NeverarGreat

Jeebus said:

NeverarGreat said:

Sausage Party.

What a supreme waste.

I made the mistake of watching it with family.

I’ve never seen AOTC on film.

It’s weird, looking at this stuff now. When I was younger I thought that the Death Star just hovered above the moon in a northern latitude, since that’s where redwoods grow on Earth. Of course it would be at the equator.

I stand corrected.

That’s some fine disc art.

TV’s Frink said:

I’m not sure what you expected…

I wasn’t expecting much. I got even less.

One real suggestion - remove Ackbar’s first line ‘You can see here the Death Star orbiting the forest moon of Endor’. It’s technically incorrect, since the Death Star must remain above the shield generator. Also, he repeats the info about the forest moon later, so nothing is lost.

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.