chyron8472

I don't enjoy the theatrical prequels. Mind you, they're okay. They're not good compared to the OOT, but they are fairly decent on their own.

I do, however, very much enjoy certain prequel fan edits. They have to be done properly so that they can likely pass for official (ie. not obviously edited by an amateur), but I do very much like Q2's trilogy, L8wrtr's 1 and 2, and Kerr's 3.

Suffice it to say that there are good films in there. It just takes a good editor to bring them out.

Well, Return of the Jedi (the original version; THANKS, HARMY!) is my favorite Star Wars film.

Those 50 reasons why ROTJ sucks feel like someone had too much time on their hands and just felt like bitching about something.

And such people who hate on Jedi, yet laude Star Wars and Empire as though the latter are so totally better... they never point out things like 1) why the stormtroopers don't check for droids behind locked doors; 2) how Ponda Baba's flipper isn't hairy nor fingered and shouldn't be able to shoot a gun; 3) how caves in asteroids have Earth-like gravity; 4) how Han and Leia should have expected a vacuum in the asteroid's "cave" and yet only had small oxygen masks on their lower face; among other things.

I like the OOT. I want to enjoy them. Sure, they should be open to criticism, but I'm not sure how whining and bitching about them, as that article does, does anything to improve the viewing experience. That is to say, I would probably never watch a Rifftrax of the OOT, because I would likely from that point on always hear their bitching at it in the back of my mind.

http://vimeo.com/help/compression

also: http://vimeo.com/forums/help/topic:103546

PM me if you need any more help.

If you're using Myspleen, the only torrent tracker used must be "http://www.myspleen.org/announce.php", and after you upload the .torrent file to Myspleen, you must redownload it and make sure the re-downloaded .torrent still sees your files in uTorrent (if it doesn't, right click, use "Advanced -> Set Download Location"; then right click and use "Force Recheck")

The reason why you must redownload the .torrent file after uploading it is because Myspleen wants to make completely sure that no one outside of Myspleen users can see it, so it disables the file from using peer exchange and distributed hash tables.

aalenfae said:

I'm just afraid - because a lot of fan edits are unavailable because nobody is seeding them.

Yes, that is a concern with torrents.

However, Myspleen has the ability to broadcast a seed request in the event that there are no seeders. I did that when I was trying to get hold of Returning to Jedi.

Bester said:

(I have no idea how to turn a video file into a Bittorrent, so don't ask me!)

It's fairly easy.

1) Download uTorrent 2.2.1 ( prefer this version over the newer versions)

2) Open uTorrent, and click "File" -> "Create New Torrent"

3) Click "Add Directory" or "Add File" (depending on if the source files are one file or many)

4) Include links to desired  torrent trackers.

5) Click "Create and Save As..."

6) Go to the torrent site of your choice and upload the .torrent file to it.

I would think the easiest solution for sharing the (full versions) files is to upload them to a torrent. The only problem with it comes when there is no one around to seed it. Myspleen is a private, invitation-only torrent tracker which, in fact, was originally started in order to have a place for Star Wars fan edits.

On the one hand, this makes it harder to find for the fans-at-large (who don't know about Myspleen); on the other hand, it's extremely easy to find for Myspleen members, as their site has a very easily navigable torrent database.

It is likely that if you use some other method to upload them, then I will probably put them on Myspleen, myself.

You said you burned them to bluray discs... are these Blurays or AVCHDs? If they are AVCHD, you could burn them to Dual Layer DVD discs.

I think Vimeo is a pretty good choice, as Jambe Davdar's OT commentaries (Star Wars Begins, Building Empire, Returning to Jedi) are up there. However, I think Adywan complained about some of his clips being taken down (though still others of his have been up for years).

If you were really paranoid about their taking it down, I think you could password=protect them on Vimeo and tell us what the password is.

Ryan, are you still working on these, or have you uploaded them? If you're done, I'm interested in getting a copy.

Regarding sharing it, some people pack their edits into a collection of RAR files (200MB or so each); after which they either upload the RARs to a file hosting site and create a DLC file to download them with JDownloader, or else they upload the RARs to usenet.

Others upload a torrent, perhaps to Myspleen.

Aalenfae, I love these changes, especially the music. I was skeptical at first, but you certainly have won me over about the possibility of making 3 feel more like 4.

Regarding the diagram on the screen when R2 is locating Palpatine, I think it might be better if the diagram was flipped horizontally, because as far as I can recall, we almost always see exterior shots of the ship from the port (ie. left) side, and yet your diagram shows it from the starboard (right) side.

All I'm saying is, when I look at that diagram the way it is, I get confused at first about where that room is located because my brain is comparing it to a mental image from the left side.

It's all just absolutely fantastic, though, and I can't wait to see/hear more.

I'm now watching Kerr's Episode 3 (Dark Force Rising), and it is indeed very good. The cuts are decidedly better than L8wrtr's, and perhaps even on par for me with Q2's.

It makes me consider going back to look again at L8wrtr's Episode 3, but remembering L8wrtr's inclusion of Chewbacca and the WTF moment with Yoda being suddenly safe from the troopers keeps me from actually bothering with it.

