Jackpumpkinhead

i dont know if anyone would be up for it or not, but i have been trying to add hyperspace shots to my edit (due out soon). i didnt know if anyone would be willing to add hyper space to the shot of the transport in AOTC that Ani and Padme are in. i would do it myself, but trying to get the camera to line up right and rendering are really taking a toll on my computer

Codeman said:

Possessed said:

Honestly the only changes I would make are some subtle trims to a few bits of humor that felt unnecessary to me. And that’s not even all the humor. Other than that I thought it was pretty much fantastic.

You sir are spot on.

i also agree with this as well. As far as the destruction of the Hosnian (sp?) system goes, i would also have to agree that it would be better served as happening at the end of the movie.

the only other things i would change are some of the unnecessary call backs, such as Leia mentioning the death star. some of these moments seemed a bit forced (no pun intended).

i would also have to agree with the R2D2 bits. there is absolutely no reason for him to come out of his robot depression. instead just have him be asleep for the entire movie until the end when they need him. you could even keep the lines from 3P0, telling BB8 that R2 is in low power mode. then when they walk away he wakes up revealing that he does in fact have the rest of the map and can help.

did they just print the artwork or did they burn the files too?

Since visiting this site for over 5 years now, I have finally decided to make my own fan edit series for the PT. I have finished my first edit and am working on the dvd cover and disc label. through my research, i have found that applying a paper label to a dvd, or even a cd for that matter, is bad for the disc and can ultimately cause it to become unreadable. so, i have decided to use printable dvd’s to apply my disc art to. however, i do not own a disc printer. without going out and buying a disc printer, for something my wife calls “a waste of time” i now have 2 options:

1. i could take it to a company that that will apply the artwork to my pre/post burnt edit with little to no questions asked (i say this because i am afraid that they won’t do it because they may think that i am trying to do something illegal)
2. i ask one of you friendly fellow fan edit and preservationists, to print my artwork for me.

if anyone has any suggestions, or would be willing to help me out please let me know. thanx

also would it be possible to do a shot of dooku’s ship approaching geonosis.

I think this is a great idea. I too have some experience with FX work (though limited). I may in the future also offer my services to help others as well. I personally think that this thread should just be a place to offer services if you have the means and a place to offer suggestions as well.

as far as suggestions go, I would have to agree with darth_ender. finishing off some of the deleted scenes would be a great resource to this community. I personally would work on some of the PT deleted scenes, especially those found in ATOC. It seems to me that many editors here use the deleted scenes from ATOC more often than not and the Obi-Wan and Mace Windu scene, though has most of the CG work done looks a bit off when they are talking on the landing. the background doesnt seem to really fit with the real life actors very well. if there was someway to make it look better, or even redo the Coruscant background all together that would be great.

also is there any way you could send me the “Floating/spinning Grievous” just by itself. I may use it for my own edit. Unless you have added Grievous to the rest of that scene, ie dooku opening up the hologram.

adywan said:

ElectricTriangle said:

Here we go (though it is mostly a proof of concept and you would probably want to redo it):

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/STAR-WARS-EP-V-REVISITED-EDITION-ADYWAN-Suggestions-now-closed/post/689557/#TopicPost689557

 Thanks, but that isn't the one i was thinking of.

 is this what you are looking for?

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-Prequel-Edit-Problem/post/637425/#TopicPost637425

i also found this too but it seems a bit more tedious 

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-5-1-Audio/topic/10165/

i would love to get a copy, pm me and ill give you my info

so ive checked the spleen and i cant find it. is there a link where i can download this somewhere??

i hate to be "that guy" (*cough Ronster *cough) but is it just me or does 3P0's leg look gold and not silver like is it supposed to be?

this looks like it will be really good. looking forward to it

this looks amazing,i cnant aait for the finished product

This edit seems interesting and very ambitious

i look forward to seeing the completed product.

i have an idea though; i recently decided to do an edit of AOTC that includes a completely newly composited scene of Dooku and Palpatine talking. i think my method might work for you, especially in the scene with Maul and "Sidious".

also i used a voice actor to do some lines for me as well. now i understand that you are trying to hide the identity of Palpatine as the villain, but you could still used a voice actor and garble/distort his voice. that way it is easier to watch those scenes. 

it might also be better to black out Palpatine's face as opposed to blurring it.

just some suggestions

i think this will be a refreshing change.

ben_danger said:

Jackpumpkinhead said:

Also the scene with Dooku and Ob1 never set well with me. first of all it looked ridiculous. Ewan looked like he was hanging from wires and why on earth he would be spinning like that makes no sense to me. were the geonosians trying to induce some sort of motion sickness to torture him???

