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ImperialFighter said:

Another nice 'colour-corrected' preview shot Adywan. Great to see how brown Yoda's robes will be again! Please keep these snippets coming over the next few months.

I sure wonder how you will be able to make the whole 'Asteroid Chase' sequence colour look....as the terribly darkened 2004 SE version is so far removed from the nice GOUT colouration to begin with. Good luck.

Yeh the asteroids chase is horrendous for the colouring. it looks like its a recoloured black & white image now. I don't know how the hell i'm going to be able to get that to look right. there are no tones in that at all. tweak one colour and the rest go with it.

There is something that i have noticed about the 2004 DVD though that's a bit weird. There are some shots that don't have the blue tint and are actually the correct colour. It almost looks like the film was cut into loads of different sections and then colour corrected by a load of different people without any communication to achieve a balance. Its the worse colour job i have ever seen

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adywan said:

There is something that i have noticed about the 2004 DVD though that's a bit weird. There are some shots that don't have the blue tint and are actually the correct colour. It almost looks like the film was cut into loads of different sections and then colour corrected by a load of different people without any communication to achieve a balance. Its the worse colour job i have ever seen


For some reason, this reminds me of the War when Britain tried to translate the funniest joke in the world in German by splitting it into pieces. I seem to recall one of them saw another one's word and spent several weeks in the hospital.

Is that bad that Lucas is reminding me of a Monty Python sketch?

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I posted this over in another thread in the Off Topic forum, but it seems to apply here too...

Something I've noticed over the years, with each release and re-release on VHS, LaserDisc, DVD, problems that were fixed on one release were broken on the next, or at best had a different fix applied. It's like every release started from scratch instead of building on the previous version.

The suspicious part of me says that this was on purpose. It manufactures a reason for the obsessive people to keep buying it over and over hoping to finally get the "perfect" version that never really arrives.

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Dont mean to go to steps ahed but how about some more tie bombers, and perhaps one of those deluxe battle droids/droidikas in the ugnaught scrap heap ;-)
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doubleofive said:

Is that bad that Lucas is reminding me of a Monty Python sketch?



It would be funny if it weren't for the fact that this is a classic that is considered by many (and not just Star Wars geeks) to be one of the greatest movies ever made, and yet we can't get a decent version on DVD that doesn't make us feel dirty for having paid for it.

We need Tim the Enchanter to "light a fire" under Lucasfilm to do the Blu-Ray version justice.

And speaking of Blu-Ray, it'll be a few years yet before DVD starts to die out, but are you going to do this one all in hi-def now that it's out there and just down-convert to make a DVD version, Adywan? (that way if Lucasfilm does drop the ball, we'll still have a hi-def version of ESB:R when the time comes)

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And speaking of Blu-Ray, it'll be a few years yet before DVD starts to die out, but are you going to do this one all in hi-def now that it's out there and just down-convert to make a DVD version, Adywan? (that way if Lucasfilm does drop the ball, we'll still have a hi-def version of ESB:R when the time comes)

No Hi-Def versions i'm afraid. With all the work that has to go into this (especially the amount of layers & masks involved in just the colour correction) my PC would just grind to a halt. i did a 1080p test of a 1 minute scene that involved different layers of colour correction ( about 13) and It was going to take almost 30 hours to render just that scene. So there is no way i'm going to do any Hi-Def versions

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Ok then. From what I've heard, Star Wars Revisited still looks great on an HDTV anyway.

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Hey Ady, I've invented something that ought to help bring the Hoth scenes from the GOUT up to snuff.
Just put these on.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/Sluggomatic2000/Blog/colorkit.jpg
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Ady, will there be any chance of you releasing a purely color corrected version of ESB? I know you couldnt with ANHR but I thought it would be nice to have an ESB color corrected version and I think it would be a great help to the community for anyone planning to do future projects with the movie.

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GhostAlpha26 said:

Ady, will there be any chance of you releasing a purely color corrected version of ESB? I know you couldnt with ANHR but I thought it would be nice to have an ESB color corrected version and I think it would be a great help to the community for anyone planning to do future projects with the movie.


