Adding color to the Emperor’s shuttle creates a strong connection with the prequels.
And of course solves the problem of reusing the same shuttle on ROTJ again and again 😃
The center channel from a 5.1 mix usually has music mixed in (specially if it was just upscaled from a Dolby Surround track…) so it’s not the best option.
Your best bet is to try something like Adobe Audition’s Center Channel extractor on a lossless Dolby Surround track.
That has some chance of really separating dialog from stereo music.
Quality is normal SD / DVD quality, a bit soft but with decent color. I’ve matched the colors and contrast of the extended Naboo arrival, dissolving from the deleted to the theatrical footage and it works well.
I agree that some effects are too rough, like on the Jedi archive. But the essential ones (senate, padme’s house) are decent. Anything that centers AOTC around Padmé will do, since she’s the main character.
“This makes Attack of the Clones look like Citizen Kane” 😃
Tried to recolor R2 on the Dagobah scenes and redub Luke calling him as R-T35.
Doesn’t work, so I realise that intercutting Jabba with Dagobah is not practical.
But I wonder how it would play intercut with the DeathStar II scenes, perhaps with Vader mentally searching for Luke (start of the cave deleted scene).
Luke is wearing gloves, clearly visible on two previous shots.
I agree that another view would be better, but the gesture can’t be too visible.
Another option is for Luke to close his eyes, like when he levitated 3CPO. I’ll try that.
I really like that last video with the stormtrooper helmets. Good stuff!
Well, the time span is about a day on Dagobah and the Palace. So Yoda dying in the morning and Luke departing in the afternoon is not a problem. Of course, you need to accept really fast travel times 😉
But we need to recolour R2-D2 to make him another droid! Having another droid could also be a nod to the prequels.
In there some dialog where Luke mentions a number or a letter ?
Rejoining the fleet briefing would need some extra work.
Anyway, these are very interesting ideas 😃
How about starting with Luke on Dagobha, intercut with Jabba’s palace? This way time would flow better on both sequences.
Luke’s entrance would still work as long as we remove the hologram. He leaves Dagobah a full Jedi, but the first time we see him as such is when he enters the palace.
IlFanEditore said:
You could cut at the point where the gamorrean guards appear, so that the audience thinks they captured 3PO and R2, maybe?
Great idea. Jaba then gets introduced when Leia comes in with Chewie 😃
I’d also cut the trapdoor, it works better as a complete surprise for the viewer (and Luke).
I’ve seen a few attempts to trim down the ‘water pipes’ gag with BB8 during the opening sequence, and tried making one myself, but never saw one that really felt right.
Can anyone recommend anyone’s work on this scene? Perhaps there’s a good one out there I haven’t stumbled into, but you have.
Just use the deleted original opening. Solves the water gag and the General Hugs prank.
An attempt at Luke using his Jedi powers on the Ewoks, at end of the story scene.
I added some hand ( fingers 😉 ) movement and the Force theme. This also connects to Luke sensing Vader.
This way he senses him while doing mind control on the Ewoks.
It’s a bit fast perhaps, but as always, just trying some ideas.
Yes, looks good. As I suggested, ceremony robes make sense for Coruscant.
For fighting the more generic clothes are fine.
Perhaps the Spaceballs shot was intended as an external view ?
All that stuff around the tube does look like a ship’s exterior.
If we consider it as an external view and place the Star Wars capsule there, we get:
Anyway, it’s not a nice model and we gain nothing by seeing it.
About the robes, how about only recoloring on the Jedi Council scenes ? It would look as if they changed into more formal robes. Less work also 😁
The matte paintings from the Ewoks movies could be used.
The large planet is there and the style is in line with other mattes on ROTJ.
For example: http://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/StarWars/wallpaper/Original-Trilogy-Matte-Paintings/Original Trilogy - Matte Paintings 01.jpg
Changing all Jedi displays to monochrome will improve things immediately. Two colors at best 😃
As for the hand yes, just crop it. There’s button pressing a few seconds later from another angle.
So the viewer would still see how the console is operated 😉
I’m enjoying these very much!
For me the main issues are uneven sound and color variations. Mostly noticeable if you see the episodes back to back.
As the previous user mentioned, Arctic Giant has a delay effect.
Yes and I like it! The editing is solid and pacing is good.
The weakest part is Luke sensing Obi-Wan’s death while firing the cannon. It needs something more… Still, good work!
With this change, we can alternate the duel with the Tie Fighters chase, with a whole new rhythm.
Looking forward to see this !
Really good work 😁
The color correction looks good.
Same reason why he entered the podrace 😁
He is the chosen one, more mature and powerful than he looks.
- removing kid anakin from the end battle (painting out any glimpses of him running around)
The best option is to edit out the kid stuff (get rid of the “whoops”) and show him activating the autopilot on purpose!
That makes his character much better, and in line with his force abilities.
Also disobeying (by going into battle) explains the reservations to his training by the council.
- many scenes with jar jar painted out (all scenes on tatooine and coruscant at least)
For me the only good scenes are the dinner at Anakin’s house and when Amidala asks him for help.
Even without painting him out, just removing his noises helps. As with Anakin, remove all those exclamations and little screams. They are there only to keep very young audiences interested.
You will see that the movie immediately improves just with sound editing.
Good stuff.
Telion said:
OK, I hate to be a pain with constant posting of more problems but I’ve just been re-watching the Space Battle of Endor a few times and I’ve come up with a wonderfully unrealistic wish list of fixes.
The effects suffer from bad lighting and color shifts due to the way they were composed.
On top of that you have a terrible BlueRay grading that makes everything flat. Look at the original trailer.
The space scenes are much darker and look immediately better: https://youtu.be/p4vIFhk621Q?t=102
I think that the only thing fixable is grading. 1983 effects are what they are…
