SparkySywer

If this thread isn’t dead and people wanna see Star Wars: Episode V - The Last Jedi

charlesdavid08 said:

this scene it’s already looks retro if they just remove the flying cgi vehicles in the background

hnnng that looks so good

A half hour is almost definitely pushing it.

Retcons don’t really deserve to count. You can retcon any contradiction, but they’re still contradictions.

trillary dump said:

Just PM’d. Im glad this is being done! There is a 35mm scan of this being done so it could be used for reference for the subtitle timing and could be used to restore the shots only found on VHS/Laserdisc (i.e. removing the bridge and replacing the Twileks in the Senate scene)

I might redo this when that comes out, but if they just release that reconstruction as a reconstruction, and not just a 35mm scan, that reconstruction would probably be better, and if so, I might not.

jedit: Also for the shots that you used the blu ray footage, did you recrop the frame to match the HDTV? (the frame of the blu ray shows about 9% more)

Yes, but Sony Vegas is a little finicky, so it’s not 100% perfect. But it’s not noticeable, so no biggie.

ChainsawAsh said:

There’s a theatrical bootleg that can be used as a reference for subtitle timing and positioning, too.

I might look into this, but I don’t know if I have the time to invest into a full-scale reconstruction.

Additionally, the better, higher bitrate second version is in the process of being uploaded right now. It should be available by tomorrow morning (EST)!

The goal of this fanedit is to be a sort of quick and dirty HD Theatrical Version of the Phantom Menace, done with similar methods to Harmy or the D+ projects, but less meticulously and painstakingly accurate. Something that’s good enough for someone who just wants the movie.

There’s a few minor changes that are still in this, but only the stuff that’s not particularly noticeable.

There’s plenty of TPM restoration projects that are nearing completion now in 2021, which will render this project obsolete very soon. This project was only ever really meant to tide us over until those are done.

Basically what I did in this project is that I took Schormann’s Preservation of the 2001 HDTV version of the Phantom Menace, plopped it into Sony Vegas, matched it roughly to Adywan’s (SD) Reconstruction of the theatrical movie… and also edited out the ugly as hell subtitles burned into Schormann’s Preservation and replaced them with ones that look kind of like the font in the Original Trilogy and the new movies, using Blu Ray footage (which doesn’t have burned in subtitles).

Screenshot:

PM me for a download link.

I’ve been working on a v2 that fixes some technical errors, but I have to start over from scratch since I’ve lost the files from the original project. But that’s probably for the best.

Those color edits are amazing! They’re so convincing it actually took me a little bit to figure out what the edit was.

Not from a Jedi.

What, are you not one with the force like us?

The last scene in RotS looks so good filmized!

I’d say you shouldn’t include the Mandalore episodes. I watched the Maul arc without ever seeing those episodes and understood them fine.

HerekittykittyX said:

paja said:

Collipso said:

Not sure if the puppet face would look good in a CGI character, but worth a try.

Cough. Cough.

Omg that looks amazing

It’s better than the CGI, but not good.

MalàStrana said:

And yeah at one point Luke was a girl… but in the finished film he’s a “he”, not a “she”, and if you switch that the movie is no longer the same.

Ignoring the fact you’d have to replace the actors, how would it be any different?

Edit: Shit, this thread was dead and I hope I didn’t just revive it

Extreme Productions said:

I would prefer to use my real info, I would just hate for that to come back and bite me in the future.

Put Extreme Productions on there, I wouldn’t recommend using your real name.

Collipso said:

TESB has no all caps sentence.

Yeah. All-caps phrase isn’t a requirement, just it happens sometimes.

DominicCobb said:

I could be wrong, but I think ROTJ might be literally the only that doesn’t fade as it gets further away.

I know this doesn’t happen in Harmy ANH.

Something I wanna include though is my pet peeves on the language of the crawl. ANH and ESB follow all these rules, and RotJ follows most of them. The prequels and the sequels break a lot of them, but since they’re prequels and sequels, they’re not really good examples of what Star Wars is.

