Polygon picked up on the release of 2.5:
http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/8/10938060/star-wars-disney-return-of-the-jedi-harmy
I’m reading this article and my brain hears it being read in Harmy’s voice.
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What do you guys think?
It doesn’t say Despecialized because quite frankly I want to ignore that the SEs exist, and it could be used for the Grindhouse or SSEs.
Similarly, for ripping movie discs I use MakeMKV; for re-encoding to a reasonable size I use Handbrake with the AppleTV 3 preset, and Video Quality set to 19 for DVD content and 21 for AVCHD/Bluray.
I use MakeMKV because it is fairly easy to use, it rips both DVDs and Blurays, and it’s currently free. I use Handbrake because everyone and their dog whom you ask says that it’s the best for reencoding video files.
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@ chyron8472
What software do you use to burn blu ray discs of Hal’s trilogy ? I’m looking for one that would work on PC (I don’t have a Mac), with the possibility to add menu and bonus material.
I do not have Bluray menus for these. Rest assured that /if I did/, I would have put them on the spleen.
I use tsMuxer to mux the mkvs to Bluray folders; I use ImgBurn to burn discs. If you buy blank discs, buy Verbatim. Verbatim consistently uses quality manufacturers to make their blank media.
I’ve used software to make DVD menus before, for a wholly unrelated family project, but I’m not sure it could make Bluray menus.
… Okay, you’ve got me intrigued. I’ll look into what software might be best to use.
JEDIT: Cursory searches for Bluray menu software, even searching this site, indicate multiAVCHD is the best free software, and Adobe Encore is the best paid software for creating Bluray menus. The DVD menu software I had used previously was DVD Styler, which doesn’t make Bluray menus.
Are the editor commentaries only included in v4?
Edit Greedo’s death so that he dies from a ricochet of his own blaster bolt.
This is a bit off topic, and it has probably been mentioned recently, but where can I most conveniently obtain the music for (the theatrical version of) Lapti Nek and Yub Nub?
I have the 30th Anniversary album from Amazon, but it doesn’t include them.
I don’t know if this is allowed but anyone care to upload the MKV to public torrent sites?
I don’t have myspleen invites, and don’t consider myself worth one (not a die hard SW fans as you guys), but I’d still want to watch the ROTJ 2.5 😃 (the uloz links for MKV have too many parts. if there’s a MEGA links that would be awesome)
Thanks all and especially Harmy
pm sent.
Damn. I wonder how many more problems we will discover with the NFOs - it’s always such a daunting task to prepare these releases. I think next time, the NFOs will just contain a link to a pastebin post that I can edit even after release.
I blame the guy who couldn’t wait.
Who, me?
I’m not impatient. It was just a day short on the timing for use in a birthday present (actually 2 days because I’d have to download it and then spend time muxing and burning it and such.)
No problems though. v1.0 is still fantastic. I didn’t need Harmy to hurry it up, really. I was just feeling like “aw, shucks” that I couldn’t have included it.
I’m staring very closely at my phone from various angles, and I can’t see what you circled there. Only stars.
Video Collector says I’m free to share my version of his cover at my own discretion.
So, here it is (click to enlarge):
Also, here are some custom disc labels I made:
Video Collector says I’m free to share my versions of his covers at my own discretion.
So, here they are (click to enlarge):
Also, here are some custom “Fall of the Jedi” disc labels I made for Q2’s fanedits
Video Collector says I can share my versions of his covers at my own discretion.
So, here you go.
Click to enlarge.
Would you be able to make a special version of Jedi just for me that leaves in Jedi Rocks? It’s a really great song and is my favorite change. Could you also leave out the matte lines on the rancor?
Hggnnngh… Eughh…
:eye twitches:
Get out.
It’s a shame that even one prequel is going to be shown to those poor students, and I agree about the Rifftrax. I guess they are Satanic. Afterall, the stupid title crawl does state that “Evil is everywhere.” Although, in actuality, it was really only in one place, but whatever, it’s GL we’re talking about.
The prequels were abysmal, but their story was ambitious. I’ll be cleansing the palate with Return of the Jedi later, so don’t worry. Besides, Revenge of the Sith is incredibly Miltonic, so I have to teach it in a class on Milton and Star Wars.
EDIT: The special editions disappoint me more than the prequels ever could, because they worsened those films, especially ANH and ROTJ.
I have a few Prequel edits I can recommend…
done.
It says “extended” on the spine because their runtimes are longer than Q2’s (for whose edits I have a similar-looking one.) I’m going to include an insert with the features and cutlist info.
I made it yellow because: A) the background on the “official” 9000 series covers is yellow; 2) I wanted to put the battle droid from said covers (or rather from the disc art) on the back; and d) I didn’t want to make the cover green.
Growing up with the OT, I think there was this impression of green sabers being better than blue, since Luke had a blue saber first and a green one later when he was more powerful. And since the OT cover is blue, I didn’t feel proper making the PT cover green (Q2’s is red, though).
…Plus, there are Jedi in Ep2 with gold/yellow sabers.
JEDIT: (by request)
NOTE: Much of this cover was taken directly from Video Collector’s covers. He said when he allowed me to have his covers that they were for my use and that I couldn’t directly distribute them.
Video Collector graciously allowed me to have a copy of his Minimal covers and Struzan covers.
I played around with them a bit, as I am making a birthday gift for my Dad. I may still work on them, but I think they’ve turned out beautifully so far. (NOTE: He asked me not to distribute his work, so I can’t give you a copy directly.)
JEDIT: I don’t know if you can see it properly up there, but the subtitles on the prequel spines look like this:
Hal’s is yellow, not green, because his “official” covers have a yellow background, and the Cloak of Deception covers have a battle droid on them which I wanted to utilize.
I’m rendering ROTJ v2.5 right now - ETA 10hrs. But I made so many changes since the last workprint and the project file got so big and complicated that I’m sure when I watch it, I will find that I forgot to turn some layer on or off or something stupid like that and will probably have to re-render but I have everything else ready, so currently, the intended release date is this Sunday.
Crap. I’m giving Star Wars DE to my Dad for his birthday on Sunday. Are you sure you can’t make it Saturday?
DISZ is up on Myspleen.
I can’t seem to convert Hal’s Star Wars fan edits to Bluray properly. I have the 1080p MKVs designed for burning on Blurays. After I convert any of them using tsMuxer, the resulting m2ts file jerks and pixelates.
When I convert Harmy’s ESB 2.0 MKV to Bluray, it works perfectly.
Help!
I seem to be having a problem converting the 1080p MKVs of your edits to Blurays (both folder or ISO) with TSMuxer.
The movies are jerky and pixelate.
Tried it with Harmy’s DE and it works fine. Are there any particular settings I should be using?
😄
pics?
Hal, if you’re making changes for a newer version of your Ep II, can you please fix the this subtitle?
I’m really not a big fan of the way that G looks in the word “APPROACHING”.
Huh. Well… sure! I’ll see if I can’t find a more authentic font. “LABYRINTH OF EVIL” looks A-OK to me, so I won’t bother redoing that one.
Well…
Now that it comes to it, I feel that the Y in LABYRINTH leaves too much space surrounding it. My feeling is that, given the shape of the other letters in the subtitle, the Y should be more shaped like a tuning fork.
