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I didn't say it in my earlier post, so I'll say it now, loving the new colors.  Thanks for putting in the effort, I think it really paid off, it all feels more natural to Star Wars now, rather than looking like something you'd see in the real world (not sure if that makes sense, but the snow was just too white in the workprint).

On the lightsaber, it looks to me like more than just the blue being pulled down, it looks almost removed on purpose.  I take it you added in the blue to the saber when he cut himself down, in addition to adding back the flash, what's the difference here, besides that the blue was missing in the 97 where you added it in here and was present in the 97 where you didn't add it here (I find the consistently opposite coloring to be pretty humorous in a way).  Heck, why even add the blue back to that one shot if it the saber is just going to be white for the rest of the scene...  To me it looks like it may even need to be rotoscoped back on, or the area around the saber targeted to saturate the blue color (like you were able to single out the faces earlier for more reds than the background).  In the end, blue was there in both GOUT and 97 but not the BD, so I think it counts as a 2004SE change that would need to be addressed.

I think I found one problem so far.  Luke's lightsaber color does not show the blue aura that is in both the GOUT and 97 starting about the moment he gets up from the ground after cutting himself down.  Any thoughts on this?

On an unrelated note, the honorable mention credits, are they in any particular order, like by donation amount or something interesting like that?

If you'd left the rounded corners in, that would have been your decision and I'd have been fine with it for such otherwise great results.  The thing that really surprised me the most about the whole thing was that you put the corners in early on rather than doing it globally at the final rendering stages (which would have made things easy to undo if people didn't like it as you'd feared all along while doing it).  So it makes me quite glad that it is starting to sound less difficult to fix than you'd originally feared.  It was a fun idea, but ultimately, it wouldn't be consistent with SW v2.5 and somewhat goes against the general idea here of not allowing changes from the original for the sake of change.

In fairness, you might remember I lobbied hard against hardsubbing Greedo, but I wouldn't have complained much about this decision, and definitely would not have supported the idea of bumping you down to a mere fan edit status over it.  Still, thank you for deciding to go through the effort to restore the corners, thereby restoring peace to the galaxy.

Looking pretty good.  By the way, I think a hair made it in the "after" shot at the bottom-left of the frame, in the middle of the hallway.

Well, according to that wiki article, the logo may be a mix of both castles...

Maybe they'll just replace it all together with a Death Star or the Millennium Falcon, or something...  Then Mickey passes by on an AT-ST, firing at the logo, or something...  Anyway, for now we just need to see if the movie even comes out on time, what with Harrison Ford's leg now being reported as broken and needing 6+ months to recover.

If I remember correctly, I don't think John Carter used the full generic Disney opening.  So there's a hopeful precedent...

And I definitely did not help, for the record.

Two things, even a Linux version of JDownloader exists, so there shouldn't realistically be anyone here that method does not cover.  Second, whatever issues people have with native programs for creating/burning ISO's, imgburn is designed specifically to work well with WINE, so Mac or Linux users can always fall back to that if nothing else works.

Hal 9000 said:

Harmy's work popped up in this YouTube video.

Funny how short-sighted their complaint is that [in reference to film trailers] "you didn't used to give everything away" and "you would have ruined classic movies, too".  With any research they would have noticed there was a time that trailers were even WORSE about giving things away than they are now.  Great example, off the top of my head, being the trailer for Soylent Green, it was about three and a half minutes of stepping tediously through the entire film, over-explaining it plot point by plot point, finishing up at the absolute end of the movie, minus the very last spoken word that declares what Soylent Green is (seriously, don't watch the trailer if you haven't seen the movie).  Though, in all fairness, Charlton Heston could well have been meaning to say, "Soylent Green, it's.... Monty Python's Flying Circus".

I still don't trust partitions as much as dedicated drives (and SSD would be a boon to you), but if you're happy with it for now, I won't argue the point further.

And that sucks.  Random crap-outs like that are just about the worst, you do nothing wrong and it still unexpectedly fails on you.  I hope your replacement parts arrive soon and you can put this messy experience behind you quickly.

Has it gotten back to this non-working state without any new modifications on your part?  If so, then do you doubt the BIOS clearing and power discharging methods that got it running last time would even work this time; at least enough to salvage your weekend plans?

I guess what I mean is that I assume you'll still have this mobo in the system until you tear it down to put the new one in when it arrives, if it could be convinced to limp along, would you bother trusting any new work to it in the mean time?

Also, did it conk out while you were actively using it (that is to say hard crash and then not come back up), or did it start doing this when trying to boot normally?

Furthermore, with these unexpected hardware issues, are you putting more consideration into an investment in a boot drive?  So as to better deal with unexpected needs to rebuild the OS and limit danger to your data?  (Unless I somehow missed you getting something other than just those two RED drives.)

Wait, easiest of the three, that must mean now we're NOT recreating the Jabba musical number verbatim with hand puppets?  Nobody tells me nothin...  Well, of course, it'll be a cakewalk to complete now...

But not nearly as panned as the Special Edition!!!  ...Critically!

(I'll be here all week.)

