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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION — Page 60

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About the cameos, could you say how many there will be? Also, I'd be interested to see a screencap from one of the newly colour corrected shots with toned down saturation on the faces.
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I would love nothing more than to scan through all 74 pages of this thread, but could maybe someone save me a little time and repost the links to the available clips? Please? I love the stills I've seen but haven't seen any of the amazing clips you guys are talking about. If there's a link to donate, I'll take that too!

Ron Moses

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I think most of the clips have now expired and it wouldn't be worth reposting them as most have gone through various incarnations since first posting so will be different from the final edit. one link that is still active (at least for the moment) is the slpit screen comparison

SPLIT SCREEN COMPARISON - Megaupload - 100MB approx

Donations are still open. You can donate through paypal. The address to donate to is : adywan(at)hotmail.co.uk (substituting the (at) for @ of coarse).

Here's some screen caps which help show the lighter skin tones now without bleaching out the main colours that don't need desaturating
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/9594/skintonecomparisonjb0.jpg

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Looking great Adywan - How goes the progress on the edit? Are you caught up or still working back to where you were?
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Wow Ady! I don't know how you do it, but your work is fantastic!

 

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Originally posted by: nohandluke
Looking great Adywan - How goes the progress on the edit? Are you caught up or still working back to where you were?


I'm still not back to where i was yet. There are a couple of shots that i just can't get the colours to match the surviving footage so i'm going to leave those for now and go back to them at a later stage. I'm restarting the FX work instead now. Here's a quick screen grab of the latest finished shot which is the approach of the TIE's in the Death Star battle. The original 6 TIE's always seemed a bit pathetic so i've added more TIE's to this shot which sets up for the larger battle sequences to come.
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/9861/newtiesva9.jpg

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Yes! It feels more threatening now that there is dozens. I didn't think Vader was that stupid to just launch just six TIE's against 30 rebel ships.

 

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Wow -- I can't wait to see that in motion! Very intimidating, indeed.

Great work, adywan!

Take care,
Sojourn
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Wow those stars are bright bright bright!

Are the ships CG or cloned elements from the original? The formation looks great.

Ady, did you get my IM about the donations thing?

It might help if you tell us what you need to help you along... if it's hard drive space you are after, some people out there may not have cash but might have spare drives they can send.

I think I have a 60 and a 120 gig sitting around doing nothing.
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Wow those stars are bright bright bright!
This is one of the few shots i haven't had to brighten the stars. The starfield is the original footage from the 2004 DVDs. This is one reason i had to brighten up the stars in other shots. Sometimes they are bright & clear and others they are almost none existent So i used the brightest from original footage and upped the brightness of other shots to match so they are now consistent.
Are the ships CG or cloned elements from the original? The formation looks great.

No Cg, just cloned elements from the original
Ady, did you get my IM about the donations thing?

It might help if you tell us what you need to help you along... if it's hard drive space you are after, some people out there may not have cash but might have spare drives they can send.

I think I have a 60 and a 120 gig sitting around doing nothing.

No, I didn't get your IM Mojo_LA. A good idea about spare drives but i really need 500Gb internal because i have almost run out of space for drives in my machine. I have had very bad experiences with eternal drives so i'm now only sticking to internal. I'm actually quite close to the donation goal now. I popped out and got a new drive for backup and that is now totally full and another drive replaced the 400gb one that died. Problem is that after transferring all the stuff to the new internal i have only 100gb left so i definately need the 3rd drive to finish this edit. Being on sickness benefit is a pain in the ass. I just don't have any spare cash for the drive so i'm really grateful for all the donations that have so far come in. Thanks all.

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We're here for you Ady. You know that. Just say the word.
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Hi adywan, I have a question (and sorry if you answered it before) - will the corridors on Tantive IV be finally white on your version ?
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Ady tell us how much money you need to make you goal to get that 500 gig drive and I am sure we will meet in within a few days.
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Originally posted by: pittrek
Hi adywan, I have a question (and sorry if you answered it before) - will the corridors on Tantive IV be finally white on your version ?
Yes they are. I think i posted a screen shot a few pages back
Originally posted by: Mojo_LA
Ady tell us how much money you need to make you goal to get that 500 gig drive and I am sure we will meet in within a few days.

I'm actually only £48 short of the target.


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Almost there - Dang Ady if I hadn't just bought those 25th Anniversary GI Joes, I'd make another contribution. Let us know the status at the end of next week if you've got the funds for the drive or not. I'll be able to help then.

nohandluke
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/\ /\ /\ /\ ---- It's good to keep sight of your priorities????
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Well i'll give you a quick update on how things are going.

95% of the lost shots are now finished. Most of the problem shots have been sorted and things are almost back on track. So i'm back onto the FX work now and hopefully soon i'll have the last drive which will give me the flexibility in need to finish the edit a lot sooner.