I noticed that the voices on Kerr's NTSC DVD5 are higher pitched than normal, and the dialogue seems to be very slightly faster. I slowed down the playback speed in VLC to 90% and it seemed better. The pauses in dialogue when have conversations certainly felt less rushed. Padme's voice still sounded half an octave too high, though. I even opened Q2's Ep3 to compare them, and Q2's voices are indeed lower (ie. normal). I think this may be due to a bad PAL to NTSC transfer (which I don't know how to fix, if it's even possible).

On the other hand, Q2 used the Blurays as a source for his edits without color-correcting them, which is also apparent in various scenes throughout his PT trilogy. I also confirmed this my comparing the opera house scene between Kerr's and Q2's.

The color problems in Q2's are not as annoying to me though as the sound problems with Kerr's.

Original Theatrical versions: 654321

SE/Bluray: 534216

I can't stand Jedi Rocks, and ANH Jabba annoys me, so I would rather watch the original TPM with creepy puppet Yoda in it than to watch those scenes. I have not nor will I ever see the OT Blurays.

I'm not saying I take issue with Lando in Jedi. I'm saying that some people do (because he betrayed his friends); again regardless of that he was the one flying the Falcon off to find Han at the end of Empire.

So, again, if the Ewoks, Boba Fett's death and Lando aren't considered as the main issue, then I'm not sure what would be.

And after all that, he can fix the Holiday Special. :D

DuracellEnergizer said:

 

doubleKO said:

I can only see Mark Hamill. It looks nothing like Ewan McGregor or Alec Guinness to me. The power of wishful thinking

It's obviously Kenneth Branagh, you fool.

Yes, let's make Gilderoy Lockhart a Jedi, because he's not a bumbling idiot at all.

Well... perhaps he could put a memory charm on us all to make us forget the prequels.

Hey, it's me. said:

ray_afraid said:

chyron8472 said:

I love ROTJ, so that's a good thing. The Ewoks and Boba Fett's death never bothered me at all.

Me neither, but those two things are hardly what's wrong with ROTJ...

Precisely. I too love ROTJ but there are things wrong with it. Everyone surviving is something that has always nagged me, amongst others.

A bittersweet ending might have been better (although, for Luke it was somewhat bittersweet until he saw his father's force ghost).

But at the end of the day, I like having a happy ending.

...I thought Boba Fett's death and the Ewoks were what most people complain about. If that's not "hardly what's wrong with ROTJ," then what is exactly? I suppose there is also that Lando was forgiven, but then it's not inexplicable given that Leia and Chewie let Lando take the Falcon (though Chewie copiloted) at the end of Empire.

Harmy said:

I'm still hoping for a more detailed explanation about PSB as a reference - I know Ady is using it as a pretty literal reference (although he is taking some liberties but I think he believes those to then be different from theatrical color timing) and I'd like to know if there's some proof beyond "it looks like it's not faded" that the PSB is the closest color reference. You know, I'd really like to know whether I can trust PSB the same way as I did with the IB print for Star Wars - i.e. not keeping 100% perfectly faithful to it but keeping very close to it. Because at first glance PSB looks a bit wrong to me in some scenes but it could be for the same reason the IB print did look wrong but in the end we accepted it as a good reference and got used to those colors, even though they were differnt from what we were used to watching on discolored video releases. But in the case of the IB print, that was conclusively proved to be non fade material, plus there were several of them and the colours were the same (or close enough) on each of them - is there any such empirical evidence of the PSB colors being similarly correct?

Pardon my ignorance, but what is PSB?

Also, is there any new info on what you've decided to do regarding color correction for Empire?

I love ROTJ, so that's a good thing. The Ewoks and Boba Fett's death never bothered me at all.

Since when has a 3.0 been on the table?

I thought Harmy already established that further upscaling was unnecessary (proven by comparison shots of Tarkin).

Don't forget the sand/snow on chewie's foot.

Like INv8r_ZIM said, we're just occupying ourselves while we wait for feeding time word of the BD release.

Tobar said:

The next few years should be interesting. I think Episode VII has a decent chance of being good.

And a good chance of being decent. :)

You mean you're not going to get that job at Lucasfilm, working on official Star Wars movies? ;)

What would be the acceptable method of grabbing frames from Harmy's v2.1 AVCHD?

I am aware that the frame reference page says this:

Notes on Screenshot Capturing
Every effort was made to ensure the images are as close to the actual DVDs as possible. All screenshots are in JPEG format at 100% quality.
The method used to create each image: Load the DVD VOB file into VirtualDubMod -> Copy the screenshots into Photoshop -> Save to JPEG

But as far as I can tell (after using VirtualDubMod and some quick Googling), VirtualDubMod is old and not under development, so it doesn't support .m2ts nor does it play well with the MKV which I muxed.

I want to have Harmy's DE project added to the screenshot comparisons, but I want to use the method which is most acceptable. I can find the individual frames using Media Player Classic, if that is allowed. If so, what render settings should I use?

Also... why ought I to save the files as JPEG and not PNG?