STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW — Page 1323

doubleofive said:

If I remember, I’ll make comparison images tonight using the video Ady posted there.

Sheesh, we’ve been waiting all morning and that’s the best you can do? We will all be dead by then.

I think I’ve popped a few clogs since then.

The recent new clip has some outstanding work by adywan once again. A LOT of the stuff in this sequence of the movie was unfinished on his exclusive ‘workprint’ from a few years ago, and I’ve been especially keen to see how the messed-up positioning and backgrounds featuring Vader would turn out eventually…

…as it turns out, the whole thing is an absolute triumph, and works bloody marvellously now! 😃

Whenever I used to watch this scene in it’s original editing, I used to have to ‘imagine’ that after Vader first spoke to Piett on the right-hand alcove of the EXECUTOR’s bridge…that he then watched the Falcon from that side alcove window when we returned to our first close-up of him…and that he continued to ‘speak’ to Luke from that same alcove window when we returned to him again…and that he’d only ended up moving (unseen by us) to the very front windows of the bridge before the Falcon went to hyperspace, at some point during the last moments where we reverted back to the inside of the Falcon - this was the best I could make of Vader’s original positioning for myself, but some of the backgrounds during Vader’s close-ups looked distractingly wrong, regardless…

But not anymore! - the whole of Vader’s positioning on the EXECUTOR’s bridge flows smoothly and obviously now, and soon after his initial talk with Piett, he is shown to walk directly to the front of the bridge when we next see him in this version …and that establishing shot, along with all the latest properly-matching Vader backgrounds that follow, make for some terrific consistency in the scene now.

Then there’s also the matter of Piett’s shots…as like the Vader shots, there was problems there too - as it looks like Piett nods downwards at the commander of the bridge ‘pit crew’ which seems close to him…except it shouldn’t be right beside him, as Piett is in a part of the ‘control room’ set which is supposed to be a good distance away from the bridge ‘pit’…and even worse, the commander and ‘pit crew’ do not belong to the EXECUTOR superstardestroyer in the first place…as they are the same actors who were seen earlier in the movie aboard Captain Needa’s AVENGER stardestroyer!

However, for adywan’s ‘workprint’, he’d actually re-done this differently to the final version we see now - he’d only re-used the first-half of the earlier Piett shot (which comes after Needa’s death), where he starts off saying “Alert all commands…”, and then cut to an earlier shot of the AVENGER ‘pit crew’ as we heard the words “…ready for the tractor beam” - and this was still an improvement over the original version, because at least it looked like Piett was further away from the ‘pit crew’ in the ‘control room’ section at this point…

…but it still wasn’t perfect unfortunately, as it still had those same AVENGER stardestroyer ‘pit crew’ actors in the scene…and even more disconcerting for me, the re-used, earlier shot of Piett still included Vader walking away from him and exiting the bridge in that unfinished version…which made it almost look as if Vader had suddenly ‘gone off to the loo’ at this point in the proceedings, compared to where he was meant to be…at the front of the bridge!

…of course, I shouldn’t have worried…as the scene has ended up being altered in the BEST possible way now, as far as I’m concerned - because the shot of the AVENGER ‘pit crew’ actors has been removed altogether, and although a slightly longer portion of the earlier Piett ‘control room’ shot has been re-used…it’s now changed to have him saying “Alert all commands, ready for the tractor beam”, rather than the “Alert all commands, deploy the fleet” line he said in the same shot earlier. This, combined with the fact that adywan has magically managed to REMOVE Vader walking away from Piett in the shot (and replace him with a couple of bridge crewmembers instead), give this new shot a sufficiently different look and feel to it now at this point…and it works PERFECTLY as a substitute for the original imperfect footage!

I am exceedingly impressed and happy with how this has all turned out. 😃

Thanks for your usual heroic efforts to get comparison stills up for us doubleofive. It’s very much appreciated!

As well as the stand-out repositioning of Vader/Piett which I mentioned above, there’s a wealth of other incredible alterations during this clip which I’d like to praise too -

I love the additional ‘underside edge of the city’ as the Falcon evades the TIEs at the start - a small but effective addition when seen with the rest of the previous ‘underside’ footage beforehand.

The GREEN lights are an excellent change too, and really brings back how the old Falcon interior looked (as well as matching how it still looks in TFA, of course)

The shot of the Bespin planet as the Falcon and TIE’s leave it behind is exceptional now - a terrific enhancement, with just the right amount of subtle ‘lensflare’ included.

The additional ‘steam’ which swirls around as R2 falls backwards is excellent too…and that slight new ‘howl’ from Chewie is the cherry on the cake.

