I could do that.
Actually, I’m dumb. There’s a couple extra Level Set episodes that were exclusive to Xbox. I’ll take a look at those to see what I can do with them (as well as punch up some of the audio) before dumping the Saiyan Saga on archive.org
Stay tuned.
I forgot to ask too, is this project cancelled?
Nah, just infinately delayed because I want the best video source possible before I can replace some of the footage I already have and move forward.
I was waiting for the Selectavision blu-ray, now it looks like AB Video out of France created a master that trounces the Selectas (currently those are still on DB, so it’ll be another year before they get to Z).
Realistically, I’d say 2025 will be the completed release for this project.
This sounds amazing is there any updates on when this will drop, im trying to get my mate to watch dbz for the first time but i want him to watch the best possible version.
It’ll drop saga by saga.
When the first two will officially? I can’t give a definitive answer as it all depends if / when I get my hands on the Selecta BDs.
Which leads me to this necessary call to action since I’m on the fence about purchasing yet ANOTHER version of this show just to get this project done: If anyone here has Box 2 & 3 of the Selecta Vision blu-rays, please PM me.
Hello @Masquerade
Are you still continuing the project? I’ve seen that Nandato went down …
Regards, Azure
Yes. I will dump all of what’s been completed so far (Saiyan / Namek / Captain Ginyu Sagas) onto Archive.org soon.
The issue is I’m waiting on the Selectavision Blu-rays in order to continue this project. I’m swapping out a lot of what I had done using the 30th Anniversary steelbook footage for the Spanish BDs just because the latter is THAT MUCH of a massive leap in picture quality (ironic considering it’s an AI upscale of an SD source unlike Funimation’s hackjob of their film scan).
Once I have that new workflow down between the Selctas and the Kai BDs, I won’t have to spend so much time color grading either.
Woah woah WOAH… who changed the title here to “released?” I’ve released segments of it but it’s nowhere near finished (I’ve actually not touched this project since June bc life & my graphics card is ass).
I won’t hand out anymore links until I’m at least finished with the Frieza saga. If I win the fight against procrastination here, that’ll be completed in time to be a Christmas present for 2021.
Watched it! Smoothest Dune edit I’ve seen so far. I have a couple notes though:
There’s a handful of instances where the music buries some of the dialogue. I found this problem to be exclusive to the Extended Edition scenes.
1:00:46-48 looks choppy for some reason (as if the frame rate halved for those 2 seconds), and then the shots inserted from the window at 1:00:53-55 and 1:01:07-14 look very much like static stock images with a lack of dimension & motion blur. A shot of those respective landscapes but taken from a video source like you did from 1:01:39-46 would benefit greatly.
One slight thing I always thought could be easily improved from the original was the lack of VFX for gunfire from 1:19:52-57. Easiest way to take care of this problem is to add a white strobe frame for each gunshot with opacity varying between 30-60%, then up the contrast and lower brightness for the frame after each gunshot by about 20%.
There are also a couple shots from the original that I still think could be removed outright:
There’s probably some more shots that could be axed since they look less like they came out of high-budget 80’s sci-fi flick and more like it was done by that one perpetually-stoned slacker fired from ILM for pretending to animate Hipgnosis album art instead of, you know, working; but there’s only so much that could be done before the movie gets hacked to pieces (again).
Cum on my back and call me Shirly, this is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for. What’s the encode specs? May I get a PM link?
I also have A.I. upscales for the deleted scenes if you want them. They still kinda look like they were wrecked in a shredder, but look WAY better than they used to.
Never was a fan of JJ outside of Force Awakens (and maybe Super 8) to be honest, and the former was thanks to having his OT redux look presentable at first glance with Kasdan’s writing chops. Oh right, to “help” JJ, let’s add the writer responsible for some of the worst written DC movies but kick out Trevorrow for a box office flop he didn’t even do the screenplay for while he already had a fleshed-out end point for Star Wars… the FUCK kinda decision making is that?
I still stand by MI:3 being the worst Mission Impossible movie.
I’m looking forward to this one:
I really don’t see the point in not releasing deleted scenes much like Solo or Rogue One unless there were such drastic changes that LucasFilm wanted to sweep that footage under the rug.
There is no reason why fully filmed scenes (like the Eye of Webbish Bog, the one or two additional Rose scenes, the full Luke / Leia training sequence, Lando’s daughter backstory, etc.) wasn’t made available in the same way Last Jedi’s or every Lucas-fronted Star Wars movie has. Even TFA had them for as sparse as they were.
HD version does not exist (it was cut from a deluxe DVD set) and some of the deleted scenes look like ass considering they’re SD scans of dirty workprints.
I am doing an HD Dune cut that’s slightly shorter than SpiceDiver’s version (about 2:45:00-ish) but still quite a bit longer than the theatrical. Figuring out a way to upscale the more degraded-looking deleted scenes too.
The shitty thing is that no matter what we can change or alter with this film, there’s no way we can really give Rose more of a presence, without any deleted scenes. Rose goes from a prominent character with her own theme in the last film, to a background extra in the last film.
'Tis why someone’s gotta hack into LucasFilm’s data banks.
Who wants to volunteer?
Recently watched the Alternate Redux. Way too much fluff added to the first half of the movie that just murders the pacing (also unnecessary re-use of music cues when there should be silence).
The 2nd half is on point though. I may make a definitive edit using some of the Redux as a blueprint whenever the 4K disc comes out (which I believe is later this year / in time for Villeneuve’s version).
God damn I’m liking this already.
