Yes, they were both decoded to wav, synchronized, then re-encoded to ac3, which is a lossy process. My version was synchronized using an alternate method, and has not been re-encoded. It is bit-identical to what is on the LD, with the exception of less than .1 seconds at the two LD side changes.
Thanks for posting the fonts Catbus, I just got through using them to create new subtitles streams for my HDTV preservations. They look phenomenal!
I humbly suggest you download the 5.1 track from my LD audio archive as a replacement. It’s fully synchronized and it hasn’t been re-encoded, as adywan’s original was.
Can you share what you’ve used as a base font and what program you use to modify it?
Nevermind, the above image was a reconstruction. This whole Technicolor/Eastman distinction appears to be nonexistent. Technicolor matches Eastman, one font will do, all is well in the world. But I did a lovely job reconstructing the reconstruction, don’t you think?
I was wondering why there would be a difference. Good catch, btw. Can’t wait to make new subtitles with this font!
Very much looking forward to your fonts, CatBus. Can you post a preview, or are you still tweaking?
Yup. Load it up in MKVToolNix GUI. Rename as you please.
I was wondering, is there a way to re-label the audio tracks prior to authoring? Some of the language tracks are labeled, but not the other Dolby versions.
Make changes under the “edit headers” tab, and you won’t need to remux.
I’d like to help as well.
Haha! The funny thing is, I immediately thought of this shot when I made my first reply. Thank ypu for gif-ifying it!
I can’t take credit. I totally stole that from google. 😃
I’d like to help as well.
No, sorry, I’ve been really busy this school year, and I have some outside projects going on as well. I stand where I stood in October. I do have plans of hopping back into this within the next couple of weeks. At that point ROTS should be done first, and fairly quickly.
I’d also like to try some new approaches to fixing some of the encoding issues present. Namely, I’d like to try out a median script with some motion adaptive frame registration thanks to althor 😃 Until then, I may be able to make ANH available through alternate means.
mverta said:
Let me just clarify a few points:
- Legacy will be screened for Fox/Disney executives later this year. At least, that’s the plan, the discussions have started/invitations beginning, and so far, so good. We’ll see.
… (snip)…
mverta said:
But to most people, it’s hard to believe, unless they really see it, just how bad a shape Star Wars is in. I mean, no other important, relevant release (they’re still making Star Wars movies, you’ll notice) is so mistreated and neglected. But a pitch is a show - all pitches are. And I’ve done God-knows-how-many of them in my career. It’s a full multi-media presentation in a theater, with lots of eye candy, and aims to lead the audience towards an inescapable conclusion. But how it’s unique and different, and most importantly, profitable, are just key elements. So certainly an analysis of the market and making that case is part of it. But it’s gotta stay entertaining, and potential laden. Legacy, should it be adopted, would be the first truly new offering in a long time - not just another repackaging, and not just a bit of hype. This is a Star Wars nobody’s really ever seen, ready for 4K… ready for a limited theatrical release if they wanted to do it. It’s a strong pitch just on its merits, but that’s by no means a slam dunk. It’s got to be done just right, pitch-perfect, at the right time with the right people and every last pushback planned for. I have help from a fantastic team. We’re on it.… (snip)…
mverta said:
I’ve been mostly out of the country, and otherwise working my ass off to dig myself out of this abyss of Legacy debt 😃 So far so good, but that’s why it’s been quiet. But in terms of releases, I don’t want to put anything out ahead of the pitch. I don’t want to risk having any thunder stolen. I want to be able to end the pitch with a mic drop, basically.Can’t tell you how thrilled I am with these updates. Thanks for logging in and spending some quality time here again. I know I really appreciate hearing exciting news on Legacy like this. Best of luck!
This is exactly what I’ve been hoping to hear since September! Good Luck Mike!
Mike, aside from audio I’d like to know if you consider mentioning any of the international versions of the films in your pitch. After all, ILM created a ton of opening crawls in different languages, including localized versions of the SW logo, which are an important part of the nostalgia of the trilogy for us non-English-speaking folks. Maybe including a staccato of several international crawls in the pitch to highlight the importance of the trilogy all over the world might be an option.
Many people would like to see the '81 English crawl preserved in some way as well.
I actually think the c’s, e’s, s’s, and o’s don’t look quite right here either.
I bought an OMX-4000 VGA amp off ebay to start toying around with ld decode. The auction was for one unit but the seller sent me two. I don’t need both, so, if anyone is interested, I’ll part with it for shipping costs. Send me a PM if interested.