The wide shots of Vader on the bridge look tremendous also, with their new ‘steps’ etc. - and the new bridge crewmember at the entrance is a very welcome addition indeed.

The final shot of Vader exiting the bridge into the ‘control room’ section is one of my favourite alterations in this whole clip! - adywan actually initially added a different version of the ‘control room’ section to this shot in his ‘workprint’, and it looked equally magnificent. For instance, it’s ceiling details were different, and it had some of the pinkish/red ceiling lightstrips seen when Ozzel first makes his appearance in the movie…and it immediately brought back the look of that section’s first appearance in the movie.

…so I was surprised to see that he had gone to the effort of changing how this shot looked in the latest clip. However, I see that he’s now managed to include an additional ‘pillar’ which was seen in the earlier shots of the ‘control room’ section…which ties things in nicely too, even though we’ve lost the likes of the pinkish/red ceiling lighting now - I would have liked to have seen a hint of that lighting retained as a ‘compromise’, but I guess that adywan decided that none of it should be visible from this angle anymore. Either way, this is a phenomenal addition to tie-in the bridge with the ‘control room’ section when Vader steps down now.

The additional fleet ships and enhanced ‘glows’ on the ship engines at the end have really improved things too, but a big shout-out must go to the addition of the ‘medical bay’ in the small section on the side of the medical frigate when it first moves past us - this was always going to be a tricky portion to insert as the ship passes in the shot…and I’d have been content if it had even only been given a slight ‘glow’ to suggest some lighting from within. However, the clever solution of having an outer ‘viewport cover’ slowly opening to reveal just a subtle glimpse of the droids and other elements in the interior at this point…is pure genius!

And let’s not forget how wonderful the new re-colouration, cgi ships, and starfields look too…

It all adds up to AWESOME!

One little thing concerning C3PO too…

In addition to the neat fix where he holds up his missing leg so that it matches the previous shots…adywan has also managed to make his other leg completely SILVER during his scenes where R2 is welding it! 😃

The suddenly GOLD front ‘shin’ section during those shots always bugged me, so thanks for that too adywan!

(perhaps you could add that info. to your comparisons doubleofive, or include the close-up shot of it even?)

Thanks again doubleofive.

I was hoping to post this before you went ahead and altered things, but it looks like I wasn’t quick enough - your comparisons comprehensively described the main majority of the fixes, but there’s a couple of additional, trivial ones that you may wish to include too…which might be of vital interest to everyone! 😃 -

1. In your first shot of Vader talking to Piett in the bridge ‘alcove’, the single GREEN light on the right-hand side of the bridge has been turned WHITE to match the rest of the bridge shots.

2. When Vader talks to Piett, the badge on Piett’s young lieutenant has been slightly tweaked to be at the same angle throughout his shots.

3. And thanks to an eagle-eyed FB commenter (well done that man!), adywan has confirmed that he will also alter certain subtle ‘light reflections’ on R2’s dome, to make them match the restored GREEN interior lights throughout his scenes something like this - https://www.facebook.com/swrevisited/photos/p.1444421712240073/1444421712240073/?type=3&theater

I’d just like to add my praise and thanks to Ady for sharing this latest superb clip. As usual his dedication and meticulous attention to detail in this project shines through, and once again confirms just how well worth the wait it will all be. ANH Revisited was an absolute triumph, but I suspect ESB Revisited will put it to shame! This really is shaping up to be an astonishing piece of work.

I’d also like to add my thanks to doubleofive for his excellent comparison screenshots which really help highlight Ady’s brilliant work. They are much appreciated.

doubleofive said:

You guys can come back from the dead. I’ve created what you crave, my own analysis of the new clip!

“Thank the maker!” I appreciate so much you making another of these.

trimboNZ said:

When I first watched the new clip, without the comparison video, I thought the third unit shot was not very well done - the motion and compositing looked unnatural and it didn’t look very detailed, as if it was out of focus.

It was only when seeing it alongside the original that I realized I had the wrong shot! The footage I had been looking at, of Vader walking away from the window and towards the camera was original footage and I suspect not much can be done for that without a complete re-shoot.

The actual third unit shot of Vader walking towards the bridge window was filmed and inserted so perfectly that I didn’t notice it was new.

Bravo!

trimboNZ, not sure why you seem to think the original Vader figure which turns to walk towards us doesn’t look good, as it certainly looks absolutely fine to me - in fact, everything about that whole shot has never looked better than it does now, I’d say.

(EDIT: it seems that adywan has responded while I typed all this out - and so I had to delete the rest of this post just in case I was revealing something I shouldn’t have…once I read what he’d said to you. I’ll need to check with him!)