Darth Lucas

There’s literally a scene where one rams into a star destroyer lol

FVDnz said:

BAHAHAHAHAHA, out of the Windu. Classic!

Okay, here’s another. When it comes to the Battle of Endor, notably the Space Battle. What are the chances of a couple Hammerheads and that Carrier the Phoenix Squadron acquired in Rebels that could take part. Of course, they may end up being destroyed leading up to Rogue One I suppose so guess we’ll have to wait and see first. Isn’t Rebels scheduled to be 5 Seasons or something?

Those ships were in Rogue One.

nickyd47 said:

SilverWook said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

SilverWook said:

MalàStrana said:

Alderaan said:

George didn’t want them to look good next to his crap digital fake world prequels.

Episode I is not digital.

(and most movies are digital now)

It’s 1% digital. 😉
http://www.theasc.com/magazine/sep02/exploring/

I think it’s hilarious how fuzzy the picture of GL using a digital cinema camera is:

I think it’s an intentional effect?

It’s stylistically designed to be that way and you can’t undo that.

Insert Captain America image I understood that reference.

imperialscum said:

TV’s Frink said:

imperialscum said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

So to preserve digital movies we should carve out all of the data in stone. That seems completely feasible.

It is not feasible of course for every information we currently have.

Friendly teaching moment: It should be “all the information we currently have” or it should be “every piece of information we currently have.”

Thank you my friend. But the language has just evolved and what you suggest is archaic now.

If you consider grammatically correct to be archaic, then yes.

Colson said:

For what it’s worth, the person who did the scan gave me his blessing to distribute it privately.

In that case be prepared for an onslaught of Pms. (That’s plural of PM, not pms, just in case you were wondering, like I know you weren’t.)

clutchins said:

http://thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/022417-0100

Bill Hunt says Disney has a 4K scan of SOTS but have no plans for it yet.

“FYI, a couple of other bits of interesting information that Chuck passed on to us from last night’s Wexler event: About 100 of the 400 or so classic Disney animated shorts have been scanned in 4K (at Warner) and restored. Also, new 4K restoration work has been done on Disney’s Song of the South to fix certain shots previously out of alignment (because of a faulty camera used during the original photography), though no public release is currently planned. Fascinating”

(I know this story has somewhat groundbreaking info on Star Wars, but I want to keep on topic).

Yeah it’s weird that they haven’t exactly kept this secret, given they have no plans to release it. They showed a couple clips of it at a small panel on restoration at the last D23 expo. The entire room got excited before the guy very quickly explained it was just for archival purposes.

towne32 said:

UnitéD2 said:

Oh, the real life strikes back ! 😉 Congratulations for you job !

Why wouldn’t Despecialized become a team/community work for the next edition(s) ? I know it is yet partly the case (the list of “special thanks”, Towne’s SW etc.), but what if guy who have the skills and the experience here work together for scenes replacement, rotoscoping etc. under your supervision ?

For the Original, since Neverar’s correction is coming soon and good 35 mm available references multiplicating, the OT community should move forward ! “On met la gomme Chico !”

Moving forward, the most useful sources for Despecialized will surely be cleaned up 35mm footage. I don’t think there could be any harm in lots of people contributing properly cleaned shots. But I don’t think there are very many people here who are particularly skilled at this. It would not be ideal to farm out the work to unproven people. While the initial learning curve is not too bad (and this is speaking from my own personal experience) for cleaning up quick shots, credits, etc, it is quite another thing to rely on us random folks for the bulk of the film. It can be a long and taxing process and it is easy to make mistakes that are destructive to the product. I am certainly not qualified for any kind of extensive restoration.

Training people in these skills is a project in and of itself. But if people took the time and effort to learned (and showed some example work based on any of the now available 35mm scans for quite a few films), I don’t think it would be unreasonable to get a few more people involved.

Anything to do with color correction, on the other hand, needs to be done by as few people as possible, in my opinion. As shown in the many color correction threads, we’ve all got different opinions. Most of the things we all come up with are honestly probably good enough. But the grading needs to be consistent.

Also: congrats on the job, Harmy!

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Hell, you and I have in the past debated extensively on which correction of one shot was more correct where the majority of people would see no difference at all. (Artoo in the canyon anyone? :p)

I really don’t see any reason they wouldn’t want to release Mike’s project. If we are to assume that an OOT release is on the agenda for them, it would surely just save them a lot of time and money and be better than whatever half-assed crap they’d put out themselves.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I doubt that Disney or Lucasfilm would ever release Mike Verta’s project.