After downloading 97’ Respecialized I will download Episode VI 2.5! Great work!
Where did you get the original Latin audio?The Latino audio for ROTJ was actually the easy one–it was on the Region 4 GOUT DVDs. Star Wars and Empire were harder–(mostly) 35mm capture and OTA television recording, respectively. ROTJ was stereo, which is probably why Lucasfilm didn’t try to bury it like the other mono Latino dubs.
Was to the Castellano dub available on a Region 2 release, or was that sourced elsewhere?
Also, the NFO lists the Latino dub as 1.0 Mono for ROTJ.
Thanks! Though it depends on what does after work tonight mean in your timezone 😉
I can start the upload in about 5 hours. 😃
Edit: I did a remote desktop connection and have them uploading now.
Oh, hey, schorman, I’m so sorry, I noticed I forgot to add you to the end credits - and you really deserved a credit! I used your HDTV stuff and I think some of the audio is sourced from your releases as well! I will definitely add your name next time! At least I didn’t forget to credit you in the NFOs.
As for the GOUT shot - I wonder if anyone can find it. But it will, of course, be revealed in the comparison gallery, once I finish it - though that’s gonna take a while; I’d already spent hours compiling it and yet I haven’t even started writing the labels!
No worries. I can wait for my reflected internet fame. 😉
Also, I can upload GOUT rips after work tonight if you still need them.
Harmy,
Thanks so much for your tireless effort! ROTJ DEED 2.5 looks fantastic after a quick check. My 4 year old daughter has seen Star Wars and Empire, and we were due to watch ROTJ this week. I’m glad she’ll be introduced with your version! I’m still curious where that GOUT shot is though.
Weird, ChapterGrabber and ChapterXtractor gave me the same chapter times that I posted earlier. The other ones are definitely correct though. Sorry for the misleading info. For some reason the two programs were giving timing for 30fps by default instead of the correct 29.970fps.
I rarely use tsmuxer anymore. I’ll take a look to see what format will work.
That file on chapter db doesn’t match what I get from my copy. I’ll post it here:
CHAPTER01=00:00:00.000
CHAPTER01NAME=Opening Logos
CHAPTER02=00:00:21.000
CHAPTER02NAME=Return of the Jedi
CHAPTER03=00:01:55.167
CHAPTER03NAME=Vader’s Unexpected Visit
CHAPTER04=00:05:00.634
CHAPTER04NAME=Arrival at Jabba’s Palace
CHAPTER05=00:08:10.468
CHAPTER05NAME=A Message and a Gift
CHAPTER06=00:12:21.968
CHAPTER06NAME=The Max Rebo Band
CHAPTER07=00:13:55.135
CHAPTER07NAME=The Price for Chewbacca
CHAPTER08=00:17:06.469
CHAPTER08NAME=Free from the Carbonite
CHAPTER09=00:21:40.303
CHAPTER09NAME=Enter The Jedi
CHAPTER10=00:24:38.303
CHAPTER10NAME=“Oh No! The Rancor!”
CHAPTER11=00:29:07.137
CHAPTER11NAME=On the Sail Barge
CHAPTER12=00:30:43.005
CHAPTER12NAME=The Sarlacc Pit
CHAPTER13=00:36:56.138
CHAPTER13NAME=The Emperor Arrives
CHAPTER14=00:38:44.305
CHAPTER14NAME=Yoda’s Twilight
CHAPTER15=00:44:28.972
CHAPTER15NAME=A Certain Point of View
CHAPTER16=00:47:34.639
CHAPTER16NAME=Rebel Briefing
CHAPTER17=00:50:46.840
CHAPTER17NAME=Lending the Falcon
CHAPTER18=00:52:43.007
CHAPTER18NAME=The Emperor’s Instructions
CHAPTER19=00:53:35.507
CHAPTER19NAME=Flying Casual
CHAPTER20=00:56:05.507
CHAPTER20NAME=Arrival on Endor
CHAPTER21=00:57:54.007
CHAPTER21NAME=Speeder Bike Chase
CHAPTER22=01:01:51.507
CHAPTER22NAME=Leia Meets Wicket
CHAPTER23=01:05:29.007
CHAPTER23NAME=Vader’s Report
CHAPTER24=01:06:57.174
CHAPTER24NAME=An Ewok Trap
CHAPTER25=01:11:10.341
CHAPTER25NAME=The Golden God
CHAPTER26=01:15:02.175
CHAPTER26NAME=Campfire Stories
CHAPTER27=01:17:23.842
CHAPTER27NAME=Brother and Sister
CHAPTER28=01:21:39.842
CHAPTER28NAME=Luke Surrenders
CHAPTER29=01:25:15.342
CHAPTER29NAME=Rebel Recon
CHAPTER30=01:26:00.509
CHAPTER30NAME=The Alliance Fleet
CHAPTER31=01:26:59.509
CHAPTER31NAME=Back Door
CHAPTER32=01:29:13.009
CHAPTER32NAME=Luke and The Emperor
CHAPTER33=01:32:27.176
CHAPTER33NAME=“It’s a Trap!”
