Laserschwert

Here's my take on cutting the waterfall-scene, utilizing some ideas from jedi-jra's chase-edit:

http://fileload.us/1053593090-waterfall_cut_divx.avi

I'm doing my current tests in 720p, but I think a good 1080p-rip should at least be the basis for any digital manipulation (except for color-correction). Simple editing can easily be transferred from a low-res source to a high-res source (as long as the frame-count is the same), so I'll edit in 720p and swap the footage as soon as I got a 1080p-version.

I think it's difficult to find a consensus everybody agrees on, so maybe we can just work separately, although sharing work and ideas if necessary. I wouldn't mind sharing my scenes when I do some CG or compositing changes (like with the photo-swap-scene), so you can use them if you want to. As my color-correction would be the final step, I'd share my scenes with the original color intact, so you can color-correct it yourself the way you want to.

I think most of the changes are possible, but I still have to watch the movie again in a full run to know, whether I agree with all of them or not.

I was surprised to see the scene where the gang escapes from those water-gears not having any music... this really feels strange and somewhat takes the danger out of their escape. I've put ToD's "Death Trap"-music under it, and I think it feels much more urgent that way.

HERE is the clip.

HERE's a version with somewhat of a reflection...

Here's the photo-swap in motion:

Version 1

Version 2 ;-)

The photo of Marcus could be replaced with this one:

And the Connery picture with this one:

I don't have a time frame... and I don't have time right now anyway, but I'd like to make and edit of the film.

My aim is to make it match a liiittle more the classic films, in terms of visuals and storytelling. I only have a few ideas right now, no list or anything. While I was color correcting the fight scene, I got the idea to make the fight a little more rough by adding some blood and spit splatters, some blood dripping out of Indy's mouth when he's on the ground and maybe a head wound when he hits the Russian with the branch. When I find time I'll run through the movie and look for other places that might allow for such changes to push the movie more towards the gritty side. Another thing I'd like to re-work a bit is the finale... no details yet though.

You need the latest DivX-codec for it.

I think what hurt the movie's look quite a bit was its grading.

There's a soft-glow over everything, and quite flat contrasts in the mid-tone area. Getting rid of the glow, shaping the contrasts a bit and neutralizing some of the movie's color-tinting might at least give it a bit more of that classic look.

Here are a few comparison screens of my test:

And HERE is the comparison movie.

Tiptup said:

 if you're going to be an asshole,

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later

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Dude, you really need to get layed...

You're a huge fan and want the great effects of the films be changed? Strange kind of fan... ;-)

Is it possible to add more audio-tracks to your encoded stuff? With MPEG2 it's not too difficult - de-muxing and re-muxing - but do BluRay-compatible discs allow this as well?

I really wish there were German audio-tracks on these...

I was planning on doing an edit on KOTCS myself, especially regarding the finale. It always bothered me to see a CGI-alien, so I'll try to get rid of it. Furthermore I felt that Spalko's death-scene wasn't gory enough, so I'm planning on changing or replacing that as well.

As for the UFO... I'm not sure yet. I think it was a little too much, so I'll try to either remove the UFO (and only show the flying debris), or at least cover it up a bit more.