chyron8472

I have no problems, really… except I still prefer the scene replacing the Death Star with Coruscant.

jedimasterobiwan said:

I hope it doesn’t make all the star wars fan edits not be available anymore. 😦

George Lucas himself had long since known about fan edits. When asked about it in an interview, he said, while bitter about people doing it, he just cared that he had his version with his name on it (the article in question was actually about SW:Revisited).

Disney has had more than enough opportunity now to drop the hammer down on fan projects, but they haven’t. I was just saying, and I stress hypothetically, that making it too easy can bring it more mainstream, which has the hypothetical capacity to annoy them into action.

I also doubt a small handful of third party sellers on eBay are on Disney’s radar.

And yet, if acquiring a copy is made easy to understand how to do, the project risks bringing the wrath of Disney down on it. And so there’s a line between ease and obscurity, with many still too lazy to bother no matter how easy it is.

Yeah, * sigh *. I imagine quite a number of people can’t be bothered to download and/or burn a copy themselves, and so are willing to basically pay someone to do it for them.

I feel like I’ve mentioned Star Wars Despecialized a lot, such that anyone who has had any Star Wars-related conversation of any kind with me has heard me mention it at least once.

And at this point I kind of feel like–if someone says the original Original Trilogy is “hard to find and thank God for my copies on VHS”–as a fan, it makes me bummed and slightly irritated that they like it enough to complain about George but still aren’t interested enough to bother downloading PT fan edits and OT restorations.

I mean, sure, it’s all well and good to be annoyed about Star Wars being ruined if there was nothing you could do about it, but there is. And if I mention Star Wars Despecialized in real life, people’s reactions are almost always like “that’s cool. :” and become quickly disinterested in discussing it further. Like, they seem to be a fan, and that makes me excited to talk about it, but they really just wanted to vent a bit and move on. I have yet to have someone say “Hey, where can I find that? Can you burn me a copy?”

So I imagine a large portion of people who are actual fans and would be interested in obtaining a copy, are still altogether disinclined to make it themselves.

ray_afraid said:

Hey, Just wonderin’ if maybe the thread title should be updated to reflect the 2.7 version instead of the 2.5? It seems like there’s some confusion as to what the current version is and, if I recall correctly, even thought the 2.6 and 2.7 updates were done by Towne32, it’s endorsed and approved by you. Harmy. Harmster. Harmy Harm Harm. Ok, back to my drinks.

CatBus said:

I believe the OT.com approved term is Hammy.

Blackout said:

I thought it was Harry.

You’re a Jedi wizard, Harmy.

Harmy said:

The DeEd version is just a 3D recreation using the letters extracted from the GOUT. It’s been done years ago and I did the best I could at the time but it’s certainly far from perfect. Today, I’d go about it very differently and would do a 3D track of the GOUT crawl. But I won’t have to, because we now have HD (and even 4K) scans of the original crawl, so there’s no need to recreate it.

I haven’t been keeping up on recent events here, so at the risk of being called out for asking questions already recently answered (or else seemingly blatantly obvious), are you currently working on SW:DE 3.0? Not that I’m trying to be pushy about it. I’m just inquiring.

It seems like this project is never fully completed… albeit that fuels my continued fixation with the OT, and Star Wars in particular as my favorite (read: most watched) film of this or any other franchise.

Editroid said:

Someone mentioned how obvious they felt the rotoscoping in Star Wars Despecialized 2.5 is, that the opening crawl wobbles and then speeds up weirdly at the end, and wishes the picture quality was more consistent.

flametitan said:

The gate weave of the crawl is supposed to be there, though I agree the acceleration feels artificial (as far as I can tell, SSE suggests it should be a more gradual acceleration).

Wazzles said:

It’s the GOUT crawl, so it should be equivalent to the GOUT at least.

I just compared DE to Team -1’s Silver Screen Edition, and SSE indeed doesn’t do that. It speeds up, but not so suddenly. Made me realize, when looking on Plex to compare them, that I had deleted my m4v of the GOUT version. Guess I ought to reencode it.

Rask40 said:

tlbauerle said:

For those of us sorry sad sacks without BluRay burners, what resources do we have for obtaining nice copies on printable media? I’d love help if anyone has an extra disc!

Thanks, Todd

In my opinion the best way is by streaming the mkv-files from a PC to your PS3. Universal Media Server software is needed on the PC. Once you have it all set up, playing movies is easier than inserting a disc in your blu-ray player. Don’t even need to get off the couch!
And subtitles work great too.

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Three words: Plex Media Server.

There are Plex clients for numerous different set-top and mobile streaming devices, including PS3.

Mjvmovieman said:

I am wondering if anyone who has all of these downloads already is able to burn this set for me at the cost of the discs and shipping?

I do not have a BD burner and would only be interested in getting one for this set.

If anyone is interested or could be so wonderfully kind, please message me.

stealthboy said:

I bought a blu-ray burner just for this. There are many models under $100 now.

Case in point: https://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-Internal-Rewriter-WH14NS40/dp/B007VPGL5U

$49.84 as of this post. Prime Eligible.

Okay, I’m having issues here. I downloaded the “Documentaries” BD25s from the spleen. When I mount and play any of the ISOs in VLC or MPC, it displays the correct 16:9 aspect ratio. But when MakeMKV rips them, the resulting MKVs are squished horizontally into what looks to be a 4:3 frame.

