Bobocop

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Post: #314151
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/314151/action/topic#314151
Time: 20-Mar-2008 4:28 AM

I just hope Lucasfilm doesn't become jealous that Adywan's DVD is better than theirs and try to sic him with their lawyers or something. Although with the disclaimer at the beginning and all that, Adywan did everything he should have to protect himself.
Lucasfilm seems to be generally ok with fan edits and related projects. Let's hope it stays that way and, if anything, encourages them to do better in the quality control department in the future.

Post: #314043
Topic: STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/314043/action/topic#314043
Time: 19-Mar-2008 1:54 AM — Edited 19-Mar-2008 1:55 AM

And after all that talk from Yoda in ESB about judging things by their size, people are still doing just that with the Ewoks.

Post: #313951
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313951/action/topic#313951
Time: 18-Mar-2008 4:40 AM — Edited 18-Mar-2008 4:52 AM

I had it, but deleted it once Adywan's revisited version was finished. So I guess I'm no help at all, am I?
I found the torrent at http://mininova.org but I don't see it there anymore.

Post: #313865
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313865/action/topic#313865
Time: 17-Mar-2008 12:30 AM

Baronlando said:

Sorry if this has been covered already, but has there been an explanation of exactly how the "de-special"' shots were done? (especially the one in Mos Eisley where the dinosaur was removed and replaced with the original white droid) I'd love to know how
to do that. Thanks.

I must say the de-ronto-ing of that shot left me scratching my head as to how it was done. Awesomeness!
You can see they were doing basically the same thing in the original version by having the droid go in front of the camera to make it seem 'busier,' but throwing the ronto in there was overkill. It took up too much of the screen for too long.

Post: #313819
Topic: Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313819/action/topic#313819
Time: 16-Mar-2008 7:20 AM

warner said:

ROTJ The speeder bike chase is already pretty good, but the acting from Hamil's part is terrible. Can you adjust the "side by side" part so that it realy looks more like the scout trooper pushes Luke off his bike?

That's fine as is I say. Luke's speeder seems to be stuck on the scout's speeder and, rather than ride it into a tree, he jumps off.
Not riding a speeder into a tree is totally the way of the Jedi.

If anything needs to be done with the speeder chase, its smoothing out the jigglies on some of the far away shots. The speeders in the distance really wiggle against the forest background.

Post: #313659
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313659/action/topic#313659
Time: 14-Mar-2008 1:05 PM

Here's a pic of said arm.

http://mikyagu.com/images/cantinaarm.jpg

Post: #313645
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313645/action/topic#313645
Time: 14-Mar-2008 6:03 AM

I haven't said it yet. ZOMG I love your arm LOL!

And although I never thought the lightsaber duel needed music, I never had a problem with it being added because it fits and was well executed. But the last time I popped in my 2004 DVD to compare something, I looked at that scene again and it seemed so empty and slow paced. I guess Ady's re-edited and musically enhanced version has really grown on me.

Post: #312650
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312650/action/topic#312650
Time: 6-Mar-2008 5:23 AM

Just finished testing the NTSC version on my DVD player, and everything worked great. (although I still need to track down some 3D glasses)
Amazing work, Adywan!
This edit makes Speedy Gonzales look like regular Gonzales.

Post: #311402
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/311402/action/topic#311402
Time: 25-Feb-2008 4:37 AM

Ady, have you received any chain letters saying that if you don't forward it to at least 9 people in the next 30 minutes, you will have bad luck in editing forever?

Post: #310560
Topic: STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310560/action/topic#310560
Time: 17-Feb-2008 5:02 AM — Edited 26-May-2009 12:30 AM

Adywan should totally give everyone in the movie a mustache!

Post: #310474
Topic: STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310474/action/topic#310474
Time: 16-Feb-2008 1:57 PM

One other thing I just thought of.
If there's any way to edit out the borderline incestuous kiss between Luke and Leia, that might be wise.
Personally, it doesn't bother me. After all, if I had a sister as hot as Carrie Fisher... Well, it's just best to avoid such things as they are frowned upon by most societies.

Post: #310437
Topic: STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310437/action/topic#310437
Time: 16-Feb-2008 3:42 AM

Just watched the trailer. That little bit is already lookin gorgeous. I liked the walkers.

Hopefully the line "Bring my shuttle" will reappear as well. The delivery was so much more appropriate, Vader sounded like he was pissed.
And as mentioned earlier, anything that can be done to smooth the animation of the Tauntauns will be welcome.

Are you going to include a Kershner cameo? That would rock.