I'm not sure about this. the problem is that i do a lot of the colour tweaking later in the process when i'm doing FX work and have got the editing done. I don't bother doing proper colour correction to any of the space shots or the shots that are full FX only until that stage. So the colour would be all over the place until then.

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adywan said:


I'm not sure about this. the problem is that i do a lot of the colour tweaking later in the process when i'm doing FX work and have got the editing done. I don't bother doing proper colour correction to any of the space shots or the shots that are full FX only until that stage. So the colour would be all over the place until then.


No biggie man, I didnt want to create more problems to add to the already insane process you have ahead, I just wasnt sure if it could be a relatively easy thing to do. Thanks for explaining it to me.

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Hello there! I'm new here, though I'm a Star Wars' fan from a long time and I read this forum (and follow the fans' creations) from year.... but (as my english prove it) I'm from the "outer rim" territories of the world :\ and until some time ago were not so simple to have a conversation in english (I hope for the present... :D )
Anyway, I've finished this evening to rewatch the entire saga, and this time with Ady's ANH:R, instead of the uncle George's version: it's the ANH I've ever wanted to see, the best version of all!!!!

And about TESB:R... I agree with almost your choices... but you really want to change the voice of Boba and shortening his role in ESB? IMHO, the voice of Temuera Morrison for Boba it's a logical choice and despite Bulloch's voice was the classic one, the new voice fit the saga together.

And another thing, have you thought to reintroduce the two music tracks that were cut from the theatrical release and never reinserted, "The Training Of A Jedi Knight" and "Darth Vader's trap"?

...some sample of that are even on yuotube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPdeyXjTY-s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3zuGTFh6Lw
(...sorry for my bad english ...I'm not a native speaker)
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Darknikos said:

Hello there! I'm new here, though I'm a Star Wars' fan from a long time and I read this forum (and follow the fans' creations) from year.... but (as my english prove it) I'm from the "outer rim" territories of the world :\ and until some time ago were not so simple to have a conversation in english (I hope for the present... :D )
Anyway, I've finished this evening to rewatch the entire saga, and this time with Ady's ANH:R, instead of the uncle George's version: it's the ANH I've ever wanted to see, the best version of all!!!!

And about TESB:R... I agree with almost your choices... but you really want to change the voice of Boba and shortening his role in ESB? IMHO, the voice of Temuera Morrison for Boba it's a logical choice and despite Bulloch's voice was the classic one, the new voice fit the saga together.

And another thing, have you thought to reintroduce the two music tracks that were cut from the theatrical release and never reinserted, "The Training Of A Jedi Knight" and "Darth Vader's trap"?

...some sample of that are even on yuotube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPdeyXjTY-s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3zuGTFh6Lw


Well welcome to the forums.

I think a few people have misunderstood my intentions for Boba Fett. I will not be cutting any of his role in ESB. Its ROTJ that i will be cutting. And Jango Fetts voice will be altered when i get to the Prequels to sound closer to the original Fett voice, so no continuity problems there at all.

I don't think i'll be adding any music. There is a small cue that was removed from the special editions when han is frozen that i will be re-inserting, but at the moment i can't see me adding anything else that wasn't there in the first place. Although after watching the first clip i do like the original music cue when the TIE bombers appear but the rest of the scene is better without any.

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So are you going to delete Fett from Jabba's palace or just the sail barge scenes or both?

