Disk 2 of Empire is in the works then after that I will start New Hope. There wouldn't be a disk two if I could what I wanted to do with Premier and Encore.
dark_jedi said:You said Bluray authoring technology for home use sucks,so what program did you use,and did you do any touching up or changing of the video at all,and if so what changes did you make?
and like Ady said,do you have a sample clip we can gander at?
Thanks for this by the way,are you planning on doing the others as well?
I used Adobe Premier Pro & Adobe Encore with some things Sony Vegas 8c. Sorry no sample. I put up what I had if you want it, if not move along.
BD-D2 said:BRAVO!! Absolutely incredible work! Thank you. :-)
This Blu Ray edition will definitely hold me over until George decides to go blue.
Just one (very minor) critique. I have noticed that the center channel volume is about -4 db lower than the rest of the mix. I was having difficulty hearing voices over the music and effects. This was easy to fix by simply raising my center channel 4 db.
A stellar production! I am looking forward to future BD upgrades.
Is that for both DTS and Dolby Digital versions? I am really sorry to let that slip through. I might have to remaster it again if that's the case.
The iso file is 38.4GB and even if you strip it down to the video and one audio your still left at around 31.7GB. Unless you completely ruin the quality by shrinking it to fit on some other media you will HAVE to go dual layer bluray or remux to store on hard disk.
vbangle said:Wookie Groomer said:Bluray Empire is up on the groups. Let the flaming begin.
BlurayDisk-LaughItUpFuzzBall
WookieGroomer, your work has always been tops...
I haven't seen this yet but why are you anticipating flaming? I hope all is well and that you didn't get pissed and say f it...
Anyway thank you for sharing. And thank you for your extra help way back when as well.
I sort of thought f it towards the end. The adjustments aren't what I was hoping for and the Bluray authoring technology for home use sucks major bantha fooder so I couldn't do ANY of the things I was planning. There is no true reference for the 1980 edition except for the crappy DVD releases the lucas threw together so trying to match colors and such to something that was already washed out and starting to deterorate was less than an ideal source.
Also, Being that I upgraded hardware and to Vista 64bit half way through my project I lost most of the functionality I needed to make the project closer to my vision. So a second disk will be showing up with the features as separate items. Each time I sample the final product I do feel that I came close to the mark but always feel I could have gone back to do a little better. Maybe you guys can decide.
Bluray Empire is up on the groups. Let the flaming begin.
BlurayDisk-LaughItUpFuzzBall
Dance away
Bluray structure and multiple audios intact. Not sure about how animated the menus will be or the added features I have planned. I have too much I want to do and because of this I either will take forever to do it or settle for simplistic to get it out there. I actually have a second disk planned that I may just have to do at a latter date as a seperate project after the saga is finished. Originaly each movie was to be a 2 disk set with the feature on disk one and something on disk two that have never been done before. I'm afraid to mention what it might be, I don't want to take too long to do it just to have someone else run with it.
Don't anyone change their lives around yet. Once it gets posted to the groups it will be out there for months if not almost a year. I can't reliably predict when it will get done or to what extent I will work on the bluray end of it.
I'm planning on the original trilogy for sure.
Full bluray format. DVD's dead my friends...
Within weeks I should have a full color adjusted Bluray with the original Fett voice and isolated music score as a second audio track ready for posting. If anyone is looking for my old obsolete editions hold off for the new forthcoming editions. They are in an entirely different class. Assuming I don't have any more computer problems that is...
No news yet. It seems there is a plauge of issues for those that wish to work on the trilogy in some form or another. I dumped almost $1000 into new audio/video assets, hardware upgrades and other misc things to create the ultimate edition of Empire on Bluray and wouldn't you know it, my system board fried just as I installed my last upgrade of a quad core processor that I spent my last dollar on. I have run into one barrier after another and just at this moment got the new system up and running again. Now with terrabytes and terrabytes of hard drives space, Quad core processor and 8gigs memory I hope to finally get this going again. I am hoping to make this a 2 disk set when all is complete but with all the technical issues I am running into I may have to make some compromises here and there. Right now I scrapped a months worth of work because I felt it just wasn't perfect enough.
I call it color adjustment because using the word "correct" is purely in the eye of the beholder. Let's just say I plan to share the editions I prefer to watch and that have been in the planning stages for the past two years. And stupid me, I should never post anything after drinking... Samples have been posted weeks ago in the hdtv binaries.
I'm working on new mega bitrate color adjusted BluRays of the saga. I'm trying to kick them up to notches unknown as far as quality and presentation so stay tuned... Start saving your pennies for BD-50 disks!
I scanned through the EP-V release and am quite pleased with the color accuracy. However, the digital artifacts from the low bitrate used to squeeze it onto a DVD9 severaly cripples this otherwise excellent release. The running length at DVD9 bitrates would have been better at 720p resulting in a clean artifact free presentation. Is there anything that can be done to share the higher bitrate edtition with those of us with larger HD displays? I can help with bandwidth if that's the problem.
To clarify, my encodes were avsynth avi frameserving in Vegas then encoded directly to WMV-HD from there. It seems you have a few paths to take the video stream through before it actualy hits the final encoded stage. I was conerened about keeping the video quality as uncorrupted as possible as by using frameserving I was able to color correct, frame edit and timesync the original transport stream directly in Vegas then straight to wmv encode.
Aside from that I too am still looking forward to your 14GB edition. I'll always embrace the highest quality editions I can get my hands on, even though, as of yet I still haven't found anything better than the Premier caps.
One question regarding the 14GB version. How can you possibly edit and color correct the video data and go directly from original transports streams to x.264 mkv file without a transcoding process along the way at some point? Especially if you are using Vegas?
adywan said:there will also be a higher bitrate mkv version coming shortly after too? It should be about 14GB in size
That has my attention. Nice to see some attention given to those that appreciate better quality than bitrate starved DVD9's. Too bad your A New Hope didn't see the same appreciation. I'm really looking forward to that 14GB version of Empire!
My original 13GB Han Shoots first edition was already color corrected. What was wrong with it?