Star Wars: A New Hope DEVASTATOR EDITION (V.2 a WIP) — Page 28

Newly redone shot fr 2.0 using partial new source:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bFl6e7aaM77sHa5ARXcxFuwECVUMiHM-/view?usp=sharing
Streamable: https://streamable.com/pw11se
Removed jumpcut and fixed misplaced laser bolts.

New shot:
New source (19SE) re-inserted the missing falcon and adjusted the motion for a more dramatic shot.

Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16CDNixUattNu7e_f3JxZWs4-hEmoWOF0/view?usp=sharing
Streamable: https://streamable.com/pvv9xw

Love it!

Sometimes I’m just at a loss of how y’all are able to do this kind of stuff. It feels like you just spawn things out of the aether sometimes. I’m stunned.

Looks good!

Nickshimmy said:

That guy with no name said:

New shot:
New source (19SE) re-inserted the missing falcon and adjusted the motion for a more dramatic shot.

Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16CDNixUattNu7e_f3JxZWs4-hEmoWOF0/view?usp=sharing
Streamable: https://streamable.com/pvv9xw

Looks great, completely natural. Can I ask how you achieved this shot?, Was it just a case animating a still of the falcon from the frame it originally appears or was there more to it? I ask as I was trying something similar in an edit I was working on and really struggled to get a satisfactory result (even though it was small in the frame, it looked like exactly what it was, a still image being moved around and zoomed out from). Thanks.

It’s an image broken into 3-4 parts that move independently to give the illusion of parallax shift, ie, the illusion of 3D. It’s done statically, and motion is added afterward.

I’m currently working on re-doing the censored officer squib shots… I can’t use the ones in DevEd because it has so much added fake grain.

Original:

Cleaned up:

Either way, I absolutely hate these shots lol…

That guy with no name said:

Nickshimmy said:

That guy with no name said:

New shot:
New source (19SE) re-inserted the missing falcon and adjusted the motion for a more dramatic shot.

Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16CDNixUattNu7e_f3JxZWs4-hEmoWOF0/view?usp=sharing
Streamable: https://streamable.com/pvv9xw

Looks great, completely natural. Can I ask how you achieved this shot?, Was it just a case animating a still of the falcon from the frame it originally appears or was there more to it? I ask as I was trying something similar in an edit I was working on and really struggled to get a satisfactory result (even though it was small in the frame, it looked like exactly what it was, a still image being moved around and zoomed out from). Thanks.

It’s an image broken into 3-4 parts that move independently to give the illusion of parallax shift, ie, the illusion of 3D. It’s done statically, and motion is added afterward.

That’s really cool and nicely done. I don’t suppose you’d care to break it down in a video? 😄

EDIT: Obviously, no pressure. I just like to see that sort of thing.

That guy with no name said:

Either way, I absolutely hate these shots lol…

Why

G&G-Fan said:

That guy with no name said:

Either way, I absolutely hate these shots lol…

Why

Because there are some of the dirtiest on the print, I don’t hate the actual shots, I think they look great; that’s why I’m restoring them…

Here’s the finished shot; I haven’t used a single pixel of the Blu-ray or any other source, just 4K77, and 4K78 to remove dirt on the officer’s face where the dustbuster couldn’t work… When brightened up, the image had thousands of scratches and dirt, and other stuff which had to be removed manually… I also kept the original grain layer, unlike V1, where I DNR’ed it to smithereens, did a horrible patch job using still frames from the Blu-ray, etc, and then added a fake grain layer over everything…

Streamable: https://streamable.com/orbghv

There shouldn’t be a single dust particle left in it now:

Man your edit is gonna be so useful for my own

Concerning the 19SE remaster project:

Update:
This project has taken a bit of a backseat while I restart work on several other projects. It requires a hell of a lotta work, and I don’t want to rush it—so it’ll begin once DevEd 2.0 is done. When finished, it’ll likely be used to create DevEd 3.0, which will release much quicker since I’ve learned a lot since 1.0 and now use a non-destructive workflow, allowing me to swap out the source of effect shots with little to no adjustment. I’ve also become increasingly aware of the 2011 Blu-rays’ obsolete and honestly disgusting quality compared to the 19SE. 3.0 will be the final DevEd update, possibly before ANH:R HD, but who knows. As for 2.0, I expect it to be done soon, hopefully in a few months, definitely before the end of the year.

New shot:
https://streamable.com/lpivp2
New starfield, added glow, and made the laser’s light falloff on the Death Star more realistic.

You wouldn’t believe how difficult stabilizing that was, and I can’t just make a freeze frame either…

That guy with no name said:

New shot:
https://streamable.com/lpivp2
New starfield, added glow, and made the laser’s light falloff on the Death Star more realistic.

You wouldn’t believe how difficult stabilizing that was, and I can’t just make a freeze frame either…

I’m gonna guess you had to stabilize that sucker by hand. . . That’s what I had to do on the N-1 shot I just redid.

Looks great as always, bro!

This is very odd;

It’s not secret that the UHD Blu-rays use power windows (masks used to color adjust specific sections of a frame). I just wasn’t aware of the extent. Almost every other shot has them and they are absolutely horrible.

Take this shot, for example, they’ve brightened the outside of Luke’s garage with a simple feather mask, weird but ok. But then they have to mask Luke out independently so that he isn’t bright like the otusied, but they’ve done it so slopply the mask reveals the original color of the background behind him, not to mention the terrible matte lines:

2011 BD (cc by adywan)

UHD

UHD with highlighted masks

Red - inside garage
green - outside garage
B&W - Luke)

This shot has almost double the detail and color information as the BD clip, but because of these masks, it’s unusable. This is an example of why most professional resorations avoid using power windows or selective coloring, because it’s a destructive process that can’t be undone like with global grading.

I don’t really see it. And I think the positives outweigh the negatives.

What’s better, a butt ugly transfer that crushes a ton of detail and has weird colors, or a really good looking transfer that has some flaws when you really squint and look frame by frame?

Also… if you really wanted, you could just recolor the area around Luke.

G&G-Fan said:

I don’t really see it. And I think the positives outweigh the negatives.

What’s better, a butt ugly transfer that crushes a ton of detail and has weird colors, or a really good looking transfer that has some flaws when you really squint and look frame by frame?

Also… if you really wanted, you could just recolor the area around Luke.

It’s VERY noticeable:

It’s not possible to undo this because the masks have been feathered to oblivion and can’t be singled out and undone.

I think he means that shot is unusable, not the 19SE entirely.

Thanks to Dat_SW_Guy for this incredible shot! Now I can keep this SE shot without it being too distracting!
I’ve done some minor adjustments and color matching to make everything match. I did make the blues warmer so they would match the consecutive shots.

2011 BD (color by adywan)

DevEd 2.0