adywan

Siliconmaster482 said:

Donated $50!

Thanks 😃

BedeHistory731 said:

Adywan, you should probably migrate your image hosting to Imgur or imgbb, since postimage is throwing up their “premium upgrade” banner.

Now that is bloody annoying that they have started to do that. It only seems to be with the gifs i have posted though as all the images seem to be still showing up

Glenwood said:

Happy Easter!
$1,000 challenge is back! From now till May 20th, I’ll match all donations to Star Wars: Revested up to $1,000 USD. For the next 30 days you have the opportunity to double the impact of your contribution!

Oh wow. Thank you so much for doing this, it will be a great help, especially with the PayPal fees & the USD to GBP exchange rate at the moment taking so much out of the donations coming in ( for every $ donated i get just under 70p) and then the hard drives needed costing more than they were a few months ago already and the cheaper monitors/ TVs being so crap now. I’ll let the facebook group know 😃

mfastx said:

Just donated $100.

ThiscouldbeR2D2 said:

I donated $25.

Thank you both

Something i promised to show a while ago but ended up completely forgetting about, was the shot of Luke’s shuttle escaping the Death Star. So here it is:

Original version:

Revisited Version:

That shot took a hell of a lot of work. I had to slow down the gantry and other elements, yet keep the camera movement and the shuttle at the original speed, then track and add the new background. Couldn’t use the original stars to track because they suddenly stop their movement before the end in the original.

I’ve been quiet because my 43" 4k PC monitor’s backlight died and i have been unable to work on anything or use the internet ( my phone is too small for me to use for the net , even with my glasses 😉 Being old sucks. I’ve had to borrow a small monitor off a friend but only have it for a week, so i may go quiet again until i can afford to replace it

Bingowings said:

Watching the opening scenes on another thread reminded me of this and forgive me if I’ve already posted it. When the Tantive 4 is being pulled in to the hanger of the Devastator you can hear what sounds like the docking claw scrape the hull and then the film cuts to an exterior shot and the claw hasn’t made contact. If the shots were resequenced you could have the exterior followed by the interior and the scraping sound would carry more impact. Maybe the claw could be slightly animated like its opening in readiness for the ship. Also could Threepio just say “There will be no escape this time”? I’m sure there is a wookiepedia page devoted to why he pretends not to know who Leia is to Luke but he doesn’t need to mention the Princess anyway as she is mentioned in the crawl.

3P0’s line has already been changed to " there’ll be no escape this time" ever since my original edit. The audio on the clips i post of the HD version are always just a temp track because that would be the last thing that i work on after i have finished the video side of things. As for the matter of the sound of something like a clamp attaching to the ship before its even been pulled in, i thought i had mentioned a long time ago that i would be tackling that ( but i may have fogot its been so long now). Anyway i had finished re-editing that scene last year. Very tricky to do though because of where to be able to cut the music cues for it to work, which is impossible to do without editing the music then getting the visuals to work with the new edit and then rebuild all the dialogue and foley FX. I have only done a very rough audio track to see if it would work so far and will be polishing it up for the final release

https://youtu.be/Nw03j5wq0l0

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DZ-330 said:

Hey Ady! Glad to hear you are on the mend!

Have you ever considered restoring the Han versus the Stormtroopers with the original 1977 version?

Part of the comedic charm of the original version is the Stormtroopers realizing “Hey… we out number him! Why are we running?”

But then in the 1997 and onward edits, they just bait him into running towards a big room filled with more goons. In my opinion, it loses a bit of the humor that the original had.

Just curious!

