It looks glorious! I can't wait to give it a full watch-through!
@lpd: Sadly no. Just a fan.
Thanks for the link Harmy, it's cool to see such a diverse crowd following such an awesome project!
Simon Pegg would be. He's the man.
@ michaelkirschner if you right click on one that is queued, you can hit force download and it'll start that one. Also check on the bottom how many max connections you have enabled. Ive got 3 going at once.
I feel like a kid on christmas. Everyone else in my building will be experiencing slower internet speeds for awhile. : )
Just curious, how diverse of a crowd are we? Globally speaking I mean. I know harmy is CZ. I'm east coast USA. Anyone else from the far reaches of the globe?
No probs.
@ KoolGuy7:
Holy crap! The overall changes in colour timing look awesome!
How did you do the dust removal? Manually or did you use something like PFClean?
A) I understand making the final tweaks. If it were me, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night without everything being just the way I wanted it.
B) OHMYGOSH Hamill, Fisher, and Ford in VII? That might be worth seeing. I'll still have to wait to hear from other moviegoers just to make sure nothing asinine happens like, oh i don't know, Jar Jar inexplicably showing up...if the coast is clear, I'm all over that lol.
C) @MichaelKirshner: Forgive me for not noticing your original post, but from whence did those pics come? They're awesome. Looks like a print source?
AWESOME! Can't wait!
Sidenote- A buddy of mine, Like Puggo, recently got engaged and his fiancee also had not seen SW. Being a pretty hardcore fan, he was going to dig out the old GOUT VHS tapes, but rather than sit through all of that fuzzy, tracking laden nastiness, I lent him my Harmy Trilogy inc. V2.0 He (and his fiancee for that matter) were happy campers.
I've got a laserdisc setup in with my home theater and am planning on shortly purchasing the LD Definitive box set to have all of the extra behind the scenes stuff, and I have a feeling that between those extras and Harmy's HD editions, I will have all of the Star Wars paraphernalia I will ever need.
AWESOME!
I believe the link to the disc art from post #1 is down and I would love to get my mitts on it. Anybody got it?
I too love the color changes. The (unintentional) added noise is a tad distracting though. Any plans to filter out some of the grain?
Download finished in about :45
Ah, JDownloader...today is the day you become useful...
also many might know this, but I just figured this out, in JDownloader, in the "Download" pane, if you highlight all the queued files and right click and hit "Force Download" It lets you download all of them simultaneously (at least from Ulotz.to may not work with others) as opposed to the 2 at a time my settings are defaulted to. Result is :30 DL time as opposed to 3:00...
oh yeah, and you have to enter like 80 captchas, back to back.
fun : )
I'm wicked excited! Can't wait!
Yeah, esp. for video editing the GPU is the key...I'm going to have to get me a 2nd monitor sometime too...Ive done some pretty intense AE comps with like 50 layers that for whatever reason I couldn't pre compose. I was looking at around a 2" preview thumbnail of my video if I had to drag keyframes around en masse.
on the subject of having the right GPU etc, check out this DIY tutorial on building a supercharged "hackintosh" I was reading awhile back:
http://nofilmschool.com/2010/10/build-video-editing-hackintosh-thats-faster/
I'm on an Imac right now but if I ever migrate over to a tower, I might consider ponying up the cash and making one of those.
Those are cool videos. The film restoration process looks pretty intricate, yet so important. There are a long list of classics that I would love to see restored some day. Do you know what program it is they're using in the video to retouch the frame scans? It looks like they're using a couple of different ones. I've been thinking of adding a digital pen tablet to my workflow, looks like thats what gives them such precise control and the ability to work quickly.
Good luck with the job! I looked at their reel and it looks like they do some pretty great work. Would you be looking to work on the commercial side or feature film side?
Nuke apparently has a great slow motion module called Kronos that blows other plugins like Twixtor out of the water. That might be a cool place to start to get used to the interface. I also remember seeing a walkthrough of how they composited really complex scenes from the feature film District 9 in Nuke. It's insane how intricate you can get. There's definitely a lot of cool stuff going on in the post production world these days....
Hey Harmy, I've used nuke only to solve some individual problems that AE couldn't handle. (i.e. removing some unwanted flourescent tube flicker in an interview background) I found the program a bit wieldy to use. It's node based, which isn't that hard to get used to if you aren't already (I wasn't) But on some modules that have multiple inputs/outputs its a bit confusing trying to figure out what has to be connected to where. There is a fair amount of documentation by way of youtube videos that go over the whole program starting with interface and workflow etc. Also, similarly to After effects in which you can use expressions, Nuke's plugin modules or nodes or whatever you would like to call them are mostly written in Python I believe, so if you have any knowledge in python it might be helpful.
I would recommend checking it out and seeing if it makes sense for you. I've seen some of the stuff that has come out of it enough to know that it is a very powerful program. That being said, it might be a little too much for what you need, I've pretty much stuck with AE after messing around with Nuke a bit. That's not to say that I wouldn't like to learn more nuke.
The foundry's Nuke tutorial playlist can be found here:http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL46AC3F3C94F3E187&feature=plcp
Is there any particular reason you're looking to jump off of the AE boat?
Harmy said:
@Bobocop: Yes, a DVD version is still planned. I don't know if it will be a DVD9 though, I was thinking about it but we'll have to see.
On behalf of all of the non-bluray-burner-owners, I would like to humbly request a DVD9 version : )
not being picky, just making a few aesthetic suggestions...in fact, Harmy if you're cramped for time/processing power and want to delegate...i can mess around with menu animations in AE...
Love the menu concept!
I agree with JohnLocke2342, not a huge fan on the second movement. I also second the awesomeness of the parallax effect. The lens flare is pretty sweet too!
My 3 cents are:
1) Easy-ease your camera movement keyframes.
2) Maybee try matting out the death star's background at the beginning so it's over black, then fade it up as the camera zooms out...
3) Maybee comp in a higher resolution image of the death star and CC it to match the rest of the artwork. You could then add a grain filter and keyframe it to match the zoom out so that when it's close, its nice and sharp then as the camera moves back to reveal the rest of the comp, the grain would increase to match the rest of the look.
I'm really digging the 3d "Star Wars Trilogy Despecialized Edition" graphics at the beginning of the last changes video. Is this going to be used in a menu somewhere?
A little late on this post but for the DVD9's i found it quite easy to burn in disk utility on my mac. Just pop in a DL DVD open disk utility click on the blank DVD on the left, hit burn and direct it toward the .iso file.
as far as blurays go, that's uncharted territory for me...hopefully I'll spring for an external soonish...
I'm with harmy on the adding some subtle blue to nod at the original which very well may have been a glitch in the original color timing in the first place...
that aside, I'm really impressed with y'alls attention to even the finest details!!!!