Such amazing work. 2.5 looks amazing. I’m so appreciative of all the effort that went into this. Thank you so much.
OK, so I have v2.0 cut assembled and I have the audio tracks from hairy_hen but I’d still like a few volunteers to check out a final workprint before I do the final release. Any takers?
I’m down. I’d love to help out.
I meant to question doing everything but just playing the files straight from a computer in their original form if all you want to do is watch them. Going to extremes to burn discs when you don’t have the equipment to create or view the discs or spending hours of frustration trying to make something play on hardware not intended to play files like these, and God knows what cost to quality, is what I question if other options are not also considered first.
To be clear, I’m a big fan of media I can hold in my hand, not ethereal bits floating around God knows where. If the DeEd project ever settles on versions and especially has an official BD structure with menus and everything, I’m all over burning it and archiving it unaltered. There’s every reason to burn these to disc if that’s something you’re into. Personally, while the DeEd versions are in flux, I’ve found it best for me to stay up to date by playing the files directly, rather than burning works in progress and wasting BD media as they update. As things stand now with the project, unless there are specific playback requirements (consistency across different hardware, gifts to people, playing it at random locations/events), I don’t see burning discs as the best first option. We’ll get there before long, but I just don’t see it that way yet.
I didn’t mean to come off as blasting the idea of writable/archival media in general.
I completely agree. I have a dedicated HDMI cable going into my Onkyo receiver and plugged it into my Macbook. I set the VLC media player audio output to HDMI digital so I can get the Dolby surround encoding and boom, it looks and sounds amazing on my HDTV.
I’ll eventually burn to Blu Ray, most likely once Jedi 2.0 is ready. I’m also considering making my own menus, but for now, this is an easy 2 minute setup that looks great.
Gorgeous. Simply gorgeous. I’m so excited.
My biggest issue with the score was the lack of the rousing and dynamic thrust that the original scores had. I think some of this is due to the fact that it’s the first Star Wars score not recorded by the London Symphony. I also think whoever orchestrated the score lacked imagination when it came to coloring as a lot of the music just fills the background, rather than soars. I understand that most scores are supposed to be in the background, but Star Wars was always robust and dramatic. I enjoyed it for what it was, but it wasn’t memorable and the only legitimate gripe I have with the movie.
But in his defense, how long has John Williams been doing this? It’s unrealistic to expect him to continue coming up with new themes over and over. The man is a genius, no question.
I just want to express my thanks to Harmy and everyone else who has contributed to these restorations. I haven’t been able to watch the original cuts in 17 years but thanks to you guys, I was finally able to in the days leading up to seeing The Force Awakens.
These are the movies that I fell in love with and started a life long passion for film making and story telling. It was truly special to see them as I remembered, and in such great quality. I sincerely appreciate all the effort that has gone into this.
I’d also like to get an invite so I can download this as soon as it becomes available.
Keep up the great work, Harmy!
Hey guys. I can’t get Jedi 1.0 to extract on JDownloader. All the files are downloaded but the extraction fails every time. I’ve extracted Star Wars and Empire with no problem and those were the much larger MKV files. Can anyone help me? I’m on a MacBook Pro, OSX 10.10.5 with JDownloader and RAR Extractor.
UPDATE: I’m getting this error in the extractor program “CRC failed in FINAL AVCHD/BDMV/STREAM/00000.m2ts (password incorrect ?)”. But isn’t the password “harmy” like everything else?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.