I think a full double layer takes me something like 40-50 minutes, if I recall correctly.
I would definitely recommend verifying the disc, though that will take pretty much as long as the burning process.
(In reply to Wazzles’ post):
From Zombie’s article on the subject over at Saving Star Wars:
By 2020, it will be pink, but salvageable, but all release prints would basically be unwatchable as-is, even Return of the Jedi’s.
I know the real focus on this section was interpositives for telecine, but it seems a bit uninformed when it comes to LPPs. We’re damn close to 2020 and well cared for Jedi prints will look just as good as they do now, and as they have in recent years. As we’ve seen, even ESB in cold storage can have good color in this day and age. Though, that particular print may or may not succumb to mold by 2020.
Is Harmy still planning on doing another 720p update of Star Wars? He said after Jedi came out that he was considering making it on par with the other two after he was done with 2.5 of Empire. I asked about this a while ago but didn’t get a reply.
I do recall a post about this not too long ago (probably yours), but didn’t respond because it was the first I had heard of such a thing (a 2.8 or such). If Harmy did say this, do you know if it was before 2.7 existed? Most communication I’ve heard from Harmy on the subject suggest that this is it until 3.0, but things change of course.
Nope, you are correct.
There are supposedly European releases, but I don’t see them in stock anywhere.
edit
That example may not be appropriate…
It would make Wario64kid very happy.
(extremely nsfw, do not click through them)
Gotta save a couple thousand bucks on storage for a product that will bring in billions, and continue to make money on near-future AV setups (well, not even near future in this case. Present).
Not doubting that it’s a real consideration in their decision making. Just laughing at how stupid it is. 😃
Slightly off topic but I just stumbled on this 1997 interview with Lucas after the first SEs came out. Funny how he says there’s more he’d like to make but there’s ‘no plans’ to change them again. Interesting how he also brings up that enhanced versions of the Indiana Jones films were gonna be done which fortunately we never got.
They started to tinker with Raiders, replacing cliffs with CG work and such. Those things have been rolled back, probably because Spielberg realized what an enormous mistake ET SE was. The glass reflection on the one snake shot is still removed, but nothing too atrocious.
Wait, back up a little. TFA was mastered in 2K? Wasn’t it screened at 4K? Was the DCP an upscale?
According to IMDB, it actually is 4K. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/technical
I was misled by this article, which says 2k http://redvdit.com/reviews/star-wars-force-awakens-blu-ray-review/
Well, IMDB is not a good source, either. I have no idea what resolution it was screened or edited in, but I had read recently that the editing was done in 2K. shrug
As for the Disney/Fox thing, I don’t think that would hold them back much for SW/ANH. If it’s likely that Fox would never let the first film go, it seems that the best thing for Disney to do would be to give in and accept whatever percentage Fox gets for that film, and go ahead and wait until the distribution rights change over before releasing V and VI (and new sets including the prequels). Assuming that releasing the OOT is something they have interest in, I’m not sure they would let some losses in IV’s profits (what kind of cut does the distributor get?) hold them back from making money on the full set.
Also, it’s helpful enough because it answers the question about the discrepancy and confirms that there’s no problem with the file. As for the OS authors he insults, I’m sure they’ll manage to get a full night’s rest before long.
Although Disney was apparently not allowed to distribute the digital ANH in their own bundles, instead offering only the other 5. So it sounds like the deal wasn’t completely amicable, but I have no idea how these kinds of decisions work.
https://swrevisited.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/new-laptop-a-change-of-plans/
Laptop is in hand, the hanger is being assembled.
Also, RotJ is going to be started immediately, and at top priority. The PT will all be worked at the same time, but after Jedi and ANHRHD are done. This should please a lot of you.
Thanks for the update. I’ll definitely be looking forward to reading the larger (or complete) list of RoTJ planned changes once it’s available. We’ve had some very nice edits here, but it seems like a difficult film to make judgement calls on, compared to the other two in the trilogy. Seems easy to go overboard trying to remove some of the awkward humor, ending up with something a bit more stale and lacking some of the charm. It’s just a different beast than ANH and ESB, and I’m not sure that it can be made into the same type of film as those two. But I’ll be curious to see how Ady tackles it.
I might be mistaken about this, but Disney hasn’t released any film on UHD yet, have they?
Assuming they decide to make the plunge someday, perhaps they’ll make a big deal out of it by announcing something exciting like Star Wars to compensate for being well behind the rest of the pack. Again, if I’m not mistaken, they haven’t even been filming (editing?) new movies in 4K as long as the other studios. Is 4K TFA even possible?
Presumably they can render their rotoscopy garbage classic animations ant any resolution they like, if they’re now vector based.
