How bout you just ste, I mean Barrow your friends computer.
The person your searching for simply does not exist
I have a P4 2.8 processor, Radeon Mobile 9000 card, and I have a smooth playback most of the time, only one scene very very slightly jerky. Using Core AVC decoder and Media Player Clasic. CPU load goes from 50% - 100%, but mainly around 80%-90%.
I LOVE the tauntaun facial movements. It is a small thing, but makes all the difference. Tauntaun looks much more believable. And the HD resolution ... impressive, most impressive!
Ok...I just thought of a little thing that's kinda bugged me for years (well, bugged's a bit harsh...but I know you guys, you like the dramatic stuff)
It's more of a sound issue really. It's the beep beep beep that Lando does with his watch thingy to Lobot. It's the same beep beep beep as Luke's on Hoth. Plus, Lando's beep is not in sync with his finger movement.
Like I said, just a small thing!
Nice clip there adyman. Did you put extra lights on the Star Destroyer, or is it just me seeing things?
doubleofive said:
HotRod said:
003.25 all you need to do now is a moving shot....Come on man, show the skills!!
I have the knowledge but not the technology, Rodimus Prime. It makes me sad.
and 00.12345 - I haven't reach that stage in my life yet man, haven't got hold of the Matrix thing just yet...Still plain old HotRod for now!
There are no extra light IMO. It's just that the 2004 SE colors so fucked up, so the lights almost blend in with the ship.
HotRod said:
It's the beep beep beep that Lando does with his watch thingy to Lobot. It's the same beep beep beep as Luke's on Hoth. Plus, Lando's beep is not in sync with his finger movement.
Like I said, just a small thing!
Just a small thing, but how cool a fix would that be?! It's something I've always noticed, too. Well, not so much the actual sound, but the sync.
I thought the clip looked great!
I was wondering about how much work you are doing with the opening crawls...
I know you reworked the one for SWR to match the others. The vertical placement of the crawls is different in all six movies. Of you overlaid all six crawls from the films on each other, you get this:
It is a small thing, but it would be great to see the crawls along the same plane. Not that one watches all six at once, but it is more of a subconscious thing.
Um...
I added that now... as well as double checking that I did indeed add the part about thelight on the falcon wiggling when 3P0 and Chewie hit it.
I'm watching the video now Ady... REALLY nice sounding so far (although it's in PAL!! grrr) lol
no no no no no no no...
I see that you used the SE to replace the music for the Main Title. You shouldn't do that. The SE is mixed incorrectly.
About half the score when they went to put it on the SE still had the Tomlinson original mixes intact...BUT... the otherhalf had to be remixed... it was remixed in a singular afternoon... Because of this, every track that was remixed is critically flawed.
The Sound Field is narrowed, and the HORNS are flipped... meaning things Like "Main Title" have horns flipped, tracks like "Hyperspace" have the strings too narrow... and the "Imperial March" lacks a lot of its depth and widness...
I'm soo glad you're cleaning up the music, but you can't use the SE... in all honesty... please don't.
If you'd like, I'll post a list of tracks you can use from the SE and tracks you cannot us as well as possible better sources or I can even send you some of mine... mix them especially for you seeing as this is a film and not an ablum, they should be mixed slightly different.
I think what you're doing sounds amazing though... it really does and I'm very pleased with the outcome. I'm not use to watching the film in PAL... it feels like it going along so much faster this way... although the music pitch shift makes me shiver lol :-p
And the film LOOKS very crisp. You say it's a low bitrate but it does look amazing. Are you useing an HD broadcast? I wasn't aware one had been done.
It looks great. I see you got rid of the pupetters arm in the attack... and left footprints in the snow...as well as adding a bit of motion blur to the taun taun.. nice... and the taun taun's subtle acting... that definately helps out a lot. It gives it just enough variety that it doesn't seem too stagnant.
All in all, a VERY nice example of why we love you hehe
Is it not sad that in this time, we are more surprised by acts of love than acts of hate?
-Me
GoodMusician said:
no no no no no no no...
I see that you used the SE to replace the music for the Main Title. You shouldn't do that. The SE is mixed incorrectly.
About half the score when they went to put it on the SE still had the Tomlinson original mixes intact...BUT... the otherhalf had to be remixed... it was remixed in a singular afternoon... Because of this, every track that was remixed is critically flawed.
