DarthSmokey said:

If you want to try again, get me a 720p or 1080i original green screen shot on HDV (or that Panasonic thingy) and I can match the grain and junk for you and send you nice, ready to use Alpha channeled mov, Ady. Dont even need to move the cam if you frame it fully.

It wasn't just the issue of matching the footage. the main obstacle was using a motion control camera rig then any model footage filmed looked like it belonged in something like thunderbirds so any thought of creating new models shots has been dropped. Thanks for the offer though

bkev said:

Hey, Ady, this might have been addressed, but will you be using HD footage for this edit?

Yes i am using the German broadcast footage for the movie but i have had to scale it down to 1024x576 because its just impossible to do all the work that i am doing using full HD sized footage. The computer just grinds to a hault. But the image, even scaled down. looks hell of a lot sharper than if i used the DVD as a source.

GhostAlpha26 said:

So your planning to return it to exactly how it was or as close as possible if you cant find "Luke" being said by Ian?

Yes. The new dialogue is so out of place. It jumps out to you that it was written at different times. You don't need to explain who skywalker is. we already know he destroyed the Death Star. The whole "changing the dialogue to TIE in the PT" is another one of the changes George has made that was totally unnecessary.

Recently the threads have taken a bit of a turn and are becoming a more PT/SE vs OUT. My personal feelings is that they should all be able to co-exist> The PT can never be said to be the same quality film making that the OUT was (and its not an age thing because i know a lot of younger people that have grown up with all versions of the saga realising what a pile of crap the PT turned out to be compared to the OT (although Jedi was heading that way and was a taste of things to come)

There is only 1 person to blame for the bad dialogue, wooden acting, and bed editing and that isn't the actors or technicians... it it George. If he had handed over the reigns to a good director you would have seen better performances. If he hadn't surrounded himself with "yes" men then some of the failings of the PT probably wouldn't have existed. And if he had stayed out of the editing room, stuck to writing just the storyline and got someone better to write the screenplay & made sure that Ben Burtt stayed as the sound effects editor then we would have seen a totally different trilogy, and Star Wars would most likely have still been as great as it once was.

Jedi became the sign to us all that the George we all loved was gone. His divorce changed him. His ideas were gone and Jedi proved that. That movie was just ANH rehashed and is the weakest of the OT. Empire, however, was original and had some great acting performances. It is undoubtedly the best in the entire saga. This is why the new lines and their delivery stick out like a sore thumb.

I don't hate the PT by a long shot. it does have some great moments but the bad, at the moment, out way the good. I think the PT can be saved somewhat and i am going to attempt that when i get around to them (if only they would release a better TPM transfer with the new CG Yoda instead of that horrendous puppet). But my philosophy is to change the PT to better suit the OT and not the other way around (apart from visual FX clean-ups and changes to the OT of course)

on to another point that someone raised and that is Boba Fett in Jedi. I really like the idea of removing him completely. his character is useless in that movie and adds nothing so he really doesn't need to be in it and, to be honest, if he wasn't there you wouldn't miss him. I think he was only put in ROTJ because he became such a popular character since his appearance in ESB but George really didn't know what to do with him and therefore ruined such a great and mysterious character. .....

But all that really need to wait until i start my ROTJ:R thread as this one should really stick to being just for ideas and suggestions for ESB or everything becomes too hard to keep track of.