Asteroid-Man

If a moderator won't do it, I will.

EVERYONE STFU ABOUT MONEY SENT AND MONEY SPENT!

Ady said he was short on cash for the project, and it was your call to donate or not. If you donate, no matter how much you would like to add conditions, when it comes down to the end of the day, you can't enforce shit, so sit down and shut the fuck up.

Make a donation and leave it at that. No refunds, no complaining. You should be smart enough to consider every outcome surrounding the donation - ex: what it will be used on, how it will be used, the finished product, etc.

And even if the Wampa scene doesn't turn out the way everyone expects, too bad. Look at it this way, you gave ady the materials and he had the opportunity to try something new and learn some new skills - be happy for that.

And honestly if people are going to think "A-Man's just saying that cause he's donating like a sheep" - screw you, because first of all I don't have money to donate - I'm in debt from Film School, slowly paying off debts with scholarships and hopefully a new part time job - if I had excessive amounts of money to not only pay for my productions but also ady's, I would do it in a heart beat. Ady has shown tremendous passion and dedication to this and your donations can compliment it. If you don't want to make a donation, then don't. If you do, great. But think first before you click "Send" over at PayPal because even if ady might give it back (which I wouldn't), you can't expect an apology or a refund because that's not how donations work.

And please, I implore other posters that if further issues with donations arise amongst posters, ignore them and let ADY (or a Mod, accordingly) address the issue.

A-Man

Hey man, just a quick question, are you planing on keeping the original project files for this so that you can do a 1080p version later by just replacing the source files?

Cheers!

That's true, but I don't even have a bluray player in my computer... :P

Again... decoding that MKV is proving to be most difficult... haha

I've got an MKV of the HD version, and I'm picking up the 20th Anniversary Edition soon.

What I planned on doing was using the audio from the dvd and the video from the MKV but I'm trying to figure out how to rip the video from the MKV and maintain the quality.

Yeah I'm just running a bunch of tests now. I think I'll end up waiting for the release of Legacy though so that I can use parts of it - like the opening. Also, I dunno if you guys have noticed it, but the real world in Legacy is orange tinted, whereas the grid is blue tinted - I'm running some tests on this now.

Akwat Kbrana said:

Yeesh. It's amazing how so many people can look at the words "i won't be taking any suggestions for changes/ fixes" and interpret them to mean "now eagerly accepting suggestions for changes/fixes."

That being said, is it a bad thing that this news excites me about ten times more than the official Star Wars Saga on Blu-Ray announcement ever did?

Except that I was making a suggestion to a change which I know ady is probably already considering because of the reactions to the music in the duel.

Ady may I suggest that you keep the original project files for this so that if you do a 1080p version later you can just replace the file?

I know he said no changes... but please remove the music sequence from the duel... :(

Yeah that's what I was hoping to do. I was actually going to lower the contrast and vibrance in the real world though so that it looks more dull and realistic and also so that the world of the grid is more eye popping.

Do you mean I should apply abberation to Flynn in the real world, or on the grid?

I'll be doing that as well.

What I plan on doing is this:

Reworking the opening sequence to match Legacy.

Tightening up the editing.

Rescoring the film to match Legacy (as well as some unique electronic pieces for this one)

Adding in some basic effects (flares, a new derez scene similar to Legacy's)

Adjusting the contrast and colour of Tron to be closer to Legacy.

Adjusting the sound effects to be closer to that of Legacy.

Alright, sounds good. I'm in Toronto right now for all the New Years buzz, so it'll have to wait til I get back.

Alright sounds good.

I mean if it's already authored - if I have those three separate folders ready to go (via DVD Architect), then theoretically I should just be able to open Nero, click Data DVD and drag and drop the VIDEO_TS, AUDIO_TS and DVDROM folders and click burn.

So wait, you create the AUDIO and VIDEO_TS folders using Architect, and then you burn it using another program with the additional folder? Would I burn it as "DVD DataDisc" and drag in the AUDIO_TS, VIDEO_TS and DVDRom folders and click Burn?

That seems promising. Test it out and post a sample video.

Done.

In terms of the digital copy, here's what we're looking at:

Video: 720x480, 3712kbps Data Rate, 4000 bitrate, 23 frames per second

Audio: Stereo, 44Khz sample rate, 195 kbps bitrate

The reason I chose that is because all my digital copies are at those settings. It's the smallest file size, and even Mac's can play WMV through VLC or even quicktime (with Flip4Mac).

Does anyone know how to add non-dvd files to a DVD Film? (If I want to add the labels and digital copy to the special features disc)

I'm not doing heavy CGI work - that's like Lucas including heavy CGI in the OT - only in this case there is a story telling reason why it doesn't look so updated, the older grid was more primitive.

And I didn't expect it to blow you away, I just wanted to leave the announcement of my next edit for the DVD release of this.

Yeah I saw that one. I wouldn't go that far.

See the reason the grids are so different is because they're different systems, so I wont be doing heavy CG work. However, I am in talks with a few people for a new title sequence. Most of the work I am doing are a redoing the effect where Flynn is sucked into the grid and adjusting lighting/colour as well as up dating sound effects and using music similar to as well as directly from Tron: Legacy. I've made a thread over in the Non-Star Wars Edits forums.

In news related to the edit:

I've finished the render - I just need to burn them and ship them out. Ripplin, you can expect the DVD before February - probably Mid-January.

I've updated the title of the thread.

I was going to save this for the DVD, but considering it's Christmas, here's the trailer for Project: Lightshow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzH-umifowg

I was going to save this for the DVD, but considering it's Christmas, here's the trailer for Project: Lightshow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzH-umifowg

Considering I'm now out of a job, I think it won't be long. The trailer is almost done. I just need to get the title cards prepped.

Afterwords, I need to re-render the video file.

Reload it into the DVD and update the Special Features with the trailer.

Then burn and ship it to Ripplin.

Then when Ripplin has time he'll upload it.

I'm working on the trailer right now. I got the music track finished with about 30 different cuts. I haven't even started on the sound effects yet!