Octorox

Hal 9000 said:

Octorox said:

OTification

 Looks pretty good! What settings did you use to achieve this look, other than grain?

 I've decided I'm going to redo all of the color correction from scratch so I don't have the original project file anymore but the gist of it was increasing/crushing the blacks, desaturating somewhat and shifting from yellow toward magenta in the midtones and highlights to give everything less of a golden sunlight look and more of whiteish look as seen in the OT. I think this shot turned out pretty well but a lot of other scenes I wasn't happy with so I'm going to try some other approach for the final color correction.

On another note, the workprint is now up on myspleen (no color correction or grain yet) For those who might want to check it out but don't have myspleen access, I'm going to upload it to a streaming/sharing site called streamnation, PM me for instructions if you're one of those people.

EDIT: Just realized the Palpatine transformation scene edit is screwed up. Sorry about that, it will be fixed for the final version.

Okay, so I'm going to be making a workprint available in the next day or so. I'll edit this post to let everyone know when it's up. It will probably be on myspleen and on my streamnation

I'd appreciate if anyone would give it a look. I'm basically looking for suggestions and feedback on specific cuts, general flow, audio editing, plot coherency and character motivation etc. Keep in mind, this version is a workprint, and is thus unfinished, as I've outlined below:

Unfinished Video:

• I have not applied any color correction to the Blu-Ray footage.
• I have not yet applied the grain plate.
• I am going to attempt to make the scene with Anakin and Padme on the balcony appear to be at sunset.
• The Palpatine transformation scene is lifted from Hal9000s edit but I want to redo it myself with the original Blu-Ray footage.
• There are a few shots that need rotoscoping, which I don't have the technical expertise to pull off:

1. a shot of Mace in the arena where I want to rotoscope out lightsabers in the background, this was previously done in SD for Attack of the Phantom.
2. In a few shots, I want to rotoscope on Jango's Helmet, so you never see him helmetless.
3. I want to have Dooku's lightsaber retract as he escapes onto his ship

Unfinished Audio:

• Zam and the analysis droids are currently subtitled with no audio. I want to dub over these characters and remove the subtitles.
• A lot of the audio transitions and music cuts are a bit rough. If people could point out where these can be improved, that would be great.
• The audio is currently downmixed to Stereo but the final version will be 5.1
• I want to remove Droid voices similar to what L8wrtr did in his edit
• I want to remove the Wookiee "Tarzan Yell", similar to L8wrtr
• I'd like to use L8wrtr's Boga voice clips
• I'd like to have a Qui-Gon voice clip when Yoda is meditating, similar to Hal9000's version.
• I'd like to redub Jango's one line "Don't move Jedi" with a voice more similar to Jason Wingreen's Boba.
• Stretch Goal: I'd like to completely redub General Grevious with a more menacing voice, reminiscent of his voice in the 2D hand-drawn Clone Wars series.

To those that have these, how do the V3 DVD versions upscaled by a good Blu-Ray player compare to the 720p Blu-Ray versions?

kane1138 said:

pittrek said:

The regraded prequels sound interesting. Would somebody upload it to a certain spleen ?

I'm seconding this request.

So far, only the 8gb version of ANH is on the 'spleen.  I would love to see the 16gb versions.

 thirded, specifically for the prequels, do they sync to the blu-rays?

Any updates on this project?

@lordsidi These are just 1080p HD versions of the 2004 DVDs of these films. They were preserved by combining elements from various HD broadcasts. The video should be clearer because it's in HD but afaik the audio should be identical to the DVDs.

EDIT: Is there any reason the alien subs are burned in on these? That's going to make it difficult to use for my edit.

I'm not really a fan of the rounded corners. I think the film should look as close as possible to a pristine scan of the o-neg, not a theatrical print. That said, it's Harmy's project and he can do what he wants and I'll still watch it regardless.

At the risk of becoming annoying, can anyone give me a myspleen invite for this, so I can use it for my edit? I've tried asking for one on the myspleen forums to no avail.

Hmm, would have to think about that. Would probably go through it shot by shot and bundle anything that would create continuity errors with one another.

Hal 9000 said:

Sounds like fun, though polling in this way could introduce incongruities unless some changes are clustered into packages.

 Yeah, I would probably bundle some changes where it makes sense, I cant think of a good ANH example right but for example the Sarlaac beak in ROTJ, it would just be a yes or no to the beak, not to each individual shot featuring the beak.

