Aren't Technicolor prints supposed to have different colors than other prints due to the dye-transfer process, so the colors aren't truly faithful to the negatives?
Well, I mean something like http://cinegrain.com/, which can be used with digital videos to make them look like films. These are supposed to be real film grain scans, not a filter or tool which emulate it.
But don't worry, the main point of this thread is the restoration you guys are doing =)
Quin-Tain Reetat, check your spleen.
negative1, a little offtopic request: do you have clean film cells which only contains grain and nothing more? There are some commercial projects regarding transfering film grain to digital and then use them as filters for digitally recorded videos. It would be amazing if you can provide us with some small samples (those official products costs hundreds of dollars).
The zip is slightly corrupted. I was unable to use File-roller, I needed plain unzip for uncompress it.
Amazing, BTW. Love to see the old special effects and all the dirt back before they recomposited them on 1995. Thank you Puggo for an amazing transfer.
EDIT: Ah, I see it, you have uploaded a new torrent to that page. So the new one has been corrected?[Insert epic Star Wars quote here]
Thank you, Puggo!
Thank you bilditup1. I hope I don't get more corrupted parts like the previous MKV.
Except that's not true, as the Nyquist rate states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_rate
AntcuFaalb said:
jero32 said:
Heh, a fellow nes programmer. You go on nesdev.com? What's your nick?
Ok back on topic :PPM sent :-D
Hey, can you please send me a PM too?
Nice to hear that, you guys are our only hope!
Sorry if this has been asked before, but will the Bluray have a bigger bitrate and quality than the MKV released?
bilditup1, the Raspberry Pi is supposed to handle 1080p. Maybe Harmy's mkv has too much bitrate...
Good luck, Harmy.
That's funny, I was about to post about the raw pics.
I think everybody could have just a percent of the total raw files to avoid buying several HDD. This way, three or four users have 20 minutes of the film, another three or four users have the next 20 minutes of the movie, and so on. So then if you need the raws from a certain scene, you just need to ask the users who have them. In fact this could work with P2P...
It would be even better if you release the raws at 4k, for preservation purposes, so we could always reedit them in lossless format and then create 1080p or even higher-resolution mkv, but that's just an idea. 1080p is still nice.
@Laserschwert: I thought he received one. Anyway, this is going to be great =)
@pat man: Thanks, I missed that thread.
7FN said:
Just watched this on an 1080p Epson projector on a 110" screen. What can I say?!?? Absolutely stunning! It's remarkable the difference to a film that colour timing can make. Finally this looks like a film made in 1977, the film I fell in love with in a cinema in 1980! Had so many goosebump moments it'd be futile to list them here! Really couldn't see the joins/seems where old footage was reinserted - was way too busy being swept up in a galaxy far, far away to care! That in itself should indicate what a superlative job Harmy has done here! I can now completely enjoy & be immersed in this film once again, without mentally tensing for the next change, whether to the soundtrack, the additions, the colouring etc etc etc. The film felt organic again, and of its era. LOVED the colour-timing. The film grain. Spot on. Still the occasional black crush but that's the bluray source for you. It still looks utterly fantastic. I just want to fire up the projector and watch it right through again frankly. Even my folks who rarely notice such things commented on how 'film-like' & 'punchy' it looked! I've made them sit through this way too many times over the decades, but this time around they were saying they could see things never seen before, and it felt like watching the film again for the very first time. I utterly agree!
THANKS Harmy - you've done a wonderful thing by bringing this film back the way it was, back in 1977. I'm sure this release will go down (officially or unofficially) in Star Wars history - along with the year 2012 - as being of great importance, along with -1s impending 35mm release too.
What a year to be an OT Star Wars fan! Life is good ;)
7FN.
This. Star Wars is a film from the seventees, and it should look like a movie from the seventees, just like Return of the Jedi is a movie from the eightees and it should look like a movie from the eightees. Strangely, Empire Strikes Back does not look like a movie from a certain age (or at least the official releases and Despecialized 1.0). Not sure why, but that's one of the reasons why ESB is my favorute OT movie.
And SW Despecialized 2.0 LOOKS like a movie from 1977. It does not have CGI bullshit. It does not have a strange color palette. It looks natural. It looks like a film, and that what I love about Harmy's new restoration. You are a wizard ;)
BTW, what's the source of -1's 35mm? If it isn't a Technicolor print, why not using the Technicolor print Harmy has (if the private collector who donated it allows you, of course)? That would be even more amazing. And if money is a problem, I would donate some bucks =)
But the strange thing is that the MD5 and SHA1 sums of torrented files should be 100% identical to the original files, since I think the P2P protocol handles checksums...
Just in case, I stopped seeding.Pheran said:
Rox64 said:
Are you downloading it from Myspleen, Midnight_Trooper? I get 900 KBps of speed...
Harmy, I will try to split both mkv and then merge then later. BTW, this is the SHA1 hash of the file I downloaded from Myspleen: 1548ff324162e7ec6fb47346b8b2a2eab3090b73. Maybe the file was slightly corrupted when I was downloading it?
If that is your MKV file (Star.Wars.Despecialized.Edition.Remastered.Harmy.mkv) and not something else, then something went very wrong, because I got mine from Myspleen and it matched Harmy's perfectly.
Yup, that's the one I got.
The funny part is that when I played this mkv on a low powered netbook which can't handle 720p without slowdowns and frameskipping, the video player crashed. Then I tried it on a desktop computer with 4gb of RAM and an Intel Core 2 and the first time it just showed graphic glitches but the video player didn't crashes, but now it just skips the corrupted part.
