vbangle said:

What are your guy's opinions about the softness of the latest clip? Did it look a little soft to anybody else? I just hope Adywan didn't bother with sharpening up the image because it was just a preview clip. His stuff usually is so crisp and clear, seeing lots of detail.

ANH:R, even though it was only DVD resolution was very detailed and crisp without too much haloing or over sharpening. IMO of course.

I never sharpen the video when encoding. I used a different encoder (the main concept h264 built into After effects) because i haven't re-installed all of my programs/ codecs on my new PC yet. Main concept encoder is crap and has always suffered with softening an image both with its Mpeg encoder and its H264 one.

brash_stryker said:

Also, I don't want to be thought of as a nitpicker again, but I'm a little curious what everyone thinks. I've always thought the Executor's engines were more of a true red than an orange. On the off chance that I was just colour blind, I looked it up and Wookiepedia says the engines are red. I just recall the glow being deeper coloured in the original that's all. Can anyone offer their thoughts, even if it's just to contradict me?

I never trust any of the "...pedia's". There is only one shot in ESB where the engines are red and in that shot (the bottom shot) the engines have been added later as you can tell that the lights aren't even turned on (no light reflection on the underside). All other shots the engines are orange. Taken from the GOUT;

As for the meditation chamber view screen, i have removed all of the graphics and have just kept the outer detailing. It did look too busy so i'm going to keep those to use in ROTJ:R