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#607173
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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Regarding the burn marks, those were added to the prints and not the original negatives.  They were there for use by cinemas that used older projection systems that used two seperate projectors instead of the single large platters in order to accomodate multi-reel films. The first burn mark would indicate that the reel is about to end and the second mark would tell the projectionist to start the other projector and switch off the one that was running.  All of the film prints that were sent to theaters at the time would have them but if the transfers were off of the negatives and not a film print, the burn marks wouldn't be there.
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#602752
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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After all the times Lucas has gone back on his word lately, I wonder how long before the unaltered versions of the original trilogy end up getting released on a later blu-ray edition.  I mean, Lucas also swore that he would never release the deleted scenes from the original trilogy on video and now they're on the bluray discs that he swore he wouldn't release anywhere near as soon as they were released.
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#602646
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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I think he's trying to downconvert the 720p video to 480p DVD-quality mpeg.

If that's the case, you might want to check videohelp.com for suggestions on which mpeg encoder to use. The audio tracks in the 720p version should work as DVD audio tracks without any conversion. The audio and video tracks will need to be demuxed, which you can do with MKVExtract. From there you can figure out how large you want the mpeg2 DVD video file to be and set the mpeg encoder accordingly. It's been a while since I did any DVD mastering so I don't know what the current leading encoders and authoring sofware would be.

Another option is to see if your DVD player will play Divx or Xvid files. If it will you can use virtualdubmod with an h264/mpeg4 plugin to convert the video to one of those formats and play it that way.

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#600588
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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Puggo:

As far as the Biggs scene, I never remember seeing it the theater but I knew others that insisted they did see it when the movie was first released.  This could be due to the same reason that I clearly recall seeing an extra scene in Empire that was not part of the official release. Before seeing the movie, I got the comic adaptation which featured a scene after the bacta tank with the medical droid taking a bandage off of Luke's face.  I saw it in the theater and said "that's not what it looked like in the comic book!" Other people who saw the movie at the same theater commented on the scene as well referring to the bandage as a "sheet of ice." According to rumor, there were a handful of prints for both movies that had workprint scenes left in that were supposed to be removed.  I've been hoping that scene in Empire would reappear as a deleted scene or something just so I could see it again but with no luck, of course.
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#600565
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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Thanks for the answers. The 720p looks great so I was just asking out of personal curiosity. For films as old as 1977, we're reaching a point where anything above start to only provide further definition to the film grain itself, if that.

As far as the colors, I did see the disclaimer on the first page but I didn't know if that referred to the original despecialized edition or the version 2.0 since the color in that specific scene seems to vary between the two.

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#600540
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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I joined these forums after seeing the Despecialized Editions. I apologize if my questions have already been answered but this thread is very long and it's kind of hard to get through everything that was posted. First off, I want to give a huge thanks to Harmy for the Despecialized editions. They look excellent and it's great to be able to watch the movies in HD the way I remember them without all the distracting changes. I did wonder about a few things though. In the remastered version, during the scenes where the Jawas are watching R2-D2 in the canyon, is the color correct? The first version seems more accurate to what I remember when I first saw the movie in the theater. I say this because I clearly remember wondering why the Jawas seemed to have red eyes in the theater but the toys and even home video release they had yellow eyes. The change in tint would explain this. Also, R2 looks a little greenish in the remaster during that scene. Also was the Biggs scene that was added to the SE version originally deleted before or after the initial theatrical release? I've heard both ways citing that it was removed from the home video release due to early limitations of the VHS format. Finally, you mentioned a blu-ray release of the despecialized edition. Will this be in 1080p or 720p?