Does the behind the scenes footage look restored to anyone else?
And a pro SE crank in the chat already…
Looks like it to me! And that was me dissing the SE, lol. It would be downright insulting to tell John Dykstra and the other legends in attendance that “special editions are great, makes it look modern.” I don’t get these people.
from another thread:
It’s a neat idea, but it looked downright absurd. I don’t buy for one second that I’m seeing an old Alec Guinness sword fighting. And as others have said, it doesn’t match the look of the film at all.
The camera moves, cinematography, lighting, color grade, editing, costumes, etc. are so different that it would be extremely jarring to include this in any edit, imo. Perhaps someone could find a way to squeeze in a few quick shots, but it’d be tricky to match the surrounding footage.
It’s a neat idea, but it looked downright absurd. I don’t buy for one second that I’m seeing an old Alec Guinness sword fighting. And as others have said, it doesn’t match the look of the film at all. Glad you’re not including it. Anyway, love what you’ve done so far, I look forward to seeing more. It’s interesting to see what Star Wars would look like had it been made today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCp1npRY8wM
Go to 30s mark. Is that OUT footage? Is it Despecialized or a Lucasfilm source?
Looks like GOUT to me.
I see, sounds good! Just thought I should point it out.
Something that caught my eye:
There’s a difference in the color grade on the last frame of this shot at 1:43:41.
It’s a duplicate frame, I’m guessing that has something to do with it. Or is this color-shift present on the Blu-ray?
What are your thoughts on using Neverar’s ANH correction instead of Ady’s?
+1
Awesome stuff, looking forward to more
So sad. Rest in peace Gary.
Looks fantastic! The original grade looks terrible, one of my biggest annoyances with the film.
Nice work. Just one thing I noticed: Original is misspelled as Orginal.
Also added to the task-sheet 😃
This has been sold, and the seller has put up a second test print. I wonder how many they have.
Holy fish sticks, amazing news. Congrats Mike!
Mother of God
I prefer the 2nd one, it just plays better if he doesn’t say anything (imo). Great work.
I like it, good job. I definitely think the shot of the AT-AT firing should be flipped horizontally, I think that would greatly improve the scene.
I think that if you flip the shot then it won’t make sense. It is meant to look like Finn’s right speeder wing gets hit so you would expect an AT AT to be shooting from that angle.
Watching it again I see what you mean. I was thinking that it would better match the direction Finn looks, and the angle the scene is shot at in general. Works either way though.
I like it, good job. I definitely think the shot of the AT-AT firing should be flipped horizontally, I think that would greatly improve the scene.
I’m not sure if i can post Spoiler Memes yet but.
What’s a newphew?
Here’s the promised new video. 😃
https://youtu.be/XuXb2BuUpJ4
Very interesting to see, thanks for sharing it.
I’m not really worried about legal trouble, I’m more concerned with how it might impact my future employment as a video editor. A lot of people in the industry are cool with fan edits, but then there are those who are not. I would hate to lose a potential job because of a fan edit I did 2 years ago, or worse yet, get blacklisted in the industry.
So the more I think about it, as much as I would like to use my real name, I think I will just use a fictitious name. I think I will get a website to post my fan edits on. That way I don’t have to worry about YouTube removing the videos.
I was just shopping for domain names and “DarkEdit.com” is available. That might be a good name for a fan edit site. What do you think?
If you’re getting a site to post your edits you should be worried about legal trouble.
REPORT-SW-v2.7
00:30:26I have watched mkv V2.7 and the theatrical release on dvd and noticed there are some issues with the colour correction on some of the scenes in particular the first scene we see Obi-Wan Kenobi.
His skin tones are very similar to the background (sepia color) and R2-D2 blues is dull/dark.
The landspeeder seems to have lost it slight red tone. I am unsure if it’s most of the scene.
Color will be tweaked in v3.0, it will use Neverar’s Technicolor Recreation as its main source, which looks like this:
Most likely the shot will look like that in Despecialized, if I’m not mistaken.
(btw, the image makes it look a tad more green than it actually is)
I’d definitely help out with that if needed as well. I think I know what shot list you’re talking about, I’ll see if I have it saved somewhere.
Edit: Is this what you’re looking for? I’m not 100% sure if this is what I was thinking of.
Really, really cool. Thanks for the share.