 Yeah this was always a wasted scene. It could be interesting to move some of the dialogue to the duel at the end of the film, especially with Dooku persuading Obi-Wan to join him. It could add a bit more suspense to the fight when Obi-Wan refuses, and Dooku moves in to kill him.

 Agreed!!

muddyknees2000 said:

 No worries about disagreements. Discussion is what these forums are for. And speaking of which....I couldn't disagree more with the above statement. Star Wars in its very nature is about characters changing their outlook on life....flip-flopping as you say. The core of the 6 film saga has Anakin going from good to bad, and then back to good. Han in ANH at first doesn't give a damn about good causes and the idea of friends....he later changes his way of thinking and saves the day.....becoming one of these heroes he used to scoff at. And then there's Lando.....only looks out for himself, much like Han used to, until he also has a change of heart. In fact, I'd say that grey-area characters are what's most interesting about SW.

EDIT: One of the more interesting bits of AOTC (IMO) was when Dooku expresses regret that Qui-Gon isn't around anymore. I genuinely got a sense that the reckless Jedi that Qui-Gon was (*cough* should have been Obi) might have been a good friend to Dooku, and might have been sympathetic to some of his arguments. It lent more depth to an already dead character. The kind of depth that the PT needed way more of. I felt that it was one of the better character moments in a trilogy populated almost entirely with "people" I couldn't care less about (*cough* Grievous).

 i understand what you are trying to say but...i just feel as though the whole point for ob1 and dooku's conversation was to:

1. give us a "Join me and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son..." moment. but it was poorly executed.

2. try and make us believe that dooku is a good guy because he trained Quigon. but again this falls flat because he isnt a good guy. he is working with the flipp'n sith! he sold his soul to the devil. if he really wanted ob1 to join him, he would have told him then and there who the sith master was and let him go. but instead he stayed the villain and tried to kill everyone.

this isnt anything like han, lando or even vader. its not until the very end of ROTJ does vader turn good. han is at his core a good guy, and is presented as such throughout the movies. lando...well lando is just lando. but dooku is presented as a bad guy, he is always with the bad guys doing bad guy things and never once do any of his actions prove otherwise. so why would you have one short scene, give him a few lines that slightly suggest that he maybe, sort of, kinda, possibly, might be a little good. just to have him sentence our heroes to death 10mins later, pull a red bad guy lightsaber out, mame our heroes and then have full on "we're going to take over the world" conversations with the man we KNOW is evil.

ben_danger said:

That clip is great! Where are the voices sourced from? Are they your own?

 They were not my own. i found a fellow Star Wars Fan on Youtube that does a great Palpatine and Dooku. the best part is he works for free

you can find more of his stuff here:

http://michaelpicher.weebly.com/

muddyknees2000 said:

 I always felt that he was a wasted character as well. However, I much preferred his ambiguity in AOTC over his outright evilness of ROTS. And the fact that they got rid of Lee and replaced him with a CG coughing robot is just another of the many travesties of the PT.

Ever since my first viewing (and there have not been many) of AOTC I have always wished that there was a way to make him an "in-between" of some sort....either a double agent, or a Jedi fallen by the wayside. Never full on evil, OR good. The PT was sorely lacking in interesting characters that we care about or identify with, and I think Dooku could have been one of them if only made just a little more tragic. I had envisioned a situation where Anakin kills him (possibly after his appearance in TPM and AOTC.....I really like the idea of shifting his roles into the other films as he serves zero purpose in ROTS), and then finds out that he was in fact working for the Jedi, and that the Jedi WERE aware of a plot to take over. Anakin struggles with the fact that he killed a good guy, and then in a nice twist he admits to someone that he actually ENJOYED killing him. This would be a nice throwback to the idea of him actually being seduced by the dark side. Therefore Anakin's struggle (instead of being tricked into joining Palpy) is all about wanting to be good, and to be loved by his friends, but also desirous of the feelings of power that evil acts can enable. We all know how that particular struggle ends, but it would be far more entertaining to watch him fight his demons than get bamboozled by Palpatine.

As far as the character of Dooku is concerned, I have never liked how he was constantly viewed as an on again off again villain. IMHO i think Lee was under used. star wars isnt about politics and double crosses. this isnt a mission impossible movie. its star wars, where villains are villain and good guys are good guys. in my view, Dooku is the villain of AOTC. the flip flop of the character makes no sense at all. especially since he is just a blatant bad guy in ROTS.

