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Harmy's avatar
RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

I've never heard of the Scofield project but if someone'd care to enlighten me, I'd be happy to consider including it on the BD.

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

Scofield: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Scofield-version-SW-theater-recording/topic/14077/

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

OK, so I decided to take a break from school stuff today and take care of a shot that made me cringe every time when watching the latest Mos Eisley workprint and I tried unsuccessfully to redo it many times before  but this time I took a different approach and here it is:

http://uloz.to/xb3vVpv/robot-removed-compar-mp4

Last edited on April 21, 2012 at 10:01 PM by Harmy

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Pennsylvania Jones said:

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

I think that looks amazing, well done Harmy.

You_Too's avatar
RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

Compared it to the SE and it looks great now. The background doesn't jump around in 2.0 and you did a great job on removing the shadow from the flying robot.

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

Wow, huge improvement!  Once again, amazing work Harmy!

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

Nice work Harmy. That looks great. 

 

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

Heheh, I always feel a bit like Lucas when doing this, but I've got things that bug me about projects that I just can't let go of.  I've convinced myself to do and do it until I think it's right - but sometimes on a large project I will feel certain elements are the best I can do.  Then, when they continue to bug me, I will find a way to fix them - often months or even years later.  I cringe because it's so Lucasy to "fix" something so much later ... but if something continues to bug me, I have to do it.

So bravo, Harmy, congrats on being an artist's artist and fixing something that stood out to you as needing fixing.  

And it looks great!

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

This is nothing like Lucas, I was a bit like Lucas when I did this, but this is completely different, it's basically a remastering - a new restoration :-)

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

Wow, that's an improvement. Funny how I never noticed that before.

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

Also I love the color differences in the second clip, this will be one hell of a summer!  Can't wait to retire my official blu ray box

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

Krycek87 said:

mosh4jebus said:

Stupid question because I'm technologically incompetent: can I burn these to a regular DVD or do I need a blu ray burner?

 

Use IMGBurn and burn them to a standard dual-layered DVD-R. 

This app will automatically set the setting for BLU/AVCHD, all you have to do is drag, drop and burn. 

I'm in the same boat here, I think..

What I DL'd didn't end up with any sort of folder structure.. so I'm not sure how to burn the AVCHD.

Also, does anyone know where to get Harmy's cover and disc art now that the original links don't work anymore?

Thanks!

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

The Scofield project is usually either right above or right below your thread the last few weeks.  Pugo did the transfer from analog, so Ièm guessing itès as good as any contemporary recording is going to get.  It is (from all accounts - havenèt heard it myself yet) a pretty clean (relatively speaking) audio recording from a theater in 1977 with a full audience.  I can imagine it being a very cool addition to watch a proper 1977 version of the film along with a contemporary audience during the first run.  Nice to remember what kind of a fun, visceral impact the film had at the time.

In any event, what the heck are you doing in hereÉ  Go study!

Last edited on April 22, 2012 at 6:26 AM by INv8r_ZIM
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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

Harmy,

The latest clip is awesome. What's your secret?

You know of the rebellion against the Empire?

Harmy's avatar
RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

In this case, endless patience :-) This time I removed the CG robot using a custom matte not only of the building but also the background, which in on itself was no easy task, since (and you may not notice this if you're not paying attention to it) the camera moves slightly several times, so I had to track that movement. And then I had to rotoscope all the other elements back in front of the area of where the robot was, sometimes combining GOUT and SE footage, if the robot was composited in front of the character. I can still see some glitches that I just couldn't get quite right but you'd probably never notice those if you didn't study the shot carefully. As it stands, if you just watch it once in the movie, it should hopefully look like the robot was never there and nothing was ever done to the shot.

If anyone's interested, here are a few frames from the project file saved as photoshop layers.

Last edited on April 22, 2012 at 2:14 PM by Harmy

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Pennsylvania Jones said:

"Stick and Stones will break my bones but the Blu-Rays will never Harmy." 

Lucas: I am altering the film. Pray I don't alter it any further.

Fans: This film is getting worse all the time!

 

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

The background blends seamlessly now, Harmy.  Very nice work.

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

@ Harmy

The shot looks amazing. Could I ask you 2 questions please:

1. If you're able to remove glitches in such complex shots, will you also be able to "stabilize" some of the reinserted coloured windows in TESB 2.0?

2. How do you estimate the effort for TESB 2.0 and ROTJ 2.0 compared to SW 2.0? I mean, SW seems to be the most damaged of the three movies while TESB is the less damaged one and ROTJ is your most advanced DeEd 1.0 where you can rely on many things you already reconstructred. Or are those 2 movies more damaged than I think?

  

 

 

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

There's actually a lot of work planned for ESB, lots of recomped shots I want to reinstate and many more zoomed in cockpits I want to unzoom and I'm probably gonna attempt to redo some of the shots that weren't quite so great in v1.0. It's also possible that I'll have to rerotoscope all the lightsabres in the ESB duel. There'll be much less work on Jedi but still quite a few things and a lot of work will have to go into the LS duel there as well. None of those will probably be as complex as SW v2.0 though.

And I'm not sure what you mean by reinserted coloured windows.

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Pennsylvania Jones said:

"Stick and Stones will break my bones but the Blu-Rays will never Harmy." 

Lucas: I am altering the film. Pray I don't alter it any further.

Fans: This film is getting worse all the time!

 

You_Too's avatar
RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

I think he meant the windows in cloud city which were replaced by CGI in the SE.

Harmy's avatar
RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

If that is the case I still don't understand the question.

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Pennsylvania Jones said:

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Lucas: I am altering the film. Pray I don't alter it any further.

Fans: This film is getting worse all the time!

 

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

@ Harmy

Many thanks! I meant that some of the reinserted windows in Cloud City taken from GOUT material are somewhat unstable and therefore standing out of the rest of the picture.

You_Too said:

I think he meant the windows in cloud city which were replaced by CGI in the SE.

Exactly :-)

Last edited on April 22, 2012 at 7:07 PM by n00b
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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

Harmy said:

This is nothing like Lucas, I was a bit like Lucas when I did this, but this is completely different, it's basically a remastering - a new restoration :-)

 

How did you edit your "Alien Sweeded"? I mean... VHS editing, how did you do it?
Last edited on April 23, 2012 at 12:12 AM by bttfbrasilfan
Harmy's avatar
RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

I just hooked the camera to a VCR and recorded the scenes to a VHS in the order I wanted. I wish I had the original Hi8 tapes, so I could do a proper "restoration" but those have been long lost and taped over.

Last edited on April 23, 2012 at 1:14 AM by Harmy

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Mona Lisa Special Edition

Pennsylvania Jones said:

"Stick and Stones will break my bones but the Blu-Rays will never Harmy." 

Lucas: I am altering the film. Pray I don't alter it any further.

Fans: This film is getting worse all the time!

 

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RE: Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD !!!AVCHD DVD9 and NTSC DVD5 AVAILABLE - see 1st post!!!

Sure they are... MR LUCAS!

 

jk, Harmy. Great job on the Mos Eisley scene. I was wondering how you did that; I loved the .psd files so that we could see how it was really done. Really looking forward to the "Making Of" documentaries that are going to be on the BDs for this set. They're still planned as an addition, right?

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