This is an idea I’m throwing around, and I may undertake it after I’m finished with my current 3 in 1 prequel edit. The idea is to poll OT members on every single change to Star Wars, from the LDs to the Blu-Rays, and then compile an edit which includes every change that the majority of people are for and omits every change the majority of people are against. Basically a “democratically” semi-specialized edition. I’m not announcing this edit right now, there are still a lot of things to be worked out logistically, but what do people think of the idea? The sources would be:

2011 edition: Blu-Ray

2004 edition: Schorman’s HDTV preservation

1997 edition: Harmy’s Respecialized Edition (upscaled to 1080p)

1977 edition: Harmy’s Despecialized 2.5 (upscaled to 1080p)

As well as a variety of audio mixes

Obviously I would seek out permission from Harmy before undertaking this.

Thoughts?

Harmy said:

I just noticed something interesting when comparing the two - the scene, which was shot on digital (the one where Qui-Gon takes Anankin's blood sample) actually looks better in the HDTV version.

 Interesting. It's a sad day when we have to do fan preservations in order to get high quality versions of the prequels :P

Are there any comparison pics of ROTS? The colors on the blu look good to me so I'm surprised to hear that there's apparently a green tint.

What did you do to the BD in the "tweaked" version, just add a grain plate?

Also, I was mainly asking about ROTS from a color standpoint. I know the colors on the AOTC Blu were severely messed up, but ROTS looks good to my eyes. I was just curious if there are any differences.

Are there any significant differences between the HDTV and Blu-Ray version of ROTS?

So I've just learned that the blu-ray of AOTC is screwed up color-wise, so I'm going to hold off on any color correction until I get a better source. I'd like to check out schorman's version although I'll have to wait on a myspleen invite unfortunately :(

EDIT: the grain there looks much better. Still interested to hear how you'be arrived at the colors.

That's looking really nice. Out of curiosity, what are you using for reference when it comes to the color?

The title says it all. I have completed a workprint of my 3 in 1 prequel edit, but I really find the look of TPM and AOTC lacking compared to ROTS, not just from a detail perspective but from a color perspective. Does anyone know if there is a significant difference in the way these films were color graded?

Why does Attack of the Clones look so bad color-wise, is it just oversaturated? I'm attempting something similar to what you're doing for my own edits of the prequels but I'm kind of at a loss when it comes to what to do with the color of these movies. I want to remove the "cartoony" look of Episode II (and III to a lesser extent). I tried a pass that was mostly crushing the blacks and desaturating, and it certainly looked more "real", but it didn't look like the OT, which never had a dingy, dark look but were for the most part, bright and colorful.

Ah, I saw Back to the Future, Aliens, Django Unchained and Stoker in the dome when I was interning in LA. Good times

So my Ewan MacGregor was not as good as I thought but my Christopher Lee is okay. Here's a quick test

OTification

pitpawten said:

flanneltie said:

pitpawten said:

flanneltie said:

Hello everyone!

I saw the 11-minute 'making of' on Youtube and found the links for the SW DE on tehparadox.  Seems like I'm only 1 part away from seeing this magic in full form, but my unarchiving software (Mac) is saying that part 81 is corrupt.  The DL link says the file is 91.5MB but the DL file is 96MB.

I know a lot of people have successfully DL'd this movie, so I'm hoping someone has some thoughts on what's gone wrong with my attempt.  Any help would be appreciated!

 I've only gotten it via torrent (see here) so not sure about the multi-part archives.

 

I registered for that before I found the links in tehparadox.  Frankly, I don't really understand how that invite process works.  I've made the request but I don't understand why I need to be invited to a torrent or how the information comes to me if they accept it.  Since you've gotten it that way, would you mind explaining?

PM inbound to keep the thread on topic

You'll be watching soon enough :)

 At risk of derailing the thread, I'd love to piggyback off that...

So has anyone ever attempted prequel color correction before? I really dislike the color timing on AOTC, I think it looks oversaturated and soap-opera-y with too many oranges and cyans. I'd like to look at any work others have done before taking a stab at it.

EDIT: Here's a new clip from AOTC with color correction and a grain plate added. I based the color palette on Star Wars 1313 concept art which itself I believe was inspired by Blade Runner.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/we503b56auijldg/toxicdart.mp4

experimenting with a grain plate:

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