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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION

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I have to admit that i have always liked the special editions of the original trilogy, with a few minor niggles of course, so i was so excited when the 2004 DVD release was announced. I waited in line at midnight, got my box set and raced home to watch them. switched on my cinema system (luckily the neighbours were away) , loaded the DVD and prepared to be blown away. Then the film started and my face dropped. What the hell have they done to the surround mix? OMG Luke’s saber is green & Darth’s is pink. I thought these editions would have been better than my old VHS ones. Yes the picture quality is far superior but the new faults just plain ruined them for me. So I decided that the original trilogy DVD’s need fixing but just never got round to doing it until i was amazed by the ADigitalMan/ Darth Editous Hybrid DVD . I loved it so much i wanted to make my own

At the moment its taking longer than i had anticipated, but i thought i would let you all know what changes to expect when it is finished. Some of the effects enhancements have been done to match closer to the prequel trilogy. For the source i have used the 2004 PAL Retail DVD and for some sequences the HDTV 1080p x264 release ( if only this had come out when i first started this release).
 

fixed so far:

ORIGINAL STANDARD DEFENITION VERSION:

VIDEO…

1 - Star Wars Logo: originally it receded way too quickly so this has been slowed down to match the speed in the rest of the saga.
2 - The crawl appears slightly earlier now, as it did pre ANH, so it appears at the correct music cue that Williams’ intended, and how I remember it.
3 - As the camera pans down to Tatooine you now see the 3 moons instead of just 2
4 - Tatooine now rotates slightly as the ships fly overhead
5 - Re-coloured all lasers
6 - Removed the horrible blue hazing as the stardestroyers engine come into view
7 - Changed the explosion as the Tantive IV is hit to remove a lot of the smoke.
8 - Added a jerk to the motion of the Tantive IV as it is hit
9 - Speeded up the star field in that shot so the Tantive IV seems to be moving as fast as it did in previous shots.
10 - Colour correction of the whole film to remove the blue tint. The Tantive IV’s walls are now white.
11 - Re-coloured R2’s dome lights throughout the movie so they match closer to the rest of the saga. The front light now blinks from red to blue.
12 - Re-edited the Tantive IV corridor battle to fix continuity issues where troopers die more than once.
13- Added blaster flashes to all blasters that have them missing as they fire.
14 - Added blast flashes to the troopers where they are hit
15 - Corrected issues where the blasters flash as if they were fired on set but no laser bolts were present. Added the lasers to fix this throughout.
16 - Fixed the jump cut where 3PO & R2 cross the corridor on the Tantive IV & the doorway explodes.
17 - When Vader enters the Tantive IV a Stormtrooper lets go of the head of a dead trooper but that you can see that the actor slowly lowers his head. This has been fixed and the troopers head now drops at speed more like a dead body.
18 - Added blinking lights to Vader’s chest plate
19 - Vader’s eyes re-coloured to remove the red tint.
20 - When 3PO is looking for R2 a trooper falls to the floor behind him as if he has been shot but there is no laser fire. Added some lasers & a flash as the trooper is hit.
21 - Smoothed / fixed the jump cut as R2 extends his third leg and heads for 3PO & the one where he leaves 3PO
22 - Fixed the error in the scene where Vader is strangling Antilles the trooper in the background changes position in one shot. Originally his legs are closed and his blaster is in a totally different position.
23 - Fixed an FX issue when Leia is hit by the stun blaster the glow effect is missing on part of her dress.
24 - In the scene where R2 presses the button to open the pod door you now see his arm retract
25 - Re-coloured the interior of the escape pod to blue due to continuity issues in this scene.
26 - As the escape pod blasts off it now begins to rotate as it does in the rest of the shots
27 - When the imperial commander says “hold your fire” the trajectory of the escape pod has been changed so it is heading downwards and away from the ship instead or just heading straight which caused a continuity error in the next shot as we see the underbelly of the stardestroyer , which means it was heading downwards.
28 - Changed the stars & stardestroyer view from inside the pod so the ship & stars now recede at different rates
