G&G-Fan

When will we be able to see these new versions? Will they replace the old ones?

I really like the flipping of the Tarkin shot, I think it looks more aesthetically pleasing.

Btw, I’m glad you’re adding the Imperial March to Vader’s entrance, I’m planning on doing the same for my edit (in fact I’ve considered overhauling a lot of the Empire scenes with Imperial March tunes). I feel like the grand first entrance of Vader should have his theme. I find the original Empire theme in ANH to just be generic and bland. There’s a reason the Imperial March is so much more iconic: it’s much more impactful, unique, thunderous, powerful and fitting. If having the Imperial March in ANH was a special edition change George Lucas actually made then it would’ve been one of my favorite changes.

Maybe delete the images in a post you’re quoting? Or just not quote it? It’s not like people would’ve been confused about what your talking about. Your message is super unnecessarily long because you quoted the images.

About the color grading, I really like it, only problem IMO is that Luke’s lightsaber in Obi-Wan’s hutt looks too dark blue IMO. Anakin’s lightsaber wasn’t that dark.

That’s stupid reasoning

I like the Erso wanted hologram.

I feel like this movie needs to connect to modern Star Wars more and have more galaxy building. Like, add the Imperial March (it literally feels like the black sheep of the saga for not having it), add references to the Sith, show how this story is connected to the grand scheme of things more. Imperial propaganda and wanted holograms sounds like a great way to do that.

Blur is better

I’ve got another question: since you’re using telecine’s redone blast bolts, will you also include the blinking lights on Vader’s chest that he put in?

What differences are there going to be between V1 (what’s listed on the front post) and V2? And do you have an ETA for V2?

Ronster said:

Ok here’s an interesting tidbit I found it’s from a game called Star Wars Force Commander… It was in development whilst the Special edition was in production and it has a different version of Special Edition “Ben’s Hut” Matte painting.

https://youtu.be/QZ7MIX70UXY?t=458

This video should play at the moment the painting appears.

The thing that sticks out is that it has a small rocky path leading up to the Hut which explains how the Landspeeder or if anyone should walk up there could reach the Hut. Once you look more closely you can see how they covered up the path in the release version of the Special Edition to make it a cliff but they left the Landspeeder facing the Hut as if it had ascended the path.

Futhermore after this there is a very nice animation of a star destroyer orbiting Tattooine although the starfield is totally messed up the animation is actually pretty clever and a nice motion about it. I thought to myself it could just as easily be Dantooine but anyway I digress… The real important find is how the matte painting was changed to remove the access to the hut which could be a good idea for a restoration?

Isn’t he doing a completely new Ben’s hutt matte? Could’ve swore I read that either on here or on his blog.

DZ-330 said:

I understand that Revisited is its own canon, however, has the thought of reversing the change of Chewie getting a medal to not conflict with “The Rise of Skywalker” been considered?

I hope not.

I think having the Falcon’s interior look like it’s in hyperspace is very important, it’s a pretty glaring mistake, I’m surprised none of the special editions have bothered to fix it.

Why remove Yavin IV though?

I mean, what’s wrong with a lot of red?

Btw I do wanna say that I do think this is my favorite implementation of SC 38 into ANH, you did a good job.

TestingOutTheTest said:

Since you’re editing the films partially for consistency… can you remove Palps referring to Luke’s lightsaber as “a Jedi’s weapon” in RotJ? It implies that he doesn’t care about lightsabers, yet still uses one in RotS.

I mean, Vader also uses a lightsaber and he’s also a Sith. He always was, even in 1977, as evidenced by the deleted line “This Sith Lord sent by the Emperor will be our undoing.” The actual meaning of the line is that he’s trying to make a point that Luke’s father was a Jedi but he was turned to the dark side, so that means Luke is perfectly capable of turning to the dark side permanently as well. And just because he says it’s a Jedi’s weapon doesn’t mean Sith can’t use them. The US military’s weapons are guns but that doesn’t mean our enemies can’t use them.

