Darth Editous

What's more mysterious is how Anakin goes from an American accent in the PT to having a RP English accent in ROTJ (even if you mess with the pitch of James Earl Jones's voice it sounds like an RP English accent).

Firefox 3.6.

DE

I have a few of the forums bookmarked that I like to open as tabs, but fairly often, I'll be not logged in on the second one. Is this some kind of record locking problem with two pages trying to access my profile at the same time?

I've also had it happen while opening topics as tabs.

DE

PAL has better resolution than NTSC

He kind of looks like he's a dying old man.

Vader already killed the Emperor, I think that's redemption enough - and to make Lando go all that way only for him to screw up seems kind of a waste.

DE

(2) I imagined the B-wing cockpit pod could have the entire ship rotate all around it while in combat, making it extremely hard to get a hit on.

however, it really surprises me that nobody from LFL has registered here to express their thoughts about Revisited.

3. Have several shots of the Alderaan explosion as in the OUT.

If by "less contrast" you mean the blacks aren't quite as black, that's down to the gamma correction I've applied to the whole movie. It's way too dark on DVD - see how much clearer the starfield is in the top shot.

Maybe you mean that the left hand side of the picture is a little "greyed" at the start of the wipe - it's like that on the DVD, but my brightener has brought it out a bit more. I may try to fix it, but a lot of the wipes have problems like that.

DE

There's also the flopped (that's the correct term, says Wikipedia) shots to correct the helmet mic discontinuities during the BoY, which in at least one case results in a cut between two pilots which gives the impression they're about to fly into each other (at least, to me).

The temple footage ends, in Ady's cut, with Artoo facing one way, then facing the other way after the (shortened) wipe, but that one doesn't jump out at me so much. It's more incongruous simply because I've seen those shots the "wrong" way round so often.

DE

Another new clip, this time with sound!

Death Star aspect ratio correction (including new wipe and colour correction)

Please satisfy my OCD by rating the new videos, even if it's just one star ;)

DE

New clip

What if the artists who do the still shots got frame-by-frame stills of a sequence, edited each still, then strung them together again with the film's audio? It would work

It depends on the content of the disc, and I'm not familiar with the rest of hum's work. If it's a documentary that was originally NTSC and (somehow) got converted to PAL and that was the source for the disc, I'd recommend converting back to NTSC rather than going up to HD, which would be using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Personally, I'd take a true original-PAL->NTSC conversion over a PAL->HD upscale.

The difference in picture resolution, which in HD has at least been more-or-less standardised to 720p or 1080i, was never much of a problem. The biggy is the frame rate, and we're still shooting and broadcasting in 25p/50i over here (it might be that movie channels are doing 23.976/24p, but I don't know). I think it'll be a long time before we see the back of PAL speedup (though at least some broadcasters/DVDs are now resampling the audio with minimal artifacts).

DE

NTSC and PAL are SD analogue broadcast standards - it's mostly just convenience that has seen the abbreviations carry forward into digital systems.

We're still stuck with different broadcast frame rates in different countries, but European TVs have been coping with NTSC signals for years. Someone in another thread said the inverse isn't necessarily true, which is pretty stupid.

There's very little point doing a "PAL" conversion of an "NTSC" project, because a) it's hard to do well and b) we can all play NTSC anyway, even with quite an old CRT screen. And there's little point doing an HD up-conversion for the reasons I've already outlined above.

DE

Okay, can someone who's into schematics and stuff tell me, is the Death Star supposed to be a sphere, or an ovoid? In every shot it's about 10% off being a circle. Either way, I plan on making it perfectly spherical where I can.

DE

There seemed to be something missing, so...



DE

I'm sure someone uploaded a clip with the walls replaced with windows behind the stormtroopers several years ago, but I can't for the life of me remember who it was.

DE

My advice is: don't. Let the display device scale the image. By upscaling to HD, you'll just increase the filesize massively and the end result is almost certanly not going to be as good as letting the TV do it (especially if it's a Samsung; sweet!).

If you must, and assuming your input is 720x480 NTSC DV, you'll want to crop to 704x480 (this eliminates the nominal analogue blanking area; don't worry if there are active pixels there, they were never meant to be seen). Then scale up to 1440x1080 and add borders to 1920x1080.

The important thing to note is that DV doesn't have square pixels, but HD does.

DE

You mean something like this:



tvtropes doesn't seem to "allow" linking of their images, but you probably still had it in your cache.

David

Every flipped face, every flipped R2, every major flipped asymmetrical object sticks out like a sore thumb and takes the viewer out of the moment, especially in the modern age of repeat viewing on DVD etc.

Doing it creates so much visual jarring that anything that was hoped to be gained by doing it in first place is lost.

Bingowings said:

Going by the model details is this another flip shot corrected?
 

doubleofive said:

I figured something to do with chromakeys, but I've not messed with that in the all-powerful CS3.

doubleofive said:

Here I thought whoever edits RotJ and wanted to fix the saber glow would have to do background replacement for every shot.  Now you say you can do it with filters, but you won't tell us HOW?!  This is a discovery of epic proportions!  You must share it, for the good of the Republic!