Interesting. But that looks incredibly mild compared to some of the other scans and corrections.
I should also mention that this part of the film has been completed and rendered for quite some time, so it’s not like I’m going to go back and work on it again. You’re welcome to continue debating the intricacies of color grading and production lighting in this shot, but I don’t really see the point now. 😃
I think there are interesting points on both sides, and we have pretty much said all that needs to be said. Though it would be interesting to hear from Poita or Mike Verta (if he ever came back) about these shots.
I’m more interested in the blue Rancor at this point anyway. 😛
(1978 Swedish bootleg)
I don’t doubt that it was a bit green in theaters. But the bootleg (as with any amateur video from that era) has a lot of color artifacts that look green even in the black bars. Balanced out it might look a bit more mild and really not too bad at all (I think some of the balances of people’s own colorations here can look nice too even when green).
Still, photochemical timing of these specific shots to have such different color, for whatever reason, is something that isn’t ruled out, right? Whether intentional or otherwise.
nope the panels are not green, all of the green is at the bottom end of the color spectrum and green being the most luminous color would not act like this.
by the laws of physics it’s impossible.
You mean this color spectrum?
I don’t really mean to be antagonistic but, well, you’re being pretty damn antagonistic in this thread. I’m not sure why you’ve become a color expert overnight. You’re arguing about physics you surely can’t back in this thread, and you’ve started another thread where you stole the work from someone else’s color correction and claimed it as your own.
And this is coming from someone that agrees with you about the green. I don’t like it aesthetically, and I think it’s bizarre that prints look like they do. Hell, green and yellow color throughout SW 2.5 compelled me to spend a huge amount of my time tweaking it. But let’s not make claims we can’t back…
I use the same burner on a windows 10 machine and haven’t had any problem with various brand names of blank BDs. Although I’ve only played them on my Panasonic BD player.
Burning the ISO’s is easy since its an ISO. I just use Widows to do it. Right click on your BD drive, and select Burn.
Also, may I ask which brand name blank Blu-rays you’ve used that have worked for you?
Always use Verbatim.
I use imgburn. Yes there is malware bundled with it but if you select the right options during install you can have it without.
Example here:
http://www.jdhodges.com/blog/safe-version-imgburn-without-opencandy/
Well, I stand corrected. Shame on whomever is responsible for that decision.
Imgburn shouldn’t have any malware. It hasn’t even been developed for like 4 years, as far as I know. Perhaps some other company is repackaging it with a malware installer. It’s normally a very light weight program. I think even previously innocent sites like cnet and sourceforge have delved into the dark side and including unwanted side applications (spamware, if not malware).
Maybe try from the links here? http://www.videohelp.com/software/ImgBurn
I tend to go to videohelp when I want a no BS answer on tools.
By the way, just to make sure, I don’t even have to extract anything from the zipped files beforehand? The three ISOs look like three WinRAR files to me after I’ve downloaded them. All I have to do is right click on each of the three “WinRARs” and click Burn?
If you’re definitely looking at .iso files and not another extension, they’re not zipped files. You’ve just got winrar configured to be the default app to open the ISO files. It can be used to pull individual files out of the disc structure, though it does seem to have trouble with some ISOs. But yes, you just need to burn the ISO. I’ve never used windows to do that (and my Win10 seems to have no such option). I use imgburn, but most ISO burning software should do the trick.
I’ll try to explain the terminology to you, which should help you maneuver these kinds of questions a bit better:
Lossless video encoding creates files that are hundreds of gigabytes, or larger. It is used as a permanent archive of a video stream, that can then be encoded (with loss) into more compressed formats for viewing. Or, to import into a program for editing.
You can’t go from one lossy format to another lossy format without re-encoding and losing some information (with lossy being anything used for actual viewing, such as blu-rays and DVDs and such).
But you’re not interested in re-encoding. MKV and M2TS are containers that hold video and audio streams. The Despecialized streams, including the x264 video stream, are blu-ray compatible. So all that needs to be done is putting them in a new container (m2ts). There is no loss involved in that process. It is also very fast. Seconds or minutes, as opposed to hours of encoding. This is called multiplexing or “muxing”.
You can remux an MKV to blu-ray m2ts easily using tsmuxer (gui). If you choose blu-ray format, it will put it in the correct directory structure (and ISO if you like), so that it is ready to burn. You can also choose to demux the MKV. This will give you all the video, audio, and subtitle streams in the MKV, which can then be imported into programs like Encore. You might need to change the file extension of the video stream for Encore to recognize (I vaguely recall it preferring .m4v to .264.
That’s awful to hear, Poita. Hope your friends and neighbors are all okay.