The wait is over! Enjoy the full trailer for Star Wars Episode VII – The Force Awakens in full 5.1 audio – the way it was meant to be heard. I did say that it would be in DTS-HD MA, but it is not. It is in full uncompressed LPCM 5.1 which technically is better. If a DTS encode is available I will add it as well.
The mkv with LPCM 5.1 and the mp4 with Dolby 5.1 are now available at the Star Wars Episode VII – The Force Awakens trailers page.
Also, it appears that this trailer will not be shown in theaters. It was not listed as new content for this week by technicolor, and the file was named “broadcast” trailer, so the debut on Monday night football may be it.
Don’t forget to get your tickets!
In case you are wondering – I am not just uploading a ready-made file. The files I get require a lot of manual processing before I can upload them to you, and it is never a straightforward process. Each file seems to have its own challenges. For this trailer, when I did the QA on the PCM version, about 30 seconds in the sound went out. I had to trace it back to the first cut of the mkv I made, and then I had to re-mix the pcm audio, and re-do the transcode, re-do the cut transcode, and re-upload. I am one man doing this on my own, it took me two hours, and I did it all before I went to work this morning so that you could have access to it as soon as possible.
No theaters, does that mean there won’t be a 3D version ?
It may come to theaters, but it is not going to be there this week, from what I can tell anyway. I will certainly be on the lookout for the 3D version.
There’s still hope then. Thanks!
Can’t wait – though getting the 3D copies to play correctly on in PowerDVD 15 and Nvidia drivers has been an exercise in futility. Such poor support.
The dialogue seems to mostly be coming through my rear-left speaker in this version.
Max, what are you using to playback the file, and are you playing the mp4 or the mkv?
A big thank you to the poster for making this available to us. You rock!
Thanks John!
Awesome. Thanks you very much for this 5.1 version 😉
Thanks very much for doing this!