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Sausage Party.

What a supreme waste.

At the risk of derailment, what would you suggest as the best way to convert a blu-ray to one of Resolve’s accepted video formats?

Are we turning Beru’s haircut into a full-blown conspiracy theory?

I wasn’t trying to imply that the Star Wars Blu-ray looks the same on a monitor as on a TV (or for that matter that a Blu-ray is directly comparable to film), my point was that there’s a known software problem that makes certain programs misinterpret the Blu-ray colors, and that if you avoid this issue you can get frames from the Blu-ray looking consistent to each other, even if they’re not comparable to TV broadcast. VLC in my experience manages to not screw up colors too badly, so it’s a workable way for most people to export the frames.

I wish I could contribute, but I’m quite poor right now. I hope you get the funding you need.

The movie was really good, better than the first for me. Then again, I didn’t care for Blade Runner since it felt like it was 4 hours long. This one felt long, but not terribly so. The only thing a bit lacking was the score.

The frontier was in the DNA of our country for a long time, and to a certain extent still is judging by the number of TV shows about Alaska. The problem is that the rest of the country is well and truly domesticated, so guns are not necessary for the vast majority of the populace to remain safe - gun ownership is now technically a hobby for most of the US population.

And I would disagree that rights can only be won through violence - see Gandhi, Martin Luther King, the women’s suffrage movement, etc. Anything won through violence can be lost through violence. And there are rights other than the right to bear arms - the right to life among them. If one right infringes on another, which one should be honored? Do we accept the deaths of thousands of people each year as fair sacrifice for our right to own weapons?

Tyrphanax said:

considering we’re not yet at the point that we don’t elect dangerously insane senile old white men into the highest office in the land, I’d kinda like to hold onto that kind of right, personally.

I find this extremely convenient reasoning, seeing as how the right wing was responsible for electing this ‘dangerously insane senile’ old white man.

SparkySywer said:

No green Lightsabers until Return of the Jedi. All PT Jedi have blue lightsabers.

I’ve always loved this idea, but keep in mind how difficult it’s gonna be to get the color exact. I tried to do this in my fanedits but the former-greens never looked close enough.

There’s a simple fix for this.

Black and white Prequels!

Someone on the Fanedit forums also mentioned the problem, and there are several places where it feels quiet. The first is Ben’s scene, where I had to crank up the volume to hear the additional music and the voices. Then it goes quiet after 3PO’s storytime, and I think it only returns as the fighters enter the superstructure.

It’s been one of those years.

Good work.

One thing to keep in mind with the Channel Mixer - the values for each channel must equal 100, or the color will either clip or be too low. Therefore, if you want to add blue for example, the Curves Adjustment is the best way to do that.

To continue the idea of adding gore, extend the scene of Vader helmetless in his pod. His arm is essentially rotting underneath his armor, so several spindly droids are adding additional robotics to his suit. This establishes that he’s falling apart even as he’s climbing the military ladder, and provides a ticking clock to his quest to recruit Luke.

Add many more Wampas to the Wampa lair, so that Luke is forced to flee instead of taking shelter in the cave.

Make the mouth of the asteroid worm more cavelike, with things that look like stalactites and stalagmites instead of teeth. Make the exterior of the beast more eldritch as well, and less like a hand puppet.

Have a ton of small spaceships leaving Cloud City to cover the Falcon’s escape as the evacuation proceeds. The cloud cars hold off the TIE fighters while they rescue Luke, but are destroyed after buying them just enough time.

It looks good, but you can see what I mean about the clipped highlight values if you look at the cloud right above the figures. The brightest part has no more detail in your comparison.

Here’s what I came up with:

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/7Y7NNN8X

Keep in mind I have no idea how this shot is supposed to look, but if you’re just going for a neutral color scheme, find areas that are supposed to be white, gray, and black, and correct them to be neutral. The black dress, the gray crosses, and the white side of the church are good points to keep in mind.

The first version has a reddish cast and a greenish sky, and is the most out-of-balance to me. The second one is better, but it still has a slight reddish cast to the ground and sky. What I did was use a curves adjustment in Photoshop, bringing up the brightness and lowering the red slightly. And that’s it, really.

Perhaps I should get in the habit of posting the way we treat spoiler warnings here, except for lengthy deconstructions of the Star Wars sequels and ROTJ. Call it Simple Pleasure Destruction Warning or something. 😉

Using levels in Photoshop can be effective, but if you move the left or right hand sliders you’re almost guaranteed to lose information. The reason is that even if you don’t see any detail in the highlights it’s still likely that there is some detail there. A much safer way of changing the highlights and shadows is to use an RGB curves adjustment. After shifting the overall curve, you can go into the individual color curves to fine-tune the adjustment.

If you’re using Photoshop, I’ve occasionally found the Color Balance tool to be helpful.

As for getting a particular gradient to a certain hue, the Channel Mixer is a powerful tool. Since the primary color of skin is red, you can adjust the hue of the skin tones by adding/subtracting green and blue to/from the red channel. Green carries much more luminosity information than blue or red, so if you add green to the red channel you’ll get brighter skin tones. It takes practice, and isn’t appropriate for all situations, but it’s very useful.

Very nice!

I suppose if I watched the edit enough times to forget the original elements, but one watchthrough wouldn’t be enough for me.

darth_ender said:

Anyone else think this site and fanedit.org make people scrutinize movies too much and suck the fun out of escapist diversion?

P.S. I love it here, but seriously, that aspect of the culture, it just…

As long as people go beyond simple ‘I don’t like X’ and dig deeper to find the real issues with movies, then I think these sites are important. There are a lot of projects that aren’t too interesting from this standpoint, since they seek merely to remove elements from films deemed ‘childish’, ‘slapstick’, ‘boring’, etc. I find these edits less interesting because I often mentally edit these things out of films anyway, and going to the trouble of actually removing them doesn’t significantly alter the experience.

But edits that seek to craft whole new narratives, like some of the more ambitious Phantom Menace edits, can be viewed as different films entirely. Similarly, something like TFA Restructured can be viewed like an experiment to see how much of a difference one (major) change can have on an entire film. And of course edits which make substantial changes to the effects (Adywan) make the films quite different indeed.

darthrush said:

Everyone should also know that the free program “Megadownloader” bypasses the 5 GB limit quite easily. Just plug the mega link into the program, choose your download location, and your on your way!

According to this, you now have to use a VPN to get around the 5gb limit, and this works with the unofficial program Megadownloader and the official app MegaSync. Is this right?

Anyway, I just finished watching this edit, and it’s quite good!
There are some audio level issues, such as when it goes quiet at around the halfway mark and returns after Vader dies. Other than that, very nice!

Thank you!

I’m working on getting a full comparison gallery uploaded, but there’s 3 more reels to go. Each frame selected shows more than basic color correction, and usually this mean that I’ve used another source for color or detail. When a similar fix is applied to multiple shots in a scene, only a representative sample of the fixed shots are included. Here’s the gallery so far:

Downloadable Comparison Gallery

I don’t need to be stoned to have great ideas about our purpose in the universe, which is why I’ve never touched the stuff. I expect it would just make it worse.

TV’s Frink said:

Canadians are weird.

While this is good wholesome entertainment for Americans, this would be considered good wholesome entertainment by Canadians.

Sickening.

I’m not that dark!

You know, I completely forgot about that.
😛
Well in any case, it would be good to change the Mega link.