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STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - ** PRODUCTION HAS NOW RESTARTED ** — Page 148

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adywan said:

I recently did a test burn of the ESB:R Blu-ray that was created with Adobe Encore and the results weren’t good. Tried the disc in 3 blu-ray players. Worked ok in 1 but not in the other two. Panasonic, LG & Sony players tested. Only the LG played it. So i’m giving up on releasing Blu-Ray versions. Good Blu-Ray authoring software just isn’t out there without paying extortionate fees. Adobe Encore is just too buggy, but other available software just don’t have the features, especially being able to use DTSHD audio and creating good menus. So what I will be doing is releasing higher bitrate versions of the edits, alongside the smaller file size ones, that should be Blu-Ray compatible if anyone wanted to make their own physical copy. It’s unfortunate, I know, but I don;t want people to have to download a 50GB disc image file only to find out that the authoring software has rendered the burned disc to be playable on their machines.

Why not use Dolby TrueHD instead of DTS-HD? It’s easier to encode, and it’s compatible with far more devices.

And what about all the bonus features you had planned? How will we get to see them?

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No worries ady, I’m donating a bit monthly this year hope it helps, these are the most anticipated edits! Im up for putting a bit in to see these completed.
All the best.

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Since you’re abandoning a Blu-ray release, will you be waiting to release high bitrate ESB:R along with the others, or could we expect that in the semi-near future?

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I did my part.
I can’t even begin to imagine how many hours Adywan has devoted to these fan edits over the years. I would hope Everyone who has felt the need to post their opinion on this thread, likewise feels the need to pitch in and help support this project.

“Now is the time.”-- Obi-Wan Kenobi, Revenge of the Sith.

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adywan said:

Latest update:

It’s 2025. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year.

I think its a great idea to do the video blogs and I think its a great idea to do 3D printing and outsource more CG work, its just what’s necessary. Trust me there’s many who want to help who have the skills and know how. You should try and direct the replacement sandtrooper shots remotely. Somebody somewhere has the exact armor/costume you need for that shot, lives somewhere where there is sun, and someone near that person can rent out a camera package and get you those shots, second unit style. It just needs to get coordinated/ funds to execute properly, but that way you don’t have to wait till summer. Find people via instagram, facebook, or channels on youtube

gonna donate!!!

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I wish you the best of luck Ady. I’ve had a change of course in my life, so I haven’t been able to quite interact and provide input as much as in the past, but I still keep checking in on your progress. I’m sure Jedi will be a vast improvement.

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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Hey all
Any one know if Ady managed to get the funds for the resin printer?

Cheers, Paul

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I love Ady’s edits as they are what I personally consider ideal Star Wars, but I will donate once ANH is out, till then it feels wrong to me to ask for something for project Y, when project X hasn’t been completed.

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adywan said:

Quick update:

https://www.facebook.com/swrevisited/posts/pfbid02MGc6EQrpgkXhMQcLDZXnxg4YV9GRqY9furbPAxU9tVd4QKbQ8dxGt7eJk8LCnGirl

Here’s the edit-focused part of the update. For equipment & funds update, click over to Facebook.

Today marks the day that the very first FX fix shot for ROTJ:R was completed. It’s a shot that has bugged me ever since 1983. The shot? When Luke is escaping the Death Star in the shuttle in the hangar. When the gantry falls it is no existent until it hits the floor due to the blue screen FX of the time and, when it does appear and hit the ground, it looks like a model because it has no weight to it. It seems that it was shot at the wrong frame rate which would have given it the scale and weight it needed. But I’ll reveal this by the end of the week and i can run you though what was done.

For reference, here’s the shot on Youtube: https://youtu.be/xPZigWFyK2o?t=463

Watch it at x0.25 speed. You can see the gantry silhouetted against a random explosion, but it completely fails to occlude any of the starfield outside. I would guess this is the same issue that lead to the B-Wings getting mostly cut from the film: The optical compositing process couldn’t handle really thin things. In this case, however, most viewers don’t notice (I never did, at least), but I look forward to seeing Ady’s version.

