Another one that I think needs to be dealt with is the first R2 scene. You can’t hear 3PO walking away, so one moment he is there and the next moment he is gone.
Hal believed it was no longer valuable to include it, that the visuals were all we needed. 😉
I also can’t remember if a sunset color grading was supposed to be added at all for the Battle of Takodana, or that was left off the table for this edit, but I didn’t really notice a difference from the theatrical.
The decision was made not to include it because it was one more step of encoding and slightly degraded the image quality.
Also, the deleted scene with Leia. It looks really good, but I felt the shots of her after she sits down look a bit too yellow. Her face just looks a tad more yellow than any of the other resistance shots of her though. Maybe it is just me.
Yeah, I was hoping to get another chance at color correcting this scene, it just didn’t happen in time for the release.
I don’t if what Ridley did to the slow mo shots during the Hosnian destruction was also done to that shot of Kylo Ren right before it cuts to Starkiller stuff, but if wasn’t I think it could be. It’s not bad, it kind of has a cool effect, but just wanted to see how others felt about it. If no one says anything then I wouldn’t worry about it.
There are a few slowed shots such as that one which didn’t get the treatment, I don’t think. Leia’s final reaction in that scene was slowed, a handful of shots in the destruction of the Starkiller sequence were slowed, etc.
Overall, I think everything looks fantastic. Job well done.
Thanks!
I just got this downloaded, and one thing I noticed was that the Starkiller smoke removal fix is a previous version. I don’t know if that was intentional, since there’s some slight image registration problems with the updated version, but I’m honestly relieved that my updated version didn’t make it in. Now I can fix that shot more better, or Sir Ridley can do it even more better.
Despite the things which have yet to be done, I’m very pleased with this release. I think that almost all of the goals of this edit have been achieved, and it only needs a few more simple things for perfection. 😃