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Feallan said:

Maybe it was always there, but became noticeable only on Blu-ray due to high resolution.

 Of course, it was always there. Otherwise, it wouldn't be identifiable as garbage mattes. The problem is that the contrast of those garbage mattes was increased by the remastering.

AntcuFaalb said:

I don't have the WP downloaded. Are you, perhaps, referring to garbage mattes?

If so, then wouldn't garbage matte removal be a "specialization" rather than "despecialization"?

Yes, I'm referring to garbage mattes but they were nearly invisible in this scene before the digital remastering. Therefore, I'd consider them as damage like the crushed blacks and the crossed lightsabers in front of the Emperor's face.

@ Harmy

Is there any chance to get rid of those bright boxes around the Falcon and the TIE fighters at 00:36:42 - 00:36:44? This problem was much less prominent before Lowry "restored" the material though your workprint is already an improvement over 2004.

You see it at 00:20:00:18 (workprint reel 1) below the Star Destroyer on the right side. It's a mistake from the original material that was removed in 2004.

Many thanks for the links, Harmy. Everything looks so perfect.

I still noticed a strange glow around the yellow letters when they enter the picture but it's much more subtle than in workprint reel 1. Furthermore, I'm very glad that you've been using the SE shots for the first Executor scene. The detail you brought back from those crushed blacks is astonishing in comparison to v1.0 and the GOUT material from reel 1 as well. Did you drop the additional Star Destroyer engine glow intentionally?

@ Harmy

Do you also accept Dogecoin?

Donation sent. Greetings from Germany!

Does anyone have the MD5 and SHA1 checksum of the 500MB-packages?

Thanks in advance!

Harmy said:

I will definitely put some more work into the Executor reveal shots - they come from '97SE and the dirt is exactly the same as on GOUT, so I asume it was always there, nevertheless, I will probably attempt to clean the shots up somewhat and maybe look into some other sources as well.

Isn't there an way to "simulate" the GOUT by basically using material from 2004 or the blu-ray (same with the snow speeder scene)? I don't know how much alteration really is in those shots but they just look cleaned up to me in the first place - nothing the complain about, like your recreated credits of SW. So the loss of detail seems very painful to me but I trust your far better judgement and may be corrected.

@ Harmy

Happy birthday (though I'm late) and many thanks for the reel. Colours and detail are astonishing.

Is the image supposed to be cropped to a consistent format in the final process? The picture is growing slightly at 005847 where the human arm of the Wampa had to be restored (you see the black bars shrinking). Also, the material that isn't from blu-ray doesn't have round edges.

Harmy said:

Well, that's the point really - v2.0 could be done in like a month and serve as a kind of workprint while at the same time it would be a full-fledged release to replace v1.0 - getting it to the same level of despecialization as SW v2.5 will probably take much longer.

In my opinion SW v2.0 was the version that definitely put the project on a larger scale. Don't get me wrong - all further perfectionism is fine too, but if your capable of creating a version of TESB which is on par with SW v2.0 within one or two months, that would be awesome.

Harmy said:

Oh, I'm sorry, I completely forgot before. Here are the checksums for the AVCHD iso file:

MD5: D4EF3E6E7B10147D9BE9D34902EB70E6

SHA1: F360675BCF9B5DEA9E2840B5BB2541917065B2C6

Thanks for the checksums, Harmy ^_^

Could someone please provide us with a par2-file or just a checksum to verify the integrity of the downloaded AVCHD archive?

@ bilditup1

Has the fixed 640 track already been released?

Harmy should use this picture for the remuxing tutorial at tehparadox too. I'm not a native English speaker and therefore, my descriptions can be confusing.

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

Wow, still no answer so I'll try again.

Is the MKV not effected by this revelation about the sound on the AVCHD?  Or, does the MKV have to also be remuxed with a fix?

It's affected to a much lesser extent, maybe more than one audio track. To be honest, I didn't notice it but it should be remuxed too in order to increase the quality.

jero32 said:

Well perhaps he was asking if it'd be LEGAL for him to do.
Let me assure you that it's illegal regardless of wether or not you own all the versions of star wars on any format.

Just download it and enjoy.

It's illegal anyway but it's intended for saturated demanders of the retail release, not to saturate demands. There's at least a huge moral difference.

Laserschwert said:

The G'Kar set can still be found on MySpleen... I've downloaded it not long ago, so it's still live.

Thanks, now downloading it. 20 % done within a whole day and still slowing down, torrents are such a pain, ya know. On the other hand, the G'Kar is worth it for being the least painfull SE of them all.

raphael said:

I also noticed that there is weird error on my Krieg der Sterne logo.

Btw, what's the G'Kar version?

 

It's a DVD5-preservation that uses a German Premiere broadcast of the Special Edition from 1997. I bought it before 2004 on eBay along with original VHS but those DVD-Rs don't exist anymore :-((((((

Therefore, the opening crawl isn't of any use for this project.

@ raphael

Thanks for your effort!

@ Laserschwert & TK-949

What do you say, could the Emperor-scene be of some use for Harmy?

Edit: Looks like he's already relying on those sources.

Laserschwert said:

I'm pretty sure the Russian bootleg uses the German Premiere broadcast.

Wouldn't the German Premiere broadcast be useful for Harmy as it contains good sources for the old Emperor in TESB and Darth Vader without helmet in ROTJ? As I remember,  the picture quality is above GOUT.

Rox64 said:

Hey, n00b, is there a way I can merge two mkvs from a certain frame with MKVToolNix? For example, open a mkv, then add a second mkv right after frame 2000 of the first mkv, and that includes the audio. Because I'm spending a lot of time googling how to do this...

I never needed such a function but have you already tried the "append" button (next to the "add" button)?

Harmy said:

If someone could please find or put together a tutorial on how to replace an audio file with MKV merge, I'd really appreciate it, I really need to study right now.

Here's how to replace asynchronous audio tracks or to add further audio tracks.

First of all, download the fixed audio tracks.

Get MKVToolnix from http://www.heise.de/download/mkvtoolnix.html and install it. Open it and add the MKV-file and the fixed audio tracks.

All tracks including the fixed audio tracks are now listed in the box below. Uncheck the asynchronous audio tracks and check the fixed audio tracks. Choose a new order by using the up and down buttons.

Left click on a fixed audio track, choose "General track options", name the track (f. e. the German track should be called "2.0 @ 384Kbps"), determine it's language and deactivate "Default track flag".

If you want to add further audio tracks that aren't synchronized to the video track yet, you may have to choose "Format specific options" as well and set a positive or negative delay. It's not advised to stretch the audio track during the muxing because this stretching isn't permanent, has to be generated each time while the movie is playing and will stress your system resources.

Click on "Start muxing".

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

I have checked all of the audio tracks and they are all in sync here.  The sync issues are DEFINITELY a result of the download not being completed.

Please check out the German track while the Star Wars Logo appears. The music starts too late.

Laserschwert said:

Phew, that's kind of a relief... now if only I could find away to fix the noise.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Other-AUDIO-Tools/AC3-Cutter.shtml

stupid idea?

Laserschwert said:

Yeah, it kinda is :D

BTW, I've checked the Premiere-exported WAV of my fixed German track, and it DOESN'T have the noise error at the very end... my encoded AC3 has it... what's going on??

The earlier version that you send me has it too. Perhaps the WAV-file is corrupted and the error just occurs after encoding as it happened with Harmy's H.264-file?