MrToad883

Whatever happened to kk650? Haven’t heard from him in years

These results look great so far, can’t wait to see Indy in the correct colors and HD!

Not my style but they look well done!

In keeping with tradition, your crawl should have 3 paragraphs. But the wording is excellent

Lord Haseo said:

darthrush said:
Nice crawl but the first line “Luke Skywalker has vanished” is so epic and nice.

My sentiments exactly. It draws you into the film immediately.

Agreed 100%. Personally the only thing I would change is adding in the 20th century fox to beginning, fixing the graflex lightsaber sounds to match episode V, and adding in deleted scenes if they seem necessary ( and if the timestamp and watermark can be removed of course)

Jackpumpkinhead said:

so now that we are close to the release, i have been planning my edit of the movie. i just thought that i would run my version of the crawl passed you guys to see what you think, if there are places that need improvement or rewording:

A new evil has emerged. The sinister
FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes
of the Empire. Armed with the
destructive power of the Starkiller
weapon, they have vowed to take
control of the galaxy.

Determined to protect the Republic,
a brave RESISTANCE stands against
this growing threat. Led by General
Leia Organa, they have been in search
of the last Jedi, Luke Skywalker, in
hopes that he will assist them in
restoring peace and justice to the
galaxy.

Sensing and end to their quest, General
Organa has sent her most daring pilot
to Jakku, where and old ally holds a
key to the location of the missing
Jedi…

Awesome, but the Luke Skywalker has vanished seems more severe than yours that just says he is missing

This is upsetting. Hopefully the community can fix it!

PM sent

I actually prefer the gorilla eye lady haha. The Ian McDiarmid they dubbed in is the fuller revenge of the sith one and not the withered skinny looking one in ROTJ. Just looks too “fat” to me.

The PCM mixes are far superior as they are taken from the laserdiscs. If you have a receiver with Dolby it will put it into surround sound for you.

Agreed. Don’t understand why there was such an issue, its not like anyone is making money off of any of this so there’s no reason not to help and respect one another. Well your versions are still my go to versions and thanks again for all your hard work you put into them over the years!

Well said kk650 and great to hear from you again. Hope all is well!

I believe they are all sourced from the Blu-ray so I doubt they are theatrical cuts

jonjj7 said:

Does anyone know what needs to be done to burn a Blu-ray disc of these? I tried using tsMuxer to generate a Blu-ray ISO from the MKV. The burned disc will start and then stop in the two Blu-ray players I tried. I’ve successfully converted other MKVs to BDs before. Anything special I need to do?

EDIT: Doh, just realized the resolution of the MKV is 1920x824. So I guess borders have to be added to make it 1920x1080.

Yea you need to use the program uncropMKV

skuid87 said:

Hi KK,

Thanks for the tremendous work you’ve done on these releases. Perfect balance of original and special editions!

I was also wondering when you’d be releasing the updated ESB with new emperor.

Where can I find the DTS 5.1 tracks?

Cheers

If you have a surround sound receiver I suggest going with the 2.0 track. It will upconvert to 5.1 and it is based off the the audio from the laser discs. This is actually considered the purest form of the audio for the OT.

I actually did an edit of your NOOOO scene for personal use. In that scene when Vader starts breaking out of the gurney he is moaning and you hear stuff breaking all over as he crushes stuff. I copied that and layer it over the NOOOO. It sounds more like he’s groaning plus the room still sounds like he’s crushing stuff as he’s yelling. It helps a little to those that find that scene dumb like myself. I do agree you need that scene because it promotes the lie that palpatine says he killed her, Vader says he felt she was alive, and then you see her alive. Definitely the way to go.

Yea that sounds like a good compromise. Vague, but in a good way.

L8wrtr does this scene with anakin walking into the room, the kid walking out with no dialogue, and anakin igniting his saber. Works great since the whole scene is overlaid with music and without dialogue so it matches up well. Maybe you can go that route Hal

Hal 9000 said:

MrToad883 said:

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but was the lightsaber ignition sound for anakin/lukes saber accurate to the OT? it sounded different to me

This annoyed me too. The first time Finn ignites it, it sounds like Vader’s saber to me. I was on alert for this after having replaced two saber sound effects for my Ep3 edit that were wrong. Then again, the DVD remaster has the ROTJ saber ignition used in ESB, so I’m not sure what they’re smoking.

Haha hal, something to fix in your future edit…

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but was the lightsaber ignition sound for anakin/lukes saber accurate to the OT? it sounded different to me

Only thing I would change is adding in the 20th century fox logo/fanfare at beginning. The rest was just what was needed to restart this franchise.

Jackpumpkinhead said:

did they just print the artwork or did they burn the files too?

I had them just do the artwork onto discs. They will put the files onto discs no charge however the files are HUGE as you know so I had no way of uploading 100s of GB to them. The finished product was worth the money. My friends I made discs for rave how professional and real they look.

I asked OT member hairy hen about the PCM track, who is the go to guy about audio stuff around here and this is what he said for a more comprehensive answer:

When the 1993 laserdiscs were produced, the audio tracks were taken from original source material in 4-track format: left, right, center, and mono surround. These channels were downmixed to matrixed stereo and are intended to be expanded back into surround sound (pseudo-5.1) through the use of an upmixing algorithm in a receiver. Depending what kind of receiver you have, there may be several options available to choose from, but if you have Dolby Prologic II, that is what I would recommend using. This will separate the 2.0 mix into multiple channels, with the left, right, and center information going to their respective speakers, and the mono surround will be heard equally from both rear speakers. If you have a subwoofer, the low frequency information will be separated out and will play from there. These mixes do have a fair amount of bass in them–it was added in specifically because the 70mm theatrical mixes had substantial bass content–although on the 1993 versions isn’t as loud as a more modern 5.1 mix might be due to the lack of a separate LFE channel.

Kk650 did you know your PCM tracks up mixed to pseudo 5.1 surround when played through a receiver?

See my previous post haha. Your PCM tracks are perfect on my surround so I’m sticking with those. Hope all is well kk650!