29 - You now see the escape pod enter the atmosphere of Tatooine.
30 - Every FX shot has been either touched up or redone in some form or another, but too many to mention every one.
31 - On Tatooine the escape pod canopy has been re-coloured to remove the odd blue colour
32 - In the some scenes the sky has been changed to match other shots.
33 - Added the sandcrawler from the OUT to replace the static shots when 3P0 thinks he is rescued
34 - Completely new canyon wipe so the rocky surroundings that R2 travels through matches closer to what Tatooine looks like in the PT. Also brightened the scene slightly
35 - Fixed a shot of R2 after he is captured where you see the mark of a restraining bolt before it is attached. In some previous shots it is also somewhat visible but I was unable to fix this.
36 - Fixed a placement continuity error with the restraining bolt that the Jawas fix to R2
37 - Added a battle droid to the scrap inside the Sandcrawler. Also brightened up the inside scenes Fixed
38 - Fixed R2’s eye dome in the shot inside the sandcrawler where it looks like you can see Kenny Baker inside.
39 - Inside the sandcrawler 3PO’s eyes blink as he stands. Fixed
40 - Re-coloured the sky in the SE shots of the sandtroopers & Sandcrawler so the colour the sky is less saturated and closer matches the sky we see at the homestead.
41 - When Beru calls to Luke as they are about to inspect the droids, bushes appear & disappear from shot to shot. Removed the bushes from the shots of Luke to fix this error.
42 - Removed a wire visible coming out of 3PO’s neck while Owen talks to him at the sale
43 - Removed the repeated shot of R2 & the red R5 unit to fix a continuity error. Replaced with a new shot.
44 - Fixed the pink sky effect just before this scene fades out.
45 - Added the missing glow from R2’s holo light in the garage.
46 - Brightened & desiderated the sunset scene.
47 - Fixed the colour problem in the shot where 3PO jumps as Luke activates the restraining bolt in the garage. In the 2004 DVDs this shot was sepia. An example of some very bad colour problems with these DVDs.
48 - As Luke races out of the Garage to use his macrobinoculars I have added 3PO running out of the doorway to fix an error that he suddenly appears out of nowhere.
49 - New macrobinocular graphics that add in 3PO. All other macrobinocular graphics changed too.
50 - Removed the droids tracks from a previous take make it look like it is being pulled along by a cord.
51 - When Owen shouts Luke the Treadwell droid is in a totally different place than the previous shot and a fly lands on the camera lens. Fixed both issues.
52 - In the shot where the Tusken raiders see Luke’s speeder travelling through the canyon the speeder suddenly seems to speed up towards the end and looks unnatural. Recomposited the speeder to fix this.
53 - Re-coloured the sky in some shots when Ben rescues Luke so it is more blue instead of very grey/ white, which it isn’t in the shot where Ben scares the Tusken raiders.
54 - Smoothed the jump cut where Luke ignites the sabre in Obi-Wan’s hut
55 - Added the missing ornament on Ben’s table in the shot of Leia’s hologram.
56 -Added the missing cloak on the wall behind Luke as he ignites the sabre.
57 - Re-edited the whole “Ben’s Home” not only to fix the continuity errors but also because the conversation about the force and Luke’s father is now all together and flows better instead of being split into 2 separate conversations. It now starts off with the viewing of the hologram and fixes the continuity problems.
58 - Added a new death Star sequence prior to the conference room scene to give the death star a better reveal. It now orbits a planet in all shots up until it is reported that it is fully operational.
59 - Changed the torture droids syringe arm. Removed the writings and added a laser effect.
60 - Mos Eisley approach re-edited. Removed some of the creatures on the first shot & extended the path of the landspeeder so it now fully enters the town.
61 - Completely removed the Ronto/ Jawa sequence.
62 - Removed the probe droid hit but the worker droid.
63 - Removed both Rontos from the checkpoint scene.
64 - Removed the probe droid from this scene also
65 - Fixed the ship that flies in front of the vaporator making it look tiny.
66 - When Luke looks over to the cantina it is heavily cast in shadow but as they approach there are no shadows. This has been fixed.
67 - Added facial movements to some cantina creatures.
68 - In the shot where you see Ponda Babba’s severed arm I have removed the blood & replaced the hand with the hoof like one we see him with in other shots (XVID workprint version only) - This was replaced by the hand of Dr. Evazan for the DVD-5 & 9 versions as he was the one holding the blaster.
