Don’t even worry about it. Life comes first. I don’t think anybody here would want you working on this stuff if it meant getting in the way of a job.
Maybe this thread can just be a venue for people to request effect work and where people with vfx skills can look for and accept things to work on.
my hoes crazy 😕
Mine too.
Suggesting ways to improve is not being ungrateful.
Or you can wait until he releases the final v2.0 which should be in the next couple weeks.
Re 70mm, I have seen two 70mm Star Wars prints, only one was in projectable shape and both were far too faded to red to be useful for restoration of the image, it is extremely likely that they all are far too faded now.
Plus 70mm is cropped at the sides, so I don’t think it will be a lot of use for the visual restoration.
Even if it’s too red faded, could it not be used for luminance detail?
Somehow I doubt they would let them borrow it for non professional purposes. Besides, the person I know in imagineering is in their financial department, so it would be strange and suspect for her to ask either way. Haha
However, I guess it wouldn’t hurt to ask if she knows what’s going on with the original version. I’ll ask next time I see her and let u guy know what she says.
Well I know people who work both at Disneyland (which is useless in this endeavor) and Walt Disney Imagineering. Unfortunately it’s not as simple as find the film, walk out with it. There is so much security and scrutiny on your every move. They call that place Mouseschwitz for a reason. Haha
I might be able to whip up some simple menus in photoshop if you can’t find anybody else Williarob. Wouldn’t be anything fancy but if all else fails, I’d be willing to help out. I’ve just also got my own project to focus on, so I wouldn’t be able to give it my full attention, which is the only reason I’m not being more gung-ho about volunteering haha. See if anybody else is willing to do it who can give it their full attention and quality, but if not, I’ll give it a shot 😃
Well to some people like myself and others who grew up in the 80s and 90s, “Episode IV A New Hope” is as much a part of Star Wars as any of the original effects. You need to remember for us, that’s the first and only way we saw Star Wars until 2006 when the GOUT was released. It may not be technically original to the film, but it’s attached to our memories of the original film. I have to be honest, it feels kind of weird to not have it there when I watch Harmy’s Despecialized. I still usually prefer to watch it the way it originally was, but I understand the guy’s request and I don’t think it’s insulting to Harmy’s work because Harmy’s work is meant to recreate the experience of watching Star Wars as originally seen. Well to those of us who grew up then, that IS how we originally saw it. This is part of the reason why I’m trying so hard to recreate the 1981 crawl and pan-down for my blu ray project. To some people it’s annoying, to others, it’s a part of the Star Wars experience.
PLEASE share how you got it working! What program are you working from? Encore or something else? This was driving us crazy on my Blu-Ray project thread a while back trying to get something to work.
I always worry when I hear about stuff like this. Since my tracks were made with the official DTS encoder, there shouldn’t be anything wrong or incompatible about them, unless they’ve been extracted improperly. It must be an problem with the authoring software.
The only possible reason for it on my end could have been not selecting ‘embed timecode into file’ as an encoding option. I can’t remember whether I did that or not, and I don’t know if it actually makes any difference. That might explain the program’s inability to determine the true length of the file. Other programs aren’t having this issue, so it could well be something else entirely.
It’s probably not anything to do with your audio and more likely to do with Encore. While a good program, Encore is not as plug and play as you’d like and often mishandles files unless they’re very simple MP4 video with stereo audio. It’s probably something to do with having been more or less discontinued and not updated since CS6.
Now I haven’t gotten to the audio side of things on my blu Ray project yet, but I’m certainly hoping I won’t have this much trouble when I do. Time will tell.
The name listed at the box office of my local theater is “Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens”
I know. They didn’t even bother with the Roma numerals. Lazy jerks.
Really it depends who I’m talking to and what the context is. If it’s not clear which one I’m talking about by the context or if I’m talking to somebody who would get confused by me just referring to it as Star Wars, or if I’m talking about it as in reference to the overall story of the saga, I’ll refer to it as A New Hope. Otherwise, it’s Star Wars. I’m not like some people on this forum getting all upset if somebody calls it A New Hope though. Been that way since 1981 and it was attached to an otherwise original version of the film. For most of us, it’s probably the first way we saw the film. It does no harm to have a subtitle to help differentiate it from the other movies.
Would there actually be an increase in quality, though? 70mm was just the blow up, not the movie’s native format.
Actually, yes. The added grain from the print would be much finer and less noticeable, so what you would see on a 70mm print is much closer to the original negative than what you would see on a 35mm print in terms of detail and resolution.
We personally find it makes little difference and people need to get over it to an extent and cut the debate so we can get back to talking about the project.
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I’ve been leap frogging back and forth between working on the color correction and working on recreating the 81 crawl/flyover. Working from Harmy’s Despecialized, I’ve been painstakingly rotoscoping each individual element (the ships, the laser bolts, the planet, the moons) and putting them on their own layers separate from the starfield. I will then recreate the entirety of the 81 starfield based on either TN1’s 81 scan or a laserdisc capture, both of which I have at my disposal. Then I’ll map the new starfield onto the background and recreate the camera move. Here’s hoping everything works out well.
The team account nonsense is exactly that.
Now Frink you should know better than anybody that nonsense is a point of view 😉
-Team_Smittywerbenjagermanjensen
Pretty simple actually. Just use the last four minutes to frame the actual Harry Potter movies. Start each movie with a short clip and then the main movie becomes a flashback. It would be stupid and there would be no reason to do it, but that’s how you could.
I second a fully restored 81 crawl even as an extra. I’ve played around with the one from their recent release, but once you get the star field to a good brightness, everything else is blown out. I don’t think it can be saved unless working from original, uncorrected scans.
Wrong section and the creator already has a thread about this in the proper section.
I’ll echo what everybody else said. Glad more of our generation is finding their way here. I am actually a youngster too, only a couple years older than yourself. Stick around. It’s a weird sort of family here on OT.com but the best kind of weird. Frink is the drunk uncle, but you’ll get used to him.
It’s also probably counting Jedi rocks as one change, even though it’s basically an entire sequence replaced. Jedi may not have the most changes, but it certainly has the most damaging changes. One could make an argument that Star Wars has worse changes, but to me there’s nothing in SW:SE that hurts my viewing experience as much as some of the ROTJ changes.
Yes, please if the discussion is to continue, make it in a new thread.
I would volunteer but it looks like you have plenty of people already :p and I doubt I’d catch anything they all don’t, so I’ll just patiently wait for the official release. 😃 Best of wishes Harmy.
Guys that’s fine if you don’t agree with me. This is a thread about edit ideas. That’s my edit idea and reasoning behind it. I loved the movie but I just personally think it would have benefitted from ending a little sooner. Just my opinion. No need for the heated debate.