That is a really impressive quality you’ve achieved with this, NSP - especially given this issues of the original source.
Very nicely done - and probably the best GOUT improvement project that I’ve seen over the years. 👍
Just saw the edit 😱 Thank you, that’s very high praise coming from you!
Here are some previews (may take a few seconds to load):
For the full resolution images -
Star Wars
https://ibb.co/DfsS2Vys
The Empire Strikes Back
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Return of the Jedi
https://ibb.co/N2J07cXT
Inspired by the release of ESB and RotJ from the Project Blu scripts, I thought I would try my hand at upscaling the GOUT myself. Only having the NTSC discs, those are my sources. And I have to say, I’m incredibly happy with the results.
So, I’m releasing a Version 2 of this project - this time using the crawls present in the GOUT source.
I’ve also chosen to upgrade the audio from stereo to the 5.1 ac3 versions of HAL9000’s SE GOUT audio - including for Return of the Jedi, where I’d previously used my own equivalent 256kbps ac3 encode of the 93 laserdisc pcm.
Each film is a roughly 4GB MKV file that is AVCHD-compliant and fits nicely on a single layer DVD when converted with TSMuxer.
PM for info on obtaining this. Will be available on Myspleen shortly.
Enjoy! Feedback always appreciated.
Also, big thanks to gforce, JawsTDS, and Project Blu for their previous work on GOUT upscales and stabilization. I used small pieces of each, with small tweaks to those pieces, though my upscale and resizing settings are unique. Also to CatBus, for Project Threepio alien subtitles, which are burnt in in this project.
Considering 3P0 mentions Chewie not coming back as they’re on the way to the palace, would it be feasible to cut the scene of Leia arriving in disguise and handing over Chewie? Just cut straight to her sneaking in to free Han, getting captured, and we first see Chewie as Han arrives in the cell. Makes the plan less convoluted.
Edit: Remembered Kerr sent me a link to something else a while ago. Looked there and found what appears to a copy of my fixed version. 😂
Does anyone have a DVD copy of Kerr’s Dark Force Rising? The avi is low quality and the mkv floating around skips every second or so.
Highly unlikely, but in the small chance anyone has it, a seed of my movie only DVD of it (that fixes the frame rate issue) that’s on MySpleen would be perfect. That was a few computers and dead hard drives ago 😅
Hi, I’m curious on what people’s preferred Pan and Scan releases of the Original Unaltered Trilogy are. I’m assuming it will be laserdisc, but know that there are multiple US releases, and really don’t know much about international releases.
Also, please share if you know of a preservation of your preferred source.
Please send me the link. Definitely intrigued.
Since you’re abandoning a Blu-ray release, will you be waiting to release high bitrate ESB:R along with the others, or could we expect that in the semi-near future?
Were you going to include the AotC youngling scene as well? I thought you mentioned it earlier but it’s not in this outline.
A little confused. You reference quadrilogy, then in the automated reply email refer to 5 parts, and suggest starting with a part that isn’t there.
I’m pretty sure 1.3 saw a Windows release. But that was a few dead computers ago so I have no way to verify a rather fuzzy memory.
Ah. Haven’t seen any preservations of that.
If you’re looking for official versions without any fan-made changes at all, you’ll have to buy them.
Would love a PM with links to all three Theatrical LotR upscales.
I’m not sure how well it was scaled, but I’m pretty sure a single video stream has to have a uniform resolution. So it should be 4k in that project.
Looks good. Only thing I see that I don’t know will work is Ron not leaving - there’s no way to really explain why he doesn’t go to Godric’s Hollow with them.
Would like the link as well, if possible. 😁
Does anyone have access to Kerr’s Hobbit Arkenstone editions? Would love to see them, loved the first one but didn’t realize he finished the set.
I saw on your Titanic thread that you were dropping to 1080p due to banding issues.
Will that affect this project?
1080p or 4k, I’m looking forward to Deathly Hallows 1 and 2, really enjoyed the mixed ratio in films 1, 2, and 6.
How is everyone watching this? I’ve tried in VLC on Windows and Xbox, Movies and TV app on Xbox, and Media Player Classic and VirtualDub2 on Windows, and I’m getting a lot of banding in the opening of Sorcerer’s Stone, most visible when Dumbledore lifts up the put-outer and it’s the only thing in the shot.
My TV is LCD 1080p, my computer screen is LED 3200x1800. Is this only visible from downscaling or on an SDR screen, or is anyone else seeing this too?
Looks good.
I really would love to see the Japanese Laserdisc preservation of the From Star Wars to Jedi The Making of a Saga documentary that was included in the 1995 Japanese Star Wars Trilogy Collector’s Set Laserdisc set.
Would you be interested in From Star Wars to Jedi from the French Pyramid laserdisc release? Althor did capture and release that.
I’d imagine also that while individual frames may lose a miniscule amount of detail, the fact that grain varies in location by frame means that in motion all available detail shared between frames should still be visible as our eyes view things temporally.
I’m pretty sure too much detail has been lost in the darks. You can’t restore what isn’t there.
Curious if anyone has any interest in branching off this project.
Would love to see the initial parts of the scripts used for this (up through and including Levels and Gamma adjustment) rendered to a lossless file and AI upscaled to 1080p (4k would be Overkill, I’m sure).
I don’t have access to the PAL DVDs or AI upscaling, so this is just me wishing 😅. But seems worth the shot.