Fair enough, it's still great work :-)
Sadly the YouTube compression muddles it a bit. Once you have a version you'd like to call final, you could maybe upload a less compressed clip to some filesharing site.
I'd say it's just a standard procedure regarding copyright and wouldn't read too much into it. I'm glad I've downloaded them all while they were still up :-)
Nicely done, although the contrast and colors of your clean up are a bit too strong for my taste.
Maybe the Rebels weren't sure how the reactor core of the Death Star could be destroyed... so they brought a boarding party, just in case they had to get out of the Falcon and plant any explosives by hand.
I've made a quick edit of the Bunker Raid scene:
I think the reason is more about synching up the recording... with the film strip flying past the camera in real-time (let's assume the "normal" speed of the projector is 24 fps) the chance of the camera catching the exact moment of the frame being stopped in front of the lens is pretty slim. Having both run at a lower frame rate allows them to be synched up perfectly. But that's only wild guessing on my part now...
Harmy said:
Oh, right, so you're not actually recording on the camera itself. What if you used an HD camera and did record it straight on it? You could probably even just rent one.
I guess that won't be possible as the recording is done at like 8 frames per second (was it something like that?), which isn't a normal recording speed of any camera.
My awesome? Thanks! ;)
The process was pretty straight forward... just matching the tilt of the crawl by eye (assuming a 35mm lens seemed to be correct), and matching the text, letter by letter, to the underlying SD-crawl:
As you can see, the lines don't match exactly in position, but that's due to the footage being warped, which I didn't want to match. Speed and position are basically a 95% match.
The logo is taken from "Das Imperium schlägt zurück" (it's exactly the same, including the warping) and hand animated to match the ROTJ-logo's motion:
As these are first and foremost meant to be used with Harmy's version, all the final touches were made at 720p res, but all the ground work (the crawl itself and the title cards) are at 1080p, so a FullHD-version is definitely possible. Also I think I can re-create the theatrical SW-crawl this way as well.
TheHutt said:
Great job on ROTJ!
BTW, Laserschwert, the German SE crawl for ANH seems to be different from the original theatrical version - the letter spacing is much wider, and harder to read. You might consider re-creating the original German crawl and the old logo, as well. :)
http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=4334040
I know that, of course ;) Also there's more lines in the paragraphs. I've used the SE crawl as my "easy way out", and because I didn't know how well a re-creation from scratch would work. I'm quite happy with the Jedi crawl, so I guess I can tackle the SW one as well.
HERE's my re-creation of Jedi's opening.
And honestly I'm surprised how quickly I managed to re-make the crawl from scratch (took me about 5 hours after Grisan - thanks again - gave me the SE crawl) and it's pretty spot on, if I may say so... I challenge you to overlay the original crawl with mine ;). The only thing I didn't emulate was the warping of the image, as that's clearly a problem of the original crawl (although I did simulate the gate weave jitter, as to me it somehow belongs to the look and feel of optical composites). What I might gonna fix is the umlaut on "RÜCKKEHR" as the Univers font has these more stretched than in the crawl.
Perfect, thanks!! :)
Could anyone who has this upload the German ROTJ-SE-crawl for me? Ideally as a not-recompressed MPEG2 snippet...
I have to agree with dark_jedi here: The worst way to start a project is to admit that you can't do anything and want everybody else to do the work... it's basically a request-thread, if someone ELSE would do this project for you.
Why not try to learn the software needed first (there's a bunch of info in the tech-subforum), think of what you can do by yourself and turn THAT into a project. It's always easier (and more appealing) to have people contribute to an existing project, that could stand on its own without their help as well, but gets better with them.
TheHutt said:
Yeah, that was pretty much my idea in case I'd re-create it, though creating the text from scratch intead of taking the lines from an upscale.
Yeah, sure. I just meant, to use the original lines as a guide for character placement, kerning, etc.
Yep, I fully agree.
Yeah, that was pretty much my idea in case I'd re-create it, though creating the text from scratch intead of taking the lines from an upscale. But first I'll check what an upscale of the ROTJ-SE crawl looks like (it's the theatrical one).
How did he do that?
DarthLucas said:
The German crawls on the HD broadcasts were from some ancient upconverted source that don't even match the rest of the film.
That's not entirely true:
ANH had the crawl from the 1997 SE (in HD)
TESB has the original German theatrical crawl, including a typo that was actually fixed for the SE (in HD)
ROTJ got an SD-upscale of the original theatrical crawl (which was the same in the 1997 SE)
Hey, I got mentioned... in a good way :)
A word of warning: Self-adhesive paper labels suck ass!
I've used them a lot in the past, and nearly all of those discs aren't readable anymore now. It looks like sticking something on one side causes the whole disc to bend slightly (think bimetal, if you remember physics class back in school), making it unreadable. I've peeled the labels back off, and some of the discs were playable after that, so I could rescue some of the data, but I'll be never using that stuff again for sure.
Better get a printer that can print on discs directly (like Canon's Pixma series) and use glossy printable DVD-Rs. They look like factory printed discs after that!
Harmy said:
Oh, I'm so sorry, I was writing a long post which included a link to this in the preserving the german.. thread and my computer froze and I was too lazy to retype the whole thing and completely forgot about it. Here it is:
No problem, and thanks! It works beautifully :-)
Harmy said:
Again, I put the subs in when I was rendering the final output, so no. But I do have some of the test footage, which doesn't have the subs and is nearly finalized - if you used it only to cover up the part where there is the subtitle in the DeEd, it should work fine. Do you want me to upload it for you?
Any update on this? ;-)
Seems to be this one:
HERE's more about it (a bit further down the page, named "Classic Video Box").
Why bother to leave this forum? ;)
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/HI-Res-Poster-Art/post/375668/#TopicPost375668
Painted by the wonderful (late) John Alvin.
Here are overviews of the German releases:
TheHutt said:
(not in TOSB or ROTK!).
The Ompire Strikes Back? Return of the King?
Are you mixing up trilogies here? ;)