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#1520914
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Original trilogy deleted scenes restored Project?
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adywan said:

Ronster said:

Hmmmm I read off Media info it says 23.98 Windows says it’s also 23.98

I will run it through a convertor and see what heppens… This was from a long time ago back in the day 😃

probably a bodged up rip I reckon. I will get another version.

I wasn’t talking about your version. I was talking about kg1977’s link that he posted here:

kg1977 said:

Ronster said:
I redid the Techdome Edit to improve it and added the Blue Milk Scene.

Nice! if you want 1920 wide blue milk with no dust here is a link (no audio).

the google preview stinks so download to see full qual.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o2fmTaQL1RFOqgSPhoSJQkSXiTqc1oQR/view?usp=sharing

I don’t know if the google drive download option from that link is screwed and its only letting me download the preview version, but the version i grabbed (it’s 40mb), which had the duplicate frames, is 29.97fps and contains the duplicate frames and stuttering that was mentioned.

No that is fine but my 23.976 version has the exact same issue as KG1977’s but as I said I found another version.

The only thing I can think of is that there are 2 versions floating about one with dupes one without.

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#1520870
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Original trilogy deleted scenes restored Project?
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Hmmmm I read off Media info it says 23.98 Windows says it’s also 23.98

I will run it through a convertor and see what heppens… This was from a long time ago back in the day 😃

probably a bodged up rip I reckon. I will get another version.

I’ve updated Tosche Station a bit… Added sound for the game and improved things a small bit made binoculars zoom quieter and improved footsteps at the end, Added “Grow Up Skywalker!” to the bar before they leave for outside.

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/784954563

I think that is the about best I can do with this one really now.

OBSERVATIONS ON DEATH STAR BATTLE

https://www.mediafire.com/view/80t9vi9jzlbn8j3/xwing_shot.png/file

I have long wondered about this shot and my gut feeling tells me this was meant to preceede Luke “I can’t Shake him!” but the Tie-Fighter is missing…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ734NWnAHA

This trailer has a flipped version of the shot…

I have also noticed “Pull in Luke… Pull in”

Red Leader “Red Six can you see red 5?”

Red 2 “It’s a heavy fire zone out there… Luke Where are you?”

Now Red 6 (Porkins) is dead at this point and this could be the confusion of battle that Red Leader makes that mistake but I wonder if it was meant to be “Red 2 can you see Red5?” or at one point Wedge was Red 6? as there are 2 wedges john doe and don’t forget about Jimmy.

Johm Doe I think bites the dust from surface gunfire it’s just an x-wing blown up no pilot is shown… This leads into "Watch yourself there’s a lot of fire coming from the right side of that deflection tower. The scenes were swapped around the laser fire is for john Doe the Swoop up away from the surface is Porkins.

Jimmy is a missing Pilot in cockpit being blown up. He is the 3rd x-wing doing the trench run with Red Leader there is a noticeable splice on the explosion where he was meant to be inserted. The scene om the Rinzler ebook say’s so for the record “Sorry Jimmy”.

Somebody pointed out a long time ago when the tie fighter chases Luke the really agitated shot of Luke was meant to be in the trench after where Biggs dies and I think this could be correct. This would mean the Shot of the tie fighter and x -wing should go there instead. Anyway I have not properly looked into that yet.

There is a bit more than this I have noticed but this is really the main Bulk of my assessment so far.

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#1520747
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Original trilogy deleted scenes restored Project?
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I don’t know what the chrome object is but it is on the right hand side on the kitchen surface. I don’t think this has any dirt on it so you could potential overlay that object onto your frozen matte.

Regardless the duplicate frames need sorting out first really. It was a good spot by Slavicus. This will obviously effect audio synch and because the food processor sound is looped you can’t just re-align the footsteps from the clip I posted because it would be noticeable blip in the sound. So perhaps I will try to make a dirty / dirtyish version as a frame count and then you can copy this frame count for your clean up? Seems to me like then it can eventually all get fixed.

