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#360866
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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YouTube of the trailer in the proper aspect ratio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie_3YIF9s2s

--edit--

Done processing now, and also available in 720p HD for your viewing pleasure (just click the HD button next to the volume/fullscreen buttons).

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#360833
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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In regards to this aspect ratio issue:

Most of Ady's clips I have display in the wrong aspect ratio in QuckTime Pro (newest version on a Mac), but they all play fine in VLC.  I actually re-encoded the trailer to play at the right aspect ratio in QuickTime because while VLC player will play freakin' everything, I still don't like using it.

I'm not sure what causes this.

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#360722
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Hidden items in OT and other SW
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I think it's amazing that anyone could find "Doom" or "Crusade" to be superior to "Raiders."

"Raiders" is a perfect adventure film.  There isn't a moment wasted or a character that's uninteresting, and none of the humor is over-the-top or out-of-place.

"Doom" is a corny movie under the guise of a "darker" film.  I hate Willie.  The bad guys are bland and boring.  In general ... the movie isn't very good.  It's lucky that it has some fun moments.  The best thing I can say about it is that they definitely tried to do something different from "Raiders" instead of copying it.

"Crusade" is just the opposite.  It's a carbon copy of "Raiders" with a different religious MacGuffin, Brody's character is completely ruined, all the humor is campy and out-of-place, and don't get me started on the young Indy sequence.  The best thing I can say about it is that any time Sean Connery and Harrison Ford are together in a scene, it's fun to watch them play off of each other.

"Skull" is pretty much the same as "Crusade," but without any heart, and all the secondary characters are boring.  I didn't mind the alien thing, but the CGI was way over-the-top, and the humor was just far too much.  But the graveyard scene was brilliant - hell, everything from Indy meeting Mutt until the graveyard scene was over was pretty damn good.  The rest ... yeah.

"Raiders" 10/10
"Doom" 5/10
"Crusade" 6/10
"Skull" 5/10

Basically, you have "Raiders," one of the greatest films ever made ... and then three shitty movies Harrison Ford starred in that had "Indiana Jones" in the title.

And I just realized that this is INCREDIBLY off-topic, so I'll stop typing right about ... now.

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#360714
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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adywan said:

ok before this grain thing gets out of hand i better pop in and reply.

the grain IS added to the sample clips on the mattes but the grain animation is deliberately disabled so becomes static. the reason for this is because they are just that... sample clips. Enabling the grain animation filter increases rendering times drastically and it just isn't worth all the extra time needed for a sample especially when i will probably be tweaking the shot and rendering it several more times before i am happy with it. the clip at the end of the trailer has been slowed down by over 50% just for the trailer so the grain will look unnatural. but when you say that the final trailer shot background replacement looks distracting it would be interesting if you could post a screenshot and outline the matte that you think looks distracting.

and janskeet, please at least bother to read whats already been discussed in this thread (and the ANH:R thread too for that matter) because its becoming a bit annoying when you keep asking questions that have already been discussed in length and fully answered already. you have been a member here for almost a year now so can't use the newbie excuse. if you can't be bothered to do that then please don't be surprised when people can't be bothered to answer your questions

 

I figured it was just a rendering thing.  The only reason it wasn't mentioned once and then moved on from was that I was trying to explain what we were talking about to Janskeet.  But it's good to know that you already knew about it.

And I knew the last shot was slowed down for the trailer (the blurry guy at the bottom-right gave it away).  The static-grain matte is the exact same thing as in the ion cannon clip - the window frames.  But since you've already got the grain thing covered, it's not like it matters anyway.

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#360707
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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You need to see it IN MOTION - that's the point.

We're not saying there is grain there where there shouldn't be, or vice versa.

What we're saying is that real film grain CHANGES from frame to frame, while the grain on the window-frames stays static and EXACTLY THE SAME throughout the entire shot.  That's not what grain is supposed to do.

Watch the 720p ion cannon clip, which is where this comes from.  If you look very closely at the officers' uniforms, you can see very faint grain that MOVES as the clip plays.  But if you look at the gray window-frame behind the officers, the grain does NOT MOVE at all as the clip plays, which makes it look unnatural.

