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.: The Lancer DVD Project :. (* unfinished project *) — Page 9
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Originally posted by: Sluggo
Have you thought about souping up the Fox logo? I know most edits here are about restoring the old fox logo, but I think replacing the logo with the longer version from other films where the POV starts above and swoops down would look better.
Have you thought about souping up the Fox logo? I know most edits here are about restoring the old fox logo, but I think replacing the logo with the longer version from other films where the POV starts above and swoops down would look better.
The only problem with replacing the logo with the newer version is the length. With the new version the animation stretches to the end of the music. This would count out the fade to the Lucasfilm logo. You would either have to cut out the lucasfilm logo or have a section of silence that would probably be a little too long.
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it looks good and is in keeping with the rest of the films visual quality.
@adywan,
dunno if you're busy but you haven't emailed me to discuss. PM if you want, I can send any footage you want.
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WIP taster to see what's been happening.
mos_eisley_wip
new changes.
the sky has been colour corrected so it is more consistent in colour from shot to shot. use of GOUT footage in a few areas. entirely new trooper matte to remove the spy droid from behind the stormtrooper.
that is NOT just GOUT footage. it is a 6 layer comp shot with new roto'd background.
how happy are people with the look of when the speeder pulls up? that is a combo of 2004 and GOUT footage overlaid with some MOTH3R and citizen versions as well. all been tooted together to reduce noise as much as possible.
it's not perfect but unless I get access to something better and sharper, that's as good as its going to get I think.
I strongly object to keeping the 2004 version with the ronto in the foreground as it plays havoc with percieved depth perception in this shot.
there are still a few colour consistency issues but I am getting there.
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You said you're still working on color correction and I just want to point out the most offensive scene in my mind. The SE shot where the speeder drives by the Rebel transport ship. The Speeder is very red, and C-3PO is a very yellow gold. I think that the whole scene needs to have the stauration pulled down.
Looking good!
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I am now happy with how this looks. I realise there is still a bit of noise, but a certain amount is not visible on a TV screen. I also have the issue of losing what sharpness there is to eliminate the grain inherent to the clip I am using as the source. this is a TOOT compilation of Citizens version, the GOUT version, MOTH3R's version and my own capture to eliminate a lot of the noise.
the rest of mos eisley is nearly there. the colour of the sky in all scenes has been much more harmonised. colour consistency from scene to scene is more in line.
mos eisley "how long have you had these droids"
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its a split rar file so you need all three bits for it to run + the xvid codec.
part1
part2
part3
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The clip is looking good.
I'm still seeing a little noise in the sky during the whole encounter with the sandtroopers. But that's on my monitor, and I don't know how it would look on a TV.
Since the sky is fairly uniform, is "painting" the sky a viable option?
You know of the rebellion against the Empire?
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That clip is looking really superb. Great work
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it's a bit of a crap shoot really. I can't key out the colour because it is also notionally regarded as being present in elements all over the shot so I'd have to mask it and track it to replace it and I'm not sure if I can be arsed at this point. maybe.
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oh well.
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Originally posted by: tellan
well one graphics card meltdown and a hard drive detonation puts me on the back foot for a bit. new card and drive coming but then data recovery's going to take a bit of time.
oh well.
well one graphics card meltdown and a hard drive detonation puts me on the back foot for a bit. new card and drive coming but then data recovery's going to take a bit of time.
oh well.
OMG. thats bad news. If you need a good drive recovery program just PM me.
That's you, me & trooperman recently that have been hit with hard drive failures. Do you think Lucasfilm have hacked our pc's to stop any more fan edits.
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That's you, me & trooperman recently that have been hit with hard drive failures. Do you think Lucasfilm have hacked our pc's to stop any more fan edits.
I think you're on to something....
Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side
“Back when we made Star Wars, we just couldn’t make Palpatine as evil as we intended. Now, thanks to the miracles of technology, it is finally possible. Finally, I’ve created the movies that I originally imagined.” -George Lucas on the 2007 Extra Extra Special HD-DVD Edition
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well not literally but one of the guns has gone and it makes an amazing high pitched whining noise and there's a nice pungent smell in the room.
bizarre typing this in a lurid purple.
replacement monitor coming next week. was toying with an LCD but I just don't think they can match the flexibility, response time, colour depth res etc of CRT's so I have a samsung 977 flat coming.
