Fantastic cover, Vincent - although "comparisons" only has one R (and on the first version it has too many Ss). I don't mean to nitpick, but I wouldn't want you to finalize it only to spot the error later.
Oh, and not sure about the DTS logo... :)
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I don't want to work on a 1080p source only to have an official release come out with god-knows-what new changes. That said, I also don't want to wait around for the official release, so 432p will have to do for now.
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Can you not get away with shooting ships against black? It shouldn't be too hard to matte around the outline since you're not (I assume) going for any kind of ultra-stark lighting, and this will mean you can avoid any green glow from the cloth. Or are these fly-bys not in space? Sorry, I haven't caught up on the whole thread yet.
Oh, and keep your shutter speed at 1/50 ;)
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Adywan,
I saw something on a project website some time ago which was basically a cheap way of achieving a tracking shot. Instead of a big set of tracks, you make a mini track and mini dolly, then mount it between two tripods. Don't know if that'll help with whatever you're planning. And never forget you can always move the set instead of the camera...
Also bear in mind that green screen isn't going to be easy to achieve without high-end camera equipment. As I found out to my cost, you really want to be capturing in 4:4:4 (i.e., pro equipment) for a good matte. DV was good enough for my purposes, and you might be alright if you're shooting in HD, because the subsampling will be compensated for by the increased number of pixels.
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If you're still looking for these, I'm going to be ripping my LDs pretty soon.
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Things like colour correction (though I'm not going to be as technically aggressive as Adywan), lasers that need repainting, all that stuff. Plus I want to try and fix some of the things that were too hard the first time around, like getting rid of rontos (if anyone can point me to some high-quality caps of the OUT for those scenes, that'd be a big help).
For audio I may go back to the SE LD mix, which is "proper" AC3, not the downmix-friendly AC3 found on the DVDs.
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Dammit, I'm going over ANH, just quickly before I start brushing my v3, and I realise just how screwed the DVD release is.
So I'm going to start (more or less) over. Start the suggestion free-for-all!
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I've got the discs and the means to rip them, and plan to do so shortly - assuming my LD player has survived it's years in a garage.
I'll let you know when I get around to it.
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Aww, you guys!
But seriously, has anyone got any input before I get started? For one thing, I was thinking of using the 1997 LD SE soundtrack instead of the 2004 DVD, as I understand it's a "proper" DD mix rather than an "optimised for downconversion" one like the DVD.
As for actual release (however many months away that is), it's likely there will be one Xvid or x264 release rather than separate DVDs. With the proliferation of flat TVs (and the fact that mine plays Xvid/x264 straight off USB keys, woo) DVDs are becoming soooo last century.
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Hey guys,
I'm sorry for disappearing like that, it wasn't by choice but real life really knocked me down for a while. But, I'm back, and I'm rewriting my image library so I can redo a lot of ANH edits with AviSynth plugins and save on some disk space (and maybe do some nicer colour adjustment).
Assuming that all goes well, I don't see why I won't be going back to ESB.
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