Post: #310399
Topic: STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/310399/action/topic#310399
Time: 15-Feb-2008 11:05 PM

Snarf.
Can't watch the teaser yet, but lookin forward to that when I get home.
Honestly, Empire is a near perfect film in my opinion (even the SE now that Luke's bizarre 1997 scream is gone) and besides colour correction, I can't think of anything that really needs changing.
However, anything you add I'm sure I will be pleasantly surprised to see.
More walkers/speeders in the Hoth battle and more TIEs in the Falcon chase would add to tension I suppose.
Boba's voice was fine in either version I thought, won't bother me either way.
The Emperor's new hologram I agree could use some work. I don't think it's that bad, but I'm really interested to see how you tackle that.
And I'm sure there are little technical issues and crap that could use tidying up.

Good luck with this!

Post: #309608
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/309608/action/topic#309608
Time: 9-Feb-2008 4:13 PM

Adywan, have you tried shutting down the computer, restarting it, and then encoding the file again?

(I know, I'm an idiot. Please hit me)

Post: #308951
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308951/action/topic#308951
Time: 3-Feb-2008 2:05 AM

Personally I think TECHNOcolor sounds a lot more exciting than technicolor

Post: #308753
Topic: Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308753/action/topic#308753
Time: 31-Jan-2008 8:09 PM

Originally posted by: Darth Lars

In my opinion, it is what Luke sees, so they should appear as Luke expects to see.
Leia looks at the same spot, but sees nothing. Luke expects to see a 45-year old healthy man and that is what I think the audience should also see. Sebastian Shaw was 76 years old.

If Christensen is in there, then for consistency's sake, Alec Guiness and Yoda should be exchanged for Ewan McGregor and a tadpole.

Then again, Luke only ever saw the real Anakin when he unmasked him on teh DSII. So Luke should really be expecting a pasty dude with no hair.
I suppose I agree that if they wanted to use Hayden, they should have make-upped him to look the proper age. But being a ghost and all I think it makes more sense for him to choose his outward appearance rather than it depending on who is looking at him. In both versions the ghost looks different than what Luke saw earlier.
In '83 he magically regained his hair and limbs (and complexion), and in '04 he magically became young again

Post: #308669
Topic: Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308669/action/topic#308669
Time: 31-Jan-2008 5:37 AM

Here's the best possible ending for ROTJ:

Post: #308638
Topic: Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308638/action/topic#308638
Time: 30-Jan-2008 8:07 PM

The things that stick out like a sore thumb to me (in addition to the obvious saber flaws) are that damned monochrome explosion in ESB when the asteroid hits the star destroyer, and there's a shot in the ROTJ space battle where the shot is tilting as ships are flying toward the camera, but there are some teeny background ships or something that are stationary and don't tilt along with everything else. It's the shot just before Lando says "Yes, I said closer. Engage those star destroyers at point blank range..."
And I've always wondered if they could have steadied the speeder bikes on Endor. They sometimes jiggle unnaturally in relation to the background.

As for Boba's voice, I think it should be changed back to the original. I really don't mind the new voice at all, it's just the half-assed factor. They needed to either leave it alone, or change Boba's voice AND all of the stormtroopers to fit with the PT. Don't stop halfway.

Then there's Hayden in ROTJ. That needs to be changed so that it's Jake Lloyd's 8 year-old head on Shaw's body. This will help connect episodes 1 and 6, and will demonstrate that Anakin's regained his childlike innocence after saving Luke

But seriously, the Anakin head transplant doesn't really bother me. He's a ghost, so I think he just appears as he sees himself. <Morpheus> It's what we call residual self image </Morpheus>
(although now that I mention it, Lloyd's head on there would look amusing. I'll have to photoshop that in when I get home)

Post: #308199
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/308199/action/topic#308199
Time: 26-Jan-2008 7:05 PM

Originally posted by: Mojo_LA

I like most of what Ady did, but my friends and I were horrified at the music added to the saber fight in ANH. It doesn't belong there and is a far worse change than anything Lucas ever did. I'll take a 100 Greedos firing first over THAT.

Hamfistedly laying music behind it doesn't appreciably change it or make it better, so why not just leave it be?

Most of what Ady has done to his cut DOES help it, but I think in a few spots he suffers from "kid with a new toy" syndrome and is finding every last change he can make just for the sake of it.

Wow. That's spiteful. Not enough just to say "I didn't agree with that particular change" huh?
If you'd prefer Greedo missing a shot at point blank range to adding a bit of music to harken back to Obi-Wan/Vader's previous encounter, then just watch the 2004 trilogy DVD's instead.
I'm sure Adywan is very sorry for making you suffer through his travesty like that.
Adding slapstick droids, giant creatures moving in front of the camera and blocking out what's going on, and adding the Jabba scene where he basically repeats everything Greedo already said are examples of "kid with a new toy syndrome."
I didn't notice anything Adywan did that said "hey, look what I can do."
Anyone can add music to footage, so that can't be what the "kid with a new toy" was referring to. So what exactly was that comment targeted at?

