Hal 9000

Have the battle droids speak in Mr. Rogers’ trolley sounds.

I did that as well, since alternate audio tracks are relatively easy.

I would caution against using Adywan’s old 1997 SE reconstruction. It was sourced from 2004-era HDTV and encoded relatively small by today’s standards. It’d be a lo-fi source to build on. If you’re able to adjust the 2011 BluRay I think you’ll find a much better end result. I have a bucket of LUTs that were provided to me for 2011 ESB if they’d be helpful. I’ll PM you about them.

I’ll be interested to see how your project coheres with the 4K83 footage you’ll use. I say that just because I found the 2011 version of ROTJ really difficult to work on. Granted I don’t know much about color correction.

I’m interested in why you seem to prefer the 2011 BluRays as a source over the 19SE. They have their pros and cons, and the former has a long history of being reviled.

Perhaps even though the unmodified 19SE is more palatable than the 2011, modified versions of each could shake that up?

In the case of ROTJ, I found the 19SE and 4K83 to cohere pretty well, far moreso than the 2011.

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I think the project has certainly passed the ‘biting off’ phase and in ‘chewing’ mode approaching swallowing.

Awesome!

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I meant that I’d revise my ANH project, which is sourced from the ‘19SE’ master first seen in 2019 on Disney+, to take advantage of the R2 light.

Well, that’s pretty cool! At a quick glance, episode 4 “Light Side” has at about 6:10 a brief clip of the key moment, “I am all the Jedi” with no dialogue or music.

I don’t know if that’d be useful for Sherlock or Faraday, but worth checking out!

I would certainly say this resource would have been very nice to have, but it doesn’t appear to immediately open up any locked doors. Could have saved some effort in the past, but that’s all right.

It really looks good. Boy, it might be worth revising my project with a version of the 2011 master to get in on that. I know you’d said you may later on tackle the 19SE, hence my curiosity of how feasible it’d be to transfer this work with R2’s light to that transfer.

Atom-88 said:

How much work is left Hal, going by the first post things seem to be going very nicely.

Scroll to find a recent large post a couple pages ago for a current update.

I don’t know, and probably not, but would it be easy to map that work onto the 19SE and output? I don’t suppose we’d be so lucky but I hope you don’t mind asking.

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This is how R2D2’s flashes will look like:
https://mega.nz/file/LJpijIBK#qgfrznIuePYwDsOdGY6OVeYMh4T2SVGwJUpZlRrELcE

Gorgeous!

Yes

ROTJ, Shaw’s ghost is always gonna be the only thing that feels right to me.

TROS, you can understand why it’d be Hayden and it’s fine. It’s a little weird that everyone else is the old age at which they died, but eh.

Nah, just seems weird to make it someone other than Shaw, granted it was out of necessity. Who knows, maybe something like that gallery would give Jonh just the right amount of material to work with. Certainly doesn’t hurt to have it exist.

Yep. Exciting times.

I like it though, as it maintains more of TFA’s structure for the end climax even while shifting its meaning quite a bit.

Feels… inauthentic. Based on how Jonh has manipulated faces in the past I would think pulling real images of Shaw could work. But hey, I don’t know.

Those just… look like a recast for the role of old Anakin to me.

Yeah, even TFA:R! It wasn’t until V2 that that comes into play.

Oh I’d for sure not imagine it’d be doable. The only thing I’d think of for a source is when the heroes walk past a K2 droid in Rogue One on Scarif, clunking along robotically with no personality. Maybe the upcoming Cassian Andor series would have more footage to draw from.

But yeah, just an idea that doesn’t cost me anything to toss out.

I think part of what makes you ask the question has to do with things removed for this version anyway. And the battery analogy is about right.

Also, and this is a stretch, it even helps make (loose, SW-style) sense out of the star that SKB becomes, being much smaller than the original Sun; part of its energy was depleted.

Of course, just spitting ideas.

The shot for K2 is when Luke, Han, and Chewie are waiting for the elevator. You can see a bug-head 3PO droid walking by.

Certainly, he’s got a link to all my stuff, including my lossless audio output for that project.

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