Just something for us to think about, why must every well known character, always HAVE to go out with a blaze of glory? It doesn't always work out like that in real life, so why should Fett be any different? Hey, even Elvis the icon he is, died when he was sitting on a toilet. Why delete a major death/plot point simply because we don't agree with how it was done? Do we have to agree or like every single plot point to be able to leave it in the movie? Just sort of playing devil's advocate, and giving something to think about. Not getting all upset or anything, and do NOT wanna turn this into an uncivil or angry fight/argument in here. As always you can & will do as you wish. Maybe Fett can die from a lightsaber slash to the chest/gut from Luke on the skiff about the same time he falls face down on the skiff? (After Luke cuts the ropes that Fett wrapped him with?) If that is somehow possible to do?
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The thing about Boba Fett's "death" to me is that it's just more silliness added to a movie that has way too much silliness in it as it is. (the belches and Tarzan yell are the worst offenders to me.) Sure, not every cool character has to go out in a 'blaze of glory', but blimey, I think that after he became the apotheosis of cool in ESB, he deserves more than getting hit by a blind man with a stick and yelling like a little girl as he bounces off the sail barge. ;)

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I am all in favor of getting rid of his yell when he dies.
I am just thinking, isn't there a way of killing him off differently without deleting him altogether.
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anyway here is that video i was talking about and also adywan if u look at the videos when vader misses luke and strikes the wall there are no scorch mark will you fix that
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My problem is that he doesn't DO anything in ROTJ, at all. He stands around and looks at people. He doesn't even really participate in the sail barge battle - he ties Luke up for 2 seconds and then gets killed by accident. He serves no purpose to the story.
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Boba Fett might not have much a part in ROTJ but he is still a threat to Han and chewie still....judging from Han's reaction to Chewie telling him that Boba Fett was near, Han, even though he still can't see very well, tries to see where BF is and takes action against that threat....I'd vote with a please leave him in ROTJ....

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Boba Fett in RotJ seems to be the point where Lucas started putting things in his movies to reference other movies, and I had the same reaction I did to the references to the OOT in the PT. At first I thought lines like "You're going to be the death of me" and seeing the Death Star in the PT were awesome, and nothing could be better. Then the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it is completely pointless and fanboyish to refer to the other better movies before they happen. Especially since we're supposed to watch them in numerical order, where you wouldn't get the jokes they're making until after they happen. I don't want to be watching Vader and Obi-Wan duel in ANH and remember Obi-Wan's haunting words "You're going to be the death of me" as he disappears.

As for Fett not doing much in Empire, the thing is that without him tracking down the Falcon to Cloud City, the last third of the movie wouldn't happen. In RotJ, if Fett didn't flirt with the dancer and fall into the Sarlacc, um, nothing would have changed. His death doesn't have to be a blaze of glory, but Lucas is just ruining our remembrance of better movies by killing him with one of the Three Stooges.

Here I am going off on a RotJ/PT tangent after getting yelled at about it just a few pages back...

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I don't remember if this had been addressed yet, but is the transparency of the interior shots of the speeders being fixed?
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Sluggo said:

I don't remember if this had been addressed yet, but is the transparency of the interior shots of the speeders being fixed?

With all the seemingly unavoidable PT and ROTJ talk even though this is the ESB thread (I'm guilty, too), I first read 'transparency of the interior shots of the speeder bikes' and I thought 'what? I never noticed anything like...oh, oops.' :p

I would imagine that any lingering problems with those shots is one of the first things Ady thought of, though. Just another fix that would be nice if it were simpler... Would this be comparable to repainting the lasers?

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Sluggo said:

I don't remember if this had been addressed yet, but is the transparency of the interior shots of the speeders being fixed?


Yes i am going to attempt to fix that. I also hate the way that ILM lied about fixing those shots for the SE in the Making of docs. I don't know how the hell i'm going to do some because the actors are also transparent in the speeders in some shots too. But that problem isn't just isolated to the Hoth battle. I've spotted some ships being transparent in space, also some of the Falcon cockpit shots amongst others. I have fixed one already (well 90% fixed so far) and that it the shot of the Falcons cockpit as they leave the Hoth Hangar (the side view shot). You can see the hangar walls through the cockpit walls & the actors. I think ILM went a bit mad on the idea of transparency to hide matte lines. But why did they lie and say they fixed it when they clearly didn't? who knows. Even the interior speeder cockpit shot they show in the making of as the speeder swoops down between the AT-AT's legs that they said they had fixed is clearly still transparent.

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