Post: #307919
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307919/action/topic#307919
Time: 23-Jan-2008 11:05 PM

Originally posted by: WXM
Bobocop, I'm not sure if that's image's creation is inspired by/a reference to something larger that I don't know about, but as it is right now to me, that's just strange (in a smile/laugh-inducing way)! I love it!

(nice work on the shadows too)

It wasn't a reference to anything in particular. We had a pic of her on the bed holding her shirt out like wings, and the prairie dogs from a recent trip to the zoo. She's gonna kill me once she's old enough to realise what I'm doing to her pictures

Post: #307903
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307903/action/topic#307903
Time: 23-Jan-2008 8:22 PM

Originally posted by: bigbaddaddyvader
And to continue Nanner's theme and as it is probably appropriate for Ady by this stage:
"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now......very real"

I agree.Possibly a different kitten.
Or a prairie dog.

How about my daughter swooping in to catch a prairie dog? Will that work?

Post: #307751
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307751/action/topic#307751
Time: 23-Jan-2008 7:24 AM

Originally posted by: Neil S. Bulk
I don't support this project, nor did I give you permission to include my name in the end titles. Please remove it.
Neil

You could have mentioned not wanting to be in the credits about 64 pages ago
If you were joking, then disregard the above comment.

Post: #307738
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307738/action/topic#307738
Time: 23-Jan-2008 5:34 AM

I mentioned the sabers being a tad bit fat in a few shots earlier, but it didn't bother me because I knew Ady had to put them over top of the original sabers. The sabers being a teency bit chubby is a small price to pay for making them look as good as they do now. And they do look lovely.
The sabers originally were so inconsistent. It was alright for movie made in '77, but I can't believe they didn't redo those in the Special Editions...

One thing I haven't seen mentioned (although I admittedly haven't read ALL of the last 10 pages or so) that didn't necessarily need to be done and that I never would have thought to do, but absolutely LOVED when I saw it was the little trail the escape pod leaves as it enters Tatooine's atmosphere. It's the little touches like that which truly make this edit remarkable.

Post: #307311
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307311/action/topic#307311
Time: 21-Jan-2008 5:08 AM

I hope the shadow of the gun isn't wrong, because that was captured on film back in '76, and that would mean the very laws of physics have gone awry.
As for the flipper, the shadow extends toward the right of the frame and up a bit, which from what I can see matches all the existing shadows.

Post: #307293
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307293/action/topic#307293
Time: 21-Jan-2008 1:35 AM

I just got a chance to watch it!
I'll just add to the multitude of responses here with my initial reactions.

- The scene in Obi-Wan's hut was well edited. I never saw a problem with the original version, but after seeing this I must say the conversation seems to flow more naturally.
- The escape from Mos Eisley is great, Han's maneuvers are much better than before when he just veered lazily to the left.
- Regarding the severed arm, I must say it looked a bit odd at first, mainly because I'm used to seeing the furry hand. I do think it looks good enough, but after seeing NormanS's work, if there's any way to add his version into the DVD releases it would look that much more convincing.
- Right after Tarkin's line "Terminate her, immediately" the engine glow on the Falcon is too high and slowly falls into place as the ship flies. It's always been like that and isn't that noticeable. I don't know if it's in your power to fix, but if not it's no biggie.
- The lightsabers look a tad bit fat in some shots, but overall look great. I like how the colors are consistent from shot to shot now.

- I liked the new Death Star reveal after the Kenobi Hut scene (and the lighting looked good to me)
- The lightsaber fight now looks much more energised now. It's amazing what just a little editing can do. The addition of Battle of the Heroes surprised me. I didn't expect to hear any prequel music (or any music at all in that scene for that matter), but it was subdued enough to not overpower the scene, and the musical cues fit well into what was going on.
- The Death Star battle and the Tie Fighter entrance in particular was absolutely brilliant. I love how there are Ties everywhere in that shot, rather than just 6 of them. 6 villains vs 30 heroes isn't very dramatic. Although upon closer inspection, the DS in that shot does look like it has some funky motion blur or something on it.
- Luke's reaction to Biggs' dust-biting is more realistic now but not overdone.
- I didn't think it would make much difference, but seeing the Death Star actually starting to fire as it blows up really ramps up the "That was close!" factor at the end.

Thanks again for all the time you put into this!