PaulisDead2221 said:
zee944 said:
Wait... you mean ALL the work you've done with this project so far is GONE? Painting light sabres, layering stars in and out, color correcting, removing yitter, and a lot of other things in the past 2 or 3 years I can't even remember, all for nothing?

Well I didn't paint any lightsabers. I tried to bring back the stars for the opening shot. Color correcting was all about trying to tweak it from the histogram functions in avisynth. I don't know what yitter is. All I was doing (and had to do about ten times over and over again) was edit in the non-CGI shots, mix HD/GOUT elements when possible, try to get the avisynth automatic color correction function working, collecting audio, making my own mix, and of course try and export the project so I could see how I was doing (this I never could get to not fail during the encoding process). It was lame, but yes all that is gone. Any one attempt never took any more than a few weeks before I hit an insurmountable wall.

Again, an edit like this only takes a few weeks. It was running into territory where I didn't know what i was doing that was the problem (ie manual color correction, trying to correct a couple lightsaber shots). I will try again when new source material presents itself.

I've meant jitter, sorry. Judging from the opinions in this thread you were still doing better then the earlier versions. Quite sad all this has been lost. On mixing HD/GOUT elements you mean taking a part of a frame from the first source, notching it with the other part of the same frame from the other source? And this way covering a new creature George put in the background, for instance?

Anyway, I hope you'll try again doing a HD version of Star Wars. Count with me with the color correction issue, I really think it is worth a try. It may not be good enough for this source, but there's a chance it'll turn out very well.