Octorox

DarthBo said:

gavin77 said:

Let people express their ideas and opinions

Which is exactly what we did. We just want to make sure that between all the Lucasifications the more purist opinions are represented as well. I for one wouldn't want to risk getting a torturedroidlightsaber again...

I loved that addition. If you really want Purist get Ady's color corrected SE and cut out some of the SE bits you don't like

gavin77 said:

Why do we always have these reminder posts from those who are afraid of too many changes in ESB? Come on, this is Adywan we are dealing with here....he is going to do what he wants and doesn't want to do, no matter what is said here. Let people express their ideas and opinions, that's what this post is for......but in the end, Adywan is in control, and he does a great job of filtering through all of the ideas, and deciding what is best for ESBRevisited. So keep the ideas coming, a good one might come up now and then.....peace...

Exactly. I think you guys are forgetting the scale of some of the changes in ANHR

So your going to release an HD version of this? That would be NICE...but maybe you ought to use Ady's color corrected edition as the primary source so you don't have to mess with that as much. You could probably ask him for his 16GB encode.

kirkenshrir said:

Octorox said:

Ady, why are you going to using the Laserdisc audio for Phantom menace? Is it better than the DVD audio? Also, why not release the other two prequels sooner? for ROTS all of you have to do is literally add one wipe to make it the theatrical version.

The phantom menace has an extended cut of the pod race scene on the dvd.

As far as i can remember, only the Laserdisc has the theatrical cut... right?

 I know but he has to cut the video to match it anyway, why not just cut the audio too?

Ady, why are you going to using the Laserdisc audio for Phantom menace? Is it better than the DVD audio? Also, why not release the other two prequels sooner? for ROTS all of you have to do is literally add one wipe to make it the theatrical version.

OT Puppet Yoda. They could have made CG Yoda look better but they didn't...And what someone said about the human hand, they could have used mocap. I think what they should have in the prequels is a combo of puppetry and cg to create a versatile, lifelike yoda.

Thanks so much Movealong. worked great. I was actually able to just mount the image with Disk Image Mounter and go from there

Excellent work as always Ady. However, when you get into the FX stage, I really hope you do something with all the obvious matte painting shots like this:

anyone know what I can use to play this on  Mac? I'm not sure if DVD player would work and I don't have a Blu-Ray player so I'd probably look at it on my mac and then convert it to a wmv or something for my xbox.

The emperor already has Sith eyes, they just don't look as good as the PTs sith eyes. It would be an emperor thing, not a sith thing.

The landing ships look cool. That picture looks very much on the scale of the prequels which wouldn't neccesarily be a bad thing...

can someone put this on rapidshare? I intensely dislike usenet...

If any voice work still needs to be done I could have a go at it. I have access to a pro-quality voiceover mic and I'm pretty into doing impressions and the like.

That Yoda comparison was amazing. I think the color correction is likely the most significant part of this project. I am one of the unlucky people who first saw the OT as the 2004 DVDs. I think that the proper coloring brings a whole new magical feel to this film as apposed to the drab and simultaneously oversaturated color abomination that is the 04 DVDs.

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I think removing it would make the movie better in other ways as well. It would emphasize the fact that Luke is on his own in fighting Vader. Yoda's dead, Obi's dead, he's the last Jedi, it would make his transition more complete. He is past the point of beig mentored, he is a full blown Jedi. It would also make seeing Ben at the end more suprising and satisfying because we haven't seen him since ESB. Ultimately is your edit so "you must do what you feel is right, of course!"

I really hated the delivery of the line "I thought you said he betrayed and murdered my father?" Luke shows very little emotion here. It would make sense for him to be mad at Obi-wan or startled or something. Obi just comes over and is like "Hey Luke, I know I told you a terrible lie but lets have a long talk and tie up all the loose ends huh?" I think ending the scene with Yoda works well. not everything needs to be answered. I think Return of the Jedi was too light in mood for the trilogy's finale and needs some much needed tension and suprise moments.

I've always wanted to see the Luke/Obi conversation cut completely. It's pure exposition, and I think it's a little too convenient that Obi can pop up any minute and have a long talk, it cheapens his death. His appearances should be mysterious and brief. I think Dagobah should end after Yoda dies in the hut with his last words "there is another skywalker" the fact that you know who ten seconds later ruins the tension. Luke should discover that on his own and it should be revealed to the audience in his conversation with Leia.

porkinsred6 said:

Thank you for your offer Ziz but I don't want to trouble you.  I may do as doubleofive recommended, and download the dvd-9 and then use a program to mount the iso.  I might even be able to rip the parts I want right from there.

you could use software like handbrake or mpeg streamclip to rip the dvd into a video file, dvd shrink on PC or dvdone2x on Mac to shrink it to a DVD5 or daemontools on PC or Disk image mounter (already installed) on mac in order to mount the image and watch it on your pc.

That's cool. I loved those shows as a kid. Not enought to buy them on DVD though.

It bothers me to know end that yoda's theme plays during part of the escape from cloud city, and the emperor conversation needs some emperor's theme. ANHR plays emperors theme at the mere mention of the emperor so it's fitting the the emperor's first OT appearance gets his theme.

negative1 said:

back to siggraph 2008..

 

not really new..

but still cool..

 

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/videoenhancement/videoEnhancement.htm

 

especially the video removal of objects/replacements..

once these tools come out..

 

i can already see jar-jar being removed right out of the prequels..

 

later

-1

That is effing amazing. When is that going to be available in a consumer application, probably not for a long time and it would probably cost tens of thousands. Your ESB film restoration woud sure be a lot easier if you only had to clean up a few frames from each scene and apply them to the GOUT.

bkev said:So, I bought Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys; I can see how this amazing album inspired The Beatles to do Sgt. Peppers. This version came with both stereo and mono; the stereo sounds great, but I think I'll listen to the mono because I'm kindof an audiophile.

The issue is? This mono mix's quality is embarassing. There's hissing in the background through the whole thing; it sounds like it was a really early vinyl-to-CD transfer, with a bad noise filter. The strange part is, this new mono remaster is from 2006 while the stereo tracks date to 2000. However, the stereo tracks are supposedly HDCD, so... I don't know what to say.

Well, the album was actually released in stereo, it pioneered stereo sound, it was always intended to be listened to in stereo, that's the novelty of it

God, is this the "bash SkyJedi" thread or the "talk about how Shia will not be the star of Indy V" thread. If you want to get in these arguments then just start a new thread.

I love Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars but I really doubt that this will live up to those. I will still probably go see it anyway.