Rules:
-There are three paragraphs.
-The first paragraph has one short sentence, and one long sentence. (Broken by RotJ)
-The other two paragraphs are one long sentence each.
-The last paragraph ends in an ellipsis.
-This ellipsis is 4 dotted. (Broken by RotJ)
-The first paragraph gives a general description of the state of the galaxy, the second paragraph gives a more relevant description of the state of the galaxy, and the third paragraph describes the opening scene. (Broken by RotJ, but it doesn’t stray too far)
-Maximum one capitalized phrase in the crawl.
-This capitalized phrase covers important, new information central to the more specific plot of the movie (Broken by RotJ, but again it doesn’t stray too far)

Collipso said:

In terms of titles I’d say that the official ones are better than any fan made ones I’ve seen so far. Except for some really ridiculous ones, that are somewhat better than the officials.

Yeah, a lot of fan made titles are just atrocious.

Dr. Krogshöj said:

1. Would it be theoretically possible to insert the familiar elongated stars special effect to the background of the shot where the red plasma beams are moving away from Starkiller Base into empty space (to indicate it’s firing through hyperspace)?

2. Would it possible to shrink the Death Star even further, to a miniscule ball in the holographic comparison with Starkiller Base in the Resistance briefing scene, to give it a more realistic scale?

3. Would it possible to move Starkiller Base further away from the devoured star in the space shot when the star’s draining begins? (We wouldn’t see the small planet in the initial shot, only after the camera pans to the left, with the plasma stream also elongated.)

1: Probably

2: Probably too

3: Without completely redoing the shot, I’m not sure.

I’m liking teal TFA.

liamnotneeson said:

DominicCobb said:

MalàStrana said:

GylesReynek said:
People that do stuff like make a de-feminized version of Star Wars are the exact type of people the Rebels are fighting against. This dude is Hux IRL.

Ridiculous statement.

But sadly true

I don’t remember the Resistance fighting against muh misogynists last time I watched any of the Star Wars movies, and I don’t remember Hux saying anything about women. Correct me if I’m wrong

The Empire and the First Order are both pretty conservative. They’re divine right monarchies that require allegiance to a societal hierarchy, founded to restore the glory days that may or may not have even existed.

I feel pretty terrible for how long this has dragged out.

I guess I’m ready to look for voice actors for a narrator, if anyone with a nice, sexy voice is interested, PM me. The movie’s still close to 4 hours long, but it doesn’t look like it’s gonna get any shorter. But I’m still hoping.

Collipso said:

SparkySywer said:

One thing that bothered me about the prequels, and is in the Last Jedi, is that they all use the same recording of the opening theme. TLJ uses the same recording as TFA. I’d change that.

On that same note, other than the Yoda scene, not a fan of them reusing old music. I’d also edit that out, where possible.

Which opening theme version would you suggest?

Not sure, because I’m not sure what you’d be able to get legally (because I don’t think anyone here wants to hire an orchestra just for a fanedit. However if you contacted someone who’s already got a recording, you could get one.

Edit: For example, I used this in my own personal fanedit of TPM. I wouldn’t recommend doing this in a released fanedit, though, because just ripping off their recording and releasing it without credit or permission is legally and morally questionable.

One thing that bothered me about the prequels, and is in the Last Jedi, is that they all use the same recording of the opening theme. TLJ uses the same recording as TFA. I’d change that.

On that same note, other than the Yoda scene, not a fan of them reusing old music. I’d also edit that out, where possible.

My two cents: Who cares if AotC is pointless. Just make TPM Episode II if it makes it pointless.

Hal 9000 said:

If anyone who knows how wished to run the BluRay (or relevant portions) through a color matcher with the Despecialized Edition, that would be the best option.

Didn’t NeverarGreat do something about the colors in the Blu-Rays?

Remove subtitle for “I want fifty thousand. No less.” if possible, with differing sources needing to closely match very similar shots

The Blu-Rays don’t have burned-in subtitles if that’s any help.