Harmy's STAR WARS TRILOGY "Partly Despecialized Edition" HD. !!! These version are now obsolete - Look for Despecialized Editions instead!!! — Page 20

EyeShotFirst said:

My regular old DVD burner burns em just fine. Just use IMGburn and it should work on a regular DVD burner. I figure it should, because mine is 6 years old and was a lower quality one.

I'm assuming you mean a DL burner, right?

Puggo, did you keep any of the source files for Puggo Grande? I would like to try and use it to further enhance the flyby shot that comes after the "move along" shot, so if you could maybe please upload it somewhere for me...

Yes I have all of the original captures, plus the versions after my corrections, as DV .avi files.  If all you want is the strip of the flyby with the "blob", that should be easy to put up.  Let me know exactly which of the two versions you would like (heck, I could upload both in a single .avi).  I'm not entirely sure how it will help you (since it's on reel2, the reddest of the three reels), but if it can, great.

RE Puggo: I can do some colour correction in After Effects and I just want to experiment with it a little. Probably both versions would be good. Just to make sure, I mean this shot:

That's great, DJ, thanks. It would be awesome if you could actually upload the whole clip somewhere. And the clip in the pic above as well.

OK, here's a new version of the background created using DJ's screenshot:

Damn, that looks good!!

New render using the new background: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5pVpb3W_lM

I did this mainly to get rid of the DVNR smearing trail that the speeder was leaving behind it but there was some smearing in the speeder itself as well and it still looked distracting, so  I also tried to get rid some of that in that last clip:

harmy you will become legendary for this type of work, well done sir.

Harmy, this is getting exciting. Have you thought about how you'll handle the space battle scenes?

Yeah, that will be a bit of a pickle :-) I'm probably just gonna use GOUT V3 for those shots, I used GOUT for it in the previous PDE and I think the results were quite satisfactory. It works the same as it did in theaters in the original - they are quick shots with a lot of movement, so you don't really have time to notice the quality. Check here at 3.20: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ2BKnqVcyI

Would it be worthwhile to replace the starfields?

Probably not, because when you up the contrast a bit, there's not that much difference in the starfields, it's more about the fighters and the DS backgrounds, and there are almost no shots in which the background would be just stars and it would be really hard to do, so I don't think it would even be worth the effort. I checked all those shots for how possible it would be to do some other tweaks but most of them would be really difficult to deal with.

I'll preface this by saying that I obtained the PDE's out of a curiosity to see Harmy's outstanding work. They could never be my go to version of the trilogy because they still contain SE additions that personally annoy me greatly. This is not a slight against Harmy I'm fully aware of the point of these projects. I do just fine with Adywan and Harmy's theatrical reconstructions of ESB and ROTJ.

Simply, I enjoy watching the progress as Harmy de-specialises the films and uploads his work to youtube. It's a fun little insight and I'm sure I'll acquire the new version whenever it's completed out of curiosity to see it in its entirety and its improvement over its predecessor.

Basically what I'm saying is that I'm not the target audience for this project other than the work in progress nature of it.

In saying that this topic: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Question-about-Star-Wars-Languages/topic/12468/post/472162/#TopicPost472162

reminded me of this:

Would this be possible, Harmy, to de-specialise in HD? I recall the '04 shot existed in the first PDE and I'd imagine you could whip up something better to replace it. Not an outright request just a curiousness to see if it's something you could accomplish easily.

I also remember the trash compactor creature still blinks but when I brought it up you stated you liked it, so I won't bring that up again ;)

I'm definitely not keeping the 04 one this time. And like I said ages ago, I was toying with this idea using Erikstormtrooper's Engli-Besh font::

Here's another one, I used Puggo Grande to get rid of even more of the DVNR smearing on the speeder.

I would say that is perfect. Great work!!!

Harmy said:

Here's another one, I used Puggo Grande to get rid of even more of the DVNR smearing on the speeder.

Thanks, 005, although actually the only thing I recall asking of Ady in this sense was if he could release his ESB reconstruction in HD, but I guess that is basically what I'm doing, so in a way you're right :-)

Harmy said:

Thanks, 005, although actually the only thing I recall asking of Ady in this sense was if he could release his ESB reconstruction in HD, but I guess that is basically what I'm doing, so in a way you're right :-)

Harmy, you have a PM (with a link to the uncompressed PG flyby).  Keep in mind that it is BEFORE anamorphic stretching.