I remember that Dazman in his edit of PTM had restored some unused footage of the Duel of Fates from behind the scenes videos.
Yes that’s right! He’s asked me about those clips; as I’m typing this the upscaled video is being exported, so all going well I should be able to upload it soon. 😃
I’ll send you a PM. 👍🏽
For anyone interested in the extra footage of the Jedi & Sith duel, I’ve had some success in removing the “ghost frames” and heavy interlacing:
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Once the upscaling process has finished, I’ll upload them and share them.
tjdavis1138 said:
Include me as well please!
I’ll send you a PM. 👍🏽
Fantastic work as always, boss! Given the original picture quality, I think this pass is about as much quality as you can possibly squeeze out of those frames. That must have been a ton of work to get the settings right!
I’m not familiar with the extra laser sword footage. How many extra shots of Duel of the Fates are there? And do you reckon any of them in particular are worth re-inserting?
Thanks for the kind words!
There are several extra shots of the duel, a lot of which are definitely worth re-inserting into the film.
I’ll PM you with some more details!
I’ve upscaled the deleted scenes from TPM, all sourced from the original NTSC DVD. Each video is a H.264 MKV with captions, and AAC 5.1 audio.
Important notes:
No colour correction has been done; I’ll leave that for each individual editor to decide upon how they wish the video to look.
The videos on the DVD only have reasonably good quality; these upscales have improved the picture quality, however don’t expect brilliant, crystal-clear, hyper-detailed images here.
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If you’re interested in these upscales, send me a PM and I’ll send you a link!
Extra videos:
These videos contain the unique shots found in two of the short documentaries on the DVD. These aren’t the entire videos – I’ve only saved a majority of the unique, useable footage.
Compared to the deleted scenes, these videos are very heavily interlaced, plus have “ghost frames”, and require much more processing to get them to look good. These issues are present on the original DVD unfortunately. Therefore, these two videos aren’t quite ready yet to share, but will be finalised soon.
When I do upload them, please note that there will be no captions or audio available for these two videos.
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I have also done colour-corrected versions for my own edit of TPM; some of these are finished, however these videos haven’t been uploaded as yet.
. . . Phase3 this is all your fault. . .
Hahaha! 😃
I will be cleaning up / restoring the footage, plus upscaling it too. I’m currently searching through my files to find the best copy of the footage.
Oh and I have some footage that isn’t on YouTube – I’ll send you a message about that, plus the AOTC & ROTS footage we chatted about via PM.
Hope you are doing well and your work is progressing!
I’d be really interested in seeing the your edit! Hope that is still possible?
It’s progressing slowly, however it is still being worked on. I’ve been very busy with other projects, but am still keen to get this one finished.
First shot completed on the new computer. Absolutely incredible fast processing and smooth playback.
https://streamable.com/dmbl94
New sequence coming soon.
That shot looks great!
Ahh very interesting! Thanks for the information. 😃
I think there were 4 or 5 deleted scenes. I only had the movie on DVD, but it got damaged last year. I hope the quality of the scenes are better on blu-ray and upscaling is possible.
I took a look at the deleted scenes on the Blu-ray disc, and the quality is really good. Upscaling might make the images a bit sharper, but I don’t think that upscaling is really necessary for those scenes, as the image quality isn’t bad.
This looks like a great project!
Would you happen to know if the opening crawl in the original cinema release of TESB in Japan was in Japanese, or English?
Phase3, it would be great if you consider upscaling the deleted scenes from The Clone Wars movie as well. 😃
I can take a look at those scenes, and see what condition they’re in. Is there much demand for upscaled Clone Wars deleted scenes?
I’m finishing up upscaling the TPM and ROTS deleted scenes first though, but after that I will play my Blu-ray disc and take a look at them. 😃
Just wait til we get to the Arena Battle. It’s gonna be Force Mad!
I know you said it’s something that you’re really proud of, so I can’t wait to see it!
FYI It’s live: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C-UtrN7ew7RJ46eIARA26fIql07RbBKF/view?usp=drive_link
That looks great, and flows very nicely!
Would you want a clip to correct the continuity error of Ki-Adi-Mundi’s Lightsaber changing colour? In the film it goes from blue, to green, then back to blue. I can send you a clip where it stays blue the whole time if you like?“Do it.”
No worries! I will send you the clips.
Just wait til we get to the Arena Battle. It’s gonna be Force Mad!
I know you said it’s something that you’re really proud of, so I can’t wait to see it!
FYI It’s live: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C-UtrN7ew7RJ46eIARA26fIql07RbBKF/view?usp=drive_link
That looks great, and flows very nicely!
Would you want a clip to correct the continuity error of Ki-Adi-Mundi’s Lightsaber changing colour? In the film it goes from blue, to green, then back to blue. I can send you a clip where it stays blue the whole time if you like?
Hey Phase3, what do you think about a color correction like this for the Obi/Mace scene?
Or do you prefer a warmer look?
Mate that looks fantastic! 😃 The only reason that I left the colours untouched on the deleted scenes, was so that other people could then adjust the colours as they see fit. I would love to see what other people do with the deleted scenes!
