beginning of the 2000s the amount of CGI in the prequels was just too much for ILM to handle with the care and quality they usually achieve.

OBI-WAN37 said:

The whole "there's too much CGI" is not true.

 It's still true. There were tons of physical models AND too much CGI.

SilverWook said:

That was a bar in AOTC? It looked like an intergalactic Buffalo Wild Wings. One was in more danger of getting hot sauce on your clothes than being shot by a third rate bounty hunter. ;)

So obviously there was a diner (which I guess is the one you're referring to) AND a bar (death sticks...) in AOTC.

I'm very interested in this... especially if you manage to include German audio :)

Well, you can render a h.264 file directly out of After Effects, but it doesn't nearly offer as many settings as x264 does, so the latter one will most likely give better results.

Feeding an After Effects project into an Avisynth script isn't possible though. The command line renderer simply uses After Effects' render engine without starting the main program.

Harmy said:

At first I was a bit disappointed with the rendering speed in After Effects (BTW, I'd like to thank Chris Solo for donating the entire Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium package to me!) but then I realized I didn't have multi-threading turned on - after that, it runs like lightning

You can get even faster by not rendering through the main AE program, but by using its command line renderer. This can be done quite easily with the free AE render manager. Just setup your render queue as usual, save the project, close AE and open the project with that tool.

fingersmaster said:

Hi

I've been looking for black Blu Ray cases.

https://www.kronenberg24.de/blu-ray-huellen/?aoff=25&ArticleOrder=

http://www.amazon.de/Hüllen-Schwarz-einmal-Versand-bezahlen/dp/B00EZ7QD78

porkinsred6 said:

Looks Great Harmy!

Recently I upgraded to the latest VLC and re-watched 2.5 and it still has that repeat audio bug at the end of the credits when the usernames scroll by.  For fun, I pulled out my copy of 2.0 and it doesn't have the same problem.

It is, in fact, a VLC bug. It didn't happen with VLC 2.0.8, but now, with 2.1.3 it also happens with my German MKV.

The new version seems to have problems with audio tracks that are shorter than the video track.

Bingowings said:

Chewie's acceptance speech went on forever.

 That's why they started playing the end credits music over it ;)

That'll work too.

Because now with a freshly installed system, you should make a backup image of your drive. You'll be thankful to have it when something goes very wrong. Not having to install all the drivers, browser, e-mail, video stuff (like Avisynth, Virtualdub and the likes) and especially all the Adobe stuff yet again saves a lot of nerves.

Like for Seagate and Maxtor drives, there's a special free edition of the great Acronis True Image backup software, which only works for WD drives (actually it works with any drive, as long as it finds a WD drive attached to your system): http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119

Make a compressed image of your system and software drive(s) and put it some place safe.

What brand of HDDs did you get? By any chance Seagate or Maxtor?

Doctor M said:

@Laserschwert - Sure, check TPB.  You'll probably want to strip the 3 Russian audio tracks.

Unfortunately the Russian release is hardly HD... looks more like SD upscaled to 1080, which looks even worse than the 720p versions out there.

Well, if he wasn't in the movie, he probably would've said... right?

Do you guys know if there has ever been a 1080(i or p) version of "Return of Jafar"? I know there was a 720p version on Cinemagic once and "Aladding the the King of Thieves" got a 1080p version on Japanese TV. Of course all of those were cropped to widescreen, but it's still better than nothing (and I doubt there were ever HD versions of the 4:3 framing)

The upscale filter isn't that great... it's nice to finally have a spline-resizer inside AfterEffects, but after all TeamBlu's results are pretty much the best we can get out of the GOUT.

johnlocke2342 said:

there will be lag between scenes, which is better than nothing. 

You can argue with that...

Given how much time people (and especially Harmy) poured into making these look and sound as good as possible, I think it's little to ask to just switch discs, to get a different language master. Especially if this otherwise means sacrificing the wealth of audio options people have put together. I mean, if it's important to you to have all the different crawls together on one discs, why wouldn't you want all of the audio tracks as well? And if you're just using one audio track per language, you'll have to switch discs anyway, if you want to listen to a track no included.

Sure, I'd like to have such a "one in all" discs as well, but only if it doesn't introduce any drawbacks.

I'd say: good luck ;)

Making a seamless branching Blu-ray (or even just one with different video angles for parts of the movie) is extremely complicated to pull off and requires some expensive software. Not to mention combining ALL of the different audio tracks of all versions (something Harmy is already having trouble with, and that's only his version).

So in a nutshell: "Original Trilogy" just means "First Trilogy"

AntcuFaalb said:

Feallan said:

No rush of course. But a small preview would be awesome, I don't do Usenet. :C

That's fine. The frames aren't huge, so I won't be posting the samples to Usenet. I'll probably just use imgur.

If I'm not mistaken imgur recompresses your images on upload, doesn't it? Maybe just use Dropbox or something...

Although I'd like to add that it would be much better to release it a full 1920x1080 resolution (with black bars, obviously) so that it's Blu-ray conform without the need to re-rencode it for that and lose quality.

Sounds very interesting. Go! ;)

Video Collector said:

Laserschwert said:

The content sounds intriguing, though the cover looks terrible.

 In your opinion.

Why would I state anyone else's opinion?