Unless you want to sort the duplicate frames? The duplicate frames happen when she pours the milk. It’s not something you did it is a problem with the original clip.

Luke and Han part ways

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/792251205/privacy

Small extended scene bit of sound mixing
Tried to fix C3-P0 footsteps it’s a bit better
Extra sound for Ammo Crate props with the reward in while the conversation goes on.

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#1520644
Topic
Star Wars: A New Hope DEVASTATOR EDITION (V.1 RELEASED)
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Yeah that is the one! Good job finally 😃

I came across a Star Wars Fan film which had a background for an escape pod… It’s good because it is similar to the Saturn Rocket Separation footage on which the escape pod shot is based.

Matte Painting

https://www.mediafire.com/view/pzuabsm0woo5ki2/escape_pod_matte_2.png/file

Saturn IB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRu40PGQyTw

EDIT:

Just a quick extra thought, but the full Ring Element can only be found in 4:3 version of the footage otherwise it is cropped out. Weather this is something that you want to do or not…Or composition / restoration ideas.

There is another missing matte element when Vader “says I have you now!” the next shot where his joystick is on the controls before he fires the window is missing the trench. It’s totally black was never composited the walls but It also can be cropped out to fix it too…

I looked at the Darth Editous change list you pointed to and especially like Luke say “Yeah” to Han “are you in Kid?” at the start of the turret battle over the comms. I put Radio sound distortion on this if his version did’nt

https://www.mediafire.com/file/l1741kjv8rkdop9/Luke_Yeah_Turret_battle.wav/file

I Made a Targeting Display Matte too for the turrets. If you feel like using it’s yours consider it a thankyou for The Vader shot 😃

https://www.mediafire.com/view/mktd5lsfos9r8mq/Falcon_Target_Display.png/file

I only just started fiddling with this element but there is good possibilities in it.

I’m feeling generous so this one I already did and it’s very easy to do and I thought it worked well I luma keyed this into Red Leaders target display before he fires and impacts the surface.

https://www.mediafire.com/view/3yzumbd6k9vzkqy/exhaust_port.png/file

It kind of set’s up Luke’s Run later on I thought.

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#1520386
Topic
The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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Hal 9000 said:

The Lowry master’s version of the Death Star explosion is bad. But the 19SE isn’t, and it has the fiery colors back.

And I’m open to whatever material for Mos Eisley may exist. I PM’d Dat_SW_Guy to see what he had made. I think he was even going to try to use that shot but with the SE background of the buildings. That’d be cool.

It’s not possible to cobble together something totally seamless between the original and SE versions of these movies, but I’m shooting for as close as I can get. When I was first introduced to Star Wars through renting them from Blockbuster in the late nineties, the original and SE versions were both available and I experienced both. The personal motivation for this project is to get at the ideal compromise that I have a pseudo-memory of from back then. What feels right while maintaining continuity. Can’t be totally realized without a team of VFX wizards, but can get close enough in a way that’s at least preferable to the SE as it is.

I don’t know about that statement to be honest HAL9000 about not being able to cobble together a perfect blend both SE and Original versions but yeah I get the whole thing about “a team of visual effects Artists” which is also the failure point too I think. Although I am no VFX artist or even a good artist I am having reasonable success in making some good visual changes but for the right reasons I think. But I think the key to my strategy is trying to have a reasonably light touch and using matte replacements rather than too much funky CGI. I don’t mind some shots in the Special Edition at all but then others just get totally extraneous. I have singled out some CGI extra shots but they are few little snap shots tbh.

I think you can look at the Yavin takeoff and say well Make it a big Matte shot like it was supposed to be and replace the tracking dot’s if you can or just make them pinkish like engine glow, or accept the totally different interpretation of the scene which is nothing like a film in 1977. It’s a tough call… It is indeed difficult but also simple in a way too.

Having just looked more closely at the Special edition version the light is coming from both sides from the right on the guy in the basket like the original and the highlights on the ships from the left so it’s kind if messed up anyway. Special edition ships being flipped and roto in would fix that problem. But it’s way past my abilities to do that.

