I'm working with the PAL discs, but it should be (relativly) "portable". I'm actually running the G-FORCE script on ANH atm without the AA or resizing (I'll do it later), total encode time 16hrs 44mins... that's significantly faster than last time I did it, so I'km thinking the AA (anti aliasing) takes up far more time than I previously thought :(... oh well, at least it will mean that when complete every scene only needs to be resized once, not twice (when matching the cropping of the SE/GOUT together exactly as in the scene I posted above) :) I'm going off this list here...

http://picasaweb.google.com/doubleofive/StarWarsSpecialEditionChangesHD

The once thing, so far, that I don't care about from the SE is the fades ("optical wipes").

Just an update, I've been color correcting to get the SE and the GOUT to "match". It's not perfect, of course, but I've settled on this:

Special Edition:

Tint($FF7F00,10)
YLevels(0,1.14,255,0,255).Tweak(0,0.9)

GOUT:

Tint($007FFF,4)
YLevels(14,1.18,255,0,255).Tweak(-3,1.17)

GOUT on left, SE on right :)








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Just as althor1138 has been doing in his project, for some scenes I'll be doing a chroma-swap. The sunset scene - this is presently where I'm up to :)



That's the SE image with the GOUT chroma. :) A lot nicer than the SE grey of the sky.

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GOUT:

SE:


Here's an interesting scene. It's the cantina exit, and finishes with a wipe into this ugly SE mess:



The fix for this is a little more involved, instead of using GOUT-only footage, I've started with SE footage, then done a chroma-swap, and then a luma-swap right before the wipe.

GOUT:

SE:

Fixed:


Above you can see the exit itself, this is part-way through the blend now, you can clearly see the detail originally lost to DVNR restored through using the SE footage over the GOUT chroma. This is basically the same technique used to remove the 4-eyed stormtrooper, just with a chroma-blend as well as a luma blend.

Video file upped for anyone interested :)

Good news everyone, I've completed the task. I'll post back soonish with the .avs files when they're ready. For now, I give you the complete cut list ("t" is a function that calls trim() I made it specifically so I could write comments as I went, I didn't use the comments that much though) There are very few SE elements left in, wipes I left in, some recomposits I left in... basically anything else was reverted to GOUT:

<snip> (If you want the list go the the first post and download the package).

Just to clarrify, I'm not having a go at 005, my comments were my only amusement and finding changes not on his comprehensive list was worth a mention! His list was really really valuable to me doing this :)

RU.08 said: Video file upped for anyone interested :)

Looks good so far!  This is an interesting project.  I look forward to seeing your progress :)

^^I didn't use the gout chroma for the most part, only in a handful of scenes, that's why I color-corrected the two to fit together better (color corrected SE colors were usually better anyway, the gout is all washed out most of the time).

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS THE FIRST VERSION, THE NEWEST VERSION IS IN THE FIRST POST IN THE TOPIC :)

Okay, here's the release I intend to make some further modifications to it shortly.

I lined it up manually and did a blend into SE luma... starting from after the SE Dewbacks.

I used the GOUT