logo Sign In

Info: Bad news for anybody wanting to use the deleted scenes in a TFA fanedit or extended edition

Author
Time
 (Edited)

Looks like bad news for anybody wanting to use the deleted scenes in a “Force Awakens” fanedit or Extended Edition. If this teaser is to be believed (and why wouldn’t it) then it appears that they have added a runtime counting clock to the upper left corner. You’d have to either crop it out (bad) or digitally erase it (hard to do on amateur software).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJzPCHU92v0

tfa

Don’t do drugs, unless you’re with me.

Author
Time

Neglify said:

Looks like bad news for anybody wanting to use the deleted scenes in a “Force Awakens” fanedit or Extended Edition. If this teaser is to be believed (and why wouldn’t it) then it appears that they have added a runtime counting clock to the upper left corner. You’d have to either crop it out (bad) or digitally erase it (hard to do on amateur software).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJzPCHU92v0

tfa

Hard to do on any software for most shots. It seems there might be a variety of different clip formats given what we saw with the safety area overlay samples before?

Author
Time
 (Edited)

I can confirm this. Would be a nightmarish process to fix. Even After effects artists would struggle fixing this. Because this is clearly not one for those “FIX IT IN POST” items. Disney put that burn in for a reason. (FAN EDITS) :{

My guess the studio might release and extended edition of directors cut in the future. To maximize there profits.

And not only that we do not even know of the level of production quality of these scenes, from an audio perspective.

Author
Time

We won’t know if those are on the actual scenes until it comes out. Maybe I’m just being optimistic.

Author
Time
 (Edited)

If you have IOS download the star wars APP. They have a preview look at the blu ray release with some selected deleted scenes, it not only has time code burn in but box watermarks at the border of the frame…

I am not saying I can not remove it, just going to be a real pain in the arse. Going to take time. Mocha pro has a remove module that could work well for static shots. But my main focus will be to start with the theatrical release. I work on the DEL SCn stuff after that.

Author
Time

While that is bad news, I do have faith they will release clean versions. Deleted scenes there look top notch and really rather useful.

Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

Author
Time

Just add a timecode to the rest of the film…

Not enough people read the EU.

Author
Time
 (Edited)

i believe that this is actually how the deleted scenes will look on the blu ray. based on this:
REDACTED
i just want to say that this is not my contribution, i found it on reddit. if this is breaking a rule i will remove it.

but it looks like it is just gonna be a time code in the top left, which i don’t believe will be that hard to remove. it is a box. all you have to do is screen-shot some frames before and after, put them together in photoshop/gimp and keyframe them into the video via after effects. that is a lot easier to do with the burned in time code than it is with the box watermarks.

“You can’t polish a turd. But you can shape it to look like candy.”

Author
Time
 (Edited)

Jackpumpkinhead said:

i believe that this is actually how the deleted scenes will look on the blu ray. based on this:
REDACTED

i just want to say that this is not my contribution, i found it on reddit. if this is breaking a rule i will remove it.

but it looks like it is just gonna be a time code in the top left, which i don’t believe will be that hard to remove. it is a box. all you have to do is screen-shot some frames before and after, put them together in photoshop/gimp and keyframe them into the video via after effects. that is a lot easier to do with the burned in time code than it is with the box watermarks.

No…

What you’re talking about is essentially rotoscoping it out (and there are much more professional tools for doing that), and it’s by no means easy. There is no ‘before and after’. It’s there for these entire scenes. Even if the camera moves and reveals that portion, it’s a huge box and the angle will be off.

If the box watermark you’re referring to is the safety area display, it would have theoretically been outside the area we’re looking at, though I haven’t confirmed that. It would mean a reduced resolution, but no big deal in comparison.

Still, thanks for sharing. The rules might be a bit unforgiving until the BD comes out, I’m not sure. But generally speaking, an off screen capture like that is pretty non-threatening as far as copyright concerns go.

Author
Time

This is upsetting. Hopefully the community can fix it!

Author
Time

Son of a biiiiiitch.

They’ve never done this on previous Star Wars’ deleted scenes, so I almost feel like it must’ve been done on purpose.

The only fix I can see is cropping the video to hide the timecode. It would look ridiculous, but that is the only thing I could even think of to resolve it.

“The Ziggy Edit” — A Conceptual Fanedit of Return of the Jedi

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Episode-VI-Return-of-the-Jedi-The-Ziggy-Edit/id/17844

Author
Time

ziggyonice said:

Son of a biiiiiitch.

The only fix I can see is cropping the video to hide the timecode. It would look ridiculous, but that is the only thing I could even think of to resolve it.

Yep. We will see how some of the scenes that could be important, plot wise, look and work when cropped. Their inclusion would be more about dialogue and material rather than the visual. But as far as including scenes just for being cool (snowspeeder, etc), I think they might be passed over until better material shows up.

Not sure they did it to screw with us. Lots of studios include crap like this for some reason. But it could indeed be to prevent bootleg discs with ‘extended versions’ from showing up in countries where that kind of thing is prevalent and can compete with real releases.

Author
Time

ziggyonice said:

They’ve never done this on previous Star Wars’ deleted scenes, so I almost feel like it must’ve been done on purpose.

It’s true. All the previous Disney SW films directed by J.J. did not do this.

Author
Time

What if we just overlayed an image of a wookie over the time bar? Cuz that’d be like… Problem solved, yo.

Author
Time

Lol, Disney did that on purpose, to prevent fan edits.

~The original trilogy is my life… kind of~

Author
Time

But can’t we wait until it’s out out before we start throwing balloon bags full of piss everywhere? I don’t think that Disney would do something overtly dickish. Especially considering that they’re pandering so much to us.

Author
Time

Lord Haseo said:

But can’t we wait until it’s out out before we start throwing balloon bags full of piss everywhere? I don’t think that Disney would do something overtly dickish. Especially considering that they’re pandering so much to us.

I’m quite sure Disney did screw us over. Check that leaked Vimeo link posted on the forums… They will have timebar

Return of the Jedi: Remastered

Lord of the Rings: The Darth Rush Definitives

Author
Time

Ok…well let’s hope that someone bitches about this to the point in which they remove it.

Author
Time

so i just tried removing it and it didnt work out so well. i think in some shots, you could roto it out and zoom in ant it will be okay. in other shots it won’t. i think that even if we dont get a an extended version, there will be a way around it. it wont be perfect but it will work. i kinda wish that the version with the box lines was what we were getting instead. at least then you could zoom in and wire remove the lines

“You can’t polish a turd. But you can shape it to look like candy.”