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#1654397
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Star Wars: A New Hope DEVASTATOR EDITION (V.2 a WIP)
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That guy with no name said:

Nickshimmy said:

That guy with no name said:

New shot:
New source (19SE) re-inserted the missing falcon and adjusted the motion for a more dramatic shot.

Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16CDNixUattNu7e_f3JxZWs4-hEmoWOF0/view?usp=sharing
Streamable: https://streamable.com/pvv9xw

Looks great, completely natural. Can I ask how you achieved this shot?, Was it just a case animating a still of the falcon from the frame it originally appears or was there more to it? I ask as I was trying something similar in an edit I was working on and really struggled to get a satisfactory result (even though it was small in the frame, it looked like exactly what it was, a still image being moved around and zoomed out from). Thanks.

It’s an image broken into 3-4 parts that move independently to give the illusion of parallax shift, ie, the illusion of 3D. It’s done statically, and motion is added afterward.

That’s really cool and nicely done. I don’t suppose you’d care to break it down in a video? 😄

EDIT: Obviously, no pressure. I just like to see that sort of thing.

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#1654045
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Attack Of The Clones - upscaled deleted scenes
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I’d like to see those Clone Wars shots!

Oh yeah, I don’t think I ever told you but, Chase3, your upscales are certainly the best I’ve seen yet!

I wonder if the paid version of Starlight gives you adjustment options? Or if not, do you think there are elements from the Starlight version you (or anyone) might comp in? maybe lower the opacity so it blends? I don’t know, I haven’t tried anything yet. 😛

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#1653949
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Attack Of The Clones - upscaled deleted scenes
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So I used up all but 2 of my Topaz’s Starlight credits on old home video clips (which do look pretty dang good btw). With the 2 credits I had left, I ran a clip of Palps from the deleted senate scene in AOTC (Phase3’s upscaled version:

https://streamable.com/bjbpl8

This looks pretty dang amazing. Much more definition in the face.

Sorry, I couldn’t make a comparison video…you’ll have to compare it yourself! 😛

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#1653398
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AI video generation to add Deleted or Extended Scenes?
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This channel called “Skywalker Stories” on YouTube is pretty cool.
Here’s the latest video:

https://youtu.be/WOS7i42ggU8?si=awXxKzvhkaBCSBoL

Their videos are done using AI. Obviously it’s not 100% flawless but in many cases it has me fooled. I don’t know how they’re going about making these exactly. My assumption is some custom ComfyUI workflow.

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#1650953
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SSWR's Attack of the Clones - Alternate Timeline Edit (WIP)
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Thank you for all the kind words you’ve left here!

I believe an apology is in order. I almost put up a post here when I deleted (yes deleted) the channel…and I regret not doing that. Seeing all the kind remarks and genuine concern for me here is very heartwarming. I appreciate all of you and the time and effort you spent reading my posts, watching my videos and leaving great feedback.

To answer your question: I’m doing fine. All is well.
I don’t want to go into the particulars of why I deleted the channel and went silent.
The short version is I was spending too much of my time working on the edit and the channel and not focusing enough on some important personal/family stuff.

Also, as much as I was enjoying working on the edit, AI was not advancing as fast as I wanted (sounds funny now, right?) to accomplish certain shot ideas I had in mind. I would work on a shot, some AI advancement would happen, which would then make my shot look pathetic in comparison. I didn’t want to have to keep reworking shot after shot just to get something I thought, at best, might sorta pass.

Just so everyone knows, I deleted everything. EVERYTHING. (yes, I was THAT done with all of it) Was that overkill? Perhaps. I don’t know.
However, just a month or so ago I kinda started getting the bug again. I did end up recovering some of the YouTube videos and a super early version of the edit that doesn’t have any of the cool things I was more excited about.

Will I pick this edit up again? Part of me wants to…but if I did, I couldn’t spend the same amount of time and effort as I did before. I would have to be wiser with my time. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed a lot of that process. Also, I would need a new (or newish) PC if I were to start up again. My graphics card is fried and it was an old PC I was working with anyway. I basically couldn’t use any of the AI tools in Davinci Resolve. And as of right now, I don’t have money set aside for that.

Just wanted to give a long overdue update. Thank you all, once again for your kind words and concerns.

-SSWR

And if it pisses you off that I deleted it all…I get it. I’m a bit pissed myself. 😛

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#1590098
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The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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paja said:

WIP


Working on recontextualizing the beginning of AOTC presenting Dooku MUCH earlier. The sequence playing out as follows:

  • Padme’s ship is bombed.

  • Padme in the senate (deleted scene) that intercuts with Dooku reacting (from near the end of the film, the Neimoidians redubbed and or subtitled for new context)

  • J cut that to Dooku and the CIS table talk.

After that there’s a scene inspired by a deleted scene from ROTJ where Vader force talks to Luke. Here Dooku talks to Yoda (using the scene of him after Anakin killed the Tuskens) that will feature snippets of dialogue of the duel from the end of the film, plus other dialogue implemented, e.g… “Master Yoda, the senate cannot be fixed, it is time to start over”. After that scene we cut to Palp’s office.

“It’s gonna be great”

Love this idea!

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#1576316
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STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - ** PRODUCTION HAS NOW RESTARTED **
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Jar Jar Bricks said:

Adywan, or anybody making an edit of ROTJ, is free to use these:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zlE34aGJd-yL0S_f52YbJwPko4fPAUQb?usp=sharing

If for whatever reason these two particular takes of the line aren’t up to snuff I’ll add more.

Sounds pretty damn good!