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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION — Page 147

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Originally posted by: Sevb32
Sorry, when you said you would be doing no more work to the edit, that made me think you were done. So it will be like a month for the DVD?
Thanks!


Is it possible for any more of your posts to be asking when this thing will be done? I'd hate to see the percentages. When it's done, what, do you think you'll miss it? And if you don't find out the moment it is completed, that will affect you how?

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I am tired of seeing criticisms of my posts, I don't see anything wrong with wanted to know a ballpark date. I have gotten along with everyone fine on here, have not tried to cause trouble. I have others asking me about this edit too. Some of you screamed at me to stop giving Ady suggestions a while back, because he was "finished" and it was "too late", well he wasn't, and he fixed all the things I mentioned. Now if I had kept my mouth shut, those things might still be there. Some of you get off on criticizing me, I guess.
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I know Ady is in a PAL country but the Xvid was 23.97 frames per second, so I'm wondering if it was an NTSC project.

Several people have brought it up but he hasn't said if he's doing a commentary. He really should, if not only to point out all the changes on a scene by scene basis.

A text/subtitle commentary would also work for this.
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Mojo, I believe Adywan mentioned he was working on a text commentary.

You know of the rebellion against the Empire?

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Originally posted by: Mojo_LA
I know Ady is in a PAL country but the Xvid was 23.97 frames per second, so I'm wondering if it was an NTSC project.

Several people have brought it up but he hasn't said if he's doing a commentary. He really should, if not only to point out all the changes on a scene by scene basis.

A text/subtitle commentary would also work for this.


No, this is a PAL project because i wanted to work with the highest quality picture available (the HD version wasn't available at the time) plus i live in PAL country. Because i will be doing both NTSC & PAL for the DVD i render a PAL master of just the video first and then use Virtualdubmod to then create a NTSC master. All i have to do is resize it to 720x480 and change the framerate to 23.976. Then i just convert the audio from 25fps pitch to 23.976fps pitch using Vegas and that's it.

An audio commentary won't be happening i'm afraid. I just hate the sound of my own voice and never know what to say on these things anyway. There is a subtitle track on the DVD's that point out almost all of the changes

Anti-Matter. what problem are you having with playing the video? If you downloaded this via torrent is it possible that your client reported it as complete but it actually wasn't ( i've had problems like that in the past). try forcing a re-check on the file just in case. If not then try using VLC media player. I have heard that the latest version of the xvid codec has been giving people problems playing movies rendered with older versions in certain players.

You can check to see if the file is ok with this method:

download quickpar from here:
QUICKPAR
Install it and then download this par file to the folder that contains the movie
par2 file for checking
open up the par2 file with quickpar and it will scan the video to see if it is corrupt in any way, or has been changed from the original

I can't give a time frame on how long the revised version is going to take to complete. i'm having problems with the "hand" scene. i just can't get the lighting correct on the hand mainly because the wife is one of the worse photographers in history. (she's gonna kill me for saying that)

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Originally posted by: adywan
i just can't get the lighting correct on the hand mainly because the wife is one of the worse photographers in history. (she's gonna kill me for saying that)

So you enlisted your wife to take the photos for that shot? I think that would be the first time in history a husband has given his wife a hand job! [rimshot]

I kill me,
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^
lol

“It’s a lot of fun… it’s a lot of fun to watch Star Wars.” – Bill Moyers

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Beautiful work, sir. Simply beautiful.

I created a quick DVD for convenience, and I'm experiencing the same sense of wonder and delight that I did as a child, on my tenth or twentieth theatre viewing. There's a sense of reality to the film, an emotional reaction that I didn't expect.

In a week and a half I get to teach a one-week class, three hours a day, on "God and a Galaxy Far, Far Away." We'll be exploring many aspects of the Trilogy, as you might imagine, and until last week I was going to use the Darth Editous version of "A New Hope." I'd even created a clumsy editing-in (all I have to work with at the moment is Nero) of the lost scenes from MoveAlong's disc. No longer, though.

I look forward to seeing my students' reactions to the film.

And, for those who worry, I'll be using "The Lost Scenes" as a supplement. I can't _imagine_ trying to edit Adywan's work.

Thank you, Adywan. I'm eager to see the final disc, but will wait with all patience. Well done.

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Originally posted by: adywan
No, this is a PAL project because i wanted to work with the highest quality picture available (the HD version wasn't available at the time) plus i live in PAL country. Because i will be doing both NTSC & PAL for the DVD i render a PAL master of just the video first and then use Virtualdubmod to then create a NTSC master. All i have to do is resize it to 720x576 and change the framerate to 23.976. Then i just convert the audio from 25fps pitch to 23.976fps pitch using Vegas and that's it.


I think you mean 720x480.

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Originally posted by: The Griff
Originally posted by: adywan
No, this is a PAL project because i wanted to work with the highest quality picture available (the HD version wasn't available at the time) plus i live in PAL country. Because i will be doing both NTSC & PAL for the DVD i render a PAL master of just the video first and then use Virtualdubmod to then create a NTSC master. All i have to do is resize it to 720x576 and change the framerate to 23.976. Then i just convert the audio from 25fps pitch to 23.976fps pitch using Vegas and that's it.