69 -More facial movements & blinks for Greedo
70 -HAN SHOOTS FIRST!! Greedo no longer shoots either.
71 - Removed the Jabba scene
72 - As they approach docking bay 94 you see R2 at the side of 3PO but as the camera pans and he goes out of shot you suddenly see him appear again from a different direction, which would be impossible for him to appear so quickly. Fixed this error
73 - Re-added the fade wipe as they approach the falcon.
74 - Added the falcons dish in the docking bay shot and expanded the docking bay.
75 – Slightly re-edited the docking bay shootout to fix some continuity issues
76 - Fixed the issues with Hans “wobbly” wrist as he fires
77 - Added the missing middle strut to all the Falcons cockpit window scenes.
78 - Added the blue glow back to the Falcons engines.
79 - As the falcon escapes Tatooine it now actually does some manoeuvres instead of “listing lazily to the left”
80 - New Alderaan for all the viewscreen shots
81 - New Alderaan explosion
82 - Re-rotoscoped all lightsabres and fixed Luke’s green & wobbly sabre during the training session.
83 - Re-composited the holo chess character so they look more like holograms now.
84 - In close-up shots of R2 the background has the control light from the Death Star interior. These shots now have the correct background.
85 - Fixed the jump cut as Luke turns off his sabre.
86 - Added the colour to the remotes laser that was missing from the 2004 DVD’s
87 - In the scene where Vader says “I told you she would never…” he gestures after he has stopped talking. This has been fixed.
88 - More asteroids when the Falcon reaches the Alderaan system
89 - New docking bays for exterior shots to match the new interior ones.
90 - Removed the blue screen pole that is visible as the Falcon enters the docking bay and the girder crane in the top left which isn’t there when you see the interior of the docking bay
91 - Added a glow to the shield light to all shots of the docking bay interior.
92 - Added the censored shot of the officer being hit as they break into the control room.
93 - Re-coloured the displays in the control room so they are no longer black & white
94 - The Death Star’s interiors are now metallic grey instead of the horrible blue.
95 - When Han, Luke & chewy wait at the elevator a trooper walks past them wearing a light coloured uniform but in the next shot it is a dark uniform. Re-coloured the light uniform to fix this.
96 - Added the censored shot of the officer being hit in the detention cell shootout.
97 - In the final shots of this sequence a trooper falls down the stairs but only the scenery was hit. The trooper now gets hit.
98 - In the scene where the stormtroopers are about to blast their way into the detention cell, the elevator door has visible signs that it has been rigged for to blast apart and looks a mess. Fixed this issue.
99 - New tractor beam matte shots.
100 - Recomposited the SE shot of the many stormtroopers as Han chases them to look more natural
101 - New wider shot of Luke & Leia as they swing across the chasm. They now look to be a lot higher up.
102 - Re-edited the lightsabre duel to give it a faster pace
103 - The lightsabre impact flashes cover both characters even though it should only be visible in front of the character closest to the camera. This has been fixed
104 - Removed the visible power cable from the lightsabre up Ben’s sleeve
105 - As Han & chewy reach the docking bay you can see the shadows of Luke & Leia awaiting their cue. Removed the shadows.
106 - Replaced the dummy of Ben as Vader kills him. You now see his face and Vader actually slices through him and you see him disappear.
107 – Removed the bar holding R2’s legs in place when the droids head for the falcon
108 - When Luke blasts the control panel the door blast door closes, but in the next shot it closes again. This has been fixed.
109 - As the Falcon leaves the docking bay it originally left very slowly even though the engines ignite and it should have accelerated faster. It does now.
110 - Fixed the wobbly holotable as Luke gets up to head to the gun port.
111 - Removed the horribly bad motion blur from the shots of Luke & Han in the gun port as the TIEs approach
112 - Redone the TIE battle sequence so the falcon no longer appears to be just sitting there and added a few new shots.
113 - Brand new explosions for TIES in this sequence
114 - Added a faster moving star field to all interior window shots of the gun port including shots that were missing a star field.
115 - When 3PO is entangled in the wires after the battle, again the close up of R2 has the death star interior background. It now has the correct Falcon corridor background.