And since I can’t talk about this movie without a storyboard, here’s a storyboard for this shot, from November 19, 1982: https://macrobinoculars.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ra105-181.jpg

Not only is the falling gantry absent, but they were considering having Endor visible outside. Endor probably should be visible! And that would give a brighter background for falling debris…if the compositing worked.

ROTJ Storyboard Reconstruction Project

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I’m good with the idea that the shuttle is coming from the opposite side of the DS2.

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doubleofive said:

I’m good with the idea that the shuttle is coming from the opposite side of the DS2.

Yeah, and that would explain why you can’t see Endor from the throne room.

-TGWNN

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doubleofive said:

I’m good with the idea that the shuttle is coming from the opposite side of the DS2.

Yeah, and that would explain why you can’t see Endor from the throne room.

Good point.

As for the throne room, it all depends on where the spire is. A 2017 thread on TFNJCF says the answer is the North Pole, which makes sense to me, and they cite some source. Given the relative size (DSII is much smaller) and distance (and orbiting quite close) of the two bodies, I’m still not convinced that you’d never see Endor out the windows, but maybe 🤷‍♂️

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Luke sure made it from the North Pole to an equatorial docking bay dragging a dying giant of an armored man pretty darn quick.

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regularjoe said:

Luke sure made it from the North Pole to an equatorial docking bay dragging a dying giant of an armored man pretty darn quick.

“Hey kid, it ain’t that kind of movie” 😉

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regularjoe said:

Luke sure made it from the North Pole to an equatorial docking bay dragging a dying giant of an armored man pretty darn quick.

The Emperor has a direct elevator between the Throne Room and a hallways somewhere near that docking bay, though it can also go to Vader’s meditation chamber (location unknown). Unfortunately, this is only found in a few deleted scenes:

Unfortunately, this final scene is the only one that would come close to showing the geometry of this problem, and it’s the only one of those three that’s never been released. Either way, Luke does have to drag Vader down a hallway, which is maybe stretching credulity. On the other hand, he can use the Force.

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Force speed a.k.a. “A wizard did it.”

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Apologies for an overused gif, it just worked too well here.

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So I don’t remember if Ady had said if he was open to the idea of doing this for his edit or definitely not, but in the slightest chance he could be, was hoping I may share ideas for potentially rewording the ROTJ opening crawl?

While the original does work and is okay, I do feel it could use a bit more meat on its bones, imho. I think the original first paragraph is good as is, however those last two paragraphs, especially, could easily use less fluff and be consolidated into one. Then as for giving it more weight, perhaps it’d be good to mention something about the current state of the Rebels as well as their end goal, so (hopefully) there will be more at stake for them this time around of the story and not just another Death Star attack? And lastly, since the Emperor is a key player in all this, I think he’s definitely worthy of mention.

So I put this together and was curious of some thoughts? What works or what doesn’t? Even tiny details like which word(s) to have in all caps or not, etc. Also I’m aware of the funky spacing around one of the words, but that can be easily fixed when done more accurately 😉 (Still, not too bad of a tool that’s easy and free!)

https://gostargazer.com/sample/tsjr8l2rjiesqamc7paq6llwpsog6skf/

Wishlist Of Ideas/Suggestions For Improving ROTJ

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doubleofive said:

I’m good with the idea that the shuttle is coming from the opposite side of the DS2.

Yeah, and that would explain why you can’t see Endor from the throne room.

Luke can see the battle. In the battle sequences the moon is prominent as is the station. The battle is tiny little dots. Even if the tower is on the same side as the dish and close to it the battle would be bigger. The Blast from the weapon would resemble Starkiller base firing in TFA but green. The view would be more interesting.

Alternatively the tower could be nearer the pole of the station. That way Palps wouldn’t get blinded by the dish firing and the moon would be visible the battle would probably be visible too but not linear the view would resemble a cloud of ships. The rebels had to skim the edge of the shield to avoid hitting it and Lando moved the rebel fleet towards the imperials once the station was firing. Luke would see the rebels engaging the fighters in the foreground and star Destroyers in the distance,not a line reading left right on a single plane.