(The screengrab does use the recomposited shot from SW:R)

Oh this is a shot that i’ve always hated in the SE. Not only are the added stormtroopers wearing ROTJ helmets, but the compositing is horrendous. The original footage just doesn’t blend in at all with the new. No shadows or floor reflections, the new foreground stormtroopers look very soft/ blurry, yet the troops in the background on the gantry are sharper and in focus. The problem was i just couldn’t replace it with a shot from 4k77 because it stands out as being a different source and lower quality, even with grain reduction ( which to eliminate the grain to a point needed for it to match the blu-ray sources would destroy so much detail). But there’s a lot more software that can be used lately that has enabled me to enhance the 4k77 footage to get it to the quality of the blu-rays. I did try using topaz video enhance AI , which is a great starter to use to help with the grain problem, but that just couldn’t handle it without giving it a weird effect. But splitting the scene into an image sequence i was able to run them through Topaz photo AI and this worked so much better. Of course this was only used as a starting point and can’t be solely used because of anomalies these AI software introduce to the image ( you only have to look at the latest so called restorations of James Cameron’s films for the 4K releases to know what i’m talking about). So there was still a lot more work to do , like dust/ scratch repair, but i have now been able to swap out the SE shot for the original.

Braltika said:

Imo, Han his panic screaming reaction does seem a bit more justified when walking into a full hangar of troops. Pretty sure he and Chewie never stopped to look back and count how many followed after they bolted it. For me personally, the full hangar is one of the better changes in the SE…

Han’s screaming stopped when he came face to face with the troopers. The screaming was more scare tactics as he was chasing them rather than fear. And Han looks back to shoot at the following troopers as they run away. The origina IMO works so much better.

exitzero said:

Some good ideas here-
Star Wars: Inside the Death Star During Its Destruction-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF5cOg8-ZFQ

It’s scary just how fast this AI Video generation is progressing. While its pretty cool to see , there’s nothing in there that would work in the film. The Death Star needs to explode in an instant. Seeing a progression like this just ruins the tension in the scene.

Latest update:

It’s 2025. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year.

Things are really going to step up a gear this year as ROTJ:R will be going into full production. The static grain removal/ colour grading stage of Jedi is almost complete, so i’ll be switching over to the editing and effects side of things very soon, most probably by the beginning of February. Now, as I am still in the rehabilitation stage after my heart attack, I won’t be able to sit at my computer all day and work on the video side of things like I had done previously. But that doesn’t mean I can’t be productive with the edit. So I will be concentrating on the modelling side of things and will begin building the models and miniature sets needed for ROTJ:R. But more on that later.
One change that will be happening is the way I give you all updates on the edit. It’s pretty difficult at times to be able to explain clearly what I am planning or reasoning behind certain changes solely through text posts. So I will be starting to produce small video updates that will help me convey just what I am doing and my reasoning behind it with some peeks at the work being done. Sort of mini video blogs. You can expect the first one within the next month or so.
Taking a step away from ROTJ:R for a moment, ANH:RHD is close to completion. Just a handful of CG battle of Yavin shots left alongside a few other shots and I can render out the video and begin work on the audio. Running very low on hard drive space yet again though. It’s shocking how much space these edits eat up. Fingers crossed I will be able to film the replacement Sandtroopers for ANH this summer when we get some sun and those will be the last shots to be completed for ANH:RHD.

I recently did a test burn of the ESB:R Blu-ray that was created with Adobe Encore and the results weren’t good. Tried the disc in 3 blu-ray players. Worked ok in 1 but not in the other two. Panasonic, LG & Sony players tested. Only the LG played it. So i’m giving up on releasing Blu-Ray versions. Good Blu-Ray authoring software just isn’t out there without paying extortionate fees. Adobe Encore is just too buggy, but other available software just don’t have the features, especially being able to use DTSHD audio and creating good menus. So what I will be doing is releasing higher bitrate versions of the edits, alongside the smaller file size ones, that should be Blu-Ray compatible if anyone wanted to make their own physical copy. It’s unfortunate, I know, but I don;t want people to have to download a 50GB disc image file only to find out that the authoring software has rendered the burned disc to be playable on their machines.

