Perhaps it’ll seem silly to now, but I’m bowing out of spoileriffic discussion of IX. Once it seems to have gotten to the point where people have seen the finished film, it’s time. May not be true, but now is as a good a time as any.
Right. The novel ‘Cloak Of Deception,’ a PS1 game, and action figures depict this, among other things.
Or have him do so privately in the upcoming Obi-Wan series.
The edits are not split into separate zip files on Google Drive, so you may be able to stream it directly to your phone in real time. I will send you a PM.
I also think it’d be cool to depict the prequel Jedi with their pre-AOTC saber colors. (Plo Koon with orange, Ki Adi Mundi with purple, Mace Windu with blue, etc.)
Well thanks for saying so. I like TFA too. I was reluctant to do this, but the idea was too elegant not to at least try to implement. After I did a not-truly-viable V1 that I felt was disappointing, NeverAr and Sir Ridley stepped up to deliver a dramatically improved V2.
My bad, I just assumed.
Nah, I like the old one, and I like that it’s different for ANH. Just because it’s what was there and I like hearing the little audio peculiarities like that.
For all my projects I’ve avoided altering things like logos. For example, I don’t want to add the 20th Century Fox logo or fanfare to TFA or TLJ; it would feel improper.
If the primary source for this Custom SE project remains the 2011 BluRay or lower, I’ll leave the 1997 logos. If substantial portions of the 19SE are used AND I find myself in a position to know this before an intended final version of any of them has been released, I’d probably go ahead and use the new logos seen in the 19SE. (But I wouldn’t reencode and rerelease just for that. If ANH and ESB are done but ROTJ ends up using a great deal from the 19SE, I would still use the 1997 logos for ROTJ for consistency’s sake.)
How might it look to only desaturate all but the red colors about halfway?
Yeah, it’d probably be cool to see season 1 turned into a take-your-time slow paced spaghetti western.
It doesn’t at all seem that a robust ‘FanFix’ would be in order, just a TV-to-movie.
Same goes for the eventual Kenobi series.
I’m in the process of giving ESB a fresh regrade, starting over using the LUTs provided by DrDre. I think it’ll be less ‘better because it’s different,’ and more ‘better because it’s actually better.’ Part of what I’m doing is to apply less correction in many scenes, as well as using different blends of LUTs.
The impetus and focus for this is the lightsabers during the duel in and around the carbon freezing chamber. I was and still am content with their color in this project, but I feel something has got to be done about the low contrast cores. With the new 19SE transfer to compare to, the 2011 BluRay just won’t do.
While no usable source for the 19SE is available, I wonder whether its appearance would be too different to blend in with the BluRay’s other carbon freezing chamber scenes. Comparing the two, they feel rather distinct from each other.
Another option would be to just borrow from Adywan’s Revisited for those sequences as I did for the Wampa. However, I would prefer to retain the original sabers without them being totally recreated. He also added yellow light whenever the sabers collide which I’d prefer not to include. However, using Revisited only for key shots in which no sabers collide may work well enough. (I believe I’ve gotten the carbon freezing scene graded to a close match to Revisited for this reason.)
A third option would be to cull from work from other members which I may not be aware of. Ideally merely restoring the white cores of the sabers, perhaps through adjusting settings within a mask without completely redoing the saber effects.
(I’m of course hoping that my eventual primary source for ROTJ, be it Adywan’s or something else, will already have reckoned with the BluRay’s botch-job with the sabers during the third act, whether through hard work or using the 19SE.)
Because mine is a function of Google being my ISP. A new one wouldn’t hold much.
Plus I’m not in a place where the extra hassle of doing a whole new set of encodes of all three films (12 total) would be trivial. BUT, like I said, having those alternate crawls available on their own is more than okay with me.
I am running out of space, so I probably wouldn’t release a whole alternative slew of encodes, but if Ridley wants to render alternate crawls I would host them for anyone wishing to cobble them into the edits themselves.
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Thanks for that; glad you enjoyed it and can appreciate some of the hopelessly obscure details. 😃
More evidence that this version use the 1997 special edition as its base, with subsequent changes being re-created fresh.
Right; the end result would be 1080p, so there’s less reason to put a ton of work into starting over. (ROTJ can still benefit if my eventual source, Adywan or otherwise, used anything from the new transfers.) ESB might be revised to use the new transfer during the duel to get rid of the missing cores without resorting to Revisited in which they were completely redone.
No; I’m really not up to something like that and depend on the coloring abilities of others around here for the most part.
Once we’re out of what is now being called ‘The Skywalker Saga,’ I think there’ll be significantly less pressure on everything to be great.
Was wondering if I could get a copy of your fan edits Hal.
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The extended cell bay set backdrop looks more realistic in the 04 version to me, with the 19SE being a little closer to the 77 version.
I got whiplash reading that.
It’s so weird for that one new brief shot to be framed closer than all the rest which are the same.
Wow, that’s super desaturated.
I’m not free to do screen caps at the moment but I’ll try to later.
Seems like most redone 2004/11 changes are no better or worse, with some being a bit better and some being a bit worse.
Shaw’s eyebrows look different to me, but that might just be the colors.
JEDIT: They’re totally different, and much much more seamless.
Wow, you’re right.