CHAPTER34=01:35:49.343
CHAPTER34NAME=Ewok Attack
CHAPTER35=01:39:32.877
CHAPTER35NAME=Fully Operational
CHAPTER36=01:41:30.711
CHAPTER36NAME=The Battle Rages
CHAPTER37=01:43:35.211
CHAPTER37NAME=The Dark Side Beckons
CHAPTER38=01:44:34.244
CHAPTER38NAME=The Ewoks Turn the Tide
CHAPTER39=01:47:49.544
CHAPTER39NAME=Father vs, Son
CHAPTER40=01:49:47.711
CHAPTER40NAME=Taking the Bunker
CHAPTER41=01:50:44.045
CHAPTER41NAME=A Jedi’s Fury
CHAPTER42=01:53:43.879
CHAPTER42NAME=The Shield is Down
CHAPTER43=01:54:15.213
CHAPTER43NAME=Force Lightning
CHAPTER44=01:55:04.213
CHAPTER44NAME=Vader’s Redemption
CHAPTER45=01:56:46.747
CHAPTER45NAME=Into The Death Star
CHAPTER46=01:58:40.715
CHAPTER46NAME=Anakin Unmasked
CHAPTER47=02:01:05.215
CHAPTER47NAME=Death Star Destroyed
CHAPTER48=02:03:56.749
CHAPTER48NAME=Funeral Pyre
CHAPTER49=02:04:33.216
CHAPTER49NAME=Celebration
CHAPTER50=02:06:21.050
CHAPTER50NAME=End Credits
Putting the finishing touches on the last couple of things I wanted to do for ROTJ v2.5 - now I’ll have to put them into the cut and render the whole thing out - hopefully I’ll have enough time to do that today and render over-night.
One last thing I’m missing (I thought I had this but can’t find it) is the 1993 LD commentary. Does anybody have this? And ideally, I’d love it if someone would be willing to make me one like I always made for the other movies - with the silences filled with the '93 stereo mix.
Harmy, the LD commentary is in my LD Audio archive on myspleen. It’s in lossless form there. I have it posted as a LCR wav file with the 1993 Audio mix in the Left and Right channels ducked during the talking portions, and the commentary in the Center channel. You can get that from myspleen or I can send you an ac3.
Won’t the two crawls use the same audio in the end?
As far as I’m aware this has not yet been achieved. The best you can do is capture the video through some means.
In capping the digital extras for Star Wars, I used a Blackmagic DeckLink mini recorder to capture the hdmi output of a secondary monitor running iTunes. The problems come when your video frame rates don’t match the specs of your hardware exactly. For instance, my graphics card only outputs 30.000fps or 24.000fps at 1080p, but the extras were encoded as either 29.970fps or 23.976fps. The graphics card will automatically duplicate 1 frame in ~1000 to maintain 30fps or 24fps, but there was no particular pattern to it, which meant I had to do some semi-automated things to search for and remove duplicate frames.
Also, I couldn’t us an Apple TV because the Decklink doesn’t support 59.94/60 fps video at 1080p.
I’d actually be pretty interested to hear your results of using a median script on these various sources. I do think it runs the risk of basically selecting pixels from the same source all the time, due to slight color differences between the sources. That might be ok, if you rig it so the best source is likely to have the median pixel values, except in the case of encoding error, etc.
On another note, did you happen to see any other HDTV rips of Episode I? The Blu Rays of TPM and AOTC are so different as to make them unusable for this process, and you need three sources to do a median. I have the Premiere, SKY and Cinemax sources for AOTC, but only the first two for TPM.
Also, I know it’s somewhere else, but could you post your motion compensation script? I’d like to see how it works with these.
ZkinandBonez said:
Come to think of it, why does a killing-machine need money in the first place?
Why does a vending machine need money to give me a snickers?