How do you know?

I’m not aware of a major studio ever accepting something like that, especially since they have access to much better material and a whole department of people to work on it, let alone releasing it.

Actually, now that I think about it, didn’t he intend it to be a proof of concept rather than a finished product for them to release to the public?

He had said something along the lines of if they ever wanted to release it, he’d want to see what he could pull from sources they have in the archives (original negative, separation masters, etc.)

I’d say this most recent rumor, coupled with the fact that Mike Verta has practically dropped off the face of the earth, is probably a good sign.

Dreamaster said:

Gamma levels are PERFECT Dr Dre! I pulled 4% from the mid green channel to see if that made Beru’s hair and Ben’s beard more natural:

Since we know tech prints to be green-shifted, this is probably a safe approximation of what standard prints looked like, or at least were intended to look like.

adywan said:

Darth Lucas said:

adywan said:

The X-wing engines were originally pink in ANH. The engine colour changed when it came to ESB & ROTJ, when they became red. But now, with Rogue One using the original colour for the engines, and the possibility of me doing an edit of R1 for personal viewing, it makes sense to have the engines the same colour throughout.

Would you change them to pink in ESB and ROTJ as well? Since the engines are pretty pink in TFA, would this not provide optimal consistency? Not that I am wanting to keep adding work on Empire but I would think that would make sense.

Check the x-wing pic from ESB:R a few posts back 😉

I feel stupid. Thought I was in the ANH thread for whatever reason. Carry on.

adywan said:

The X-wing engines were originally pink in ANH. The engine colour changed when it came to ESB & ROTJ, when they became red. But now, with Rogue One using the original colour for the engines, and the possibility of me doing an edit of R1 for personal viewing, it makes sense to have the engines the same colour throughout.

Would you change them to pink in ESB and ROTJ as well? Since the engines are pretty pink in TFA, would this not provide optimal consistency? Not that I am wanting to keep adding work on Empire but I would think that would make sense.

Recently on Facebook somebody posted about having a 35mm print of Episode III they were going to scan. I told them to register and post about it here on the forums but so far they haven’t. Sucks cuz I’m sure it’d be of interest to this and other projects.

JEDIT: Just reread the post. He says 35mm trailer. Not full film. Either way, I’m sure it’d still be a good/interesting resource.

NeverarGreat said:

FVDnz said:

With speculation that Hayden Christiansen may return in The Last Jedi to reprise Force Ghost Anakin, will he remain at the end of ROTJR?! I know Adywan intends on reinserting Sebastian Shaw and all, but at the end of the day, he’s still not regarding the Sequel Trilogy is he? Maybe recreate a more decent looking Force Ghost version of Hayden compared to what we got recently possibly…

I can’t imagine that this is within the realm of consideration for TLJ.

Well it was conceptualized for TFA but ultimately not used. So it’s not totally out of the realm of possibility.

Dre, your most recent regrade is GORGEOUS. I honestly don’t see a thing I would change.

Looks awesome! I’d definitely swap this with the Indy 4 film collection that was released a few years back. I love that book style set, but the box isn’t exactly durable. It’s pretty dinged up at this point.

Everything’s looking great DrDre.

I also find it funny how the GOUT colors are giving me a sense of nostalgia lol. Anybody ever try color matching Despecialized to GOUT? We’d have a kind of home video/nostalgia graded version.

Could it be that after all this time, the GOUT actually has accurate (albeit faded) color timing???

I mean, if you could reproduce the technicolor look throughout just by adding the idiosyncrasies we know come with tech prints, could it stand to reason that GOUT is actually fairly close to standard print colors?

People tend to overcompensate for the blu ray’s issues I think. I know I’ve definitely made things too green in attempt to fix the magenta push, only to realize later id taken it too far. In this case, DrDre, I think your mind is saying “the bluray scene is too flat” and as such you’re pushing the contrast a bit too far. It looks unnatural now, which, unless it was by accident, would never have been done even in the late 70s.

You can’t be bloody serious. Send him a PM for crying out loud.

Your corrections look spot on to me, DrDre.

I’m not crazy about the title. I’m not sure why, I didn’t mind TFA, or even any of the prequel titles, but something about “the last Jedi” just sounds like the title of a crappy fan film.

_Shorty said:

Blank dual layer DVDs hold 7.96 GB. It should fit just fine.

Don’t they hold 8.5GB?

I mean, yeah being able to relax is great, but, this isn’t Ady’s job remember. This is his hobby. He’s under nobody’s schedule but he’s own. I would hope that he still enjoys working on it.