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For me Harmy's blows everything else out of the water. While it is reconstruction, meaning it's not frame for frame the original celluloid, the PQ difference between it and other preservations is staggering and makes for a vastly superior viewing experience. If you're more interested in a pure transfer of the original film, Team Blu's work is very solid, but when watching Harmy's, nothing every stuck out to me as clearly manipulated or recomposited.

I like L8wrtr's best overall, although I wouldn't necessarily call them definitive.

HAL's are a bit more lenient on pacing and a bit less aggressive with cutting.

I personally still like Kerr's episode III the best although it's only available as a SD DVD.

Q2's I would only try if you want the OT "secrets" preserved although that's never interested me. 

Seciors Episode I is interesting (I haven't watched it front to back but it does some bold things), his Episode II doesn't really work for me at all however.

The blu for ROTS and TPM are pretty good (although Phantom Menace does have some significant visual changes from the theatrical). I'd go for the HDTV broadcast version of Clones however, since the Blu-Ray has weird colors and some inexplicably rearranged shots.

...That said. I'd personally go with fan edits.

Yeah, that's really it. The skin tones are more saturated and warm and the blues have been pushed to turquoise, I think that's what gave me the orange/teal impression.

It's interesting but It doesn't look very OTish to me. It reminds more of a modern orange and teal grade.

If the prequel films didn't show the transformation from Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader I would have no interest in watching them. To me, the idea of preserving the twist is crazy, people watched the prequels in the first place because they wanted to see how this happened.

Ok, so there is a mono mix but it was paired with 16mm prints which probably weren't as widely shown in theaters. Afaik there are no major differences between the 16mm and 35mm mixes right?

Ady started this project when I was in high school. Now I've graduated college. That said, I'm still eagerly anticipating the release, I just hope the workflow for ROTJ and the prequels is more manageable for Ady's sake.

There is no mono mix of Empire.

Harmy said:

yoda-sama said:

I guess my post couldn't be last forever...  AntuFaalb, I'm impressed you actually haven't seen any of the SE versions this whole time.  Still, the '97 SE isn't as consistently irksome as watching what they did from '04 and on.

Harmy, if you don't get the scenes you wanted from that iTunes book, are 35mm scans of Jedi becoming available instead?  I have no idea how far along -1 is.

As of now, I have no 35mm footage for Jedi and the way it looks, I don't expect to for the near future, so it seems that v2.0 will be using the same sources as v1.0 and the improvement will mostly be only in the over-all picture quality.

 :( That's unfortunate. Has Team Blu provided you with anything? I just hope that the lapti nek scene doesn't stick out like a sore thumb in the next version.

It would sound like this. And yes, someone actually made this.

Yeah, close the blast doors and the removal of the echo effect in the swinging scene are the big ones for me. Stuff like removing the intercom effects would be really unnecessary imo.

Out of curiosity, besides flipped rear channels, some unnecessary SFX additions/changes and a few gaffes, what's so bad about the DVD/BD mixes?

I'm pretty sure only ANH is on the spleen

As long as it's 5.1, sounds clear, syncs to the theatrical and doesn't have annoying SE sounds like the Ronto roars and such I don't really care where it's sourced from because I'm afraid I don't have much of an ear for those things.

Tbh, I could live without the alternate takes/alternate voices, the things I really miss are "close the blast doors", the tractor beam line, the lack of that horrible echo effect in the chasm and some of the extra sound fx. A lot of those are on the BD/DVD mixes

Harmy, if you do make a BD25 version of this down the line, is there any chance you could include the 81 crawl via seamless branching? That would make me very happy :)

Here's a version of the Obi/Vader duel with no choir in case people were wondering how it sounds. 

As someone who really didn't like the aesthetic of the CG Clone Wars series I actually like how this looks. Yeah, It skews more toward kids than I would have liked but it has some of that OT vibe.

Edge of Tomorrow was really good. Need to see Snowpiercer

thanks for the feedback Hal.

TPM: I agree. Frankly if people got that impression, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, although I hadn't intended it. I've done some color stuff to the flashbacks in my latest cut that will hopefully make them feel a little more clearly delineated as flashbacks. 

On Jango: no, there isn't any line that explains this. What I ultimately would like to do is rotoscope Jango's helmet on for the few shots that he is unmasked, and redub his single line "don't move Jedi!" With a different voice actor. The rotoscoping might be outside my skillset, although in the updated clip I just posted,  I was able to rotoscope over Obi-Wan's face to remove a line of dialogue pretty succesfully. I'm also toying with removing Boba entirely, which would require reframing a few shots and rotoscoping him out of one or two (possibly beyond my skillset)

thank you on the romance plot, although it's nothing revolutionary. It's pretty much "Attack of the Phantom" with the waterfall scene added back in before the kiss. (It always felt a little rushed to me in the Phantom Editor's version) I think not having them revealed to be married until ROTS helps too. There's 3 years of presumed off-screen romance development.

on Padme: I've gone back and forth on this. I think you patched up that plot hole pretty elegantly in your version, but I'm pretty dead set against including the "No" scene, and I always really liked Padme's "there's still good in him" especially as a lead in to ROTJ...part of me would rather edit ROTJ to patch up the plot hole.

running time: basically I'd like to get it down to as close to typical Star Wars length as possible without introducing any plot holes or jettisoning too much character development. Since releasing the workprint I've taken another look at some other edits included Kerr's and managed to cut another 20 min from the film (his cutting of Bail going to the Temple/Yoda leaving kashykk etc is a real timesaver I hadn't considered), so it's at about 2:45 with credits now. I also cut the Yoda/Palps duel. I was pretty adamant to leave it in, albeit cut down at first, because I feel that the Ani/Obi duel is a slog to get through without cutting away to anything and I also think it would be odd if no one tried to challenge the emperor, but a combination of running time and the desire to see Yoda not use a lightsaber got the better of me.

I will probably upload another work print at some point, but I want to get the dubbing done and the surround mixing done first.

So, I recently had the privilege of downloading Team Blu's fantastic Star Wars BD release and have been trying to burn it to a BD25 using my Mac (I have an external Pioneer Blu-Ray drive). First I tried simply burning the BDMV and Certificate files to the disc using Finder but the resulting disc wouldn't play on my PS3. I ascertained that the file system might be the problem so I used the application "Burn" to burn the files using the UDF file system but it still won't play on my PS3. Does anyone have experience burning a Blu-Ray using files on a Mac?

Does anyone know the proper way to burn the Blu-Ray on a Mac (I have an external burner)? I tried burning the BDMV and Certificate folders straight to a Blu-Ray using Finder but it won't play on my PS3

Well I guess I'll have to settle for the six track mix for now, but I would love it if this happened (@hairy_hen, if you're listening, I would be forever in your debt...)

Does something like this exist? I prefer the mono mix of the film because it most closely resembles what most people heard in theaters and is arguably the most “complete” mix but I also like to make full use of my sound system. Some may think something like this is counterintuitive to wanting the original version of the film but I’d love it.