I’m considering it. Although after the backlash, I’ll have to think about it some more 😃
Laserchwert and I already did 35mm credits for the German v2.0 (German Empire prints kept the English credits). There are some blemishes left in, but I think I will only fix those for v3.0.
Most of the shots, which use the GOUT heavily and the zoomed in shots from Falcon’s cockpit.
May the 4th might be realistic.
Actually, most GOUT shots will be replaced with 35mm - the main difference between v2.5 and v3.0 will be that with 3.0 I’ll be starting from scratch on the whole thing at 1080p, whereas v2.5 will be the same v2.0 720p master with some shots replaced (just like was the case with v2.x of the other films).
ESB v2.5 will be about 90% identical to v2.0 - I just want to fix a few shots and while I’m doing that, I will already do those in v3.0 quality.
Actually, with the new, slightly altered, mission statement of making v3.0 something like what a proper official BD release of the unaltered versions would look like, I was thinking about using soft subs, which would match the theatricals as close as possible in shape and size (can subtitles be rendered from images - I mean, if I cut the subs directly from one frame of a 35mm scan, could that be turned into a soft sub?) and have seamless branching for the crawls/credits of the foreign language versions.
Alternatively, seamless branching could be used for the subs as well and should be easy enough to do for Greedo but for Jabba, i would be a pain in the a.
I’m hoping to work directly with NJVC for the official release this time, so it would depend on what he thinks he could pull off.
Thank all of you guys so much!!! We’re nearly there! I wanna get cracking on preparing the assets next week, so I’ll be buying the license on Sunday at the latest and by then I should at least have enough that I’d be able to cover anything that’s left myself. 😃
If the donations should reach more than I need for the Adobe CC, I’ll use the rest to buy hard-drives, because I’m planning to work with image sequences this time, which take up a lot of space (can be something like 4TB per movie) but can save a lot of trouble in the editing.
Please, I don’t want anyone to feel the slightest bit guilty for not donating for any reason!!!
And anyway, I posted the request to FB and we’re already half-way there! 😃
I thought about this but I need After Effects, Premiere and Photoshop and the cost of those three apps separately is already more than the entire Creative Cloud package.
I do plan to slowly migrate my workflow to free apps such as non-commercial Nuke and DaVinci Resolve but those are severely limited by the formats they can read, plus most of the work on ESBv2.5 is already done in Adobe. I also have a Neat-Video license for both Premiere and AE, which is a great help, so it would be great to still have those apps.
Hi, guys! First, I’d like to thank all the volunteers for helping me fill in the task-sheet. It’s now nearly done and I must especially thank MusicallyInspired, who did the lion’s share of the work!!!
I, however, have a problem - I wanted to start preparing the assets today, based on the sheet (I plan to do the shots I want to improve in ESB v2.5 first, already using the v3.0 workflow - no sense in doing them twice) and when I opened After Effects, I found out my Adobe CC license I still had from my last job has expired.
I hate to ask for donations, but I can’t currently afford to renew the license (I do the work for UPP as a freelancer and there wasn’t a lot of work these past three months and though there’s much more work now, after Christmas I could barely afford the rent), so if I want to continue working on Despecialized, I have to ask for donations for the software licenses. A yearly subscription to the whole Creative Cloud package is 725,85 € including tax - that’s about $900.
So, please, if you can spare a bit of money, my paypal is harmypaypal@email.cz
If you add a message with your name with your donation, I’ll put you in the credits, of course!
Thank you and sorry that I have to do this.
That’s definitely allowed, no problem - if you can find someone, who’ll do it for free. Or even if you really just covered the cost of materials and no profit was made, I think that would be ok too.
Thank you so much, guys! This will help me immensely!
Can anyone edit the spreadsheet now? I thought I’d have to send a specific link for that.
Also, please, can someone point me to the info on the reel ends and starts? I don’t want to reply to the (now many) PMs I got, before I can provide that info, so that I can assign each person a reel to work on.
Thanks to everyone, who offered help! I’m very grateful!
Also, can someone please help me find some place, where it is described when the reel changes in SW occur?
Oh, and BTW, the volunteers will get a special credit column in the 3.0 credits 😉
Still just one PM. (Thank you ZigZig!!!)
Here’s the description I wrote up of what I need done, jst so people have an idea what they’d be volunteering for:
Open the Despecialized v3.0 tasksheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NwFnvrRp3CnyDOdr9W1__8PLBGwH8WOKkl8mjke8LQs/edit#gid=0
Open Doublefives gallery: https://doubleofive.wordpress.com/swsevc/
Open the NTSC GOUT (or Despecialized or something else synced to it) and open the BD version.
