Harmy

Check out the scene I posted a screenshot of. In fact, here is a comparison... first GOUT, then SE then corrected SE best of all it's only 10MB!

 

Dunno, don't really like the washed out GOUT colours. And you can see the edge of where the blu starts. And mainly, it's not HD.

If on the other hand you could please do the Luke and 3P0 shot chroma swap for me in 720p, I would be very grateful. I can't seem to figure out how to do something like that in AE. And I guess if you can't do it in HD, anamorphic SD would do but HD would definitely be better.

That's interesting, I thought they should be on the bottom... why did you think they should be on the top?

From various sources such as theatrical bootlegs and puggo grande.

One question for you - whis is the main 720p GOUT you used, which is the main 97 SE you used? Thanks.

https://picasaweb.google.com/109609428403596349302/HarmySStarWarsDespecializedEditionComparisons#5615986430100120402hhggh

I only tried to be constuctive in my critisim, I am still very impressed by your version and I hope you didn't take it the wrong way (I certainly don't want that)!

 

Cool, you actually managed to insult him more than any of us ever did and you made it sound intelligent and compassionate :-D

Yeah, I guess it'll best to judge for myself when I actually see it. And if I don't like it, I'm just gonna colour correct it, because from what I saw of it, it looks incredible in terms of detail and overall clarity ;-)

Yeah, I wasn't entirely serious :-)

Thanks for the info :-)

DJ says he's seen it and he said it looked great. But then he says he likes the SW 2004SE colours... ;-)

Yeah, I made the subs in my  editing program and used a different font (although I did use one of those fonts suggested by msycamore in his thread as being close as well).

RU.08 said:

I'm very impressed with your version Harmy, I did find some things I didn't like - like the escape pod and the SE motion-blur that sticks out like dogs balls...

Never really stuck out to me. I mean, I know it's a change but not one worth using GOUT footage.

and that shot with the stormtrooper and the bods in the speeder that has been "corrected" (with his shoulder-pad wavering).

 

Well, that's there and it'll stay. Although there are these minor mistakes that most people wouldn't notice, I think it's the best way to do the shot - this way it's actually 100% HD. I think it was actually the hardest shot I've worked on.

I haven't gone through your whole movie yet, but just to let you know, check out 1:03:24 with the "blue wall" (I corrected this in my script) using this line:...

 

I don't know how to use scripts and I'm not planning to learn. And I don't really mind it. There is a lot of blue walls like that that are actually original, so this one doesn't really bother me.

 

0:26:34, you used GOUT footage - it is better to do a chroma-swap with the GOUT like this:

 

That could be worth a try. Does anyone know if you can do chroma-swap in After Effects?

It'd be nice if you could redo the subtitles too:


That's using AlternateGotNo3D and double-spacing (and the subtitles fall in the bottom-spot of the 2-line one, not the top).

That's incorrect though. The single lines should appear on top and the second line should be bellow it. And I quite like my subs the way they are.

Oh my god, what a torment to read those comments, especially grouped like that. Oh and LOL to that picture Ady :-)

Sent :-)

PM sent :-)

Well, that one will probably stay the way it is, sorry.

@Puggo: The thing is that a better SE transfer (ie. no crushed blacks, less processed picture, better colours) would allow for a more effective fan preservation of the kind that I'm doing. I'm not holding my breath though...

I must agree that the sheer existence of a "Special Edition" (or whatever they want to call it) of any film isn't in any way offensive as long as the original is available in the same quality.

I wouldn't mind watching a version of Citizen Kane or Casablanca or Indiana Jones or STAR WARS for that matter, that was digitally altered to look like it was shot yesterday, but only if I had the choice of watching the originals in the same quality.

It would actually be kind of cool to see. Kind of like revisited - I'm not a huge fan of the concept but I'll definitely watch ESB:R with great interest when it comes out. It will be a great deal of fun to watch the film that way but it will most likely not become my preferred version.

I think he meant all our projects :-)

Your ignorance is starting to get on my nerves.

1) Yes, we don't know for sure that it will be the same transfer but from all the information we have it just seems more than likely.

2) What transfer it is has absolutely nothing to do with the capabilities of DVD or Blu-Ray. The transfers for DVD were done in 1080p and then downscaled to 480p for the DVD, so they can be used for Blu-Ray. But they were done poorly, so they look like shit in 1080p VC-1 just like they did in 480p Mpeg2.

Thanks guys :-)

I'd be happy to help. It took me like 5 minutes to fix the Vader one :-)

If the problems with those frames are similar to the Vader frame you posted before, you can send me some of them as PNG or BMP (and ideally the previous and next frame) and I'll see what I can do :-)

I'm blushing ;-D

All PMs sent :-)

Yeah, I'm currently half way through "A Feast for Crows" and I'm totally loving it :-)

And my next project after I'm done revising SW and releasing Jedi will be "A Game of Thrones - The Movie" :-) I will need a long rest from all things STAR WARS...

Erm, I don't quite understand what you mean? I've been using DJ's project blu all along.

As I said in the SW DeEd thread, I'm pretty close to finishing the workprint of Jedi now that DJ sent me the last few clips I needed (thank you very much DJ, I really appreciate all the help). I'd like to finish the WP first and then while that is out there and I'm waiting for reviews, I will start working on SW DeEd v 1.2. That should allow enough time for Jedi to be checked properly before the final release (I'd really really like to avoid doing another version of that, so the more people checking the workprint the better) and prevent me from working on two things at once, which I'm doing now and it's not ideal.