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#321801
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Kurgan said:

I can post again! Yes!

Well, I'm using a totally different computer and Operating System at the moment, so I guess it was something on my end that was messed up (or else the forums just now decided to cooperate).

 

I'm overjoyed that the TIEs are going to be blue in ESBR/ROTJR... having all colorless Imperial vehicles would just be so boring and bland.

Thanks for seeing the wisdom in that. Now the question is just HOW BLUE they will be. I figure if they are as blue as they were in theaters in '80/'83 that's good enough for me.

no they won't be the oversaturated blue they were in many shots. there are so many colour inconsistencies with their colour that i'm referencing the model colour, which many of the shots are originally that exact colour. I think that ILM boosted the colours just so they could show off that they can do Blue coloured ships against a blue screen but over did it. but they forgot to boost the colour is so many shots they range from navy blue, to the proper blue/grey to full blown grey. Same thing happens in ROTJ, but not as bad. Don't forget i'm not recreating the OUT or the exact colouring, because its impossible to do that with the 2004 or HD sources. This is my take on the movie and i am having to reference many on set photos & publicity and model shots to restore the colour because the colour isn't correct in the GOUT (although its closer to the original it does have a red tint to it which throws some colouring off a bit)

I'm surprised no one mentioned one of the fixes from the last clip i posted. lol

I fixed this the best way i could (at the moment). the gun shouldn't even be facing that way but at least it hasn't got just the one strut anymore

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#321794
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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astromech said:

I'm sure there was some sort of official explanation for the red and yellow stripes on Han's trousers...something to do with the class of bloodstripe and the level of honour or similar. Red was supposed to indicate a high level of honour and yellow was a different class (I think!). However, I wouldn't have thought a fan backstory would be taken as canon unless it was indicated as such by GL...

yeh, there is one thing i stated when i was doing ANH:R and that is that if it isn either in or at least referenced in the movies then , as far as i'm concerned, it doesn't exist. I won't even listen to GL's explanations of things he has said pre- SE.

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#321727
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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NL197 said:

I don't know if this has been covered before, but with the color correction and effects enhancements, are they done in chronological order, or grouped together by doing all Hoth scenes, all space scenes, all Bespin scenes and so on?

for the colour correction its done in chronological order. when i get to a scene thats in an environment (for example outdoor snow scenes in daylight) seen in a previous scene i can overlay the previous scene and use that as a reference to match the colouring. the effects are done in any order really. it all depends on how difficult a shot is and if i can't get a shot right then i move on to another easier one then go back to the other one at a later date

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#321713
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Joshua_Blue said:

It seems that all computer screens in OT shake a little bit. I hate that. I notice it right away. Luke X-wing screen text shaking has already been mentioned. The power generator image Vader is seeing also shakes a little bit. I hope Adywan will fix all unsteady displays.

yeh i'm hoping to do something about that. the one thing i want to know about the shot of the viewscreen just mentioned is, whats the deal with the guys pulsating hand?

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#321705
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doubleofive said:

So, Ady, back to the most recent split screen preview. I assume you changed the shot of the power generator to better match the image sent back to the Imperial Fleet. But looking at the image that Vader and Co are looking at, there seems to be a turret near the generator. What say you?

oh yeh, didn't spot that. i'll redo the new matte. Thanks for pointing that out :)

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#321695
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Star Wars: REBORN - The Complete Saga (* unfinished project *)
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InfoDroid said:

We all have to accept that we're living in a post-Adywan world now. Meaning that it's extremely hard anymore to impress anyone with a Star Wars edit. Ady was the 9/11 of fanediting. I mean that in a good way, Ady. ;) There was the world of fanediting on this board before Revisited, and then the world after. And rightfully so!

 

Now i'm really depressed. Please don't say I'm the bringer of death to the fan edit :(

anyway, best of luck for the future guys

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#321694
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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vbangle said:

adywan said:

I've just had a look at your clips GoodMusician and it's i can now see why they didn't use the original score. it was definitely for a different edit of the opening. the music where the probe droid emerges does sound more like its for the the taun taun running than for the probe droid so maybe that wasn't revealed until after Luke was attacked. Also i think there may have been an extra shot of the probe flying through space. I've done a rough mock-up of the scene but slowed down some shots to fit the cues so they look odd. it would be so great if we could find some documentation of what the original edit was like.

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

I do have to say though that i actually now prefer the fanfare at the end that what was originally intended. I'm probably going to keep that in and change the one at the end of the Vader meditation scene.

 

 

 

I'm sorry, but I don't get it..... Please reconsider before dumping the original opening music...this didn't sound like ESB AT ALL to me...

Sorry Ady....

