Harmy

OK, I kept hesitating to do this but here goes: I really hoped that by now I'd be able to afford a new desktop PC that could handle video editing and rendering much more easily than my current laptop but what with moving to and furnishing a new flat and my part-time job not paying very well, I seem as far from being able to afford a new computer as ever.

I started doing some basic editing on the DeEd v2.5 bonus docs and it's a total pain in the ass, plus with this computer, I keep getting these weird rendering errors that you can see plenty of in the ESB v2.0 reel 1 workprint, so I decided that, even though I'm not very happy doing it, because it makes me feel like a beggar, I will ask for donations towards a new computer - I had a friend who knows this stuff look into it and he says that for the kind of hardware I need, I'd need around 20000CZK, which is around $1000, so that will be my goal.

My paypal address is harmypaypal@email.cz and I'd like everyone who contributes to put in the name by which they'd like to appear in the credits of all upcoming Despecialized Edition releases, including the SW v2.5 Blu-Ray and bonus disc.

Thank you,

Harmy.

Probably not - they said there was no color correction.

This is pretty cool:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/STAR-WARS-80s-High-School/9671051

Well, that's no news then.

Do all the audio tracks appear in the menu?

So do I :-)

Jambe Davdar said:

Hey Harmy. An honor? Haha!

I think your work is incredible sir. I will have to dig out my old myspleen login then. (FOUND IT)

Just got a torrent from a google search. Can't remember where.

Are you on twitter?

Well, I'm a huge fan of your work!

I do have a Twitter account but I never use it.

This is quite an honor :-) Where are you downloading from? MySpleen would probably be the best choice.

I'd love to see Gary Oldman in it :-)

Here's some Carrie from a few weeks ago:

http://youtu.be/lChYPgSsIi8?t=20s

This is a great article, which TServo2049 just posted in another thread. It's about the advances in optical compositing made by ILM for the SW Trilogy - it is perfect to illustrate the point I was always trying to make about how digital recompositing destroys the artistic integrity of the FX shots, even if it uses the same elements, because the method and quality of the optical compositing was a huge part of the original effects.

The I.B. Prints of Star Wars don't have chromatic aberration either as far as I can tell - I would guess that by the 1970s the precision of the technique was such, that there was no aberration.

And that is an absolutely wonderful article by the way!

Well, I for the most part ignore the prequels but they don't tarnish my enjoyment of the OT in any way, unless I'd be forced to watch the SEs with all the prequel references added in.

I personally don't give a crap about what is and isn't canon. For example, the Sherlock Holmes stories are not exactly canonical, yet it makes no difference to my enjoyment of them.

And as for Star Wars, I for example love the Thrawn Trilogy but if Ep7 doesn't take it as canon, it's not going to do anything to my enjoyment of those books and, if it's any good, of the movie either.

Coldblackice said:

eldiablosuizo said:

unless there were some serious effects genius around these parts.

*All eyes in the room look to Harmy*

 I'm flattered, but I'd say Adywan is the real VFX wizard around here :-)

Very cool!

I don't know, I never expected the prequels to be about anything else but it didn't need to be the sole focus - it may have been better as Obi-Wan's story, with the fall of Anakin as just a smaller part of that story.

Yes, that would be ideal. Then people could do their own encoding if they wanted to fit it all on one disc.

Yeah, unless the bitrate is like super high, which I doubt it would be, there's no point really.

It will be the same. This is what I said from the beginning.

It's ok, I never expected to hear back from everyone; I of all people understand that other more important things can come up :-)

OK, so far, I've got feedback on the scripts from three people, so I call tomorrow as a deadline for anyone who wants to give me their comments on them and then I'll be sending them out for recording.

The video stream will be exactly the same as the MKV, so I'm definitely sticking with v2.5.

I don't see any reason for confusion (or additional confusion - there will be questions like "what's the difference between the MKV and the BD" either way). It will be the BD release of v2.5, and the v2.5 MKV is kind of like an iTunes or Netflix release - they are not different versions of the film, just different release formats.

Nick66 said:

 What are the current 1.0's of ESB and ROTJ sourced from? 

GOUT + HDTV?

 Yes

The original trio supposedly confirmed:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/star-wars-episode-vii-carrie-fisher-confirms-return-along-with-harrison-ford-and-mark-hamill-29940627.html