The only scene that I adjusted the colours on was Padme addressing the senate, as that had a green tint applied to it, which I removed. I also adjusted the shadow levels and highlights on the scene of Padme & Anakin on trial, as a majority of the details in that scene were far too dark and not really visible.
For my own AOTC edit, I have left the colours on the Obi-Wan & Mace scene as they are, however I may revisit it, as the cooler colours really look great.
I would be eternally grateful for a link to that cleaned up scene if you are of the inclination to share it out.
All,
Here ya go
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AZYzg7yL-_cbVG08FkOm3qaE1FM5HspX/view?usp=sharing
You did a really great clean-up job on that scene - it really looks great! I’m looking forward to when you release the entire edit! 😃
Many thanks for your kind words! I’m glad that you could use the upscales I did. 😃
Prepare yourself. I think a lot of folks are about to start asking you for those. 😉
Haha that’s totally fine! I’m glad that I can share them. 😃
I think your “mad scientist” extensive testing on upscaling the deleted scenes has really paid off!
Hahaha I like the sound of “mad scientist”!
That detail on Obi-wan’s face on the landing platform for example is pretty unreal. I made some comparisons and believe that you have achieved a new gold standard on upscaling these.
Thanks very much! I really appreciate that! 😃
The shots that no upscale can unfortunately make look good are the establishing shots that are very low detail/ poorly rendered in the original footage (senate dome, Naboo shots). But some detail adding/guessing AI could help improve those.
Yeah it’s a shame that the backgrounds were never properly finished. I think that fans with experience in Blender and VFX software such as Nuke would be able to replace the backgrounds, however it’s a mammoth task.
I did some tests with rotoscoping the landing platform scene with Obi-Wan and Mace, to see if a different background could then be inserted. To say that rotoscoping is a nightmare of a job would be the understatement of the year haha! I’ll have to leave that job to the VFX professionals!
I would be interested in getting these if you could drop me a link?
Yes of course! I will send you a link shortly. 😃
inserting deleted scenes back in helps. Excellent work on those by the way, I believe you achieved a new level of detail on them!
Thanks for your kind words!
If I may give a few suggestions for the updated version that I believe you are working on: In the new VFX shot of Obi tracking Jango, you might consider giving Geonosis- planet a zoom out/zoom in- effect instead of it moving up on the screen or adding easing to the motion. When Anakin has a breakdown at homestead and says “Why couldn’t I save her. I know I could have!”, I suggest that you cut the shot just a little bit earlier. Now you can see Anakin starting to move to the left, but it the next shot he sits down, witch is a bit jarring cut.
I like all of those suggestions!
With the new VFX shot, I made the planet move up so as to tie in with the previous shot in the film, which shows the starfighter slightly drifting downwards. I’m happy to revisit the shot – I do like the idea of adding a zoom-in effect!
With the scene of Anakin in the homestead, your suggestion makes perfect sense – I will revisit that scene and alter the timing of the cut.
Also the voice of Jarjar is little muffled / echo-y in the Padme’s apartment scene. Some AI voice cleaner tool might be helpful with that, at least Adobe has a free one called “Enhanced speech”.
With the redubbed dialogue, I unfortunately don’t have an external microphone, so I recorded the audio solely with the in-built microphone on my laptop, which isn’t a great microphone at all haha! It resulted in a lot of reverb in the audio, which wasn’t intentional. I’ll revisit the audio, and see if I can get it sounding better.
All in all, nice job!
Thanks very much!! I do appreciate your feedback and suggestions. 😃
Just wait til we get to the Arena Battle. It’s gonna be Force Mad!
Hahahaha I had forgotten about that Robot Chicken sketch! “…two Force-mad dead-eye Jedi” - classic!
Have you considered talking with Hal9000? Your up-scales are a massive jump in quality, nice work!
Thanks for your kind words! I haven’t spoken with Hal9000, but of course I would be more than happy to share the upscales with him! I’ll send him a message now.
Many thanks for your kind words! I’m glad that you could use the upscales I did. 😃
O00ll00O said:
The only shot that looks a little off to me is the shot of Obi-Wan hopping off the little ship ramp, to be followed by the next frame where they’re both in different spots (due to cutting out Padme’s little blurp about getting a transport). How do you think it looks without the little ramp hop? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UV6fCLpxe9O_tQ3mfAJgCCbVlsPYF85y/view?usp=sharing
That is such a great cut! I am going to revisit my own AOTC edit, and incorporate many of the changes shown in this thread!
Hey y’all! In response to a question posed on Adywan’s RotJ Thread about how easy/hard it is for Luke to start on Dagobah, and then go to Tatooine, I posted a link to my version of the opening of RotJ. It seems like some of y’all wanna talk about it, so I’m reposting it here so we don’t derail Ady’s Thread.
Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EleIyLvBBrk-D8zN9zy23NJhEeg6FMcs?usp=sharing
Enjoy!
-JoE
Your restructuring flows very smoothly - it’s great! At first I thought how would you get around not explaining why Threepio is already in Jabba’s palace, but then again Lando is already there haha!
I would love to borrow some of your ideas for my own ROTJ edit! 😃