116 - After the battle you now see the falcon enter hyperspace.9 no longer in the edit. decided that it didn’t need to be shown due to vader 's line in the following scene
117 - Added the Hyperspace wormhole to the cockpit sequence.
118 - The Falcon now can be seen exiting hyperspace as it approaches Yavin.
119 - In the shot of the Falcon as it flies over the trees on Yavin IV the clouds have been changed to matched the rest of the sequence. I’ve also added the falcons shadow on the trees as it flies over.
120 - New interior shot of the Hanger bay. Removed the cardboard fighters and given the hanger greater depth.
121 - Fixed the following flip shots as they step off the transport vehicle.
122 - New Death Star schematics.
123 - Darkened the rebel briefing scene and once it is over the lighting becomes brighter.
124 - New up to date briefing room graphics for the display.
125 - A lot of the Rebel pilots have Blue insignias on their helmets but there is no blue squadron in the final draft. Re-coloured all blue insignias to red.
126 - The shot of Yavin & the Death star following the briefing room scene has been changed so that Yavin matches the SE Yavin
127 - When we see Han loading up his reward the Y-wing in the background is missing one of its engines because only half the ship was built. This has been fixed.
128 - Fixed the horrible jump cut of R2 as he is loaded into the X-Wing while Luke talks to Biggs & Red Leader.
129 - Added an extra stripe to one of the high view X-Wing shots to remove the repeated red leader X-Wing shots
130 - As the X-wing lifts off it now flies forward and not just straight up.
131 - As Luke leaves the temple you can now see the exterior of the temple from the rear cockpit window.
132 - Re-edited all Rebel command centre shots to fix issues where the image has been flipped (you can tell because 3PO’s dent on his head keeps swapping sides) Also Leia keeps changing position.
133 - Added Yavin to the rear cockpit windows of the fighters as they report in and to various shots throughout the battle.
134 - Ships engines are now again red and not pink.
135 - Re-coloured R2 so his dome is now blue and not black in all space shots.
136 - Fixed few flip shots of various pilots during the battle (the microphone keeps swapping sides)
137 - Added new shots throughout the sequence including a whole new TIE battle sequence
138 - The rebel command centre table now includes holograms
139 - The death star countdown clock & viewscreen is also a brand new updated display.
140 - The window at the back of Vader’s cockpit has been blacked out because there should be no window.
141 - Fixed issues where ships were missing in numerous scenes in the trench run when they should be in view. This includes both TIES & X-wings
142 - Fixed the issue with the Trench approach where the shots clearly change from a flat matte to a model shot after the flash and really jumps out at you. It flows together between both sources better now. Also both times we see it they used the same shot. Each one now has slight differences to them.
143 - When Vader fires at Luke and hits R2 he is actually firing beneath the X-wing but then next shot he hits R2 which would have been impossible. This issue has been fixed
144 - When R2 Is hit the next shot you can see no smoke or damage through Luke’s cockpit window. This has been fixed
145 - Added damage to R2s body to match the shot where he is unloaded from the X-Wing later.
146 - Re-coloured bit X-wing & TIE targeting displays
147 - A lot of shots throughout the Death Star battle the cockpit shots just have a plain black background. All cockpit shots now show what should be visible outside.
148 - When Red Leader is killed I’ve you see an explosion but nothing makes it. I’ve added the x-wing hitting the surface.
149 - Removed all of the “swinging TIES2 seen in the rear cockpit windows. The TIEs now more naturally according to the scene
150 - A very slight edit to the Biggs death scene. Luke now reacts better to the death of his friend.
151 - When the Falcon comes to the rescue and hits the left hand TIE fighter the laser both never actually hits the TIE fighter. This has been fixed
152 - You now see the death star begin to fire as it explodes
153 - New death Star explosion shot that integrates brand new footage and OUT and removed the shock wave ring.
154 - When Vader spins out of control you can now see stars through his cockpit windows.
155 - Chewie now gets a medal
156 - Brand new end credits that include the Revisited credits and also every member of OT.com that contributed in the forums up until the second week in November 2007

