Originally posted by: BrimleyAdy, any plans for a screening somewhere? I'm sure it's something that the UK fans would be interested in...
A private screening would have been nice to do but will likely never be a possibility because it would infringe on the copywrite laws. The only way this could ever happen would be with express permission from Lucaslfilm which i highly doubt would ever happen.
Well i have finally hit the nightmare section of the edit: Luke's trench run. So many shot have the trench background missing and adding the missing backgrounds is a very long and hard process. The background as it stands is totally black and matting out the cockpit where no information exists & then tracking its motion for the matte is bloody difficult. Its a frame by frame process at this point. One shot alone has taken me the past 3 days to do. Why most of red leader & gold leaders trench runs have the trench background in place but so much of lukes is missing this is a mystery to me. i know time became a factor when making star wars but its not as if they had to shoot a different background plate for these shots as they had already used it in prior shots. This has slowed me down so much i'm starting to panic because November is almost upon me and i still have so many shots to do. I really don't want to have to push the release date back yet again. Anyway here's a comparison screenshot of the new trench background:
ORIGINAL:
NEW:
Oh, and before anyone mentions that the colour has been stripped away from the cockpit then this is intentional. Once you have removed that horrible blue cast there isn't much colour left. But the main reason is that many shots from the SE DVD the cockpit has no colour so and i am doing my best to correct colour inconsistencies from shot to shot and it is hell of a lot easier to remove the colour than replace it. Here's a snapshot direct from the 2004 DVD with no colour correction:
This can't be helped because if i attempted to add colour to the shots then it looks horribly fake and i want to avoid that. This problem also exists, but to a lesser degree, in the OUT so i couldn't overlay footage from the gout for elements that are too desaturated to fix this.