For my part I’m willing to do anything to disguise his identity in 3. He’s out of place. No disrespect intended to Mayhew, of course. I’d have been more than okay with him playing some other Wookiee. But Chewie is the ultimate galaxy-shrinking pointless cameo in the prequels.
I didn’t see anything wrong with the second bandolier. I’d happily take that and a fur recolor, be it gray or reddish or whatever works. To me what makes him look like Chewie is the “costume” (of the character), and not his face. So if his name isn’t mentioned, he doesn’t particularly resemble Chewie in any other movie, and he’s dressed differently, I think it’s a safe bet to the audience not to infer that its him. And if you go on to see the other movies, there’s no reason for it to be him anyway.
I do thank you for trying a hand in this and I like it.
This is one change that I don’t mind a less than perfect implementation for. Have you SEEN some of the special effects in this movie? 😛
ESB V2 is on its way up, in the usual places. Again, this is a remastering of the video stream, primarily. I used LUTs provided by DrDre (and two provided by Sir Ridley) to somewhat creatively correct the BluRay on a scene-by-scene (and sometimes shot-by-shot) basis. The only new change to the content itself is to modify Ben’s line to “[a] Jedi Master who instructed me,” and there is another audio track without this change.
I’m more than happy with our quaint little community here. No hype, no acrobatics, just cracking away at our projects.
I think that scene would read as rather short, though something to that effect would have been more underplayed and superior to what we got in the actual movie.
However, I still prefer to leave Anakin‘s struggle mostly in subtext, except for his statement during the funeral about not wanting to fail to save somebody again.
Of course!
Yeah, I’m planning to try a serious attempt at mocking up that scene. Hopefully it’ll be better with the “wow look at how bad this place really is” scene but not with the fathier sequence. To me it would say that that city represents the galaxy at large, and while they can’t really directly intervene there and then, thy can through fighting the good fight, and can even inspire the local residents to do something themselves.
Here’s something small that can be done to help the edit feel like more like a feature film.
You shifted the Anakin’s “I’ve got a bad feeling about this” to before the beasts come out of their cells. It might be best to add some of the music and ambiance that plays when the beasts come out in the background for that shot.
Also, since you removed C-3PO and R2-D2 from the arena fight, it would be wise to add some Republic Gunship sounds in the background for the shot of Boba Fett holding his father’s head.
The reason I’m suggesting to add in these instances of background audio is because the transition for those two shots felt a bit abrupt in both the volume and atmosphere.
Indeed, another pass improved these two moments greatly. 😃
I’ve had a frustrating time encoding the video streams for Empire, but it should be coming down the pike pretty soon. Then V6 of TAS shouldn’t be far behind, though still needs me to resync subtitles and things like that.
Out of curiosity will this version on ESB have the cropped Falcon shot or the un cropped? I remember you inquiring about that a while back and noticed the cropped shot were used.
It would be more trouble than it’s worth in my estimation, and would force me to use 720p Harmy footage for large chunks of the movie.
Yes the fact he got money to finish a work he wasn’t 100% into lately is questionable.
I think it’s irrelevant how into it he was. The point is he is hyping up a big monetary gain from what he’s doing, and pretty transparently using pirated sources. These are things that endanger us all.
Were this not the case, it’d be hard for any of us to feel strongly about what he’s doing. But because he is, I think that’s why we are holding him to tight standards.
He’s the hockey pants counterpart to the Phantom Editor’s Batman.
I don’t think so because it’s completely political exposition without ‘angry Anakin,’ and ‘angry Anakin’ is opposed to the goal. I don’t hate the scene but it doesn’t do our love story any favors.
I appreciate the vetting, but it’s not something I’ve hemmed and hawed about like some other things.
The worst part of losing it is seeing Padme change clothes between two instances of seeing her walking, but it’s hopefully clear she is staying elsewhere and only visiting her family. (Or else Anakin apparently just ditched her bags at some point.)
PM sent.
That’s awesome! PM sent.
I’d bet anybody anything that the music that will transition into the end credits is the ‘Binary Sunset/Force Theme.’
Just putting out another call for anyone to help me try to find a replacement 3PO line for “I think I’m beginning to get the hang of this flying business.”
If you own the radio dramas for the OT, consider scrubbing trough some of it as I’ve done to no avail yet. I appreciate it; replacing it will cement the gently implied 3PO backstory into legitimacy.
And there’ll be an alternate audio track for ESB, for the four or five affected frames.
Exporting a new audio track to sit alongside the other. This track is the same, but includes:
Create fake ‘mono mixes’ for the other movies by changing arbitrary things and releasing in low quality.
Well, I don’t think this is half bad. I added the first syllable and a half of “A Jedi can feel the whisky flowing through him” from ANH.
https://vimeo.com/343932338
password: fanedit
Hmm… shifting the bass affects the rest of the sounds occurring at the same time, and won’t work for me. While I appreciate the logic and consistency of using the 2011 track for all of Vader’s dialogue, I think I’ll pass on that one.
Can anyone with access to the mono mix (including via Harmy’s DeEd), please send me the clip where Luke asks, “Blast it, Wedge, where are you?” I’m pretty maxed out on hard drive space right now and don’t want to download the 20GB file just to rip that small chunk from it. Much appreciated, if so.
Also, I just recreated the mono mix’s slight ‘sneak preview’ of the Cantina band music as the heroes approach the entrance. Gave it a low pass filter and matched the noticeability of the (clip on YouTube I pulled up of) the mono mix.
Someone around here suggested applying a bass boost has a similar effect, and that’ll probably be worth playing with rather than hopping around sources for much of the movie. I still don’t trust the 2004+ mixes.
Yeah, that’d be a good idea. 😃
I think that’s the only tweak of the sort that I would like to apply to ESB, but for ANH I think I’ll do an alternate track with the following: