Asteroid-Man

Ok, and did you find the mistakes I was reffering to? Also, I'm not at home so I don't have the read-me file, could you paste the contents into this thread for me? Thanks a lot for everything you are doing!

Ripplin did you read the read-me?

Could you do both torrent sites?

The reason I think this edit will be such a success is that I'm releasing the beta version of this so that we can all contribute out ideas and come out with a great edit. Also regarding the signed copies and donations, it's not my ego blossoming, as I've said before: These requests have been made for me to address them.

Also, I went to send it yesterday and I was ten minutes late, I checked out another place that was open a half hour later and I got there two minutes late. I sent it today before work. Didn't have enough change on me to send it by express. You should get it while I am away on Service.

Ripplin said:

Dibs on the first printed cover! Haha. ;) Seriously, though, you do very well with covers, as has been demonstrated in different threads. I know other faneditors like them as well. (Adywan, for one)

They're yours!

Ripplin said:

Rhikter said:

Asteroid-Man said:

Ripplin will get the full quality and 5.1 version to view himself, everyone else get's a crappy quality of the beta version.

Good.  I was worried about people loosing incentive to download the final version after having taken the time to download the beta which may/may not end up having that many differences.  Not that I'm that cynical, I just know that many other people on the nets are.

I feel/felt the same way. But we can look it this like JasonN's recent PT edits; .avis at first, whiz bang DVD-9 in the future. ;)

 

Only my avis are shitty quality, :D

46fleetline said:

hey man, any chance of a trailer from you? something to hold us over, 12-25-09 is a ways away. lol

i know you can do, i sense you have it in you.

Once I render the final copy, I'm releasing a Teaser. Then I'll start working on a DVD Menu and then release a final trailer. Then I'll be doing 20-40 second Online Spots. This will all between now and the release.

Rhikter said:

Asteroid-Man said:

Ripplin will get the full quality and 5.1 version to view himself, everyone else get's a crappy quality of the beta version.

Good.  I was worried about people loosing incentive to download the final version after having taken the time to download the beta which may/may not end up having that many differences.  Not that I'm that cynical, I just know that many other people on the nets are.

 

Ripplin said:

Dibs on the first printed cover! Haha. ;) Seriously, though, you do very well with covers, as has been demonstrated in different threads. I know other faneditors like them as well. (Adywan, for one)

Could anyone provide a link to said cover work?

The final version will include a DVD Menu. Someone else can go through the trouble of uploading an AVI. I'm only distributing actual hard copies. People can request if they would like them signed or not.

You can see my other covers here:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-DVD-Covers/post/366667/#post366667

Sluggo said:

Asteroid-Man said:

I won't be accepting donations until the rough draft is online.

 

 Donations?  For what?

I'm planning on distributing a lot of this by DVD and in cases and printed covers and that aint free haha. I'm not asking for donations, people have asked me.

Ripplin will get the full quality and 5.1 version to view himself, everyone else get's a crappy quality of the beta version. I'll be posting the corrections that are still to be made on the front page on Thursday. This way people can make suggestions and they can decide finally whether or not they would like to make donations. (As I will not accept them for a movie that hasn't been previewed)

Sumguy21 said:

Let me tell you all something you might find quite surprising: I, for one, am looking forward to this edit's release.

 

Keep up the good work, Addy!

HE'S A WITCH!!!! BURN THE WITCH!!!!

Just kidding... but seriously, we're all pumped for this ady!

Hey guys sorry I've been REALLY busy. I'm going away on Friday again, so tomorrow I'm gonna send the DVD by express to Ripplin.

I won't be accepting donations until the rough draft is online. Ripplin, please include the readme file in the torrent. It explains the changes that are still to be made. Also since I burned the DVD I've found a lot of new music I might use in places of others. Sorry it's been taking so long!!!

Also my computer might crash soon (apparently I had like four servers running off my computer at once which won't let me defrag and my comp is going rediculously slow!!!) I can't reformat cause I'll lose all my data!!! So I'm gonna make the final corrections once I get feedback so I can render the final video (if adywan could give me his preferences for mpeg that would be awesome!) then I can put it on my hardrive, reformat and then install DVD Architect to make the Menu.

Once the final version is rendered I'll be posting a trailer and then a bunch of 20-40 second spots until the final release (December 25th, 2009 - which also happens to be the last friday of the year). I might also do a soundtrack of the new music and I'll be releasing official DVD covers (which I have already come up with a neat layout for).

Also, does anyone know of any Star Wars Radio shows I could go on to maybe let people know this is happening?

Again, sorry for my absence!!!!

Ok I can leave purple for the cannons and all the new laser blasts and engine glows that are purple in the PT. But regarding the fight I'll do two versions.

Thanks for all the positive comments guys! I still have to do the side and back for 6, then do 1-3. Then go back through all six and make the final touches. I just finished class but I'm going to Ottawa this weekend, so just bare with me for a bit.

The final version will probably have custom barcodes.

TPM - Yellow (To reflect Tatooine) Maul's Face and Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan Vs Maul

AOTC - Purple (To reflect Windu's lightsaber) Yoda's Face and Yoda Vs Dooku

ROTS - Orange (To reflect Mustafar) Anakin's face and Anakin Vs Obi-Wan

Also for side pictures it will go as followed:

I - Anakin

II - Obi-Wan

III - Sidious

IV - Luke

V - Yoda

VI - Vader

ady, I just posted the DVD cover for ROTJ: Revisited in the DVD thread if you wanted to take a look.

For adywan's revisited.

Still working on Episode VI. Haven't even started on I, II and III

WOW ADY! That's Incredible! How the hell is that quality better like that? Also, are you using these HD versions for the ESB:R?

EDIT: Ady, which do you think is better, yours or WG's?

Ady, do you have a comparison of the image scaled to HD size? I mean a full resolution HD screen Vs a standard sized DVD screen? The ones on the front page are all scaled evenly.

Maybe a little more strength to it to make it more noticeable. But you get the idea. Now we'll use layers to tint stuff.

Start with this image:

Go to colour, click on colorization and play around with that to get different colours. Once you think you've got it, move on to this:

Open a new window, and paste this on the Background layer:

As you can see, this image has a bluish green tint with a low saturation to it. What you want to do now is create a new layer (see layer window by pressing Ctrl+L). To create a new layer click on the blank square in the layer box. Call the layer Batman Control or something.

Paste that in it. You'll notice Batman will need some resizing, so click on the resize/scale tool in the Gimp toolbox, and click on the image. A box will pop up, click the chain to lock the proportions and then resize batman as you would it paint. Once finish click on Scale (in the window that popped up).

Now using the toolbox, select the magic wand tool. Set the threshold to something like 20 or 30 (that is how sensative it is to similar colours you've clicked on.) Click on the white area and once you think you've got enough of it, right click and select delete/clear. Now you can see the background but Batman's tint is off!!!

Duplicate this layer. Do this by rightlicking the Batman layer and select duplicate or click on the duplicate button (looks like two photos). Now select the top layer and go to colourize. Change the hue to a blue colour matching this one. Don't worry about the saturation, contrast, brightness or strength yet. Once the colour is matched, accept it. I know it's too strong at the moment, but now in the layer window, (with the top layer selected) lower the visabilty or the opacity of the layer so we still get som yellow and colour from the belt and some skin colour. Right click the top layer and click merge down so now Batman's colours are modified. (NOTE: DO NOT MERGE BATMAN WITH THE BACKGROUND) Now work on brightness/contrast and hue/conrast to match it perfectly. Save the image as to an extension of .xcf (or .psd for photoshop users) AND a jpeg file. Keep the xcf/psd file for yourself because we'll continue working on this picture later.

The very first thing we'll work on is colour, brightness, contrast and saturation.

If you guys all wanna use this clip first then we can all work on it together.

Most images tend to have low contrast and are too bright (like the first one) Some have a hgiher contrast like the second one. Some images are colour enhanced (like both) so the saturation needs to be brought down. It also seems like theres too much blue so you might wanna work on that too.

Select Colour-> Hue/Saturation and Brightness/Contrast

Use the crop tool as well to save these as two different images. (crop tool looks like the blade) Crop one image, save it as (example name 1).jpg and then once saved it CTRL+Z and do the same for the other image. Next we'll work on working with different layers.

AH! Thanks for clearing that up Vaderios!

Sevb32, could you reword that? I didn't get what you meant.

Sevb32 said:

The tape on the vane Vader sabers off on the gantry going to be change? It goes from tape to black char marks. IT may be cool to give it a slight fading glow after Vader cuts it off.

What?