SirJonah

Harmy said:

I tried to simulate the subs in Puggo Grande but then I found some different sources, which I think are very reliable which seem to point towards a slightly thinner, more rounded font.

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About the fade in/out with a blur thing, all evidence seems to point toward no such thing ever being there in SW, so I'll probably take it out.

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I cut back on the shake in the last two videos - it's still there but not as much.

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I got the blue glow idea from Puggo's transfer as well but yeah, I'll scratch that too.

 

 

Fantastic! It really does look great!

Jambe,

Sent you another PM with a link to an alternate version of the logo art with a blue drop shadow that looks better on black, should you need it.

Jambe,

PM sent.

And with transparency:

And a new title card (the "G" was too big on my first one):

Looks great, Jamie. Here's a title card done with the Open Kapitalen font if you'd like to use it in place of the one you have now. I can also do one in the Adventure font, if you like.

Harmy said:

And the mkv is definitely not going to be 1080p, because since all my current sources are 720p, I don't see any good reason to upscale everything to 1080p.

Somewhat disappointing, but any higher bitrate is greatly appreciated. My plans will still work at 720p as long as it truly is 720p with intact black bars as your other encodes have been and not 542p.

And with high bitrate 720p, compression artifacts will be even less apparent than at 1080p. So, thank you, regardless... for all your efforts.

Harmy said:

I actually plan to release a DVD9 AVCHD and then also a 15 or so GB mkv. I was even thinking about a BD25 release but since I don't have a BD burner, I don't think I'll do that.

A 1080p mkv in the 15-20GB range would be fantastic! With multiAVCHD, I could combine the movie with the 2.6GB "Making of Star Wars" from the Blu-ray set, together with a simple main menu.

This could actually be done with all three of the movies -- each with their respective classic documentaries. And they'd all fit comfortably on a BD25. I love it!

Well if you *were* to add a small amount of grain, (which, honestly would help with the blending of your smoother-looking, lower quality elements) perhaps you'd consider rendering out a 1920x1080 higher bitrate version that would fill a BD-25? I'd go for that.

The Aluminum Falcon said:

Ginge, the link you referred to actually has a video of the Greedo Scene with subtitles. Unfortunately, the camera is not completely steady so one can't completely tell whether the subtitles were shaking.

Here's a direct link to the video. Harmy could stabilize it if he wanted and see if there is a detectable shake.

http://petergaultney.smugmug.com/Movies/historic/Star-Wars-at-The-Senator/i-GnX2777/0/1280/10-greedo-1280.mp4

Also the 35mm subtitle font looks more like the end credit font than this new font that Harmy is using to emulate the 16mm print. The periods and ellipses look squarish while the letters have a slightly rounded appearance (might also be the soft focus). The opposite seems true for the 16mm subs. Perhaps they had different subtitles made for the 16mm reduction?

That would explain why the 16mm subs seem to have more shake... they were added in optically after the reduction. 16mm only has two perforations per side versus 35mm's 4 perfs. Just thinking out loud...

EDIT: If you look at the subtitle, "It's too late. You should have paid him when you had the chance." Notice where "You" falls over Harrison Ford's body.  It doesn't match Harmy's current 2.0 version.  The rest of the letters are also out of place. Maybe it's more like the GOUT after all?

I hope Laserschwert doesn't mind this, but I went ahead and (roughly) synched-up the end credit music to his awesome titles just to take a look and listen.

Here it is:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RCBOUFNW

Again, fantastic work Harmy... and also to all those contributing to this great project.

Fantastic work Harmy. I would love to see this. Could I get a link to the AVCHD as well?