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in two months I've had
graphics card blow
hard drive die
monitor die
wife download a virus compelling me to restore from a system backup
and a host of other niggling machine issues.
the last two days I have been tidying away, making changes etc and beavering to finish, the main reworking is probably going to be recomp'ing the lightsabers and laser bolts to my satisfaction but the rest is pretty much there.
as its been a while, I am also reposting my list of changes for peoples reference
1. 20th Century Fox Logo.
2. Pull back speed on STAR WARS logo has been corrected before the opening crawl.
3. Matted in new background starfield
4. used GKAR 97 SE footage to put the laser bolts back in. I have also restored the Tantive IV’s engine glow.
5. Atmosphere of tatooine is less garishly blue.
6. Corrected the red of the Tantive IV from candy red to a darker maroon.
7. Colour corrected the blaster flashes during the overhead pass to pure white rather than bright pink.
8. Colour corrected the entire sequence on the Tantive IV so that the corridors are not colour casted. Extensively referred to Mvertas site for this sequence, seeking guidance on colour correction to retain good black levels without compromising shadow detail. Still some issues with the colour of the crew members shirts being blue or gray but that is an inherent problem I can’t fix without mucking up other aspects.
9. [DE] First Darth Editous change. The jump cut of the background Stormtroopers where 3PO and R2 cross the corridor and the doorway is blown up is fixed.
10. More pink blaster flashes during the corridor battle are partially corrected.
11. [DE] Smoothed a jump cut as R2 starts rolling away from Leia towards 3PO
12. De-saturated the red in the corridor in this sequence.
13. [DE] When 3PO and R2 are in the pod, the Star Destroyer recedes into the background. Unfortunately so do the stars, which is not what they should see. I've replaced the stars with non-receeding ones.
14. Colour balanced all of the Tatooine background plates to be more consistent with one another. Not perfect but better. Also managed to make the starfields a bit more visible during these early sequences.
15. All tatooine background plates have a new atmosphere haze added.
16. Escape pod has been masked so that its shadow fits the scene around it.
17. Desaturated the desert sequences. They had about 30% more red in the palette than they should have. This change also stops the blue hatch on the escape pod being too garish and bringing it incorrectly forward into your perception on this shot.
18. Restored the canyon shot at dusk with R2 travelling down the canyon. Created a new static digital plate and matted in R2 in the canyon. It no longer pans down from the skyline to the canyon. This is the first of Lucas’s little changes that affect the texture of the film. In 1977 Star Wars did not have any grandiose epic landscape panning camera moves and this corrected shot did not fit the tone of the rest of the film.
19. [DE] After R2 is fitted with a restraining bolt at the Jawa sandcrawler it moves up and down his casing.
20. [DE] When 3PO stands in the sandcrawler, his eyes blink off for a moment. This has been fixed.
21. Removed the CG stormtroopers on Tattooine. The shot has been restored and timed back to the original. CG Dewbacks in the background have been kept. The only modern thing that has been retained is the sandcrawler in the second half of this shot. No decent segment of the original sandcrawler coming over the dune was obtainable so the modern shot has been retained. However, it has been slowed down so that its speed better matches the previous shot.
22. When the droids are being bought at the Lars farm, there is a continuity error where Lucas repeats a shot of R2 standing next to the red R5 unit. The only problem is, this is after that R5 has already trundled off and blown its stack. I’ve repeated a single shot of R2 on his own shaking side to side to get attention instead.
23. In the techdome when Luke is working on R2, a single scene when he walks across to the droids saying “Sounds like she’s in trouble. I better play back the whole thing.” R2’s colouring in this shot is 40% above normal creating a garish blue cast to everything, including Luke’s clothing. This has been corrected.
24. Just after Luke looks at the twin sunsets, the film wipes back to him walking through the garage. It was horribly oversaturated and red casted. This has been corrected.
25. When Luke hits the restraining bolt activator in the techdome and 3PO leaps up, for some reason the DVD is almost monochromatic. GKAR footage was colour corrected and dropped in to replace this sequence.
26. Colouring in the canyon during the encounter with R2, Ben and the Sand people was all over the place. Alternating between red, green and blue casting. This has been corrected.
27. Ben Kenobi’s house. The new matte plate showing a large vista around Ben’s house has been replaced and the original plate restored. This is a brand new plate replacing the original LD footage. (used shots of the actual house off the web, photoshop skills and original elements to make this shot.)
28. [DE] I've morphed Luke and Ben, and adjusted 3PO, so the jump cut is not so obvious when he turns on the lightsabre (the lightsabre also visibly extends).