There are also some other minor fixes that aren’t listed, mainly because i have lost track of exactly how much has been done.

 

AUDIO…

New 5.1 audio mix track with reversed surround channels fixed & a greater surround experience. The imperial march has now been added in places. Includes mainly a remixed 2004 DVD 5.1 audio track with elements of the Belbucus’ restored monomix (many thanks Belbucus), laserdisc 5.1 audio, german 2004 5.1 mix, on set audio and new elements

There are quite a few differences in this mix but too many to mention so heres a few minor changes:

The alarm heard aboard the Tantive IV has reverted back to the original alarm that could be heard in the Mono mix.

When Luke first see’s the holo message in the garage scene Leia’s “help me obi-wan…” lines have now been synced to what you see on screen. It can also be heard throughout this scene and not just when we see the hologram as originally.

New music mix when we first see the Sandpeople to fix the horrible music cut in the original

When Obi-Wan scares off the Sandpeople, the Krayt dragon call has been reinserted.

Original Beru’s voice dub from the monomix . Now sounds more natural than the one we have become use to.

The fanfare has been reinserted when the x-wings begin their dive to the death star.

The lightsabres now have a subwoofer channel to give extra depth

A few alternate dialogue changes taken from both the mono mix and on set audio

As Luke and leia reach the chasm there is a shot of the stormtroopers as they follow them and you can hear a laser blast but no one has fired. this has been removed.

During the falcon / TIE dogfight there are a couple of instances where you can hear the sound of an X-Wing. these have been removed and the correct TIE engine sound can now be heard

 

1080p HD VERSION ( IN PROGRESS)

There will be some differences because i can’t recreate it 100% faithfully but it will be as close as possible. Although the edit will be closer to the “Purist” version i released and not the main version. But i won’t be taking any suggestions for changes/ fixes for the HD version
 

Planned differences so far between the original and HD version of ANH:R

1 - 2 audio tracks. One containing the prequel music during the Vader/ Obi-Wan duel and the other without

2 - No electrical effect on the torture droid needle

3 - Altered Mos Eisley entrance ( no mirrored stormtroopers) and a return to the original 1977 version of the music

4 - Final shot of Tarkin reinstated

5 - Spinning hyperspace jump starfield reinstated

6 - Removal of the Special Edition CG Dewback and Stormtrooper during the “I don’t like the look of this " scene,
instead just keeping the cg background addition which is less " in your face”.

7 - Removing Yavin 4 from the SE shot of the X-wings approaching the Death Star. This was an error added for the
Special edition that didn’t exist prior. The Special Edition version now shows Yavin 4 in direct line of sight of
the Death Star. I replaced all of the background ships with the original ships used in the 1977 version, so it’s
now a mixture of original and Special Edition.

8 - No extended Death Star battle sequence. It was something that was more of an experiment in my original version,
but it didn’t work, so it was removed when i did the “purist” version.

