crissrudd4554

Some quick updates. To keep this fresh I started this over completely from scratch including redoing parts one and two (yes I used the VHS audio to fix the transition). I also decide to ‘up’ the LD audios volume to be more on par with the VHS audio. Anyways I basically have it in sync up til when Henry and Fritz come down the stairs to tend to the people at the door. There it’s getting a little tricky but I’m trying some things. Have work during the day tomorrow but hopefully will work on this for a bit tomorrow night. I’ll keep y’all posted! 😉

SpacemanDoug said:

What’s your opinion on the BD in terms of picture quality?

One of my friends wasn’t a fan of it

For what it is I don’t think it’s bad but then again I sorta miss the grainy and dirt speckled look of the VHS/DVD versions but I understand that’s just not the era were in anymore and that’s fine. My main complaint is the tweaking they did to the sequence of Henry and Fritz pulling the cart with the cadaver up the hill.

stwd4nder2 said:

I was pretty disappointed in the blu-ray after growing up watching it a bunch on VHS. Really looking forward to what you’re working on.
And if someone could PM me a link to the work already completed I’d greatly appreciate it.

Sent. 😉

So I’m actually in the process of working on my own sync attempt mainly for my own curiosity since I figured out how to manual adjust speed for video and audio tracks in this program I’m using. This isn’t taking anything away from anyone on FanRes who’s contributed to this project, I just wanna see what I’m able to do on my own. Anyways so far I have this.

1. The first few seconds I will be using the VHS audio up to til right after Van Sloan says “How do you do?” to restore some audio crackle at the start of the track missing on the LD audio (I believe I mentioned this in a prior post). After that it cuts to the LD audio.

2. The LD audio more or less syncs up with everything up until the end of the lecture/brain stealing scene where I noticed there’s an edit in the LD audio during the transition to the next scene. I’ll likely fix this with the VHS audio as well.

That’s about all I have for now but I will continue to post! 😉

Sad to hear. RIP OG Boba.

Rodney-2187 said:

crissrudd4554 said:

Rodney-2187 said:

I really wish he’d been at Celebration in 2017 for the 40th anniversary of Star Wars, or at least in a video like Liam Neeson and Samuel L. Jackson sent. His absence has been regrettable.

Blame Lucas.

I know. I love George, but he makes it difficult.

He does, he really does.

Rodney-2187 said:

I really wish he’d been at Celebration in 2017 for the 40th anniversary of Star Wars, or at least in a video like Liam Neeson and Samuel L. Jackson sent. His absence has been regrettable.

Blame Lucas.

RIP to the OG Vader! 😞😞😞😞

JadedSkywalker said:

There used to be that advertisement where they showed the video before and after they applied the DVNR to the full screen video, where the before image looked better.

This one??

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vz5MXcV6uPM

I could be remembering this wrong but wasn’t there a shot in ROTJ where the 1993 LD/GOUT changed a laser bolt from red to green or vice versa in one of the battle sequences???

I brought this up in a different thread a few years ago but Luke’s saber in Ben’s hut has a more greenish tint on the ‘95 P&S VHS compared to the WS LD/GOUT. Not sure off hand how it looks on the ‘95 WS VHS.

‘95 VHS (P&S)

GOUT

Not to mention that not only were most of those issues not corrected for the 2000 covers but Leia on the ANH cover was clearly replaced by an image from ESB!

Girl I’ve liked for the last three years just got married. Granted I knew nothing would come of her and I given we live in separate states and the dude she married she’s been with for nearly a decade but still it sucks. That’s life for ya.

Not to mention Leia on the ANH cover being from (I think) ESB.

SpacemanDoug said:

I believe the UK BD and 4K have it as well though filtered

Not the same as the 2005 mono.

I can send it.

1992 Trilogy

SpacemanDoug said:
also all of the Dirty Harry movies had major sound effect changes for their DVD and Blu-ray releases

That’s an audio change, not visual. This thread is focussed more on visual changes.

These are a few changes that come to mind. I’m pretty sure these weren’t in any previous mix but if I’m wrong someone can correct me. It’s actually been a while since I last properly heard the 1993 mix.

One of the flashes that lacked a sound effect during the opening shot now has a sound (may have been in the mono), spark noises when the Jawa attaches the restraining bolt to R2 (also maybe from the mono), some laser-like noises added when they come out hyperspace into the remains of Alderaan (right when and after Han says “what the…?”), TIE Fighter laser sounds added to the blasts just before the fighter passes over the Millennium Falcon (before Luke says “it followed us”, I may be confusing this one with the SE), the aforementioned glass noises in the detention block shoot out, different sound to the laserbolt that shoots past Luke after Han says “either I’m gonna kill her or I’m beginning to like her”.

These I know were in or originated from the mono mix but added to the 1993 mix. First there are some additional rumble heard outside the door of the Tantive IV as the rebel soldiers await the stormtroopers (also in the SE). Second the loud mechanized noise heard in the compactor just before Luke resurfaces the final time is hear twice, once about a second or two before the second time but at a lower volume. All other stereo mixes including the SE (to my knowledge) use the effect once.

I also think this may have been the first mix to use a different sound of the explosion of the TIE Fighter shot down by the Millennium Falcon but I could be wrong.

kujythrgefdw said:

…Luke’s scream in Cloud City…

That’s been gone since 2004.

Rodney-2187 said:

Star Wars: The Hudsucker Proxy

Close but…

Rodney-2187 said:

3. a proper restoration of the unaltered scenes isn’t possible

I’m most certain this is not the reason. Yes maybe not 100% from the negative but there definitely enough resources to piece something decent together. Hell the projects of this site basically proves that.

The 4K versions, or at least the 4K ANH to my knowledge, was made in 2012.

Technically part of Mos Eisley but anyways Greedo Shooting First and the Falcon leaving Docking Bay 94.

Fair enough.

StarkillerAG said:

crissrudd4554 said:

As I said, it’s only continued speculation. I don’t personally think it’s about George’s wishes. That doesn’t mean my view is correct, it’s just my own view of the speculation.
As I said it’s their property.

But when the chief of the Lucasfilm canon department, one of the most important people there, basically states outright that it’s because of George’s wishes, it stops being speculation and starts being fact. I don’t see how there can be any more debate after what he said.

Because he didn’t say George and keep in mind we’re talking about a Tweet from like 3-4 years ago, before Disney bought Fox. If Disney hadn’t bought Fox, Fox would still have control over ANH. Disney owns the whole property now. Does this have anything to do with the OUT?? Most likely not but at the same time it’s easier to say “we’re not gonna do it because…” when at one point it doesn’t look like they’ll own the whole thing than to say that when they do.

Again I don’t see anything with the OUT happening any time soon but until I get an official confirmation that clearly says, not hinted, George Lucas is the reason it is not happening even though he more or less sold it all away back in 2012 and basically has no control over it anymore I will continue to chalk it up to speculation. Sorry for those who disagree with me.

One last thing. Restoring and releasing the OUT would only be disrespectful to George’s wishes if his preferred cuts became obsolete which even in a unlikely reality of the OUT being released again would not be the case. If anything it’ll be an optional cut in a future set with his preferred versions (if physical media is even still viable by then) or as others suggested something exclusive to Disney+.

With or without the OUT, George’s preferred versions aren’t going anywhere. Not to mention, and others have brought this up as well, if George was really adamant that the originals never see the light of day again he wouldn’t have released the GOUT. Yes they were outdated non-anamorphic transfers but they were released with his (begrudging) approval. Again as long as his preferred cuts remain the default versions and it’s not his money being put into it I really don’t think George cares at this point if the OUT is restored.