I think you mean 720x480.


Oops

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Originally posted by: ron2112
So you enlisted your wife to take the photos for that shot? I think that would be the first time in history a husband has given his wife a hand job! [rimshot]

I kill me,
Ron Moses


That was DAMN FUNNY!!!
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I laughed at that one as well. Good one Ron.
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I figured this place could use a little levity.

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Anti-Matter. what problem are you having with playing the video? If you downloaded this via torrent is it possible that your client reported it as complete but it actually wasn't ( i've had problems like that in the past). try forcing a re-check on the file just in case.


Damn, you are magical Adywan. The forced re-check advice was right on! It appears there are some seedy seeders in the swarm.

Thanks a bunch.
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Originally posted by: Anti-Matter
It appears there are some seedy seeders in the swarm.


Damn, man... that's poetry!

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Originally posted by: adywan I can't give a time frame on how long the revised version is going to take to complete. i'm having problems with the "hand" scene. i just can't get the lighting correct on the hand mainly because the wife is one of the worse photographers in history. (she's gonna kill me for saying that)

Can't you just take a picture of your left hand and mirror it?

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Ok , I thought i should bring this over from the Starkiller Ranch thread
Originally posted by: Mojo_LA

I like most of what Ady did, but my friends and I were horrified at the music added to the saber fight in ANH. It doesn't belong there and is a far worse change than anything Lucas ever did. I'll take a 100 Greedos firing first over THAT.

Hamfistedly laying music behind it doesn't appreciably change it or make it better, so why not just leave it be?

Most of what Ady has done to his cut DOES help it, but I think in a few spots he suffers from "kid with a new toy" syndrome and is finding every last change he can make just for the sake of it.


How many times do you have to say that i have done things just for the sake of it when you don't agree with what i have done? You are starting to sound like a stuck record. You said exactly the same things earlier in this thread numerous times and each time i explained in detail my thinking behind each decision and that it was not an "it's there because i can do it" choice. Personally i don't care what either you or your Hollywood buddies think about this edit. Oh and for your information only 1 scream was added in the Tantive battle. The others existed there in the first place. i have made the movie I wanted to make and all the changes were carefully thought out. the saber battle was tried with both music present and without. I also played the 2 versions of the scene to various friends, some don't even like Star Wars, and the majority preferred the scene with the music, so my first choice ultimately became my final one. My personal taste was that it added more to it with the music present with the new editing. I was not suffering from being a "kid with a new toy" as you have said. And how the hell can you say that adding the music is worse than anything Lucas did? Greedo shooting first changed Hans character. He was a cold blooded mercenary when he shot Greedo first. As it stands since the SE's he was only defending himself. How the hell you can say that adding music to a scene is worse than that then i'm sorry but I disagree 100%. The music does nothing to change any characters or storyline.

No amount of slamming the decisions that you don't like will make me change them

I really think that i'm going to keep my ESB Revisited as a private project because you are really gonna hate some of the changes in that. When you see all the Gungans hiding out in Dagobah, the scene with Darth vaders personal masseur, Luke's new line on Dagobah - " get these mutha fuckin snakes of my mutha fuckin X-Wing", Tha Wampa musical number and Lando's new afro you are gonna flip.


Now i think we need more Kitty time.

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ady, I think you are wasting your time replaying to such BS. You made it perfectly clear from the start what your intention was. Just ignore these people.
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Please don't keep ESB Revisited private because of whiners. But I guess you were joking based on the rest of what you said.
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Originally posted by: adywan
I really think that i'm going to keep my ESB Revisited as a private project because you are really gonna hate some of the changes in that. When you see all the Gungans hiding out in Dagobah, the scene with Darth vaders personal masseur, Luke's new line on Dagobah - " get these mutha fuckin snakes of my mutha fuckin X-Wing", Tha Wampa musical number and Lando's new afro you are gonna flip.


Or the scene where Vader cuts off Luke's hand, the shot cuts to the floor and it's a flipper.

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Originally posted by: ron2112


Or the scene where Vader cuts off Luke's hand, the shot cuts to the floor and it's a flipper.

Ron Moses


ROtFL!

Ady - I feel for you man

Mojo may "work" in Hollywood, but until he shows us his edit of EP4, just ignore him.

Constructive criticism is one thing - personal attacks ("kid with a new toy") are another.

What arrogance to lambast a fan doing a fanedit. Comments like "what they hated" are not constructive any more than saying "mostly your wife is pretty, but tell that Rhino to get a nose job"

My understanding is these edits are done by amateurs for enjoyment - not resume building, or critique by seasoned (hardened) industry pros. the music works (imho). not all that comes out of Hollywood is "good" simply because it comes out of Hollywood.

It's incredibly easy to let someone do all the work and fine tuning and then bitch about what you don't like - it is much harder to bring your own edit to the table.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness - Chinese proverb