 

i'm not dumping the original music at all. the clip was just what i thought may have been the original edit to fit the unused music. But, now GoodMusician has proved otherwise, i really don't think the original intended music fits at all. I much prefer the way it is in the movie. That probe droid cue is horrible and too busy for what is a slow reveal scene of the emerging probe droid. I doubt i will be changing or adding any new music into ESB:R apart from that one repeat cue i mentioned in the meditation chamber scene

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#321680
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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I've just had a look at your clips GoodMusician and it's i can now see why they didn't use the original score. it was definitely for a different edit of the opening. the music where the probe droid emerges does sound more like its for the the taun taun running than for the probe droid so maybe that wasn't revealed until after Luke was attacked. Also i think there may have been an extra shot of the probe flying through space. I've done a rough mock-up of the scene but slowed down some shots to fit the cues so they look odd. it would be so great if we could find some documentation of what the original edit was like.

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

I do have to say though that i actually now prefer the fanfare at the end that what was originally intended. I'm probably going to keep that in and change the one at the end of the Vader meditation scene.

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#321603
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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one thing i'm really surprised no one has mentioned is the "magically transporting Vader" at the end. He is viewing the Falcon pursuit from the side window next to Piett & the other offficer, then after the Falcon goes into hyperspace he is suddenly the other end of the bridge, then next shot he is walking past Piett. Wow that guy is fast. They just used the same shot seen earlier in the movie ( the first time we see the bridge).
professa adyfan said:


ady - any plans to do a scene in 3d for the extras? - loved the last one

probably not. The last one was hell to do
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#321580
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ok, just a quickie because i need to address something that is going on in another forum (but i can't join there cuz they say my ISP email address is a free account when its clearly not and i'm not paying to join.)

this is for Kurgan who is having problems with his account and can't post in this site.

the TIEs will NOT be grey. They change colour so many times throughout the movie i am having to bring them all back to grey then adding the blue/grey tint to match the correct colouring of the model used in filming ESB & ROTJ. The saturation of the TIEs was boosted in composition in ESB to bring out the blue but in many shots they boosted it too much and it became an unnatural colour, not matching the actual models.


Spanky The Dolphin @stardestroyer.net said:

Though honestly if he's the type who'd seriously decide it'd be a good idea to make TIE fighters in ESB white (the TIEs in SW are white only to resolve technical issues with blue screen photography: the fighters were originally supposed to be blue) then maybe he's not entirely the best sort of person to be helming a project like this. You'd think he would have done the research to prove him wrong.

well maybe if you had done your research when Kurgan posted a link to this thread you would have seen that i addressed this issue ages ago here when i first mentioned the colouring (although i did forget to mention that they weren't going to be entirely grey). i do know what i am talking about. i did a lot of reasearch for ANH:R and have a vast amount of reference behind the scenes clips & photos of the actual models used for filming and have already mentioned the reason why the TIEs were a different colour in ANH and that was due to an older blue screen technique that they had to have the TIE models white to stop them becoming transparent due to their colouring clashing with the blue screen. hence their white/ grey colouring. But when it came to ESB the bluescreen technology had advanced and the colouring could be returned, but boosted too much just because they could now show off that they could introduce blue to compositing. you can check out the different colouring of the TIE fighers used here:

TIE EXHIBITION PICS

there are major colouring issues with the TIEs, thanks to the damn colouring in the 2004 DVD set, but also in the GOUT as they are completely grey in some shots and the TIE bombers change colour too. some of the TIEs are actually almost purple in the 2004 version so i have to eliminate any colouring first before i can return them to their correct modelling colour. The correct colour is a light blue/grey and that's the colour they will be in this edit

Don't worry Kurgan, just because you can't voice your opinions here, you were a great supporter of ANH:R and i do still listen to you even if you are in a galaxy far, far away. :)

also there won't be any stardestroyers in the atmosphere in any of the bespin sequences. they belong in space. although we do see the earlier versions landing and taking off in the PT they are different ships, to me, and smaller in size so maybe could travel in and out of the atmosphere but not stardestroyers and they never will in any of my edits.

i'll reply to you posts, GoodMusician, a bit later once i have a chance to view your clips
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#321488
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Ziz said:

adywan said:

1anakin said:

In the 2004 DVD release the digital matte painting added in 1997 became faded in this shot, is there any way to fix that?
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8796/interior1997pr1.jpg
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/1682/interior2004aly6.jpg

they have brightened up the levels so much that in many shots any detail in brighter scenes has been lost. the only sources that i can attempt to repair that matte are cropped at the sides so i don't know how the hell i'm going to be able to fix it yet.