The Sound Field is narrowed, and the HORNS are flipped... meaning things Like "Main Title" have horns flipped, tracks like "Hyperspace" have the strings too narrow... and the "Imperial March" lacks a lot of its depth and widness...
I'm soo glad you're cleaning up the music, but you can't use the SE... in all honesty... please don't.
i did say it was a rough mix & it was just for the benefit of the clip and nothing more. i won't be doing any audio work until i have the video section locked down, due to editing. But it would be great if you could let me know what pieces of the SE soundtrack are ok to use. I would be using the Anthology box set for the music anyway. also your mix of Bobas voice sounds pretty good, but i really hate Morrrison's performance and will be sticking with the original superior voice.
Sluggo said:
I thought the clip looked great!
I was wondering about how much work you are doing with the opening crawls...
I know you reworked the one for SWR to match the others. The vertical placement of the crawls is different in all six movies.
It is a small thing, but it would be great to see the crawls along the same plane. Not that one watches all six at once, but it is more of a subconscious thing.
Um...
No, i'm making the colouring of the crawl uniform throughout all 6 movies, but not the placement.
Ripplin said:
HotRod said:
It's the beep beep beep that Lando does with his watch thingy to Lobot. It's the same beep beep beep as Luke's on Hoth. Plus, Lando's beep is not in sync with his finger movement.
Like I said, just a small thing!
Just a small thing, but how cool a fix would that be?! It's something I've always noticed, too. Well, not so much the actual sound, but the sync.
That's one things thats bugged me too so i will be fixing that
Josh said:
How bout you just ste, I mean Barrow your friends computer.
What?
Kurgan said:
Jeyl said:
I have a question (and forgive me for bringing this up again). What is your final word on the spiraling Star Field when the Millennium Falcon goes into Hyperspace? I know you talked about consistency in visuals, but I personally believe that this instance doesn't need any visual tweaking for the sake of continuity. Everything in Star Wars whether it's blasters, lightsabers, space fighters, force effects or sound effects always have their own unique style compared to each other. It's kind of like why all the Hyperspace charging sound effects keep changing from movie to movie.
I know that the spiraling stars are not used in the prequel trilogy, but neither are the stretching stars from the cockpit point of view. And if you look at it from a technical stand point, the spiraling effect is used in 2/3 of the original trilogy! You could try and find a way to incorporate the stretching stars and spiraling star field into the prequels if you ever get around to them (I can think of a way to do the Naboo cruiser from Episode One going into hyperspace easily), kind of like with Jango's voice when he's wearing the helmet.
Believe me. The spiraling Star Field was not an accident that the crew just slapped on there, nor was it something that fans argued about or even disputed about. Heck, Lucas doesn't even have any issues with it! Isn't that a first? And as I've said before, the effect itself is even reproduced in a lot of Star Wars products like in Knights of the Old Republic! And like the movies, it's only reproduced if the circumstances are right. So why not leave it in? It doesn't hurt the story, disrupt the pace or bring up questions on how Hyperspace works. It's just a tiny little awesome element that works on it's own right that really does give it a bigger boost of energy that is not present in a static star field.
- Jeyl
I found the shot you're talking about and I agree the spinning starfield on takeoff looks better. I miss it now... :(
I explained before that the spinning starfield will eb gone, same as in ANH:R. I've never liked it at all. It also only appears in eps IV & V and in the rest there is no spinning starfield. So its gone. Discussion over. lol
Kurgan said:
Looks great (though I still think the guy standing to our right of the Laser Turret looks way too static and similar to the later shot during the battle)!
However the file was pretty jerky on my mac at work here. Anyone else have that issue?
I haven't finished the FX work yet. I'm looking for another character to replace him. I don't have any jerking issue on my PC when playing it.
doubleofive said:
Here's another mock-up of both the darker Star Destroyer and a Super Star Destroyer that better matches the lighting in the next shot.
Much better . the executor's shadowing matches the previous shot now
rlockhart said:
You want the impossible Luke's line At 1:11:26 of ESB Any one else notice the ground around Yoda, when luke steps and the ground around Yoda flexes , and sinks. I dont know how to post a pictue of the clip, but that was always something that took me out of that scene of the movie. I posted this before but nobody chimmed in so any boby want to give this a look and opinion also Can that be fixed.
