TR2N

Thank you Harmy!! What a great week!! Are there Screenshots or samples somewhere?

I was never pointing on someone’s post here. It is a only a notice of things I read on Facebook and somewhere else. No personal offense.

Nick66 said:

TR2N said:

I don’t understand the people here that are complaining over colors, crushed blacks etc. Wtf are they talking about? I mean you gave us the best experience of ROTJ ever and people are complaining the Shit out of that. We have to be so thankful for what you have done and the time you spent for this version. I think the colors are awesome, ROTJ never looked better imo!!

Some people really have 1st world problems…

While I haven’t yet offered any criticism or feedback on this release, I really don’t think this comment is fair to many here who have.

I believe Harmy wants constructive, politely stated feedback, that’s the way this project continually evolves and improves. I think most everyone, here at least, who have commented on dark scenes, crushed blacks, etc. has done so politely with genuine expressions of appreciation. I know I for one find the Emperor a little dark on the crossed sabre scene, though I haven’t mentioned it. That doesn’t mean I’m not appreciative of what Harmy had accomplished. But I’m also appreciative of those who brought it to Harmys attention so he can consider it for future releases. Similarly, while the blacks look fine to me, I don’t think there’s any wrong with those who see it differently. Then Harmy makes whatever call he wishes, as it should be. And when Harmy responds to criticism or feedback, he always says why he made the choices he did, and for me at least this is interesting.

And your comment about “first world problems” is frankly a little snide. They’re ALL first world problems. Wanting a despecialised edition in the first place because the current Blu Ray isn’t good enough for us (and it’s not) is a first world problem. All we talk about on this forum are first world problems. If you’re unconcerned with such problems then stick with the Special Editions you already (presumably) have on BD and be done with it.

So as far as I can see most everyone here is thankful for what Harmy has done. But if everything was perfect from the get go there would have been no need to go beyond 1.0. So if someone is being rude (e.g. Calling it disgusting) by all means call them out. Bur theres nothing wrong with constructive feedback.

Hi Harmy,

I don’t understand the people here that are complaining over colors, crushed blacks etc. Wtf are they talking about? I mean you gave us the best experience of ROTJ ever and people are complaining the Shit out of that. We have to be so thankful for what you have done and the time you spent for this version. I think the colors are awesome, ROTJ never looked better imo!!

Some people really have 1st world problems…

Holy shit, this is absolutley awesome Harmy! Thank you so much for your hard work you put in!!

F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5…

Du kannst das mit der Untertitelspur mit MKV Toolnix korrigieren. Habe ich auch gemacht und klappt bestens.

I think it is Laserschwert’s german crawl/release of Krieg der Sterne - Die Rückkehr der Jedi Ritter… 😉

…as last missing peace…

Hi Harmy,

now you want to release ESB v2.5 - what changes/updates do you plan for it? I just rewatched Laserschwert´s german v2.1 edit today and it is perfect! Curious what your plans are! 😃

Awesome, thank you so much for this! PM sent!

I would love to help you out Harmy! 😃

Williarob said:

team_negative1 said:

We’ll start a new thread for the Eastman vs Technicolor version when we are ready to discuss more about it.

Team Negative1

Right - we have to finish the LPP first!

Edit: But I will add one more teaser, just for the OT crowd.

http://we.tl/8s0ABfcoLG

This video was produced using this technique (plus a little post processing to clean it up a little more), and it only took about a week… It has not been color corrected.

This is absolutely awesome! A huge quality jump compared to v1!

daileyxplanet said:

I too would appreciate a 720P down-convert as my TV is 1080i plus 1080P and Plex are not really compatible for seamless watching.

You can find one on the Spleen.

Williarob said:

TR2N said:

Does this mean the BR version will be GOUT - sync?

No promises, but hopefully, yes.

Great!! 😃

Does this mean the BR version will be GOUT - sync? That would be awesome!

Thank you for all your hard work guys!!

LeviSnuts said:

TR2N said:

Ah, okay. Thought it is something with cut, insert and merge or maybe smart encoding where only the added or modified content is encoded and merged together with the rest.

