Original trilogy deleted scenes restored Project? — Page 6

It’s the wall but in order to have a full clean slate of the wall I had to mirror image it in the middle…

The whole Ben’s hut color grade is way different now like switching the lights on… Needed to be more yellow but it’s much better now I will upload a new version soon.

As with anything you have a go at the first time it’s trial and error before you get to the end result. Ut is shaping up though so that is good. The audio is now fixed on the Lightsaber shot and I did extra sound work on the Tushan Raider fighting Luke. Now I added sound for Luke hitting the ground and swoosh sounds when the Tuskan Raider swings his weapon it’s more visceral and a bit better.

EDIT:

I upped a new version but the actual edit file has now corrupted but I have all the pieces needed rendered more or less as desired so It’s not the end of the world but It was really annoying as I would fix a problem the edit file created it would create another off the back of the fix even deleting a whole bit and putting things in various parts in different places and flickering frames when render. I’m done with this part now anyway been a lot of work.

This may have been asked somewhere, but since the quality of all the deleted scenes need work, has anyone tried to incorporate these scenes into other projects that are equivalent in quality?

For example, can some of these scenes go into Puggo’s releases, or into the cam versions of the 1977, “not-titled Episode IV” releases? An intentionally made, classic movie-reel version of all these files together may make a better match when blending, especially if you like the 70s or 80s film look.

Either way, I love the work being put into cleaning the scenes up, thank you for your efforts.

War of the Stars: A New Hope Grindhoused is probably the edit you want. Uses Puggo’s release as a base while working in the main deleted scenes and some outtakes without anything feeling out of place.

War of the Stars although entertaining os kind of like a joke edit…

The deleted scenes will get cleaned up eventually, work is ongoing.

Here is the Dianoga and chasm battle Restored.

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/809643498/privacy

And Here is the Duel and the Hangar shootout

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/809659445/privacy

Credit to Adywan for some shots involving Obiwan and Vader I think it is hard to watch Star wars with thr Cloak prop these days… THere is something I am a bit perplexed there is a piece of reversed footage here so I have unreversed the shot now it matches the soundmix but it sort of kicks out… Are some of these shots vertically stretched or something?

Awesome, been wanting to see your edit for the duel for a long time. So much better than what’s in the film.

ifjg said:

Awesome, been wanting to see your edit for the duel for a long time. So much better than what’s in the film.

Thank you yeah I lost the original edit I did… I did not include the alternate take from the theatrical trailer because nobody still has bothered to rotoscope the lightsabers and share. I wish I had the plug in for that to do that! I will ask someone, anyone please even pretty please can you rotoscope the lightsabers in the original theatrical trailer?

I made a cock up with the starfields on 3P0 shots grinning through the falcon so i will fix that. Also I think 2 shots are the wrong position placement in the chasm fight.

This part of the edit is probably been going on and off for around 3 or 4 months. It has taken a long time to get it to where it is now. there is a lot going on but it was time to drop it out there and take assessment of this part.

Ronster said:

War of the Stars although entertaining os kind of like a joke edit…

The deleted scenes will get cleaned up eventually, work is ongoing.

Here is the Dianoga and chasm battle Restored.

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/809643498/privacy

And Here is the Duel and the Hangar shootout

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/809659445/privacy

Credit to Adywan for some shots involving Obiwan and Vader I think it is hard to watch Star wars with thr Cloak prop these days… THere is something I am a bit perplexed there is a piece of reversed footage here so I have unreversed the shot now it matches the soundmix but it sort of kicks out… Are some of these shots vertically stretched or something?

The placement of the Dianoga shot worked better in the theatrical release(s).

The reshuffling of Vader’s line: “You should not have come back.” feels a little awkward. The line delivery doesn’t quite match his prior dialogue. Otherwise, nice job!

I think the idea behind putting the Dianoga shot there is so we can actually see what Han is trying to shoot at.

ifjg said:

I think the idea behind putting the Dianoga shot there is so we can actually see what Han is trying to shoot at.

Yes. But the Dianoga reveal shot worked better when it was stalking Luke in the trash compactor. Viewers know what Solo’s shooting at. The audio (creature’s roar) also makes it clear. No need to see it.

ifjg said:

I think the idea behind putting the Dianoga shot there is so we can actually see what Han is trying to shoot at.

