digitalfreaknyc

guiser said:

Does anyone believe that Disney would do a better or more complete job than what was accomplished here?  Sorry, but I don't see it no matter who is or isn't involved with this franchise at this point.

I will grant that they probably have access to more resources, better source media and all that, but look at all the garbage HD releases out there that claim to be the cats pajamas.  Far too many if you ask me.

More thanks that I have go to Harmy for saving this piece of cinematic history.

From NYCC:

Rinzler will be releasing eBook versions of his "Making Of..." trilogy of books next week. Each eBook will contain, in addition to the entire text of the hardcopy books, up to 30 minutes of video and up to 30 minutes of audio. The audios and videos will be extremely rare behind the scenes looks at the 3 films. Some of the audio is expected to be very interesting (1 example was a discussion on the set between Lucas and Sir Alec Guinness regarding the proper way to deliver the famous "May the force be with you." line).

2 of the videos that will be included with the eBooks were shown:

1 ) Speederbike chase test footage shot using modified Kenner 12" figures on hand-built Speederbikes (different design from final film) doing basically the whole sequence from the film (with some differences in dialogue and shots/events). All of the characters' voices were provided by Ben Burrit. The miniature forest used for the sequence contained scenery created for the miniature VFX shots for "E.T." which ILM was still working on at the time.

2 ) Rebel briefing scene where Lando announces to Han that that he's a general. Lots of improvised banter between Ford and Williams before they go through the actual dialogue from the script.

An additional video was shown from the filming of the scene where Luke surrenders himself to Vader on Endor. The video features the voice of Marquand both directing the actors and providing Vader's dialogue. This video was really funny, not only for hearing Marquand speaking Vader's lines in his own voice, but for Marquand's stage directions ("Annnnnd...ZING!" when Luke tries to reach Vader's "good side"). Sadly, this video will not be included in the eBook and was going back into the vault after the panel.

http://www.imperialshipyards.net/SMF/index.php?topic=8829.msg166124#msg166124

Popocatapetl said:

I created a working Blu-Ray from the MKV using tsMuxeR. It just remuxes all the streams and creates the Blu-Ray file structure.

<span style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.2em;">If you can live without a custom menu, this is a great solution.</span>

What BD authoring tools don't re-encode?

Not that big of a secret when both iTunes and vudu have 1080p versions.

What's the big deal?

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Learn something new every day.

waspattck said:

The space limit on a single-layer BD is somewhere around 23.5 GB. 17.9 as-is without any extras is fast approaching that.

I suppose you could start dropping selected audio (particularly lossless audio) to create more space, then of course the revised menus.

There wouldn't be any layer break on a BD-25, of course so no worries there. Even if there were, the software would handle that seamlessly.

DVD-BOY said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

Do you have the deleted scenes?

 

I don't think anyone has them - not any release I have seen.

I have the enhanced commentary from iTunes, and the Target Bonus Disc, and I'm still trying to get hold of the Best Buy Canada Bonus Disc.

DVD-BOY said:

Coldblackice said:

I have some of the bonus features ripped, which I could help assist with anyone who's tackling the collective compilation.

Have you got the Canadian Best But extras?  They are the only ones I have missing.

Laserschwert said:

So, did anybody get that enhance digital version of the book? What exactly is it now?

Tack said:

I actually have an NTSC dvd, and none of the added footage has the PAL speedup. They authored two different versions, so there's some out there PAL and some NTSC. But they were sourced from PAL tapes, according to the special features.

imperialscum said:

I think I ll wait for digital version. It is much more convenient for me. And if there is really more material in digital edition than in printed book, another reason more to buy digital.

Any chance there will be a new version of Superman 2?

I believe the one that’s “out in the wild” was sourced from PAL videotapes and they all seem to have PAL speed-up.

Would be great to have the laserdisc used as a source and a film source of the TV cut, if possible.

BillyBoy said:

 

I only took one class in DVD authoring (and that was for regular DVDs, not blu rays), so I'm confused how all of this works for copying blu-ray files. When you assemble the disc, it is going to have all the features together in HD, and end up something like a 50GB download?  If so, I would prefer just a regular (4.35GB or 8GB) standard definition ISO that I can burn to a regular DVD disc. It should be pretty easy to export the HD files and render them out as much smaller, SD mp4 files, right?

 

I finally got around to buying a blu-ray player for Christmas, but I don't have a blu-ray burner, and I like to have a backup copy of everything on DVD so I can take the disc with me and play it for friends (my blu-ray player is stuck at home in my living room). Plus it's far quicker to and easier to download something under 10GB to my computer.

 

Is it possible to create both a HD version and SD version of the same disc?

 

Reminder: the book comes out on Tuesday.

The digital editions with all the deleted footage come out on the 22nd

uhhh...where?!? :)

Well, at this point, it looks like I'm going to have to re-encode the commentary, which sucks ass.

Chewtobacca said:

I realize that, but I thought that if the header given to the MKV by MKVToolnix were the problem, Eac3to might do a better job.

DEmuxing isn't the problem. It's the muxing that's the problem. For whatever reason, TSmuxer won't recognize the FPS and I have no idea why. :(

Clearly nothing can be easy...

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Problem-burning-M4V-to-Blu-ray/topic/15946/

So i'm trying to tackle the Star Trek Bonus Disc...

The iTunes file has a frame-rate of 23.976. I use mkvtoolnix to change it to an mkv file, where the frame-rate remains 23.976.

When I try to author and burn to disc using MultiavcHD (which uses tsmuxer), TSmuxer says "Frame Rate: not found" even though Multiavchd still shows 23.976. The resulting file shows a frame-rate of 25fps.

Any ideas? Is there a problem with the header? Is there any way to change that without completely re-encoding?

Here's the info on the initial file:

General
Complete name : enhanced_commentary.m4v
Format : MPEG-4
Codec ID : M4V
File size : 4.83 GiB
Duration : 2h 42mn
Overall bit rate : 4 247 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-08-18 23:12:27
Tagged date : UTC 2013-08-18 23:13:35

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=2, N=80
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 2h 42mn
Bit rate : 4 092 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.185
Stream size : 4.65 GiB (96%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2013-08-18 23:12:20
Tagged date : UTC 2013-08-18 23:13:35
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 2h 42mn
Source duration : 2h 42mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 149 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 160 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 42ms
Stream size : 173 MiB (3%)
Source stream size : 173 MiB (3%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2013-08-18 23:12:21
Tagged date : UTC 2013-08-18 23:13:35

For the disc, does everyone need the Target stuff AND the Best Buy? Or just the BB and the enhanced commentary?

My Canadian best buy disc is coming on Saturday. That will complete my extras. :)

Any update on this?

I got target and I got the ITunes file.

Did anyone buy the Canadian Blu-ray?