angryboy

I can't believe how good that S-foils scene looks. The difference between the two versions is the difference between having glasses that restore my vision to 20/20 and being horribly myopic and seeing everything through a fuzzy haze.

After watching it, I went right back to watch Harmy's version of that scene and couldn't believe how dark and unclear it looked. Up to now I felt Harmy's magnificent restoration work was definitive - I can't stop singing his praises to my friends; now I know that even perfection can be improved upon. I pray that someone at Disney sees this and gives the Legacy version a chance of a release.

Harmy, this latest version is amazing. The restorations of Mos Eisley and the Death Star run are spectacular. I can't see what you could ever need to do to improve on this. Thank you so much!

johnlocke2342 said:

HanDuet, do you see any problems with my French subs? I checked them a few times before sending you them, but it seems the new version of VLC has problems playing them. I don't have any issue in other players, just VLC (Tested on my Mac's OS X 10.8.4 and on my dad's Windows 8 laptop).

VLC on Mac refuses to play subs with m2ts filetypes. It's apparently been a known issue for years but never fixed. You need to use MplayerX to get them to work.

My account on Myspleen got deleted (I was offline for a while and came back to find it gone). Any kind souls able to offer an invitation? Walking Dork seems to have um... walked. 

(Failing that, can anyone upload it to piratebay?)

angryboy said:

At 42:50 there's  a white ball behind Obi-Wan that looks like it's rolling. Is that in the originals or is it a Special Edition addition?

Does anyone know anything about this?

At 42:50 there's  a white ball behind Obi-Wan that looks like it's rolling. Is that in the originals or is it a Special Edition addition?

Harmy said:

Here's what kept me busy the last few days:

http://uloz.to/xjDf2fP/dewback-compar-mp4

Top: v2.0

Bottom: v2.1

Since this was one scene that stuck out to me when I watched it, I'm very happy to see you taking care of it for the 2.1 release.

dblake83 said:

chyron8472 said:

joed424 said:

i have very little skill and no good software

MakeMKV converts DVDs/AVCHDs/BDs to MKV.

AVI2DVD converts MKVs to DVD format

DVD Shrink drops the file size to DVD5 (if you tell it to)

ImgBurn burns the data to a disc.

 

oh... and Handbrake encodes nearly any movie format to MKV/M4V, while dropping the file size to a managably portable/streamable size without greatly reducing picture quality.

 

All of these programs are free.

Also tsMuxer which is free as well.

I don't suppose anyone has any suggestions for doing this on a Mac do they? I recently made the (mistaken?) decision to switch to Mac and I feel like I've lost limbs in the transition. 

m2ts is not my format of choice because VLC on Mac refuses to stream subtitles with m2ts - and I am afraid converting the file will introduce picture artifacts that defeat the whole point of Harmy's hard work. Won't it?

Thanks for the tip. I've edited my comment to remove the things I was talking about.

To be honest, I was merely pointing out the (very few) instances where I felt the recompositing stood out enough to jar me out of my movie-watching trance. I watched the movies a lot when I was younger but have certainly not watched them often since the special editions made their debuts and wasn't really questioning the "authenticity" of the shots because I don't have the knowledge (any longer) to make me an authority. Nonetheless, I noticed a couple of places (in Jedi in particular) where Harmy must have made choices that while not reverting to the originals were simply "a good choice" in terms of making the picture look good while getting rid of as much of the special edition crap as possible and I'm in favor of that in general.

The version of SW I watched was version 2.0. It was truly magical. 

Hi Harmy,

I wanted to first echo the post from a couple of pages back congratulating you on the fantastic job you're doing (and have already done) here. I finally watched the trilogy for the first time in a long time without cringing at all the changes that have been made and I was finally able to share these movies with my wife. With a child on the way, I expect that your versions will be the ones that I share with him when he's old enough as well.

Now for some minor feedback:

- If at all possible, PLEASE keep future releases as .mkv formats. The .m2ts files in the ACVHD package caused me no end of trouble because I needed to play them with subtitles and VLC doesn't like putting subs up when .m2ts files are playing. I know, it's my fault for getting a mac... I ended up watching both ESB and RotJ on a six-year-old laptop running Windows XP.

- Your cleanups of the special effects are tremendous. My wife noticed nothing, my friend noticed nothing, only by paying careful attention was I able to spot elements that felt "not quite right". I'm sure you've already got your hands full with your plans for continuing improvements, but if I could suggest the following scenes as deserving of extra attention...

[Edited as per suggestion below]

Sorry for posting about RotJ in a thread about SW.

Again, awesome work, Harmy. Thank you for all your hard work!

Imrahil said:

You said science fiction greats.  TV shows =/= science fiction greats. I read plenty of actual science fiction--of which Anne McCaffrey isn't. 

When was there a living ship or galaxy invaders in Galactica?

Farscape? Sure. Hardly a giant in science fiction.  Same with Lexx, which is basically low-grade porn.  I don't know where you're getting that the monolith builders have "living ships," because it isn't in the novels that I read.

I've not read those other authors you listed.

The cylon ships are all alive.

If you've not read anything by Alastair Reynolds you're missing out.