My ears are a little sore from working so much on the cinema dts soundtracks these last few days but apart from that I’m great. I really love how those PCM tracks sound as well, thats why i’ll definately be including them along with the new cinema dts tracks. Happy to hear they also sound good on surround sound systems 😃
Quick update for all you guys waiting for the 5.1 cinema dts tracks to go with these Star Wars V2.2 Semi-Specialised Editions. I’ve been working on these pretty intensely over the last fews days and am happy to report that the cinema dts tracks for Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back are done. I should have Return of the Jedi finished as well by the end of today.
Do you all prefer that I upload these cinema dts-hd 5.1 tracks seperately to myspleen which means you’ll be able to get them much quicker but you’ll have to do the muxing yourself or do you prefer that I upload them straight away as the whole release with the video and original PCM track included? Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back should be around 18-19gb and Return of the Jedi 20-21gb.
DuracellEnergizer said:
kk650 said:
Something from the poster gives me the feeling that she has been trained as a Jedi but for whatever reason she's turned her back on being a Jedi and sought a life of solitude instead, hence why she uses a staff rather than a lightsaber.
Hasn't it ever occurred to anyone that that staff might be a lightsaber? ;-P
It could very well be now that you mention it, the poster suggests as much by having it intermesh with Kylo Ren's lightsaber, though the fact that the light blades are not visible in the poster would suggest that if the staff is indeed a lightsaber, in this film she wants to keep it a secret. It would be a pretty cool twist if she reveals that the staff is actually a dual bladed lightsaber in order to save Finn in that fight with Kylo Ren.
Anchorhead said:
kk650 said:
I haven't been following all the rumours but has anybody considered that Rey and Kylo Ren might be brother and sister, perhaps even twins to mirror Luke and Leia from the Original Trilogy? The way the positions of their heads are so similar and facing in the same direction in the poster, while Finn is facing in the other direction, and the way their weapons intermesh suggest that there could be a special connection between the two characters. Could Vader perhaps be his grandfather, which would explain even more his reverence of him?
Certainly is within the realm of possibility. Rey & Ren - doesn't take much of a stretch to make that connection. That sort of relation wouldn't bother me too much. Related to Vader would be a drag though. Your idea of why he may be so enamored with him does makes sense.
I'm just not a fan of Vader. Didn't find him interesting in 1977, really don't find him interesting now. He's never been anything other than one-dimensional.
I agree that Vader has never been particularly three dimensional character but to be a great villain you don't really have to be IMHO, you just have to be menacing and have real presence on screen and I think Vader has both by the bucketload in the Original Trilogy, which is what makes him one on the greatest villains ever for most people. It also helps that he's got those fantastic one liners like 'Apology accepted, Captain Needa'. The best villains need those as well haha Gary Oldman in Leon is one dimensional as well but that doesn't stop him being one of my favourite villains. He also has some fantastic one liners.
I personally have no problem with Vader being used as a motivating force for any of the characters, so long as they don't resurrect him or converse with him as a force ghost, his character arc is finished and his character/hayden christensen has no place in the new trilogy IMHO
brash_stryker said:
Literally all of what you said has occurred to me...except for the stuff about Zuko. I'm not familiar with the Last Airbender.
The fact Kylo is established as someone who isn't scarred and damaged like Vader was (and we see him without his helmet at least twice), I've even wondered whether he'll be redeemed fairly early on in the trilogy, and switch allegiance. Maybe too much of a stretch, seeing as we already have Finn doing that.
Not that his face would have to be pretty and unspoilt to become an enduring good character, but it works better thematically. For instance, had the OT been written differently and carried on, I can't imagine Anakin hanging around looking like the spawn of Freddy Krueger.
Family, reconciliation and redemption have always been strong themes that have gone hand in hand in Star Wars. I would not be surprised if they wanted to keep that going in this new trilogy.
I would imagine that if thats want they're planning to do with Kylo Ren, the change would most likely be gradual and will encompass the whole trilogy, not unlike Vader in the OT, another Skywalker family squabble with the rest of the galaxy in the middle, things tend to get a little messy when that happens haha glad i'm not the only one that picked up on this scenario as a real possibility.
