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just for a slightly registered, histogram matched version of that comparison:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/154019

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Just letting everyone know I put a lossless re-encode of this up on myspleen - it an 18GB mkv. Combined the parts in virtualdub and output to YV12 Lagarith. Then ran through BDtoAVCHD with x264 CRF 0, grain preset and placebo speed settings. Also output the pcm capture as flac. Audio appears to be slightly out of sync, but considering the processing power needed to watch this I figured it’s more likely people will be using it as a source rather than standard viewing.

Happy Holidays 😃

Awww… That really is too bad.

I’d just like to suggest that you capture the entire tape. The one last time commercial and the Leonard Maltin interview are part of what makes faces amazing.

Depending on what’s done… and I know that the PT only has so much bearing, but the precedent was set with Qui-Gonn that it didn’t have to happen right away.

Yes, yes - to Catbus you listen.

In all seriousness, a stickied thread with current estimated release dates of projects would be nice to see. Even if the answer reported there is “Unknown” or “Unlikely for 2016” or “Project on Hiatus”.

Grabbing the preview right now. Would LOVE a high quality audio capture. Even if you just got me the raw wav files I could put it together.

My biggest complaint with this whole release is that it appears all marathon showings are 1-6 in 2D with 7 in 3D. I just want to see all 7 in 2D 😦

I’ve found the issue… for some reason virtualdub is outputting all screwy. My resulting AVI files are incorrectly set as DV NTSC pixel aspect ratio (around .9) with a 23.98 frame rate. My computer kept crashing so I was having to render in small chunks, so when I imported to Premiere I created nested sequences for each side. Those also ended up 23.98… but when I went to interpret footage it says 23.976… ugh.

Pretty much, my workprint is a good representation of how I want things to look and sound, but I’m having to start from scratch to deal with the issue.
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I’ll continue to work on this in my spare time, but it’s been delayed for a bit. My children’s mother attempted suicide on Monday and I am suddenly a full time single parent as opposed to 1/2 time.
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On a happier note, I have some leads on acquiring high quality captures of AotC and RotS on Letterbox VHS. With those as well, I will probably aim to release:
2 GB H.264/AAC MP4 files for each film.
BD-5 H.264/PCM for each film

A single BD-25 with all six films. I’ll render a menu in DVD Architect with multiple Playback Options - Play All by Episode Number, Play All by Release Date, Play All Machete Order, or Select Individual Film.

I’ll replace the m2ts files in the resulting folders with lossless h.264/PCM and run through BD Rebuilder set for BD-25 at max quality settings for h.264 and 640kbps Stereo AC3.

Which country LexX? I’ve had difficulty finding a RotS case picture with a widescreen label.

yotsuya, I’d love a copy to take a look at. Any idea what the source is?

Haven’t seen anything like this released and would love to see these and potentially use them for my analog sourced saga releases.

Thanks. I actually didn’t duplicate frames… At least intentionally. Which do you mean specifically? I trimmed some from between reels to keep it in sync with the audio but don’t remember doing anything beyond that.

For cleanup, Multiple passes of Neat Video. The initial done in virtualdub to remove only the chroma blotches. Prior to this i also applied vdubs chroma smoother for 4:1:1 video.

The second done in premiere was a full dnr + some sharpening. I overlayed the original video over the top with an opacity of 27% to add back details without adding back all the noise.

Japanese subs are already cropped. Haven’t really worked with subtitles before but yes, will be including them in the final release and make them seperately available for the mp4 once completed - do people prefer forced or hard coded for a project like this?

As for AVCHD - unless I can get decent upscaling results, I’ll probably just release a VERY high quality SD version - with 1.5 GB going to audio, might as well. For anyone interested, I’m happy to compress this down as tight as possible losslessly and send it to get a proper upscale. I don’t own the SR plugin, and have always just made attempts with the demo.

The MP4 is CRF 14.

Looks like a few people have finished grabbing this - any thoughts?

Alright, it’s available now. Please give feedback. This is pretty close to how I would like it, but is also kind of a “workprint” for my entire project.

I love the look of Althor’s JSC captures - I grew up on the Faces P/S VHS tapes and for some reason I find that these captures provide more nostalgia for me that any of the GOUT work I’ve seen.

This project is just a cleanup of the 5 average 720p release - I have done my best to remove analogue interference and rainbowing without overdoing DNR and removing film grain. I’ve also tried to match color and contrast discrepancies between the different LD sides. I’ve found that skin tones are inconsistent in the JSC and have tried to find a happy medium across the board. I have left frame damage in tact as well as a few red frames just to maintain the analog source feel.

Rather than use the attached audio, I grabbed Schorman’s LD Audio Archive and compared his different GOUT synched versions to find my preferred versions - difficult since they all sound stellar.

These will be Anamorphic 720x480 releases. I’ll release an x264 MP4 with 192 KBPS AAC first, wait for reviews, make any last minute tweaks, then release a AVCHD-9 with LPCM.

My first release will be Return of the Jedi since options for that tend to be scarcer and when I was little it’s the one I watched most.

Following I’ll probably do SW then ESB, then possibly TPM just to complete. If someone can get me high quality captures of the AotC and RotS widescreen VHS tapes, I’ll release those as a part of the set for a complete 6 film Analogue to Digital set.

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RotJ MP4 should be hitting your spleen this afternoon.
This uses Schorman’s 1986 US Sources.

Were you able to overcome that font obstacle? (where Avisynth couldn’t output the subtitle font correctly)

We all know Rey is Luke and Leias accident daughter from between ESB and RotJ. She just happens to be a very young looking 30 😛

Are you using a regular average of the 5 captures or a median?

Has anyone suggested/worked on prequel edits where Jedi are allowed to marry and Anakin and Padme aren’t hiding it?

Do you wanna build a wampa?

I’ve been messing around on Fiji/ImageJ with Image registration, but I was curious if this “GraspJ” superresolution solution might be helpful at all? A fair bit of this goes over my head, but it seems as if it potentially could be used to get best possible results from SR since it offers a lot of parameters you can change and even “shot detection” to some degree.

https://code.google.com/p/graspj/downloads/detail?name=user manual v3.pdf

Sadly, I feel a lot of prequelesque dialogue drags down the trailer - only Han’s lines seem to have a natural flow to them. I can almost hear Hayden Christensen giving the same delivery on both Finn and Kylo Ren’s lines.

Here’s my attempt to find a happy medium (have a thread in FanEdits but thought it might be appropriate here as well).

https://youtu.be/OJGWJwADbxE

I’m assuming he meant in general. My problem with the trailer was that it suffered from relying on dialogue to explain things that could be inferred from the visuals. The music only version of the trailer that’s been floating around really showed off how great this could be. I opted for a best of both worlds here.

https://youtu.be/OJGWJwADbxE

Minimal Changes that I feel make a big difference, just some slight dialogue removal at the beginning, a dialogue change in the middle, and a shot added at the end.