By the way does Adywan’s regrade correct the saber that turns green aboard the Falcon ?
Forgot to answer that earlier; yes, it does. It’s a right-seeming blue throughout the film.
I’d probably be okay with the SE trooper hallway shot, given the less than ideal look the footage I have available isn’t when placed next to the BluRay. It’s a little silly, but for a custom SE next to a good presentation of the OOT, it might be all right.
Now that’s a good idea! Consider it done.
And Mala, I can send you a reference file if you’d like to. That’d save me some trouble for sure, if indeed you are willing to.
ANH is looking (and sounding) really good! I’m very pleased with how its coming together after a short time of working on it. (Partly because of my extreme familiarity with doing exactly this sort of thing.) I was pleased to find a handful of shots which 4K77 ended up being better to use than the Despecialized, such as reinstating the Wolfman.
Things that aren’t 100% perfect:
I am not going to alter the timing of the crawl or opening shot, since doing so causes unnecessary problems.
I was going to make the lid to the escape pod blue again as 3PO and R2 wander away from it, since it appears blue again during the “look sir, droids” scene, but the 2004 master’s colors are beyond my ability to un-fuck up. It’s such a tiny thing, anyway.
Upon taking a closer look at the long shot during the sale of the droids to Owen and Luke, the added CGI vaporators aren’t really more than a very slight continuity issue, since most of the added vaporators wouldn’t be in frame in the subsequent shot from that angle anyway.
Sir Ridley is graciously re-adding the cone of light to R2’s projector for three shots in Luke’s garage.
I am currently using the Despecialized for three shots of the entrance to Mos Eisley. The two front-facing shots of the speeder during the checkpoint don’t blend 100%, but are fairly close.
The Despecialized edition was also used to remove the added Jabba scene, which itself uses GOUT footage. It’s… not fantastic, but the best option available.
I’m not going to use another source to re-animate the blinking light on the Death Star which the SE mistakenly omitted, since any of these would see a change in aesthetic far too distracting to be worth something no one in a million years would have noticed anyway.
The shot of Han cornering troopers down a hallway uses Despecialized, which itself uses GOUT. The 4K77 version of the shot stands out as too obviously from a different source, so this shot isn’t great, but it works for how brief it is.
Obviously, it’d be nice to have Adywan’s project completed in order to show the Falcon in hyperspace after escaping the Death Star and to better accomplish the SE’s creative solution to trimming the Biggs scene. However, I’d rather put this to bed than wait that long. Both fall outside the focus of the project, anyway.
I am keeping both ‘praxis’ shockwaves in ANH. The Alderaan explosion from the OOT needed to be redone, so I don’t have much choice but to keep it. And, while I don’t love the shockwaves, I do think it would be a slight mistake to feature the Battle of Yavin sourced entirely from the SE and then revert to the OOT for only the explosion. I’m not sure how to argue for it, beyond my intuition.
I gave a snarky answer, partly because I often have a baby in my arms while trying to post here nowadays. But, I really don’t have an issue with the space Leia scene.
Yes, they are available via torrents and Google Drive; search Reddit for links.
No. 😦
I was hoping to avoid the narrow street shot of the speeder but I suppose you’re right. Thanks for the insightful tip.
Here’s a candidate for the entrance to Mos Eisley. I carefully blended Adywan’s color corrected BluRay master, NewGuy’s ANH, and the Despecialized. Sometimes I overlaid the first two in order to better blend between sources, since they align perfectly. A little film grain is applied in spots to help mask transitions between sources, also.
https://vimeo.com/310480965
password: fanedit
Yeah, I’ve never been interested in comics at all. By their nature, it seems little of substance really ever comes across by them. [Deal with it sunglasses]
I don’t like to go out of my way to contradict the films in ways that would spill over into the EU in meaningful ways, overall.
JEDIT: While I’m not interested in comic books of any kind, my jab was directed at Star Wars comic books in particular. Hardly essential reading.
Yeah, it’s certainly an incidental change; depicting it that way on the show could easily be chalked up to in-universe editing.
And yeah, Padme’s fate blows that out of the water! 😃
Just got the Greedo subtitles into shape, using Catbus’s font from Project Threepio.
I didn’t have time to render out a preview for you yet for entering Mos Eisley, but I will try to tomorrow.
I’m redownloading 4K77, in the hopes it can serve as a source for the two Wolfman shots, since the current Despecialized uses GOUT for them.
And Neverar’s technicolor version will help with Luke’s ghostly image in the homestead.
It doesn’t look like I’ll restore the ‘cone of light’ from R2’s projector in the garage because the Despecialized can’t be made (by me) to conform well enough to the surrounding footage. (Unless, of course, someone wants to add them manually to those three shots.) I wonder if the SE intentionally left it out since most shots do not have it anyway.
I should have mentioned: audio here is just a temp track with a straight cut at an arbitrary point. Just the visuals for now.
Here’s the finished sequence. Thanks to Sir Ridley’s contribution, I was able to retime the opening of the shot, since there was not nearly as much of it present as in the OOT. The final sequence is timed to the OOT, but uses SE elements.
I was also able to independently slow down the dewback (ramping footage back up to full speed before it starts moving), and animate the trooper by reversing and then slowing down footage.
https://vimeo.com/310188616
password: fanedit
I have zero issues with there being only the one dewback; there only was that one in the original version anyway.
Effectively, yes. The only reason I wanted that dewback gone was because its walking motion would leave me unable to reverse or slow down the shot to be able to comport with the OOT’s timing.
Would anyone able be willing to remove the dewback on the far right of this shot? Doing so would allow me to retime the sequence to match the OOT’s timing rather than having it go by rather abruptly.
It’s the following shot:
Here’s the shot in ProRes. [REDACTED; No longer needed]
EDIT: Sir Ridley was able to complete this already! 😄
No, I don’t want upscaled DVD footage for this one. This one is supposed to be somewhat robust, at least for a partial SE at 1080p.
Like I said, while it would be nice to have, it won’t hold anything up since it’s never been a part of any official version, which are what I’m hybridizing.
I’m planning to begin work on ANH within a week, after going ahead and shelling out for Usenet to get Adywan’s color corrected 2011 ANH master.
I may reach out for help with a few things as I go, but the one thing I know I would love is if someone would be able to modify the visuals of the Falcon right after they escape the Death Star (en route to Yavin IV) as being in hyperspace. Ideally, it’d be a rough match for how hyperspace has been depicted in the Disney era films, or perhaps just a little ‘slower, less intense.’
The project will be happily concluded whether or not this can be done, as its outside the specified philosophical core of the goal. 😃
Just waiting on two snippets, one from NeverArGreat and one from Sir Ridley. Everything else is lined up and ready to encode.
No, I don’t have a problem with that. Just about Finn turning on a dime after being motivated partly by the death of a comrade.
Yeah, that video essay is what gave me the idea to trim Finn firing on his fellow troopers immediately after tying to escape with Poe.
Not interested in the other trims, though, since they are much more peripheral and didn’t bother me. (I used a whole deleted scene for Ep2 about Padmé denying to her family that Anakin is her boyfriend.)
Thanks, I enjoyed reading that. 😃
And I think adding porg sounds to TFA isn’t necessary. Not a bad idea, but I don’t think so.
DrDre, have you ever put out a rudimentary color corrected version of the BluRay?
I think Neverar’s ANH looks great. Ideally, I’d have something a little more 1997 SE than OOT, though. Granted, ANH’s 1997 color grade wasn’t impeccable.