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Hagdorm said:

I did an encode last night with the DTS-HD tracks as well. I set the level to 4.1 (it doesn’t call it high profile, but that’s what it is), and because for some reason it told me the frame rate was 90000 I changed the FPS to 24000/1001. I haven’t burned it yet but Media Player Classic and VLC both liked it well enough. I used Virtual CloneDrive to mount it.

I just did the same and it worked.

I’m having trouble getting this on a disc. I muxed in the DTS-HD tracks from Despecialized and made an ISO, but the disc I burned it to doesn’t play and VLC crashes when I try to open the disc image. I’ll try it again in the morning, but I’m wondering if anyone else has had a problem with this or if it’s just a fluke.

EDIT: I’m watching it now off my hard drive and it really is lovely. This is definitely the only ESB I’m watching until Poita’s is out.

That’s what I get for failing to scroll. Anyway, the bit about changing Hardwick’s tie to a lighter shade of blue to bring it in line with his original vision was great.

Anyone catch the May 4th episode of @Midnight? They really laid into George about the SE.

Oh, I totally get it, and I agree that it’s most important to make the unadulterated versions available; I’m just psyched to see something different in the pipeline. As for your point about everyone being free to make whatever they want with these materials, I’ve been thinking about taking a crack at a denoised SSE myself, and this might have pushed me over the edge.

I, for one, am really pleased that this project is denoised. I’m much more of a grain agnostic than a lot of the folks here, and it’s been kind of disheartening to see every single 35mm project go the same “grain purist” route. I’m happy to finally see something more in line with my own preferences.

Is this going to be a BD-50 situation since you started with the lossless version this time?

I always thought Luke’s Dagobah food was a Twix bar when I was a kid.

Oh my God, I’ve been dying for someone to take on exactly this project for ages, and now not only is someone doing it, but I only have to wait a couple days for it?! It’s a May the 4th miracle! I seriously can’t wait, your single-pass Grindhouse was already one of my absolute favorites. Denoised, I’m almost certain this’ll be my main ESB.

Poe Dameron #14 is in large part a sort of thinly-veiled and really quite moving eulogy for Carrie Fisher. If a comic hit me this hard, I’m going to be a wreck when TLJ comes out.

LuckyGungan2001 said:

I just finished reading Aftermath. It’s not the best, or even particularly good overall, but I didn’t mind it and I think “frag” is a far better substitute for “fuck” than “kriff” ever was.

The Aftermath books get progressively better as they go on. The first one is eh, but if you’ve already slogged through it I recommend sticking with the series because it only goes uphill from there. Empire’s End was more or less on par with Bloodline and Catalyst.

TV’s Frink said:

I wouldn’t go out and buy a 4k tv just because I wanted 4k, but if I needed a new tv, why wouldn’t I buy a 4k?

Because you can get an extra 10-15" for the same money if you go 1080p. That was my rationale six months ago, anyway.

Bummer. Definitely going to snag a couple of those discounted posters, though.

Why wouldn’t you use the stereo mix on a stereo setup regardless of whether or not downmixed 5.1 is kosher? Is there some advantage to downmixing a surround mix?

The Poe comic has been great lately. That and Doctor Aphra are the best things going in the nuEU, methinks.

Amano said:

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
A New Hope (1977)
The Force Awakens (2015)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Rogue One (2016)
The Phantom Menace (1999)
Attack of the Clones (2002)
Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Yep.

Yes it does.

DrDre said:
Practically nobody is interested in a special special edition.

Based on Reddit, more people are interested in this than the OUT. Every time I see the subject of the different cuts come up anywhere other than here, someone inevitably says some variation of “the unaltered versions would be nice, but I’d rather they just get rid of the bad changes and update the CGI for the rest so that it will match the new movies”, and then everyone else upvotes it.

I wonder if we’ll ever get another Star Wars movie that ends with the cast doing a goofy pose, a la ANH, ROTJ, and TPM. TLJ seems like an unlikely candidate, but maybe it will work in the Han Solo movie. I kind of hope they do go that route again at some point. I remember thinking of that as one of the little signatures of Star Wars before they made four movies in a row that didn’t have it.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

That burping toad creature in ROTJ. I always assumed that was an SE addition until I saw DE for the first time last summer.

Same. Something about the way it moves looks like CGI. The Wookieepedia page says it was a puppet; does anyone know if it was shot at a weird framerate or something like that?

HP. Lovecraft said:

Would not mind a live action Clone Wars movie although giving the dislike people have for the PT it probably not gonna happen.

I’d love to see something set in the PT era that’s actually good. Not sure about the Clone Wars specifically because the clones were never terribly compelling for me, but I’d definitely be in for something in that timeframe with practical sets and a good script.

Kylo could have a bastard kicking around somewhere.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

The residents of Alderaan. No character development. None!

Sad!

Anyway, to get some nuEU in here, Norra Wexley from the Aftermath books drives me nuts. Her son’s just as bad in the books, but he gets a pass because he grows up to be Greg Grunberg.

At this point, with 4K77 (and more specifically the Skywalker Edition that SkyDude is working on) and Poita’s projects in the pipeline, an official release of the OUT isn’t life or death for me. What does bum me out immensely, though, is the continuing resilience of the Lowry transfer. The fact is, I’m too young to feel that I’ve been personally robbed of something with the OUT being unavailable. I came to the understanding that the theatrical versions are the superior cuts a little later on when I could think about movies in a way that was more sophisticated, but the fact is that for basically my entire childhood I just watched whichever version was available. I had some friends who had the Faces set and we watched those whenever I was over their houses, but more often than not it was the 97 tapes, because those were the ones I got for my eighth birthday and my parents weren’t about to buy me another set (and let’s be real, I didn’t give a shit, I was eight). This is all to say that I’m not someone who’s going to refuse to see Star Wars in a theater because it’s the SE; it wouldn’t be ideal, but I do think I would still be capable of tapping into that eight-year-old who-cares-what-version mindset if they end up carting them out next month for the anniversary. What is inexcusable for me, though, is how piss poor the current master is. I popped in the blu-ray a few weeks ago to watch the Battle of Yavin after watching Rogue One, and the image quality is just such a goddamn bummer. So yeah. Certainly hoping for the OUT, but failing that, I’m in the camp that wouldn’t sneeze at a remastered SE with proper colors like the 97 version.

I haven’t seen it yet, but it sounds so batshit insane and it’s already got such an extreme reputation that I’m really legitimately curious. I’m sure I won’t want to watch it again, but if you sat me down tomorrow and had me choose between those three things, I’m going with Jupiter Ascending.