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HOT DAMN! I can't wait!
A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em
***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD — Page 35
HOT DAMN! I can't wait!
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DE, is this a correct summary of all your releases to date?
V1, rel. 25 May 2005: PAL DVD SL and NTSC DVD SL
V2, rel. 10 May 2006: Xvid only
V3, rel. 20 Jan 2007: PAL DVD SL, NTSC DVD SL and Xvid
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I just wanted to congratulate Darth Editous for this amazing piece of work, i found out about this projects recently and downloaded this first. This is simply the Star Wars Episode IV movie as it should have been shown in theaters when the re-issue happened in 1997.
This has earned a spot in my DVD shelf; as the *only* version of EP IV i own (besides the VHS trilogy i purchased back in 1995). The way a movie should be seen in these days, anamorphic 16x9, DD Audio mix. And as i said in another thread in these forums, i must admit i enjoy the polished FX as made by Lucasfilm and ILM in the last decade.
Thank You!
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You may not know me, but I am a regular on the other site, and I was asking ADigitalMan for some help on a project of mine and he said I should contact you about some help I need on a project of mine. Since you did a wonderful job on his Superman movie. He said, "Put a post in his Ep IV thread stating you'd like to ask him for help, and then PM him the details." So I am going to be sending you a PM in a few minutes.
Pauley79
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Sent you a PM on a different subject.
--ADM
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This means I can now fix a lot of the things I just didn't have the time or patience for last time around. For example, I don't think I ever really noticed that Vader's mask had red eyes until recently, and by then I'd already edited and inserted a lot of shots of Vader, for example during the duel. This meant that to repaint his eyes would mean dropping down another generation of MJPEG compression - it would almost certainly be unnoticeable, but it would have made things very awkward, having to extend inserted shots with unadjusted material.
Now, though, I've been able to write an AviSynth plugin which will do it "live". This means I only need to store a mask rather than storing the whole repainted shot. It also means I need to load less AVIs into AviSynth, which limits me to around 70 inserts, which had meant splitting the movie into three sections.
I've also written a plugin to fix the bad blue screen problems that are occasionally visible during the attack:
I only fixed one or two shots like this originally, but there are a lot more (none as bad as the above). Then I found there were other shots which showed a similar blue glow:
And it even removes the blue glow on the Star Destroyer's engines:
At this rate I may just apply the plugin to the whole movie...
Other new fixes so far include: a corrected aspect ratio for the clock wipe from the Sandcrawler to the Stormtroopers (now implemented as an AviSynth filter), some matte lines around a TIE fighter removed, and a brief shot of Tarkin mouthing something else before he says "Yes?" fixed.
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Nice that you've found a "simple" way to apply fixes to so many things that were bothering you. This must be an amazing learning experience, not only for you, but for all those that can apply some of your knowledge to their work as well. Your work is going far beyond being just a great edit.
On a slightly selfish note, I really hope you can look into that "In fact, I uh...also thinking about their agreement" thing. I can't be the only one who has noticed that over the years.
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I'll certainly investigate that line at some point - right now all the raw audio's FLAC'd up.
David
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Originally posted by: Darth Editous
You may need to turn your brightness up - I have mine turned up so I can keep an eye on the blacks.
You may need to turn your brightness up - I have mine turned up so I can keep an eye on the blacks.
You're right. I turned it up all the way and I now see the blue spots all over the first one.
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so.....*cough* hum...any chance of the plugin you created to remove the blue hue at all? I'm assuming it is a text file the main avs file references? or is an actual plugin?
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No parameters, just call it with either:
badblue(clip)
or
clip.badblue
or
clip.badblue
No guarantee it won't make your computer explode, etc etc...
David
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
I wonder if this will fix Superman Returns.
I wonder if this will fix Superman Returns.
In order to do that, you need to call it with clip.bosworth
Avoid infestation. Rotate.
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That made my day!
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Input must be RGB32. As the name implies, it selectively desaturates pixels of the specified hue. It takes three parameters:
hue: the target hue to adjust (0-360)
tolerance: tolerance of above (+/- degrees)
weight: amount of muting (0-1)
Before and after (applied twice, once on cyans (hue=190) and once on reds (hue=350)):
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A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em
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I've been looking at all sorts in ANH. That shot above is an abomination - the walls are almost bright cyan, compared to almost grey later - makes me think all they did was make sure C3PO was gold and screw everything else. Later on, Obi-Wan has orange lips. Then during the battle, Wedge shoots orange frickin' lasers! Then there's all the lasers that Lowry picked out as noise and desaturated...In other words, don't hold your breath
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I appreciate that faneditors like you put so much work into their projects.
A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em
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It would be really interesting to know if any Lowry people have seen this thread. They may think "I wish we would've had time to do even a fraction of what DE has done."
I'm sure there are some big Star Wars fans that work for Lowry who felt very excited and also disappointed at the same time with that project. 
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also i was wondering what programs you use to paint/fix frames. is this possible in photoshop? i have cs3.
edit: i think i figured it out. open avi in photoshop and edit individual frames then export to avi. (some reason mpegs were not working for me but thats fine.) then integrate that into your premiere workstation.
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Badblue: input must be RGB32!
what should i do? i'm new at writing avisynth scripts.