Jaxon's Dad said:
Adywan, you are a crazy man! The prospects of seeing an anamorphic version of ESB Theatrical are pretty enticing. Unfortunately, newsgroups and torrents aren't options for me. Can anyone point me to other options? Rapidshare? Megaupload? PIF? PM me. Thanx. And Thanx Ady.
Same here :-(
I can't wait to have this but I'm currently at my school dorms and I can't download from newsgroups or torrent, so if someone uploads to RS, would you kindly send me a PM, so I can use it for throwing together a quick cut for tomorow, thank you. And thank you Adywan, you're awesome :-)
adywan said:
Don't believe everything you have heard about them completely re-compositing the Hoth battle. That is rubbish. I proved this when i was starting the Hoth battle for ESB:R. Even in the SE documentaries when they mention they recomposited the cockpits to remove the transparency was just lies. All they did was lower the black level as the cockpits are all still transparent. There are one or two very minor differences in the battle and that's it
I did mention in the first post that this would not be a 100% authentic recreation as this is not what i was aiming for.
And you won't watch ANH:R just because it's in SD? So you only watch stuff that's in HD then? Limiting yourself a bit there.
No, no, no, not won't watch, I did watch it and I loved some aspects of it, what I'm saying is that when I want to watch STAR WARS and I often do, ANH:R is not the version I go for and there are other reasons for this than it's not being HD; I like the originals and even though you've done an awesome job on ANH:R it is just very much not the original. And I really like HD so when I want to watch STAR WARS it's either the GOUT or your brilliant AVCHD as it is HD and also has the worst SE flaws removed so it's as close to the original an HD version is gonna get (or has got so far). Thanks a million for that. If this was HD it would definitely become my prefered version of TESB but if not I'll just stick to the AVCHD or perhaps use this one for a partial despecialisation of the AVCHD just for my viewing (stuff like the orig. Wampa scene or that added window with elevator with f*cked up continuity...)
Now to the SE vs. OT Hoth battle. I did a lot of comparisons back when I got my 1st OOT VHS and was disapointed that all those fx scenes I admired on my SE VHS frame by frame as a kid, thinking how awesome the fx were for the time they were done in, were probably digitally tweaked:
The mate lines are gone in SE, motion blur is added, the speeder in the background is replaced.
The same here, plus here the laser blast is apparently enhanced.
What about fx shots? Like in the battle of Hoth, which was comletely recomposited for the SE and looks better but a lot less old school and I love that old school effects look, is this preserved here?
And also, is there any chance we'd be getting this in HD? I know the quality changes would be more apparent but I'd still prefer to watch it in HD that would switch to SD quality sometimes then to watch SD the whole time. That's one of the reasons I don't watch ANH:R, because it's not HD.
No, because they wouldn't fit, it is a different version and also it's probably a different framerate :-(
Well, I've already looked everywhere and didn't find anything but thanks anyway :-)
Adywan, could you please post the english subtitles you used for your AVCHDs somewhere in a text format so they could be translated to other languages? I wanted to show STAR WARS to my friend and I would have loved to use your AVCHDs but he doesn't speak English so I was stuck with the awful 2004 DVD (GOUT didn't come out here at all) or dubbed 4:3 VHS. And an advice on how to put the subs into the AVCHD would also be apreciated, thanks a lot.
OK, let me go a little bit back and return to the topic of the shiel generator, I made some mock up pictures of it in the actual scene:
I would also very much like to add some STAR WARS laserdiscs to my collection, in fact I tried but didn't win the auction.
The Darth Vader clock is home made using an old clock and a bootleg mask :-D
Mine is a very small collection but here in the Czech Republic it is virtually impossible to come across an OT toy or basically anything so I'm still very proud of it, especially of the various editions on VHS and DVD.
Well, I'm starting work on the new version but I'm not gonna rush it, I'd like to avoid making a 3rd version in the future :-)
Thanks :-)
Yeah, I'm gonna redo the Yoda scene, I realy like some of it, though, so the lines that are from the movie are staying in the order of appearence in the scene as is.
"Feel it!"
"All right, I'll give it a try... ...I can't, it's too big...!"
"Size matters not..."
Call me immature, I just love it :-D
So, did anyone spot some problems? For the next version, I'm probably gonna try to make some lipsync adjustments in the emperor hologram scene and some other minor tweaks. That's all I got so far.
Started a group on Facebook, please join and invite your friends...
Well, it wasn't always possible to make the jokes work with the actual footage or at leats make them work as well (eg. the scene where Luke imagines what it would be like if they were "father and son.") I could use the FAMILY GUY jokes as a voice-over because they are mostly faithfull to the orig. scenes and only change the dialog, whereas ROBOT CHICKEN often expands on the existing scenes and so the film footage doesn't fit the dialog)
As to what kind of decisions kept material in or out of this Version 1.0... Well mainly I only used the jokes that I really liked (so most of ROBOT CHICKEN but eg. just a few from FAMILY GUY). Then of course I couldn't use anything that contradicted the storyline. I tried to keep the original story understandable from this cut but keep the whole trilogy under two hours which it think I pretty much managed to do.
