Um, what else good was there apart from the poorly presented deleted scenes?
That image was actually one of the sources I was talking about (albeit a minor one, since it's a different shot).
That shot, when compared with the video transfer also shows really nicely how when scanned properly the garbage mattes are invisible.
OK, to the stars - they stay this bright. This is not a whim of mine or anything, it's based on hard evidence that some of you may have seen. All evidence points towards the stars being this bright in the original; even the GOUT stars are this bright, only the faded levels make them kind of greyish but they are this big.
@jabbo5150: Thank you :-)
To nightstalkerpoet you don't listen, prefer the BD Krayt Dragon call he does ;-)
But seriously, I'm afraid you'll need to experiment because every TV has a different set of possible settings, so no one can really tell you what exactly to do. Generally, you may want to brighten it but not above the point where blacks become milky (you need a correct balance of brightness and contrast). The opening stardestroyer flyby could be good for this - play with the brightness and contrast settings, so that the stars get brighter but space remains black and the whites on the stardestroyer don't get too blown out.
My TV has separate RGB settings, so if yours does too, you can slightly increase red and decrease blue (Tantive IV coridors could be a good guide for this).
You might wanna decrease saturation a bit.
That's about all I can tell you.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian-masterclasses/star-wars-weekend-gary-kurtz1
Anyone going? I'd love to go but I don't think I could afford it - it would be awesome. Two days of SW with Garry Kurtz (who's kind of anti Lucas) in the best city I know in the world - that's the dream!
This would be a great opportunity to get Garry even more on our side, maybe present some of the fan projects to him and stuff.
Oh, sorry, you're right. I missed that one.
The 2nd shot is from a lower angle, so if the lights were on the wall, they wouldn't be visible in the 2nd shot.
Absolutely. And it was a bitch to recreate :-)
BTW. Sorry, guys, been really busy today, so tomorrow I'm gonna go through all the posts and answer everything.
The DVD deleted scenes aren't there at all.
And again, the fact that some dirt artefact appears in the GOUT doesn't necessarily mean it was always in the film, so I wouldn't really count clean-up. A proper remaster would probably get rid of these things even if it wasn't SE.
Merry Christmas guys! Sorry, I don't have any more xmas surprises for you. I had one planned but didn't have a minute to spare today.
The matte is there on purpose, there's a huge matte line around the star destroyer in the original :-)
Thanks guys.
I don't see the flicker. Anybody else sees this? Can you give a time where that happens? The pandown is a 2D animation of a premade matte and I didn't manipulate it's brightness in AE, so there shouldn't be any flicker.
@Flynn: By a rough estimate, all the work that went into this clip took about 10 hours. With the crawl and receding logo about 30hrs.
OK, you guys don't deserve it but here's another xmas surprise:
http://www.uloz.to/11984938/xmas-clip-2-mp4
or
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O5UGO710
;-)
I must say I'm quite disappointed in you guys; making a blatantly careless decision like that, I expected a huge backlash and you didn't say a word. I need you guys to motivate me to do the best job I can...
Nah, that would be possibly even more complicated, having to track a few separate stars instead of the whole starfield...
Now, that's it, no surprise video today! Don't cry, you brought it upon yourselves!
Just kidding, today was pretty hectic (last minute xmas shopping and stuff) and I didn't have time to finish what I wanted.
Also, I tried and there's no way I'm redoing that starfield, it's just too much fuss. It looks fine to me, since it's a part of a pan down, it's not a cut or even a fade.
OK, I just realized that the way I'm doing them, there would be no need to re-rotoscope the lasers for the starfield. But the biggest problem that I can foresee is the blue light from the engines at the end.
And the moons and the laser blasts. And it would probably introduce a whole new bunch of problems...
I can't do that. Here's what happens when when you brighten the flyby the same way as the crawl starfield:
The starfields seem to have been eaten up by some process other than just darkening the picture, so when you brighten it enough to bring them out, you blow out everything else...
Thanks, I'm glad you like it. The only thing I'm going to redo (actually rendering right now) is slightly re-timing the pandown in order for Tatooine to appear on the music cue.
Laserschwert said:
What a piece of beauty :-) Looks like I'll have to revamp my German crawl...
Thanks :-) You may have to, because of the starfield, because the pandown was recreated from scratch using this new starfield (it's not only brightened, it's also repositioned to fit with the way it originally was).
That's actually an awesome edit idea. It would be a great improvement to the scene, since it would make it less boring ;-)
OK, here's the new xmas clip. It's not quite final yet but let me know what you think :-)
Yep, that's right and it's gonna be fixed.