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Platitude said:

Nice detective work there Ady.  Kind of too bad, I would dig seeing McGregor reprise his role as Obi-Wan in a 'Kenobi' movie.  

Not sure how I feel about the news about them doing a Han Solo origin movie, unless they got a teenager for it.  A twenty-something would be weird since Harrison was pretty young in the first movie himself.  

 34-35 isn't too young for an origin story. I just think too much of the character's personality comes from Ford himself. It will either be 'off' or parody. 

Frink's are satire. Negative-1 uses an allegedly real group account to rant about how they all collectively think 4K is a failure and the OOT can never be released (both without any support stated). Two things that are really good news for a bunch of people working on a 1080p release of the OOT.

I don't know what the rules are or should be. But I'll find it nice personally if they are restricted to their own threads. But only because everything I've seen outside of their threads makes me like them less. And I'd much prefer to like them, as their projects are great! So, I'm biased.

b122251 said:

instead of needing proprietary software to play in the first place. I personally was very determined in storing these preservations in a way that will last, so I burned these mkv files on an M-Disc blu-ray, together with eleven different checksums, separate subtitle files and some other related files. I think .mkv files will be readable long after blu-ray video has stopped being the standard. Right now playing a blu-ray video on a computer is already difficult and often requires proprietary software. Also it'll probably be a lot easier to convert mkv files to some future standard years from now, than ripping a blu-ray video. The only disadvantage to this method is that you have to be certain that the blu-ray player you wish to play it on supports mkv files.

 I don't think you need any proprietary software for burned blurays (obviously official ones are another story). You can easily view them with VLC.  You can easily navigate to the folder/file for your feature and copy it, remux it, etc.

And if/when these do end up having nice little menus and special features, a blu-ray package will be great. The menus won't be preserved by MKV alone.

Really the main downside seems to be the number of subtitle tracks. It's unfortunate. Though there are probably few people that will be affected beyond the 31 tracks used, it's still a shame as Catbus has been as comprehensive as possible and it won't be represented fully. MKVs or remuxing will be an option for them, though.

MrToad883 said:

oh ok thanks! I was just under the assumption these basically were the 97 ones since they have the least amount of extra nonsense added in as opposed to post 97 editions haha

 If only there were 1080p copies of the 1997 version. It would put color correctors like kk out of business. :) 

MrToad883 said:

Anyone know if in ESB is lukes yell when he jumps from Vader edited out? Don't want to download these versions til the 5.1 mix is done. Thanks

 It's not present, but it's also not edited out because it's only present in the 1997 version.

emanswfan said:

Seems fake to me, but this film could also be about Boba Fett.

http://indierevolver.com/2015/07/08/the-full-slate-of-star-wars-films-leaked-in-advance-of-sdcc/

 Does seem fake. And probably made before yesterday, when people may have still assumed that the Solo film would be the third rather than the second anthology film.

If true, though, I am as disappointed as everyone else that they're not doing anything new/interesting. But I'd rather have a Kenobi film than both Solo and Fett separately. Better to have the two worst ideas combined and leave a chance for something else that may work. 

Rogue One is the only one that I think may have a real chance of being good, though.

ray_afraid said:

I doubt that post was made by more than one person.

 I think they were told to restrict their group account posts to project threads.

Ah, was hoping for stabilization as well. But the scratch removal will be nice.

Tobar said:

Yeah, I'm quite pleased with the creative team if not the subject matter. Miller and Lord are a brilliant duo and I love Solo but I really don't want to see another actor in live action take on the role. 

 Yep, agreed. Or at least ridiculously skeptical. Given that it's already greenlit, if they can actually make it work, then great.

He has also discussed using more 35mm footage in the next version. I think the upscaled footage in ESB looks pretty seamless, though.

There are some typos in the credits as well. And people will always find things they want to tweak about the color. Right or wrong, in general I prefer how Harmy's ESB color looks compared to every other version I've seen of the film.

jedimasterobiwan said:

Do they know people are sick of dnr and edge enhancement in their films or do they just don't care?

 It's probably a lack of caring due to how few people actually are upset by stuff like this. Plenty of people probably think it looks sharp and crisp and some how 'more hi-def'.

My girlfriend is happy to watch 240p, out of sync movies on random video hosting sites. A colleague of mine has a very negative (1) view on physical media, though he actually believes that streaming is not only the way of the future, but equal quality. He gets confused at what 'bitrate' means.

jedimasterobiwan said:

wright96d said:

Shouldn't you all wait for the 30th Anniversary Blu-Ray before taking on a huge restoration/remastering project?

universal said it's not getting a remaster it's the same transfer

 I'm not super well informed on BTTF blu-ray stuff, but are there serious problems with the transfer? I thought all the issues were due to their processing downstream of the transfer (DVNR, edge enhancement, etc). Could they end up with something decent from the previous transfer or no?

jedimasterobiwan said:

towne32 said:

SilverWook said:

towne32 said:

jedimasterobiwan said:

I didn't know i didn't say the name of the site though did i ruin everything?

