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The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released) — Page 6

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I think that leaving the Jedi Temple out of the Victory Celebration shows that the Jedi Temple was intentionally destroyed by the Empire, and could be used while keeping the 2004 Senate intact.

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According to current canon, the Jedi Temple became the Imperial Palace, so I don’t think it needs to be removed personally.

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That’s also the case in Legends, although Hal doesn’t have to be bound to either, either.

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I certainly don’t want to get into any efforts to tamper with that. I kept the full 2011 planet montage, using a patch of audio from the Tatooine portion to mask the “Wesa free” line which was in every channel.

Other than, y’know, having almost any of my final sources available, it’s as done as it can get. I might just put a workprint version on the Google Drive as a placeholder. The biggest thing missing is Ridley’s work with the Sarlacc (original version is used now). And I have only eyeballed the various 4K83 shots to get them to roughly match in order to produce a placeholder export.

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Also, let me draw your attention to the ‘ANH:SE Radical Redux’ thread, in which snooker is working on adding the hyperspace effects to the scene onboard the Falcon after they escape the Death Star. Right now, the standout issue seems to be making the hyperspace tunnel look right for the front-facing dialogue shot, without more than one or two known video sources.
Discussion begins about halfway down page 65:
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-ANHSE-Redux-Ideas-thread-Radical-Ideas-Welcome/id/10131/page/65#1266432

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I’d love a workprint of ROTJ. It’s the only SW movie that I’m missing a good fanedit of in my collection.

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Hal 9000 said:
Other than, y’know, having almost any of my final sources available, it’s as done as it can get. I might just put a workprint version on the Google Drive as a placeholder. The biggest thing missing is Ridley’s work with the Sarlacc (original version is used now). And I have only eyeballed the various 4K83 shots to get them to roughly match in order to produce a placeholder export.

For the OOT shots, keep in mind the 4k83 scan does not display the bluray issue with the out of focused sequence during the Endor arrival. Don’t know if Ady is going to release a color corrected version with that sequence corrected as well (he posted a few weeks ago he managed to blend this footage into his bluray regraded version), like he did for ANH, if he does it would be quite great.

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I assume when Adywan publishes his color corrected ROTJ, it’ll have the corrected sequence like that, since it’s what he’ll work from going forward. If not, we’ll figure something out.

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What route do you plan on doing for getting them out of lightspeed ? I never liked how Adywan changed the order of shots because I’m use the original order, even though I understand why he did the way he did it. If you’re open to an idea I got one.

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I’d be open to your idea, but I wasn’t planning on adding or altering any other shots. Vader establishes moments before the scene that the Falcon “has just made the jump into hyperspace,” so I don’t feel like an added establishing shot is necessary. Stylistically, ANH never depicts ships entering or exiting hyperspace in exterior shots, so I don’t have any problem with leaving everything else as is.

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Hal 9000 said:

I’d be open to your idea, but I wasn’t planning on adding or altering any other shots. Vader establishes moments before the scene that the Falcon “has just made the jump into hyperspace,” so I don’t feel like an added establishing shot is necessary. Stylistically, ANH never depicts ships entering or exiting hyperspace in exterior shots, so I don’t have any problem with leaving everything else as is.

Except for when we see the Falcon disappear into Hyperspace in an exterior shot. Or do you mean where we see a ship transition into hyperspace in an exterior shot with the starfield giving way to the tunnel? Has that ever been done?

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Yeah, you’re right, we see the Falcon enter hyperspace from the exterior, from a head-on perspective. Either way, I don’t think the scene needs to have an establishing shot or show the Falcon exiting hyperspace, but I could understand wanting to have the latter. I’m open, certainly, though, if the hyperspace effect can be pulled off in the first place.

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I was only talking on having them exit. Like you say Vader establishes them going on hyperspace. Use the overhead shot of falcon passing towards Yavin prime, but have a quick lightspeed exit animation to where it transition to seeing yavin prime. You’d have the same order of shots.

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Here’s a super bad mockup of how that shot could look. If NeverAr, Ridley, or anyone else would like to implement it, it could be a good solution. The mockup doesn’t really do a good job of showing how it should look, though.

Yavin should probably already be in frame, or be brought into frame separately from the sped-up/altered Falcon element, because the camera pan up tracks the Falcon’s original movements. It need not sync precisely with the original shot, and probably should be a little longer to allow for a brief period of time of space prior to the Falcon emerging from hyperpsace. I can do audio for it, of course.

Poor mockup: https://vimeo.com/314282341

The other question is whether the Falcon in hyperspace for a few seconds right after Tarkin says, “Terminate her immediately,” would need to be tweaked to correspond to whatever the hyperspace tunnel looks like in that scene.

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As rough concept it’s understandable where and how you want to try it. I like it.

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I’ll implement it and make sure it works in context, but that look great to me. Elegantly close to the original (well, SE) shot while making the change needed. Thanks for the great work!

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That’s so cool! Can’t wait to see it all come together.

All my life as I looked away to the future, to the horizon. Never in my mind did I know where I was, what I was doing.

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It’s a nice shot, very slick like the new films. I dig it.

If I were to be creating a shot from scratch here, it would probably make more sense to have the Falcon appear in side view from the right side of the frame, then pan with it as the planet comes into view. That would visually connect with the final cockpit shot, but obviously we work with what we have.

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ESB was sourced primarily from Adywan’s old 1997 restoration, which used an HDTV capture of the 2004 version, and ended up about 14GB in size. I put out my release of ESB at about 15GB, which is considerably smaller and of somewhat lower quality than my other releases.

For ANH and ROTJ, I intend to export them at as high quality as possible, which will put them about double the size of ESB. I would remain open to potentially ‘remastering’ ESB if a substantially higher quality color corrected release is published which looks good color-wise. I will say about Adywan’s older ESB work: the colors are absolutely perfect.

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