How do I correct this? I want to put them on my Plex server.

JEDIT: Ha! I figured it out, and the fix is easy. The “Video Display Width” header entry is incorrectly set to “720” in the MKVs. (The height is 720; the width should be 1280.) It’s probably also wrong in the ISOs.

Open the files in MKVToolNix GUI, and under Edit Headers just change the “Video Display Width” value to 1280 and then save it.

The threads that I googled on the subject seemed to say the headers were incorrect, and to fix it would require extracting the video stream, fixing the header and remuxing, but it turns out that’s not necessary.

[snip]

yoda-sama said:

SnooPac said:

Check this thread for Blu-ray versions of despecialized.

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-Despecialized-Editions-Custom-Bluray-Set/id/49995

What the holy crap??? How did I miss that we have BDs WITH the DTS-HD MA tracks, as well as all audio/subtitle tracks, menus and a butt-ton of extras (including even more audio tracks… such as Rifftrax)? I follow Harmy’s SW, ESB and ROTJ threads and the v2.7 thread pretty closely (or at least so I thought) and had no idea about this… Did I miss some posts about this in these places before now?

Indeed. It’s been a while since I’ve looked in on OT.com, and by God, this is amazing.

Also, if anyone here plays board games and follows The Dice Tower, I’m sending a copy of this (and Q2’s FOTJ PT) to Sam Healey, since he’s a huge Star Wars fan.

towne32 said:

For Hal’s, you need to select “Do Not Insert VUI/SEI Data” (I think those are the abbreviations. Still dunno what they are or do).

This fixes it.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

The potato asteroid was in Empire, not Jedi.

Way to suck the joy out of our posts.

But I thought George Lucas had already boiled the OT, mashed it, and stuck it in a stew. A ‘special’ stew. Because the original recipe apparently didn’t have the ingredients he wanted at the time.

And then, of course, there’s the GOUT, which is potato-quality (read:appears to have been filmed using a potato.)

Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee…

The potato asteroid was in Empire, not Jedi.

I don’t think he has watched them yet.

Scott, stop posting in here and go make your own thread. Seriously.

I want to give technical help on using JDownloader, but I think it would probably be best to move technical support issues over to the “How-to’s and Technical Discussion” forum.

I don’t see the reasoning for criticizing a fan edit before you’ve seen it.

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

Mom’s ancient CRTV was displaying a wavy picture and about to go out completely. I had a 25" monitor, so I let her borrow my 40" until we could get her a new one. I paid half, and hooked it up for her. Then, I was able to get mine back and dump the 25", thank the maker lol.

Don’t dump the monitor. Go dual screen.

Memorex said:

Coov said:

Something new…

full versions to come.

We’re these ever made available? Would love them for my DE-ED set!

Yes, they are available. I cannibalized the back of them to use in several of my covers. His profile says he’s been active recently, so I suggest you should PM him a request for them.

kire1976 said:

im happy to have the original poster for the front but also the following words must be on it as well

HARMY PROUDLY PRESENTS RETURN OF THE JEDI - GRINDHOUSE 35mm LPP

It does. It says “35mm Grindhouse Edition by HARMY” on the back at the bottom with the rest of the film credits, and it says “35mm LPP GRINDHOUSE” on the top of the front (twice, one in sepia and another offset in black), with a drawing of a strip of 35mm film behind it.

The front cover is primarily Video Collector’s, but I “posterized” it and “colorized” it to a sepia tone because VC probably wouldn’t want me sharing a 95% unaltered version of his cover. And besides, the style fits better for a grindhouse version anyway.

[jedit:] The back was originally Coov’s, but the elements from his have been more or less recomposited and altered, so it’s more of a template at this point. So… does doing this make me the George Lucas of cover art?[/jedit]

Now, arguably a 1983 Return of the Jedi poster would look better than an SE-style one, but you said you wanted one fast, and that’s the one front cover I have that I wouldn’t be recycling from a previous Despecialized cover of mine.

So that cover is what you get because it looks cool and I found it fast.

JEDIT: Oh… I just realized you might have meant the front cover from the “simple” goofy mspaint cover I made. No, that was just a joke. (But if anyone wants to use it, feel free because it is full size.)

I’ll make some, I guess. I like L8wrtr’s “official” covers, but they’re only sized for DVD, I think. I’ve been looking for ages to find the original source for L8’s Dawn of the Empire cover (without the subtitle text) so I could use it for Q2’s, but to no avail thus far.

I do have some OT, Q2 and HAL 3-disc-case cover art on a recent page here.

Just know that if I’m making TFA covers for Hal’s and L8wrtr’s, then that means I have to fix the poster issues I pointed out. The alternative is for each different PT set to look exactly the same except for the subtitle name and the version text at the top, which is kind of stupid because if you have multiple sets then there’s nothing to distinguish them.

Therefore, making 6 (and then perhaps 12, as I would probably then fix the issues with the Q2 and OT covers) would take a while. More than a weekend, for sure.

Dat_SW_Guy said:

Still downloading ROTJ v.2.5 on uTorrent, is there any way to make the .mkv file download faster on WiFi (since there is no internet cable port) or to remove some useless stuff to make the download faster and again, the file smaller (especially audio tracks)

No. It’s a single file. If there are other files included, their sizes are so comparatively minuscule that bothering to not include them would not increase the download time in any appreciable way.