If Kylo Ren and Rey are siblings, it kind of makes you wonder why she's just trying to mind her own business and hide away on Jakku. Something from the poster gives me the feeling that she has been trained as a Jedi but for whatever reason she's turned her back on being a Jedi and sought a life of solitude instead, hence why she uses a staff rather than a lightsaber. What happens in this first film will most likely force her to face that part of herself in order to protect Finn that appears to be untrained with a lightsaber and pretty terrified when Kylo Ren comes for him in the trailer after his initial show of bravado.
Kylo Ren perhaps was not trained as a Jedi because his mentor/father (Luke perhaps?) could sense something potentially dangerous in him and remembering what Obi Wan told him about his failure in training Anakin, decided to try to avoid making the same mistake, Kylo Ren gets training from the Knights of Ren instead and now has an axe to grind against his old mentor and all Jedis in general. All speculation of course but its fun to run with it. For the record, I think it's Han Solo that Rey is crying over there, will be interesting to see what's actually happened there when the film comes out, see whos right with all the jacket debate going on right now haha
I haven't been following all the rumours but has anybody considered that Rey and Kylo Ren might be brother and sister, perhaps even twins to mirror Luke and Leia from the Original Trilogy? The way the positions of their heads are so similar and facing in the same direction in the poster, while Finn is facing in the other direction, and the way their weapons intermesh suggest that there could be a special connection between the two characters. Could Vader perhaps be his grandfather, which would explain even more his reverence of him?
I also read somewhere that JJ said that Kylo Ren will be going through his own character journey in this film. That would seem to suggest that he could survive this film and be an important character throughout the whole trilogy. Perhaps he might go through a similar character journey as Zuko does in the three seasons of The Last Airbender. Looking at that poster and the positions of Rey and Kylo Ren, the possibility just jumped out at me. Has anybody suggested anything similar or have the already existing rumours debunked such a possibility?
DrDre said:
kk650 said:
I personally wouldn't base a regrade for an entire film on the colours in a trailer, trailer colours are notoriously unreliable as poita said in the other thread and of course only show the colours of a few scenes, all the other scenes you'd have to guess at what they're meant to look like colourwise.
The trailer looks like it has a blanket blue tint all over it. You can see that especially in the bar scene in the trailer, it looks exactly as I think it must have looked on location when it was shot (ungraded basically) but with a blanket blue tint added to it. If you prefer that ungraded look, which I can understand, you have the problem of not knowing what other scenes not shown in the trailer would look like with the trailer's more neutral ungraded colour scheme. You'd be creating a film with a mismash of graded scenes taken from the blu-ray and ungraded scenes whose colours were taken from the trailer, creating an inconsistent colour scheme overall IMHO.
If you try to transfer the look of the trailer to the entire film I think you're just going to end up with a very blue looking film, which is what has happened with your latest regrade screencaps. The shots in the desert feel very cold in your regrade now and I don't think that's a good idea because it will create a disconnect with the viewer. They feel very unnatural to me.
I think you should discard the trailer as a colour grading reference because you don't have the colour scheme for the whole film. With your regraded shots in post 95 and 98 you were going in the right direction IMHO, they looked natural and very nice to me. I think my slight adjustments make them look even better but you may or may not agree with that. If you really want a less warm more neutral blueish colour scheme though, similar to the trailer, you should probably use the WOWOW release as a starting point rather than the blu-ray, that has a less warm more neutral feel to it overall and you have the whole film with the whole colour scheme, unlike the trailer where you just have a few scenes. Personally i'd continue using the blu-ray though, it feels more 'right' to me for a film shot in that era, even if it is more heavily graded.
I did not use the trailer as a reference, apart from the bar fight scene. I will come to that later. I used the 35 mm frames as a reference, and then observed that the color scheme I ended up with is very close to the trailer. The only adjustments I made to the origonal color grading is to reduce the dark greens, as the band on Indy's hat was too greenish compared to the photographs of Indy's hat from Raiders.
As far as the 35 mm reference frames go, I'm satisfied, as I noticed the following:
1) In the first frame the chalkboard should be blue, which it is in the regrade.
2) The wall in the second frame is blue/green, and the jacket of the guy nearest to the camera is a yellowish beige. Both of these are true for the regarde, unlike the bluray and WOWOW.
3) In the third frame, the sky should be blue, the sand yellow, and Indy's scarf should be white. Again all these are all correct for the regrade, and not for the bluray and WOWOW.
So, the simple truth is, I tried to match the 35 mm frames, starting from a publicity shot from 1981, and ended up with a color scheme that closely matches the 35 mm trailer in every scene shown, except for the bar fight.
The color scheme for the bar fight was so different from any of the others, that the only logical conclusion was that the scene originally had a different color scheme, at least for the trailer. Since the trailer was from 1983, I believed it to be the color scheme for the 1981 theatrical release as well, and has since been confirmed by hairy_hen, who saw a 35 mm print in 2007. Since there are no other references for this scene, other than the trailer, and publicity photos, which also show that the lighting conditions for this scene were far from the red we see in the home video releases, I used the trailer and publicity photos as a reference.
Publicity photo:
Bluray:
Regrade:
The publicity photo looks warm while your current regrade settings look cold, especially the fleshtones. Ultimately it boils down to your own preference of course, cold fleshtones on Raiders of the Lost Ark don't look right to me personally and the majority of stills and 35mm prints i've seen support that assumption. Here's another still from that bar scene that looks warm like your previous still:
I don't know if you use the movie stills database website, if you don't you really should, its really helped me in the past with older catalog releases to get a better feel for how colours and fleshtones looked on film at the time it was shot, how the sets looked with their natural lighting, how costume looked in normal lighting etc. Here's the address below for Raiders of the Lost Ark:
http://www.moviestillsdb.com/movies/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-i82971
litemakr said:
Is this the re-release trailer? If so then it is a valid color reference because it would have been created from a timed print. It would be a couple generations removed from the inter-negative, but still not far off from a release print. There could be a shift towards warmer or cooler, but the trailer itself would not be re-timed shot by shot.
The bigger issue is how the trailer was transferred to video and what could have been done digitally to alter the color, gamma, etc.
Something else to keep in mind is that films were not heavily changed during color timing in the pre-digital days. They didn't have the ability to tweak color like they do today. The goal was usually accurate fleshtones and colors and consistent brightness and gamma. The look of a film was created in camera using filters and lighting, not in post production.
I never said it wasn't a valid reference, just that it shows only a few scenes from the film, so it is not of much practical use. Without being able to see what the colours for the rest of the film looks like in different locations with that specific colour scheme, I think there isn't much point trying to regrade a whole film based on a trailer, many scenes could be ratically different from the blu-ray like the bar scene does and the change in colour will almost certainly not be uniform across the whole film.
As for how it looked theatrically, i've seen shots posted here from 35mm prints of Raiders of the Lost Ark that have the scenes in the desert looking very warm, as you would expect, with natural looking fleshtones taking into account the lighting of the scene and how fleshtones looked on film as that time, not bluish and cold like they are in the trailer. I see no point worrying about how the trailer looks when its just a tiny section of the film so cannot help in regrading the whole film and its colour reliability is questionable due to it being just a trailer and not the finished product.
I personally wouldn't base a regrade for an entire film on the colours in a trailer, trailer colours are notoriously unreliable as poita said in the other thread and of course only show the colours of a few scenes, all the other scenes you'd have to guess at what they're meant to look like colourwise.
The trailer looks like it has a blanket blue tint all over it. You can see that especially in the bar scene in the trailer, it looks exactly as I think it must have looked on location when it was shot (ungraded basically) but with a blanket blue tint added to it. If you prefer that ungraded look, which I can understand, you have the problem of not knowing what other scenes not shown in the trailer would look like with the trailer's more neutral ungraded colour scheme. You'd be creating a film with a mismash of graded scenes taken from the blu-ray and ungraded scenes whose colours were taken from the trailer, creating an inconsistent colour scheme overall IMHO.