TestingOutTheTest said:

Are you going to reinstate the whole “attachments being forbidden” thing that Hal 9000 removed in his edits? Because it is supposed to reinforce Anakin’s fall as well as the Jedi being flawed so much that Luke moves past those specific flaws in RotJ?

I definitely agree with you, attachments being forbidden was never going to be removed from my edits.

I don’t even think it was removed in Hal’s edits. He removed Anakin saying that in AOTC because he thought the line delivery was awkward, but he still says “Possession is forbidden”, and the idea that the Jedi forbid marriage I believe is still in his edits. In LoE him and Padme still have the exchange about them having to hide their marriage. This idea is even in the original trilogy (when Yoda insisted Luke not go and save his friends in ESB, and when Obi-Wan told Luke he needed to bury his feelings for Leia in ROTJ).

TestingOutTheTest said:

I am mainly referring to the hologram effects, but also… regarding that shot, the time period is in the OT, so Palpatine should look like in RotJ and in Adywan’s ESB edit.

Yeah, and the hologram effects in the medium shot are from ROTS. Like, it’s actually a clip of a hologram of him from the movie. So that’s why the question matters. If you’re referring to the wide shot, that one I actually did add the hologram effect myself.

You do bring up a fair point about his appearance. When I made it my thought process was that in the 2015 comic series that takes place between ANH and ESB he looks exactly like his ROTS self.

But I have noticed that in the 2017 comics, which take place between ROTS and ANH, he looks more like his ROTJ self. So it’s kinda just inconsistent like that. I do think it would make more sense for his transition to looking older to be in the 20 years between ROTS and ANH then in the three years between ANH and ESB. So I guess I could try making a new hologram with ROTJ clips. I have no idea how Ady did his, it looks remarkably good.

TestingOutTheTest said:

I just saw your clip of Vader informing Palps that he killed Obi-Wan, and I just want to point out that Vader’s voice isn’t accurate to his ANH voice, while Palps’ hologram looks… not very good (I mean, compare it to other holograms, and you’ll see how bad it looks).

Are you really expecting lines James Earl Jones recorded in the 2015 or 2016 (whatever year that episode of Rebels came out) to sound exactly the same as lines he recorded in 1977?

I think they sound just fine. They sound like Vader. Even the Battlefront lines blend in, at least for me.

Are you referring to the one in the wide or the medium shots? Because the hologram in the medium shots is legit taken from ROTS.

ArtisDead said:

This sounds very interesting after reading the entire thread. Really interested in seeing all of your corrections. Might I get links? Thanks!

Tony

Thank you very much! Yes I will send you the link.

TestingOutTheTest said:

Why don’t you plan on doing the Disney/sequel trilogy?

Because I’m among those that dislike it. I liked the Force Awakens but it’s two sequels make me realize that they never should’ve made the trilogy in the first place. I’m not making edits for it because they can’t be edited in a way that would be satisfying to me. The prequels had some issues with execution (though I think they nailed it with ROTS) but the stories themselves and their ideas were amazing. The lore that has come about because of the prequels is incredible. I can edit them into great movies. The sequels on the other hand are fundamentally flawed, they just undo the first 6 movies with way worse characters and stories. The first six movies feel like a continuous story, but 7-9 don’t feel congruent with them at all. It’d be like if I wrote a complete story that came full circle with all loose ends tied, but then somebody else came in and added on to it in a way that made the events of my story completely pointless and then redid it all but worse. I don’t consider it canon to my Star Wars edit-verse (my personal canon in which these edits are in). Mandalorian, Vader Comics, Rogue One? Hell yes. Love those. In fact because of those I think Disney’s acquisition of Star Wars is overall a good thing, especially with what they’ve done with Vader (making him the most powerful Sith instead of a sad shell). Sequels? No.

