Star Wars: A New Hope DEVASTATOR EDITION (V.1 RELEASED - V.2 a WIP) — Page 25

Hair removal:
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The removal of the TIE and hair both look great — fantastic attention to detail - well done!!

Phase3 said:

The removal of the TIE and hair both look great — fantastic attention to detail - well done!!

thanks.

Happy Independence Day !!!

That guy with no name said:

Hello, Star Wars fans!
This edit will be a mixture of the SE and The original version, With some additives of course. The main source of this edit is The 2011 Blu-ray release, Color corrected by Adywan in 2018. I am hoping this edit will be a more purist version of the famous “Adywan Revisited”. All the basic info including the change list, Will be listed down below.
-That Guy With No Name.

Sources:
Adywan’s Color Corrected 2011 Blu-ray (Was made in 2018).
4K77 (1080p) non DNR
4K78 (1080p) non DNR.
Hal 900’s custom special edition.
ANH/ESB Revisited.
Many 35mm cell scans and screenshots.

Tools (software Etc.):
Video Editing Software: Davinci Resolve 17.
Audio Editing Software: Audacity.
Color Matching software (for matching 4k77 to blu-ray): Dr dre’s color match tool.
Color grading software: Davinci Resolve 17 Studio.
Dust and scratches removal: Neat video 5.0

When released:
File: MKV.
Size: 72.9GB (ProRes) 15GB (H.264)
Resolution: 1920x818 ProRes, 24 fps. (there will be an H.264 encode as well)
Audio Tracks: New 5.1 mix (english)
Subtitles: only English

Video changes:

MAIN:
.New lasers/muzzle flashes.
.Smoothed jump-cuts.
.Continuity fixes.
.Color correction
.Re-edited some scenes.
.slight lightsaber enhancements.

Specific:
.New 20th century fox logo borrowed from ESB:R
.New tatooine matte and removed blue haze from star destroyers egnies.
.The Tantive can be seen moving faster to match the previous speed.
.The laser that hits the Tantive has been re-positioned to hit the right spot.
.Artoo now flashes red and blue as he does in ESB and ROTJ.
.Lowered the intensity of the red flashes.
.One of the officers gets shot but no flash appears, That has been fixed.
.this same officer also accidentally shoots a laser out of the scope, That also has been fixed.
.fixed a jump cut where you can suddenly see a trooper has fallen.
.A laser bolt has been added to the officer that originally fell behind Threepio.
.Artoo now retracts his hand in a long shot (overwriting a bit of the next shot).
.The escape pod. now moves faster and goes down instead of up.
.New VFX for the shot of the officers arguing about the escape pod.
.The inside of the escape pod now glows blue.
.The pod hatch now has motion blur.
.cloudy skies on Tatooine have been replaced with real skies from Tunisia.
.Inside the Sandcrawler has been replaced with the 2019 Blu-ray for better quality.
.Threepio’s “switching eyes” have been corrected.
.The original Dewback scene has been reverted to its original timing. (thank Hal for this)
.All mistakes or continuity errors at the Lars homestead. have been fixed.
.Scan lines have been added to the Leia hologram.
.The rocks in front of Artoo have been removed
.The hut scene has been re-edited.
(And many more changes too much to list.)

Audio changes:
.Music cues all over the movie have changed.
.New Tantive Iv alarm.
.The officers now scream as they get shot, Instead of just opening their mouths.
.The blaster sound effect has been changed into one Uniform sound.
.There are now wind/desert sounds in all shots of Tatooine
.Lightsabers now have a uniform sound.

visual change list (WIP)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5kED5fe56duiLx639

Blu-ray case: (Criterion size)

ThatGuyWithNoName’s Plea for support:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTpL_yvwY_NtcO44c2tmQTsxM356lC95uKplvTgxNApYcpPHCjTtSCVH1uJioBpsLBc19UyI1eN8MvH/pub

Ignore the message I sent on my alt-account (director1), can you send a download link to this account’s Pms?

Video coming soon, stay tuned.

kunzfuz said:

Please may I have a dm link? Thanks

Sent.

Ronster said:

Is version 2 Ready / out?

I am interested in yout take.

Still waiting on that computer, once I can purchase it. (hopefully by the end of the year).
I’ll begin work on V.2

revel911 said:

That guy with no name said:

preview coming soon:

Anyway to make the screen a bit more hi-res?

It’s a gif, so it’s very compressed. end result is more clear.

Alright, here’s a big update: I’ve finally purchased a new Mac Pro! If you don’t know, my Mac Mini was stolen at the airport during a flight back from MCO (Orlando) to my home in NYC. It was such a horrible experience that I’ve never been able to recover any of my files. For the past two years, I’ve been working off a MacBook Air that I bought temporarily, which ended up becoming my permanent solution.

After saving for a few months, I’ve finally purchased a fully spec’d out Mac Pro! I can finally get back to finishing all my promised edits and projects: 4k77 Remastered, Hal’s COD project update, and of course, this. I’ll post a clip when I receive it as a celebration. Stay tuned!

Assuming it’s not an April Fool, that’s wonderful to hear! Congratulations 🎉

Hal 9000 said:

Assuming it’s not an April Fool, that’s wonderful to hear! Congratulations 🎉

I just realized the date. well… that was bad timing.

First shot completed on the new computer. Absolutely incredible fast processing and smooth playback.

https://streamable.com/dmbl94
New sequence coming soon.

Quick reminder of the main source and its problems.
The 2011 Blu-ray is bad, really bad. Adywan’s grade with all its luster couldn’t correct a lot of the Blu-ray’s big problems, including but not limited to: DNR, Large Grain to disguise the DNR, Smearing or other artifacts on the first frame of some shots, and of course, Blown out highlights and crushed black levels.
The 2019 Blu-ray has been used to correct these problems, but the detail amount on the Blu-ray overpasses anything the 2011 has to offer (For ANH at least):

while I’m currently following the “2011 as a source with 2019 bits and pieces throughout,” this might very well change for a later version “V.3?”. So just keep that in mind.

That guy with no name said:

First shot completed on the new computer. Absolutely incredible fast processing and smooth playback.

https://streamable.com/dmbl94
New sequence coming soon.

That shot looks great!

That guy with no name said:

while I’m currently following the “2011 as a source with 2019 bits and pieces throughout,” this might very well change for a later version “V.3?”. So just keep that in mind.

revel911 said:

What percentage is this completed?

V.1 is done. V.2 is about 35% complete.

New comp!

https://streamable.com/23cc8f

The audio mix is still a WIP.
Also, just began using a professional GIF creator. EzGif is dead to me.

Ezgif: