nightstalkerpoet

... quite possibly rambling to myself here, but these things intrigue me.

What would be the result of upconverting footage through a digital-film-digital conversion process?

Say you take the GOUT, transfer it to 16mm (or 35mm, but seems overkill), and then scan the resulting 16mm footage in at 1080p. Are individual pixels transfered to the film stock, or is some sort of physical interpolation automatically applied during the transfer process?

Smudger Updated Fanedit.org today saying he finished his final cut, was doing a watchthrough, and submitting it there.

Hopefully that means that it is being uploaded as we speak.

Just an idea for ANH - after Vader kills Ben, the doors close in front of Vader with his lightsaber still drawn. I wouldn't mind seeing Vaders saber just barely cutting through the door similar to Qui Gon in TPM. Any thoughts?

Create the avchd/bluray with tsmuxer, then load the folder into multiavchd.

The other option could be bdtoavchd, bdremux mode

Just about to sit down and watch. :)

BTW, kk650, I think I read you're planning on redoing your episode 1 regrade. Are you intending to color correct this time, or use the broadcast as your source? If you do choose the broadcast, I would like to request that you replace the Yoda scenes with the ones from the blu. I much prefer the cgi version - but I know that depends on your personal preference, of course.

Lol, my thought exactly. Seems a fair request.

Not sure if this is possible, or to what level it could be applied but - is there any chance this could be used to merge the Chroma from Harmy's Despecialized with the Luma from the Renegade Grindhouse?

I've been thinking about this for a a little while now -

First off, with the CRT Emulation mode - is there any way to apply a pixel shift to every other frame, or in a particular pattern in avisynth?

I was thinking if you set a 4 frame pattern for this, you could then apply an interlace filter to the resulting video, as it would make the video appear interlaced (I could be way off, but thought it might work)

You would set the first frame in it's original position, the second shifted 1 frame up, the third frame back to the original position, the fourth frame shifted 1 frame down.  

I was also curious about using multiple upscaling methods, then finding the mean chroma and luma using the MergeChroma/MergeLuma functions. Doing this, you could attempt to find the perfect combo/middle ground between spline, bicubic, and lanczos, perhaps even throwing in a small amount of bilinear to smooth any over sharpening.

There is also a median method here: http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-140282.html

Not sure about a mode function, but to me that almost seems the best possible way to mix the files, as it would only use the chroma/luma information that occured most frequently across the different upscales. This would hopefully eliminate some of the artifacting/haloing in lanczos.

I know a few people have grabbed this. Anyone up for throwing me a review.

I would change it to maybe 2.25 or 2.2b ... Just in case the original 2.2 is still in circulation

I prefer Clip 1.

I prefer 2 on the first one, 1 on the second one.

So, just wanted to throw this out there - 

My step-dad really hates letterbox releases. As a gift to him, I am taking the Despecialized Trilogy and going through, shot by shot, to create a 16:9 Pan and Scan version. Would anyone here be interested in a release of that? (pending Harmy's approval, of course)

Hey kk650, I have a request for ESB 2.2. Since these are still special editions, I was wondering if you would consider using (with his permission, of course) Adywan's new Emperor he created for ESB:R. It seriously is all I need for your cut to be my go to version. Having seen it, I have a hard time finding either of the officials versions satisfying.

Loving that color correction!

I’ve been wanting to release a quick extended book cut of HP6 for a while now - finally got around to it. Nothing dramatic, just trying to improve what I find the weakest of the Harry Potter films. Let me know what you thin 😃 Check your spleen…

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince BD-25

(also a 3.5gb 720p mkv, 7gb 1080p mkv, and 1.5gb 480p equivalent h264 mp4)

Extended Book Cut

Changes: Color Regraded less green.

Removed Bridge Destruction

Moved Spinners End to Beginning of Film

Removed Cafe Flirting

Removed reference to cafe flirting

Added Courtyard Cabinet Discussion

Added Tom Riddle/Kids/Cave Discussion

Added alternate musical montage of castle at night.

Never walked out on the prequels.

Got really really close to walking out on The Last Airbender. Awful. 

Was just thinking about this - remember a while back when adywan tried to swich things up and call the team AD1 and most of us were against it.

Then, a few pages back it was established that it's pronounced AY-dee-wan, and a LOT of us professed to having pronounced it add-ee-wan for years.

Did the mispronunciation confusion have an effect on anyone else's opinion of the proposed name change? (I know it did on mine.) 

Also, in the back description, on the last line after the word attack, it says "a" when it should say "and".

They look very nice. Wondering how you're going to manage the Theatrical Trailer in High Definition on DVD though ;)

I would Also use the Yellow/Gold color for the Description on the Back. The white is hard to see.

Yeah, Ronster. How dare you talk about something actually related to the edit, as opposed to the last page and a half of hoverboards comments ;-) 

Can't wait. No, really. Put it out. Please?

Will there be hoverboards in ESB:R?

Just wanted to mention that a little while back I put up a version of ANH:R on the spleen that combines the higher resolution PAL video (slowed to 23.976 fps) with the higher quality NTSC audio. As good as it gets until ANH:R:HD comes out.

+1 on Star Wars.