29. Luke’s lightsabre has been re-rotoscoped.
30. During this same sequence, there is a bizarre continuity error where in the arch behind Luke and Ben, a cloak is hanging up. During the lightsabre sequence it is no longer there but returns when Luke turns the lightsaber off and sits back down again. This has been put back in.
31. Death Star conference where Tarkin announces the dissolution of the Senate has been colour corrected. Noticably blue casted scene.
32. Opening shot of Mos Eisley has been fixed; sort of. The original shot had a very nasty composite of a landspeeder and a static background. The new CG version takes that, adds an awful lot of extraneous buildings to make Mos eisley look more like a sprawling city and adds in wamp rats to the foreground. My take on this was to remove the extra buildings and pare back the background in a new digital plate that used the new CG shot but made it look more like the original.
33. The scene where Luke comes to a halt by the stormtroopers had a CG ronto added to the foreground. Using a screen wipe I’ve combined 2004 DVD, GOUT, MOTH3R and editdroid Laserdisc footage so the ronto is gone and sharpened and recolored the laserdisc footage to match the 2004 DVD version.
34. Comedy Jawa scene on the ronto has been switched for the original footage
35. Spy droid behind the stormtrooper has been removed.
36. [DE] Painted out a small stone that could be seen rolling across the ground for apparently no reason behind Ben, as he mind-tricks the Stormtroopers.
37. [DE] I've fixed a few frames as the speeder approaches the Cantina, where the shadows were not correctly painted.
38. [DE] In the same scene, a ship in the background flys in front of two poles, which makes it appear to be tiny. I've moved it behind the poles.
39. As Luke looks at the cantina. The CG dewback remains but the new civilians that were added in the 1997 SE going into the cantina have been removed.
40. Both wolfmen have been restored in the cantina from original Laserdisc footage.
41. Bat boy at the bar has had his see through eyes made dark so you can’t see through the mask.
42. Where Threepio says “I don’t like the look of this.” The shot has been zoomed and reframed so you can no longer see the CG dewback and stormtrooper. It has also been colour corrected to remove a nasty green cast.
43. Han fires first. This has been retimed to match the original scene.
44. The single frame of Greedo before he fries is no longer a poor dummy.
45. The spy droid around the stormtroopers in the alleyway has been removed by putting in some original Laserdisc footage from the Moth3r version.
46. The Jabba scene has been removed and the surrounding scenes retimed to match the original footage.
47. The sync on Ben's line ("If the ship's as fast as he's boasting...") was out.
48. [DE] I've painted in the radar dish on the Falcon as it sits in docking bay 94 just before "What a piece of junk!".
49. [DE] I've painted out the guy in a green shirt behind Han, in the first shot of Han in the cockpit after they take off.
50. [DE] Before Leia is brought to Tarkin, there's a shot of him and another officer standing in front of a poorly projected picture of Alderaan. I've replaced the projection with a shot of Alderaan from later, replicating the original shading and size.
51. When the Death Star fires I’ve matted in a new starfield. For some reason on the 2004 DVD it’s virtually gone. Signs of the sharpening restoration I think.
52. Added a glow to Alderaans atmosphere as the Death Star beam hits it. This glow persists for a few seconds to help cover a horrible jump cut as the planet explodes.
53. Using original footage from Moth3r’s version, I’ve put back in the original Alderaan explosion and removed the horrible new one with the flat expanding ring of gas and flame.
54. [DE] Just after Alderaan bites the big one, I've shortened Luke's lightsabre because at one point the tip remains completely out of frame, causing it to appear far too long.
55. The lightsabre has been completely re-rotoscoped while on the falcon and the remote droid kept in front of it.
56. [DE] I've used reversed footage to fix a horrendous jump cut when Luke turns off the lightsabre.
57. [DE] I've used a morph to fix a bad jump cut when Luke ignites the sabre while wearing the helmet.
58. The laser bolt on the training remote has been rerotoscoped so that it is yellow and red as it should be
59. added a flare to the lightsabre blade when laser bolts hit it.
60. [adywan inspired] as the Falcon approaches the docking bay, the two shots now show a corrected hangar bay. Forcefield glow added to the hangar on the second shot.
61. When the Falcon enters the DS docking bay, I've fixed the gap in the glow from the docking bay light.
62. When the Falcon enter the DS docking bay I’ve masked around the Falcon and corrected its shadow and contrast to match the shadows in the rest of the shot.
