Mavimao

You could do the "Early 80s home video" color timing of the GOUT.

Cranked up luma and all! I'd buy that for a dollar.

Wow, that's pretty impressive! But man some of those shots are a tad too bright.

ireactions said:

dlvh said:

 

<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.383333206176758px; ">Now I know previously that Harmy wanted these type of "problems/errors" or whatever you want to call them, be reported to him in a PM, which I did, and he gave me his permission to post this to the the forum. <span style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>

Harmy has (rightly) lifted that request on the grounds that he doesn't want to censor people's criticisms and discussions.

Personally, I would be *very* interested to see people talk about areas of the Despecialization where the process is flawed. The only places where I've felt the seams showed were the shot of the speeder in Mos Eisley and in RETURN OF THE JEDI where the added smoke to the GOUT-frames of Jabba fades away in a very unnatural manner, losing density, then staying consistent for a bit, then losing density again, then staying consistent, then disappearing entirely. But my interest isn't in criticizing Harmy, but rather in better understanding the process and the work and maybe what solutions could be used, if any exist.

If the shot of the speeder in Mos Eisley was a grainy, blurry mess in the original version because they didn't have enough time to do the composite as well as they could have and that's how it'd be no matter where the shot was taken (unless it's a new HD transfer) -- well, I just learned something I didn't know before! Thanks! :-D

I don't have a print of the OT with me at the moment, but keep in mind that the lightsaber effects done in 77 were somewhat different compared to the ones seen in Empire and Jedi.

I feel like in the first film they were seen as pulsating beams of energy and not a long laser glo stick as we see in later films.

Plus, Harmy used the GOUT to fill in the saber effects. I think that's pretty authentic.

Thank you for the update and letting us know what was up. I hope everyone who was affected is back to normal and apologize if my asking what was wrong seemed rude. I was honestly curious and not in the least bit upset for not having yet received a confirmation.

I can't wait to see the new site and be part of all the excitement!

Harmy said:

The rightmost fighters were missing in each row, plus the fighters disappeared in some frames because they were composited in from the GOUT.

I also cleaned up the matte.

Harmy said:

So, I posted in the suggestions forum, but no one seems to really read the posts there, so I thought I'd promote it here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Different-skins/topic/14843/

And to make this post not completely off topic, please let me know what you guys think:

http://uloz.to/x2Wkkcf/matte-1-mp4

Ouch! Tooth surgery! Hope he's alright!

Thank you for the update and I look forward to this weekend!

Got email invite. Sent reply. Never heard back.

Just wondering what was up. I understand if you're overwhelmed.

Longue vie à Team Negative 1! Longue vie à savingstarwars!

Got mail and replied! Love the name of the new site. Much more fitting than the old one...

I agree with oldfan. On all the other sites where I've seen the news, the prevailing question at the end, and also in the comments, is: does this mean we'll finally get the original trilogy?

Mike O said:

Fox is retaining the rights to the earlier films, so nothing new except new stuff not to buy. Unless this'll get the OOT out, which it won't, let's move along. Basically it means we'll be seeing more SW stuff than ever, but who cares? The OOT is still doomed.

Definitely feeling the hate/love feeling of this announcement. It just feels so out from left field. Disney buying lucasfilm AND announcing a new star wars film??

Hmm...although with all the star trek next generation blurays I've been watching, I'd say we've gotten stuck in a wormhole where time, space and thought all become one. Shit. Reverse polarity!

She was gang raped on a pinball machine.

So yeah, the joke is pushing the boundaries.

Really exciting news. I can't wait to see what you've been up to!

The smearing is caused by an archaic system of dirt removal from the early nineties that is extremely outdated by today's technology. It looked fine on smaller CRT televisions for which it was intended, but the defects are much more apparent on HD televisions.

The reason it looks worse on this particular shot is because it's one of the 'crappiest' shots in the whole film due to generation loss with the numerous special effects composites. Even on 35mm elements this shot is full of dirt and grain - it almost looks like 16 or 8mm. So the dirt removal system kicked into overdrive in that shot and created those weird artifacts.

I would vote for

DVD9

AC3

I say no to PCM because you're wasting valuable bitrate for a 70s era mono VHS soundtrack which already has a pretty poor frequency response of roughly 100 Hz to 10 kHz.

You're basically inflating the file size for little to no gain, wasting data that could be used to make a higher rate video encode.

I think these stories are hilarious and are quite British in their cruel/funny kind of way.

Puggo, I've been trying to get ahold of you for a couple weeks concerning a project I had in mind and wanting to know how to get ahold of some elements in uncompressed format, but I've heard nothing back. I am not sure if PM is a bad way to get ahold of you, or perhaps you've been busy, which I can understand completely - but I hope you have received my messages and I hope it would be possible to work something out.

Thank you.

I read a story in Empire magazine when TPM came out about how Alec Guiness, after being approached by a young fan, boasting he'd seen star wars over 100 times, told to said fan to promise him one thing - never watch star wars again.

I have the file in apple lossless on a harddrive somewhere I think.

Otherwise, Harmy's versions have it.

none said:

msycamore wrote: It's actually the most tinkered with film of the bunch in terms of how many altered shots there are, it just happens to be much more subtle tweaks than the other two.

What we've figured out in the changes thread: shots with visual changes/release

SW: 254/1997 : 137/2004 : 30/2011

ESB: 333/1997 : 206/2004 : 7/2011

RotJ: 180/1997 : 79/2004 : 63/2011

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtjXdIjRQo5NdDJORXlfTDBIN0NaQXlWMk51Q2tOR0E#gid=7

Haha! Love the logo! I agree with pittrek that the font could be improved. Perhaps the "Han Solo" font?

http://cooltext.com/Download-Font-Han+Solo

Cool!