schorman13

Ok, I’ve checked a couple different pressings of the DC laserdiscs to see how they compare.

The repeated line occurs in ROTJ, first during Chapter 24 of Side 4 and again, with some other unique dialog preceding it, during Chapter 13 of side 5.
Results:

1st US Pressing:

Has commentary at both Side4/Ch. 24 and Side 5/Ch. 13 as presented in Harmy’s despecialized. The second half of the Side 5/Ch. 13 comments are repeated from Side 4/Ch. 24.

2nd US Pressing:

Has dialog only on Side 4/Ch. 24. The Comments during Side 5/Ch. 13 have been removed entirely, even the first half which was unique.

1st and 2nd Japan Pressings:

Has dialog as with both US pressings on Side 4/ Ch. 24. Comments on Side 5/Ch. 13 only include the first half of the comments as they appear on the 1st US pressing, meaning all comments are included and nothing is repeated.

To me the ideal way to present this would be as it appears on the Japanese discs. Does anyone have an opinion or comment on this? I guess I could just post both versions and people could decide which they prefer. 😃 I’m going to re-edit ROTJ before posting all three upgraded commentary tracks.

Ok, I found the repeated section mentioned above. My recollection is that this is how it appears on the LD, so that’s how it was prepared for the audio track. I will verify on my LD later this evening. I’ll also post updated ac3 files for all three despecialized editions, as well.

This looks really good. I think it just needs a little more stabilization of the flyover, some slight color correction on the ships, as they look a bit orange to me, and maybe some added grain to make the layers blend a little better. The ships are from a grainy print, but the planets/star field/text all look pristine. Some gate weave might improve the look as well.

Overall, I’m really glad you’ve done this. It’s very helpful to have an HD version of the '81 crawl. Thanks!

Give me some idea of where you’re hearing a repeated section. I will check the version I posted to myspleen, but my suspicion is that this was not my version. I’ve upgraded the LD commentary tracks in the past, but I’m not sure the initiative was ever taken to replace what was in the Despecialized Editions. I can upload replacements if anybody wants them.

Some alien language, but it sounds like “Hacheef manat”.

Well, she has a line there in the CAM bootleg version, so…

nightstalkerpoet said:

Couldn’t you potentially take every laserdisc source, align them, then do a motion based average the same way Althor does to average his laserdisc captures? You could even pad and align Pan and Scan versions using a transparent background (so that the padding isn’t taken into account in the average). Considering the number of Star Wars laserdiscs, this easily provides 10+ sources to combine for what should be at minimum the equivalent of the GOUT 77 crawl.

I know I’m a few days behind on this, but I did this a couple of years ago. The results are ok, but they are not quite up to the level of the GOUT. It’s definitely an improvement over a single disc source, but it’s still coming from laserdisc. Here’s a preview of it:

https://mega.nz/#!OcM0GbyJ!P1hm21MusRhnDHC6wVkUTRyPxNcTDa5yJ2O9XPXs_Dw

As far as I know, you can just change the file extension from .epub to.zip and extract the avc videos you want. I don’t use Vegas, so I can’t help you there. You can always decode to 4:2:0 avi with dgAVCdecode and avisynth.

Use eac3to with the arcsoft decoder.

Why so defensive?

Email sent 😃

I don’t know if it’s possible to crack the amazon versions, but for the apple store release you need an ios 5 apple ipad/ipod/iphone along with requiem 3.3.6 and iTunes 10.5.3.
I don’t know that anyone ever did this after it was discussed on the old thread. At this point it wouldn’t cost too much money to get an old ipad 1 to do the job.

Darth Lucas, I can make them available to you; I’ll need a little time to upload somewhere easy for the folks wishing to have access. I posted them on a private tracker about six months ago, after completing them. It was a lot of work to do correctly. I never announced it here, for one, because of the unquestioned piratey (Arrrr!) nature of it, which I assumed, and still kind of assume, make this topic questionable, if not off-limits.

Also, I figured the torrent would not be allowed on myspleen, so I was kind waiting to post it somewhere a little more visible to the OT community.

dark_jedi said:

schorman13 said:

I have begun the process of archiving the digital only features, just as I did with last year’s Digital Movie Collection. I will post them somewhere within the next few days, just not at MySpleen. I’ve captured the necessary materials, I just need to go through the video with a fine-toothed comb to remove repeated frames or fix any places where the video stalls. It shouldn’t take much effort as it’s only four videos.

Just curious, should I include the BB-8 at JPL video that DMA posted about a week ago? It’s not really about the film itself, but it is a DMA exclusive. I’m on the fence.

