towne32

Thanks mods. You guys rock.

It’s not just you. Mos Eisley and some Falcon cockpit shots were most of the reason I started to work on this. And then it just snowballed from there.

Yep he said Maul will be in it.

TV’s Frink said:

It’s a newer, gentler Fink.

See, that’s how you make fun of my name without being a dirtbag.

Did you somehow transfer your lack of patience with these bigots to me? I find myself caring less and less about pretending to be nice to the huge number (but relatively low percentage) of scumbags lurking around here.

TV’s Frink said:

Mikeluv80 said:

i honestly couldn’t care less if any of you are homos. i’m here for the star wars. start a homo thread if that’s what you guys wanna talk about. can we get back to the Force Awakens edit discussion now? smh

Ass.

That’s a pretty kind way to refer to a completely worthless piece of shit.

TheHutt said:

Laserschwert said:

towne32 said:

It’s finished.

Is this true for the upload of the lossless version as well?

Oh yes please!

You mean for laserschwert’s version or did you have some other use in mind?

Mikeluv80 said:

TV’s Frink said:

Mikeluv80 said:

Twink

That’s a new one.

new? look it up… lol

Smooth. You went from plausibly just using a name based on his username to confirming yourself as a homophobe.

To a dvd9? It sounds like you must not be burning it properly. Without re-encoding, it should fit.

To dvd5 I don’t think you can delete enough tracks to make it work.

If there’s some other peculiar reason making it too large, yes you can leave off a track.

TV’s Frink said:

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.

It would seem it’s a really bad idea to avoid a thread for a few weeks when one of the posts was on April 1st. I couldn’t believe my eyes for a second there.

I’m happy that I actually fooled someone.

yoda-sama said:

Dreamaster said:

2.7

It shifts a bit in the GOUT edition as well. Kind of interesting.

Worth noting, it also affects the color of the T-16, making it a bit green as well. I’ll need to grab a copy of v2.7 or see some more screenshots from it to see how it looks throughout the scene, but if the v2.7 shot you so kindly provided shows it at its worst, then I think it could already represent a bit of an improvement over v2.5.

This is one of two scenes that is 100% identical between 2.5 and 2.7. It looks fine to me and changes would really be too nuanced for the scope of this. There are some inconsistencies, but they mostly coincide with the hologram being on or off.

I considered using harmy’s 97se for the bulk of it since I think it looks slightly better, but it makes the inconsistencies larger for the despecialized shots.

CatBus said:

I hope you don’t mind me being a bit off-topic here, but I just took a look through 2.7 and I think I have a new favorite version of Star Wars to watch. Great work, towne32 and everyone!

Thanks to you as well. And to harmy, Darth Lucas, and the individuals in TN1 who worked on that restoration (I know williarob did work on reel 3, so thanks specifically to him).

K. Bye.

Eh, it’s from typing on my phone.

I keep editing it, and it shows it fixed, but seems to revert?

Edit: oh, I was repeatedly fixing the second error and having browser cache issues. 😃 it happens pretty much every time I type shots on my phone (including just there) and I’m surprised this is the first time someone quoted it in time!

Perhaps you just recognize the score more easily now. I know that was the case when I saw it again in the theater after listening to the CD a bunch.

It could also be the levels sounding different on a home setup. Others have claimed that they hear the score more clearly now. Though I think it’s still too quiet.

I agree that the score differs from the CD (it always does) but I notice no change on the BD. And none quite thoroughly compared the content of the credits.

Either way, this is a good example of how useful a cam bootleg can be, though not for the credits. Maybe someone will check if you have anything specific in mind.

Altered color palette, I cleaned up some of TN1’s shots to replace GOUT shots, Catbus provided improved greedo subs and Hindi, Ukrainian, Russian, Navajo, and Thai audio dubs. Darth Lucas rotoscoped the saber in Ben’s hut from 35mm.

Hey laser. Nope, I won’t be able to start on that until next week at the earliest.