In the script it states that there is a tentacle by the door, there is’nt any other shot of a tentacle but I actually think the creature popping up while they are looking around does not work at all because not one out of 4 notice it when they are all actively looking for it so I just assumed that is the tentacle by the door… It’s a bit extreme that nobody would see it when we have everyone looking for the thing in a small confined space seems to me the shot was meant for the scene when they leave.

I don’t think the dianoga popping up is in the script in the trash compactor part either so I assumed I put it back to where it was meant to go.

The sound effects I used were from the sounds of star wars by Ben #Burt and that also made it the opportunity to restore that sound effects in that instance as if it’s meant to be hard to notice even though everyone is looking for it it also could not make the sound effects that were deleted too. So my opinion is it got both restored in placement and audio that was cut too.

That dialogue does go there for Vader too as if you notice the shot is flipped so it could be put much later on. The line makes sense in that part and matches when he lifts his lightsaber up and the distance he is from Kenobi. Having it much later on and flipped so he looks almost disjointed is much worse. The dialogue and the fottage all match up so I again just assumed I put it back where it was meant to go.

I hope this will be useful for the project.
https://youtu.be/0semzwFRd4Y
🙂🙂

DarthTzetzo said:

I hope this will be useful for the project.
https://youtu.be/0semzwFRd4Y
🙂🙂

wow.great find.

DarthTzetzo said:

I hope this will be useful for the project.
https://youtu.be/0semzwFRd4Y
🙂🙂

Yes great find!. I tried with adobe audition on that and could not get anything acceptable. I am playing around with voice AI right now

https://voice.ai/login

for replacing the actors in radio drama lines with the actual voices of the actors. Have not tried ElevenLabs but will have to take a shot at it so I have both. I have 14 minutes of Carrie fisher’s voice isolated for when I did my her voice model with AI on that tool, so will have to try this one out…very impressed. I love the fact they added in good clean sounding wind in that scene as well. This is certainly a milestone in voice cleaning from even a year ago what we could do

Another sound:
https://youtu.be/dbo8hk8551s

The Return of the Jedi deleted scene with Luke building a lightsaber would be awesome!

DarthTzetzo said:

Another sound:
https://youtu.be/dbo8hk8551s

thanks for the link. This is a good scene that I plan to include in my Jedi extended as well (nice audio on that link).

Also, I just finished restoring the video of sandstorm (removed thousands and scratches and dust) need to put it together with that good audio. There are a couple things to fix in a first draft restore before releasing as well:

1. adding the Y-wing back in the matte painting for Luke and sabre construction scene (this is planned as well) to be consistent with it being in the sandstorm and what lando came in early (presumably Leia and chewie come later in the falcon)?. The other option is just to remove the Y-wing in the sandstorm all together and that might work better as when they leave the planet they would be abandoning the Y-wing which is kind of weird although han ask luke to leave his crate (xwing) and come with them so I guess leaving ships could be a thing. I kind of feel like it needs to be explained…maybe doesn’t matter?
2. I may try to do a better leia voice ai as in one part of that ai audio restore it does not sound like carrie, but it nots bad - I have 15 minutes of clean Carrie audio to model from so may try it.
3. Luke may have time when rising above the sandstorm and going into orbit to put his helmet on (assumes it was on floor of X-wing), but not thinking he had time to change into a full flight suit, so need to do and FX where he is wearing the black jedi outfit neck down in the leaving the plant shots
4. Need to swap flight suit arm and putting on glove with just shot of feeling his hand in glove and black arm from jedi suit. He puts the glove on walking in the sandstorm
5. Need to alternate audio or reduce audio in orbit since some of those lines where already said in sandstorm.

This of course is only for a version 1. I did want to see later about adding a scene or few more shots of the skiff going into the storm to set some context (transition) to why you are all of a sudden seeing them in coverings in the storm and when before it was a sunny day. I have some ideas on that. Right now still trying to finish up ESB-X version 1

Been busy on some other projects, but ESB-X is making some progress. Here are the Yoda deleted scenes as I finally found a voice talent in fiverr I could use that did a great “Frank Oz” type yoda voice for some missing parts. I tried some AI stuff and it could not do Yoda to my satifaction, although for Han and Luke Wow…more on that to come…Here’s what I have for new Yoda scenes (3 of them):

Extra shots of Luke eating before yoda makes his appearance:
Deleted shots edited back in while luke is eating. This has the closer shot of Luke grabbing some white piece of equipment from on top of his crates while eating before finding Yoda. Adds a few seconds only, but hey why not?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fdFcJCafPLkwig58Xe9wxip1C4MjABBA/view?usp=sharing