63. [DE inspired] in the scene where Han, Luke and chewie wait for the lift, an imperial officers tunic goes from white to gray. Fixed.
64. [DE] Using morphs and pastes, I've fixed a few jump cuts and wobbling doors in the docking bay control room.
65. Removed some pink explosion flashes during the detention bay shootout.
66. [DE] fixed the lift door prior to it being blown open.
67. Put the original Dianoga back in the trash compactor
68. [DE] Fixed a jump cut when R2 comes out of the closet in the hangar office.
69. Made a new backplate for the tractor beam shaft, correcting where the set is visible against the original matte painting.
70. [DE] Before the cut-away to Leia ("No wait, they'll here!"), Han's gun emits a puff of smoke even though he hasn't fired it yet (painted out).
71. The corridor joke where Han chases the stormtroopers down the corridor has been put back to the original shot using Citziens version.
72. [DE] A morph fixes a jump cut when Leia shuts the door on the approaching Stormtroopers, leaving her and Luke trapped on the unextended bridge. There was also a visible squib on the door, which I've painted out.
73. [DE] On the DVD, they made a half-hearted effort (a single frame morph) to fix the jump cut when Ben ignites his lightsabre. I've made this a lot smoother.
74. The entire duel between Ben and Vader has been re-rotoscoped from scratch. Threefold purpose.
a. To give the sabres pure white cores of a consistent thickness
b. To give the sabres consistent glows
c. To fix irregularities in the colours of the sabre glows.
75. [DE] the wall damage prior to vaders saber hitting it has been fixed.
76. [DE] When Ben gets cut down, I've added in his face so it looks less like an empty cloak.
77. [DE] I've painted Vader's sabre red in a few uncoloured scenes (when he's in the background behind the Stormtroopers as they shoot it out with Luke.)
78. When the Falcon exits the Death Star Hangar Bay I’ve masked around the falcon and corrected its shadows and contrast to fix the rest of the shot.
79. [DE] The Falcon shudders as the TIEs pass, but the shake effect on Han and Luke is entirely horizontal and shows no motion blur. I've added rotational and translational movement, and some motion blur.
80. [DE] As the TIE makes it's first attack, the glow from the Falcon's engine has a gap in it (from the model's support?) and it flickers. I've smoothed it and filled in the gap.
81. The entire Falcon Vs TIE duel has been color corrected and recontrasted shot by shot. There was a lot of variable colour casting in this sequence. The contrast has also been altered to help bring up the starfields in some of the shots.
82. [DE] In five or six shots, I've removed the garbage matte boxes from around the TIEs. One shot was particularly awful.
83. [DE] I've desaturated a green-tinted TIE fighter that passes in front of Han, and a blue-tinted TIE fighter that passes in front of Luke.
84. [DE] I've reframed one shot of a TIE approaching the camera which had no stars on the right 1/5th (or so) of the frame.
85. As the Falcon approaches Yavin I’ve sharpened up this original footage.
86. The third shot of the Falcon approaching Yavin, I’ve retained the new CG shot but reframed it and slowed it down.
87. I've painted out parts of the motion control rig on the falcon that are briefly visible as the Falcon makes it's final descent towards Yavin IV.
88. Retained the new Massassi temple background Matte painting of the rebel base so we see more detail.
89. In the rebel hangar bay you could see that the Y-wing in the foregound was just a partial set and that the backend behind the cockpit was missing. This has been fixed by being reframed.
90. [DE] I've fixed the Death Star schematic that appears on the monitor and in the briefing. The weapon bowl should appear above the equatorial trench, not on it.
91. As the film goes from jungle to rebel briefing, the jungle had a weird blue cast to it, this has been fixed.
92. [DE] The death star schematic has been corrected on the briefing screen.
93. At the end of the briefing, we get a long shot of the Death Star approaching Yavin. This has been changed. As nice as the restored matte painting of Yavin is, it no longer matches Yavin’s look in the rest of the film. The plate had a new Yavin added to make things match.
94. [DE] The countdown on the Death Star screen has been altered to match the time spoken during the space battle.
95. In the hangar, the red values have been adjusted so the red stripes on the fighters don’t leap out at you and burn into your retina. They were 55% above normal.
96. The Biggs scene is gone. The jump cut as the technician walks in front is horrible. It also means I had to fiddle where Luke walks under the wing as that was a different take. The long shot of the hangar immediately afterwards was shortened. I slowed it a little to fill time but have ultimately had to cut the sound the match the new length of this scene.
