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Hal 9000 said:

Hundsdorfex does great work, having contributed a few important shots to my edits. Not to carelessly add to the pile, but I know some people would have liked to see a variety of saber colors in the prequels, or thought it was weird for Sam F*%#%^ Jackson to be the only combo breaker.
One idea that was tossed around when starting my edits would alleviate this with a minimum of work involved. It would take two minor characters and give them their saber colors from the EU. During the battle on Geonosis, Plo Koon’s saber would be yellow and Ki Adi Mundi’s would be purple. We see both of these ignited prominently, and they don’t appear very much. And if you like, one or two other random background Jedi we see for one shot could have a yellow saber. The lady Jedi who had a red saber in the EU never has it ignited onscreen. (Ki Adi Mundi’s would need redoing in Ep3 as well. And one might want to give a yellow blade to one of the Jedi who accompany Windu to arrest Palpy.) For a minimal amount of work you’d have someone else with a purple saber, a few yellow ones, and keeping the majority as being blue or green.

Yeah… i’ll do this, but not now, as RogueLeader said this REALLY time consuming.

The Hologram message is a good proof of concept. It fits in rather well as a mockup. Well worth finessing to get it just so, well done.

Cool stuff hunds. If you keep going you might end up the ultimate fan edit savior.

There’re some good suggestions here. The one thing I really want is for every saber in the PT to be blue. But, yeah, that’s some intense shit. I’m pretty sure I’ll have to figure out and do that one myself (just beginning to learn AE).

DominicCobb said:

There’re some good suggestions here. The one thing I really want is for every saber in the PT to be blue. But, yeah, that’s some intense shit. I’m pretty sure I’ll have to figure out and do that one myself (just beginning to learn AE).

Try changing the color of a lightsaber picture first, as training and test 😃
You’re probably following some Youtube tutorials on how to create lightsabers, right?
That’s useful, but if all you need is to change colors, that wont be very helpful.
Try following my process:
1- Load up the lightsaber picture or video you want to change color
2- Create a solid of your desired color over the picture or video
3- Create a mask of the solid over the lightsaber
4- Set the blending mode to Screen or Lighten
5- Mess around with Mask Expansion and Mask Feather values till you get a good result

If you need any help just contact me 😃

Quick Update 2

I’m still waiting a response from TeamNegative1

Found a way to fix the purple-pink effect on blue sabers when in contact with Dooku’s new yellow saber.

Still doing some work on Tarkin’s holographic message, fixing things here and there. The youtube video has been removed and the updated version will be posted.

Some test for Frink are being made.

Death Star new explosion has started testing too.

I have a request. In Return of the Jedi, specifically the throne room scenes, space seems to have this odd blue tinge to it, as can be seen in this image:

I was wondering if you could do something about this, and make the space black like it is in the rest of the film. Whether that involves somehow keying out the blue tinge, or replacing the starfields altogether, is up to your discretion.

Thank you in advance.

SuperSecretMuffin said:

I was wondering if you could do something about this, and make the space black like it is in the rest of the film. Whether that involves somehow keying out the blue tinge, or replacing the starfields altogether, is up to your discretion.

Ok, just keep in mind that i got a lot going on right now, so it will take some time 😃

This is something I’ve wanted to see since 1997 :

Bingowings said:

Forgive the roughness of these mock-ups but (and I appreciate how difficult it will be) the helmets of the Rebel pilots need more than just an insignia colour change.

Ady recognised this when he changed the insignia from blue to red but the clean helmet squadron don’t appear in the battle so it’s still kind of odd that get such prominant screen time.

There is actually something I’ve been wondering for awhile. Is it at all possible to have the Luke/Ben log scene from ROTJ take place in Ben’s hut?

Smithers said:

LuckyGungan2001 said:
But Shaak Ti is shown dying in both of these scenes…

Oh… I forgot lol, although in the hologram you could change it pretty easily since the quality would be distorted and it’s all blue.

Here’s the thing about holograms, they are all transparent!
So in order to make them transparent, i have to create a static version from the background for each camera angle, and i also have to make this fit with the already existing camera movement, also, holograms don’t emit shadows. So basically i have to clean the whole shot in order to make a proper hologram!

This is hard and tedious, but i’ll do it 😃

Edit wise, i think instead of making Obi and Ani go down to the “sewers”, i think they should just hurry up, use force speed, or anything like that, because the effects in the following shots are just too rough to be used!

DominicCobb said:

There is actually something I’ve been wondering for awhile. Is it at all possible to have the Luke/Ben log scene from ROTJ take place in Ben’s hut?

I saw this suggestion somewhere in the forum, and honestly i don’t know if it is possible (because Ben is transparent, and the background is Dagobah), but i’ll do some tests!

Smithers said:
Ok I don’t think you completely understood my suggestion, the entire scene wouldn’t be made into a hologram, just a few shots of general grievous and shaak-ti/random jedi’s death

I know, but in order to General Grievous appear has an hologram, i have to reconstruct the background of the corridor behind him, so this way he can be transparent.

hundsdorfex said:

SuperSecretMuffin said:

I was wondering if you could do something about this, and make the space black like it is in the rest of the film. Whether that involves somehow keying out the blue tinge, or replacing the starfields altogether, is up to your discretion.

Ok, just keep in mind that i got a lot going on right now, so it will take some time 😃

Ok, thank you. One more thing, could you use xxtelecine 7xx’s version as a basis? I already asked his permission to use it in my edit, so don’t worry about that. If you don’t want to download the whole thing, I could send you the clips.

LuckyGungan2001 said:

Cleaning up the deleted scene of Anakin killing Shaak Ti would be helpful for me as well. Don’t worry if it’s too hard.

It’s too hard, since it was never filmed.

LuckyGungan2001 said:

Cleaning up the deleted scene of Anakin killing Shaak Ti would be helpful for me as well. Don’t worry if it’s too hard.

If you could send me a good quality clip, i’ll give it a shot 😃

SuperSecretMuffin said:

Ok, thank you. One more thing, could you use xxtelecine 7xx’s version as a basis? I already asked his permission to use it in my edit, so don’t worry about that. If you don’t want to download the whole thing, I could send you the clips.

Since you’re using his version, the clips would work better 😃

Tarkin’s holographic message test 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00I1nnAgrHk

If you see anything that needs to be fixed, or have a suggestion on how to improve, please, let me know!

@adywan:

Beats me, I can’t get the damn thing to load.

Wow, ok, I had no memory of that. Is it on the Blu?