I did video editing myself years ago, did a concert movie in 720p/1080p of Nine Inch Nails material that was pushed from Trent to the net with multiple camera angles. Was editing it over a few month with Vegas, used Avisynth as frame server and encoded with MeGUI. Maybe the result is something for the Spleen too, maybe I share it there some day. The torrent is inactive on DIME now.

I remember that I was able to smart render some parts.

Sorry for the off topic.

you did Lights In The Sky (“the Gift”)? if so, you are AWESOME

Yup, it is. I will share it on the Spleen in the near future.

Ah, okay. Thought it is something with cut, insert and merge or maybe smart encoding where only the added or modified content is encoded and merged together with the rest.

I did video editing myself years ago, did a concert movie in 720p/1080p of Nine Inch Nails material that was pushed from Trent to the net with multiple camera angles. Was editing it over a few month with Vegas, used Avisynth as frame server and encoded with MeGUI. Maybe the result is something for the Spleen too, maybe I share it there some day. The torrent is inactive on DIME now.

I remember that I was able to smart render some parts.

Sorry for the off topic.

althor1138 said:

TR2N said:

As I asked earlier… Can someone point me how to GOUT sync this monster? I would love to watch this with my dad in our foreign language. Will the BD release sync to GOUT, so I would wait… 😉?

Thank you guys!

I’m almost done with a 720p re-encode of this that is gout-synced. It looks like it will weigh in around 9-10 GB with the dts mono mix included. If there is interest I will up it to the spleen.

That would be nice!

Is it not possible to GOUT-sync it lossless?

As I asked earlier… Can someone point me how to GOUT sync this monster? I would love to watch this with my dad in our foreign language. Will the BD release sync to GOUT, so I would wait… 😉?

Thank you guys!

althor1138 said:
Gout-sync script.

I count 111 frames missing vs. gout and 0 extra frames. Mostly from the end of the reels. I tried to add little annotations of the shots missing frames to make it easier to reference.

Thank you, I just wanted to ask how to apply a german GOUT audio track to it. 😃

But how can I do this exactly? What tools do I need, is there a how-to anywhere? Avisynth / VirtualDub with the MKV as video source and the script as input…? Sorry for the noob questions, but I really want to learn and to understand. Maybe someone of the pros here can help me out.

@TeamNegative1
I finished watching it and it was outstanding! Great job, thank you so much for it!!

They look very cool CatBus. Do you ship them with an update of your Pack in the near future?

TV’s Frink said:

“Please ban me.”

-Wario64l, 2016

Lol

CatBus said:

My first test of the new matching subtitles has been pretty successful, sample below (click for full size).

Things I worked on:

• The font, which is mostly Franklin Gothic Demi Cond, but you’ll see on the lowercase “g” and the question mark that I’ve modified it to look more like the theatrical font.
• The drop shadow, which is now scripted with Perl and ImageMagick (of course, one trick pony…) to look more like the solid black drop shadow of the films than the semitransparent drop shadow generated by easySUP.
• The border, which isn’t theatrical at all but is pretty much necessary if you want to read the subtitles against a white background (think Hoth). Instead of the thin black solid outline you can see in the example in the first post, it’s a thin faint semitransparent border along the northwest edge of the letters to provide some definition – much less obtrusive IMO, but still necessary.
• The blur, which you can only really see in the larger version. I blurred up the subtitles very slightly so that they appear to be part of the film itself, rather than much sharper than the rest of the film. I think this makes it look much more seamless.

I may decide to do more things, but I’m actually very happy with how this test run looks.

Please note that none of these changes are going into the regular subtitles–just the ones that are supposed to look like the burnt-in theatrical ones. In particular, don’t panic about the blur, it’s not going anywhere else.

Looks awesome CatBus!

Great news!!

Yes, 3.0 will come in 1080p. It would be interesting to know, in which GB regions the 1080p version will be released, BD-50 maybe? If it would be a BD-25 release, I would personally prefer 720p in this case because there is enough space for a higher video bit rate which is making a 1080p version obsolete, like the current releases. I did not notice any great difference (besides the colors!) on my calibrated TV comparing a screenshot from the official Blu Ray with a identical frame taken from the DE, besides the fucked up colors…

Awesome work CatBus. Will get the package as soon as I am on my computer! Thank you so much!