Yoda rummaging & looking through containers:
Extra audio from the radio drama where Yoda talks about useless stuff Luke carries and Luke (Acted by Mark Hamil), mentions Yoda could have broken his power capsule.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XAUQ4V_-_Aw3nyp-rf-jpAQNF-0yY8x1/view?usp=sharing

and finally… took a long long time

Luke’s lightsaber training:
Extra deleted scene with yoda and Luke as Luke attempts to slice a metal bar into 4 pieces, but only cuts it in half. Also enhanced/re-scored some music for immediately after when Luke continues on and is doing jumps and jogging with yoda on his back.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DLDUTYPBJvDQ0_UzlwYHK6h0mSKkNhCs/view?usp=sharing

A little more on the clip above:
-A thanks out to Bobson Dugnutt for sharing a hi-res version of this clip to work with (especially the black and white parts) …colorization really needs the best quality to colorize, so a tip of the hat to him.
-A special thanks to my daughter who helped in the in the live action shot of the bar falling in two pieces on the ground. This was filmed behind my home but has a large amount of FX and compositing to make fit, I hope this fills the gap that was missing for this scene.
-The training scene of climbing the vines and running the trees was an idea to include the Disney forces of destiny version in actual context of the film. Here is the whole scene (that I am using some ideas from).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2U_H5dFKH0
While my original cut and pacing used Tom Kane as yoda’s voice, I wanted more of a frank oz voice…I settled on the talented “elijahmladineo” from Fiverr, to replace Tom’s lines that would be in some of the climbing with more of a frank Oz sound. He did a great job, way better than I could and his voice replaces Kane all the way to point where Luke sticks the landing of his summersalt over the branch. Hoping in this segment of the clip that I captured the extra Yoda teachings. It would have been nice to add some Mark Hamill from the Destiny animated scene, but there was no place for it.
-Finally, there are some alternate music scoring choices made while Luke runs and Yoda talks about the Jedi and dark side. Ran across some that just really fit the scene and filled things in, so while the original is quiet and no music, I think here is compliments the backstory of what Yoda is saying in the training scenes. I think it adds more emotion to it… I hope you like the score edition added here. Subtle but effective I think.

kg1977 said:

Luke’s light sabre training:
Extra deleted scene with yoda and Luke as Luke attempts to slice a metal bar into 4 pieces, but only cuts it in half. Also restored and enhanced/rescored music for immediately after when Luke is doing jumps and jogging with yoda on his back.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fdFcJCafPLkwig58Xe9wxip1C4MjABBA/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for the work you are putting in. However, the link directs to Luke eating instead of any saber training.

I apologize if I am confusing things here.

honestabe said:

Luke’s light sabre training:
Thanks for the work you are putting in. However, the link directs to Luke eating instead of any saber training.

Ha No worries, I am literally uploading all these all now before I go to bed, fixing the links etc…its 12:45 a.m. here at the moment…Just refresh now and I think you’ll find they should all work now.

Cheers!

yeah,really good work.
can´t wait to see your trilogy.
well done buddy.

benduwan said:

yeah,really good work.
can´t wait to see your trilogy.
well done buddy.

Thanks!

The Jedi training video is very impressive. The added shot of the falling pieces, and the new Yoda dialogue, is very convincing.

Just one criticism: Luke’s lightsaber blade looks a little thin and a touch too purple. Otherwise, nicely done!

Slavicuss said:

The Jedi training video is very impressive. The added shot of the falling pieces, and the new Yoda dialogue, is very convincing.

Just one criticism: Luke’s lightsaber blade looks a little thin and a touch too purple. Otherwise, nicely done!

Not disagreeing. I could prob look at it tonight and add some thickness and lean toward blue. At the time was eyeballing it, but did a compare to bespin and already have the setting adjusted so will just need to retrack and apply on pertaining clips A compare after adjustment is added below…I think this is about as close as I can get. Comparing to current. It looks much better. As the glow has the swamp background behind it, that affects some color in the blue…Will tweak it further …Thanks for the feedback.

Updated the sabre scene to have the beam match the color FX better to match of when we see Luke at Bespin. Based off of suggestions by Slavicuss in June. Finally got around to finishing. New Compare video below

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cSe6Pco4-frcm_IXf9pgbs1OGNKe9rPJ/view?usp=sharing

That training scene is awesome.