NeverarGreat

I’d be down for a fairytale Star Wars story.

You’re welcome! I wouldn’t consider my work to be in the same league as Adywan, though I suppose our projects both proceed at a similar glacial pace 😉

On that note, my computer’s primary hard drive died last Friday, and I’ve just gotten everything back up and running. My project files are stored on two external drives, so I didn’t lose any of the work for this project, but all of my editing software was lost along with over a month of journal entries. On the plus side, the replacement drive is almost twice the size of the original, so there may be a noticeable increase in editing performance going forward.

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Budgie Smugglers

FVDnz said:

With speculation that Hayden Christiansen may return in The Last Jedi to reprise Force Ghost Anakin, will he remain at the end of ROTJR?! I know Adywan intends on reinserting Sebastian Shaw and all, but at the end of the day, he’s still not regarding the Sequel Trilogy is he? Maybe recreate a more decent looking Force Ghost version of Hayden compared to what we got recently possibly…

I can’t imagine that this is within the realm of consideration for TLJ.

I wonder if this is from a 35mm scan or a promotional image, considering how bad the Blu-ray looks:

Blu-ray:

moviefreakedmind said:

I haven’t read it. Vox just has a history of getting almost everything wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luTPMHC7zHY&t=0s

This just popped up in my video feed, and I thought that since you were such an expert, you could tell us how they got ‘almost everything wrong’.

Thanks! This scene’s locked, move on to the next one.

The garage scene is just about finished. I decided to use the detail from the SE and the color from the '77 version for the Leia Hologram, in keeping with the stated goals of the project:

Comparison

In case anyone’s keeping track, this puts my progress at:

Reel 1: Preliminary Grade 100% - Finalized 100%
Reel 2: Preliminary Grade 90% - Finalized 30%
Reel 3: Preliminary Grade 100% - Finalized 90%
Reel 4: Preliminary Grade 100% - Finalized 100%
Reel 5: Preliminary Grade 100% - Finalized 93%
Reel 6: Preliminary Grade 85% - Finalized 85%
Total Preliminary: 95.8% - Finalized 83%

Mocata said:

Guess this will do for an introduction, but I’m not sure what this really means any more. Star Wars in a way has been my number one interest for probably 20-plus years. We used to read the old Technical Journal book and play Dark Forces II. I had the Empire soundtrack on a copied cassette tape. I had my favourite minor alien characters in action figure form. But Star Wars isn’t what it used to be, and after growing out of the phase in which The Phantom Menace was an acceptable movie to watch things get hazy.

Those original three films are still fresh in my mind of course, and I don’t have to watch the GOUT anymore, thank the maker. But these days it’s becoming a bigger franchise than I care for; perhaps it’s age but the latest instalments are merely passable. People say you’re not a fan for this. But then again people like Revenge of the Sith. What does being a Star Wars fan mean? I don’t know. I’m a fan of Star Wars, it was an indy film that came out in the late 1970s.

Welcome to the forums!

Sorry about the mess. . . .

Cool 😃

dahmage said:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/army-grant-easement-dakota-access-pipeline/story?id=45330548

trump doesn’t think the pipeline is controversial. Can any reasonable person justify that line of “thinking”?

It’s just one misrepresentation after another from Trump. In the case of the Keystone XL pipeline, it would create 35 permanent jobs: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/01/27/pipeline-backers-make-big-promises-about-jobs-growth.html

The Dakota pipeline would probably create even fewer permanent jobs.

The idea that a pipeline would create more jobs is absurd on its surface, since that oil would be transported via truck, train, or ship into the US without the pipeline, and these methods would employ many more people.

And in what universe is this pipeline uncontroversial? It was literally stopped by thousands upon thousands of protesters in a nationwide outcry. The fact that he seems to be so uninformed about the pipeline protests is damning evidence that he lives in his own bubble surrounded by a force-field of alternative facts.

Hal, have you had time to reorder the Resistance scenes?

DrDre said:

Mavimao said:

DrDre said:

Mavimao said:

Williarob said:

Mavimao said:

If I’m not mistaken, if the Bluray were GOUT synced, one could apply these colors easily, right?

No, it’s not a matter of being sync’d. The GOUT appears to have had a single color correction applied to it, which allows us to apply a single LUT to correct the whole film. For example, if the GOUT is 10 points too red, it is 10 points too red on every frame, therefore we can apply a universal correction to reduce the red by 10 points and the whole film will look better.

On the blu-ray, the colors are all over the place, so this sort of universal correction will only improve some of the shots, while making others look worse. While the whole blu-ray can be greatly improved with a single LUT (as JawsTDS proves here http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1042832, it would not be possible to match the colors of all the shots in a single pass).

No, I get that. What I’m saying is that I thought that Dr Dre was going to do a one pass LUT with the GOUT and THEN export a shot by shot LUT. With this shot by shot LUT, you can take any GOUT synced video file and have it come out like the technicolor.

Yes, that would certainly be possible, but you would also have to contend with many of the color issues (missing gradients, and is some cases missing colors), that NeverarGreat has tackled for his bluray regrade.

Right, gotcha. So your shot by shot LUT would work best on neutral scans so to speak?

As they say: garbage in is garbage out. The bluray is a big challenge due to the many issues with the bluray color grading. It’s no wonder NeverarGreat’s regrade is many years in the making. I suspect he would have been finished with it much earlier, if he didn’t have to fight an uphill battle.

Yeah, there is no easy way to fix the Blu-ray except for shot by shot. I tried for over a year to create a single LUT for the entire film, but once you account for every problematic color shift, the colors start to lose their natural variation and tend towards a few ‘safe’ gradients.

