TGWNN's The Cloak of deception: revisited (WIP)

Hello everyone.
The hal9000 trilogy are the definitive versions when it comes to the prequels, (story wise at least.)
and the effects hold up pretty well, except for one film… Episode 1.

Hal’s ProRes cloak of deception will be the main master, and i’ll build my effects on there.

It has always bothered me that the effects in phantom menace are so out of place in the prequels.
I want to have a definitive version of the trilogy to watch, but Episode 1 always sticks out like a sore thumb.

here are the main issues that I’ve noticed and how to fix them.

1. Lightsabers too dark/colorless. Fix: replace using dazman’s phantom edit.

2. too many stars in starfields . Fix: replace starfields (maybe)

3. Laser’s ugly dull colors. Fix: repaint all lasers. (maybe)

4. naboo’s scenery in some areas especially in the hangar bay shots look fake. Fix: replace with better environments.

5. deepfake/paste Darth maul’s face onto the CGI puppet seen falling down the tunnel thingy in the final battle.

6. replace added spark hits that look fake and bad.

7. Restore/Clean up films issues.

This edit won’t officially begin until DevEd v.2 is finished.

Assuming you don’t have any ideas I disagree strongly with, and would like to publish your efforts in this way, I’d be happy to take what you do and incorporate them into a future (“official”?) revision of CoD itself.

Hal 9000 said:

Assuming you don’t have any ideas I disagree strongly with, and would like to publish your efforts in this way, I’d be happy to take what you do and incorporate them into a future (“official”?) revision of CoD itself.

It’d be an honor.

Well all right then. 😃

I know I sad I wouldn’t start yet but still:
Color correction is still a wip.

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another shot:

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Can’t honestly say I strongly prefer one over the other, but that still clears the bar of me “not strongly disagreeing” or whatever I had said.

vranir said:

Any thoughts about making other changes based on that community brainstorming thread, especially regarding the movie start and climax?

I’m not him, but I would prefer if he just stuck to his stated goal of giving Hal’s edit the “Revisited” treatment. Making any new plot-related changes would introduce the urge to go further and further, to the point where it wouldn’t even be the same edit anymore.

Atom-88 said:

One suggestion if possible is maybe mask Darth Studious’s face (Spoiler Alert) to hide the fact that it’s Palpatine, that’s always annoyed me how no one worked it out lol.

Don’t worry this’ll be done.

The cc is working out better than expected.

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Wow, looks great!

Is this even worth the trouble:

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Where are you trying to make it look like they are?

Hal 9000 said:

Where are you trying to make it look like they are?

Outside Palpatine’s office, it looks like.

I personally think it’s a bad idea. One of this edit’s goals is to make Sidious being Palpatine more of a surprise, it would be weird to add more connections between the two. And even in-universe, it would be dumb for Palpatine to invite his secret evil assassin to his very high-profile apartment.

StarkillerAG said:

Hal 9000 said:

Where are you trying to make it look like they are?

Outside Palpatine’s office, it looks like.

I personally think it’s a bad idea. One of this edit’s goals is to make Sidious being Palpatine more of a surprise, it would be weird to add more connections between the two. And even in-universe, it would be dumb for Palpatine to invite his secret evil assassin to his very high-profile apartment.

fine, I’ll leave it out.

The colour correction looks fantastic!
The pink hues throughout the Tatooine sequences always looked wrong; if you could restore them to a proper sand colour, then that would be amazing!

That guy with no name said:

The cc is working out better than expected.

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That guy with no name said:

Is this even worth the trouble:

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Would it be worth the trouble to try and make them be at Palp’s secret hideout from AOTC that he meets Dooku at?

Excellent color correction!!! I love the look of that desert shot : )

darthrush said:

Excellent color correction!!! I love the look of that desert shot : )

thanks