So I did what Harmy told me: I downloaded the first and second rar from Mediafire, then I uncompress them (despite being broken), then I splitted the whole film on the 00:01:00 mark and then I added the uncorrupted part... but when I played the finished video I saw an small "jump" around 00:01:00, so then I redid the whole project, but now on the 00:00:27.500 mark, when the "A long time ago..." message dissapear, so this "jump" is no longer visible. So it's fixed now.
Meanwhile I'm seeding the finished torrent, I hope nobody experience this strange glitch.
Are you downloading it from Myspleen, Midnight_Trooper? I get 900 KBps of speed...
Harmy, I will try to split both mkv and then merge then later. BTW, this is the SHA1 hash of the file I downloaded from Myspleen: 1548ff324162e7ec6fb47346b8b2a2eab3090b73. Maybe the file was slightly corrupted when I was downloading it?
n00b said:
Rox64 said:
Hey, n00b, is there a way I can merge two mkvs from a certain frame with MKVToolNix? For example, open a mkv, then add a second mkv right after frame 2000 of the first mkv, and that includes the audio. Because I'm spending a lot of time googling how to do this...
I never needed such a function but have you already tried the "append" button (next to the "add" button)?
Yeah... But it seems it adds the mkv at the end of the first one, or I'm just stupid and I don't know how to properly edit them...
n00b said:
Harmy said:
If someone could please find or put together a tutorial on how to replace an audio file with MKV merge, I'd really appreciate it, I really need to study right now.
Here's how to replace asynchronous audio tracks or to add further audio tracks.
First of all, download the fixed audio tracks.
Get MKVToolnix from http://www.heise.de/download/mkvtoolnix.html and install it. Open it and add the MKV-file and the fixed audio tracks.
All tracks including the fixed audio tracks are now listed in the box below. Uncheck the asynchronous audio tracks and check the fixed audio tracks. Choose a new order by using the up and down buttons.
Left click on a fixed audio track, choose "General track options", name the track (f. e. the German track should be called "2.0 @ 384Kbps"), determine it's language and deactivate "Default track flag".
If you want to add further audio tracks that aren't synchronized to the video track yet, you may have to choose "Format specific options" as well and set a positive or negative delay. It's not advised to stretch the audio track during the muxing because this stretching isn't permanent, has to be generated each time while the movie is playing and will stress your system resources.
Click on "Start muxing".
Hey, n00b, is there a way I can merge two mkvs from a certain frame with MKVToolNix? For example, open a mkv, then add a second mkv right after frame 2000 of the first mkv, and that includes the audio. Because I'm spending a lot of time googling how to do this...
Well I have downloaded and extracted the first rar available on Mediafire, and the glitch on the 0:20 mark does not appear. So now I need to find out how to combine the first rar with the whole mkv I have downloaded from Myspleen.
So I decided to create a smaller mkv with only the video channel and the 1977 audio channels with mkvmerge, and this is part of the output:
/home/rox/Descargas/P2P/Completos/DeEdv2.0/Star.Wars.Despecialized.Edition.Remastered.Harmy.mkv: Error de la estructura del archivo Matroska en la posición 38318839. Resincronización hasta el siguiente elemento del nivel 1.
Still resyncing at position 41680554.
Resincronización con éxito en la posición 43306633.
Advertencia:'/home/rox/Descargas/P2P/Completos/DeEdv2.0/Star.Wars.Despecialized.Edition.Remastered.Harmy.mkv' pista 3: Esta pista AC3 contiene 896 bytes de información que no son datos AC3, por lo que serán omitidos. La sincronización de audio/vídeo ha podido perderse.
Advertencia:'/home/rox/Descargas/P2P/Completos/DeEdv2.0/Star.Wars.Despecialized.Edition.Remastered.Harmy.mkv' pista 3: Esta pista AC3 contiene 896 bytes de información que no son datos AC3, por lo que serán omitidos. La sincronización de audio/vídeo ha podido perderse.
Advertencia:'/home/rox/Descargas/P2P/Completos/DeEdv2.0/Star.Wars.Despecialized.Edition.Remastered.Harmy.mkv' pista 3: Esta pista AC3 contiene 896 bytes de información que no son datos AC3, por lo que serán omitidos. La sincronización de audio/vídeo ha podido perderse.
Advertencia:'/home/rox/Descargas/P2P/Completos/DeEdv2.0/Star.Wars.Despecialized.Edition.Remastered.Harmy.mkv' pista 3: Esta pista AC3 contiene 896 bytes de información que no son datos AC3, por lo que serán omitidos. La sincronización de audio/vídeo ha podido perderse.
I'm not sure if those warnings are related with the 0:00:20 crash I saw... mkvmerge is still working, so I will check the final result.
Well I sent a PM to Harmy but he said it should be posted on this thread, so here's the PM I sent:
Hi again, Harmy, I'm sending a PM because you said you prefer reporting errors through PM...
I have downloaded DeEd 2.0 from Myspleen, and it seems it isn't corrupted... except at the very start of the movie (around 0:00:20), when "A LucasFilm production" fades to black and "A long time ago" should appear. Sometimes it even crashes the video player! I have tested it on Mplayer2 and VLC and both have this problem.
It seems the rest of the movie is right, but I will check it this weekend; I'm going to have a Star Wars marathon with my friends =) (the Despecialized OT, of course... we won't see the crap that is called the Prequel Trilogy). So I will confirm it in a few days.
Harmy, I was checking the .rar file of those comparison pics between 1.0 and 2.0 (btw: 2.0 is wonderful). But they do not match correctly; for example, Luke's pic on the assault to the Death Star is zoomed in on 2.0. Another example (but less obvious) is that pic when Luke uses a lightsaber for the first time. Do you know why?