Back to ROTJ:R now …

In a few months, once the graded source file is complete and the editing had begun, I will be putting a shout-out for help with FX work. I will need more help for this edit so I can ease the workload not only on myself but also Andreas who has been relentlessly doing the CG model work for these edits since ESB:R. So keep an eye out for this.
Looking over the B-wing footage shot and how it will be integrated into the original film its obvious now that I will need to film some extra shots of pilots to piece this together properly. But not B-wing pilots as I have everything I need with that side of things. But X-wing and Maybe A-wing pilots. I won’t need to build a full cockpit luckily for these ones , just partial ones, but it is something that I will need to do in 2025/26.
Working at a larger scale for the models/ miniatures this time around is a bit of a nightmare. Whereas working on ESB:R at 1/72 scale meant that the models I needed were pretty freely available, working at 1/48 and higher you just don’t see the kits being produced in this scale and ones that are can be pretty expensive due to their age or being custom made or the models needed have just never been commercially produced. Now I did manage to get a few of the ships at 1/48 scale that were resin kits created non-commercially. But they weren’t great as the casting process on all but one were horrendous. And these things cost hundreds of pounds. While I will still be able to use these kits for ROTJ:R after a LOT of work on them, I just can’t justify buying duplicated of these models and just preying that they are good castings. So I need to go down the 3D printing route, especially when I need to have multiple versions of the ships in the Home One Hangar scenes for example. But it would be logistically impossible to get someone else who would be kind enough to print all the models and parts needed for the amount that needs to be done for ROTJ:R. So my only route would be to get a good resin 3D printer. I do have the Elegoo Neptune Max FDM printer that I will be using for some props and other larger items , but these type of printers are just no good for doing detailed prints like resin printers can produce. After doing a lot of research I decided upon the Uniformation GK2 printer. a bit more pricey than ones made by the likes of Elegoo and Anycubic, but this has a built in heater ( essential here in the UK, especially where it is going to be placed) and has the best reviews for this price point. Sadly they have just released their replacement printer in the GK3 which is horrendous and causing people nothing but problems and they have discontinued the GK2. But stock is still available here . So I have been saving up for the past year to get this machine along with a wash and cure station. But, as is always my luck, just as I almost had enough to get it, the bloody storm hit here and destroyed our rear garden fencing panels and snapped every single post leaving our garden open to the elements and anyone being able to just walk in , so I had to get someone out to fix it and that wiped out any savings I had. And just under 10 meters of new fencing and installed posts is not bloody cheap. So I have no choice but to, once again, ask for your kind help and open up donations yet again. I hate having to do this but there is no way I could do this edit without doing so.

The Uniformation GK2 is around £677 minus postage here, but sadly stocks are running very low. I do have one put on one side , but only until the end on January as they have told me they can not hold it any longer than that, especially with a high demand for this printer now it is no longer in production. Then there is the Elegoo Mercury XS wash and cure station which comes in at around £150. Then I need to build the partial X-wing cockpit set and maybe A-Wing set also , but the main expense here would be the gimbal for the cockpits (that would be able to be used for both) and the basic framework and lighting for the cockpit as the detailing can be mostly 3d printed /scratch built. So i’m looking at raising approx £2000 this time and that should cover everything.

You can donate through Paypal using the links found here, in US dollars or GBPounds:

https://swrevisited.wordpress.com/donate/

Again, I really hate to have to do this again . I will upload a banner to the Facebook group in the next week or so that will display how the Donation Drive is going.

So that’s about it for now. Keep an eye out for the fist of the video updates

Ady

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE.

So tomorrow is Christmas Day and it’s time for the annual Christmas clip.

Sorry that, yet again, there has been such a long time between updates. The run up to Christmas is always pretty hectic for me, plus plans for ROTJ:R have changed somewhat and a lot of things to work out due to this, but i’ll go through all of that in the next update . I wanted to get the Christmas clip out of the way first.

Which leads me into this new clip. For ages it bugged me with the continuity problems during the Chasm sequence. The number of stormtroopers in the doorway above, firing at Luke and Leia kept changing shot for shot. You also see a dead trooper lying on the floor one shot, then gone the next, before one was even shot. Then you have a wide shot that you can clearly see Luke unravelling the grappling hook, before he even thought of the idea. Sadly i just couldn’t fix this originally as simple editing could not fix the problem. But a couple of months ago i worked out how i could do it, so i have been flat out working on that to get it ready for Christmas. So the errors in that scene have now been fixed for the HD version.

