The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) RiffTrax dual audio 480p.10bit.DVDRip.x265-budgetbits
RiffTrax commentary audio track will play with the movie by default. Change the track in your video software if you want to hear the normal movie track.
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GENERAL INFO
RiffTrax release date
December 7, 2007
Genre
Parody, Comedy, Adventure, Musical
Plot
Have a Happy Life Day! And nothing kicks off a memorable Life Day quite so much as watching the legendary Star Wars Holiday Special receive a fully deserved Rifftrax parody treatment! Yes, all your favorite Wookies are here: there's Chewbacca, Malla, Itchy, Lumpy and Art Carney.
Tony Award Winner and Oscar nominated Diahann Carroll as a singing holographic prostitute who services Grandpa Itchy. And Bea Arthur stretches her talent by playing a woman. Not only that, there are commercials from 1978 that will come close to convincing you that "1978" is fairly synonymous with "Hell".
Because we taped ours off of the television set, and our NV-9300 doesn't have an "edit" function printed on one of its dozens of plastic piano key-style switches, we just left the commercials in there.
Bill, Mike, and Kevin make this the itchiest, lumpiest Life Day of them all!
Encoding info
Encoded by budgetbits from fan-edited DVD (Star Wars Holiday Special (Zion).ISO) with HandBrake 1.2.2, slower preset, x265, 720p, 10 bit, crf 23, deinterlace, aq-mode 1, sao/strong-intra-smoothing/rect disabled.
The source (video, and both audio tracks) is Zion Hybrid v2. The video quality is much better than the first Zion Hybrid (which was used for bsg4you's encode. Details about the Zion Hybrid v2:
SOURCES
- Program: EditDroid DVD
- Commercials: Tasjo v2 DVD
- Boba Fett Cartoon: g-force’s blu-ray remastered edition (edited into program)
The program and commercials have been enhanced with a small amount of color correction and video noise reduction. A conservative amount of sharpening has been applied as well. The commercials were individually color corrected.
FEATUREs
- Original and Rifftrax audio
- Full motion menus with transitions, including chapter menus
- Custom DVD first play bumper based on “CBS Special Presentation” bumper
- Custom 70’s style DVD credits sequence
- Restored “Fighting the Frizzies” WCBS clip Easter egg - Sourced from WCBS DVD - Filtered video noise and flicker - Audio enhanced with noise reduction
- A brief program intro explaining this release (I decided to include the intro after hearing feedback from casual fans who viewed my v1 DVD (as well as a couple YouTubers) who didn’t seem to understand why the commercials were left in or that the opening crawl wasn’t part of the original Holiday Special broadcast.)
AUDIO
The bitrate for both audio tracks was set to 192Kbps to match the EditDroid DVD audio track. (There’s no point in going any higher even for the RiffTrax audio because the original commentary MP3 is only 96Kbps).
- Program audio same as EditDroid DVD
- Remastered RiffTrax commentary track
- Audio for commercials enhanced with noise reduction and normalized to -10dBFS
UPDATES FROM V1 & NOTES:
- Opening crawl re-rendered using a higher quality star field
- The color of the opening crawl text (and DVD menu text) was changed to match the color of the opening crawl from the Team Negative1 Silver Screen 35mm transfer
- Smoothed out commercial break transitions compared to previous SWHS RiffTrax releases and resynced RiffTrax audio to match
- Removed audio noise from commercial break transitions and added proper video dissolves (fade to black goes completely to black, removed audible analog noise during transitions)
- Kenner Star Wars Commercial: Fixed two audio drops (filled using audio from Rikter’s KCCI DVD)
- Remastered General Motors sponsor slide (sourced from Tasjo WHIO DVD)
- Audio for the “Sponsored By… General Motors” announcer clip sourced from Tasjo WHIO DVD (The EditDroid version does not contain this audio clip (or the sponsor slide), and instead has a different take of the announcer saying “The Star Wars Holiday Special is brought to you by…” with no sponsor indicated.)
- The “Star Wars disco” main menu music has been remastered using higher quality sound effects and samples sourced from the EditDroid DVD
- Created separate menu transitions for each menu item: Play, Play with RiffTrax, and DVD Credits
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COVER
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SCREENSHOTS
(Click to enlarge)
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MEDIAINFO
General
Filename = The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) RiffTrax dual audio 480p.10bit.DVDRip.x265-budgetbits.mkv
Duration = 1 h 58 min
Size = 890 MiB
Overall bit rate = 1 053 kb/s
Video #0
Format = HEVC x265 - 2.9:[Linux][GCC 8.2.0][64 bit] 10bit
Resolution = 720x480
Aspect ratio = 4:3 (1.333)
Bit rate = 889 kb/s
Frame rate = 28.968 FPS
Audio #0
Title = RiffTrax
Format = Opus
Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 77.7 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English
Audio #1
Title = Unriffed feature
Format = Opus
Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 78.8 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English
