Harmy's STAR WARS TRILOGY "Partly Despecialized Edition" HD. !!! These version are now obsolete - Look for Despecialized Editions instead!!! — Page 19

Harmy said:

Oh, and here's a new version of the "look sir, droids" clip. I remade the wipe and adjusted the Dewback to fit in better and start moving at the correct time (although that is still not quite perfect but I don't think it will get any better).

Looks good Harmy, impressive stuff. Simple but effective.

I'm not a big fan of the Sandcrawler but whatever. To reiterate what Harmy has said before these are not theatrical reconstructions and he only wants to use HD elements. Hence the use of the new Sandcrawler shot.

Harmy, whats going on with that Dewback in the background? I can't quite remember the SE shot but was that one slightly animated for the SE (as once it was completely stationary) or was that the Dewback you removed that I'm remembering?

Jaitea said:

This is just a quick mock-up

 

 

Sorry, but what wasn't the whole point supposed to be for the background to be less CG in that shot? Because your mock-up leaves all the obviously CG buildings in and replaces the obviously original ground. I know the SE ground looks kind of too sharp and stuff when compared to the GOUT but I think that's only because it's an HD transfer (but I did blur it a bit for my version) and when you compare them closely, you can see that the SE ground is exactly the same as in the GOUT but the GOUT is just blurred due to the shitty transfer. You can see it in the picture bellow. 1st is the GOUT, 2nd is the SE and 3rd is mine. The only thing I think it needs is a bit more red tint, which I'm gonna add when I do the colour correction.

 

 

see you auntie said:

Looks good Harmy, impressive stuff. Simple but effective.

 

Thanks, it was a lot less simple than it looks though, I'll get to that later :-)

 

I'm not a big fan of the Sandcrawler but whatever. To reiterate what Harmy has said before these are not theatrical reconstructions and he only wants to use HD elements. Hence the use of the new Sandcrawler shot.

 

Well, I'm not using exclusively HD elements but as many as possible without leaving obvious CG in, so I will be using the GOUT (or hopefully DJ's V3) for like some of the Yavin battle.

 

Harmy, whats going on with that Dewback in the background? I can't quite remember the SE shot but was that one slightly animated for the SE (as once it was completely stationary) or was that the Dewback you removed that I'm remembering?

 

Oh, yeah, for the SE, the original Dewback in the background was removed and instead two obviously CG ones were added. I tried rontoscoping in the GOUT one but the difference in quality was too big, so I reconstructed the original one in HD using a production photo and I had to track the motion of the camera frame by frame. And also, about two seconds of that shot were cut off at the beginning of it, so I had to deal with that too by several times repeating the few frames before the stormtrooper moves. 

OK, that does look a bit better. Can you do that in 1280x544, preferably perfectly aligned to mine, so I can just re-render the shot with it? I can post the full rez one if you want.

Here's the full 1280x544 background I made in BMP :-)

I don't know, man, I mean, I quite like it, it does seem a bit more consistent with the background buildings but I think I'll just go with the original one I made and just colour correct it. I like how sharp it is, it gives it more of an HD feel for me. And you may notice that I made the ground gradually blurrier towards the back, so I may just try strengthening that effect a little.

Wow, that's great, thanks :-)

Well, I made these in the 1st place for myself (to have a version I'd like to watch and show to my friends and family) and then I figured why not share it with others as well :-)

Harmy said:

Oh, yeah, for the SE, the original Dewback in the background was removed and instead two obviously CG ones were added. I tried rontoscoping in the GOUT one but the difference in quality was too big, so I reconstructed the original one in HD using a production photo and I had to track the motion of the camera frame by frame. And also, about two seconds of that shot were cut off at the beginning of it, so I had to deal with that too by several times repeating the few frames before the stormtrooper moves. 

Harmy said:

Thanks, it was a lot less simple than it looks though...

You're not wrong :)

Sorry if this is confusing, but let the first post be your guide. These new videos are just tests for the next version, which I didn't even begin making yet.

Finally got me some dvds, may I also have links?

I feel like a luddite for not yet having a BD or even DVD/DL burner yet.  Can anyone recommend a particular burner for burning disks such as these? I can tell I desperately need to upgrade.

My regular old DVD burner burns em just fine. Just use IMGburn and it should work on a regular DVD burner. I figure it should, because mine is 6 years old and was a lower quality one.