pittrek

Is somebody interested in the  Derran print ? Is it worth so much money ?

kenkraly2007 said:

I've had the star wars saga blu-rays for some time now I enjoy everything about them picture , sound , extras, everything. Sure episode 1 is not perfect transfer on blu-ray because of the DNR issues but it's a decent transfer. The other 5 star wars films on blu-ray look very good though with ROTS and the original trilogy looking the best. Sure some fans are not going to like the new color timing of the OT from 2004 but it's not a big issue for me and some of the error's from the 2004 dvd release's for the OT have been corrected for the blu-ray's. Sound wise the films have never sounded better with the DTS HD Master Audio 6.1 soundtrack on blu-ray. Episode 4 sound's very good on blu-ray and again most of the audio problems from the 2004 dvd release for Episode 4 have been corrected. And the other 5 films of the saga sound good on blu-ray too.

I agree with SOME parts.

1) Yes, Episode I is not perfect.

2) I don't like the "new color timing"

3) 100% correct - SOME errors from the 2004 DVD release have been corrected. That's the problem. Either fix EVERYTHING or NOTHING.

4) Episode 4 sounds very good ???? Are you on drugs ? What about this ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0EUjobdavw  It's hilariously bad and kills the movie for me

It's even in the czech dub. I guess Lucasfilm requested all language tracks to have the same fuckups  sorry "deliberate creative decisions"

Darth Bizarro said:

"Project Yub Nub"

Actually I'm using Yub Nub as menu music :-)

twister111 said:

 

TheBoost said:

Perhaps I'm not clear.

We WANT them to re-do the SFX form TNG and Bab5?

I thought this website is against that type of thing?

Just have to say this. With Babylon 5 there's still a chance they could find the original computer files and, re-render them in higher resolution. So, they could offer an option of new CGI or, the original CGI both in true HD if they find those files.

About TNG on Blu-ray. It's neat that it's happening but, I wouldn't be too bothered to buy it... TNG airs on TV all the time anyway...

 

Seriously ? In my country it was shown on TV for the last time in cca 1996/97

I do NOT want them to re-do the SFX from TNG, and if they DO rework them, I'd wish they do something like they've done with TOS (that means BOTH versions of the effects on the same disc).

doubleofive said:

I just realized that NONE of the effects are going to be on there. Hand phasers are going to have to be redone, disintegration effects, explosions, Q changing clothes in a snap...

TRANSPORTERS! My god, the transporter effects are going to have to be redone!

Hm... are you sure about that ? I know it might sound like a stupid question but I don't know in which "physical form" are these effects stored.

Bingowings said:

Sadly I doubt if Babylon 5 will ever get the same treatment.

Every single special effect would have to be redone which is why even the DVDs look choppy.

Babylon 5 deserves it. The DVDs look f*ing BAD

doubleofive said:

Some awesome guy already made a visual comparison of the shot of the Enterprise from that trailer:

http://picasaweb.google.com/102542760950977079734/TNGHD

He points out that its the same shot, but recomposited from the original model that was shot on film. It's incredible work, what any good special edition should be: fix the composites and leave the rest alone. It's a shame they didn't have the original elements for TOS. The CGI is fun, just not MODELS.

What blows my mind is that they are going back to the original negatives, and re-editing the entire series from scratch. Every shot, every take, every effects shot, redone from the original negative. All of post-production for that series is being redone on modern equipment. I'm not a huge TNG fan, but I'm definitely interested in this.

Wow.  Somebody should show this to a certain George

Well TNG is my personal favourite of all Trek shows, so it's great news for me :-) I bought recently the TOS boxset and I love it

http://www.startrek.com/article/the-next-generation-blu-rays-launch-in-2012

I like Project Endor

It's a 1997 deliberate creative decision. It was mentioned in some thread here a while ago

LeoneNut said:

Currently uploading my stuff.

But here's a print advert for the Ewoks and Droids UK VHS tapes circa 1988

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/683/ewoksvideosadvert.jpg/

 

Thanks a lot for the upload, I hope I'll be able to download it (I'm still getting the odd "temporarily unavailable" message)

darth_ender said:

I don't have much to provide for help except more encouragement.  Thanks for all your hard work on this project.  You're doing everyone a huge service.

Oh I'm sure you CAN provide something :-)

If nothing else I'm searching for suggestions for some cool "project title" - I'm currently calling it "The Ewoks Project" which does sound pretty lame

LeoneNut said:

I've got some cbr files of the Ewoks comics, which maybe better scans than you have.

Have scans of all the Ewoks related kids storybooks as well.

And the UK Ewoks Annual from 1986 which contains some unique stories. 

 

That would DEFINITELY help !

Previous thread : http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Droids-and-Ewoks-anybody/topic/12463/

Well this is it, the previously mentioned “version 1.0” is almost ready, so I thought it is a good idea to write some “specifications” about the DVDs.

The first season consists of 13 episodes on 5 DVDs. The reason why there are only 3 episodes on each disc (and 1 episode on the last one) is very simple - most of you guys prefer quality, so each stream is encoded with really great bitrate. The average bitrate of every video is 8 Mbps , the audio tracks are encoded as 256kbps ac3 stereo.