Even though R2 and C-3PO have been in Episodes 1-7, the purpose of using them as the audience point of view only really existed in the OT. The PT and TFA have mostly relegated them to the role of ‘lighthearted banter’. I see BB-8 fulfilling the audience POV role much more than the duo going forward.

suspiciouscoffee said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

I was listening to the Jedi soundtrack the other day, and I thought, “wouldn’t it be kind of quirky if we heard the soundtrack version of Lapti Nek playing in a bar or on the radio in a future Star Wars movie?” Like a polished, studio cover of the cult Max Rebo Band hit.

Not a movie, but they did that in Battlefront II way back whenever that was. It played somewhere in Mos Eisley. There’s nothing as great in that game as slaughtering your enemies left and right to the sound of Lapti Nek.

That’s definitely on my list of easter eggs and things to include if I’m ever in charge of a Star Wars movie.

Also on the list:

• Jaxxon
• Fake-out starfield at the opening (starfield not actually being a starfield, but something like this, as I almost thought might happen in TFA upon watching the trailer:

)

One of my prequel scripts had the opening shot pan down from a ‘vast sea of lights’ onto a dark underground lake, with the bioluminescent algae from above reflected in its waters.

The continuity issue arises from the fact that during the briefing they reference ‘Snap’s reconnaissance data’, which implies he’s off getting that data during these scenes.

It’s normal speed, far as I can tell. Perhaps you’re feeling the brevity of the scene, which is why I tried to splice two scenes into one.

NeverarGreat said:
Also, there may be a way to rearrange the scenes in this area of the film for greater effect. If after ‘I need you to tell me all you know’ we cut to Rey’s interrogation, it continues that info-gathering theme. Then, since Kylo’s questions are about Luke’s location, cutting directly back to Leia examining BB-8’s map after Kylo’s temper tantrum continues the Luke theme. The Resistance base scenes continue until ‘The report on the enemy base is coming in’. Having Han and Leia’s talk about Kylo after he has just been unmasked may now have more emotional effect, since we can put a face to their discussion. Then we cut to Hux’s demonstration. The audience learns the capabilities of the weapon just as Leia does, and after this the film progresses as normal.

This has the added benefit of allowing for more time between Finn (presumably) telling Leia the location of the Starkiller and the reconnaissance flight which results in highly detailed scan data.

Considering this reordering, there is a potential place for the deleted scene directly after Kylo’s tantrum. Here is the work in progress placed at this point in the reordered scenes:
https://vimeo.com/202498216
Password: resist

JEDIT: Including Snap in the scene creates a continuity problem, so the first part may have to go.

http://www.theonion.com/article/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-federal-govern-55219

And they say satire is dead in this administration.

https://qz.com/898134/what-steve-bannon-really-wants/

A fascinating interpretation of Steve Bannon, now one of the most powerful men in the world.

DominicCobb said:

Look closely at the missile picture: http://web.archive.org/web/20170202210342/http://www.drudgereport.com/

I see nothing unusual about it except for the repeated bomb - bad photoshop work there.

That crawl is absolutely wonderful.

Tobar said:

DrDre said:

pittrek said:

Am I really the only one who LOVES the greens?

Nope, I love’m too. 😃

I just noticed that everyone behind Luke rolls their eyes at him, like, where were you when we were fighting the Empire, doing handstands with a frog?

Perhaps the reasoning behind Trump’s authoritarian actions is not so much that he is authoritarian as much as he is merely incapable of being a politician. Politicians such as George W Bush, Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton moved to more moderate, centrist positions during their campaigns (there wasn’t far to go with Hillary), and the reason for this was to appeal to a broad swath of the electorate. That is the purely expedient reason for moderate positions, but from the standpoint of a professional politician, it is their job to represent all of their constituents. Certainly this gives rise to the caricature of the two-faced lying politician, but the profession of politics requires politicians to be all things for all people, at least in appearance. Donald Trump apparently doesn’t recognize this imperative, and appears to represent nobody except for his fanciful imaginary self. He is the product of a hyper-partisan political environment where being a standard politician is not just passe, it’s a death sentence. Now not only the Republicans, but also some Democrats are beginning to see that they will quickly find themselves out of a job if they make deals with ‘the other side’, regardless of how reasonable these deals may be.

In the broader sense, it’s frightening to someone like myself who leans liberal (along with about half of the country) to see the liberal voices in our government so completely out of power. It wasn’t always this way. Even back in the ancient past of the Obama administration, there was still an attempt by the majority party to achieve bipartisan support for legislation, even if the opposition stonewalled them at every turn.

On a state level, I would often research all of the candidates for North Carolina office, regardless of whether they had a D or an R next to their names. I even voted for a few Republicans based on their individual merits. However, since the power grab by the Republicans after the election of a democratic governor, I cannot in good conscience vote for anyone with an ‘R’ next to their name in a state election, if this is the Game of Thrones style politics that they employ. It saddens me to do this, and this has been happening throughout the country of late.

There is cause for optimism, perhaps. I hope that this hyperpartisanship, driven by extremely biased voters being fed by information echo chambers of their own creation, is merely the effect of the breakdown of the monolithic US media that began in the 50’s. People now know that they can choose their news outlets, their view of the world. There will always be bastions of ignorance and false narratives in this nation, there always have been. Conspiracy theories are sometimes right, such as the massive surveillance by the NSA which vindicated the tin-foil hat folks some years ago. The prevailing narrative is sometimes wrong, such as predictions of Hillary’s victory last year. But perhaps more people will become united in their understanding that ALL news is worthy of skepticism, and work together for a nuanced and mature understanding of issues.

Or we could just squabble over every slight and be filled with righteous indignation at everything ‘the other’ is doing to this great nation, thus justifying our own position. That’s cool too.

I don’t understand any of the decisions that were made.