Just finished watching the WP, and it looks amazing! There were a couple things that I did notice that were also in V1, and not sure if they were left on purpose or not.

At 15:14 into this WP, there was a line going across the screen in the middle of the explosion.  It looks like this was in the original filming, so not sure if anything can be done about this.

Also, at 16:45 into the WP, there is odd coloring that just takes up the bottom left of the screen, and moves up the screen during that shot.

Other than these two things, which like I said don't know if they'd even be able to to be fixed, the WP looks fantastic, and so excited that we are that much closer to a finished product!

I used Jdownloader to download it and it worked fine. Maybe you should try that instead?

Cobra Kai said:

Kingherb said:

http://uloz.to/13226726/deed-v2-0-wp2-3-mp4

Anyone else having trouble downloading this? it says '' Na stránce nastala chyba '' for me, which i assume means error? i also tried the link using mipony and jdownloader no luck.

 

just tried it.  it worked fine for me. 

Works for me as well.

1.0 used the walls from the SE version. In fact, most of the background in 1.0 is from the SE - only the soldiers on the ends came from the original painting. I can't remember if it was because Harmy missed it, because he thought the low resolution of the GOUT made it stick out really badly from the '04 footage, or because he didn't like how fake the painting looked.

Someone who had seen an original print on the big screen (possibly mverta) said that even in the original prints, the original matte painting looked pretty fake if you actually focused on it. Cinemagoers in '77 would have been focused on the heroes, and thus on the live footage in the center.

WP2.3 looks like it uses a lot more of the GOUT image - if there is any '04/'11 footage in there, it looks like Harmy reduced the quality to make it blend better with the GOUT stuff. Seems like a good compromise.

That WP3 clip looks great.

Interesting that you put those burn marks back in. It surprised me.

Are you going to do more work on the space shots at the beginning? It still feels like there's still too much red in the Blockade Runner detailing and lasers, Tatooine is too pink, and the whole explosion scene has too much red/pink in it. It has the same problem a lot of the SE recomposited miniature footage has - the pyrotechnics have flattened contrast and weird tints.

That said, as soon as it cut to R2 and 3PO, it felt like I was watching an actual original print. It reminds me of those pictures mverta posted earlier, and seems to match the previous poster's recollections about the color tending green. Completely unlike what most of us are used to seeing, even going back to the original video releases.

Joke of the day. :D

Anyway, that WP3 looks great otherwise, and I skipped through the WP2.3 a bit and it looked stunning as well.

Great job! As usual. :)

Harmy said:

Yeah, it's a whole matte painting, which was completely changed in the SE, not just the soldiers in the foreground but also the walls, the window and about half of the soldiers in the room.

I am now encoding WP3 reel one. Here's a little promo from it :-)

https://rapidshare.com/files/3593965985/WP3_reel_one_promo.mp4

digitalfreaknyc said:

Why is it 25fps???
Sounds horrible.

and you've gotten aliasing artifacts as well.

 

Harmy does his work at PAL framerate. The actual release will be at the correct speed.

Don't know what's up with the aliasing, either...

Another question - what's with all the smearing in the camera shake? Reminds me of the GOUT DVNR. Watching the widescreen bootleg telecine, I don't see that much blur.

I'm not complaining, just asking.

Harmy said:

I'm not quite encoding yet. But I know one thing for sure - I'll be exporting everything straight from Premiere, so I'll need advice on what settings to use there.

Here's a new little teaser :-)

BTW, 005, I couldn't find this in your comparisons. If you wanted to add it, I checked and it's an '04 change.

WTF?!  I knew there was something off about that shot since the SE.  Yeah, yeah, the green flame, but wtf has happened to the flame on vaders wing?!  It went low contrast dynamically, but maximum contrast mag/green!  I mean, you would have to be actively trying to screw that up to get that result.  Again, I just have to shake my head when I think that a team at ILM, then Lucas himself sat there and said "Yep.  Looks good, lock it!" to this stuff.

Just looked at the promo...Tatooine shot is looking good, but it was never a major problem in the SE.  The burn though; I always thought that was introduced sometime after the thatrical run, when they were prepping transfers for home video.  No kidding, it was always there?