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I really enjoyed your edit of ROTJ. I really enjoyed how you made Palpatine show up at the beginning of the movie, it makes the chain of events flow much smoother and your new musical cues for a lot of the sequences was really a nice touch. A better perfect ending to me would have been adding Sebastian Shaw back into the mix, other than that…you have a winner. Keep up the good work!!! 😃

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Supaflex1 said:

I really enjoyed your edit of ROTJ. I really enjoyed how you made Palpatine show up at the beginning of the movie, it makes the chain of events flow much smoother and your new musical cues for a lot of the sequences was really a nice touch. A better perfect ending to me would have been adding Sebastian Shaw back into the mix, other than that…you have a winner. Keep up the good work!!! 😃

Thank you so so much 😉

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Nope. I’d really really like that, of course, but quality…
I have also removed that short deleted scene of rebels inside the Falcon during the battle. That scene added nothing…

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Lightsabers sparks video.
So… here you can see a small part of the new Endor glow effect.
Also the white blade of the lightsabers is enhanced. And I added a glow effect at each clash. I think it looks ok.

What I want to know is what you think of the sparks. Are they too much?

https://vimeo.com/414062112
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Some the added glow is a bit much. But loving the cc on this scene.

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Thanks, I’ll keep working on it 😉

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New comparison shots.
I’d really like to read some thoughts.

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I think your X-wing engines are too purple and I’m not an enormous fan of the hyper-grayscale look you’re going for with the Death Star/Emperor’s throne room screens, but goddamn I just love what you’re doing with Endor.

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Thanks. 😉
About the X Wing… I was trying to match Rogue One’s look. I thought the engines were pretty purple. But I just re-wacthed it and they are more around pink, I guess.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fscreenrant.com%2Frogue-one-star-wars-movie-spoilers%2F&psig=AOvVaw0Zi0T3Mj6gfUX7AmaUI8eU&ust=1588531609841000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCKCv3sfrlekCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAO

About the Death Star… I won’t argue personal taste 😄 De gustibus non disputandum est. I kinda like that, especially because I hated the previous blue.

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Lightsaber glow test.

https://vimeo.com/414850599
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Please, tell me what you think of it. If it’s not ok, I’ll remove it. I already like both lightsabers the way they are.

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I like all of those recolours. All except the inside of the Bunker, it looks too green and doesn’t match the other Imperial interiors like the Star Destroyer.

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Oh, ok! Thank you! I’ll reduce it a little bit!

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SHUTTLE TYDIRIUM SCENE.

Any thoughts about this?
Keep in mind that it’s my intention to add prequels’ music here and there, just as I added/will add OT music to the prequels. How does this look and sound?

https://vimeo.com/418511765
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Sorted opinions

Color Corrections
I love most, my favorite change remains the brighter greens for the Endor forest, makes it look much more lively.
The interiors of the Endor bunker could have more of a grey palette to match the Death Star.
I agree the X-Wing engines would look better with a pink color to resemble Rogue One.
The Endor shots from space are gorgeous. The space battle is much more visually striking now, with less of a
2D feeling for some of the backgrounds and surroundings in the original.
The added lightsiber glow in the test video looks fine, if a bit static (in the sense it doesn’t change positions when Vader moves, for example).

Shuttle Tydirium
The sun and the illumination look a lot more natural than in other versions, great job!
Maybe this issue is already present in the original film, but the scenes in the interior of the Tydirium seem to lack a bit of background sound ambience. Same with the scene after they land in Endor. Is that a result of isolating the dialogue?
I like the use of Padmé’s Ruminations but I think the build up to it could be a bit subtler. I was wondering if a small piece of that synthwave-sounding score from the penultimate episode of Clone Wars could serve as a bridge between the previous score and Padmé’s Ruminations, namely the bit where Vader first approaches Admiral Piett.

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Thank you 😉
The color corrections will all be fixed. The lightsaber glow… I’m not sure I’ll keep it. Probably I’ll reduce it a little bit.
About the shuttle scene. Yeah, that’s because I isolated dialogue. I’ll add some background noise. I still haven’t watched the final season of the Clone Wars. I’ll try add the ROTS music track in a more subtle way. Maybe just add the first part where there’s the slow crescendo…
Thank you again for the suggestions.

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I’m not a fan of the new overall gray and dull look. It’s from the new transfer, right?
I think you can increase contrast and saturation a bit.

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You mean in the shuttle scene?

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Not just on that scene.

Your added colors and effects are great!

But the untouched elements from the new masters just look grey and dull to me. It looks like gamma is off or something.
I wonder if they mastered this to something other than BT.709…

You improved it a bit but it’s still too dark in general.
It’s perfect on the Admiral Ackbar scene. So go for that look.
But it’s awful on the first Luke image. He’s brown over a gray background…

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Yeah, everything on the Death Star looks a little too desaturated. Ackbar and all of the space scenes look great, though.

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Could you please tell me what you think of this?
I’m still not sure… I’m not eagerly fond of the music in Return, so I’m trying to replace it here and here.
I’d like to have an opinion.
I tried to remove the original music with Audacity, but it was hard to keep other noises and voices.

https://vimeo.com/424133753
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I like it! Goes pretty well with the trimmed fight scene. Where’s the original track from?

You’d only need to enhance the dialogue and SFX a bit, since the music feels a bit too loud.

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Thank you 😄
The track is the desert race sequence from Rise of Skywalker.
I’ll work on it again, just wanted to have some rough feedback, so thank you again.

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IlFanEditore said:

Lightsaber glow test.

https://vimeo.com/414850599
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Please, tell me what you think of it. If it’s not ok, I’ll remove it. I already like both lightsabers the way they are.

Idk what program you are using, but in after effects i use the extraction feature. I extract everything but the brightest parts on a doubled layer, so theres a normal layer underneath. Then change curves or color levels and opacity. Mask just the areas of the scene i want to apply it to. I also use different mask at different opacity or feathering. Like for the ground reflection i would feather at around 120%. I would also bring the main controls on the curves up some so where the light was hitting was brighter than where it wasn’t hitting.

Corridor crew used a bit of this in there video fixing the Scorpion King with the Rock (Dwayne Johnson).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH1V6CHO1Jk&t=333s

Give thought for cast lighting and shadows. The light should have an ambiance, but most of what you’re seeing should be the light reflecting on surfaces. Floor, table tops, sides of Vaders mask, etc. Not just glow in the air everywhere.

Muclunkey!
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Prequel-Trilogy-Revised-Trailer/id/70831