9 - No extended Death Star reveal. Another sequence i don’t think worked too well in my original. Original timing and
music will be restored in the HD version. But the Death Star will still be orbiting the planet, as in the original
ANH:R, but it will now be Scarif.

10 - Ponda Baba’s arm with the “furry hand” will be returning to the HD version. The “hoof” hand we see him have
earlier in the scene, while standing at the bar, will be replaced instead with the furry hands.

11 - Obi-Wan ignites first during the Vader / Obi-Wan duel. I wasn’t able to fix the jump cut when he ignites
originally , but now i have been able to. Plus it was originally meant to mirror the ROTS duel where Obi-Wan
ignites first, but i prefer the way it was originally. The whole duel also will have different editing than in my
original version of ANH:R

12 - Most, if not all, jump cuts fixed or smoothed

13 - Droids added to the y-wings during the trench run that were originally missing from the models in that shot

14 - The sources used will be a mixture of the 2011 Blu-Ray and the new 2020 blu-ray. Both releases have major problems
with them but the over use and bad use of “power windows” in the 2020 version ( really horrendous masking where
the section power windows was used stick out like sore thumb and over brightening of areas of a shot that destroys
the original cinematography)tipped the scales in favour of the 2011 version being used as the main source. In many
way the 2020 version is worse than the 2011 version ever was. Although for ROTJ:R, it will be the 2020 blu-ray
used because the 2011 version has more major problems.

15 - Fixed Vaders helmet during the Death Star battle where it has slipped back due to being pressed against the TIE
fighter seat

16 - The Special Edition extended version of the “Look Sir, Droids” scene is being removed completely. It will be
replaced with a slightly extended version of the original 1977 version

17 - Vader’s TIE fighter (and his two escorts) will be Grey/ blue throughout the Death Star battle

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This project looks really cool. When it is done I would love a disc.
Will the finished product be PAL or NTSC?
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You know... if you'd have started with Darth Editous' cut, you could have saved yourself a whole lot of work.

“I love Darth Editous and I’m not ashamed to admit it.” ~ADigitalMan

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Hello adywan, and a belated welcome to the forum (I see you joined back in March). Glad to have you onboard.

As mentioned previously, you might want to look at the Darth Editous Edition, as some of your edits have already been implemented by DE.

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Originally posted by: adywan
i was amazed by the ADigitalMan/ Darth Editous Hybrid DVD .
Hey adywan, did you know Darth Editous had already fixed some of that stuff ?

:: Alright sarky - his images were too large, which put that part off the side of the screen. That's why I missed it. So !

- M

However, in practice you must take into account the “fuckwit factor”. Just talk to Darth Mallwalker…
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Originally posted by: Darth Mallwalker
Originally posted by: adywan
i was amazed by the ADigitalMan/ Darth Editous Hybrid DVD .
Hey adywan, did you know Darth Editous had already fixed some of that stuff ?



It was his watching excellent version that gave me the final kick to do my own version. the only reasons i didn't use his version for this project was because i am in a PAL area and his was NTSC and adding the extra bits that i would be doing would mean another encode and the quality wouldn't be as good as the original.

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Actually my edition is PAL, although I made an NTSC version of it as well. If you feel the urge to post any clips, I'd love to see the morphs you've done.

I'd also love to see a screenshot of your replacement Alderaan projection!

DE
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Originally posted by: Darth Editous
Actually my edition is PAL, although I made an NTSC version of it as well. If you feel the urge to post any clips, I'd love to see the morphs you've done.

I'd also love to see a screenshot of your replacement Alderaan projection!

DE


Sorry, i didn't realise that yours was pal. the version i have is NTSC

I've just put a 2 minute trailer online with rapidshare which showcases some of the changes. It has a couple of the morphs & the new Alderaan screen included. Its an XVID and is about 20mb.

TRAILER

Once the page opens just scroll down and select "free" and it will take you to the download page

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Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
The thing about Luke's saber is that on the bonus disc, the photo gallery menu shows him with the correct blue one.


