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#912470
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Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars 1977 - Color Adjustment Project for v2.7 (released)
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Darth Lucas said:

towne32 said:

DLucas: If you want it mainly to grab the color for your encode, get the BD since the bitrate is higher. 😃

Well I’m going to have to end up lowering the bitrate slightly anyways to make sure two full copies of the film can fit on a BD50, so that’s not such a big deal. Plus having the whole movie on one track (instead of the crawl separate) will make it easier to get all of my corrections frame-accurate and synched up.

Oh, of course. The point was just that sequential re-encodes might be less damaging using a higher bitrate form as starting material and you’ve nothing to gain by waiting for the mkv anyway. 😃

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#912468
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Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars 1977 - Color Adjustment Project for v2.7 (released)
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Harmy said:

Why doesn’t it support menus?

Unofficial, third party media players that support blu-ray almost never can do menus. As is, I guess it’s hard enough to get them to work with AACS on encrypted discs, so it’s a bit of a hack job. And they need to keep up with changing keys, etc.

Hang on, are you saying that MPC HC can play BDs without a third party software to get rid of the encryption first?

Nope. Just talking about the functionality itself. The AACS comment was just in regards to why media player developers might not spend much bother on blu-ray support. The amount of unencrypted homebrew discs out there is negligible, and even pirates would probably stick to other formats.

There’s a way to rig VLC to use the encryption key, though. I think.

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#912435
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Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars 1977 - Color Adjustment Project for v2.7 (released)
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Dek Rollins said:

towne32 said:

Dek Rollins said:

towne32 said:

VLC doesn’t seem to be playing nicely with this for me (it does not like Blu-rays with menus). I did my testing on PS4, PS3, PowerDVD, and Total Media Theatre. Your vlc may be set up better than mine, though.

How about MPC HC?

Looks like it works perfectly! Plays ANH by default but you can select playlist through the drop menu to 0001, which will be SW. No menu support, of course.

Why doesn’t it support menus?

Unofficial, third party media players that support blu-ray almost never can do menus. As is, I guess it’s hard enough to get them to work with AACS on encrypted discs, so it’s a bit of a hack job. And they need to keep up with changing keys, etc.

I don’t know what is specifically hard to read/render as far as the menus go, though. Arcsoft Totalmedia Theatre was one piece of software that supported them. But they have dropped blu-ray support probably under pressure or because it’s hard to keep up.

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#912399
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Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars 1977 - Color Adjustment Project for v2.7 (released)
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Harmy said:

You can have seamless branching in MKV. I’m not sure how but it can be done - I once experimentally downloaded a couple of episodes of ST TOS and they were MKVs where you could choose which version to watch and it played perfectly smoothly in MPC HC and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t that the whole video was muxed in twice.

Cool. I think I’ve seen people mention it before so that does sound right.

In this case, I’m just going to mux the standard version with your SW crawl just to make sure compatibility is high and no one has any problems. If people want an ANH version, we will see. But Darth Lucas will be doing a version with your 1981 crawl, Harmy, so there might not even be any need.

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#912394
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Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars 1977 - Color Adjustment Project for v2.7 (released)
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Dek Rollins said:

towne32 said:

VLC doesn’t seem to be playing nicely with this for me (it does not like Blu-rays with menus). I did my testing on PS4, PS3, PowerDVD, and Total Media Theatre. Your vlc may be set up better than mine, though.

How about MPC HC?

Looks like it works perfectly! Plays ANH by default but you can select playlist through the drop menu to 0001, which will be SW. No menu support, of course.

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#912392
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Star Wars Custom Blu Ray Saga Set (a WIP)
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Darth Lucas said:

I’m looking forward to it 😃

Well, I’m glad you’re using my final version so that I can watch your version without thinking “gah, but I updated that!”. 😃

Are you going to release comparison shots of the color that you changed from my version? Or just leave it for people to find? Maybe you can PM me the details if it’s the latter.

In your myspleen description, feel free to explain the difference between the 81 and 97 crawl and therefore between our two versions. Most people are probably unaware. I certainly was until a few months ago.

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#912385
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Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars 1977 - Color Adjustment Project for v2.7 (released)
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VLC doesn’t seem to be playing nicely with this for me (it does not like Blu-rays with menus). I did my testing on PS4, PS3, PowerDVD, and Total Media Theatre. Your vlc may be set up better than mine, though.

You can definitely watch the m2ts files in VLC. But everything up to and through the crawl is a separate m2ts. So you’d need to click the next one when it’s done, or make a playlist or something. Or wait for an MKV. 😃

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#912369
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Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars 1977 - Color Adjustment Project for v2.7 (released)
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Hah, yeah. Thanks for bringing more attention to that track.

I’m going to build an MKV with the new and improved track, so don’t worry about that. You can try to get the muxing working if you really want a branching BD, but I think it’s probably not worth the time. And the menu will be lying about what the track is. 😃

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#912360
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Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars 1977 - Color Adjustment Project for v2.7 (released)
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For people asking about the MKV:

Yep, I’ll do them. I need to re-encode because I upped the bitrate for the BD m2ts. If you’re in a hurry, you can see if you can mux them yourself. I don’t know how muxxing sequential M2ts files works, or if it does. The big m2ts is the movie after the crawl, and two of the other smaller ones are the different crawls.

What crawl would you want first?

DLucas: If you want it mainly to grab the color for your encode, get the BD since the bitrate is higher. 😃

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#912245
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Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars 1977 - Color Adjustment Project for v2.7 (released)
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Well damn.

The image quality on the shot of Luke and the purple sky is nice enough for an upgrade. But the shot is messy. Dirt, tramline scratches, flickering. It has the light leak problem, but it doesn’t matter much since 3PO has some lens flare going on anyway.

I’ll take a quick look at it to see if anything can be done, but I don’t know.

Edit: It’s tempting, mostly to sharpen up the boundary between Luke and the background, but I think I’m going to pass on this one. Great suggestion, though.

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#912211
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Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI - Grindhouse 35mm LPP (Released)
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Colson said:

cybr1d said:

Well it’s good to know some are open to outside collaboration from a newbie.

I’ve been talking to the eBay seller to confirm a few things and just thought y’all might be interested in seeing some other frame shots. http://jmp.sh/3PhPeJp http://jmp.sh/z789aOW http://jmp.sh/Ewoe69g http://jmp.sh/XbHL46G http://jmp.sh/P593Gnl

I’m still on the fence about the purchase, but it’s hard to say no to owning the film.

Consider this an official encouragement to purchase the print.

Hah, seconded. Newbness isn’t really a factor if important resources, skills, equipment, etc are brought to the table.

I’m sure you’re getting whatever advice you would need from poita. And I am jealous of your ability to even consider a purchase. 😃

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#912127
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Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars 1977 - Color Adjustment Project for v2.7 (released)
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Darth Lucas said:

Not to hijack the thread, but for those who are interested, today I will be muxing an mkv of the 1981 version of the film to post on the spleen. In case you want that version, but not necessarily the whole BD disc I’m authoring with all the bells and whistles.

It is as most of you know based on Towne32’s regrade as a base with a few select scenes and sequences regraded by me and my 1981 crawl/flyover spliced into the beginning.

You’re more than welcome to post here, especially since I started this project by posting in your thread!

If you hadn’t read, Harmy has been kind enough to allow me to call my next release a Despecialized 2.6 the way he did for Laserschwert with ESB 2.1 essentially.

Not to stifle your impending upload. But if you want to wait for that version it will have all the upgrades we’re discussing here and might make things less confusing for people.

As is, I’ll already need to explain that what was to be Recolorized 1.2 (DeED 2.5) is now DeED 2.6 (Towne32) in both branching BD and MKV versions for both crawls. It would be great to have your Proper 1981 crawl version on top of all that. But it would be easier for folks to follow, I think, if you could call it 2.6 (1981) or something instead of something like: Towne 32’s Recolorized (V1) version of Harmy’s 2.5 but with replaced crawl. 😃 Since the V1 is going to be out of date and the nomenclature altered thanks to Harmy’s generosity. But if you actually don’t like some of the features of the next version, then by all means do as you’re doing. Just trying to avoid confusing people.

I can stick with calling my crawl ANH, and you can stick with 1981, to be accurate on that note.

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#912093
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Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars 1977 - Color Adjustment Project for v2.7 (released)
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Memorex said:

towne32 said:

Oh, at night. Of course. Hmm. I have already rendered it. Again. But maybe I’ll take a look at it. Forgot about that one.

Wish I’d come to think of it sooner 😕 Harmys scene totaly works if it stays though, but gout will be gout… 😉

Yeah. So, on that note lets all try to think if we’re forgetting anything. 😃

I honestly don’t remember how this shot looks in SSE. I know I was happier with Harmy’s color timing in the surrounding scene, and that SSE had some tramline scratches that weren’t 100% fixed. But the shot itself might be fair game depending on how it looks. And a quality shift for that shot is inevitable no matter what version you’re watching, so that might make it more feasible.

And the film even as is will still have plenty of GOUT-using shots. It’s not like we’re going from RoTJ 2.0 to 2.5 and cleaning up the last bits. That’s absolutely out of the scope intended here.