Harmy

Well, that's my least optimistic estimate ;-)

It's going relatively slowly since I have to colour correct from scratch, so my most optimistic estimate would be two weeks.

But yeah, I think v2.0 is totally going to kick v1.0's ass!

Yeah, that's exactly the case. Rotoscoping the lightsabres was a huge pain in the ass and there's no way in hell I'm redoing that.

Well, if that's so, then there is a huge difference between TNG and SW, because where on TNG it was completely impossible to have those original composites in HD without recompositing them, because the compositing was done at 480p (or probably 480i actually), with SW it is absolutely possible to scan the original composites in HD and there is no reason to destroy their original artistic and historic value by recompositing them digitally.

There will likely still be some tweaks to the colours there.

Just thought I'd share this little screenshot:

Oh, right, I see what you meant now Alex, sorry.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/STAR-WARS-EP-V-REVISITED-EDITION-ADYWAN-EXTENDED-TRAILER-NOW-AVAILABLE/post/548000/#TopicPost548000

^ This.

Shame, I was hoping for some more HD scans :-(

Well, thanks anyway :-)

Man, I'm HaRMy! I let it slide the last two times but I just had to say something this time ;-)

And they wouldn't happen to be these screenshots, would they? If not, I'm totally definitely interested in seeing them! Thanks :-)

Absolutely! :-)

He probably doesn't have it as a motion shot because he gave it as the reason he had to shoot new soldiers for it.

I think it might actually be an intentional change. Maybe they were trying to conceal the AT-ATs' feet being hazy by making it appear that there was actually a misty haze on the ground level, because it does look a little less like the AT-ATs are floating in the air.

OK guys, you've probably already seen this but I thought I'd repost here, since I think that, although it would be quite inexplicable, it may actually be an intentional change, because it's only the soldiers that are totally blurred and not the AT-ATs:

Adywan just posted this:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/93945

It's a comparison between the Blu-Ray and a 35mm scan of the original version. The Blu-Ray fails miserably.

Maybe they were trying to conceal the AT-ATs' feet being hazy by making it appear that there was actually a misty haze on the ground level? Because it does look less like the AT-ATs are floating in the air.

Adywan just posted this:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/93945

It's a comparison between the Blu-Ray and a 35mm scan of the original version. The Blu-Ray fails miserably.

Yeah, that was my guess too. But the shots from the Falcon cockpit and the Vader with eyebrows seem to be legit, as does the sunset pic posted by You_Too (although the colours and gamma probably aren't quite accurate there). And yes, these Technicolor photos are not a perfect reference, more due to the overexposure of the camera than anything else, I suppose. (edit: Mike beat me to it).

Yeah,  think I'll keep the colours there pretty much the same as in v1.0.

But what I want to know is where that guy got some of these pictures.

These are apparently high def scans of the original version and for some reason they are cropped to 4:3. They could be some promo materials of course but still.

And this one is interesting:

It seems to be a 720p picture from the 04 version but the quality looks like a print scan.

Here's a shorter video showing some of the colour fixes applied since the last video:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HL77OP3M

and here's a screenshot from it to compare with what You_Too just posted:

You have to realize that it is the GOUT in the corner, so the colours are not quite reliable, especially the reds, which are greatly exaggerated in the GOUT. But like I said, I did manage to make the uniforms more blue in those shots.

Yes, it was. Just watch v1.0 for those shots. But I just figured out something that may make this issue much better, it is a filter called Change to colour, where you pick a colour you want to change and a colour you want to change it to. It doesn't work 100% perfectly, because it often affects parts of the picture you don't want affected and creates artefacts, so I won't be able to use it all that much but it seems to have worked reasonably well for the worst cases of the rebel soldiers' sleeves turning too purple.

The top left image is GOUT. As to the colours of the soldiers outfits, it is impossible to keep all the colours consistent, it is either the walls or the soldiers. In order to fix the soldiers, the walls have to get totally fucked up, in order to keep the walls pretty much consistent, the soldiers have to be fucked up just a little bit. It is unfortunately a necessary compromise.

To the door explosion, I'm probably gonna change that. The thing is that in the '04SE the explosion was absolutely overblown and I tried to tone it down but that unfortunately darkened the few remaining shadows way too much.

Yeah, in this clip, there's a lot of detail loss due to compression, which I hope to avoid in the final encode. I actually plan to release a DVD9 AVCHD and then also a 15 or so GB mkv. I was even thinking about a BD25 release but since I don't have a BD burner, I don't think I'll do that.

And I'm glad you like the colours, You_Too :-)

And here are those first five minutes of the edit - the bitrate is lower than what I plan to have for the final version but you can already see a big quality improvement compared to v1.0.

http://www.uloz.to/10978270/1st-5-minutes-mp4

I'll post a megaupload link as soon as the upload's finished, but it took about 20 seconds to upload to uloz.to and it's taking 40 minutes to upload the same file to MU.

EDIT: OK, here it is:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RSFM5UQ2

Yeah, the 2004 master is full of stuff like this.

Also, I figured out, that if I remux the file as m2ts instead of mp4, it renders ok. But the m2ts file doesn't work properly when editing - whenever I try to move to another frame, the whole program freezes for like a minute before showing the frame, so it is unusable that way. But I was able to just import it on the timeline and render the first five minutes of it as lossless avi and then use that to edit the first five minutes of v2.0, so I should be able to simply use the m2ts in Premiere to render the lossless AVI that I should be able to work with perfectly and its size should stop being a problem soon, thanks to Troyig88.

Oh and Pheran, thanks for that nice post earlier. I was so preoccupied with this whole rendering problem, that I completely forgot to answer :-)