Are you doing this project in 4K HDR by any chance?
Here’s the original cue sheet from John William’s scoring from a longer cut of the movie circa 11/10/19 if anyone wants to take up what’s “missing” (or even the order of the scenes, which ended up being totally restructured for the first half of the movie):
M=Reel (which equals to about 20 minutes each)
The problem with Mustafar is that it’s not really a scene. It’s just ‘Kylo goes to a place and finds a thing he was already looking for’. For it to earn a place, something has to happen that changes a character or plot element, otherwise it could just open with Kylo arriving at Exegol.
Maybe the crawl tells how Kylo is trying to make good on his promise to end the Jedi and the Sith, and this has brought him to Mustafar to wipe out Sith cultists. When he finishes killing them, the ‘Find me’ can lead him to the wayfinder.
This would at least help give the scene some element of interest as Kylo may not have realized the wayfinder was here.
I mean someone could try to recreate this cut scene and not delete Mustafar at all (assuming the official footage of this scene is never released):
Also maybe have force ghost Luke taunting Kylo with voices or something?
I want to know if anyone “in the know” has access to any of this footage:
Plus anything Finn, Rose, Jannah, or Lando related that could flesh out those stories more.
This stuff has to exist in a hard drive somewhere. If someone were to, you know… “borrow” it…
Aight, now that all the Saiyan Saga is done and the first of Namek is loading onto Google Drive and I can finally go on a forward trajectory with this thing, I’mma place some more minor details about this project here. Speak some truth:
In terms of the specifics of what filler this project is cutting out / leaving in:
SAIYAN [Done]
Keep:
Erase:
NAMEK / GINYU [W.I.P.]
Keep:
Erase:
FRIEZA
Keep:
Erase:
GARLIC JR.
[Keep, but cut from 10 episodes down to 7 to improve pacing]
TRUNKS / ANDROIDS
Keep:
Erase:
CELL
Keep:
Erase:
Add:
GREAT SAIYAMAN / WORLD TOURNAMENT
Keep:
Erase:
BABIDI / BUU
Keep:
Erase:
FUSION / KID BUU
[All filler erased]
Obviously leaves us with more episodes than Kai does, but will still cut DBZ down to 200 episodes or something instead of 291.
This is amazing. Can’t believe how such a simple change turns an already good (albeit too Member Berry-ish) movie into a great one.
Quick question though, do you plan on doing a 4K HDR release of any of your edits after this set is released around March?: https://comicbook.com/starwars/2019/12/26/star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-4k-blu-ray-box-set-limited-edition-best-buy-amazon/
OP updated.
The hiatus is over. Finally in the process of encoding the rest of the Saiyan Saga.
Episodes finished so far:
SAIYAN SAGA (Complete)
01 - The Arrival Of Raditz
02 - Reunions
03 - Unlikely Alliance
04 - Gohan’s Rage
05 - No Time Like The Present
06 - Gohan’s Metamorphosis
07 - The Strangest Robot
08 - Terror On Arlia
09 - Goz & Mez
10 - Princess Snake
11 - Plight Of The Children
12 - Pendulum Room Peril
13 - The End Of Snake Way
14 - Counting Down
15 - A Black Day For Planet Earth
16 - The Saibamen Strike
17 - The Power Of Nappa
18 - Time’s Up!
19 - The Return Of Goku
20 - Lesson Number One
21 - Goku Vs. Vegeta
22 - Saiyan Sized Secret
23 - Spirit Bomb Away!
24 - Mercy
Work has also commenced on the editing the Namek Saga-onwards, which should be a lot easier & faster now that I have all the materials and know what the hell I’m doing.
Quick update: The Saiyan Saga is complete (24 episodes total, very much trimmed down the original’s 35 but not as rushed as Kai’s 16). Haven’t updated this in a while thanks to a mix of procrastination and waiting for word on an Blu-ray series release by Toei (just so I can have a consistent video source from Namek and onwards), but here’s a sample comparison video for this project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFeOkDTDF0Y
First is the original, 2nd is Kai, and 3rd is my edit.
“Oh boy, another one of these?”
I’ll admit my reasoning’s a little different as it’s a bit more dub-centric. Have nostalgic feelings for the original FUNimation dub but think the pacing’s too slow / voice acting’s too stilted / or the script’s awkwardly translated? Like the tightness in pacing and superb voice acting of Kai but miss the Bruce Faulconer score, some of the old voice actors who unfortunately didn’t return, too distracted by the MS Paint-like replacement animation, or even think that some of the cuts in Kai were too abrupt and missed some of the more endearing filler here and there?
This is the Dragon Ball Z: 30th Anniversary Legacy Edition Re-cut…my feeble attempt at making a “perfect” version of DBZ.
Video:
Audio:
The Saiyan and Namek sagas’ soundtrack consist mainly of a Faulconer re-score, as well as some Nathan Johnson placements. The Ginyu / Frieza Sagas onwards will be entirely Bruce Faulconer (with the occasional “Easter Egg” from the Japanese OST such as insert songs).
Voice acting will be an equal combination of both FUNimation’s 2005 revision and Kai dub up until the Android Saga. From there it’ll be primarily Kai, however I will retain some character’s V.O.'s from the original (mainly Bulma, Gohan, and Android 18).
Tech Bits
Video: 1080p h.264 (Hi10) [MKV]
Audio: 2.0 Stereo PCM (English Revision)
File Size: 6 GB
Run Time: 23:50 to 25:20
More info (as well as the project itself) can be found at Nandato.