Anakin/Vader is my favorite movie character of all time and IMO the center of Star Wars (he’s front in center of the image I chose on the front post for a reason; for me, Star Wars is Anakin’s story. That’s not to say I don’t love the other main characters in the prequels and originals, I do, but to me Anakin is the core). His story is incredible and one of the best ever conceived for a fictional character. The fact that they legit made his entire story irrelevant with the new trilogy is almost personally insulting to me.

I know it may seem counterintuitive to not make edits for films you hate but make edits for films you like, but to me, I’m much more willing to put time into improving a film I like but feel there are flaws I’d like to remedy vs. a film that I flat out dislike for fundamental reasons. Even if IMO a movie is just ok I’m still willing to experiment with it to see if I can make something that I really like, rather then a movie I flat out dislike.

That edit’s version of the Alderaan destruction scene is the best

Just curious, is your copy of SC 38 downloaded YouTube or do you have the uncompressed file? Since I support FXItInPost on Patreon I have a high quality copy for my own edit.

Thanks for being understanding.

Is there one of the two you prefer?

Honestly, the only reason my Revenge of the Sith edit isn’t out yet is because my editing program is being a real bitch, it won’t load the audio from the scene where Obi-Wan tells Padme about Anakin all the way to the end. And this isn’t the first time it’s been fussy like this, sometimes I’ll load up a project and the audio just won’t work. In those cases it usually fixes it after reinstalling but for ROTS it’s just too stubborn. So I’m getting a new editing program. I was using VideoPad Editor and now I’m going to try out DaVinci Resolve.

I apologize for this, I know the wait has been kinda ridiculous considering my ROTS edit is bit more lax then others, but that’s what’s been going on.

I’ve also been kinda debating something on Return of the Jedi. Since I’m moving the Dagobah scenes to earlier (after the scene with Vader on the second Death Star) as a way of having it so Luke got more training from Yoda between ESB and ROTJ, I’ve considered two ways to have the rescuing Han plot line work:

1. Show Luke leaving Dagobah after those two scenes using ESB footage (Yoda’s death and his talk with Obi-Wan’s force ghost are back to back, as in the actual movie) and then wipe to C-3PO and R2-D2 arriving at Jabba’s Palace and have the rest of the rescuing Han plot line be the same as the original (except I’d move the Emperor’s arrival to after Han is imprisoned and before Luke arrives so it doesn’t take too long for us to see what the bad guys are up to. Plus going from the Emperor and Vader discussing Luke to Luke arriving at Jabba’s palace I feel work’s quite well).

2. After two Dagobah scenes, we wipe to the evening shot outside the palace and then cut to the SE max rebo band intro (not Jedi Rocks, but the little jazz number before it; this little bit is fun and this quickens the pace I feel; this would also be done for option 1) before cutting to the scene of Leia turning Chewie in. C-3PO, though not R2-D2, is already at the palace (opening crawl says he’s there along with Lando as a part of Leia’s plan to infiltrate Jabba’s palace). Then after Han and Leia are captured and imprisoned, we see Luke leave Dagobah, then Emperor’s arrival, then Luke’s arrival at Jabba’s palace (and therefore R2 as well), and the rest plays out like normal.

I see benefits and negatives to both. With option one I can retain the slow buildup of Jabba and his palace and it also wouldn’t have it so we’re kinda just dropped in the palace and so later on R2 just kinda happens to drop in and we have to assume he came in with Luke (though I don’t feel like this would be much of a problem to be honest). With option two I feel like it could quicken the pace and also makes Luke’s plan make more sense; instead of everybody coming in one at a time and it relying on everything going wrong beforehand (like, if Jabba accepted the bargain for the droids, was Luke planning on actually giving up the droids, even though they’ve proven very valuable and R2 has his lightsaber inside him? And if Leia successfully freed Han without getting caught, are they leaving the droids there?), it’s “Leia had a clear plan but it failed so now Luke has to come to save everybody”.

I also noticed that the film was kinda compressed, have you fixed that?

I apologize if I’ve already asked, but would anyone be able to provide me with Adywan’s color corrected version of the 2011 ANH Blu-Ray?

May I ask what was used to do this upscale?