Don't have time for more right now but I'll get back to you.
Come on, guys, what do you think?
My projects:
Intercuting the OT films with many different STAR WARS parodies I put together the whole story of the STAR WARS TRILOGY. I used the ROBOT CHICKEN STAR WARS Specials, the FAMILY GUY Blue Harvest and Something, Something, Something Dark Side, the BBC Darth Vader in Love Spoofs, various fan made parodies I'd found on YOUTUBE, highlights of the STAR WARS Holiday Special and a few jokes of my own creation to compile this 1hr 55min video.
This is version 1.0 and I'm hoping for some feedback from you guys. Having watched the whole thing once so far I've already spoted some problems that I'd like to fix in the STAR WARS TRILOGY The Very Special Edition Special Edition :-)
I'm still uploading but once it's done I'll post a YOUTUBE link.
For now, just some clips I uploaded during production:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNF3Ie4zqFE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbCEw8BF8mA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjKS35Oj-2k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eup9_6z5Q-w
OK, upload is finished:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=274C927487AF7C46&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL
Could someone please PM me the RS links for the Ewokgroomer/WookieGroomer's colour corrected AVCHD of ROTJ? Thanks a lot.
Concerning no Hayden in Return of the Jedi, I gave it my best shot and replaced Hayden Christensen with Sebastian Shaw in 1080p HD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzGcyb3Rl78
The source of the original footage I used for this is definitely not the best one out there so I'm betting someone with better skills and resources then mine could do better. But anyway, EdFarmer, if you wanted to use it for your projection(if you have the wookie groomer's color corrected version, it should be really easy to cut this into it in something like the movie maker, which is a part of windows, no science) I could upload the original file somewhere for you :-)
For me the GOUT DVDs are quite bad, at first they seemed a good enough replacement of the 2004 shits because although they were lacking some resolution when compared to the 2004 DVDs, they were both still just SD and losing just a little over 20% of resolution was a good enough price for watching the original film. But then I got the 1080p versions and the loss of almost 85% of resolution (oh yes, it's that much, just made the calculations) is enough for me to consider watching the SEs.
I even tried my own little preservation project, which I never published outside of my university's network, but here's an excerpt of the readme file:
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STAR WARS - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 1980 720p HDTV&DVD WMV
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Format : WMV HD
Video : 1280x720 progressive
Audio : English STEREO
Subs : NONE
Source : HDTV & DVD (resp. LaserDisc)
IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/
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...and then once, while watching the OTT DVD
release of the second movie, which is my favourite of the Star Wars
films, it occured to me, that especially The Empire Strikes Back
remained for the most part unchanged and that I could make
a version that would preserve the original scenes, which were
changed for either the 1997 Special Editon or the 2004 DVD release
of the SE, using the 2006 DVD as a source and yet keep the high
resolution in the unchanged ones. And after long hours of work
the result is finally here. I didn't try to enhance the quality
of the DVD sourced materials and I also didn't give a sh*t about
the different soundmixes, the only thing I changed concerning
the sound were the changed lines (like Luke's "You're lucky you
don't taste very good" or lord Vader's line "Bring my shuttle"
and I of course restored the original Boba Fett's voice, so he
doesn't sound like an Aborigine any more.)
I also encoded this only in 720p because converting the laserdisc
sourced low-res materials to 1080p seemed a little too much.
I am planning of doing the same with the other two films in the
future but it may take a while and as the original Star Wars film
had been changed so much in the SE, I'm not even sure if there's
a point in doing this with it...
So I did this with TESB and the results weren't perfect. I was very happy to have obtained Adywan's colour corrected 1080p Han shoots 1st STAR WARS and 1080p 1997 SE TESB and those are probably the versions I'll watch until there is a superior (in content as much as in quality) blu-ray release of these films. Can't wait for Adywan to release his 1080p no Hayden ROTJ!
Oops, went a little of topic there but well not entirely, it all concerned my view of the GOUT in some way.
Furthermore the GOUT DVDs were not a response to the fans' demand, it was a response to the bootleg market and the massive e-bay reselling of OUT LDs from which Lucasfilm didn't see a single penny. So basically they released a release that would be just a tiny little bit better than all the other versions availabe to public, making all those who'd buy the laserdiscs or the bootlegs reconsider and put their money in Lucas' pocket instead, buying more 2004 DVDs along with it all over again. Very clever marketing.
I'm glad there's a new petition, OUT deserves an HD transfer!
I'm pretty sure that the sides are right acording to these pics:
But I need the hi-res scans for stuff like the text under the logos in the back.