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#1520376
Topic
The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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Hal 9000 said:

that shockwave (first Death Star) actually feels like it adds something to me.

Well the 97 Version added something but the later versions look like a washed out piece of crap. all of the color vanishes and it just is all white surrounded by blue screen spill.

What do you reckon for this concept?

https://www.mediafire.com/view/ny3ar1296v1rly7/Massasi_Temple%25282%2529.png/file

I think it’s a tough call to really know if the Special edition is truly any good really.

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#1520346
Topic
Original trilogy deleted scenes restored Project?
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Concept for updated Original shot

https://www.mediafire.com/view/ny3ar1296v1rly7/Massasi_Temple%25282%2529.png/file

Remember all the old computer games that had the Temple and the guy in the Basket well I tried to fix it so it looks like it should. And it put a smile on my face 😃

I looked at your blue milk clean up and I noticed the door frame wobble about and a reflection on a chrome object on the right has Aunt Beru’s reflection frozen on it after she has left the room. You also did not do the whole clip it’s cut short. I only noticed because I tried to join the original version and the clean up you did to make it the full length…

As Slavicus stated there are duplicate frames making it choppy frame rate too.

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#1520295
Topic
Star Wars: A New Hope DEVASTATOR EDITION (V.1 RELEASED)
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That guy with no name said:

SomethingStarWarsRelated said:

That guy with no name said:

. stormtrooper that bumps his head now doesn’t, he stays back until the leader trooper enters the room.

Woah! How are you going to achieve this? Not just by cropping the image I’m assuming?

The stormtrooper will stay back until the other troopers come in, this works because he is the one standing guard. I’ll achieve this by freezing him after the door opens and to hide this I’ll add some slight movement.

Ronster said:

That guy with no name said:

Anything I missed please tell me.

also V.2 will have full visual change list, like this:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5kED5fe56duiLx639

I was thinking about the change of the star destroyer you made and there is another problem the bridge crest is different on the devastator to the ones in ESB. It’s not that noticeable but it is a difference in the model.

Can you restore the alternate take from Vader in the original theatrical trailer and rotoscope his lightsaber? This is something that should have happened decades ago but has never been done to my knowledge nobody ever seems to want to include this better more aggressive shot where he hits the wall… If you do do that then can you please share it as then people can finally make Star Wars trailers with finished effects 😃

If you want to go one step further on the Lightsaber Duel in the editing in the film when Obi-wan spins around he finishes swiping high after the twirl if the scenes are placed in the correct order he actually was meant to do a low swipe which would restore the original choreography and to be honest it’s a better move too.

Do you have the clip on you?

It’s in the theatrical trailer the alternate angle on Vader but the lightsaber is his white stick. Never had effects done.

The original choreography I think is in a number of documentries showing Alec Guiness spinning and doing the low swipe. Also Making of Star Wars 1977 has the only proper sound for the explosion at the end of the Death star escape turret battle… The sound is otherwise hollow and incorrect in basically every version. The footage is in the film for the low swipe just the shots are inn the incorrect order. Look at the walls in the background and you will see how shots were flipped and stuff.

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#1520272
Topic
Star Wars: A New Hope DEVASTATOR EDITION (V.1 RELEASED)
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That guy with no name said:

Anything I missed please tell me.

also V.2 will have full visual change list, like this:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5kED5fe56duiLx639

I was thinking about the change of the star destroyer you made and there is another problem the bridge crest is different on the devastator to the ones in ESB. It’s not that noticeable but it is a difference in the model.

Can you restore the alternate take from Vader in the original theatrical trailer and rotoscope his lightsaber? This is something that should have happened decades ago but has never been done to my knowledge nobody ever seems to want to include this better more aggressive shot where he hits the wall… If you do do that then can you please share it as then people can finally make Star Wars trailers with finished effects 😃

If you want to go one step further on the Lightsaber Duel in the editing in the film when Obi-wan spins around he finishes swiping high after the twirl if the scenes are placed in the correct order he actually was meant to do a low swipe which would restore the original choreography and to be honest it’s a better move too.

