That guy with no name

Mocata said:

Please post some screenshots of this.

+1

Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:

I think there’s a bit too much cynicism in this thread. Give the Director a break, they’re clearly working very hard, on something, here.

Hey, we’ve all seen those first, second and third films in the trilogy at the quality level that they were in when we saw them, right? At some point in time, Director is going to make available their versions for download, and then we’ll all be able to watch the trilogy again in the quality level they are going to be in.

I’m hugely excited.

Looks like we’ve found TV’sFrink 2.0 🙄

lakamosque said:

RocketJump’s video is an advertising hit piece for a pretend film school. Blame George for the genuine screw ups he did, but heavily implying he was the cause for every problem in the movie, manipulating and lying, and going “Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!” is so utterly disingenuous. It just makes everyone that wants to see the theatrical versions look bad.

What lies? What manipulations? Please indulge me, you seem to be an expert.
“advertising hit piece”. Are you ok?

There’s also this crappy shot; they’ve tried to darken the outside starfield, but it’s been done so sloppily.

UHD

UHD highlighted

Thanks to Dat_SW_Guy for this incredible shot! Now I can keep this SE shot without it being too distracting!
I’ve done some minor adjustments and color matching to make everything match. I did make the blues warmer so they would match the consecutive shots.

2011 BD (color by adywan)

DevEd 2.0

G&G-Fan said:

I don’t really see it. And I think the positives outweigh the negatives.

What’s better, a butt ugly transfer that crushes a ton of detail and has weird colors, or a really good looking transfer that has some flaws when you really squint and look frame by frame?

Also… if you really wanted, you could just recolor the area around Luke.

It’s VERY noticeable:

It’s not possible to undo this because the masks have been feathered to oblivion and can’t be singled out and undone.

This is very odd;

It’s not secret that the UHD Blu-rays use power windows (masks used to color adjust specific sections of a frame). I just wasn’t aware of the extent. Almost every other shot has them and they are absolutely horrible.

Take this shot, for example, they’ve brightened the outside of Luke’s garage with a simple feather mask, weird but ok. But then they have to mask Luke out independently so that he isn’t bright like the otusied, but they’ve done it so slopply the mask reveals the original color of the background behind him, not to mention the terrible matte lines:

2011 BD (cc by adywan)

UHD

UHD with highlighted masks

Red - inside garage
green - outside garage
B&W - Luke)

This shot has almost double the detail and color information as the BD clip, but because of these masks, it’s unusable. This is an example of why most professional resorations avoid using power windows or selective coloring, because it’s a destructive process that can’t be undone like with global grading.

Sky_ said:

The First of the deleted Senses is Up
i Dont know how to embed a link so i just posted the link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlqN4h40dt8&ab_channel=SkyShazad

This looks completely incredible. The CG Luke’s face animation is perfect. But the color is wrong; his face needs to be darker and more saturated. Just my two cents.

New shot:
https://streamable.com/lpivp2
New starfield, added glow, and made the laser’s light falloff on the Death Star more realistic.

You wouldn’t believe how difficult stabilizing that was, and I can’t just make a freeze frame either…

Concerning the 19SE remaster project:

Update:
This project has taken a bit of a backseat while I restart work on several other projects. It requires a hell of a lotta work, and I don’t want to rush it—so it’ll begin once DevEd 2.0 is done. When finished, it’ll likely be used to create DevEd 3.0, which will release much quicker since I’ve learned a lot since 1.0 and now use a non-destructive workflow, allowing me to swap out the source of effect shots with little to no adjustment. I’ve also become increasingly aware of the 2011 Blu-rays’ obsolete and honestly disgusting quality compared to the 19SE. 3.0 will be the final DevEd update, possibly before ANH:R HD, but who knows. As for 2.0, I expect it to be done soon, hopefully in a few months, definitely before the end of the year.