If you try to transfer the look of the trailer to the entire film I think you're just going to end up with a very blue looking film, which is what has happened with your latest regrade screencaps. The shots in the desert feel very cold in your regrade now and I don't think that's a good idea because it will create a disconnect with the viewer. They feel very unnatural to me.
I think you should discard the trailer as a colour grading reference because you don't have the colour scheme for the whole film. With your regraded shots in post 95 and 98 you were going in the right direction IMHO, they looked natural and very nice to me. I think my slight adjustments make them look even better but you may or may not agree with that. If you really want a less warm more neutral blueish colour scheme though, similar to the trailer, you should probably use the WOWOW release as a starting point rather than the blu-ray, that has a less warm more neutral feel to it overall and you have the whole film with the whole colour scheme, unlike the trailer where you just have a few scenes. Personally i'd continue using the blu-ray though, it feels more 'right' to me for a film shot in that era, even if it is more heavily graded.
DrDre said:
kk650 said:
DrDre said:
Although I like your screenshots, the desert scenes are more orange, as they are on the bluray, where the 35 mm frames show it should be more yellow.
You've lost me there. I adjusted your regraded screencaps by removing a bit of blue to get rid of the slight cold feeling. Removing blue makes the image more yellow. I also adjusted the fleshtones to make them less red, not more red.
The only way the desert would look more orange with my adjustments would be if i'd added red, not removed it like I did in this case. As far as I can tell, the hue of the desert in my adjusted screencaps is closer to the hue of the desert in the 35mm screencaps than your regraded screencaps. Am I missing something?
I used one of one of your regrades to construct a color correction model. The basis for my argument is the result I got for this frame:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/147246
To my eyes your regrade is more orange. Analyzing the rock Indy is standing on reveals average RGB values for your regrade [163.9701 118.4535 71.4151]. The same analysis for my regrade gives [158.8538 120.2475 74.3358]. So, more red and less green in your regrade, hence more orange.
I also did the analysis on the original frame I used to make the model:
http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146976
The average RGB values for the sand to the left of Indy in your regrade [166.8212 129.9876 91.2088]. The same analysis for my regrade gives [161.0879 130.4117 96.0465]. So, again more red and less green in your regrade, hence more orange. The same analysis for the bluray gives [168.6993 129.3077 89.6064], so your regrade is almost as orange as the bluray.
In this frame for the 35 mm the sky is also pretty blue, so reducing the blue results in a more gray sky like in the bluray.
Oh, I think I understand where you're coming from now.
The adjustments I made were essentially to add yellow to the overall image to counter the slightly cold feeling I was picking up and add yellow and green to the fleshtones to make them less red and more like what I believe fleshtones looked like on 80's film, more 'natural' to that era as such, based on stills from 80's films i've seen. That would cause the reds in the fleshtones and the desert to shift towards orange. That is what you mean by the adjusted screencaps looking more orange, the colour shift from red to orange, rather than orange being added. That process is actually taking you towards the yellow desert of the 35mm prints, if you keep on adding yellow and green to the fleshtones, they would become more yellow and so to would the desert.
The problem with getting the desert as yellow as the 35mm print, if that is your aim, is that the fleshtones would all be completely yellow as well and everybody throughout the film would look like they're suffering from yellow fever. I personally wouldn't focus on the desert or other things in the background being a certain colour, I would focus on the overall colours looking correct to your eyes and especially the fleshtones looking natural, because thats where the viewers eyes are focused on most of the time, and let the rest of the colours come from that.
To my eyes I consider my adjustments to be an improvement on your regrade both in terms of overall colour and fleshtones but this is your project so what matters ultimately is what you prefer. If you like the blues to stand out a little more, like you pointed out in the desert sky, you should leave the blues unchanged. The desert sky in my adjusted shot looks more 'natural' to me but if you want more blue there its totally your call. If you prefer your fleshtones more reddish then leave them as they are.
Something you realise very quickly when you colour grade for a bit is that nothing is ever objectively 'right', it all just comes down to one's own personal preference. This is your project so of course you have the final say. I look forward to watching what you come up with regardless of whether I agree with all your colour choices, you're doing a very thorough job and i'm sure when you finish it'll look great :)
DrDre said:
Although I like your screenshots, the desert scenes are more orange, as they are on the bluray, where the 35 mm frames show it should be more yellow.
