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brash_stryker said:

Falaskan said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Falaskan said:

Mondess122 said:

AuggieBenDoggie said:

From what his Facebook page says, there is not much left to do. So I'd say late summer or sometime this fall. I also suspect that work has already began on ROTJ:R. Maybe we will see a teaser for ROTJ:R on the ESB:R dvd. He had a Teaser for ESB:R on the ANH:R dvd.

However, I'm pretty sure we've been hearing that since late 2012. Not to critique anyone, but don't act shocked if this once again gets pushed to 2016 or a year later. It's almost routine at this point.

 Not to critique either, but it hasn't needed to take this long either.

Oh, yeah? Please explain.

 

The movie's already there...He has no reason to redo every single frame, make Dagobah miniatures, and such. 

 The movie was already there before he did anything to it. He didn't "need" to do anything. Fixing this stuff is the entire aim of his project!

Ronster said:

 *Squints*

"I can't see a thing in this helmet."

Thread over.

Wazzles said:

CatBus said:

What? No mention of spiders? They happen to be the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom, I'll have you know.

 They're not insects.

So they're outlaws as well. Dangerous bastards.

Darth Lucas said:

Ok, so I don't have a perfect working knowledge of super-resolution, but my understanding is it needs two pictures to work and you are using neighboring frames to accomplish this, correct?

My question is, why not use two different souces, such as the GOUT and another laserdisc release and do this using two of the same frames from either source to accomplish the super-resolution process, thus eliminating some of the issues that may come with using neighboring frames?

 Here's a comparison of the various Laserdisc projects: http://www.aptirrelevance.com/otscreenshots/screenshots.php

Each one seems to have slightly different cropping, so you may need image registration software to do this, but none of the laserdisc releases seem to have any of the 'haloing' artifacts of the GOUT (seen around 3PO's shoulders for example).

I've watched Star Wars countless times, but I've only just noticed that there is a massive '94' carved into the wall beside docking bay 94. It always just appeared to be a random design before.

GeeTeeUK said:

Something seemed off to me about Chewie the moment I saw him - then I realised: they seem to have given him black, glassy, ewok-style eyes whereas he used to have people eyes.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice this. I've been banging on to my mates about it but they all think I'm crazy!

Are you looking at the high resolution teaser? Because in that you can pretty clearly see the whites of his eyes.

Drifter1989 said:

Handman said:

PLEASE buy the Blu-rays if you plan on watching the Despecialized Editions. Do NOT support piracy.

Getting the Harmy despeshalized versions on MySpleen is the legit way to get true unaltered versions and they look great even if I use windows media player on my PC and my PC isn't exactily a top of the line machine. MySpleen doesn't exactily support piracy, I think that's why they have the invite system. I got my despeshalized editions through MySpleen. It's if you get it through pirate bay without buying the blu ray versions is the non legit possibly ilegal way. 

It doesn't matter where you get Despecialized from; if you don't have the current official versions, you most certainly are in violation of the fanedit rules.

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.

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.

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.

I'd very much like to see this, these cuts look very reasonable. I wonder though if there's a 2 or 2.5 hour movie in here somewhere. If someone did that without it feeling rushed, it would probably be my go-to version. Severe cuts to most movies would be required, but someone's gotta respect the bladders of the audience!

God I hope that's not what plays before TFA. Awkwardly truncated Williams music would be a rough opening.

1: Those jokes were from Playboy magazine, apparently.

2: My definition of 'clean' in this case is 'free from monstrous depictions of caricatured religious iconography'

:)

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.

http://imgur.com/gallery/662z9ij

And if anyone gives me a skyscraper bunny...they might get a cookie.

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.

^That is really cool. It really feels like a 70's movie with that rear screen projection feel.

ATMachine said:

I liked the first name for Palpatine that David West Reynolds came up with for the TPM Visual Dictionary: "Ethril."

But then again, perhaps the anagram was a bit too on-the-nose. Maybe that's why GL directed him to cut it from the text.

But of course, that would require GL to be subtle and clever.

 What anagram would this be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_CP4SuoTU

Beautiful.

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.

That's so sad. Poor Red 5.

Although the black levels of the Reliance stuff is greatly improved over the Blu-ray, I noticed that the shot of the stormtroopers running down the corridor in the Reliance reel looked very strange. It seems to be much more degraded than the blu-ray, like the film itself is starting to dissolve.

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.

The irony is strong with this idea.

The original concept for these temples was for them to be built out of massive circular blocks of stone stacked on top of each other with spaces between them held apart by those stairstep walls. The method of their construction being I suppose some long lost technology, like some people claim of the architecture of the Inca.

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?