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#1520034
Topic
BTS Star Wars Ebook question
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Bobson Dugnutt said:

After a lot of fucking around and messing about, and buying another copy of the eBook through iTunes, at the moment I can somewhat say that the Apple Books version of Empire Strikes Back is extremely similar, with a very minimal difference in bitrate, but basically identical.

The 10 clips from the eBook, only those with raw/deleted footage, in my existing rip, in total are 85mb, with each file having a bitrate of 1.1mb/s.

The Apple Books versions add up to 109mb, with the average bitrate being 1.5mb/s.

These are both pretty rubbish bitrates, considering the film on the 2011 Blu-Ray is roughly 32mb/s, however the Apple version of the eBook footage is definitely a little better.

The resolution for my version is 640x308, and the Apple one being 640x480. Which doesn’t mean much, as it’s just the black matte that is cut out in my version.

And also, the Apple version is locked up with DRM, with no current way I can find to unlock it. The videos don’t play, the images don’t open and the text doesn’t load, if you take it outside of the Apple Books app on a Mac computer. This was a waking fucking nightmare to work out. If anyone could figure out how to strip the DRM from the individual files, they still could be useful potentially since the bitrate is still slightly higher.

Every video file is also tagged with “SD for Apple Devices”, so it seems unlikely that there are any HD versions out there, unless anyone wants to test the Google Play versions, but I will not be sadly.

Unless there is some sort of alternate release of all this footage (another Blu-Ray or digital bonus or something), all of this stuff will be locked in barely 480p quality. Some of the SW Gag Reel made it into the TROS Doco, and there was a re-edit made of it on the ROTS Blu-Ray, but it suffered from being cropped to 16:9 and some horrid ghosting effects. In the end, some upscales we make will likely be the best we’ll ever have.

Here is a smiley Mark for your troubles!

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Put your mac screen in a NDI

https://www.ndi.tv/

then stream your epub book videos to a screen capture like OBS on another computer?

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#1520032
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Star Wars: A New Hope DEVASTATOR EDITION (V.1 RELEASED)
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That guy with no name said:

adywan said:

That guy with no name said:

DevEd V.1

DevEd V.2

Flipping the Death Star causes problems with the lighting now coming from the wrong direction when compared to the stardestroyer.

I flipped it because I replaced the earlier shot of the destroyer with the one from ESB;

so I wanted them to match.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Flip the star destroyer instead?

slow the rotation of the death star so you dont have issue… or

replace the death star

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3y3458kP3w

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#1519954
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Complete Comparison of Special Edition Visual Changes
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Are you sure the planet matte element was not recomposited also?

In the Original the Blue Haze faded into the star field…There were scratches on it

Now it has a hard blue line and a lot of saturation and gain was added to the planet and no scratches anymore

97 version retained the original look no scratches

after that it went the hard edge blue line and boosted up.

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#1519807
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Original trilogy deleted scenes restored Project?
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kg1977 said:

Ronster said:
I redid the Techdome Edit to improve it and added the Blue Milk Scene.

Nice! if you want 1920 wide blue milk with no dust here is a link (no audio).

the google preview stinks so download to see full qual.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o2fmTaQL1RFOqgSPhoSJQkSXiTqc1oQR/view?usp=sharing

I spent 3 hours on this scene removing as many imperfections although you probably would not think that. The color grade is higher SAT to match adywan. Comparison below (yea the overlay ANH-X text is only on the comparison I do.)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1onQ1ekaoUMFnVTxgiGQZyxStypkxhUdx/view

but obviously adjust to your taste if inserting. Mine is 23.97 as well. Enjoy

I like your background sounds in blue milk with the generators/kitchen equipment sound. My blue milk is going somewhere else (before breakfast) as there is radio drama additional meal scene and dialogue and using blue milk to set that scene up. but your edit works here perfectly and where it was meant to go I’m sure.