You've lost me there. I adjusted your regraded screencaps by removing a bit of blue to get rid of the slight cold feeling. Removing blue makes the image more yellow. I also adjusted the fleshtones to make them less red, not more red.
The only way the desert would look more orange with my adjustments would be if i'd added red, not removed it like I did in this case. As far as I can tell, the hue of the desert in my adjusted screencaps is closer to the hue of the desert in the 35mm screencaps than your regraded screencaps. Am I missing something?
ott said:
btw, i just used UncropMKV on your Nightcrawler regrade--AND IT WORKED !! Burned to BD and the aspect ratio is fine on my TV. :) So excited. And I have to say, this is my first regrade of yours that I'm watching on my TV and it looks spectacular. :) Thanks for all your hard work on these.
Thank you for the kind words ott, its always great to hear that people are enjoying my regrades! :)
For all those interested, I've just put up both the latest Return of the Jedi Semi-Specialised Edition V2.15 releases up on myspleen, one with the original theatrical Yub Nub ending and one with the modified special edition Victory Celebration ending (replacing Hayden Christensen with Sebastian Shaw of course and removing the CG celebration scenes from the prequel trilogy locations, no more 'weesa free!!!' thankfully).
Here are screencap comparisons for all six Star Wars regrades:
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Regraded The Phantom Menace Regrained Edition V2
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Regraded Attack of the Clones V2
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Regraded Revenge of the Sith V2
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DrDre, I think you're very close to having the colours and image dynamics spot on here, at least to my eyes. Contrast and brightness is perfectly fine to me, you've matched the blu-ray image dynamics there and I think thats the right call. In terms of colour though, your regrade does feel a little cold. The fleshtones are also too red IMHO.
I'd suggest that in future you post full size 1080p screencaps, it would make it a lot easier to assess the colours and image dynamics and give feedback.
Here are screencap comparisons for all your latest screencaps between your regraded shots and the same shots with adjustments I would make to remove the slightly cold feeling and make the fleshtones more natural looking, at least to me:
http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146973
http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146975
http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146976
http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146977
http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146978
http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146979
http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146980
http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/146981
ott said:
I got the Regraded Episode I and Episode II; one question: I need the French audio--could I seamlessly mux in the French track from the Star Wars Blu-ray? I believe kk650 didn't tweak anything to do with the timing of the films but I'm asking to make sure. Thanks! :)
Episode I, II and III should mux seamlessly with the French blu-ray audio, I didn't edit the three Prequel regrades in any way.
Smithers said:
Pretty happy about ROTJ semi-specialized edition, although the other two are also great, I'm sticking with the theatrical versions of those two. You've managed to make ROTJ way less offensive when it comes to changes but still keeping the special effects improvements intact.
Thanks! The Star Wars Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2L is actually my favourite with ROTJ and ESB a close second and third.
joefavs said:
Is Jedi likely to show up on myspleen any time soon, or is it tehparadox or bust?
I've just been very busy working out how to go about regrading Jurassic World, these modern releases are hard to regrade in different ways to the catalog releases, finding the best balance across the whole film is tough and very time-consuming, i'm on my third encode now.
I imagine I should probably be able to have ROTJ up on myspleen by sunday at the earliest.
TRIFORCE89 said:
Nice! Really pleased with how the colours look on the OT (looking only at screenshots for IV and V, but I've watched your RotJ). Looking forward to the 5.1 releases.
My only request, if I may make one, is that with ESB if you could have an alternate version with the McDiarmid-Emperor scene instead (with your wonderful colour correction, of course). Planning a saga watch before the release of VII, and ESB's original Emperor may seem a bit out of place. Maybe even a recut, as ADigitalMan did on DVD, to be closer to the original dialogue but with McDiarmid's voice.
Loved watching your RotJ. The colour was great. Jabba's Palace played out well with the music. Nice to see the original Anakin again. Only suggestion I might level, is that Cloud City seemed awfully lonely being the only city in the celebration at the end. I grew up with the '97SE though, so maybe that's just me. Glad Naboo is gone though.