I think I once understood that being his point. Which is why I suggested that cropping all four sides is required.

But then i assumed otherwise because it’s difficult to understand that perspective. He figured out how to crop two sides but not the other two, though they’re all on the same settings screen? And then blamed other people?

Anyway, at least it seems to be worked out. Until the next round of OT madness begins.

If I read this thread again tonight I’ll need to head to the bar. 😉

Also, I meant 2.x 😃

TJT said:

“The fact is that your preference is a very unpopular preference, and because of that, there isnt any need to sacrifice bluray compatibility just so that people watching on a HD have the option of cropping the image.”

… that seems to be the problem in a nutshell… I didn’t realize that it MUST be letterboxed in order to get full wide screen for BR. Most torrents are not letterboxed.

“You are literally the first person on this forum asking for something like this.”

…That surprises me. It’s not like TV always shows the wide screen version either, even when one is available.

“Just go into the manual crop in VLC, crop off the letterbox, then crop off the desired amount of side-image, and enjoy your botched version of Star Wars.”

…I closed VLC and tried this again. Now it works with manual cropping, while previously it didn’t. Odd. Problem solved, thank you. Now if I only found my old CRT… ahhhhh.

So after all this I think the issue (aside from attitude) may still be that you don’t understand aspect ratios.

If it happened to be filmed in exactly 16:9 it will have zero black bars on your 16:9 TV.

If it is 4:3, it will have black bars on the sides.

If it’s 1.40:1 or 1.35:1 it will have bars on the tops and bottoms.

The issue really isn’t whether or not the file was made for BD compatibility or not. Even if we didn’t care about that, it would still be rendered with the same aspect ratio (vlc would just add it like it does for 4:3 video). Even if there was more than just you requesting this, the logical thing to do is release the intact film. You can come along and do whatever you want to it. But if it was released the way you want, there would be no way for the thousands if people who want it intact to uncrop it. Does that make sense?

Yep. And acting like the actual releases should be that screwed up version. It would be wildly unpopular and rightly panned.

Want help? Post your vlc settings and a screenshot of how it looks. It really should be possible I think.

You haven’t seen the version this thread is about. Hopefully you did learn something today, despite your best efforts.

Oh, I’m not claiming that 2.35 is innately superior. Just that it’s absurd to later crop a film of part of its picture.

But even if it’s your preference, it’s extremely rude to tell people they’ve wasted your time by making the real version available to you. If you want a different version, great. Then make it.

This guy even posted a list of options he seems not to like. And complained about several hours to make the version he thinks is superior when others have spent hundreds of hours making the versions he mocks.

He’s not a troll, he’s just a rude ass.

I think I actually answered you earlier. Are you cropping the left and right in addition to the top and bottom? You need to, because doing what you ask requires the sides to be lost.

My obnoxiousness is a result of you acting like we wasted your time by giving you a version that wasn’t screwed up. You’re the very first person I’ve ever seen request something so messed up, but you claim that we are minimizing interest by doing it the way everyone wants it (correctly). Go on blu-ray forums and suggest similarly bad ideas and see just how unpopular your preference is. You might be nearly the only person who wants to watch films in this manner.

Your comments on the color are even less appropriate in this thread since the entire project is about changing the color of the release you’re complaining about.

Right?

The original wasn’t a cropped piece of shit, so please don’t say you had any intention of watching the original.

Furthermore, you could crop harmy’s into the piece of shit you so desire if you were willing to wrangle up a few brain cells for the task.

Finally, you didn’t download this version at all, since I never sent you the link. I’d tell you to fuck off, but unfortunately the appropriate thread is Harmy’s and I don’t want you there either.

Edit: I really can’t wrap my head around how stupid your request/criticism is. Films are sold in their appropriate aspect ratios except for in cases where someone screwed up. I can’t help but feel that this is the first time you’ve ever paid attention to aspect ratio and decided it bugs you. That’s the only way this makes sense.

Just hit the zoom button on your TV I guess…