Can you use pieces of the same shot from the GOUT as a...I don't know if there's a name for it...a "contrast mask"...to put back the washed out details?

the walls were solid in the GOUT so i wouldn't be able to use that to repair the matte i'm afraid
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#321484
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Max_Rebo's '97 SE superset' preservation (* unfinished project *)
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Max_Rebo said:


Would you believe it ripped on the first attempt? I was fully prepared to go and dig out some of my spare dvd drives but I just didn't need to!

i had the Flunk release sent to me ages ago but it became unplayable too. it turned out to be the media. It was a RITEK disc. this make (depending on what dye was used) has a very short lifespan. I have loads of discs that are now unplayable because the dye degraded. its a very common problem with RITEK dye discs. i just wish i had known this when someone suggested i use this type originally and now have so many that are lost because of this problem. thats why i always use Taiyo Yuden for DVD-5's and Singapore made Verbatim for DVD-9's now.

good luck with your project. can't wait to hear the 5.1 laserdisc tracks synced to these video sources.
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#321482
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Star Wars: REBORN - The Complete Saga (* unfinished project *)
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having the music from ROTJ in that scene sounded great to me, but i agree with what has been said in that there needs to be more ambient sounds as it seems too empty to me. i think the music could be a little too loud at the beginning of that clip in relation to the dialogue too as i could hardly hear Anakins first line. i can really sympathise with you with having to create a track from scratch. not an easy task i know. all the best
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#321481
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Octorox said:

The only additions I would suggest would be shadows under the speeders in the shots that they're missing and some graphics on those barren speeder displays, maybe similar to what was done with the death star plans.

Sevb32 said:

Awesome comparison, I was hoping you had blacked out where the skin of Anthony Daniels neck shows in a gap of the 3PO costume during the scene with he and Han by the falcon when Han asks if Skywalker had reported in. (Han yells for deck officer.) But I am sure you will get to it later. :) Or the rebel base doors closing too early.

like i said the new clip was mainly to show the differences in colour and with a few tweaks added. the majority of "fix" work will be done once all the colour correction is completed
bkev said:

One of the missing music sequences I would like to see re-instated (spell?) in the movie would be the one used when Han Solo is just walking into the base after dismounting his tauntaun. I don't have Building Empire on hand, so I can't check to see if that's exactly where it is, but I'm pretty sure that's where it goes. I thought it worked well with the scene.

not sure which part you mean here but that scene never did have any music in any cut of the movie.
GoodMusician said:


I do still kinda wish you would change the fanfare right at the beginning of the video.

yeh, as much as i liked that cue originally when i was younger, it now annoys me that it is used later in the film in vaders mediation chamber scene and now in my mind seems to depict the empire. Have you any thoughts as to what cue would fit better ?
1anakin said:

In the 2004 DVD release the digital matte painting added in 1997 became faded in this shot, is there any way to fix that?
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8796/interior1997pr1.jpg
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/1682/interior2004aly6.jpg

they have brightened up the levels so much that in many shots any detail in brighter scenes has been lost. the only sources that i can attempt to repair that matte are cropped at the sides so i don't know how the hell i'm going to be able to fix it yet.
Darth Lars said:

doubleofive said:


http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4980/esbcloudcity1gb9.jpg

Now, this is the shot I mentioned before where I think the windows need to be closed.
A few seconds before this shot, there is a closeup of Leia shooting, but there is no window seen behind her.

doubleofive said:


http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/6492/esbcloudcity3dw9.jpg

If the windows existed, they should be visible to the left of this door...

Otherwise, I would also like to see more ships take off.

Looking at the angle of the close-ups the first window probably wouldn't be visible, or if it is it would be by only a fraction so not really any need to fix that, plus the windows are around the corner so you wouldn't see them in the outside shot

the TIEs at he end i think i will just have them swoop towards the city towards the end as they are escaping but from the opposite side so the falcon would have escaped before they could get to them

i know i haven't answered everything but i'm getting pretty lost due to the high volume of suggestions so sorry if i haven't replied to your suggestion.

i wonder if someone could do me a huge favour? it would be a huge help for me if someone could go through the thread and collect all the suggestions into one post so i can better keep account of what has been suggested so far? it would be so much easier having it all in one place than having to go through all the pages and would save me time that could be better spent on the edit

well the monitor died tonight. i'm now working on an old 15"lcd tv with an amazing resolution of 800 x 600, so reading the forum now is pretty bloody hard. doing the edit is out of the question until i get the monitor replaced. i loved my old LG monitor too. most of the monitors i've seen aren't half as good picture quality wise as the LG.

