Possessed Return of the Jedi-* Resurrected!!* — Page 3

Well no it's not there yet.  I'm still working on it, but you know things never happen as fast as we'd like.  I have a very full life so I don't have time to work on this edit every day, but it is coming along!

Also, don't be alarmed if I don't post in this thread for long periods of time.  It just means I'm still editing, but just no big news, and I don't have the patience to stay on the forum that long.

Possessed said:  Color correction shouldn't take long, I'm going to try and do it with colourlike histograms with avisynth.

Please let me know how this aspect of the edit goes.  I was considering using Avisynth for some basic color correction myself, and would be interested to hear about your experiences.

Who said he was giving up?

I think the lolwar fuzzed up your thinking.

TV's Frink said:

Who said he was giving up?

I think the lolwar fuzzed up your thinking.

Yeah!

Here's a new preview clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chyZbHzB4gw

Tell me what you think.  It's the first conversation between Luke and Vader on Endor.  It goes farther than that tho, it's not perfect yet as you'll see.

vaderios said:

This is nice!

I liked you removed the reversed speed close up of vader when he sees Luke ;)

 

Tho even i like what you did in the dialogue i think you ve messed a bit the close up/medium shot timing. It changes way to fast :)

I like the cuts on the fleet shots. Still ackbar says on my mark, but lando seems to go to hyperspace from his own. I dont know if you want to add some kind of altered dialogue. maybe its just me..

Good work :)

-Angel

You're right, I was trying to remove Vader raising the lightsaber, since I removed the spot where he lights it.

I like the changes to the Luke and Vader conversation.  You probably know this, but the cut at 1:18 should take place at the frame just before Vader begins to look down.  Vaderios is right that the close ups are too fast.  You removed the line about other rebels well though. :-)

Chewtobacca said:

I like the changes to the Luke and Vader conversation.  You probably know this, but the cut at 1:18 should take place at the frame just before Vader begins to look down.  Vaderios is right that the close ups are too fast.  You removed the line about pther rebels well though. :-)

Yeah the spot with the fast close ups is a work in progress.  I actually just had an idea to fix it.  I was just going to slow the frame rate of the longest shot of Vader I could find where he's standing mostly still and add some slight motion blur so it essentially just makes him stand still... but slower.  That way I could just have that one shot come in before he looks down and keep it until luke looks and tells him to go with him, instead of switching back and forth.

EDIT: Done. It actually looks pretty good.  It looks like maybe there is some SLIGHT DNR smearing but the shot of Vader has so little motion it doesn't matter, you really have to be looking on it and it only lasts 7 seconds and it sure is a hell of alot less noticeable than the 2 shots switching like that.

And yeah I trimmed up the beginning of the scene, I've always thought that spot was kinda PTish.  I thought it took too much time for him just telling vader they found luke.  Also him not suspecting other rebels might make it more of a surprise for luke when the emperor reveals he is aware of them.

I was wondering if anybody with Sony Vegas or something other with good transition scene wipes could help me out?  I was just thinking I could send you the two shots I want merged together as separate files and you could just put a wipe between them.  Could anybody help me out?

EDIT: Thanks to fishmanlee for doing the transitions for me.

RE-EDIT:  Thanks to myself for doing it.  (nothing wrong with fishmanlee's, I just managed to make one that suited my tastes better)

With editing nearing completion, I was wondering if somebody could help me get this on the internet?  I was thinking at first I release it as an approx 700 mb XVID.  After hearing people's opinions on it, I will take any criticisms and apply it to the V2 DVD.  About release, I was thinking maybe I could set up a private torrent and seed to somebody with a rapidshare or megaupload account and when I finish seeding the file to them they could upload it for me?  I suppose the torrent wouldn't have to be private actually... but who knows how its going to pop up in places? :P

Another option would be to upload to MU or RS using a free account (which I have done in the past).  I believe it will last 60-90 days, although the rules are always changing and I don't know what the current rules are.

Someone else could then download it and re-up it to a premium account.

 I might try that.

The V1 edit is done.  I'm in the process of encoding an XVID of it, then will try to upload it somewhere.

If I upload it to RS or MU, are there any premium members out there who would be willing to download it and re-upload it for me?

It's encoded, I'm about to start uploading.  Should I ask somebody at FE?  I guess it's completed enough to be archived on fanedit.info/org.  I do consider this avi a 1.0, with a full intention of doing a 2.0 after hearing criticisms.  

Known technical issues:
Sound is too quiet.  All of it.  Just turn the volume up.  I'll fix it for the DVD, I don't really think it matters all that much.  It's just quiet.

Video is highly compressed, and looks it.

Color correction has been carried out, but in the form of an avi script to encode the avi.  (this means I don't have any high quality screenshots of the CC, it'll have to wait until I'm ready to encode the final dvd and I'll just throw the avi synth script on when I'm re-encoding for DVD. 

My advice is to wait until you have a DVD version you are proud to put your name to before putting it to FE a few off comments can put people off from downloading a perfectly watchable edit from what I've heard.

Putting out a rough and ready preview AVI around privately would be a good way of getting feedback but I'd mark it up as a rough work copy until you are completely satisfied with it.

Bingowings said:

My advice is to wait until you have a DVD version you are proud to put your name to before putting it to FE a few off comments can put people off from downloading a perfectly watchable edit from what I've heard.

Putting out a rough and ready preview AVI around privately would be a good way of getting feedback but I'd mark it up as a rough work copy until you are completely satisfied with it.

Good advice.  Is there anybody interested in previewing a rough copy of my edit?  I was thinking somewhere between 2 and 5 or so people whose opinions on things have been helpful in this thread.  (And this may not be politically correct to say, but or if I've seen helpful things said by them in other threads...)

I'd love to give it a spin.

Bingowings said:

I'd love to give it a spin.

Sure thing, I'll pm you the link when it gets done uploading.  I'm using Megaupload for now.

Also I've figured out a way to make this edit available in 5.1 surround.  I did all the editing in 5.1 and I still have the unmixed down file.  The reason I mixed it down was because of the way I edited the movie, the center channel is very jumbled.  It is not noticeable at all when played in stereo with the other channels to cover it, but on a full 5.1 setup with an individual center channel it would be very noticeable.  My solution is to take my mixed down file, do a pro logic upmix on it, and replace the center channel in the "true" 5.1 mix with what pro-logic deems it should be.  I've already completed the mix, and it isn't on the preview avi that's going out but it will be on the final dvd.

I would be happy to preview this too, Possessed. :-)

I'll pm you guys the link when I get this uploaded.  MEgaupload failed me half way through twice.  Grr.

Also, just as a note to you guys:  I am going to re-edit jabba's palace completely.  Largely the same ideas, but hopefully more professional and with a better pace.  I felt like I progressed alot as an editor as I made this, and now I don't think the opening is up to snuff with the rest of the edit that I did later with a break in between.  The avi you are seeing will have the original edit.  Also might add back in some things to the briefing scene.