Update:
This project has taken a bit of a backseat while I restart work on several other projects. It requires a hell of a lotta work, and I don’t want to rush it—so it’ll begin once DevEd 2.0 is done. When finished, it’ll likely be used to create DevEd 3.0, which will release much quicker since I’ve learned a lot since 1.0 and now use a non-destructive workflow, allowing me to swap out the source of effect shots with little to no adjustment. I’ve also become increasingly aware of the 2011 Blu-rays’ obsolete and honestly disgusting quality compared to the 19SE. 3.0 will be the final DevEd update, possibly before ANH:R HD, but who knows. As for 2.0, I expect it to be done soon, hopefully in a few months, definitely before the end of the year.

oh_riginal said:

That guy with no name said:

oh_riginal said:

https://youtu.be/xPZigWFyK2o?si=T6kamsDQXcdtyT2G

In this clip, at around 5:36, there’s a moment from the Falcon’s cockpit view where it seems Lando has steered the ship to avoid hitting a wall, but the elements used for the ships in front of the Falcon move sideways along with the Falcon’s view in perfect unison, and this has always bothered me. It seems to just be a limitation of the effects at the time. I wonder, Adywan, do you see what I am talking about? And are there any plans to attempt a fix?

Also, does anyone even see what I’m talking about?

Screenshot?

I don’t think a screenshot would show what I’m seeing. You have to see it in motion.

If you’re talking about this shot:

I don’t see the problem you’re talking about, the ships are not moving “in perfect unison” they’re traveling at different speeds and from different angles…

oh_riginal said:

https://youtu.be/xPZigWFyK2o?si=T6kamsDQXcdtyT2G

In this clip, at around 5:36, there’s a moment from the Falcon’s cockpit view where it seems Lando has steered the ship to avoid hitting a wall, but the elements used for the ships in front of the Falcon move sideways along with the Falcon’s view in perfect unison, and this has always bothered me. It seems to just be a limitation of the effects at the time. I wonder, Adywan, do you see what I am talking about? And are there any plans to attempt a fix?

Also, does anyone even see what I’m talking about?

Screenshot?

G&G-Fan said:

That guy with no name said:

Either way, I absolutely hate these shots lol…

Why

Because there are some of the dirtiest on the print, I don’t hate the actual shots, I think they look great; that’s why I’m restoring them…

Here’s the finished shot; I haven’t used a single pixel of the Blu-ray or any other source, just 4K77, and 4K78 to remove dirt on the officer’s face where the dustbuster couldn’t work… When brightened up, the image had thousands of scratches and dirt, and other stuff which had to be removed manually… I also kept the original grain layer, unlike V1, where I DNR’ed it to smithereens, did a horrible patch job using still frames from the Blu-ray, etc, and then added a fake grain layer over everything…

Streamable: https://streamable.com/orbghv

There shouldn’t be a single dust particle left in it now:

I’m currently working on re-doing the censored officer squib shots… I can’t use the ones in DevEd because it has so much added fake grain.

Original:

Cleaned up:

Either way, I absolutely hate these shots lol…

Bingowings said:

Thanks.

Here’s the video:
https://youtu.be/Gy8b1L318Sw?si=YzvARqH7fK4nQvbb

Bingowings said:

Forgive me if this has been mentioned in the 157pages of this thread yet but in the current version Jerjerrod slows down and freezes (very artificially) to extend the scene for the transition to the droids approaching Jabba’s palace. It always bugged me as a kid. I don’t know if removing the saber construction scene meant they didn’t have enough frames accounted for but I hope it can be fixed. Either by using AI to add the missing frames or by doing some sort of edit to something else.

This has already been fixed, in the last video Adywan uploaded…

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.

Sharing direct links is not allowed. Most people on here already know how to access these sites anyhow.
You announcing it like you just did is fine. Just specify the sites, but don’t post links. You can also ask people to PM you and you can share links there.

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

Newly redone shot fr 2.0 using partial new source:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bFl6e7aaM77sHa5ARXcxFuwECVUMiHM-/view?usp=sharing
Streamable: https://streamable.com/pw11se
Removed jumpcut and fixed misplaced laser bolts.

Ronster said:

That guy with no name said:

TAF 97 35mm scan

Yeah that part should be more turquoise or Blue like that I think.

All the sources I’ve seen make it out to be a brownish red, but I’ll double-check…

FrankT said:

These edits do look nice and clean.

thanks.

hharlan23 said:

What’s PM?

Private message.

panduram said:

Hi there!
I just read your detailed post about the Jurassic Park color correction project, and I have to say — it sounds incredible. The effort you put into restoring the warmth and balancing the VFX shots really shows in the screenshots.

If you’re open to sharing, I’d be very grateful for a chance to view your version — purely for personal, non-commercial appreciation.
Please let me know how best to proceed (Drive, PM, MySpleen, etc.).
Thanks again for preserving the film the way it deserves to be seen!

Warm regards

Just PM me.