Yes, in v2.0, the probe droid shot was a recreation using the GOUT for the moving parts.
And yes, many recomposited shots were left in in v2.0 because with GOUT as my best source for the originals, I wasn't able to undo them while keeping sufficient picture quality - now it may be a different story :-)
I just wanted to show that I was putting their stuff to good use ;-) Definitely didn't mean to steal their thunder but it would be better to move that discussion here.
And yeah, Jedi is the priority right now, though if you could provide the Jedi shots in the same encoding as the ESB 1080p release with perhaps just a bit higher bitrate, that would be fine and would actually be easier for me, since I've been having some trouble decoding the raw MOV files.
From the release. To be honest, I doubt the raw files would be all that much better - plus my main source (the official BD) is a h264 encode, so I think it's quite fine to work with the encoded file.
The droid and the smoke.
No, that's the job for Team Negative 1 :-)
RemoveDirtMC in Avisynth and the Neat Video plugin for AE and some manual cleanup with Clone Stamp in AE.
While I'm waiting for more ROTJ 35mm footage, I decided to take Team N1's Grindhouse release and start experimenting with it for ESB v2.5 and here's the first result:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0dtCY1O9WXzcWI3YU5KUjRKOW8/view?usp=sharing
(In order to see the full quality, you have to download it, not just watch it in your browser.)
The cleanup is a bit too aggressive for the Team's project, of course, but it's exactly what I need to make it fit with the BD footage in Despecialized.
While I'm waiting for more ROTJ 35mm footage, I decided to take Team N1's recent Grindhouse release of Empire and start experimenting with it for ESB v2.5 and here's the result:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0dtCY1O9WXzcWI3YU5KUjRKOW8/view?usp=sharing
(In order to see the full quality, you have to download it, not just watch it in your browser.)
If they bring Hayden back as Anakin's ghost, I definitely won't be interested in the sequels any more, so I'm covered and anyone who would still be interested in the sequels can (and would probably be happy to) watch the 2011 version, so I don't see a problem there. :-)
^This (except, of course, I've never seen it in theaters but I want to see that version and don't care whether it's official canon or not).
Yep, all the software that can handle this sort of thing is incredibly expensive.
This is great :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N-fEOLzJR0
Definitely hoping to upgrade.
I didn't have time to make a Christmas surprise for you guys, so here's a New Year's one :)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0dtCY1O9WXzaGE5U05GcXJkNEU/view?usp=sharing
Again, big thanks to Team Negative 1!
This is from a heavily red-faded print and the colors have been partially corrected but trust me, I've seen what the print actually looks like and you just can't use it as a color reference, because half the color information is missing - this is why Hoth looks whiter here - most of the blue channel information is gone from the print.
I had no trouble playing it on my PC. And it's beautiful!!!
Wow! That looks better than I expected! I sense a v2.5 in the near future :-) After Jedi of course ;-)
Maybe some of the snow battle.
Can't wait to see it! I'm visiting my parents, so I won't be able to download it for a couple more days. Could someone please post some good screenshots?
Oh, yeah - how rude of me - big thanks to Team Negative 1 on this!!! :-)
I've expressed criticism of Ady's work many times and never felt "the wrath", maybe it's because I expressed it in a respectful manner.
Um, what?
Yeah, I agree, PJ's probably never read anything from this Tolkein.
Nothing major - from what I can recall, I fixed the wrong cropping in the first quarter of the film (but there was only like a one pixel difference at the bottom, nothing big), Vader's glowing buttons were still blue instead of green in a few shots in v2.1 and those were fixed in v2.5, then I also fixed the color of Ben's robe in the shot where he activates his lightsaber and there may have been some more very minor fixes like that, which I don't even remember. Probably the most significant changes were getting rid of the flicker in the scene where Luke finds 3P0 hiding because R2 ran away and using 35mm scans to restore the missing frames from the shot when Han shoots Greedo.
Really? I felt like the EEs of the Hobbit were just longer versions of already too long movies and added very little substance (unlike for example TTT EE, which is a very different film from the theatrical version).