Also the scene with Dooku and Ob1 never set well with me. first of all it looked ridiculous. Ewan looked like he was hanging from wires and why on earth he would be spinning like that makes no sense to me. were the geonosians trying to induce some sort of motion sickness to torture him???

as a result i decided to make this clip for my own edit. make dooku the bad guy, make palpatine the one that ordered the hit on padme (because she is the loudest voice against the republic army) and introduce Dooku earlier in the film (i know Jar Jar is in the beginning of the scene, but this will ultimately be placed just after padme talks with palpy and the jedi; possibly after anakin and ob1 talk to her, i haven't decided yet). Thanks for the positive words. im not 100% disagreeing with MuddyKnees, but i hope that if i ever finish my edit, everyone will understand what i am trying to accomplish. 

So this thread got me thinking about 8 months or so ago. i really liked the idea that Dooku should be shown earlier in the film. IMHO i also think that Dooku should also be made a villain from the beginning. no more of this "is he bad or is he good" crap, when ROTS just straight up makes him bad. it is unnecessary to the story. going with that idea i also feel as though the scene when obiwan and dooku talk is rediculous as well. why would dooku just not tell obiwan that palpatine is the bad guy and end it all? then absolutely nothing is done with this information later in the film or in ROTS. with those ideas in mind i worked on this little project for my own edit and hope that something similar will be done with Ady's version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9MtRYmqkRc&feature=youtu.be

lemme know what you all think

This is really good. I was thinking of doing something similar but in order of how the actual movie is to go. According to spoilers and what is on the internet, many of the scenes you have put together are out of order. but regardless, this was neat to see. nice work.

kk650 said:

Thanks for keeping everybody updated Jackpumpkinhead! If there's interest I could create a 8gb release of The Phantom Menace V2 as well.

I have just uploaded the new regraded and regrained V2 release of The Phantom Menace to myspleen. V2 regraded releases of Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith will be following very soon, as will the Empire Strikes Back Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2. I hope you all enjoy what i've done with these latest V2 regraded releases :)

 i would totally be interested in an 8gb version. i am personally using your versions for an edit i am planning on doing. i am starting with AOTC. so maybe ill wait for your regraded version to hit myspleen before i start.

hopefully we get a 16gb version of this for those of us with little space on our HDD

;D

Update from tehparadox:

kk650 presents: Regraded The Phantom Menace Regrained Edition V2

 

 

Technical Specs:

 

Name: Regraded The Phantom Menace Regrained Edition V2

 

Size: 22.8 GB

 

Video: 1920x824 H264 23.976

 

Audio Track: English DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1

 

Subtitle Track 1: Alien Subtitles in English

 

Subtitle Track 2: English Subtitles

 

Subtitle Track 3: Spanish Subtitles

 

 

With this V2 release of The Phantom Menace, as well as adding grain to make the film look more filmic, I have also regraded the film to remove the constant blanket red tint found throughout the whole blu-ray.

 

The overly red sunburnt fleshtones of the blu-ray have also been adjusted to closely match the more natural fleshtones of the Star Wars Semi-Specialised Edition V2.2, making this film more visually appealing and consistant with the latest Semi-Specialised Editions. Like the Star Wars Original Trilogy, The Phantom Menace was also shot on film, as will be the new Star Wars films coming out thankfully. Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith were both shot on digital.

 

 

Like many, I was unhappy with the all the DNR (Digital noise Reduction) that the official blu-ray of The Phantom Menace had that scrubbed away lot of the detail, making everybody in the film look very waxy, so I decided to try and see if I could reverse the DNR by adding some film grain myself. 

 

By adding some fine grain to the transfer, I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of detail that I was able to recover that I hadn't even noticed before on the blu-ray. All this detail that had been hiding beneath the DNR had just come right up to the surface, making this new regrained version of The Phantom Menace look more filmic, as it should do because it was shot on film, but more detailed as well, all considered, a big improvement over the original blu-ray transfer IMHO, especially when viewed in motion.

 

I hope you like what i've done here. Please post back here with your thoughts or even a simple thanks, it would be really appreciated :)

i dont know if this has been discussed or not, but i would like to see Zam Wessel get replaced by Aura Sing. i have no idea why Lucas chose to create such a cool looking character for TPM just to never bring her up ever again.

TV's Frink said:

Lord Haseo said:

Okay mom

 I didn't carry you everywhere for nine months, wake up in the middle of the night to feed you with my own milk, clothe you, bathe you, protect you, and teach you manners just so you could grow up into a disrespectful teenager.  Go to your room!

 i love this! lol

 realize that the comment i made was not about ESB, however Ady himself kind of opened it up when he posted those comparison pics here. yet no one told him he was off topic. if we are gonna drop the hammer down on every person that strays from the main topic, then we have to be consistant. i'm not upset, i'm just throwing that out there. however, this has been the most action this thread has seen in the past few weeks so, i'm not sorry (c;

man this looks amazing! I cant wait to see the final product

This looks great!