Hi, I’m trying to find the subtitles for Harmy’s “Despecialized” Star Wars remakes and I was wondering if anybody has any ideas. The original website for Project Threepio points at a blog that seems abandoned and an old private tracker (MySpleen) that never opens to public anymore. Even just the English subs would be great (the original pack contained extensive language coverage in DVD format so I was given to understand it was quite large). TIA for any hints.

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I have a folder named “Subtitles - Project Threepio” for the first movie, plus .srt files for the other two despecialized editions. If noone else does it first I could upload them somewhere. Any good sites for sharing a few small files without having to register?

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Open subtitles?

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I had a look and it already has subs for the despecialized editions, however they seem to be mixed in with the other versions of the movie, making them a little tricky to find: https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search/sublanguageid-all/idmovie-458

Maybe there’s an easier method, but I filtered by language and then used the browser’s “find in page…” to locate the ones with “despecialized” tags

srt files are just text, aren’t they? Maybe Pastebin?

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It seems like the file is too large for the clipboard, so it only copies the first ~20kB out of the total 100kB. I could probably find some workaround, but it seems like the despecialized subs are already available at opensubtitles.org, though perhaps a little bit hard to find. See my other comment.

The Despecialized editions are nice, but check out project 4k77, 4k80, and 4k83. https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/

Is 83 done now? Cool!

83’s been done. It’s just 4K80 that’s still in beta. They finally released a 4K one (previously it was only available as a 1080p edit) but the color correction isn’t yet done all the way to the end

Oh okay nice.

Are the despecialized still the best way to watch the OG trilogy in HD?

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Despecialized are sub-720p edits based mostly on the Blu Ray 2011 release of the original cuts, with some parts sourced from LaserDisc, DVD, film reels and original matte paintings. It’s a work of love that took the HD Blu Ray version and video-edited frame by frame it to look like the original release. It’s a much better watch than the special editions rips, even though those rips have better resolution.

The 4k editions are high resolution scans from original film reels, they are typically found as 1080p and 4K.

If you don’t mind 25-50 GB per movie then the 4k are the way to go, otherwise get the despecialized (they’re under 2GB).

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4k77, 4k80, and 4k83 are 4k (hence the name) versions of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi, respectively. 4k77 was mastered from an original 1977 35mm print of the movie. I’m not sure of the other’s sources, but they’re probably similar.

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Hmm, I too have the despecialized editions. I’ll have to check and see if there are subtitles with them.

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It appears that they don’t have embedded subs but Plex was able to locate some on Opensubs for the despecialized editions.

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