Hey, no I really appreciate the feedback! Thanks!
It’s funny, I stepped away from the edit for a month now or so. Didn’t know if I wanted to mess with it anymore. And just yesterday, started fiddling around with the edit again! 😄
Damn, I would love to see this again.
SomethingStarWarsRelated said:
This de-aged Anakin showed up on my feed today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL-N2ywWhOw
It’s certainly going in the right direction.
I mean it looks janky and smooths out his face too much. If this was what Lucasfilm did, then there would be outrage for the overuse of CGI.
I’d rather have Hayden himself just do it, as it doesn’t really matter since he still looks youngish.
To be clear, the person who made this said it was their first time using deepfacelab…so yes it’s a bit janky. Plus the video doesn’t look quite high rez so that doesn’t help either.
I’m sure someone out there (cough shamook cough) can make a better one.
The scene is pretty great…and I can certainly watch it and enjoy it for what it is. At the same time, the visible age difference with Anakin is a bit distracting and I personally would like to see someone tackle a de-aged version again.
Hmm…I wonder if, because of the prequels being shot at 1080p (right?) that Lucasfilm didn’t have enough high rez material to work from to pull off a deepfake? Maybe?
This de-aged Anakin showed up on my feed today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL-N2ywWhOw
It’s certainly going in the right direction.
Anyone else notice this?
“I am a princess of Alderaan!”
-blast doors open
“That’s cute. You have no rights here, princess.”
Reva is responding specifically to what Liea just said. Those blast doors must be paper thin.
It would be more dramatic to physically introduce Vader in the village rather than on Mustafar, besides it would spare us from looking at that terrible throne room “set”.
omg yes! That was absolutely terrible looking! Vader didn’t look integrated into the scene. Terrible green screen or however they did it. The mustafar sky in the background looked like someone used a noise effect in their video editing software and barely adjusted the settings. It took me right out of watching the show.
I mean, there shouldn’t be grain in the first place, right? Those were shot digitally. Or am I not understanding?
Instead of saying “the Falcon” maybe have him say “YT Corellian freighter” ?
The only thing that threw me off was the CU of Kylo when he says "She’s going to steal a ship to escape!”
You would just need to flip the shot so he’s facing screen left like in the other shots.
Other than that, I like it!
For the Senate scene, I also think Eddie’s line needs to be a little louder in the mix.
I would agree. Specifically the word “launch”. I first viewed it on my phone where I completely missed that word. Just now watched it on my pc and just barely heard it.
I feel like Leia is talking before she actually says her line, is there something that can be done about that?
I believe Nev said he was gonna remove that once everything else is nailed down.
Looking good!..The wipe for the shot of 3PO works well!
I just wanted to pop in and say this scene is coming together really nicely!
With that said, I don’t think Leia cutting off 3PO’s line works. I didn’t know it was coming and once I heard it, it threw me way off and I had to go back and rewatch it. Now, if you had a way to cut to her saying the line, that would be different. Without seeing her say the line, I think it’ll just be confusing as to what is happening.
Looking forward to it!
I’ve noticed with upscaling, the first frame of every new shot looks odd. As far as i know, the only way to fix this is to then upscale a rendered out scene in reverse, then replace those odd looking frames.
I believe Adywan did this with his upscaled ESB:R.
Do you plan on doing this as well?
Yeah it is kinda buried in the mix…easy to miss.
I’m grateful for these upscaled deleted scenes but
I don’t suppose you’ve tried re-upscaling these again with the latest version?
I would assume they’d be even better? It was 2 years ago.
I know emanswfan was beginning some work but I think he was needing a new pc…
Or has anyone else gotten better results more recently?
While not a deepfake, i thought I’d include my attempt at a slightly younger Palpatine. I doctored a single frame in photoshop, applied it to surface mesh in davinci resolve 18, and then applied a bit of face refinement on top of that.
Thanks!👍
While not a deepfake, i thought I’d include my attempt at a slightly younger Palpatine. I doctored a single frame in photoshop, applied it to surface mesh in davinci resolve 18, and then applied a bit of face refinement on top of that.
Remember Palpatines…um…aging discrepancy in ATOC?
I may have found a way to fix it:
A few thoughts after watching JEDI NO MORE
I just wanna say up front: I appreciate any edit that really tries to push itself in terms of new ideas and restructuring of the movie.
One of the main things that intrigued me about this edit was the restructuring. I had heard the idea of putting Geonosis at the beginning of the movie before but didn’t know if there was a edit out there that was successful at achieving it.
Was the edit successful in doing so?
I think it’ll work for some. Sadly, it didn’t for me. I guess I would say there’s not enough connective tissue from scene to scene to make the build up work. Maybe I just know the material so well I can’t separate it…I don’t know…
However, Obi-Wans intro scene is him talking to R4 about the unusual concentration of trade federation ships there are. Anakin and Padmes first scene is their little “columns of steam” talk as they fly down to Geonosis. These are not strong introductions for our main characters. For me, that just doesn’t work.
With all of that being said, there were things I did like. Including but not limited to:
-repurposing shots of the geonosians to now spy on Obi-Wan.
-new dialogue for Obi-Wan message to the Jedi
-Anakin saves Padme in the droid factory instead of R2
-altered dialogue for certain scenes such as the Obi/Mace/Yoda walking down the overtly CGI Jedi hallways scene (lipsync isn’t quite there but still fun)
-I like Anakin at the senate hearing
-I like the additional senate scene with Jar Jar using footage from TPM, AOTC+deleted scene
-analysis droid deleted scene on Kamino with new dialogue
-Anakin becomes a Jedi Knight
I know a lot of thought and work went into this edit. It shows. I appreciate that.
And maybe I’m the only one who doesn’t care for the restructured bits.
Everyone else should check it out!
JEDDIT: i like some of these ideas i may just borrow one or two of them. 😉
It would be great if some of snookers ideas could come to fruition…
Return of the Jedi:
I would love to check this out! Sounds like some really interesting changes!
Yeah, it IS my thread, isn’t it? 😄 Thanks DMC.
Yeah, i definitely check the site several times a day too!
I’m curious: does anyone know if there’s an edit of AOTC that removes the nightclub scene?
That’s what I’ve done here:
I just wanna say: I love originaltrilogy.com
I’ve been a member since 2006!
I check in on several threads but I’m just not actively posting.
When compared to every other thread, my posts are never lengthy. I prefer posting my thoughts in video form as opposed to taking the time to write it all out. I’ve always struggled with putting words to my thought process anyways.
I just feel kinda funny bumping my thread every time I release another youtube video. As you can tell by my channel, I’ve been releasing more videos…trying to grow the channel.
Is it annoying when I post here? I try to keep it to a minimum…
Well, either way, thanks to everyone who checks in on this thread!
I just felt I needed to address some of these thoughts I’ve had here.
Thanks again!
These are all quite fun to watch!
