Molly

It would make sense to, at least…

Awwwwwwwww yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah…

Having the OTV plus the all three original sound mixes would make for the ultimate release even if in the end the video were sourced from a 35, the mono audio from a videotape, the stereo from a laserdisc…

I have two monitors, both 1920x1080. It’s quite useful, I can watch a movie or TV show while gabbing away on IRC. 😉

Probably.

I’m actually not sure all this publicity around the Team Negative1 and Harmy releases is a good thing. I posted on a major torrent site a version, back in the pre-GOUT days, which had the video from EditDroid’s LD rip with the reconstructed pre-ANH roll, and the mono mix from that 1985 ITV rip, and it was just a flash in the pan which I’m sure went nowhere, and I feel pretty safe because of that, but these people are getting actual media attention with projects much better than mine could have hoped to be, I fear for what the Rat might do in the future.

Easy enough to build filter chains over selected portions of a video in Avisynth. I have to do that sometimes with Detective Conan when reconstructing full length episodes from re-cut HD reruns, and patching in DVD source for the remainder. Or when mixing Animax airings with Nittele airings, something I do decidedly more often 😉

The bottom end sounds roughly comparable to my top end.

I can deal with the 97s. It’s the 2004 changes that annoy me. But the original will always be the best. 😛

I’m sure it won’t be long before we have that in pure HD now 😉

Just Stab, MDegrain2 (with thsad of 1000) and RemoveDirt. I did it mainly for a friend of mine, and he thought it came out pretty good.

Would probably be redundant to me, then, since I have an encode which was run through automated stabilization and dirt removal filters.

Nod. I haven’t been actively looking for anything, but I have everything but the 2010 version. (Not important enough to dig stuff up.)

What I have for the 1998 is a 384 kbps AC3 from a dvdiso. Not sure if better exists.

I’ve got a Japanese ISO at hand with what I believe is the 1998 dub (it has the replacement songs for example), but I’d also have to synch up the audio, as that is all I have… (besides, at least, the 1987 dub. Ironically, I’m looking for the remixed Disney dub.)

Looking at that latest preview…

“Impressive. Most impressive.”

Maybe a despecialization would be irrelevant if we had the whole film like that.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m a schizophrenic and so am I

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I would absolutely be able to make use of a 35 scan of ANH97.

Laserschwert said:

Molly said:
Of course, 272i isn’t a very good solution for patching 1080p 😉

You can always use the Blu-rays to paint out the subs.

Yeah, hence my “despecialization” comment. Not sure that I could come up with good results working in the opposite direction, to try to make the BD footage look like 35…

Chewtobacca said:

Molly said:

Part of me wonders if there’s 35s out there of the Greedo scene without hardsubs. </random>

The JSC doesn’t have the Greedo subs. Obviously, that was made for home video, and it’s a different situation, but I suppose that there’s a very slim chance that there might be a print out there that doesn’t have them. I doubt it though.

nod. I think most WS laserdiscs prolly had any Greedo subtitles in the letterbox. Of course, 272i isn’t a very good solution for patching 1080p 😉 (but that said, if I were to go through with my plan to, after acquiring the necessary sources, do my own despecialization I wouldn’t have to worry about it).

Perhaps there was a language or two into which subtitling was not preferred, and they dubbed or overdubbed Greedo instead - just a thought 😉.

Part of me wonders if there’s 35s out there of the Greedo scene without hardsubs. </random>

I think I’ve heard some of the DragonTeam people speak highly of him, so yeah.

(I’m usually considered a mediocre encoder, but encode and time for DragonTeam because I can have a better raw than SOFCJ, plus chapters and timed captions, before anyone else gets up most weeks. I have a few different handles around the 'net.)

I think x264 itself allows fractional CRFs, although some front-ends don’t.

Just Stab() and RemoveDirt() work wonders by themselves, from my experience working with the grindhouse release, though not as good as a manual job.

Huh, I thought GOUT was better than that. My friend said the 192 kbps audio sounded dreadful, so I synched up the 2.0 mix from Harmy’s release instead and he said major improvement.

(I don’t know if it’s worth releasing at this precise moment in time, re-encode of this? 1280x544, 2.4 GB, and moderately degrained for compressibility, and because that’s how my friend and I prefer our film scans. Because I’m really thinking about trying to do my own despecialization, though I’ll need the much later-to-come scan of the 97SE Team -1’s been talking about first. 😉)

Yeah.

This. Is. Star Wars.

He is one of many, IIRC. 😉

Heh. Would not surprise me.

uloz.to makes sense for Harmy because he’s Czech, and I believe it’s a Czech filesharing site.

Personally?

I don’t think the usual routine is that big a deal. Even if I didn’t have an account on myinternalorgan, I’d just wait like everyone else. The way I see it is using that tracker isn’t entirely about keeping things low-key - it’s almost as much, I suspect, about giving first dibs to the OT longtimers, many of whom have had a hand in other restorations already, and if that’s what the uploaders want to do, that’s fine by me. I do not myself upload torrents there, nor will I, because I prefer to release on public trackers.

I just happen to have been involved in a couple ANH projects myself over the years, and the Team -1 scans are useful to the final completion of the biggest one I started over a decade ago.