Hey if you can email me what you have we can put together a fully authored BD, I was going to email you but I cannot find your email anymore.

Thanks

Sounds great! I’ll send you an email.

I have begun the process of archiving the digital only features, just as I did with last year’s Digital Movie Collection. I will post them somewhere within the next few days, just not at MySpleen. I’ve captured the necessary materials, I just need to go through the video with a fine-toothed comb to remove repeated frames or fix any places where the video stalls. It shouldn’t take much effort as it’s only four videos.

Just curious, should I include the BB-8 at JPL video that DMA posted about a week ago? It’s not really about the film itself, but it is a DMA exclusive. I’m on the fence.

The only way I’ve found of ripping a digital copy is to use Requiem on a mac. I think you’ll need to download the file using iTunes 10 and then use Requiem to remove DRM. This will obviously only work for movies in your itunes library. I know of no way to decrypt anything from VUDU or any other UV source.

I would suggest using Megui to encode with x264.

I have a couple-year-old pioneer that will still do pro logic, but it’s not automatic. It’s like a legacy pro logic mode under plii. The auto surround mode defaults to plii movie mode, but can be set to pro logic. I have the Pioneer VSX-1021K.

towne32 said:

I really hope everyone loves my last minute change in tastes as far as color timing goes. I think it’s really the way the film was meant to look.

You finally made it look modern. I like it!

Nice! Glad to help 😃

Ah, yes, I didn’t realize that your MOV files had the video track last.This should fix that. I’ll update all of the scripts.

@ECHO OFF
TITLE “Output 5.1 and Stereo AAC”
if [%1]==[] goto :eof
set Destination=%~d1%~p1
cd /d %Destination%
md AAC
cd /d “%~dp0”
:loop
ffmpeg -i “%~1” -filter_complex “[0:0][0:1][0:2][0:3][0:4][0:5] amerge=inputs=6[51mix]” -c:a aac -filter_complex “[0:6][0:7] amerge=inputs=2[20mix]” -c:a aac -map [51mix] “%Destination%\AAC%~n1”_5.1mix.aac -map [20mix] “%Destination%\AAC%~n1”_2.0mix.aac
shift
if not [%1]==[] goto loop

Which batch file did you try? Did you try the updated versions that I posted, or the originals? What version of Windows are you using?

I’ll double check everything on my end and send you a folder that should work.

I have updated the pastebin links again. I didn’t take into account that you may be working on different disk drives. They should work now, hopefully 😉

You actually don’t need to type anything into the file itself. Just save the text as is, as a .bat file. You just have to drag the file you want to convert and drop it on the .bat file. It will output your new files into the same directory as the original file.

Edit:
I’ve updated all of the files at the previous links above. They should work better, as they will let you drag and drop multiple files onto the batch file, and will create a new directory called “AAC” at the path of the original files.

Let me know if you can get this working.

Here are a few options. Save the pastebin text as a batch file (*.bat) in your ffmpeg folder. You can paste a shortcut to the bat file anywhere else you may want to have it, and it should work fine.

I can’t vouch for the aac conversion quality of FFMPEG, so you may want to convert to Wav, then use eac3to to convert to aac.

For converting 8 mono channels within a container file to a 5.1 AAC and a 2.0 AAC:

http://pastebin.com/1TFRjeuW

For converting 8 mono channels within a container file to a new container with original video, a 5.1 AAC, and a 2.0 AAC:

http://pastebin.com/bCmpzYJ1

For converting 8 mono channels within a container file to a 5.1 16 Bit WAV and a Stereo 16 Bit WAV:

http://pastebin.com/bM3QPaCP

For converting 8 mono channels within a container file to a 5.1 24 Bit WAV and a Stereo 24 Bit WAV:

http://pastebin.com/vRRhtGkv

I don’t really use ffmpeg much, so I can’t really comment on that, but eac3to can’t work with individual wav channels and output an aac file. You would have to merge the wav files to a six channel wav and a separate stereo wav somehow first.

You could try using the program AudioMuxer, it has some tools that might work.

If it were me, I would use some combination of wavewizard to merge the files and eac3to to do the conversion. It’s not automated but it doesn’t take that much effort. Watch out with wavewizard though, as it tends to write the riff headers incorrectly for multichannel wav files. I don’t think that will really matter when using eac3to, for what it’s worth.

Also, look for a GUI for eac3to called Useac3to, I find it makes re-encoding much less tedious than typing in the command lines for everything you want to do.