Thats because Van Ling remastered that stuff. Damn they should have had him do the whole trilogy.
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How come 99% of the "fan edits" kick ass over anything Lucas and his "original vision" ever came up with? LOL

Adywan, VERY NICELY DONE......I especially like the command ship in the distance.....I guess that was too obvious for Lucas and Co. to think up by themselves.....

I'm sure I speak for quite a few Padawans here that we can hardly wait for your edit to be completed....

Even in that short clip, you made the SE of SW alot more enjoyable to watch...thank you.

I love everybody. Lets all smoke some reefer and chill. Hug and kisses for everybody.

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I love how you added the super star destroyer into the shot of vader's tie flying off in the distance after the death star has been destroyed.


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My Darth Editous edition could be in danger of being replaced of my most watched disc. Could I recommend something for the sheilds in the death star hangar bay? I got to say I love that you rampped up the lights on them. Maybe they could actually dim as the falcon passes through? It has always bothered me that they never really did anything.

Oh, and the TIE fighters firing as they approach kick @$$!! Great idea!
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In the original film, Luke calls the red R-5 an R2 unit when it explodes, but in the radio drama, he(Mark Hammil) correctly refers to it as an "R5 unit". Now this is a very minor point, and one could argue that R2 is just a generic term, and he wasn't being speciifc, but if you wanted, you could use the radio drama clip to correct Luke's mistake. I always thought this might be not to bad of an idea as Luke always struck me a sort of a geeky teckie sort of guy that would get something like that right.

Also, another possible audio change that I had thought of is, when Obi-Wan refers to the force for the first time, Luke responce of "the force!?" always sounded a bit too much as though he had never heard of the force. That always struch me as a bit suprising. While, he certainly wouldn't know much about the force, the idea that he had never heard it mentioned before always seemed a little wrong to me.

In the radio drama, when Mark responds, with "the force" he says the same words, however, the inflection in his voice makes it seem as though the force is something he has heard of, something he was a little curious about, but something about which he had never learned much about. This always seemed a bit more realistic to me, and always made his choice to enlist with Obi-Wan and his defence of the force to Han Solo a few days later more believeable. If it was up to me I would replace Luke's lines "the force" in the movie with his performance from the radio drama.

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I enjoyed the trailer. Except for this:

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4779/pinkwj1.jpg

An example of why I, personally, find watching the DVD-sourced edits distracting.

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Wow, what can I say? I hope you take it as a compliment when I say I'm jealous! I would never have the patience to repaint every lightsabre and every laserbolt - in fact they almost look too good, if you know what I mean.

Adding the Super Star Destroyer does raise the question of why it didn't fly in to kick the rebel's butts...

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Originally posted by: Dan
In the original film, Luke calls the red R-5 an R2 unit when it explodes, but in the radio drama, he(Mark Hammil) correctly refers to it as an "R5 unit". Now this is a very minor point, and one could argue that R2 is just a generic term, and he wasn't being speciifc, but if you wanted, you could use the radio drama clip to correct Luke's mistake. I always thought this might be not to bad of an idea as Luke always struck me a sort of a geeky teckie sort of guy that would get something like that right.

Also, another possible audio change that I had thought of is, when Obi-Wan refers to the force for the first time, Luke responce of "the force!?" always sounded a bit too much as though he had never heard of the force. That always struch me as a bit suprising. While, he certainly wouldn't know much about the force, the idea that he had never heard it mentioned before always seemed a little wrong to me.



I'm going to rant a little now, this really bugs me if Luke Skywalker says it's an R2 unit in the film, the primary source of 'canon', then I'm inclined to say it is an R2 unit and not an R5 just because the EU has decided it is, the EU should have been consistent with the films, the films should not be adapted to fit this later (pointless) naming scheme for astromechs, they didn't even follow the conventions in the prequels so why bother changing luke's line?

