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.
Well, I’d love to get started on either ANH or ROTJ soon, since after a few months I won’t be able to do much at a time, but I need a primary source for color correction.
I’m still hoping to get ahold of Adywan’s color corrected ANH, and I actually don’t know of any similar thing for ROTJ aside from the one Adywan is currently working on. Time is very much of the essence, or it’ll have to wait until sometime after IX, if at all. I guess we’ll have to see.
My small suggestion is adding thruster efx to the tie fighter chasing Luke. “I can’t shake him !” IDK why no one at Industrial Light and Magic or Lucas let that go by. The Original shot had the thruster light showed on the back of the tie. Does that sound like a plausible idea to be done ?
If someone would care to supply this change, I certainly wouldn’t mind using it. Can’t say I ever noticed that one. You learn something new every day, even about Star Wars.
Right. Kerr’s unreleased edits are the ‘theatrical editions’ to these customized ‘extended editions.’ I put these together over a year ago and had been waiting for Kerr to release the edits. Since that may not happen for a while yet we decided to let these out in the meantime since they’ve been ready.
Hal9000, or “Sharkey,” here.
(At the time of this writing, December 2018, Kerr has yet to release his LOTR fan edits. He has, however, allowed me to publish these ‘Extended Editions’ rather than wait for his definitive versions to be released. You aren’t missing anything; his regular edits have not yet been released and may not for some time. But since I’ve been sitting on these fully finished tweaked versions, they are being released now as “stewards” of his proper edits more in the vein of the theatrical editions.
I apologize that I do not have changelogs for Kerr’s forthcoming edits themselves, and only for my modifications of them. Perhaps when Kerr reads this he can provide these for inclusion. I will NOT be adding these to IFDB, since that will be up to Kerr to do when he is ready. These are merely alternative cuts of his project.)
This is a modified version of Kerr’s fan edits of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, somewhat analogous to the ‘Extended Editions’ of the original films. I have taken Kerr’s edits, and folded back into them bits and pieces of the films, mostly from the Extended Editions. Thus, I consider this an extended version of his edit, rather than something new.
Kerr’s edits feature two audio tracks, the primary of which contains numerous musical alterations. I have used the second audio track by default, and only included a handful of his musical alterations where I felt they made sense and felt “right” to me. In the cutlist below, I list musical alterations Kerr made that I used for this extended version, rather than the other way around.
As part of the process, I painstakingly “remastered” the video source, plugging in the original BluRay footage in all but a handful of shots and scenes. This was done to ensure the maximum possible picture quality and avoiding a very slight generational loss. As such, the color timing throughout is not necessarily as Kerr intended. Some shots are left un-remastered, being either sourced from the theatrical cuts (and therefore not at my disposal) or featuring significant color differences that warranted being left as they were. All Elvish subtitles have been redone, save for those that occur over footage only contained in the theatrical cut, made to match Kerr’s formatting.
It’s been wonderful collaborating on this over the course of some 6 or 7 years, and I feel Kerr has pulled off an incredible set of edits, far greater than I could have hoped for if left to my own devices.
Changes from Kerr’s original edit:
Fellowship of the Ring:
The Two Towers:
Return of the King:
No, I will use the 20th Century Fox and LFL logos that the 1997 SEs used, the same as the prequels. That is reflective of the era its from (the Special Edition, I mean).
Ash is right: I am hoping to get my hands on Adywan’s color corrected ANH, not the final Revisited project.
And ESB is already 100% complete, and released! I knew for a long time I wanted to wait for ESB:R to use the Emperor scene.
With my V2 of my TLJ:L project and TFA:R V3 being nearly ready to go, I would like to turn my attention to this project, starting with ANH.
Does anyone have a copy of Adywan’s color corrected version of ANH he put out in September? I suspect that will be the best place to start. I don’t know what else I may need until I get started, though I suspect it’ll be a little easier than ROTJ, which I may need some help with the Sarlacc sequence for.
Maybe the concern could have been that he is senile, or has some other form of mental deterioration. (“Ooooo, exciting.”)
The way things are for me now, there is much more inertia in a project like this. So, while anything is possible, this is intended as final. Being a conservative cut, hopefully it will turn out to be.
V2 is complete, and should be appearing in the usual places within the next several hours. Thanks again to all involved; I couldn’t have done this alone. I’m very happy with the results, especially after giving things another pass after a total of a year has passed since beginning to chew on this film. Thanks to your contributions, I feel that if this were beamed to a theater a year ago on opening night, it would’ve done just fine.
And if you like what you see here but wish more was done, poppasketti’s edit is pretty kickass, too. I like the pairing; we’ve both borrowed from and contributed a fair amount to the other.