I'm ever grateful for living near one of the nicest theaters in the country...  That and the fact it was built well enough to take minimal damage from the EF-5 tornado that passed not a few dozen yards/meters by it (a year ago next week, actually)...

Other than that BIOS battery trick, I would have said to make sure to drain whatever capacitance was left in the mobo by unplugging the power then depressing the power switch for a few seconds.  I've fixed a few odd issues that way (some of which BIOS updates did address what caused the problems).

As for the RAM not working, is it exactly the same as the first set?  If not, what are the differences (speed, timings, size, brand, etc.)?  Also, have you tried putting in JUST the new RAM, to see if it is a conflict between the mix of old and new RAM (rather than an incompatibility between the new RAM and your mobo, or just bad RAM).

If you can get it to boot in any way with the new RAM, you can boot off of a Linux Live CD (such as my preference, Lubuntu) and test your RAM with memtest (it is in the CD's boot menu, if you have UEFI disabled).  Once that runs for a while, it should let you know if it finds any errors, which would indicate bad RAM.

I haven't watched the new clip, but if the colors are warmer, I'll take a stab in the dark and say it is the Japanese Special Collection Laserdiscs he's using for reference.  He was asking around for a copy of that earlier, and a thread about that had comparison shots that looked quite a bit warmer than GOUT, 97SE and 04SE.

Good information, though.  Thanks for looking into it.

Harmy said:

They may still change - I think it may be better to wait for the finished docs, then make English subs and then translate those.

Which reminds me, isn't there anyone who would encode the audio for the v2.5 AVCHD for me? If not, I guess I'll just use the audio tracks from v2.1.

 I'm sure there'd be worthwhile benefit to reencoding the v2.5 audio for the AVCHD rather than regressing to Hairy's previous efforts found on v2.1.  Do you know if Hairy himself is available to do it, as that would of course be the optimal choice.

Harmy said:

Oh, I just remembered, I encoded an AVCHD version of v2.5 a few days ago and then I totally forgot about it. What I need for it is for someone to provide me with the soundtracks. What I need are the tracks, which are in the v2.1 AVCHD, at the same bitrate they are there, but encoded from the lossless tracks that are in v2.5 mkv, because IIRC they are newer and better versions. I could try doing this myself but I'd fel much safer if someone who actually knows what they are doing did it for me.

You made an encode and forgot about it, man, this new computer is noticeably making things easier for you already.

Well, what source are you even comparing this with?

The results with 720p on this project have been phenomenal, the only reason I'd see to consider 1080p would be to address 720p/24fps compatibility issues some people have complained about with blu-ray players (that resolution and frame rate are hardly common in retail).  Still, that probably only should be something to concern yourself with at the time of a full blu-ray release (quantity of audio tracks would likely be adversely affected, though, so there's a lot to consider there)..

If the workprint had subtitles I would have doubled checked that name, but we can't ask for everything from a workprint.  Anyone else have that audio issue, btw?

Watching it now, overall I'm very impressed.  Quite an increase in clarity and depth over what I remember from v1.0.  Colors overall have my approval, pretty natural feeling (maybe a touch purpleish around 21:22 through 22:00ish (could be wrong, but that was something I thought the first time through... perhaps I'm just jaded against Star Wars explosions).  The Imperial fleet looks pretty darn good with your color timing, even if you had to use SE recomps, at least it feels like Star Wars in the context of your version, and looks pretty snazzy.  I'd say definitely go with this over GOUT upscales until Negative1 sources are available.

I know this doesn't affect the purpose of the workprint in any way, but has anyone else had an issue with the aac 5.1 track decoding such that the center channel is in the Left Surround speaker?  It could just be how this one system is handling non-passthrough audio, but it is still very, very odd.

Also, in viewing it this time (and now that I think about it, with a Firefly/Serenity comicbook expansion story coming to mind), could Admiral Oswald, rather than being clumsy or stupid, instead be a highly placed Rebel plant or a Rebel sympathizer, and that is why he both tried to overlook their actual location and arrived close enough for the fleet to be detected?  Instead of being a moron, he may actually have been a Rebel hero, murdered by Darth Vader, who probably figured out all of this and killed him without letting anyone else know why (so as to keep up moral, as best one can while still seeming to kill off officers at will....).  Just a thought.

Wow, Jdownloader has a Linux client... who knew...

Harmy said:

 Actually, I already had those finished from way back when and then I decided not to undo most of the other recomps, unless they were very obvious (like the ones with the smoke) until I can get my hands on some of the 35mm materials, so there will be quite a few recomped shots left in the Hoth battle but over-all, v2.0 will still be much more despecialized than v1.0.

I knew you were unhappy with v1.0 compared to what you know you can do now, but I hadn't realized you may have left in a significant amount of recomps.  About how much of the recomp shots were left in v1.0?  Also, did you go with the SE Imperial fleet back then, too?  Just wondering, more than anything (v1.0 is still miles/kilometers better than any other option currently out there).

In the end, the most important thing is that it feels like Star Wars again, even if we know the least offensive recomps have to stay in for a while longer.