There was something that i was hoping to fix in ANH that has bothered me for a while but after many attempts i just couldn't get it to look right. I'm talking about R2's dome lights. In ANH they are totally different than in the rest of the saga. In ANH the front mostly stays red or half red, half blue, but in the other movies it flashes from red to light blue. Also the rear one changes from yellow to green but again not in ANH. Well i've finally been able to come up with a way to fix this so it looks natural and not painted on. Problem is that there is approximately 130+ shots of R2 that need fixing, including shots that his lights have no colour. So its going to be a lot of sleepless nights to finish his lights without pushing the release date even further back but after seeing the first finished shots its going to be worth it.

And now onto another fix that i need a bit of help with....

In the cantina we see a wide shot of the inside of the cantina but there is something missing from the shot... the band. Where the hell are they? I want to add the band in the background but all shots in ANh are closeup shots. If i remember correctly the Holiday Special has a sequence featuring the cantina band & Bea Arthur. I did have a copy of this but i just can't find it anywhere and it was the version that has the highest quality transfer too. Can anyone who has this please post the complete cantina sequence in its original mpeg2 format please or point me in the right direction where i can obtain a copy as fast as possible. I'm pretty sure it was called the KCCI version and is hell of a lot better quality to work with than all the other versions. Any help would be greatly appreciated for this.

Some more fixes i have finished:

1..The wobbly holo chess table as luke gets up to head for the gunport is now a solid fixed table.
2..Just as the stormtroopers spot Leia aboard the falcon you can see what appears to be a foot or leg appear in the bottom left hand side of the shot. I've removed this.
3.. Just prior to Ben's death when R2 & 3PO head for the falcon there is a support bar in one shot that appears on R2 to stabilize his legs. I've removed the bar.
4.. When 3PO is talking to Luke as they are under fire in the detention cell corridor, in the background there are only 3 guns, but when we next see the control room as the stormtroopers burst in there are 4. There are now 4 in Both shots (even though there should really only be 3 because they take one as they head for the detention block but it was easier to add one than take one away)
5.. (may have mentioned this one already but i haven't got the time to check all the pages to see if i have) There are 2 shots of officers being shot that were censored for the SE releases. These have been added back in. I had to use the GOUt for this but only for the few trimmed frames of the officers. backgrounds and have been matted in from the 2004 DVDs so its almost impossible to see where the GOUT frames & 2004 frames merge and it looks like it was taken from the DVDs instead of the GOUT so no bad quality GOUT footage jumping out at you. lol
6.. Fixed the shots in Vader's TIE cockpit where you can see Dave Prowse's face behind the mask
7.. Fixed the shots where, inside Vader's cockpit, you see a window behind Vader where there shouldn't be. I've blocked out the window.
8.. In the sequence in the Death Star battle when the TIE's first attack, the rebel that gets blown away first has his helmet change from dark red to a flame red between the 2 shots. Fixed this so in both shots he now has a dark red helmet.

there is a few more but i can't think of them at the moment.


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Those fixes sound great, adywan! I'm really glad to hear that the censored shots, and the wobbly holotable in particular, have been fixed.

Take care,
Sojourn
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Awesome to hear Ady! I cannot wait much longer! Oh, and as for my priorities - it was an unexpected purchase Hammond - lol - but Ady knows I won't let him down if he needs me.
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Well the Holiday Special isn't the same cantina. It's a different one from what I can tell. According to Star Wars Galaxies, the most likely spot would be in an alcove to the left (from the front entrance ...almost directly across from Wuher...but as to the accuracy of that I can't for sure say.

Although the tech schematic which I suppose is as about canon as it gets? says it's on the right side:

http://www.ffurg.com/references/cantina.jpg


Originally posted by: adywan
In the cantina we see a wide shot of the inside of the cantina but there is something missing from the shot... the band. Where the hell are they? I want to add the band in the background but all shots in ANh are closeup shots. If i remember correctly the Holiday Special has a sequence featuring the cantina band & Bea Arthur. I did have a copy of this but i just can't find it anywhere and it was the version that has the highest quality transfer too. Can anyone who has this please post the complete cantina sequence in its original mpeg2 format please or point me in the right direction where i can obtain a copy as fast as possible. I'm pretty sure it was called the KCCI version and is hell of a lot better quality to work with than all the other versions. Any help would be greatly appreciated for this.


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Originally posted by: adywan
Can anyone who has this please post the complete cantina sequence in its original mpeg2 format please or point me in the right direction where i can obtain a copy as fast as possible. I'm pretty sure it was called the KCCI version and is hell of a lot better quality to work with than all the other versions. Any help would be greatly appreciated for this.


Adywan, I just PMed you a link to a page that has Rapidshare links for the KCCI holiday special. (I assumed the link would not be permitted here.) Hope this helps.

Ron Moses

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And just so everyone is on the same page, the wide shots in the cantina were filmed first and the band was filmed in post production months later. So yeah, the band isn't going to be in the wide shots. It it can be made to look good, it would be cool to see the band rocking in the back ground.
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ady, that will be cool , and for sur a hard work... if u can do this....you're probably a LF ex FX supervisor..i'm i right ?!
Grooaoohumpf
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