see you auntie said:
The changes that you've made are well executed but unfortunately for me there still to much SE for me to enjoy the edit. I hope I don't sound critical or unappreciative because your work is really good and I knew exactly what was changed and what wasn't before I downloaded and watched it. I'm also aware this was a project for yourself and your viewing habits that you were kind enough to share with us, so good work considering the source material you have to work with.
Well, I must say I wouldn't mind less SE in my edit but those shots that I left in in Mos Eisley are god awful in GOUT so I had to kinda strike a balance between de-SEing and watchable quality.
I do have a couple of questions.
Did you use any of Adywan's Revisited (which I've not seen) in your edit. The reason I ask is I'm led to believe Adywan painstakingly removed the Ronto that walks in front of the Landspeeder at the Stormtrooper checkpoint and other such things. Did you use these shots?
No, I did use them for my version 1.0 but they were still just an upscale from DVD (although anamorphic) and with all due respect to Adywan, I must say I'm not a big fan of rotoscoping the changes out this way, now instead of the Ronto, a big blurry cloud starts moving over the screen. Don't get me wrong, Ady did an amazing job on these but I still prefer just cutting in enhanced GOUT.
Also I noticed that the blinking garbage compactor creature and tractor beam display text remain from the 2004 SE's. Is there not HD material from the '97 SE available for these shots?
Well, I don't mind the blinking creature but I would have liked to change to TRACTOR BEAM back to English, but I couldn't find the 97 SE of starwars anywhere. But the 97 SE is not available in HD, it is just an anamorphic TV capture.
And the removal of the Han and Jabba confrontation leaves a straight cut rather than the dissolve seen in the '77 theatrical. I assume there's not enough frames available on the ends of either scene to achieve the dissolve.
That is exactly the case. Notice that even without a transition, the shot that follows is slightly out of sync with sound because of the missing frames. Luckily the next shot is a bit longer in the SE so it was fixed rather easily after that.
I should get to the other two films soon and I look forward to them.
I hope you enjoy them :-)