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Sir Ridley said:

I’ll upload an uncorrected version when I have time.

Thanks!

My original reasoning for the second wipe was that there was a significant enough time and space gap between the Falcon flying towards the planet and Finn disembarking for it to be weird to have a hard cut, but maybe I’m wrong and it would be better with one.

I would like to take another crack at the color and attempt to match it to the surrounding scenes, but to minimize quality loss it would be ideal to have Ridley’s work without correction.

I think that’s just an issue with there being a mechanical noise at the same moment. Not much to be done about that.
Leia still trips over ‘this First Order’ though, which is a shame.

I don’t particularly care one way or another about the eyebrows, since if he really fell into lava he’d be dead before he hit the surface:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW56dMH0T2s

I notice that you can still see the detail in the red light to the left as well. Very nice.

yhwx said:

A Tetrahedral Holster Pup

I like this.

Since it’s Thanksgiving week, I’ll go ahead and say that I’m thankful that we’re getting a sequel trilogy featuring the original leads and John Williams scores, with likeable new characters and made with a clear love for the original trilogy.

Jim Smith said:

Shopping Maul said:

The bigger issue with the ‘Leia as other hope’ thing is the fact that she simply couldn’t have been an option at the time of Yoda’s original declaration in ESB. When Yoda said “there is another”, Luke was flying off to Bespin to rescue Leia - the same Leia whose fate Yoda could not see and who Yoda had just encouraged Luke to sacrifice for the greater good. She simply wasn’t an option at that point, sister or no.

Great catch. Yoda does basically want Luke to sacrifice his friends for the greater good and stay on Dagobah to finish his Jedi training. Yoda pulled his line of, “There is another.” directly out of his green ass.

Or Luke pulled the idea of Leia being his sister out of his not-yet-Jedi ass, and Ben just let him believe it.

Here’s the demuxed audio from the deleted scenes, as unprocessed as it gets:
https://mega.nz/#!XAFjnThK!YmNeMUPv07ENlpg66t5sFFjaw7D_ePh3aj0OlonZG4A
The relevant audio sections are at 1:16-1:21 and 4:21-4:36.

Here you go:
https://mega.nz/#!6ctjVQIa!OYbFfKse73xYRWcVTAG-uG05WZwnc_UyXjSkoTXxNIE

I altered the audio of ‘this First Order’ to make it sound like ‘the First Order’, since the original sounded like she couldn’t decide which word to go with.

Also, I don’t know if this is a Vimeo compression thing or not, but the scene looks a lot more blue than Ridley’s grade: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/0B1NNN8U

Sir Ridley, is it possible to upload a version without color correction? I’d like to take a crack at matching it more closely to the other scenes. 😛

That Porg shot really shows the awkward side of practical effects.

Yes, that’s the Blu-ray, though seems like all of the bluray Special Edition shots are even worse than normal in terms of color.

Dre, there seems to be some artifacting going on, especially around the engines and wing cannons in the last bot example.

The first shot had too much blue in the shadows compared to the rest so I tried to make them all self-consistent, though perhaps not consistent with the rest of the base. it’s more ideal than reality on my part, but if Hal wants to make it consistent with the rest of the base that would be just fine. 😃

Very nice indeed.

That fighter take-off shot actually looks really natural on the print, despite the low contrast!

For comparison, here’s the blu-ray (and then some of my own adjustments):
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/WL7NNN8X

The color grading of TFA is a bit of an issue with me (purple skin tones, oversaturation in general) but then again I’ve become hyper-sensitized to that sort of thing in the past few years making me into some sort of freak mutant person.

On the other hand, I’m really liking the look of Ahch-To in TLJ.

Here’s the final version, color corrected and with sound effects throughout (there’s an update in the dialogue only version which occurs at the final shot of the deleted scene):
https://mega.nz/#!PY91zIoA!_oooyXfcSpKP2y5S8ByVFqP21047yLs0dfH3OfS_MN0
Dialogue only:
https://mega.nz/#!Dc1HkZYb!KVlEf_XCOhcVpk74at9xgE48f58SzUrQuswIGl-JB4M
Music only:
https://mega.nz/#!iJkxQKiT!eUUNLx0Pq52bYxgdyD2K1i0fvzyeZjahW0Fv7vCjXTc

Hopefully everything’s all set for the final render now. 😃

This one seems to work perfectly, thank you!

How did they manage to screw up this wonderful color for the Blu-ray?!

I don’t know why it’s not working this time. Perhaps use Lagarith, I can render it from VirtualDub with that just fine.

Hrumph. My Premiere Pro won’t import the avi, says it’s unsupported or corrupted. It’s done this before on certain avi’s, would it be possible to render this with a more Premiere-friendly codec?

J0E said:

At this point, I’m surprised nvjc and Harmy haven’t just removed these entirely.

And what would this accomplish, exactly? Despecialized is widely available from many places, and this would just make it so that profiteering jerks would be the only game in town.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Look at things like the Ghostbusters remake or the Ben-Hur remake

I will continue to defend it. I enjoyed it, I laughed, so that made it worthwhile in my book.

I seem to remember the original Ben Hur wasn’t funny at all.