I also noticed while looking at the clip again that the grain on Hoth is static, as well, but it's not as noticeable because the planet is moving slowly.

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#360704
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Any time you see that Ady has changed the composition of a shot, specifically flipping it, it's most likely because A) it was flipped before and restoring it won't hurt continuity; B) it was flipped before and he found a way to maintain continuity and restore the shot; or C) the continuity was wrong before and flipping the shot has fixed it.

Ady also takes much greater care with his flipped shots than any professional editor would - if there's anything that would give it away as a flipped shot, he usually fixes that, too.

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#360701
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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Well, you need to see it at higher resolution.  And it's not so much that you can see the grain on the actors (you really can't very well), but you *can* see it in the window frame, and it's *not* moving like real film grain should.  It's just distracting to those who are familiar with the way film and film grain works.

Check out Ady's 720p ion cannon clip.  You can see it plain as day there.  (Though the planet curvature isn't fixed on that one, and the red light isn't there either.)

--EDIT--

Angel, you beat me to it :-)

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#360682
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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vaderios said:

One thing that i ve noticed to ady's New mattes and background replacements. ( From the Ion cannon video, the new bridge shot/matte) When  replacing the old windows with the new one the plate has a static grain. I was wondering if there is a way to smooth it and add an animated slight grain so background and live action is blending better. Because the static image is pop up and looks fake.

 

-Angel

I've noticed this as well and found it distracting.  It's also noticeable in the last shot of the new trailer (also a Star Destroyer bridge shot).

I don't remember why I didn't mention it before.  Perhaps I was going to but forgot about it.  Well, at any rate, After Effects has some very good film grain filters.  Putting a very small layer of moving grain on top should mask the static grain without adding so much that it's distracting.

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#360601
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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Look, when you're dealing with film production (and this is true for video as well), certain lighting setups, no matter what you do, are going to make colors look slightly off.  That's what color correction, or color grading, is for.  Every film goes through a color grading process before the master print or digital copy or whatever is made.  Here's how that works.

The director, cinematographer, and a technician (the actual title depends on if you're doing a digital intermediate, film answer print, or something else) all sit down and watch the film.  As they go through, they make adjustments to the color so each shot matches every other shot.  Then they go through again ... and again ... and again ... until the director and cinematographer are certain that the colors are right.  If there's a scene that's particularly troublesome, they'll go through it in more detail.

The problem here?  Colors of certain individual things (like the lights you mentioned) aren't paid attention to.  If the color of one shot looks like it matches the color of another, but the button's green in one and blue in another, who cares?  If fixing that means throwing the color of the rest of the shot off, why does it matter?  It's not distracting.  I've certainly never noticed this, and if I did I wouldn't give two shits about it.  Sure, nowadays you can isolate that part of the frame and fix it, but why so much work over a stupid fucking button?

The vast majority of people don't notice continuity errors like this in movies, and if something that small and insignificant hampers your enjoyment of the film that much ... I don't really know what to say.

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#360299
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If Lucas Made an Indiana Jones V or VI would anyone here see them ?
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CO said:They should have stopped after the original. Raiders is great, but it is not the type of movie that needs sequels, as all of them are just retreads. SW is the type of movie, where there is more story there to expand on, before and after, and you can have sequels/prequels, because of the scope. Raiders is one of my favorites movies of all-time, the rest....ehhhh.

This is exactly how I feel in regards to the entire "Indy" series.  Which is why I don't mind KOTCS - it's just as good/bad as the first two sequels IMO.

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#360241
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Do you think George Lucas will correct the colors for the blu-ray release?
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You can easily use seamless branching on the originals.  I don't see why that's a problem at all.  Of course, everything would have to be color-corrected to match (hopefully the SEs to match the OOT).

I'd rather have the SEs be seamlessly-branched together, but have the original versions on separate discs, mainly so I can throw the SE discs away entirely like I did with the GOUT.  But I don't see why they couldn't do seamless-branching if they wanted to.