Darth Editous

Righteo, funnily it looks like the PT VHS may have used yet another as it appears to use a single-storey g as opposed to the LD and cinema double-storey (I don't have any proper copies, only an old copy of the first disc of the Phantom Edit 1.1, so the editor may have replaced them).

I'm pretty sure he did.

Both my OT and prequel DVD sets use player-rendered subtitles for the aliens, don't know if the PAL version of the OT was different to the US release.

Originally posted by: Gillean
Apparently the actual typeface used for alien subtitles in every episode was ITC Franklin Gothic Demi Bold, 69pt with -30 tracking. It is at least what was definitely used for the prequels. I only have the movies on DVD so I can't check, I also can't check whether that means just Demi or if they are faux bolding the text, I presume the former.

Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Movie quotes are my life, such as it is.

How do I hard code alien subtitles into the video like you did?

Darth Editous, did you make this NTSC version you speak of?

Han saying "Yes, I'll bet you have" was the most difficult editing job of this project, and required transitioning from laserdisc footage to DVD footage of Han's face during the shot.

So, was I included in the 4 sent this week?

Yup.

I really like the lightsaber ignitions and retractions. I like how they weren't toyed with except to smooth them out and make them visibly extend and retract.

Can another owner of this set confirm what the quality of their "SW to Jedi" tape is ilke? Of all the preliminary captures I have done, this is the only documentary that is better on RowMan's NTSC disks.

(I'm in the US. If the format is PAL I will convert it to NTSC before redistributing.)

this is the version I will put in my DVD player when I want to watch Star Wars

Sorry ... shoulda been more clear. I was referring to the scene after the escape from the death star where Han and Luke take on the TIE fighters. I've always called that the dogfight. All those junk mattes are gone and it looks so friggin beautiful now.

Ahh, I did wonder if that's what you meant. Some of the mattes were removed manually, but most were done automagically with a mixture of levels, curves, and channel mixes.

Hopefully I'll get it in the mail tomorrow! Mailbox campout!

LOL...speaking of packet errors, I've been told the last part of ROTJ is full of them. Have you noticed this, or been able to get around it?

Does that mean you might add the deflections back in or just leave it as this? I mean, it's fast enough that you are just like, WTF just happened, but don't really notice what really is happening.

There's only shot where it looks like there really should be a deflection.

It looks to me like Vader catches the bolt square on the left hand. Seems to me he's already raising it before Han would have fired, nonchalantly predicting a bolt in that direction and raising his hand just in time because he's just so super cool

It just kinda bugs me because everything else that is blocked in the OT and PT doesn't like blast off of someone. The laser bolts hitting Vader have the same effect as they do when they hit Stormtroopers, except Troopers die.

This disc looks positively stunning. Holy cow! The dogfight is gorgeous, DE. Positively gorgeous.

Originally posted by: MagnoliaFan
In the SE and 04 version when Lando takes Han and Co to the banquet hall to meet Vader, there's a big bay window in the first shot walking toward the room and it vanishes in all subsequent shots.

Hmm. I knew about that one since the SE, and I was sort of looking out for it (but not intently), but I didn't notice it. I'll check it again tonight, unless you can email me a few screenshots in the next few hours so I can get a handle on it.



I'd say the energy has to be expended somehow, so the bolts are exploding against whatever F/force field he's projecting. And Vader could probably block the shots without raising his hand, it just looks better The fact that he does it slowly shows how little it matters - if he moved quickly it would appear that he was in some danger.

This is one of those things where the editors made deliberate choices about how they cut the scene, and I think those choices should override concerns about cause and effect.

That said, I do intend to make a better job of the top hatch on the Falcon by re-editing the scene. Makes you wonder why they noticed that when they did the SE, but not all the other stuff

Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Received the disk this morning. Haven't had a chance to watch it yet but just wanted to say thanks.

I have one, for sure....lightsabers. They are particularly bad in the Bespin battle. The cave, not so much, but Bespin for sure.

There are certainly a handful of shots where I'll definitely brighten up his lightsabre, but I don't think I'll redo every shot just to get it 100% consistent. I've just this second found that in the shot where you see Luke zipping up into the ceiling, Vader's lightsabre blade actually disappears in the last frame, and you can see the prop.

Speaking of out of sync voices, wasn't Leia's out of sync in ANH when she says 'get this walking carpet', or did you address that?

When I export the film to a film strip file to be used in Photoshop, the frames stay at 720x480, but the actual movie image shrinks so that it is directly in the middle of the 720x480 frame. What gives? Is there any other way to fix this or any other way to capture the 84 frames I need to capture for the scene on the Falcon following Alderaan's distruction?

So it has a black border all the way around, not just top and bottom? Does it stay at a "stretched" 16:9 ratio? The "active" area of each frame should be about 720x360, so that leaves about 60 pixels of black on the top and bottom.

I know I mentioned it before, but I use VirtualDub-MPEG2 - first, to open the ripped M2V, then to save out an image sequence of the frames I need to edit. Then I can load that sequence back into VirtualDub, editing frames as individual files and previewing them on the fly. Then I use VirtualDub to save out an AVI which I later encode to MPEG2.

This is the saber I'm using. Disagree with the way it looks if you want, but it is IDENTICAL to Anakin's saber in multiple scenes in ROTS.