i always hate asking this but the only way i can get a monitor replacement that is any good for doing my work is opening up another donation plea again. i hate doing this but i have no other choice. its just typical this had to happen now because i'd started to save up to get a quad core processor cuz this PC is really struggling to handle the higher resolution video i'm, working with this time and thats just with the colour correction (although i am having to use a lot more layers and masks on ESB that i ever did with ANH. curse you lucasfilm. next time don't employ Stevie Wonder to do your colour correction). Now i've got to forget that quad core just so i can get this monitor now (gutted. could have done so much more in less time too)

so if anyone wants to donate anything at all you can do so through paypal using this address:

adywan (at) hotmail (dot) co (dot) uk ( replacing everything in the brackets with the correct symbols of course)

many thanks :)
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#321453
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Well it looks like i've got hell of a lot of reading to do this weekend and a lot of things to be answered too. That'll have to wait until either later tonight or tomorrow. Just got so many things on this weekend and not enough time to do it all. On top of that my monitor is being an ass and playing up so looks like i've got to save up for a new one.

anyway here's a much longer preview (just under 9 mins & just under 80mb). Again its split screen and this contains 4 of the scenes that show just how horrible the 2004 colours actually are, plus some new tweaks (see if you can spot them ). the problem with doing these split screens is that the blue tint to the 2004 dvds seems to eliminate the blue tones in the revisited version a bit. oh well.

NEW 9MIN PREVIEW
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#321297
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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RoccondilRinon said:

The shot in question is before Lando makes that announcement. Of course, he may simply not have noticed that it's too late.


oops, my mistake. its not that shot is one later just as they get to the Falcons docking bay that i may be adding the TIEs
vbangle said:


Are you planning on a full tear down and rebuilding of the 5.1 like you did in epIV?

not as extensive as ANH:R. the mix is a lot better in ESB but it does need work doing to it
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#321283
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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only a quickie here cuz i'm busy getting stuff ready for my daughters prom. I'll try to answer a few more things tomorrow when i've had a better chance to read everything

That probe shot has already been fixed. i've lowered chewie down in the long shot, changed the blast hit so it hits closer to chewie and changed the foreground to match the better previous shot. (will post a clip tomorrow)

that cloud city shot i will be keeping but the reflections need to be fixed somehow. that shot i will probably be adding some TIEs chasing and shooting down some escaping ships so i wanted to keep that shot as open as possible.

The music as Han is lowered into the carbon chamber does have a horrible cut now. i can remember that the music never stopped there before the SE so i will be reinserting the original cue. But i probably won't be changing any other music in the movie (apart from the end credits) but i may just do some small tweaking.

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#321002
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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vbangle said:

focuspuller said:

vbangle said:

focuspuller said:

I think I should point out to anyone that is downloading the DVD9 from Demonoid that it doesn't work and seems corrupt. I downloaded it, in full, twice. burned it about 3 times and it just doesn't seem to work. I checked the files out on the hard drive and the film seems to repeat itself in the part where everyone is in the trash compactor.

ImperialFighter - check your PMs.


There was a fix posted. So everyone go ahead and download from the iso from Demonoid.


Yes I know it comes with a fix, I downloaded the ISO with the fix. I'm telling you it doesn't work. But you don't have to take my word for it, check it out for yourself.

Strange that you're the only one with a problem. Everyone else managed to use the fix.

i know its strange. I'll tell you what it sounds like to me, that the iso is somehow corrupt or hasn't actually finished downloading correctly (happened to me a few times when i used those horrible torrent thingies, although at the time the client reported the download as finihsed). Can you force your torrent client to do a hash recheck on the file.
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#320996
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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focuspuller said:


yes, what seems to happen is it goes from the scene in the trash compactor, to an extra (scene comparison of the x-wings), back to the begining of the film. Also let's say I click on one of the last few chapters of the film, it will bring me to say Luke talking to Obi-wan in his hut, and the time will say that the film is about 2 hours in or so.

thats really strange. i thought that the demoniod new one was my original iso that doesn't have any problems (apart from a conflict when burning with imgburn only). i have just tested the original iso in windvd, windows media player & vlc media player and i can't recreate the problem you are having so i guess the demoniod torrent has a problem (a layer break freeze/lock up has also been mentioned over there).

i think your best bet is not to waste any more DL DVDs and ask someone who is part of the PIF chain if they can send you a copy (then you'll have to PIF 3 copies of course)
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#320993
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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focuspuller said:

vbangle said:

focuspuller said:

I think I should point out to anyone that is downloading the DVD9 from Demonoid that it doesn't work and seems corrupt. I downloaded it, in full, twice. burned it about 3 times and it just doesn't seem to work. I checked the files out on the hard drive and the film seems to repeat itself in the part where everyone is in the trash compactor.

ImperialFighter - check your PMs.


There was a fix posted. So everyone go ahead and download from the iso from Demonoid.


Yes I know it comes with a fix, I downloaded the ISO with the fix. I'm telling you it doesn't work. But you don't have to take my word for it, check it out for yourself.


have you tried mounting the iso with daemontools and checking the section that skips?