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To address this comment that Frink posted in another thread:

TV's Frink said:

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On a separate note, Moth3r deleted a few harmless off-topic posts in ady's ESB:R thread.  He has let plenty of other stuff slide in there, but something set him off this time.

The off-topic junk that fills up this thread literally makes my teeth grind. Jay and I have stepped in with warnings on several occasions, but these are quickly forgotten. 

Ady's ANH:R thread was only 335 pages long. This thread is currently at 753 pages and the edit is still several months away from completion.

No-one is totally innocent. Even Ady uses this thread to describe the renovation of his kitchen - which I can let slide - but posts about, for example, a Pacman game on Google's homepage are pure clutter and dilute any useful discussion.

I don't like deleting off-topic posts - I'd much rather move them to a new thread in the correct section of the forum, but the software doesn't have that facility yet. So, from now on, I have to ask everyone to PLEASE try and keep posts in this thread strictly related to Ady's edit.

Getting rid of the duplicate post glitch would certainly cut down on clutter. Haha. ;)

I'm checking out that link in your sig, Imp. I've done so before, but always nice to revisit. (unintentional pun)

"21.  Replacing snow mound Han shoots at Probe Droid from, to remove debris."

Hadn't really thought of that before. Filmed out of sequence, like the destroyed laser turret before the Hoth battle, maybe?

Ripplin said:

"21.  Replacing snow mound Han shoots at Probe Droid from, to remove debris."

Hadn't really thought of that before. Filmed out of sequence, like the destroyed laser turret before the Hoth battle, maybe?

OK, I have re done my AT-AT fall mini explosions. I kinda preferred my earlier more subtle version, I tried to add smoke plumes but it didnt work out great. However, think I got passed the De-interlaced problems.

Wondering which setting is correct though in sony vegas,

is it upper field first

lower field first,

or progressive scan.

PAL DV best or NTSC,

Anyhow, heres my clip....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1AMypI7L0k

Notice just as the AT-AT is blown to bits, i have included a subtle Shockwave.

I used the blur tool in photoshop and animated it blurring a dome as it goes boom. Very subtle so may need a few watches to notice it but it looks cool.

Shockwave is at approx.. 0:12

yoda1138 said:

OK, I have re done my AT-AT fall mini explosions. I kinda preferred my earlier more subtle version, I tried to add smoke plumes but it didnt work out great. However, think I got passed the De-interlaced problems.

Wondering which setting is correct though in sony vegas,

is it upper field first

lower field first,

or progressive scan.

PAL DV best or NTSC,

Anyhow, heres my clip....

 

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1AMypI7L0k" target="_blank" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1AMypI7L0k">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1AMypI7L0k</a>

 

Notice just as the AT-AT is blown to bits, i have included a subtle Shockwave.

I used the blur tool in photoshop and animated it blurring a dome as it goes boom. Very subtle so may need a few watches to notice it but it looks cool.

Shockwave is at approx.. 0:12

In order to try to keep this thread on topic, Ady has allowed me to write a review of the workprint I saw. I hope you enjoy it.

Revisiting My Favorite Movies

A couple of years ago I was introduced to a fan-edit project called “Star Wars Revisited”. This guy called Adywan was about to release an edit of the original Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope). He attempted to fix most of the continuity errors, enhance the existing special effects, and remove a lot of the ill-advised CG additions Lucas made to the movie in 1997. This involved color balancing the entire movie to fix something that had gone wrong on the DVD, re-rotoscoping every lightsaber and blaster bolt, and basically going over the movie with a fine-toothed comb to fix mistakes most people wouldn’t even realize were there. While he was in there, he decided to further enhance the movie with new effects and almost a completely new sound mix, creating what most fans believe the Special Edition should have been.

Shortly after he released his version of A New Hope, he moved on to The Empire Strikes Back. This made a lot of people worried. Empire is widely regarded as a “perfect” movie by fans, so some have feared that Adywan’s enhancements will detract from the perfection, especially after Adywan started talking about how he was going to build physical models and create all new shots with them and even found a group of costumers in California to film some new shots of Rebel Troopers fleeing the Imperial Walkers to replace some bad mattes.

After several delays, pushing his release date from May 2010 (the 30th anniversary of Empire) to December 2010 to sometime in 2011, Adywan decided to encourage the costuming group (a.k.a. Rogue Squadron) by sending them a rough draft workprint of the work he had completed through June 2010. He also sent one to me to get my opinion on what I thought of it so far.

Empire The Way Your Childhood Remembers It

A New Hope Revisited may be what the Special Edition should have been, but Empire Strikes Back Revisited is the way you want to remember Empire when you first saw it. I’ll try to explain what I mean.

All of the flaws you overlooked when you were young but bothered you now that you’re older are gone. The feeling of excitement during the Battle of Hoth and the Asteroid Field are back thanks to the enhancements giving them more depth. Yoda is more emotive and less puppet-like. Cloud City is the beautiful city in the clouds the Special Edition hinted at so briefly. The pointless Special Edition scene expansions are cut seamlessly away, almost making this more of a restoration of the theatrical version than a fan edit of the 2004 Special Edition.

The version I watched was a rough cut, with most effects shots being marked “TEMP VIDEO”, but the ideas were all there. Adywan isn’t making the Special Edition Lucas should have made; he’s making the version Young Adywan saw in theaters, using his modern skills to fill in where his imagination had to back in 1980. It is a worthy goal, and the time he is spending on it shows greatly. “As long as it takes” should be the mantra for fans waiting, because the wait will be worth it.

Your childhood will thank you.

yoda1138 said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1AMypI7L0k

I likes it! My only concern is that the explosions begin before it even touches the ground, especially apparent on the neck.

Nice writeup, 005!

Thanks 005 & Ripplin. 

Ripplin, the first flames actually come out as the chin hits the floor, as the chin bends the neck back, but i admit it needs work. I think I may have added the follow up flames too soon after the neck snaps making it look like an overall explosion.

It is a bit messy, i may have another attempt. It was only a rush job as i was mainly trying to work out deinterlacing issues, but wanted to see if it worked with a filmstrip file in photoshop.  Wish I could get hold of some 720p or full dvd footage to play with.

Thanks for your support guys. :-)

yoda1138 said:

the first flames actually come out as the chin hits the floor, as the chin bends the neck back

Ah yes, I see that now. Thanks! I just kept thinking the whole time 'but the neck isn't even touching the ground yet.' :p

I'm guessing yoda1138 wrote his reply in Notepad or something, then pasted it here? That's usually the cause. Should be back to normal by the next page.

yoda1138 said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1AMypI7L0k

After watching this, I'd have to say that, regardless of the additions of the explosions and the like, the scene with the rebel saying "c'mon!" and the following scene with the rebels running out of the trenchs and the snowspeeders flying overhead could be cut and replaced with rebels simply cheering or even take Rogue Squad to film a "rebels cheering in the trenches" scene.  To have them run out and then get killed by either the shrapnel or laserfire from other AT-ATs makes them look pretty stupid.

Let's put this into context: what would soldiers in WW2 do after a german tank is successfully taken out from say a planted mine from a soldier crawling underneath?  Get out of their foxholes and expose themselves to the other tanks, or cheer, keep their cover, and then start arming themselves with grenades and planning on repeating the same successful tactic?

Or instead of the "cmon" line he can say "the shields are down". thats why the speeder knows to shoot. I liked the visual presentation from yoda1138.

Makes sense.

-Angel