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#113077
Topic
Beer: Revisited
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/113077/action/topic#113077
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I have been there many times before but thanks for the heads up. A great place to get beer for sure. I live in Rockford and we don't have one.

Does anyone out there brew their own beer or am I the only one?

It's like you guys read my mind and combined the two forums I go to. Beer and Star Wars. Man is this heaven?
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#112103
Topic
Rotoscoping help
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/112103/action/topic#112103
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I've never really used premiere all that much but I know it's somewhat similar to Final Cut Pro.

I would see if you can export it as a .tiff format. That should give you just a bunch of individual frame that don't lose any resolution.

It's impossible to have a quick fix for making light saber and have them look good. After Effects will make your job a little easier but I have an FX guy to do that so I can't help you with that program. For the light saber stuff I would use Photoshop because that is what I know.

Take the DVD footage and take out the light saber and the glow up the healing tool and clone stamp.

This should give you a clean plate to work with. (this will be the most work too)

Next add a new layer and put a straight white line on it. (hold shift to make sure it straight) I would suggest for this one shot a brush about 8 pixels. I used 10 px for my last photo and it was too thick.

Now this is where I get different for the tutorials I have read. It's more work but it makes the blade look more natural (IMO) I take that white like and make three more layers of it (duplicate layer).

Next I change the color of three of my white blades to blue (or green/red depending on whose saber you are doing).

I take the one white layer and put a blur more filter on it. This will make it look smoother in the end.

Next take the three blue lines (or green/red) and give them a glassine blur filter. I would start with the number of px used for the original blade and get bigger. Sense we used 8px for the blade the first glassine blur I would use would be 8. Then the next layer down I would use a 16px glassine blur. And finally the third blue layer down I would use a 24px glassine blur.

That step is really where you can play with your image a lot as far as blade glow so get that right. It will take experimenting to get the blue color right and to get the glow right.

OK SAVE NOW BECAUSE IT COULD GET MESSED UP!!!

Take the four light saber layers and make them one layer (Merge visible) but make sure the background plate is still a different layer.

switch the blending mode for this layer to screen and go to blending options. Once here give it an outer glow. Also change the color of the glow to the same color used for the glassine blurred blades.

Play around with these setting until you think it looks right. It varies a lot depending on what scene you are using.

Lastly (I haven't tried this personally) try to play with a grain filter so that each frame will have its own grain. This should give each one an independent look so when played back they will look more natural.

This is how I do it but it may be too much work. I think they look good and more importantly I think you may end up with the effect you are looking for.

Hope it helps.
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#112015
Topic
Rotoscoping help
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/112015/action/topic#112015
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Try using a glausian blur in increasing increments. to give the glow a more natural feel.

Example
If the blade is 8 px. wide start with 8 then do 16 and so on until it looks good. It might make it look a bit natural.

Oh and don't forget the use screen as a blending options. It lets more of the background come through.
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#111853
Topic
Info & Help: looking for... other ld-rips to dvd movies ex. blade runner int cut, songs of the south, frighteners dir cut - and much much more...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111853/action/topic#111853
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not really because your cutting about 15 minutes out of evil dead 2 and another 5 out of army of darness. OK so that's like 20 minutes. The first movie is around an hour and 20 plus the hour or so of evil dead2 (after cuts) and another hour and 25 for army of darkness.

Your looking at around 3 hours and 45 minutes

Not too long...
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#111771
Topic
Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/111771/action/topic#111771
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OK so awhile ago I reposted my old covers. I tried to find that post but I couldn't. Anyway in that post I said I might be working on some new covers. Finally today I set out to start and finish them and I did.

The results can be found over here. The only draw back to this is the low quality images I had to work with. So what you see if what you get. Unless someone out there has better images for me this is the final product.

You can see those over here.

http://b.1asphost.com/mackey256/covers.html

Let me know what you think. I might even do more. Perhaps sooner than a year from now too.
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#105994
Topic
Alienware Aurora Star Wars Edition
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105994/action/topic#105994
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I see what you’re saying.

I personally think it's an ugly case. Alienware just doesn't have the style they once had with cases. With all the cases on the market today I would say you were better off finding a cool looking one and hiring an artist to do a paint job for you.

That way you have a true work of art and not a mass produced marketing gimmick.

But again that's just me.

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#105840
Topic
Which did you prefer, the SE or the 2004 DVD edition?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/105840/action/topic#105840
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I have to go with with the 2004 DVD sets on this.

Something weird happened to me just about the time those DVDs came out.

For some strange reason I just stopped caring about what George Lucas does to these movies. I think something snapped in my head. It's like one day I woke up and just went "OK I’m not going to fight it anymore." After that I kind of enjoyed the DVDs. I thought they were a fun time to watch and for the first time sense 97 I wasn't wondering what was changed. I just sort of fell into the movies again and just watched them for fun. I hadn't done that sense I was a kid and it really changed the way I viewed the trilogy. Suddenly I just didn't care.

Now don't get me wrong I still would like to see an official release of the OT on DVD. I mean who here wouldn't but to me at least I’m actually really happy with the DVD sets that are out there. I can watch the OT on DVD if I want to but 9 times out of 10 I’ll pop in the new DVDs.

I still don't care for the Han fire thing or the ghost thing but other than that I was really complacent with the new DVDs. To me most of the changes seemed like a step toward the OT while still moving forward with GL's vision.

call me crazy...