NeverarGreat

Sounds like you're not much of a Special Edition fan. ;)

I'm not an audio person, so the Blu-ray audio stays in even though it's screwed up. That also means I don't foresee changing the Han/Greedo scene or anything else from the Blu-ray except for the rocks in front of R2, because as the original is in 1080 it seems like a no-brainer, and I don't know of anyone who likes that change.

My hope for this project is for it to be a resource for other projects rather than a standalone presentation, so for example, it'll include the Jabba scene and other people can do with it what they will. I'm still deciding how those Special Edition changes should be corrected, whether to the 97 version or a hypothetical 77 coloration to blend in with the rest of the movie.

It'll be 1080p and uncompressed as much as possible - and as the effort to restore the highlight and shadow information show, this should be a video that is more detailed than the Blu-ray itself.

Everything's backed up. After disks finish defragmenting, It'll be upgrade time. Fingers crossed.

Update: Well that was easier than expected. Hello Windows 7.

doubleofive said:

Johnny Ringo said:

eyeball trauma.

Yes, that and needles. Yes, the adrenaline shot in Pulp Fiction makes me uncomfortable.

I always wonder what would happen if the needle breaks inside someone's body - it's these what ifs that get me.

Lightsabers are cool, we get it. Why not make blasters cool in the new movies? I know that they have more than one setting, so let's see some set for disintegration already!

I've synced the HD broadcast to the Blu-ray, so here's a screenshot of the blu-ray with the broadcast filling in the missing detail in the highlights:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/62420

Disregard the colors, as this shot hasn't been corrected.

It looks like you've gotten the blues well under control here, it looks much more 70's now.

A persistent problem of the Blu-ray is the amount of green in the supposedly white areas of the picture, such as stormtrooper armor and R2's dome. If you are able to add blue and red to just these greenish-white areas it would liven up a lot of shots. It's a tricky situation, as there's often too much blue and red in the shadow areas, so you'd be shifting the color balance very selectively.

In any case, your settings seem to be an improvement to every shot.

I saw a bunch of these in the local Barnes and Noble some time ago, and I'm pretty sure it's just Blu-ray screenshots.

JEDIT: Here's the trailer, these are definitely just the Blu-rays:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sd0BAxcEBQ

EyeShotFirst said:

I've done hours of work trying to get Yoda to look right on single frames. The CGI would have to be replaced to look like ESB Yoda. I don't get why they didn't just dig out the old puppet. It would've been a treat for fans.

 In the Making of Jedi discussion, I seem to remember that Rinzler saw the original Yoda puppet, and it was terribly rotted. That probably wouldn't have been a treat to see, and I can understand why they recreated the puppet for Episode 1. Why they made him look different however...

I'd say the grain level is great, and the planetary hologram in particular looks a lot better, as well as the strange greens throughout.

The gate weave is rather extreme however, and feels almost...violent...if that makes any sense.

I look forward to seeing the completed colors!

generalfrevious said:

We live in an age of extremes. You cannot have a reasonable position on any issue anymore. I don't know how to look for the good in things; can anyone help me?

I'd be happy to talk if you'd like to PM me. I'm not a Catholic but I try not to tread on anyone's deeply held beliefs. Yet from what you've said, it seems like you sincerely wish to decide for yourself the truth of things, and would do so were it not for family concerns.

As for seeing the good in things, well you care strongly about the value of human life. That's a good thing indeed. If you want to start with a small change to improve your outlook, consider perhaps changing the broken record in your signature. It's hard to look at something like that every day and not get discouraged. I'd suggest Beethoven's Symphony #9.

;)

Yep, the last time I watched Empire on VHS the audio and video crapped out right as the "superior sound and picture quality" THX card appeared, only to instantly clear up when the movie started.

We all giggled.

How about "Username"? It would go really well with your "avatar" avatar. You could even have "Username's signature" in your signature area to make it complete.

Pretty cool, I'm guessing it's Luke and his rabid fans in the theater?

;)

Perhaps: *shudder*Andy

When I was first watching ESB when I was 5 years old, C-3PO's barging in on Han and Leia's makeout session was my favorite part of that scene. Watching it two decades later...and it's still the best part of that scene!

Here's to Kersh's unscripted Empire moments.

It would be cool to see a young Han Solo movie where Han turns from a decent guy into a rather villainous dude who looks after only himself. It could work if they made it clear that he was once a hero but had to bury that part of himself in order to survive in the galaxy. I'd say animated would be the way to go, as this isn't James Bond; Harrison is Han.

Alright, I think I've waited long enough to discuss spoilers for this film.