For each shot in 005’s gallery, right-click the image and "copy image address"
Then go to the tasksheet, double-click on the placeholder image and replace the adress in the pop-up box with the address of the 005 image.
Then copy the scrpiption from 005’s gallery and paste it in the description column.
Next find the shot in both the GOUT and the BD and put in the time codes - these are just for me to find the shots more easily on the timeline, so they don’t need to be super precise.
Leave all the drop-down options on the default of “To Do” or “Not Ready” - I will handle those when I start working on the shots.
Important notes: 005’s galleries aren’t always in perfect chronological order, so you may stumble across a shot, that is supposed to belong between two shots you’ve already put in the sheet. This is why I made the shot naming convention with hundred increments, so that when from example you’ve already done shots SW-R1-S00400 and SW-R1-S00500 and you find a shot that is supposed to go between them, you can right click the line number of SW-R1-S00400 and click “Insert one below” and then copy the line above to it and edit it and name the shot SW-R1-S00410.
Also, sometimes, when a change has occurred across an entire scene, like the lightsaber recompositing, for example, it is only represented in the gallery by a few examples but I need each individual shot to be on the spreadsheet.
That’s pretty much it. Please let me know, if you have any questions.
Yep. Haven’t received a single PM yet.
And yes, you’re supposed to actually own the Blu-Rays. If you bought them second hand, it’s ok, because then it’s like the person you’re buying it from didn’t buy it from Lucasfilm and you did - it follows logically, that if you sell it, it’s like you never bought it from Lucasfilm.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm9422840/?ref_=nv_sr_1
So, some people noticed that what’s been keeping me busy and away from Star Wars is working for UPP (the biggest VFX house in Central Europe) on movies like Blade Runner 2049 and Wonder Woman. My contributions on those projects were pretty small - I basically just did some rotoscoping, because when I started in January, I had only just started learning Nuke (the software most professional studios use for VFX compositing, which is fundamentally different from what I’d been using before) but I have since worked my way up to a Nuke compositor and I’m working on some other interesting projects right now.
The funny thing is, that my quasi-fame from my Star Wars work had very little to do with me getting this job - most people in the company don’t even know about it. Also, the job I had before this gig payed about four times as much but it’s totally worth it, because this is my dream-job, which I thought I’d never be able to get.
Now, I’d like to repeat this request and ask any volunteers to send a PM and I’ll send you the instructions and assign you a reel to work on (is there a quick list somewhere of the reels start and end, so I can link it?):
Guys - I could use some help - I need is someone helping me catalogue all the shots that need despecializing and making a system that will make it easier for me to keep track of the shots and what they need done.
My idea is this spreadsheet, where I could keep track of the progress on all the shots:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NwFnvrRp3CnyDOdr9W1__8PLBGwH8WOKkl8mjke8LQs/edit?usp=sharingSo, would I find volunteers, who would help me by going through Doubleofive’s galleries and putting all the shots down in this table and looking them up in GOUT and BD and putting in the timecodes?
When this is done and I start working on v3.0, the plan is to keep the table public for viewing, so you guys can check on my progress and every once in a while, when all shots in a sequence have status Pending Final, I want to post the sequence as a work-print and only after I get positive feedback on it, I will mark the shots as final.
This will make you guys more involved again, like in the old times, and it should help keep me more motivated. 😃
No.
But oh my, that looks like ass. So glad I have Neverar’s correction for the next one 😃
Well, my plan is to mostly just clean the print shots and intercut them with the DC where necessary.
So, I finally watched this movie yesterday, thanks to the grindhouse version and it was very interesting - I’m definitely still interested in doing a Despecialized version - the print is in fairly good condition but it would be great, if someone with a good knowledge of this movie could take poita’s scan and identify all the shots that would be needed to replace altered one’s, so that those can be cleaned first.
OK, reupped that too.
I re-upped part 9 and the link should already be replaced in the guide and I’m reupping part 1 as well now.
Here’s the comment I posted on *** video and it got promptly deleted:
“I really wish people would stop supporting this a-hole - it makes me furious that I keep seeing people posting links to his site in every Despecialized discussion. By making profit from these edits (and make no mistake, he is - the cost of materials is nowhere near that high and paying him for his work means he’s making a profit) he is seriously endangering the continued existence and updating of the edits - the only reason the studios turn a blind eye to fan edits is because no profit is being made!!! That’s why I have the no selling or buying rule, it’s not some effing whim.”
Or extract the m2ts file from the iso. I’m sure it should be possible on Mac. Try googling how to do it.