Yes , this was mentioned before. At first i was going to put it down to it being set in a swamp but upon closer inspection the ground moves a bit to much and the movement covers too much area. I'm going to fix this.
nabakov said:
I'd love to see the blinking red light fitting on the exterior of the Falcon fixed as Chewie bumps into it with C-3PO on his back during the escape from Cloud City, damn that thing looks cheap when it comes loose after a little bump.
The Wampas dismembered arm is the wrong size for where it is cut. Annoying.
Can't agree more with returning Boba Fett's voice to the original, how about returning the Slave 1 audio to the original as well? The recycled sound from that Attack of the Clones movie is irritating.
How about a HD release when all is said and done. It would be beautiful.
The light will be fixed, the wampa shot will be gone so there will be no problem with the length of the severed arm.
As for a HD release, well here's the crunch. My PC isn't capable of working with HD footage with all the work being done on it. But, now i had a go with a quad core and saw what its capable of then i'm hooked. So i'm announcing that production of ESB:R has now officially stopped until later in the year. Not only have i still got to find the money for the monitor but i really want to upgrade the processor to quad core and do a 720p version (although there won't be a HD version of ANH:R. Its impossible to do now.) I reckon it will take me until about Xmas to save up enough for the processor. It just isn't worth me doing any more work on it if i'm going to be changing resolution to work with.
I am prepared to contribute for your hardware, as soon as I get the paycheck from my new job! :)
You should put your e-mail address for donations in your first post. Don't worry about how it sounds; we all know what's going on. If someone doesn't like it, they'll either just not donate, or they'll donate out of spite! ;) I know I will try to help when I'm able. Just give us a friendly reminder from time to time. (or we can do it ourselves, like right now)
Adywan I live in the States so let me know how to make a cotribution and its as good as done, send me a PM with some info ! I want my ESB in 720p
hey adywan i am trying to watch your new video but i am having some problems it always freezes and jerky sometimes and it is irritating me could plz pm me an original link that used windows media player? i really want to see it and my media player also features HD thanks man
high definition, at last!
with this, and the 35mm version going high definition..
it will be a good time for fans of 'empire strikes back'...
later
-1
[no GOUT in CED?-> GOUT CED]
Pisoga said:
hey adywan i am trying to watch your new video but i am having some problems it always freezes and jerky sometimes and it is irritating me could plz pm me an original link that used windows media player? i really want to see it and my media player also features HD thanks man
You should try VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/). It's small, efficient, and it plays almost anything.
rlockhart said:
Adywan I live in the States so let me know how to make a cotribution and its as good as done, send me a PM with some info ! I want my ESB in 720p
It's in my sig
adywan said: I explained before that the spinning starfield will eb gone, same as in ANH:R. I've never liked it at all.
I think you should be more open to preservation Ady. There is nothing wrong with having something you don't like in a film if others admire it. After all, Lucas always said that he was never happy with the original Star Wars movies, but did we complain? I don't think so, but he went ahead and changed them anyways. Now we have you, doing one heck of a good job but now it's the same thing all over again. Changing what's not broken that fans actually like.
adywan said:
So its gone. Discussion over. lol
Please, if I wanted a response like that I would have gone to Steve Sansweet's on stage presentation for the un-altered DVDs.
"the transfers from the bonus discs are absolutely incredible, because these are pristine master tapes, and I have never seen—despite what you may have heard on Internet rumours—a better transfer of a movie."
Jeyl said:
adywan said: I explained before that the spinning starfield will eb gone, same as in ANH:R. I've never liked it at all.I think you should be more open to preservation Ady. There is nothing wrong with having something you don't like in a film if others admire it. After all, Lucas always said that he was never happy with the original Star Wars movies, but did we complain? I don't think so, but he went ahead and changed them anyways. Now we have you, doing one heck of a good job but now it's the same thing all over again. Changing what's not broken that fans actually like.
adywan said:
So its gone. Discussion over. lolPlease, if I wanted a response like that I would have gone to Steve Sansweet's on stage presentation for the un-altered DVDs.
"the transfers from the bonus discs are absolutely incredible, because these are pristine master tapes, and I have never seen—despite what you may have heard on Internet rumours—a better transfer of a movie."
