Please let me know if anyone else has this problem. I'll re zip and upload if the problem is with the files themselves.
Here's another vote for the brighter settings.
Sorry, I end up posting more at FE.org about this.
That's weird about the stuttering with the audio. I don't know why that would be, or what to do about it. If I remember when ~v3 comes around, I'll re-encode it into whatever format the mkv's audio was.
I have indeed worked with L8wrtr for a few things. He was very helpful in instructing me how to do the "lights off, lights on" effect for the Palpatine reveal. I also borrowed a few bits of his audio for the opening of Ep3 to remove droid voices. I don't remember the specifics, but I know I attempted to do what you suggested, and use bits of his audio in a few places. Rather than dig everything back out, I'm going to trust that I was diligent at the time.
About the master deletion. My usual method of exporting is to use FCP7's "Share" feature. When that mysteriously stopped working, I took the internet-at-large's advice of exporting a self-contained mov at native settings, and then crunched that file down into the various release formats. So version 2 of LOE was exported in this way, and then I deleted the source ROTS file. This morning, my 720p encode finished, and it looks much better than it did before. There is still some slight aliasing, which would be there regardless. I'm happy with it and will be releasing it shortly. DVD5 and 1080p versions will follow. And when Emanswfan's sources are made available, I'll re-export my edits and treat them like gold.
I'm very glad to hear you enjoyed it! The audio issue you mention is known to me, and is an unfortunate casualty of removing the battle droid voices. I think I was able to improve it somewhat for v2.
I was regrettably hasty and deleted the master source file for ROTS, and it would be a big hurdle to reobtain it. I exported the full sized mov of the finished edit and am trying a few different settings to see what looks best. I may have overdone the grain and noise a bit for v2, but I plan to utilize Emanswfan's regraded source when it's available for a ~v3.
Has anyone listened to v2's commentary tracks?
http://cosbystrikesback.ytmnd.com/
An oldie but a goodie.
I appreciate that approach. Some people would prefer to have them look as much like the OT as possible, and others not. For my fan edit project, which works under the philosophy that these are indeed prequels, it would be more appropriate to use the first version. I'm maintaining their prequel nature, so all I'm after is a filmic look.
The buzz droids in that last clip is my favorite part. They look like they belong there, not like a CG addition.
I'm still very much looking forward to encoding my fan edits using these. Looking ahead, do you have an ETA for Episode III? And what are your plans for what's next? Would you do AOTC or TPM next?
These projects never correspond to predictions of timing, but I hope I can have the trilogy ready for viewing in time for June of 2015.
That looks gorgeous! It's full of movie magic, and a leap ahead of what you've shown before. I don't notice anything to complain about. I can be hasty at times but I'd say, "Cut! Print!"
What are you going to have the "long time ago" title card look like? Perhaps a dark blue like the OOT?
I think the DVD's colors look better than th BluRay's during the first few scenes of AOTC. I like the white overcast look. The BluRay seems to have a bluer sky, particularly on the establishing shot of the Senate building. I wouldn't mind emphasizing the cloudy look there.
I agree. I cobbled together a GOUT-synced custom sound mix for ANH with the '97 mix as the default, for exactly that reason.
Looks great! I especially like the shot of Anakin and Padme on the balcony. The warmer, film look will make a big difference.
"In short, they are going very well. Blah-blah has fallen, and [your mother] has moved [her] troops to [Naboo/Somewhere else]."
"You have allowed [your mother] to twist your mind..." and other such nonsense.
emanswfan said:
I was scared there for a second before looking at the thread, that the terminator came back. Goodness, he was a ridiculous fellow.
JEDIT: still find it hilarious to see "I'll be back!!" grayed out.
Now I'm picturing the Terminator hunting down fan editors, or attempting to. He might break into a film museum, head to the 2001: A Space Odyssey display, and incinerate the Hal9000 display.
DominicCobb said:
darklordoftech said:
Hal 9000 said:
There would be fan edits a-plenty
But obtaining fan edits is illegal and requires lots of technical knowledge.
Neither of these things are true.
None of those things are true. However, I'd love to take a shot at a hybrid SE, if both sources are ~"compatible."
I hope I'm not too late, but I wonder if Obi-Wan ever responds to anyone with, "Because of your mother?"
Harmy and his project deserve all the positive attention they are receiving.
Releasing a hybrid SE would be silly. There would be fan edits a-plenty for that sort of thing.
I'm curious to see what color the "far, far away" title card will be.
My best guess, in-universe, is that although such things would be possible and easily doable, mass media isn't a strong force for cultural reasons. It just gets lost amidst a galaxy of voices.
I wouldn't mind clues from future books that help mend these oddities, like Darth Plagueis, weaved into a compelling story.
And that's exactly it. I can find fun in finding in-universe explanations for oddities in stories, especially in Tolkien's world. It's strange to juxtapose ignorance and lack of media with FaceTime chats across half a galaxy's diameter.
Has shockwaves when he farts.
The following thoughts are asked from a fully assimilated, 'saga' perspective. I appreciate the convoluted history of the story, the improvised nature of which largely causes these questions. But I am thinking about these things in light of all material up to the present.
The prequels and Clone Wars series establishes Anakin Skywalker as a relatively well-known war hero. The novelization of Episode III makes it sound like Anakin and Obi-Wan are two of the most famous Jedi around. Yoda is seemingly the prime member of the Jedi Council. The holonet seems to function like the internet does for us.
The Empire suppressed information and spread propaganda, but a whole galaxy can't just forget what was so well known after 19 years. Vader's identity is not public knowledge, and I believe the official story is that Anakin was killed defending the Jedi temple.
Fast forward. Luke Skywalker is told that his father was a navigator on a spice freighter. Obi-Wan seems to bring Luke up to speed by giving him more or less the 'official' version of the story. Anakin was famous, so I wonder if Luke ever heard of him elsewhere. If so, would he have had the realization offscreen that his father was THAT Anakin Skywalker? If not, how did that information become to thoroughly suppressed? Obi-Wan was willing to let Luke know the seeming 'official' version of Anakin's story, but Owen dreamt up something much more mundane.
The deleted scene with Red Leader, Biggs, and Luke that was partially reinstated for the SE references Luke's father. It seems like others in the galaxy know who Luke's father is by merely knowing his surname and Jedi status. Is the lack of knowledge that his father was a Jedi sufficient reason for Luke to be taken in by Owen's lies? Again, does this mean that he must have realized later, "Golly, my father was THE Anakin Skywalker?!"
Related to that, why does Luke not know what Yoda looks like? Is it because he simply did not have time to research it between hearing about him and leaving for Dagobah? Surely Luke would have done a galactic Google search about the Jedi and have seen (even propaganda-spun) information about some of the most famous Jedi.
I'd like to see these issues addressed in the upcoming Heir to the Jedi novel. I've always found it confusing about who in Star Wars knows what. This issue was really driven home in the pre-prequel EU, because the prequel story had not been told yet so there was nothing for authors to have the characters know. Since the post-ROTJ EU was written in broadly chronological order, the time at which the prequel films were released coincided in-universe with discoveries of old information that had been lost. Now that the EU has been "rebooted," as it were, I'd like to see novels tackle this issue more directly.
You can say that again.