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#764390
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Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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13las said:

Haha! Wow, I just spent a good ten minutes looking for pictures to make a comparison before I understood what you meant. Okay, so did they look digitally altered to anyone else? Please tell me I'm not crazy.

 You're not crazy.

That said, they look normal to me, and I have no idea why they would digitally alter them.

I think that this trailer may be better than the one for Episode 1, and that's saying a lot. I've watched it a dozen times already.

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#764305
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Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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I'm avoiding the spoiler thread, but I don't think the new trailer has any new surprises that people wouldn't know if they've seen the leaked concept art several months ago. So I'll just give my first impression.

First, JJ plays it safe, with numerous nods to the original trilogy. Those are appreciated, but what's really exciting for is the new ship and armor designs in action. Digging the more aggressive Empire and the general sense of a lived in yet not excessively cluttered universe. The atmosphere is good, the style is good, but of course these are things that we know JJ can do well. The big question is not whether he can set the scene, but whether he can tell a story that rises above mere fan service and nostalgia for the past.

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#764049
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Star Wars GOUT in HD using super resolution algorithm (* unfinished project *)
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DrDre said:

Inspired by the discussion with RU.08 I decided try to reduce the noise. It appears that due to the high resolution of the upscale, much of the noise inherent to the upscaling method can relatively easily be removed using an advanced filter, without a significant detail reduction. Here are some comparisons between the noisy and denoised SRV3: 

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/122096

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/122097

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/122098

Here are the comparisons with the Avisynth Spline64Resize:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/122116

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/122117

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/122118

The noise is now generally less than for the Avisynth Spline64Resize and less than for the source material. 

Here's a denoised video sample:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8_LYKyZDiajY1YwNGFHZmdEZUU/view?usp=sharing

The detail is retained, but the cost has been reduced. Thanks to RU.08 for keeping on the pressure. ;-)

These are some great comparisons. I was concerned about the 'double haloing' effect that the noisy SRV3 had on the source, but the denoised version does seem to minimize or eliminate that. Could you post similar comparisons for the shot of Leia on the Tantive for example, I'm really interested in how this changes the distortion in the eyes of characters, since the previous one tended to add artifacts in the iris especially.

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#762218
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my ESB Grindhouse Fan Colour Correction (Released)
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bttfbrasilfan said:

So, I just made a color correction LUT for the Grindhouse release in DaVinci Resolve. It's a quick solution to fix some color degradation problems and can be applied in almost every modern video editor, like Premiere or Final Cut.

Here are some examples with before/after comparisons: http://i.imgur.com/0w17vDs.jpg

And here's the LUT for download:
https://mega.co.nz/#!hsBDHKKY!kuTxtlqZf2lc9UG8iPjx-_rO3_L7FOd-CwGt6fD9cdE

I am not quite satisfied with this results yet because I think it degrades the greens a little too much (see Bobba Fett).
I will give more details of how I did it later so that people with more experience can try to do it better than I did.

Your example is on the left, my tinkering is on the right. I agree that there is a bit too much blue in the shadows of your examples, but other than that I'd say it's pretty spot on.

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#761967
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Star Wars Digital HD Release .... April 10th
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I was just comparing some frames from the A New Hope trailer posted on Youtube with the Bluray, and it seems like the color has deteriorated even further, with any remaining yellows drained out of the picture. It may just be the conversion however. There are also some odd details that appear in the trailer that don't appear to be in the blu-ray, despite the lower bitrate of the trailer, and details visible on the Blu-ray that are erased on the trailer. It's very odd, almost like they took another crack at the noise reduction algorithm and sharpening, though I don't know why they would.

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#759200
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Star Wars GOUT in HD using super resolution algorithm (* unfinished project *)
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DrDre said:

I added a fair comparison: precise bicubic (A = -0.75) vs super resolution

The differences are subtle, but you can see more detail in the eyes, eye lashes, hair in the super resolution one. You could try sharpening the bicubic, but this would also increase the grain/noise.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/118152

 I still notice pixelation around Leia's mouth.

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#758547
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Star Wars GOUT in HD using super resolution algorithm (* unfinished project *)
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It does seem like you've gotten a bit more real detail out of the GOUT, and when I color corrected it to match Team Blu's latest version, it seems that in terms of real detail, yours has the edge in several respects. The Team Blu version tends to smooth out some detail while exaggerating it in other places, whereas your upscale reveals detail without the distortion common to sharpening. However I did notice some aliasing issues in the video, where a smooth gradient in the GOUT may be noticeably more jagged and pixelated in your upscale. I don't know if it's an encoding issue or if it's in the raw file.

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#756051
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StarWarsLegacy.com - The Official Thread
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Well there are two shots in the film that use the same three X-wings. The first shot just adds another one and the Y-Wings. I assume that Reliance shot is of Luke's trench run.

JEDIT: It cuts in the same place as in the original for the shot of Luke and co.

Speaking of, do you ever recruit detail from different shots that nevertheless have copied elements, such as this one?

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#755865
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Parroty Thread
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The Grouted Sink Thread

Prenatal Figures in Star Wars

The Return of the JEDI APPRECIATION THREAD

Star Wars Cutouts

TOOT

The Dog Says...

Did any of you walk to the theater for any of the Star Wars Prequels?

The Star Wars movies contain evidence that George Lucas makes it up as he goes

Can someone hurry up and comply with my oddly specific fanedit demands?

Food Goes In Here

Obi-wan: Supercut

"Best thread title EVER."

Holy Roman Empire Strikes Back Discovered

Magnets: How do they work?

So I just hate sex for the first time.

Overfapping to text

The Line Spacing Preservation Thread

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#755124
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How would you work with the original plan that Star Wars was going to be 12 films?
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The Original trilogy stays the same.

The events of the prequel trilogy need not change and in fact the prequels as they exist now need not change in any way to exist happily with these revised prequels. However, the focus of the stories should be on a new group of characters, with Anakin and Obi-wan featuring in the story only briefly. The theme of the prequels is primarily one of establishing the universe of Star Wars, thus it remains quite basic. There is a war between clones and droids, yet this is merely a backdrop for a smaller struggle for survival going on throughout this tumultuous time. The story follows a crew of space pirates, reduced to scavenging the battlefields of the galactic war. One of these is a young girl who rescues Anakin who has frozen himself in carbonite to prevent a battle injury from claiming his life. Through this encounter, he instructs her in how to be a pilot, a primary theme of the trilogy. Later on, she starts to come to terms with the idea that she may in fact have some power in the force, and her psychic connection with Anakin drives much of her decision making in the films. Having rescued Anakin and rejoined her companions in Episode 1, she joins the Republic in Episode 2, flying a stunt fighter under the command of another Jedi. Then the clones turn on them with the issue of order 66, and she flees into hiding with this Jedi. Episode 3 takes place in the aftermath of the Jedi Purge, where she tests her mettle against the murderer of Anakin, Darth Vader, and there is one final stand to protect the secret location of the child of Anakin (In these, Vader is not revealed to be Anakin, the existence of Luke's twin sister is yet unknown, and Yoda is hardly if ever mentioned).

In the sequel trilogy, it is revealed that the emperor in Return of the Jedi was just a clone, drawing the Rebellion into an inescapable trap where they were almost completely wiped out after the battle of Endor. The true emperor remains at large, and Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, and C-3PO are all dead or destroyed on Endor. Luke, Leia, and R2 flee the carnage in the Imperial shuttle, and Luke tries to train Leia in the ways of the Force.

The sequel trilogy opens with a new crew of characters, one of them being the son of Han and Leia. There are numerous revelations about the Force in this trilogy. One is that Luke and Leia are not brother and sister. Obi-wan had no knowledge of the 'other' that Yoda referred to, and so he could only trust Luke's intuition in that situation, which was wrong. Another revelation is that anyone can train in the ways of the Jedi, and the dogma that the Force runs in families is a lie perpetuated by the Jedi to keep their power consolidated within a small in-group. However, ability in the Force is fostered much more easily when a Jedi can use their powers of suggestion to make the trainee believe that they have ability, and they even use their powers to accomplish feats for the trainee. This is a closely guarded Jedi secret, one that is lost to Luke until it is too late. For he cannot train Leia to be a Jedi, as her mind is too strong to be manipulated. Here then is the great weakness of some Jedi trained later in life: they are essentially weak-minded. This is why children are taken by the Jedi at such a young age, when their mental powers are still forming, and why Luke was able to be trained even when an adult. With these revelations, Han's son embarks on his own quest to understand the Force, and these revelations will lead to a new clone war with the Force itself used as a weapon of mass destruction.