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Like many, I was unhappy with a lot the changes that were made for the Special Editions and most recently the blu-rays.
Harmy's Despecialised Editions are great for those that want to see the films exactly as they were when they were originally released theatrically, but some of the changes (especially the updating of special effects) actually make the films better IMHO, so I decided to make 'Semi-Specialised' editions of these films to remove what I considered the bad changes while keeping all the good changes/additions.
With this V3 release I have used the newest Return of the Jedi blu-ray as my main video source because it has far more natural looking colours than the previous bluray that has very oversaturated colours, has a strong blue tint throughout the film and the fleshtones have a very strong reddish magenta push that makes characters look permanently sunburnt.
I have also reduced of the brightness of the new blu-ray because I felt the film was a little too bright overall, negatively affecting the atmosphere of what should be darker scenes on the Death Star in the third act, particularly the fight between Luke and Darth Vader.
I used Star.Wars.Episode.VI.Return.of.the.Jedi.1983.2160p.CUSTOM.DCPRIP.SDR.x265.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-4k83v1.2.2 as my video source to reinsert Lapti Nek into this V3 release (my thanks to everybody that was involved in putting together this very nice 2160p theatrical reconstruction of Return of the Jedi and sharing it with everybody).
Also included in this release is a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 upmix upmix of Belbucus's fantastic Return of the Jedi '95 PCM two channel audio track and the Cinema DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track created to fit this Semi-Specialised Edition.
Thank you CapableMetal for syncing the Cinema DTS 5.1 tracks split by reels to the '97 release and then providing me with them, I couldn't have created these Cinema DTS MA 5.1 tracks without them! Chapter timings from the blu ray have also been included in this release.
Below is a brief summary of the changes made to this film:
Return of the Jedi:
Audio changes:
Han Solo's 'it's alright, I can see a lot better' line from the special edition when he's aiming his gun to free Lando from the Sarlacc's clutches has been replaced with the original line 'it's alright, trust me'
Darth Vader's 'Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!' at the climax of the film has been removed and his silence restored.
New lossless pcm audio track created to fit this semi-specialised edition, based off Belbucus's excellent 1993 Return of the Jedi PCM audio mix
Video Changes:
The awful CG fest 'Jedi Rocks' has been removed and replaced with the original song from the theatrical release, Lapti Nek
All the CG celebration scenes on the other planets have been removed with the exception of the first, cloud city. Jar Jar Binks and his 'Weesa Free!' is gone, thankfully.
Hayden Christensen and his creepy glare has been removed from the final scene with the jedi spirits and replaced with the original actor from the theatrical release, Sebastian Shaw
Here are some screencaps:
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Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, RefFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2 h 13 min
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 20.0 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate : 28.0 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 808 pixels
Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : PCM
Codec ID : A_PCM/INT/LIT
Duration : 2 h 12 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 32.000 FPS (1500 SPF)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 1.42 GiB (6%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Audio #2
ID : 3
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile : MA / Core
Mode : 16
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 2 h 12 min
Bit rate mode : Variable / Constant
Bit rate : 1 718 kb/s / 1 509 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossless / Lossy
Stream size : 1.59 GiB (7%)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
Audio #3
ID : 4
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile : MA / Core
Mode : 16
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 2 h 13 min
Bit rate mode : Variable / Constant
Bit rate : 2 341 kb/s / 1 509 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossless / Lossy
Stream size : 2.19 GiB (9%)
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No |
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