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***The "Darth Editous" Episode V DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a work in progress — Page 9

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Originally posted by: bkev
Didn't you guys have this same argument in the last DE thread? ;D


Um... I think you have me confused with someone else.

You know of the rebellion against the Empire?

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Originally posted by: ThrowgnCpr
Originally posted by: Erikstormtrooper
Sluggo,
Can you please switch the colors for SW and ESB? I've always thought of ESB as a "blue" movie.

agreed. i think its all the snow and ice. also i think of sw as tan because of the sand. but anyway, cool covers

Or yellow because of the hot, hot sun.

Me, I hate sand. It's rough, and course. And it gets in everywhere.
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This is really funny that you guys have mentioned this - I always use slimline jewel cases for my DVDs, and SW always goes into a red or yellow one, ESB always into a blue one, and ROTJ always into a green or red one (dependant on what SW went into).
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I'm outnumbered!

Er... since I'm taking suggestions, are there any other, um... suggestions? One of the things I've been experimenting with is the use of new logos instead of the same ones used on the official releases. I think they help quite a bit.
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Originally posted by: Sluggo
One of the things I've been experimenting with is the use of new logos instead of the same ones used on the official releases. I think they help quite a bit.

That sounds good. I'd like to see them. Will you try to make them sort of creator-specific, i.e. incorporating Darth Editous into it somehow? So many possibilities!

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Not a bad idea. I think I have a pic of DE somewhere in a TON of make-up.
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Since DE said he wasn't going to color-correct the movie, I'd be interested in seeing someone take his version and use GOUT histograms to make it look better (IMO) when it comes out. Would anyone be up to this??

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Any progress, Darth?

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No progress really - I was looking at the Emperor scene again last week, just need to filter it all and edit the audio.

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The video for the Emperor scene is complete, but the audio is tricky. And, unfortunately and annoyingly for anyone waiting for this edit, I've been inventing new efficient ways of implementing my changes, which means I'm now going back through ANH and tidying everything up, fixing some of the things I didn't fix last time around, and improving some of my old fixes.

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So there might be a 4.O of ANH?
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I have one small suggestion if you are tampering with ANH again DE. During the scene with the stormtroopers searching in the desert there is the music that they added for the special edition. I really do love the music, but if you're going to cut the SE part of the scene I think you should take out the music to. I just find it kind of jarring when the SE music comes in half way through, feels kind of incomplete to me. I love your work though, great stuff.
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Yeah, if you're still/again working on ANH, you should look into addressing that "I, uh...also thinking about our agreement" issue. Remember? Don't have to insert "was" in there, but I can't even hear the 's' sound at the end of the word. It's like a bad audio edit or something. I've always wondered what happened to that line.

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Originally posted by: Darth EditousThe video for the Emperor scene is complete, but the audio is tricky. And, unfortunately and annoyingly for anyone waiting for this edit, I've been inventing new efficient ways of implementing my changes, which means I'm now going back through ANH and tidying everything up, fixing some of the things I didn't fix last time around, and improving some of my old fixes.

DE


What new processes are you inventing to work with (i.e. sound, effects?)

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Thanks for those suggestions, I'll definitely look into them.

I've been redoing some of my simple alterations )wipes, etc) so they're now done with Avisynth filters instead of being a generated image sequence which was then converted to an AVI and inserted with Avisynth. For example, instead of colour-replacing in Photoshop, I'm now fixing the bad blue screen errors with my Avisynth filter, which means I can quickly apply it to any shot.

I'm also now going through and "repainting" the red eyes in Vader's mask. Previously this would have meant painting each frame in Photoshop (or at least, writing something to load each image, repaint it, and save it, then encode the sequence to AVI...), but now I can fix hundreds of frames in a few minutes. Using filters means I can also fix frames that have already been edited in some way, e.g. where I've already repainted lightsabres. Previously this would have meant re-encoding the inserted AVI - losing a generation doesn't mean much with MJPEG, but I still wouldn't want to do it.

And before anyone asks, no, it won't be colour corrected I may try to fix the skin tones in some shots, but the blockade runner's walls are not going to be pure white. Sorry I am experimenting with ways to increase the brightness - I've come up with one okay method, but in some ways it looks nicer if I just bring the black level up to about 32/255.

DE

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Work's way too busy and I'm still working on v4 of ANH. I will get around to it, eventually...

DE