 Interesting to see that you've graduated from being constantly obnoxious to being directly harmful. Congrats.

 As I already spoke to him on the matter, this really wasn't necessary.

 I apologize. It's probably good that you said something directly to him, it might help it sink in. But this is not a person who has ever shown evidence of learning from his mistakes. 

 When it comes to something like that i'm very careful once i know what not to do so i don't cause a problem.

 Okay. Thank you for being cautious. 

SilverWook said:

towne32 said:

jedimasterobiwan said:

I didn't know i didn't say the name of the site though did i ruin everything?

 Interesting to see that you've graduated from being constantly obnoxious to being directly harmful. Congrats.

 As I already spoke to him on the matter, this really wasn't necessary.

 I apologize. It's probably good that you said something directly to him, it might help it sink in. But this is not a person who has ever shown evidence of learning from his mistakes. 

jedimasterobiwan said:

I didn't know i didn't say the name of the site though did i ruin everything?

 Interesting to see that you've graduated from being constantly obnoxious to being directly harmful. Congrats.

I'm not stabilizing anything. Just removing some of the more offensive grime/hair/whatever (manually, ugh). It's much better, but not complete as the GOUT SW is an absolute mess. But I already had this going so we can either use it as input or not at all. He has compared it to the straight DVD and says it looks good (mine is made straight from the DVD, encoded into lagarith lossless). If there does turn out to be any quality loss we wouldn't use it.

We might want to do the gateweave fix during the same rendering that he adds Greedo subs, later on. I'm not sure how Dre wants to do it: just particularly bad parts or just still camera shots would be easiest. If absolutely nothing else, I'd like to have the intro stabilized as the shakiness really sets the film off on the wrong foot. :) Doing that alone in adobe at the time of adding the subs would be trivial. 

I certainly do not know enough to determine how much of the improvement is due to simply sharpening vs. the SR, or what is a due to the combination, that sharpening alone couldn't achieve.

I do know the last 3-4 versions of the script make the GOUT, in my opinion, look better than other attempts that I have seen. I chuckled at the guy who said "this will look like shit" rather than g-force, because the other guy turned out to be quite wrong. g-force: you make some good points, but I am not sure that the claims that you take issue with are really being made. If it was "all" SR, I think this would have been completed in the first few pages, when the script was several lines long. But perhaps there are people who haven't been following along who could indeed get the wrong impression that this is all SR. (that said, you were obviously just called out on a post you made months ago and simply defending that).

Maybe Dre can try a version at some point that keeps the rest of his script, but with the SR plugin code omitted. Even if the SR effect turns out to be minimal/nonexistent, he should be proud of the balance that he has struck. The thread has shifted away from interest in the SR technique itself, and most of the focus now is just on how good the results are. Same as any other project thread here. 

g-force said:

But, please, by all means, consider me an asshole. I really don't care.

-G

 ok. I don't think he was calling you that, but can probably accommodate if you like.

Interestingly, the Russian TC is lacking the single change said to have occurred between the theatrical and DVD release (mentioned here: http://www.dvdactive.com/editorial/articles/star-wars-the-changes-part-four.html?post_id=79063&action=report ). This could be because this is a workprint. Or it could be due to misinformation/misremembering the theatrical release. 

It is also possible that the wipe was added fairly late in the editing process and they accidentally reverted to the earlier version for the DVD release. But if this was first introduced for the Blu-ray, the DVD/HDTV is 100% identical to the theatrical release. Not only that, but it's the only case where this is true for the six Star Wars films, GOUT aside. 

edit: the entire order of shots may actually be different. Don't have the DVD on hand.

CatBus said:

Funcha said:

That wasn't very friendly!

Kinda warranted though.  Sure he asked a question that was more like a demand and was kinda hard to respond to directly, but seriously this thread is more derailed than Harmy's threads on a bad day.  I like to think I'm a lovable jerk, though.

 On the other hand, the thread's existence itself is in a sense a derailment of the subforum "Other Preservations and Fan Projects".

FekLeyrTarg said:

There's another preservation underway, based on 35mm-prints. It is taken care of by Team Negative 1.

 Personally, I think this is going to turn out as The Team's best result. The first two films will be great for people who want to recreate the fun of seeing a 35mm film in theaters (in what will probably be very nice shape). 

Their ROTJ prints are in good enough shape to turn out a really professional looking release, though obviously not with quite the resolution of a commercial blu-ray. The color looks good enough to be fully recovered, and it doesn't look like details will be lost in the shadows. I think the team is right that there is much less enthusiasm for that project. But, as I've said before, it's by far the one that I'm most looking forward to from them. 

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

Oh, he has a team now...

 Our intel tells us that his team is 100% as real as all of the other teams here.

Anyone else have it?

TV's Frink said:

We think he means Team jmow.

Team Olie

 jmO-W to be precise.

Team JMO has been successfully trolling Team Olie and all the other Teams this whole time. That's the only explanation.