Your Tech dome looks great. I have more radio drama audio with 3PO and Mark Hamill which gives that scene a few extra seconds and confirms that what luke sees with treadwell was indeed the same ship the droids came from, but what you have here cleans up the “official” cut of this. I thought I saw an extra shot of oil bath at one time (was that your first shot)? I would have to go see if that was it? just a small extra angle if I remember. Only other suggestion is to remove the audio where 3PO sais he is not sure he has been in many battles as clearly time has passed since EP III memory wipe and now, although that is subjective and very small detail. I think there was a Youtube cut that someone tried that idea out.

anyway nice work.

I am trying to finish the colorizations of the ESB "Friends watch Luke’s bacta bath scene atm, but will go check out and do the tweaks on Tosche later mid-week.

I totally understand when you say this took 3 hours. That Techdome edit has been on and off for 6 months and it all started with just wanting to hear water dripping off C3P0 like the onset audio scene in a documentary when he came out the oil bath. Then it grew to adding sound for the elevator on the oil bath then it became adding sound for Luke using his tools which I got from the treadwell scenes as at the time I figured it was not needed. Then I noticed the footage and the audio never matched, then I started noticing shot’s were in the wrong order for the hologram then finally I decided to fix the editing up for R2-F2 so it’s not so jarring I found the audio sample in the documentary to fix the projector coming on scene and then I thought seeing as I spent so long on it I may aswell sling blue milk in at the end. But what started out as simply wanting to hear water drip off 3P0 took on a life of it’s own. Thanks for the kind feedback on this it’s been a a long journey for that scene and I will now make one more go because you provided the scene but I want to improve the closeups of Leia shots too. The color is wrong here too bright in the mid’s. I will now endeavor to make just a bit better.

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#1519685
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Original trilogy deleted scenes restored Project?
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You know what I never checked I assumed blue milk was 23.98fps. I can convert it and re-up if it is a mis match i will check it later on.

Main source was despecilized I did a bit on color but very little really I tried to rid some shadow hues in the shadows on the Leia hologram shots only tbh. Despecized leaves out quite a bit shadow color push in quite a few parts of the film i found.

Once we get to the dinner table despecialized get’s the dirty reds on. But the garage was exceptionally good work apart from the hologram shadow hues on the background.

Edit:it says it is 23.976 fps should be ok?

If you are referring to the scratches type stuff I don’t have the software to sort that out unfortunately… If kg1977 gives me his restored version then I can insert that without the bumpy scratch thing going on but he has ANH-X logo on it.

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#1519668
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Update: Darth Vader Deleted Scene Restoration
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When Jejerrod is being force choked his voice lines are out of synch with the video.

Perhaps a better voice clip for Vader

https://youtu.be/PrrI9o6CU30?t=54

to get the metallic phasing effect put the audio in twice first one where you cue it and around 8ms after for the repeated second sample.

Is’nt the start of this scene here? and the end of the scene too?

https://youtu.be/hAjLosf3BjE?t=56

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#1519638
Topic
The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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Hal 9000 said:

  • The first shot of the Battle of Yavin has been trash since 1997. Impressive CG at the time or not, I find it ugly. But I feel starting the battle with the OOT version doesn’t feel right because we see CG fighters frequently throughout. Not to mention seeing a straight line of sight between the moon of Yavin IV and the Death Star. I know Adywan is tackling this part of it, but I’d love a replacement for the whole shot. Pie in the sky, most likely.
  • The added CG rats (or scurriers) to the first shot of approaching Mos Eisley feel like intrusive CGI. It’d be cool to see them removed, but it sounded like it may be trickier than it sounds.
  • The shot with the two mirrored sets of troopers, it’d be nice to remove one set of those troopers. (And bonus points for removing the unconvincing CG droid also.)

Stay tuned!

