Laserschwert

Hey Harmy,

I really love your Despecializations! Since I'm German I want to create versions with the German crawls and German subs for Greedo and Jabba. Are there HDTV-versions of the subtitled scenes, but without the subs? Or did the subtitles look like that in the HD broadcasts? I'd like to re-create the German subs as they look in the US version, but I'd need clean versions of those scenes for that...

The next hurdle will be multi-angle / seamless branching or some other trick to allow choosing between the English and the German crawls and subs (and Adobe Encore, which I'm using, doesn't support either feature). Well, at least the subs COULD be realized through actual Blu-ray subtitles... but for that, again, I need clean versions of those scenes.

Otherwise the new Blu-rays might provide the solutions...

In fact there is a term for the resolution you're using, and that's WQHD (Wide Quad High Definition) at a res of 2560 x 1440 (or in your case 1090, depending on the aspect ratio). Ultra High Defnition would be 7680 x 4320 (or 4320p), basically four times the height and width of regular HD (and 16x the resolution).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_High_Definition_Television

I wish that image was at 2k resolution...

Tyrphanax said:

I gotta admit, the grainless versions look sharp as shit. But they just lack texture... that certain something. I dunno.

It's only so sharp BECAUSE all the detail got stripped out. Besides texture that "detail" was in fact fuzziness around softer edges. And those filters basically pinch those fuzzy edges together into sharp contours, while removing the detail in that process. Also the noise removal removed details that weren't film grain. Its not desirable at all!

Some of the first leaked screens from TPM looked horrible (extreme denoising causing a wax look), although some other ones looked really good.

HERE'S one of the worst ones (and HERE'S the HDTV-version as a comparison).

Well, I was hoping the thread wouldn't die, before having him show those clips he promised. It would've been interesting to see what he would have uploaded!

Still, as poor as his whole show was, I was never 100% sure he was lying... ridiculously big ego? Yeah... but I'm not familiar enough with what Laserdisc-players can do to be absolutely sure about that aspect.

If you've liked "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz", you'll love "Spaced". Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Edgar Wright... dream team!

Nice links though :D

The Aluminum Falcon said:

LOL. I love that, as a celebrity, he's actually acting out his opinion, being melodramatic as in his movies. Where did he post that?

The clip is from his TV-show "Spaced"... and it's already from 1999/2000.

The reason he burns his stuff in the show is Episode I :)

It's a blue screen shot, not a "mural" or painted back-drop... the blue screen was further back and lit up as it had to be, and the actors were lit separately. Williams was just leaving the lit area.

Mielr said:

 

Harmy said:
Yeah, I'm now definitely decided to stick with the broadcasts as sources. The difference is so small, that it would be practically imperceptible in motion and I do not want to buy those Blu-Rays.

With all the new additions to the blu-rays, I gather it would make it quite a bit harder for you to use them as a source anyhow- just more stuff that you have to remove or replace with alternate footage.

 

Qualitywise they'd still be a good source for edits, as you could just patch up the new changes with the HDTV broadcast to get the sharpest source possible. Of course the contrasts will still be unfixable.

By the way, THIS might be a good indication how the binary sunset scene has to be colored. Although promo stills might look different than the film.

Or a Rickroll...

If you really want to impress, take the shot of Luke's speeder going through Mos Eisley... the one the SE turned into this:

I guess this project is over then :-)

Rrrright...

thunderclap said:

We still have to get the SW boxset down to 1 star before it's released!

Mathematically that's gonna be nearly impossible, since that would require (almost) solely one-star-ratings. 1.5 might work though ;)

And what was the point of having all Clone Troopers be digital characters?? Running around a digital desert, to make things worse...

You can use this one, if you want to:

(Damn, I shouldn't have used the thumbtack... now my X0 has a hole!)

X0-1138 said:

(amongst other little miracle workers at my disposal)

What exactly are those?

Interesting how quickly this thread turned into a trainwreck.

And it still seems to be unclear, if the project is still on, canceled, or just some overambitious hoax...

Although I don't endorse dark_jedi's tone (come on, "LOL"? Really?), I agree that X0-1138 does make some ridiculous promises, which make the whole project appear like nothing more than hot air (or megalomania). Be my guest to prove me wrong :)

Still, I'd suggest you'll leave the bigger plans for later, and just start with the first step of doing some nice transfers.

rpvee said:

Commentary from constructed archive material?  Star Wars Begins rip off, anyone?

Well, the laserdiscs had interview-commentaries as well, so it wasn't a new idea when JD did it ;)

Fair enough :D

Lucas, Kershner and Marquand (well, okay, mostly Lucas) cut those scenes out... so the original versions ARE the Director's Cuts ;-)

Well, MKV is only a container format, but with a good AVC-compression the video WILL compress down nicely. The advantage of MKV is that it can hold all the audio-, video- and subtitle-tracks you might want (and allows people to add their own, if they want to).