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no you can just see he goes from getting ready to actually acting.
You’re joking, right?
It’s a shame they never got to finish that part off for the special effects, instead they filled it with people looking around.
Wow, seriously? Okay, tell me. What was supposed to go there?
This is a Comparison of a bunch of CC’s I have seen lately. They were made by taking images from of all the sources as well as a No DNR version of 4K77 and running them through Dr Dre’s Wonderful Colour Matching Algorithm. I personally prefer NevearGreats and Dr Dre’s but please give me your opinions.
Edit: The link is now fully operational!
The 93 Laserdisc is the best for that particular shot in my opinion, but that shot is plain weird anyway not only just color but the shot starts before he even starts acting! That was because they were covering up other shots that were missing. It was probably added late in production, well the shot is longer than it was meant to be.
I really don’t understand what this means. Takes are frequently used from “before” or “after” an actor “starts acting” (that is, before “Action” is called or after “Cut” is), that’s not unusual in the slightest and there’s pretty much no way to know if this is the case unless someone working on the film explicitly said so, you were there yourself, or have raw on set video/audio to look at.
Plus, what makes you say the shot is “longer than it was meant to be” or that it’s “covering up shots that were missing?” From an editing standpoint, that shot is long specifically to build tension because you expect it to cut away and for action to start, just like the soldier is tense and waiting for the action to start.
If something was “missing” that needed to be “covered up,” there’s tons of other b-roll from this series of takes that could have been used instead of extending a shot that shouldn’t have been extended, which would make the scene feel awkward. But it doesn’t. Because that shot is supposed to be that long because it helps put the viewer in that soldier’s head by abruptly halting the rhythm of the rest of the scene. Intentionally.
So, do you have sources for any of those claims or are you just making stuff up?
JEDIT:
The R2-D2 and 3P0 in the Corridor has no place in the film either it’s a promo shot they also used to cover the gap.
Ah, okay. Making stuff up. Got it.
Ooh, I like them! And I dig the poster art for TLJ you went with.
That’s going to make it pretty difficult to replace music. Generally you have to work with the individual channels, often rebuilding everything from scratch if all you can salvage is the dialogue from the center channel.
Otherwise you’re just laying new music on top of the original music and that’s not going to sound very good at all.
And here I am hoping that someone makes alternate audio tracks with that change for practically every version of ANH I might ever decide to watch (yes, even theatrical restorations) - I love it that much!
Excellent write-up! I agree with pretty much everything you said.
Well, in ANH they already have the plans.
Which they need to deliver to the Rebellion while the Empire searches for them, so it’s still a MacGuffin.
I don’t think that the Imperial March needs to be added to that scene.
Part of what I like about the OT is that not every second of screen time has to have music or something zipping around.
It’s nice to allow things to be quiet every now and then and let the movie breathe and develop.
I agree for the most part, but I think adding that version of the March to Vader’s entrance does more good than harm. I like it better than the full March used during the Battle of Yavin in ANH:R as it is now.
I think the implication was that Finn either A) would have been killed before reaching the weapon, or B) wouldn’t have been able to affect the weapon even if he’d made it. So his “sacrifice” wouldn’t have helped anyone at all, it would’ve just been Finn throwing his life away to get some measure of vengeance against the First Order.
It’s something that wasn’t communicated too well, though, assuming that was in fact the intention.
Are there any examples of 2K films that have been upscaled to 4K? And if there are, how do they look?
This is far more common than native 4K BR releases.
You’re probably better off just getting the official 4K77 Blu-Ray ISO and burning that, no?
JEDIT: Oh, No-DNR. My bad.
You know, this could be a totally non controversial change since there is no need to video edit anything to implement it, hence an alternate audio track would be far enough.
(I’m considering it for Hal’s upcoming ANH hybrid version)
(I’ll ask INVAR if he can provide his audio project for anyone interested)
+1
Did you watch the video I quoted? It doesn’t replace anything, just adds the March to the “gap” in the existing music.
Shit, I should see if my old CDs of Jedi Knight will install and run on my laptop…
I thought so too. One more way to differentiate the standalones from the saga, I guess, but it’s still odd.
I remember being relieved that TLJ used the correct sizes (and then subsequently annoyed that the opening theme was just as anemic as TFA’s).
I’d like to reiterate this wonderful suggestion when it comes to the Imperial March in ANH:
I still think it’d be nice to add a bit of the Imperial March to the scene when Vader arrives on the Tantive, though that would mean replacing a small bit of original music.
I already created a brief edit to show what that might look and sound like. It’s minimalist, but it works.
I am absolutely 100% totally on board with this.
With that said, I don’t think the Imperial March should appear anywhere else in the film, unless Vader is on the screen.
I heartily agree with you.
No, it’s like that in both Solo and Rogue One. I noticed it in theaters for RO, too.
I ditched VLC in favor of MPC-HC just this past year when I discovered VLC is garbage for 4K video, so I sure hope it isn’t dead!
ChainsawAsh: It looks like it should on my Macbook, and on my TV (Kodi).
Watched a bit of it last night from a flash drive on my Samsung TV, and the aspect ratio was correct, so I dunno what MPC-HC was doing there.
I like what I saw so far!
Sounds like the blank discs the bootleggers used to burn the Despecialized copies they sold you are lower quality and are starting to go bad. You’ll probably start to have issues with them in more and more players as time goes on.
I wouldn’t mind slipping some of Williams’s Han theme from Solo somewhere in the OT, but can’t think of a great place for it.
I’d like to reiterate this wonderful suggestion when it comes to the Imperial March in ANH:
I still think it’d be nice to add a bit of the Imperial March to the scene when Vader arrives on the Tantive, though that would mean replacing a small bit of original music.
I already created a brief edit to show what that might look and sound like. It’s minimalist, but it works.
For me the most baffling complaint about Star Wars has been one brought up by Jeremy Jahns about Mace Windu’s lightsaber. He was bothered about Mace’s lightsaber being purple, and that lightsaber blades should only be blue or green for the good guys and red for the bad guys. I see nothing wrong with lightsaber blades being whatever colour people want them to be. Hell, I myself would like to see an orange-bladed lightsaber introduced in the Disney canon.
I was only annoyed by it because every other Jedi still just had green and blue in AOTC and ROTS. At least throw a few yellow ones in there or something. Keep Mace’s purple one unique if you must, but some more variety would’ve been nice.
I’ve been through multiple family members having strokes of varying severities, so I know how hard that can be to handle. Very sorry to hear that, Poita. Hope your mother has a full recovery!
“Everyone” didn’t. A lot of people complained about the humor in TFA, and it’s one of the aspects that gets trimmed a bunch in most fan edits.
Besides, the humor in TLJ takes a different approach than the humor in TFA for the most part (Hux suddenly being a punching bag, meta jokes like the iron gag - hell, the movie starts with a “yo momma” joke).
It’s less complaining that there is humor and more complaining about the type of humor.