;)

I rewatched it today, so here are some thoughts new and old:

I'm in the "everything was a dream" camp. The reason for this is because of the glaring plot hole regarding Limbo: There is no way to escape from it except to wait it out, yet Mal and Cobb seem to be able to wake up from it by simply killing themselves with a train. This is illogical, and throws everything else into question. For example, what kind of information regarding the rules of the dream should be trusted? I think that Cobb's account of how he and his wife got into Limbo is accurate to a point. They tried going deeper and deeper into the dream world, level by level until they reached bottom. But since a person cannot exit Limbo by dying, they simply must wait it out for however long they have been put under, which could expand into decades.

So it is clear that Mal and Cobb could not have actually woken up after the train incident. Everything after that is also a dream, but is Mal really present during the events of the movie? If they are both sharing a dream, why couldn't she attempt to contact him in the "real" world while he was trying to get back to his kids? The only way people sharing a dream can be entirely separated is if they are on different levels, and since a person can go no deeper than Limbo, the only explanation is that Mal was never in Limbo with Cobb, but instead is on a higher level of the original layered dream.

How were they separated? If they were to explore dreamspace together, and did so for a long time, there would be a real danger of one of them dying while under heavy sedation and dropping into Limbo without the other, leaving the other to return to wakefulness much quicker, at least from their point of view. This is how I interpret the events of the movie. Mal and Cobb were exploring dreamspace, Cobb was killed while they were sedated to go three levels down, and Mal was too afraid to go down after him, knowing that she may lose her mind down there. Cobb incorporated her into his Limbo however, and he built an entire world of (very similar) buildings. He lost his view of reality when he started building his memories (his memories, not hers) and the rest of the movie is him dealing with his emotional baggage of not spending time with his kids and trying to get back to some form of reality, as well as recognizing that the projection of his wife isn't real.

Incidentally, the totems are no use in determining whether you are or are not in a dream, for their behavior conforms to what you expect them to do. All they protect against is being fooled in another person's dream. Thus the movie is all Cobb's dream.

How's that for a necrobump?

Why is that insane? Are you suggesting that there is something inherently wrong with DVD quality that everyone who watches it must be unsatisfied?

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

NeverarGreat said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

LexX said:

Tatooine could be bigger than Jupiter all we know.

A solid, rocky planet larger than Jupiter? Don't think that's possible -- from a real-world perspective, anyway.

 Yeah, it would probably lead to humans evolving into small, child-sized creatures with high pitched voices just to negate the stronger gravity. Either that or large sluglike things that can hardly move.

 Hmm, that explains both Jabba, and whiny young Anakin.

 ^LOL.

I like the Radio Drama retcon that the ships simulate battle noises in space, as it really makes sense when you think about it. A gunner would need all of their senses in order to orient themselves in a battle, especially considering the ships going in and out of their line of sight.

Are these yours?

I like the idea that we all exist in a dark alternate reality of the poorly made prequels. I can imagine that the happy people in the "good prequels" universe don't even think about what the world would have looked like if the prequels had been bad, but we in the dark alternate universe can think of nothing else, struggling to assemble their own versions of the films from scraps and low quality releases.

This of course will be the next phase of Star Wars preservations, where timestream-hopping preservationists will buy pristine unaltered Star Wars blu-rays from more sane dimensions and release them here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxdpNpIAYZg

At the 1:30 Mark you can see that it's the same structure. That's one less mystery!

That's a lot of red to deal with.

I got some pretty good results by first pulling up the reds to neutralize the grays, then bringing the vibrancy way down and pulling up the saturation. This neutralizes most of the red tint, though it's still there to some extent:

Perhaps somewhere between the original and the corrected LAD is where you want to be.

JEDIT: On second thought, I really don't think that the LAD should be neutral gray, there's no way the sky is going to be anything but red if that happens.

Bingowings said:

I would be fascinated to see it.

I'm pretty sure we got the wrong 2hrs.

I've never seen any stills or productions shots of the filming at Hever Castle so maybe that's in there but maybe they only intended to film some architectural elements (like stairs for Naboo) there???

 Hever Castle gardens are somewhat reminiscent of those deleted scenes from AOTC where Anakin meets Padme's family. That would be an interesting inclusion. Or an extended sequence where Qui-gon et al would sneak around trying to get to the main hangar in order to escape Naboo. But more likely it would have been used for elements.

JEDIT: Found this image of the castle grounds, looks mighty familiar to the look of Naboo:

Tobar said:

muddyknees2000 said:

Somebody should have replaced George between ROTJ and TPM.

You mean you haven't heard?

 That was...really good.

I wonder if Chewie gets killed and replaced between ROTJ and Episode VII.