Star.Wars.Holiday.Special.Boba.Fett.Animation.1978.1080p.BluRay.x265

THIS IS A CROPPED AND DENOISED ENCODE OF THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL BOBA FETT CARTOON FROM BLURAY

THE QUALITY IS SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER VERSION OF THIS ANIMATION I HAVE SEEN

Star Wars Boba Fett Animation aka The Faithful Wookiee aka Droids Pilot 1978 x265
video: 1392x1080 HEVC x265 crf=21 3228Kbps preset=slow encoder.tune=animation
video denoise: NLMeans=Medium denoise.tune=Animation
audio: AC3 224kbps 2.0 stereo passthru
subs1: English SDH
subs2: Spanish
subs3: French
subs4: Dutch
subs5: Portuguese
subsX: All subs are the original PGS picture based subs from the Blu-Ray
chapters: 16 custom chapters
9min9sec 235MB 247,101,646bytes
source: BluRay Star Wars The Complete Saga Bonus Disc 2 2011
1978.11.17 The Star Wars Holiday Special 1978 tt0193524
2011.09.16 Star Wars The Complete Saga 9 Disc Blu-ray Box Set 2011 tt3393494
2020.08.23 this release - Star Wars Boba Fett Animation 1080p x265

This is the animation from The Star Wars Holiday Special 1978 sourced from the 2011 Star Wars The Complete Saga BluRay Box set.

The cartoon is titled "The Faithful Wookiee" but is best known as the first appearance of Boba Fett.

The only official source of this animation is from the 2011 Star Wars The Complete Saga BluRay Box set, 2nd bonus disc, click on Episode V, then Pursued by the Imperial Fleet, then The Collection, then Boba Fett Prototype Costume and finally First Look.

00605.m2ts is the source file and the animation is framed with a graphic on all four sides.

The following crop produces a 1222x948 pixel source from the 1920x1080 AVC stream: -66bottom -350left -348right -66top

While the usable area is not full 1080p, it is much higher resolution than the many TV caps of the show.

The cropped source of 1222x948 was upscaled to 1392x1080 maintaining the aspect ratio.

The source was very rough and was definitely not restore or remastered.

So the following Handbrake denoise filter was applied after extensive testing of many options:
NLMeans=Medium denoise.tune=Animation

This vastly improved the picture quality though a few artifacts from the source are visible in the final encode.

Two encodes were done and the source REMUX:

370MB AVC x264 crf=17 5288Kbps preset=veryslow
>>  https://imgur.com/a/EHPwy91

235MB HEVC x265 crf=21 3228Kbps preset=slow  <<  THIS SHARE
>>  https://imgur.com/a/WzHMVai  <<  THIS SHARE

546MB REMUX 7975Kbps 00605.m2ts muxed into mkv
>>  https://imgur.com/a/xkds3tK  

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PS - here are the custom chapters ... Happy Life Day!
00:00:00.000 Ch01- Boba Fett still image
00:00:08.007 Ch02- Opening Narration
00:00:24.815 Ch03- Luke, Leia, C-3PO and R2-D2 lose contact with Han and Chewy
00:01:31.549 Ch04- Luke, C-3PO and R2-D2 leave to rescue Han and Chewy
00:02:45.873 Ch05- After crash landing, Luke exits the Y-Wing to look around
00:03:11.482 Ch06- First on-screen appearance of Boba Fett
00:04:30.145 Ch07- Luke confronts Chewy holding the talisman
00:05:33.541 Ch08- Chewy and Boba Fett go to get medicine to cure Han and Luke
00:06:15.916 Ch09- Boba Fett leaves Chewy and reports to Darth Vader
00:06:46.000 Ch10- R2-D2 on the Falcon accidentally taps the Boba/Vader call
00:07:14.099 Ch11- Boba Fett gets Chewy and goes back to the Falcon
00:07:49.343 Ch12- The medicine revives Luke and Han
00:08:09.196 Ch13- R2-D2 tells Luke of Boba working for Vader - Boba flees
00:08:42.146 Ch14- Chewy explains he knew because Boba "didn't smell right"
00:08:57.994 Ch15- Our heroes laugh as they fly away
00:09:09.757 Ch16- END