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The Empire Strikes Back "1980 Theatrical version" Reconstruction - Adywan (Released) — Page 12

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Ok, there are 79 of the ESB_THEATRICAL_ADYWAN_partXX.rar files and than there are the ESB_THEATRICAL_ADYWAN_volXXX_XX.PAR2 files, what are those?

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PAR2 files are fix corrupted RARs if there are any, so you don't have to re-download.

Just finished watching this and its quite astounding! Thank you so much Adywan. I'm sure this was more work than it looks and everyone will appreciate your efforts immensely.

Question though, I notice Han has his jacket airbrushed off in the carbon freezing scene, this wasn't on the 97 SE but the 2004 SE. How much of this is color-corrected 2004, rather than the 97 AVCHD? And why? Is it because of sharpness? I've never seen the 97 AVCHD and I kept thinking, man I can't believe how good the 97 release looked, but now I feel doubtful since at least some of this is the 2004 HD re-transfered.

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The '97 SE AVCHD' is an HDTV broadcast of the 2004 versions with major colour correction and the new Emperor, Boba and Anakin removed. There was never an HD broadcast of the '97 SE version as far as I know.

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The AVCHD is a recreation of the 1997 SE, similar to this. Both are based on the 1080p German HDTV showing of the 2004 SE

Judge got it too.

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Too bad, the SFX of the hatch is pretty invisible but the shirt was a bit jarring since I wasn't expecting it (especially since the "fix" is wrong in the first place). I'm not sure what it is, but I also thought "bring my shuttle" was a bit tinny and flat, maybe because it's a 2.0 mix patched into a 5.1, but it definitely didn't have the oomph I remembered. But oh well.

Anyway, this is an amazing, amazing piece of work. I haven't enjoyed watching ESB this much since 1997. The blends for the most part are first rate--I was scrutinizing the edges so I could usually tell how Adywan did it, (there's a lot of matte painting scans in Cloud City and Lando's announcement starts as the 2004 release and then blends into the GOUT pretty smoothly), but if I wasn't looking I doubt I would have noticed, it's that good. I do understand what he means when he says an HD version is out of the question--you can see some wobble and grain and detail smearing in the patches if you look closely, you get away with it in SD but it would stand out a lot if the surrounding material was native HD. Too bad. The transfer is so sharp that if you uprezed this for your HD set it would still look awesome though, it's obviously not as good as the native HD broadcasts but it gives them a good run for their money IMO, and it has no retarded coloring to boot. The official transfers look really soft when you stand them up next to Adywan's HD downconversions, and this one is exceptional once again.

Again, thanks Adywan--this thing is quite astounding. I was amazed at how well the footage all blended together and how great the image looks, I'll bet if you told people this was a new HD transfer from an original 35mm source people would believe you.

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Also, Adywan, I know I am pressing my luck here but...

...any plans for a dual-layered release? This thing looks so fantastic that the most complaints I have against the image are from compression artifacting. I don't even have a dual-layered burner but I'd either find one or just continue watching it from my HDD.

Just a thought. Even if it's at a later date, a dual-layered version would be something worthwhile IMO. It might even give you a chance to do additional work on it ;) .

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any have alink or could send me rar 54 as having trouble downloading it?

 jdownloader says its temp unavailable??

many thanks

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jaklas said:

any have alink or could send me rar 54 as having trouble downloading it?

PM sent. 

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Version #3.  A little more colorful than the previous ones, but I've run out of posters.  The background is indeed Dagobah.  I scanned it in from "The Art of The Empire Strikes Back" book.  There's a fourth version I want to do, but I cannot find a high res version this poster.  It would, obviously, be the Cloud City edition in the collection.

-NJM

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OK, I gave the wampa scene a shot at 720p and I think the results aren't bad.

I used Adywan's AVCHD and the THEATRICAL RECONSTRUCTION to put together the Wampa scene as it was in the original TESB, exept for one shot, which I didn't mind in the SE, who can tell which one it is? :-D

You can check it out on YouTube

 

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BTW. while making that video I noticed the whole wampa scene is a lot bluer in the reconstruction than the AVCHD. Why's that Ady?

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just a quick thanks to the people on here that help me get this masterpiece. many thanks.

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ZeN said:

Master Adywan^^

Although it was difficult for me at first, grow the film to me, I still managed!
I think whoever wants to have this great movie, should also do what it.

I want to thank you / thank them, the film is fantastic, I have never seen him so.
I'm really looking forward to the final ESB Revisited version, and I have absolute confidence in that this is Truly Great.
Hope of course still in German language:)
Otherwise, I must make ..

Well, long story short of it, Thanks, Thanks, Thanks !!!!!

This is absolutely great! It wouldn't be so funny if we wouldn't get the point. Well, the universe is big...cheers, Zen

wise you must be.
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WOW Nicholas those covers are beautiful - are they available for download yet please? That first cover is the poster I associate the most with Empire from my hazy memories of 1980!

I wish they'd use these poster designs for official releases - every post since 1997 just hasn't has that sweeping epic quality of the originals. Poster art seems to be a dying artform unfortunately :s

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Lord__Vader said:

OK, I gave the wampa scene a shot at 720p and I think the results aren't bad.

I used Adywan's AVCHD and the THEATRICAL RECONSTRUCTION to put together the Wampa scene as it was in the original TESB, exept for one shot, which I didn't mind in the SE, who can tell which one it is? :-D

You can check it out on YouTube

 

 

I haven't seen Ady's Theatrical Reconstruction yet but what shots are in his version that weren't in the original 1980's version?

"The Empire can't stop us now..now its our turn" -Luke-

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GhostAlpha26 said:

I haven't seen Ady's Theatrical Reconstruction yet but what shots are in his version that weren't in the original 1980's version?

OK, did you watch the scene on YOUTUBE? Because if you did, then your question is exactly what I hoped to hear, you actually couldn't tell which of the shots were not HD :-)

And to answer you, it's just two shots: the one of a moving shadow in an empty cave right after Luke wakes up and then the brief glimpse of the monster when Luke tries to pull his lightsabre.

EDIT: Oops, misread the question, Ady's reconstruction is exactly as it was in the 1980 original, it is his AVCHD that keeps the SE Wampa scenes.