Thanks for the effort!!
Thanks!
I am actually seriously considering creating an alternate version of ESB with the McDiarmid-Emperor scene instead, i'm not a big fan of the dialogue or the puffed up look of the SE emperor in that scene but you're not the first to request it and it is a very easy change to make.
I have no plans to reintroduce Coruscant, Naboo pr Tatooine Celebration scenes. Coruscant and Naboo were never shown in the Original Trilogy so they have no place there and just remind people of the Prequels by being there. Tatooine was of course but it just looks ridiculously overcrowded, blatently CG and OTT in general IMHO, like something out ot the Prequels.
ott said:
i got kk650's 50GB Phantom Menace... as anyone been able to put this on a BD50?
I don't really feel like reencoding it so my only other options are USB or splitting the file up on two discs?
thanks for your help. :)
I was trying to max out the bitrate and capture as much of the grain as possible so I don't think it'll fit on a bd-50. What i'd personally do is use mkvmerge to split the file in two with the 'link files' option selected so it fits on a bd-50 and bd-25. When both parts are side by side on your harddisk or media player the join should be completely seamless.
MrToad883 said:
Your ROTJ looks a million times better than the bluray. Just got it off the paradox place and your regrading is excellent.
Thanks for the kind words, appreciated!
I'll throw those two screencaps taken from the Star Wars Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2L into the mix as well:
Overall colours on your regrade look good DrDre, I'd just say that your fleshtones look too red and oversaturated IMHO.
I personally think your latest regraded shots look fantastic DrDre, definately the best of the three. I would definately be interested in watching your regraded Raiders of the Lost Ark release.
I agree with Kingherb that the WOWOW shots are my least favourite, the rock colours looks wrong IMHO and everything feels too cold.
kitt1987 said:
Congrats on finally finishing up the saga, I look forward to checking out Jedi soon since your other releases were top notch! Do you anticipate getting these up on my spleen by the weekend or so?
Thanks kitt, I appreciate that! Regrading all 6 films has been a hell of a lot of work. As far as i'm aware, i'm the only releaser to have achieved that. I'm just really happy to have finished with Star Wars in general and be able to move onto other stuff.
I'm busy creating the last 22gb regraded release of Avengers: Age of Ultron right now, all the other releases are currently available on tehparadox, but in the next few days I should hopefully be able to get the two ROTJ releases up on myspleen.
MrToad883 said:
Beautiful work kk650! I forgot to ask/make a suggestion but would it be easier for you to just release your 5.1 mixes as audio only and have us mux it in ourselves as a separate audio track for the videos? Just seems like alot of uploading for you!
Nah its fine. I'll provide the tracks seperately as well but those that are less tech savvy i'm sure will appreciate me doing all the muxing legwork for them. Reuploading these releases isn't a problem, I'm just happy that i've finally finished, at least on the video side of things.
DrDre said:
That's interesting, I posted a frame from the bluray, that I color matched to a Technicolor IB print reference, and it's pretty close to your regrade:
kk650:
DrDre:
Of course there's always debate about how these scenes should look, but it's always interesting to make comparisons.
That does look remarkably similar, especially the fleshtones.
To my eyes the Star Wars Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2 screencap looks more natural though, the sky actually looks blue rather than green, so its definately the one I prefer.
Its definately nice to see that I got the fleshtones pretty spot when comparing to the Technicolor IB print, never seen reference frames from this section before. One of my main aims with these V2 releases was to replicate the fleshtone colours of the IB print frames i'd seen of Star Wars and then regrade the other five films to maintain fleshtone colour consistency with the first film.
Thanks guys! I'm very happy to announce that the Return of the Jedi Semi-Specialised Edition V2.15 is 100% finished and now up on tehparadox. I'll soon have it up on myspleen as well. There are two versions, one with the Yub Nub ending and one with the Victory Celebration ending. All six Star Wars films are now complete. Here are the screencap comparisons:
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Regraded The Phantom Menace Regrained Edition V2
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Official Blu-ray 1:
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Official Blu-ray 2:
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Regraded Attack of the Clones V2
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Regraded Revenge of the Sith V2
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