And surely it's concievable that luke hasn't heard of the force the jedi are dead and gone and his Uncle has been trying to shield him from Ben's influence, according to the prequels tatooine wasn't even part of the republic and Jedi weren't exactly common there.
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Great work Adywan!

I tried to start working on the lightsabers myself ages ago but with work and family never had the time to finish what I started.

After spending weeks working on this I know how hard it can be to work around the original effect and I'm very impressed with the quality you managed to get. Even better is the fact that you managed to get them to look more like the blue OT lightsbaer colours than going the way of the PT which was leaning more towards a blue-violet colour range.

However I did notice that the core doesn't seem to have quite the right whiteness to it as the OT had originally, also Vader's saber appears to be a bit too Strawberry Red. Just wanted to give some constructive advice as I want you to produce the best you can and get the pat on the back you deserve for doing this.

I'm curious as to how you managed to get such great shots. For example in the falcon when Luke begins to use the training remote and we have the wide shot I created a clean back plate from when he finishes and walks over to Obi-Wan as he sits down after sensesing a disturbance in the force.

From that I then rotoscoped Luke into the clean plate and then removed his lightsaber blade which as you all know tends to jump around and shift angle independently of the angle it is being held. I then put in a thin red blade to check the new angle of the blade and then used that to create the new lightsaber blade over the top.

Very tricky to get the right motion and still stay with the angle of the lightsaber in Luke's hand. Another problem I had was Chewbacca sitting down in the background. By removing the original blade I had two problems, one was that the old blade was on his head and didn't match the angle of the new blade so you would still see it, two was the glow from the balde was green and not blue which also was on top of him.

I managed to get clean frames of Chewie and rotoscoped him in and then have him go forward as normal and then before the lightsaber moves onto him reverse the footage back the way. At first I had him just be still but thought that was cheating so I did it this way so he still moves.

Just a query will you be sorting out any garbage matts?
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Originally posted by: Darth Editous

Adding the Super Star Destroyer does raise the question of why it didn't fly in to kick the rebel's butts...

DE



I like to think that it just arrived a split second before the DS explodes.....the commanders on board see the DS explode and freak.....partly because they just can't believe what they just witnessed and partly because Darth is heading back their way and totally pissed off at them for being late to the battle.....commanders are going to drop like flys when Vader gets back on board.......

Remember even the SSD was taken out in ROTJ.....took some time and the sacrifice of quite a few ships but one well placed ship,(was it an A-wing?), through the upper command deck and BAM!...down goes the SSD......LOL

I love everybody. Lets all smoke some reefer and chill. Hug and kisses for everybody.

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Adywan,

This looks very interesting. You've obviously put a lot of work into this.

The laser bolts you painted in sometimes look a little too intense. The greens seemed a little too green and the reds a little too red. Maybe they need more of a white core? But it's possible you've done them exactly right and my eyes are just so used to seeing them look different.

You know of the rebellion against the Empire?

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adywan, you could use the footage of Darth Vader docking with his Super Star Destroyer ,from ESB, at the end of ANH when he flies toward his SSD after the Death Star explodes.


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Originally posted by: wookielover69


However I did notice that the core doesn't seem to have quite the right whiteness to it as the OT had originally, also Vader's saber appears to be a bit too Strawberry Red.

Yeh, i agree it was too Strawberry red. I've tweaked the coulour and fixed that now




Originally posted by: Moth3r
I enjoyed the trailer. Except for this:

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4779/pinkwj1.jpg

An example of why I, personally, find watching the DVD-sourced edits distracting.


the pink flashes have now been fixed

ANH:REVISITED
ESB:REVISITED

DONATIONS TOWARDS MATERIALS FOR THE REVISITED SAGA

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Adywan,

This is some great work. Please tell me Han shoots first. I sincerely hope you can make this available in NTSC for we across the pond. Are you going to give this treatement to the other SEs?

EDIT: Of course Han shoots first. You mean I'm expected to actually read these posts?