Now, as usual, the audio in this clip is just a temporary track, so you’ll see that effects are out of sync in the re-edited parts, and it is not the audio track that will be used in the final version.

https://youtu.be/NAYhOjQ6r9Q

In all likelihood i will make the very long post about the revised plans for ROTJ and what you can expect in 2025 just after Christmas, or the first few days into the New Year at the latest. There’s a lot to go through 😉

And thank you to everyone that have enquiring about my health. I’m doing good, and recovering well.

Enjoy

Just got back from seeing ROTJ at the cinema. I’ve now seen all 3 and while ANH & Empire had a noticeably improved colour grade for most of the films, ROTJ was exactly the same as the blu-ray. The static grain also jumped out at you, whereas the other two it was minimised, unlike the blu-rays. Now these were all seen at the same cinema and on the same screen, so its not just a case of they look better because they’re projected through a high end system.

The entrance to Mos Eisley shot is very baffling to me as to how bad it looks. Now this shot was redone for the 2004 DVDs from the version seen in 1997. The 2020 is using this version and not the 97 version, so why should it lack so much of the detail that is seen in the 2004 DVD’s / 2011 blu-rays? But what makes things even worse is that they recreated this shot especially for the latest version, basing it on the 2004/2011 version. But they horizontally stretched the image. You can see that the rats and the speeder have been recomposited. The speeder has been slightly shifted to the right. But this redone shot looks so much worse than something that was done 16 years previous. Makes no sense whatsoever.

2004/2011

2020

Just got back from seeing Episode 4 at the cinema. It was the “Maclunky” 2020 version but, f**k me, it looked and sounded gorgeous. This is NOT the same grade that is on the blu-rays/ Disney+. the colours for about 90% of the movie looked great. Not the flat/ sepeia looking grade we have on the official physical media releases. Skin tones looked great, the highlights were punchy and not suffering with the flat highs of the blu-rays. The Tavtive IV corridors looked beautiful. Even the static grain problem that the latest blu-rays suffer with wasn’t noticeable at all. On thing however is that most of the special edition additions ( especially mos eisley) looked horrendously bad. Not just because they were suing 90’s CG tech, but they looked low res compared to the rest of the film. Blurry/ soft and a few shots didn’t even look HD.

There seemed to be some alterations in the sound mix too. Sound effects that aren’t present on the blu-ray mix. The music was much more prominent, a bit too much in places.

They’ve got a movie marathon on sunday starting with rogue one followed by eps 4, 5 & 6. Can’t go though because its my bloody wedding anniversary. ARGHHHH. Can’t really sit in a cinema the whole day. But luckily they are showing ep 5 next tuesday evening and then the following week ep 6, so i’ll be able to check them out. If the other two films look as good as Ep4 did then, why the hell do the blu-rays look so bad? If they looked that good then it would have saved me years of work regrading them.

bttfbrasilfan said:

adywan said:

Here is the colour grading comparison clip i promised. Sorry that it is download only, but YouTube and Vimeo instantly blocked it so this is the only way i could share it.

The original 2020 Blu-Ray grading is really throwing out the new grade in some places ( especially skin tones because in the 2020 blu-ray they are very yellow/ orange or desaturated, which makes the new grade look more magenta or over saturated) so i added just the new grade to the end of the video so you can see what it really looks like.

It’s just over 1gb and about 17 minutes long

I’ll be posting again in the next couple of days with more detailed plans of what’s coming up with ROTJ:R & ANH:RHD.

https://mega.nz/file/OE0WGRrR#Dx_K8gGuIrt6m_z8b1nvYaTp0CAzOvmxrIQSy2qPuSw

Hey, Ady, will you release the ROTJ color corrected version similar to what you did with ANH?

Yes

Here is the colour grading comparison clip i promised. Sorry that it is download only, but YouTube and Vimeo instantly blocked it so this is the only way i could share it.