I also had the same thoughts as you about this opening shot and although I have not tried it out yet… For the very start I was planning to show the deleted gonk droid Death star hall way but only use the frames of people running in the death star with an Alarm removing the Frames with the blue planet. Then cut to the x-wing Special edition as the x-wing passes camera. After Red 5 Standing By change R2-D2 to cockpit shot from ESB as the S-foils are already open then cut to theatrical version of x-wings and y-wings but change the planet Matte so it comes before gold leader says put s foils in attack position. on the Special edition shot of the x-wings opening the s-foils It would be good to put the Death star back in it’s theatrical location so it matches up with the next shot of them flying in.

Fixing the Mos Eislry Entrance

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/479629408

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#1519635
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Original trilogy deleted scenes restored Project?
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  1. I took a still of Luke with the magenta face and put it in “gimp” and put green in the shadows and it fixed the weird magenta you are getting so that should work.
  2. Long shot yeah as I said look at “Star Wars begins” for that shot it looks like the whole shot was over dark I think the sky perhaps needs more gain or brightness and less saturation. Alternatively upscale that shot as it’s not blocky like the rest or color match.
    3.It’s ok to have a washed out sky if that is the lighting conditions - dusty desert. Yeah it’s only at the start I can see the edge softness issue once he jumps off the landspeeder it’s gone.
    4.Yeah it’s either blue contrast on that stairs element or it needs red push. The box the other side of the door also looks too sharp consider darkening that element a bit so it sits or blends better. This looks better than the star wars begins version just need to get the blend on.

To be honest it’s all small tweaks but you are very close to having that look very good.

I redid the Techdome Edit to improve it and added the Blue Milk Scene. Sww the link below

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/654620410

There was some audio I discovered was the wrong way around when Luke Uses the Wrench

The important bit of audio was found in the documentary Star Wars the Magic and the Mystery where there is an isolated soundmix without Leia’s “Help me Obiwan-Kenobi” lines and with R2-D2 whirring and projector coming on. I think that tells us that we did not get perhaps all the changes that were planned perhaps as this fixes the fact the recording is not saying the lines at the time it is played by R2. A few scenes are shifted about.

I also employed the Tuskan Raider Rocking Backwards and Forwards trick on R2-D2 to help smooth out the continuity of the end conversation as it was a bit Jarring.

Then I added sound mix for Blue Milk to the end. Hope you like this final iteration.

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#1519493
Topic
Star Wars: A New Hope DEVASTATOR EDITION (V.1 RELEASED)
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I have looked at your stills comparison that you posted and I am liking the changes that I can see so far.

Did you notice on the escape pod launch shot around the engines for about the first 10 frames there are black matte shapes for the engines igniting that were never comped in?

Then also if you look at the exterior of the ring which is pitch black again is a missing matte, one would imagine that this would have been or should have been some sort of tube or interior.

Lastly I think the round window in the escape pod is not a window, but a video screen. If it were a screen then it would make sense that they are looking back at the ship rather than if it was a window then you would see the planet. So I think it would be good to see that look subtly like a video screen perhaps some scan lines and a small graphic?

Also the shot of the star destroyer leaving Tattooine looks very good but I was focusing on this shot the other day and why it looks so much better in the gout and horrible in new releases but gout has scratches on the planet element. The planet was obviously recomposited but it looks very garish you have done a good job on that shot but I am noticing you changed the planet matte no big deal to be honest. The thing that stands out most from the Gout version is that the planet matte is not so bright so the color is a bit deeper. I will leave that thought with you and darkening that planet element a bit might make it pop some more but it’s certainly much better than the BLuray that shot looks so horrible what they did there of the special edition.

Whilst I have not seen your version of the dark interior of the sandcrawler where R2-D2 and 3P0 reunite the best version in terms of color I have seen for this is the Silverscreen edition version of that section. I have not seen 4K77 version but anyway I’d like to point it out that this part looks bad in all the Special edition version but in the silverscreen version it looks very good.

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#1519482
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Original trilogy deleted scenes restored Project?
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kg1977 said:

  1. Tosche Station #1 - Luke enters Tosche- Complete-see compare video
  2. Tosche Station #2 - Luke exits Tosche to see battle w/friends - 75% complete[SAMPLE IMAGE BELOW]

I think you did a good job on this but what I would add is that when you are pulling out details from the shadows which is good you need to color balance this by pushing green in the shadows as Luke is a lobster like shade of magents that will hinder the garishness you are getting.Also look at the edge softness as I see white line around Luke.

