ireactions said:
dlvh said:
<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.383333206176758px; ">Now I know previously that Harmy wanted these type of "problems/errors" or whatever you want to call them, be reported to him in a PM, which I did, and he gave me his permission to post this to the the forum. <span style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>
Harmy has (rightly) lifted that request on the grounds that he doesn't want to censor people's criticisms and discussions.
Personally, I would be *very* interested to see people talk about areas of the Despecialization where the process is flawed. The only places where I've felt the seams showed were the shot of the speeder in Mos Eisley and in RETURN OF THE JEDI where the added smoke to the GOUT-frames of Jabba fades away in a very unnatural manner, losing density, then staying consistent for a bit, then losing density again, then staying consistent, then disappearing entirely. But my interest isn't in criticizing Harmy, but rather in better understanding the process and the work and maybe what solutions could be used, if any exist.
If the shot of the speeder in Mos Eisley was a grainy, blurry mess in the original version because they didn't have enough time to do the composite as well as they could have and that's how it'd be no matter where the shot was taken (unless it's a new HD transfer) -- well, I just learned something I didn't know before! Thanks! :-D
No problem! I think that since a lot of us have never seen a high definition version of the OUT, it's hard to really know these sorts of things, unless you hang out on this board a lot! :D
As per the Jedi/Smoke shot...that was necessary since George Lucas had spliced in a cutaway shot of Bobba Fett flirting with one of the dancing girls for the SE. Since Harmy didn't have a good source to fill in those few seconds, he was faced with a choice. One of them was cutting away to Chewbacca - making the scene less gringe worthy, but changing it all the same - or spicing in the GOUT which would have stood out like a sore thumb...but being the genius he is, he came up with a compromise of just matting the GOUT jabba around an HD matte of the palace and filled the frame with smoke so as to hide the obvious drop in quality.