97. As the rebel pilots start boarding their fighters, we see Red Leaders X-wing from earlier, only now it’s been flopped in post production to make us think it is another fighter. I’ve flopped it back to keep internal consistency.
98. The shot immediately afterwards was also flopped and is again, a repeat of a fighter we saw about ten seconds previously. This has also been flopped back.
99. The new CG takeoff sequence has been retained. The original was poor and this adds more drama.
100. The rebel control room has been colour corrected. There was some noticeable green casting to the scenes, and I don’t mean the green from the lights.
101. The rebel control table showing positions of Yavin and the Death Star has been completely colour corrected with additional corrections for brightness and contrast. This was blue casted 60% above normal.
102. The famous CG shot of the rebel fighters panning past the camera has been re-edited to match the original movie model shot. Instead of one big panning move it has been cut into two separate shots. Firstly of the fighters from behind. Second, from the front. It has also been retimed to match the original.
103. Throughout the space battle Red Leader has been colour corrected as his helmet goes from green to yellow on a frighteningly regular basis.
104. Where Red Leader says “All wings call in.” there was a lot of bleed from the blue screen onto areas of the cockpit and Red Leaders helmet. This has been fixed.
105. The hue of the X-wing engines glow has been corrected. This was pink for some strange reason and should be red if it is going to match the engines in Return of the Jedi.
106. As the x-wings dive on the death star, one of the shots has a fighter missing an engine glow. The glow has been put back.
107. The new CG shot of the X-wings pulling up from the surface of the Death Star after the first pass had some lurid blue casting to the green laser bolts, this has been fixed.
108. When Porkins blows up, I’ve colour corrected the in cockpit explosion and the exterior model explosion to be a more natural colour and not over saturated.
109. The first shot showing the TIE fighters coming in is wrong. The two TIE’s at the back are coloured differently to the front 4. Using masks I’ve colour corrected the two rear TIE’s to match the ones in the foreground.
110. When Luke is dogfighting the TIE fighter and says “I can’t shake him.” I’ve flopped this shot as his microphone pickup on his helmet is on the wrong side.
111. The rebel control table showing positions of Yavin and the Death Star has been completely colour corrected with additional corrections for brightness and contrast. This was blue caster 60% above normal.
112. When the Y-wings are first seen flying down the trench towards the camera, some of the laser bolts are coloured incorrectly. These have been rotoscoped and restored.
113. Just before the Y-wing pilot says, “The guns, they’ve stopped.” There is a shot looking forward from behind the pilot. The panels on the left side of the cockpit were blue as they reflected the blue screen. This has been removed.
114. As Vader kills the first Y-wing some of the laser bolts are coloured incorrectly. These have been rotoscoped and restored.
115. When the Y-wings blow up, their explosions have been colour corrected.
116. Numerous shots of Luke and Red Leader during their respective trench runs have been colour corrected and they were blue and green casted.
117. When the X-wings blow up, their explosions have been colour corrected.
118. [DE] I've added an X-Wing to the shot where Luke looks down to see Red Leader bite the dust. It always bugged me that there was an explosion with no visible cause.
119. When Biggs says “At that speed, do you think we’ll be able to pull out in time.” It was blue casted, this has been colour corrected.
120. The two shots of Luke and Wedge that immediately follow this are almost monochromatic. Apart from the orange flights and skin tones. No other colour exists in the shot. Wedge’s helmet is grey instead of Green.
121. Biggs death explosion has been colour corrected.
122. When the Falcon pulls up from the Death Star, while I have retained the new CG shot to replace the dire original, I’ve reframed it so that the Falcon pulls up vertically, rather than going off at an angle. This is a much more consistent manouveur after having seen the Falcon dive straight down and makes more sense to the viewer.
123. The Death Star Explosion has been completely restored back to the original using mattes and masks and a combination of original and new footage.
124. [DE] Denis Lawsons name is now spelt correctly in the end credits.
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the falcon escape from tatooine.
used adywan's star destroyers in the foreground temporarily until I can figure out where they came from.
balanced the atmosphere haze. the stars have been brightened in the cockpit shots. re colour corrected.
in xvid format.
falcon escape.avi
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the last 4 months I've been held up because the project file is now so big, my machine a P4 2.8 HT can't cope. Vegas crashes left right and centre and it will take over 48 hours to render the avi, even if it doesn't crash. I've been restricted to picking and pawing at it in the meantime. so allowing for a week or two to set this puppy up, and then we're off again.