But i'm not doing a preservation. Why don't people get that? The whole thing started off because i wanted to make an edit that i was happy with, changing things that i didn't like. But then i put details about it here and then got other peoples opinions & suggestions, while still staying true to my original vision. If i was going to do something that everyone would like then i would be doing a restoration of the OUT. I'm not going to change my mind about it especially when only a couple of people don't like the change and wasn't an issue when it was gone in ANH:R. Oh and my comment about the discussion being over was supposed to be light hearted (hence adding lol after it).
adywan said:
rlockhart said:
Adywan I live in the States so let me know how to make a cotribution and its as good as done, send me a PM with some info ! I want my ESB in 720p
It's in my sig
I am new to this so point me in the right direction how do I get to your sig sorry about the ignorance.
rlockhart said:
adywan said:
rlockhart said:
Adywan I live in the States so let me know how to make a cotribution and its as good as done, send me a PM with some info ! I want my ESB in 720p
It's in my sig
I am new to this so point me in the right direction how do I get to your sig sorry about the ignorance.
no probs. the sig is at the end of all my posts
that sucks that you're putting it on hold. I don't see the point in waiting for a new processor but its not my work so I don't criticize you. I think what you did before is great so why put it off??? I guess I can find a new forum to geek in for a few months. Anyway, this "Revisit" isn't as exciting as ANH:R since almost nothing really "needs" fixing. Everything that is to be fixed is really only super minor details, unlike ANH which needed to be updated and adjusted to fit in with the rest of the saga. I guess we'll just have to bide our time. I'm working on AOTC myself since that seems to have the potential for being a great movie if properly trimmed. I did a test edit of the Dooku saber fights and I realize just how time consuming this kind of work is. If only I had the special effects skills of you Adywan. I have the artistic eye but lack the technical know how. I guess I'll be spending my time obsessing over my own edit for the next 6 months instead of obsessing over yours.
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Darth Stewie, there's a reason why he wrote it as 'adywan (at) hotmail (dot) co (dot) uk' and not as a normal e-mail address. You might want to erase that. ;)
Jeyl said:
Please, if I wanted a response like that I would have gone to Steve Sansweet's on stage presentation for the un-altered DVDs.
It's not your edit. It's Ady's. He can do whatever the hell he wants. All we can do is make SUGGESTIONS, and if he says "No" to a SUGGESTION, why bother bringing it up again? It's just beating a dead horse.
As Ady said, this isn't a "preservation" at ALL. If you're not happy with how it turns out, and you want a preservation, go watch the GOUT, or a PRESERVATION project.
Jeyl said:
adywan said: I explained before that the spinning starfield will eb gone, same as in ANH:R. I've never liked it at all.I think you should be more open to preservation Ady. There is nothing wrong with having something you don't like in a film if others admire it. After all, Lucas always said that he was never happy with the original Star Wars movies, but did we complain? I don't think so, but he went ahead and changed them anyways. Now we have you, doing one heck of a good job but now it's the same thing all over again. Changing what's not broken that fans actually like.
Jeyl, if you're looking for an ESB preservation, they're working on a hi-def one here:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/35mm--empire-strikes-back/topic/9497/
They're going to be using the hi-def ESB SE broadcast and an original 1980 35mm print to fill in most of the SE alterations.
adywan said:
rlockhart said:
adywan said:
rlockhart said:
Adywan I live in the States so let me know how to make a cotribution and its as good as done, send me a PM with some info ! I want my ESB in 720p
It's in my sig
I am new to this so point me in the right direction how do I get to your sig sorry about the ignorance.
no probs. the sig is at the end of all my posts
Let me know if I did it right.
Don't worry Ady... you've got the support of at least quite a few of us here...
And I DID realize it was a temp mix hehe... I just figured I'd say it NOW becuase it's not something most people are aware of. I'll trying to dig up all the information ont he score I can and compile it and where to find things so you can have an idea of where the best sources would be... (I would simply say use my edit but its up to you... I can always remix new things for you for this as well heh).
We all do appreciate you keeping us up to date and informed. I was curious though ady, have you tried looking up how much the processor would be on newegg.com ...I custom built my computer with parts through that website... it's a good place to go... quite a lot cheoper tahn usual sites and runs quite a few promos every once in a while too.
OH AND ADY! I meant to ask...
Did you mix "Probe Droid" in at the right spot for me?! lol :-p
Is it not sad that in this time, we are more surprised by acts of love than acts of hate?
-Me
