MAKING HYPERSPACE
PART 3 - RETURN OF THE JEDI:
NOTE: Again, a lot of repeated steps. Also, unfortunately, I seem to have lost some of my details for color/level correction.
RETURN OF THE JEDI
STAGE 1
TOLLS: AviSynth and VirtualDub
STAGE 1-A
VirtualDub filters are identical to STAGE 1-A of Star Wars and Empire. But, because the source is PAL GOUT (not NTSC), there are some differences in the AviSynth script:
NNEDI2(dh=true, field=0)
NNEDI2(dh=false,field=1)AAA()
AAA()
spline64resize (1280, 618)
addborders (0,51,0,51)orig = last
temp = orig.TemporalSoften(3,255,255,25,2)
int = Interleave(temp.Repair(orig),orig)
DePan(int,data=DePanEstimate(int,trust=0,dxmax=1,dymax=0),offset=-1)
SelectEvery(2,0)
super = MSuper(pel=2, sharp=2,levels=7)
backward_vec2 = MAnalyse(super, isb = true, delta = 2, overlap=2)
forward_vec2 = MAnalyse(super, isb = false, delta = 2, overlap=2)
MDegrain1(super, backward_vec2,forward_vec2,thSAD=200)
Levels(0, 1, 255, 0, 250)
STAGE 1-B
This is where, ordinarily, I'd post the color/level correction details for the opening text scroll. Unfortunately, my settings file for VirtualDub is M.I.A. Sorry.
STAGE 2
TOOLS: Photoshop and Sony Vegas
Like Star Wars, Photoshop was used to recreate the subtitles for alien-speak. In Sony Vegas, both pieces of video from Stage 1 were edited together (according to Rebellion to preserve the audio).
Additionally, because PAL GOUT is a few frames longer during the introduction of the Rebel fleet, those frames were edited to ensure sync to the Rebellion soundtracks.
And, yet again, still photos were used for the opening Lucasfilm and "A Long Time Ago..." text screens, though the dissolves were preserved.
The alien subtitles were timed and overlaid in the appropriate areas. A Quickblur: 0.750 filter was also applied to the subtitles.
STAGE 3
TOOLS: AviSynth and VirtualDub
Finally, back to VirtualDub and Avisynth to create the final master AVI file. Here's the script:
fft3dfilter (sigma=2, bt=1, sharpen=0.0, plane=0)
fft3dfilter (sigma=3, bt=1, sharpen=0.0, plane=3)
fft3dfilter (sigma=3, bt=-1, sharpen=0.5, plane=0)
crop (14,88,-8,-88,align=true)
addborders (11,88,11,88)
Once the master AVI was complete, Return of the Jedi was rendered into an H264 file using MeGUI and the AVCHD was created with TSMuxerGUI.