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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION — Page 194

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That sounds like a totally awesome idea, doubleofive. It will really highlight how much ady has accomplished.
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Part 1 of my Star Wars Revisited Visual Comparison is up. This goes from the Opening Logos to Obi-Wan's Hut.

I did the best I could to match frame for frame. It takes a while when your only tool is an old version of PowerDVD, with Photoshop to put them together.

Ady, let me know if I missed a shot you want to highlight, or if my descriptions could be more descriptive.

Also, if anyone wants to host the photos off of Flikr and make them look more professional, let me know and I'll send you the files.

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doubleofive - Thanks, your efforts with 'comparison' shots are very welcome. As Chrille has said, it will be a nice way to show some of what Adywan has achieved with this. I look forward to the rest when you can manage the time.
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Just finished watching your side by side shot comparison, doubleofive. Great job, looking forward to part 2.
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I'll see how many I can do tonight, or how long I can stand to do them. I almost got tired of everything Star Wars just doing the first 25 minutes, I can't imagine how Ady feels!

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doubleofive said:

Part 1 of my Star Wars Revisited Visual Comparison is up. This goes from the Opening Logos to Obi-Wan's Hut.

I did the best I could to match frame for frame. It takes a while when your only tool is an old version of PowerDVD, with Photoshop to put them together.

Ady, let me know if I missed a shot you want to highlight, or if my descriptions could be more descriptive.

Also, if anyone wants to host the photos off of Flikr and make them look more professional, let me know and I'll send you the files.


I should be able to help out if you give me a couple of days. I can quite easily do split screen snaphots in my video editing program so it would take a lot less time. I'll send them to you, with descriptions, once they're done. Nice idea by the way. well done.

Nice covers too. just had a look at ANH. I wonder if anyone has a higher res scan of the outer logo part that is from the action figure cards. i think that would really benefit the covers because the scan you have looks a bit blurry. apart from that they look great

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adywan said:

I should be able to help out if you give me a couple of days. I can quite easily do split screen snaphots in my video editing program so it would take a lot less time. I'll send them to you, with descriptions, once they're done. Nice idea by the way. well done.

Nice covers too. just had a look at ANH. I wonder if anyone has a higher res scan of the outer logo part that is from the action figure cards. i think that would really benefit the covers because the scan you have looks a bit blurry. apart from that they look great


Thanks for your help! I don't want you to have to go through too much of the movie, so I think I can do most of the rest. It's the Death Star battle that really worries me. It's been so long since I watched the original that I can't tell what's new, what's changed, what's the same, or what the comparison shots should be. I'm just going by your commentary for most of the changes. Can you get me a screencap of your new gun removal from the DS control room, as opposed to the addition in my DVD-5. Was there anything else you changed for the DVD-9 that I would need?

As for the cover, I used the blank found at the Forgotten Force Ultimate Resource Guide, which was only 800 x 1200 px, and blurred even then. The Empire and Jedi ones are 800 x 1200 also, but much less blurry. The backs were all tiny, so they're pretty blurry too. So yeah, if anyone has a better scan of the card, that'd be great. I have one ESB card of my own, but Yoda is still clinging on to it for dear life (and its pretty beat up).

Glad to be doing what I can to help!

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Thanks for those pictures doubleofive. They helped clarify what exactly was changed in a lot of scenes. That one with the ILM crew member posing as a Jawa, for example -- I kept hearing about this change, but I had never really noticed what people were talking about. Now that I see it, I can't believe that's escaped my notice for the last 30 years.

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I'm downloading the torrent right now and am 1/4 of the way through. Thanks, ady! I never noticed most of the smaller problems before.
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This can't be right.

In watching some scenes frame by frame to get just the right shot to compare, I ran across something that I can't believe I've never heard before.

Here are 4 frames from Greedo shooting first:

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4616/hanshootstwicedg8.jpg

Do my eyes deceive me or does it look like Han shoots twice? The first shot goes right through Greedo! Is one of his shots left over from 97, or even 77?

Just in case your wondering, this shot of the film isn't even in Revisited to compare.

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Hey Ady, I'm pretty much done with all the screens I could get. I think I got everything but the Falcon vs TIEs and the entire Death Star Battle. If you could fill in those blanks when you can, we'll have a pretty comprehensive comparison.

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doubleofive said:

Hey Ady, I'm pretty much done with all the screens I could get. I think I got everything but the Falcon vs TIEs and the entire Death Star Battle. If you could fill in those blanks when you can, we'll have a pretty comprehensive comparison.


There's actually quite a few more than i first thought. i missed a load when doing the trivia track. its only when i was doing the split screen captures that i noticed a load. I'm up to Ben's death at the moment and i have 149 changes

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adywan said:

There's actually quite a few more than i first thought. i missed a load when doing the trivia track. its only when i was doing the split screen captures that i noticed a load. I'm up to Ben's death at the moment and i have 149 changes


You win. I have 140 screenshots total, and you haven't even gotten to the parts that I skipped.

Of course, I get this message after I finished formatting every one I had. Now what do I do with them?

EDIT: I put all 140 of my screenshots into my Flickr Set. The new ones aren't labeled yet.

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Download completed! I'm watching right now! And so far, it looks great! Thanks so much, ady!
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This DVD is now the ultimate power in the universe!

I suggest we use it.

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adywan said:

Well i've just finished capturing every change and the total is a whopping 516 shots. I'm going to have to write out each change for each shot cuz you might not even spot some changes. I should have it all ready for you in a couple of days


Just goes to show how much work you did for this that we don't even appreciate yet. This is even better than a commentary, because you can say as much as you want about each frame as opposed to having to talk about something else because the movie kept going while you were telling us about deleting rontos.

Do people think I should circle the tiny little changes (the fly on the camera, shadow on the wall)? Or just leave them like a treasure hunt ("what is he talking about? OH, there!")?

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this sounds like just the thing that would have made a great dvd bonus feature. space it out a little, add a little muzak.
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Adywan and doubleofive - Greatly appreciate you doing these comparisons for us.

corellian77 - lol, I can't believe I've never noticed that either all these years! R2 tootling towards us must have always distracted us...
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I think for us to truly appreciate all the changes/fixes that Ady acomplished on his edit a splitscreen dvd would have to be made. Maybe wookieegroomer is up to the task? His splitscreen versions were really good in showing the changes made to the 2004 dvds.
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Ady, here my dvd wip psd.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=B10F159A074AB89D
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I've watched the xvid of this and was stunned. I kinda missed Tarkin at the end, but that was outweighed by me watching the Death Star doing its thing over and over and over again. I thought that was a brilliant idea. Kind of like someone diffusing a bomb with 1 second to go. :)

I'm going to read through this thread now, partly to catch up and partly to try and find where I can download the current DVD-5. (where is it?! I figured info would be added to the first post. Haha. :p)

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Links to the DVD-5 are here.

If you have the time/patience, I definitely think you should read the thread. I did the other day, and you learn so much about not only how this was done, but I'm impressed how many times "Lucas' spirit" tried to stop this. A couple times Ady lost nearly every file and had to start over again due to computer crashes, he got ill, he got discouraged, but he persevered That's dedication!

EDIT: I just noticed that Sluggo and my DVD covers are on the fanedit.org page. Thanks, whoever does that!

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