Each episode was transferred by Fritz (VideoCollector) from his own UK tapes (check his site : http://www.swonvideo.com/ ) on his standalone DVD recorder with maximum bitrate. The resulting MPG files were sent to me, where a little “restoration” began. The episodes in their raw state looked perfect for a transfer of a 20+ years old VHS tape, but with a closer look many of the episodes were pretty noisy.

What I have done is I have carefully checked what is the best method of removing the noise without “washing out” the details. Some of the episodes required just a touch of one of the most primitive Avisynth filters (Undot()), but most of them were cleaned up using the excellent VirtualDubMod filter NeatVideo. Another change was the colour correction - originally I planned to splice in DVD footage wherever it was possible, so I wanted to have the VHS colours to have as close to the DVD image as possible. The last change was cropping and resizing - the captured videos had a thick black border on the left size and / or the right size (NOT the standard 8 black pixels on each side), and the actual image was “squeezed”. I have removed a part of the borders (each episode required different settings), and the rest was stretched to 720x576 (PAL DVD proportions) - now the image looks more natural.

The changed videos were exported from VirtualDubMod to lossless AVI files (HuffYuv codec) and then encoded to PAL DVD -compliant mpg files with Cinema Craft Encoder as interlaced TFF mpgs. I have returned in Womble the opening and closing themes to each episode, the opening looks worse than the episodes, because it comes from a different source.

Just to let you know HOW exactly do the episodes LOOK like, here are 6 pictures (2 from each episode)

HELP NEEDED

This project needs your help !

1. DVD cover - since this first season consists (will consist) of 5 DVDs, I would welcome if somebody could do 2 variants of a DVD cover - 1 variant for 5 individual discs, and 1 variant for a 6DVD box. I know there are MANY talented cover artists here, please help if you want 😃

2. DVD labels - somebody could do some nice DVD labels for each disc ?

3. A better name - “The Ewoks Project” sounds pretty lame, it’s just a “temp name” - I’m pretty sure you guys can come up with something more interesting, I’m curious to read your tips 😃

4. BONUS MATERIAL - The last episode will have its own DVD, but it has only 1.3 GB. I want to fill the remaining space with as much bonus features as possible. I currently have :

• the Ewoks comics - quite bad scans of 14 Marvel comic books
• 1985 - WKBW ABC - Saturday Morning Cartoons Christmas promo - a TV commercial
• Star Wars Insider 73 - a Nelvana article
• “A Star Wars CELibration” from another Star Wars Insider
• TV episode guide to Droids and Ewoks
• Paul Dini interview from Starlog Yearbook
• UK Dairylea Droids / Ewoks VHS commercial
• UK Ewoks / Droids trailer from Dairylea tape

and that’s it. Does anybody have something interesting to add to the bonus features ?

msycamore said:

Nice cover, ROFLRICK. :)

DonnieDarko said:

I think this will be my preferred way of watching the original, I LOVE the color on the Tatooine sunset, it's exactly how I remember it as a kid.

Thank you very much :)

You're welcome. :)

I am actually a little surprised that people do seem to enjoy this crude old transfer, I may revisit this LD for a second attempt at a later time as there are things I would like to improve.

I must admit that even when it DOES have many problems, I still enjoy it MUCH more than the official "bonus disc" aka GOUT

Thanks

Harmy said:

doubleofive said:

How did that happen in 04? 97 has the same bright core as the original that masks out the background.

You know, it's the way the colour space is treated by DVD ta-dee-da-dee-ta da-dee... or something like that.

No, no, the way the colour space is treated by DVD can't do this sort of changes, it can only change blue to green :-)

I apologize if this has been asked before (I searched but didn't find anything), but are there any easter eggs on the BluRay boxset ?

I know that the Boba Fett cartoon is somewhere (could somebody please write WHERE ?), but did somebody find something else ?

Thanks a lot

Promus said:

pittrek said:

Promus said:

Geez, they didn't even include "From Star Wars to Jedi?" That sucks...

I wish they'd finally release the old "Droids" cartoon on DVD or something (the complete and unaltered collection). I loved that series!

You can get it from an "unofficial source" if that's OK for you :)

And what "unofficial source" might that be? Because that's totally OK with me (although it would be nice if LFL put out a quality release of them).

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Droids-and-Ewoks-anybody/topic/12463/

doubleofive said:

 

pittrek said:

I just came from the shop. I went there to buy the new Queen DVD and I suddenly found myself buying the 9BD set for 100 Euros :-(

Found yourself? Did you black out? ;-)

 

I have a serious problem - if the salesperson is a beautiful girl, I switch to a mode, where I say yes to everything :)

I just came from the shop. I went there to buy the new Queen DVD and I suddenly found myself buying the 9BD set for 100 Euros :-(

Promus said:

Geez, they didn't even include "From Star Wars to Jedi?" That sucks...

I wish they'd finally release the old "Droids" cartoon on DVD or something (the complete and unaltered collection). I loved that series!

You can get it from an "unofficial source" if that's OK for you :)