The sky looks too saturated and is causing a mismatch in lighting especially on the matte shot also I think those are rocks not bushes on the left so they should not be green Tosche station has pink hues in the highlights. I think this shot needs quite a bit of tweaking it looks very garish.

When Luke comes down the stairs into the door the steps look blue so they need a red push on that element probably it just needds some tweaking but the big scratch being gone is very good work…

The work on the interior is really good I can’t fault that.

Please don’t take this as critical in a bad way it just seems to me you a clawing after the detail which is good but if you rotoscope an object in you need to make it blend that bit better look towards your values and saturation of each element and contrast. If it looks garish like it does especially in that long shot that means it it’s either being pushed too bright or it needs color balancing to match.

Check out Star Wars begins by Jambee Davdar for this scene as It looks good and balanced if you could match that for the exterior shots in terms of value and color but it’s a bit blocky due to being sourced from CDrom.
https://vimeo.com/32442801

One final thought instead of the totally black doorway to the bar would it be possible to add some sort of wall interior detail that was barely visible but just gave the shot where he goes in the bar that bit more depth rather than pitch black? I did just have a quick look to see if I could find a still but that wall can have artistic licence as it is never seen.

perhaps the right hand side of this would do?

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/space-hangar-bay-wall-background-260nw-375402703.jpg

obviously just make it perhaps 30% transparent or something?

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#1518097
Topic
Original trilogy deleted scenes restored Project?
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Yeah that tune is Billy Preston - Outta Space (1971).

I thought about adding a POV through the binoculars I actually have a still for that which is different but thought seeing that was superfluous the effects are not needed we can just take the characters word for it I think.

Regarding zoom sound effect can remove but perhaps better to make quieter. Thanks for the feedback.

The music score that could not be isolated is from radio drama when Luke and Han part ways at Yavin base “may the force be with you.” Which also I tried adding the extra scenes here with Han and Chewie and although I really like them it’s just not needed. So I am thinking to not bother as as much as I like there scenes it is just dragging out the whole part so just the biggs bit reunion I am feeling.

I would like to see the result when you finally have this scene done. Starwars Begins documentary did a fairly good attempt at clean up but it was from behind the magic CD rom which is just bad quality video from the CD rom version not acceptable today really with HD.

Oh wow the actual game in tosche station made playable 😃 that is cool. There are sounds in the radio drama but wether it is possible to isolate I am not sure. It is not 100% needed but it would be good to try and give that small bit of ambient noise perhaps.

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Conan the Barbarian 40th Anniversay story of the film book coming November 2023.
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Yeah I’d love to see it in the cinema never got to do that yet!

I don’t particularly like Destroyer or Red Sonja but Barbarian just had the right amount of comedy and seriousness it was not silly or too camp like the others.

I hope they show us a proper version of the Waterwheel set where Conan and Subotai talk before deciding to head down to the tower of set on the raid. It’s strange that the audio conversation is there but the actual visuals and the set are not present. I’m not sure if this was another foreground minuture of Emilio Del Ruiz but most of his work was cut I think including King Azrics Castle and The full Tower of Set minuature too.

It’s like the whole Shadazir part is a mess in a way missing Conan Cutting off a guys arm who tries to steal his sword, the Procession with the Daughter of King Ozric on parade the Lizard on a stick the elephant taking a massive dump on the street and the whole your to big to be a thief is also a bit weird too along with the weird insert of the tower of Set over the black lotus opium den. It’s pretty clear that whole part was chopped about quite badly plus we miss Valeria introducing herself in name. I am sure there is a version that was not such a muddle at one point. Still love it but to see it restored would be glory.

Shadazir was also shown at a distance in a matte painting although we could see the actual person painting it onto glass in the wilderness of Spain that also never made the film either seems a shame we never saw those parts put back in or even in special features of a movie disc.