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@Harmy: I extracted the French tracks from the NTSC GOUT. I think you can remove that question mark. ;) Although I don't know why, ROTJ is a fraction of a second not in sync, So I'll have to correct this before you release ROTJ v2. But I think we have plenty of time for that.

Thanks for the update Harmy. I guess we're all looking forward to your birthday. :)

Harmy said:

 

I'm not happy :-/

That sucks. Keep up the good work, you're almost there!

Hi.

We all hate most of Lucas' changes since the 1981 re-release of Star Wars. I've been thinking about it since I rediscovered the original trilogy, with the GOUT DVDs, what is the change George Lucas could do in a future release of the original trilogy you would see as an improvement?

I'll start with mine: Vader's French voice is the same in Episodes 5, 6 and 3. It is the right one because it's very close to James Earl Jones' voice. But in Star Wars, it's a different voice that is not "Vader like" I wouldn't mind at all Lucas calling the actor of ESB, ROTJ and Episode 3 to re-voice the original Star Wars.

What's yours?

Harmy said:

Correct. The MKV will be first and the AVCHD will follow shortly after (well, I guess a week or two). I'll leave the SD DVD to Chewtobacca as usual, so that'll be up to him and with the BD I'm planning to take my sweet time, because I want to make some cool bonus features and stuff but I need to study for exams at the beginning of September, so the BD won't be available till after that. 

Thanks for the answer. So I think I'll have to wait til September, when I'll be resuming my biology studies. Of course I'll take the mkv to wait til then.

Harmy, what formats will be available? I understand there Will be a Blu-ray and a mkv, and I guess a DVD9 AVCHD as well as a DVD5. Am I right?

NOTHING's worse than Christensen in ROTJ.

Dafuq is that red shirt thing?

Do your best! Thank you again for this.

I'm out too. Knowing that I can sometimes download up to 1.6Mb/s, but usually more like 300-400 kb/s and on uloz.to I was around 190k. Plus since demonoid is down, I don't know where I could upload the torrent to.

Thanks for the answer :) Can't wait!

Harmy said:

Still working on the crawl but that's the last thing I know about that I might want to do, so yes, rendering is still scheduled for tomorrow :-)

That's great news! BTW, do you plan on chaptering the BD version? You could use the chapters of the GOUT, for example.

I already have the Blu-Ray. Now I have 2 copies of the prequel trilogy and 3 of the original trilogy.

Hi.

I received the GOUT in my mail yesterday, this was just to legalizing it.

Also today I prepared for the despecialized edition 2.0 and bought blank Blu-Rays on Amazon.

And browsing youtube for critics about the Blu-Ray edition changes, I found this video which is interesting because it's the impressions of a grown up man who watched Star Wars for the first time ever on Blu-Ray. Funny thing is that apart for Episode 2, he thinks just like me, who watched the first movie about 20 years ago. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPEA3HqYiJ8

These were my 2 cents of the day.

CatBus said:

Well, in many markets, Greedo was simply dubbed over speaking the same language as everyone else, so there would be no need for subtitles at all in those cases.

Really? I didn't know that. In the French version, we just have French subtitles.

Harmy: Don't get me wrong, I'm not asking you to put localized crawls in your release. English would be enough already. I'm just suggesting for non-English speakers who want to alter your release (if you're OK with that, of course) with theirs. As it's always pointed out, the first time you see Star Wars as a kid is a memory many of us have. And I didn't see "Star Wars" but "La guerre des étoiles". I even remember that evening pretty well even if it was almost 20 years ago.

If some of you want to see an example of localized opening crawl, here's the French one. Interestingly there's a typo near the end of the text. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFg6iMK3ikM

I managed to almost recreate it with the app "Crawl Creator". It's an amazing iOS app, and I think I read it's also available on Google Play. It's not perfect (even if you try to disable it, the app creates a blank episode title), but it's really nice to see what you can do with a smartphone.

djchaseb said:

Man you guys are so picky haha.  I guess that's a good thing! Menu totally blew me away.  Awesome stuff.

Haha yeah, we shouldn't. Harmy is doing an awesome work while he shouldn't be. Remastering the Original Trilogy should be the work of Hollywood professionals. As I say in my signature, why doesn't Lucas make his crappy changes for himself? I'd go further than Harmy if I could and restore the localized crawl opening of A New Hope. Will see if I can do that with an iOS app I just downloaded. Would anyone be interested if I can do that? Harmy maybe?

Nice, although I don't really like the focusing twice. But I like it anyways.

At least, I watched the original trilogy in English for once, thanks to Harmy :)

Thanks. I sent you a PM with the links to the AC3 tracks.

Thanks Harmy, but it was only to check if the French soundtrack was in sync with your version, but if you say that the NTSC GOUT and the despecialized editions are suynced by themselves, I think everything's fine. I really need to become more video/coding savvy.

OK. I'm a complete noob at video editing. The result of the encoding is the first 41 minutes of film with fast-forwarding audio. So I guess I did something wrong. Well it was my first time. I'm uploading the AC3 files on rapidshare now.

Thanks, but I'm not using Windows.

Well, I'm almost 25% done with encoding the m2ts BDMV stream from ANH with an extra French track. It's going pretty fast, I don't think it should take more than another hour and a half. I can't tell you if it will be successful because it's the first time I'm doing this. But if you want the French NTSC AC3 files, I have them. Just ask me.