I really enjoyed your "The Empire Strikes Back - The Vintage Edit", thank you for continuing your work. Looks great.

1981, was the altered crawl.

never mind.

It's not mine, just on a disc I got.

Plus my last name has an "L" not a "C".

Neil

This looks like it is going to be great!

I know this is on SW VE... but what the heck.
Paul, don't forget in ROTJ to fix the lightsabers. Please!

This looks like a great project, and to have a "vintage edit" with the original crawl in this condition will make me a happy camper indeed!

Thank you!

First I have to say great work.

I like that all the different mixes are included.

I always get confused by the difference between the original mixes. Can anyone tell me which mix I will have to listen to to hear.

- The original Beru voice
- The C3PO tractor beam line
- "close the blast doors"

1. Mono.
2. Mono, 1985, 1997 or 2004.
3. Mono, 1997 or 2004.

-uso.

Thanks

There is no such thing as an "original Beru voice". They're both dubbed. It's never Shelagh Fraser's voice.

Neil

The tractor beam line was also in the 6-track.

Neil

All reports I've heard say it wasn't, and the comparison between the tape recording of the 4.2 mix and the 2.0/1993 mixes said that like those mixes it didn't have that line. o.O;

How is work progressing?

Well, it's going fine. Not a lot of huge updates. I have only nine days left in school at this point, so it's not like there's homework of course, just wrapping up a lot of things. Prom night was last Saturday, so I got some time to work on the project cause it was a great break from having my head inside an oven (tear...). I put up another one of my own matte fixes in the first post.



I haven't run into the same weird things that I ran into in Empire. I've run mostly into hue adjustment issues, which I've taken care of manually. So all is good. On a scale of 1-10, it's hard to say the difficulty of the histogram work in avisynth. The histograms have really helped with taking care of small details, I couldn't have gotten white walls on the Tantive on my own, but I definitely needed to go in myself and make sure C3PO was the right hue and everything...I suppose a 3 or 4 in difficulty, getting it to look good enough to start editing with.

Okay, actually, this shot is pissing me off:



I've tried everything to get the stars back here, it's one of the rare shots where there still aren't a reasonable number of stars that can be seen in a properly lighted room, even with an HD source and brightened video. I've tried a chroma key function to get rid of the black and put a layer of bright stars underneath it, but it does that thing where the non black parts start getting all choppy, you know what I'm talking about? It's not in this frame. Well anyway, maybe it's the quality of Premiere Pro's function, I might give avisynth's layer function a shot, hopefully it's better.

Does anybody know how to do a chroma key in avisynth? The manual didn't have any specific examples in the layers section.

if this recreates the original star wars in watchable quality i'm all for it keep up the good work.

the 2006 GOUT Star Wars 1977 is an absolute disgrace it looks awful even on my non widescreen television.

Smearing and artifacting everywhere, this was a problem during the premiere of the dvd player with there being only single layer movies from laserdisc masters, but in 2006 when there are stellar anamorphic movies out unacceptable.

not only is the 2004 set ruined by bad mixing on a new hope, apparent matte boxes visible, cgi that don't belong in a seventies or eighties movie, and poor color correction. they also ruined the 2006 bonus disc by using a bad master tape from 1993.

it is an absolute joke that the only watchable copy i have of a new hope is fan produced, and has pal speedup. Moth3r's. I heard citezens was better but that is not available as far as i know except through trades.

in Moth3r's pal star wars episode IV: a new hope you can see the starfield that seems to have been lost in all the ntsc home video releases.