The original 2020 Blu-Ray grading is really throwing out the new grade in some places ( especially skin tones because in the 2020 blu-ray they are very yellow/ orange or desaturated, which makes the new grade look more magenta or over saturated) so i added just the new grade to the end of the video so you can see what it really looks like.

It’s just over 1gb and about 17 minutes long

I’ll be posting again in the next couple of days with more detailed plans of what’s coming up with ROTJ:R & ANH:RHD.

https://mega.nz/file/OE0WGRrR#Dx_K8gGuIrt6m_z8b1nvYaTp0CAzOvmxrIQSy2qPuSw

TDS91939 said:

Does anyone know the difference between the 12 parts of ESB and the Barebones 4 parts? I’m not sure which one I should be getting

Th 12 parts file is the 1080p version and the barebones is just the low res DVD version

I’d have to dig out all my detailed notes and outlines ( if i even still have them) but here is the gist of what i was planning (although this is all from memory and it was long time ago, so will be pretty rough):

TPM: There was going to be no “trade blockade” or “negotiations” but it would start with the invasion of Naboo. The Gungans would be clone batches and the trade federation (as they are in the original but may have been named differently, i can’t remember) were after cloning tech as this is something the galaxy has not been able to master. Their claim was that they had negotiated a deal for the tech but that the Gungans has reneged on the deal. We find out that it was Jar Jar that made the deal without authorisation and this was why he was ostracised from the city. Many of the Naboo council consider the Gungans to be a lower life form and demand that Amidala just hand them over to the federation, but she refuses. This angers the federation and they head to invade the city. Amidala send a distress signal to senator palpatine and the Jedi are sent to Naboo. On the federation ship we see the nemoidians receive a holo message from a hooded figure. It looks like the emperor we all know, so its not obvious from the start that its actually palpatine ( god i hated how dumb that bit was). This is palpatines true form but we don’t know that until the 3rd film. He informs them that the Jedi are on their was and to make sure they never reach the planet. As the Jedi ship approaches, the federation opens fire and the Jedi cruiser takes heavy damage. Escape pods are deployed and most are destroyed before they can reach safety, apart from 2 that reach the planet - Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan. They meet up with Jar Jar who is less irritating in this version and doesn’t speak like an idiot with all the “exsqueeze me” type crap. Things pretty much go as original from here for a while, but with alterations. Getting to tatooine, anakin does NOT create 3P0. 3P0 is Amidalas personal droid throughout, fully golden from the start. The pod race would be shorter, intercut with the invasion and other things plus more of Maul searching for the group. Obi-Wan wouldn’t be an asshole who looks down on others as he does in the original. And Midichlorians wouldn’t exist. The end battle would have had Anakin deliberately disobey Qui-Gon and join the space battle and not some stupid accident. he would get an idea on how to destroy the ship by flying into one of its hangar bays as this was less protected or something like that and flys inside taking shots as he goes. Obi_wan doesn’t fall down the shaft and make that ridiculous jump and flip over Maul. At the end Boss Nass agrees that their cloning tech should not be kept on Naboo and would be better in the hands of the republic. Oh, and no space jesus in this one. Shmii is just silent about the father

AOTC: Can’t remember a lot about this one but Anakin is less of a whiney and creepy little bitch in this version. With the ongoing threat from the federation, a clone army has been ordered by the Republic using the Gungan tech, but Padme, now a senator, along with others in the senate disagree with it as they had agreed that they were only going to be the guardians of this tech. So there is no more stupid plot of the Jedi suddenly being ok with this secret clone army yet they have no idea who created it and what for. The assassination attempts on padme still happen and anakin is instructed to take her to somewhere out the way but she demands that she return to Naboo. Anakin still had the force dream about his mother being in pain, but his understanding is that the jedi freed her from slavery. His discovery that they hadn’t and that they had lied to him begins his turn to the dark side and distrust of the Jedi. He also would not inform Padme of his slaughter of the Tuskens. So she doesn’t know that he’s a psycho nutcase, yet still want to be with him, which diminishes her character. There would be no Boba Fett as a kid in this. Obi_wan would be sent to check on the progress of the clone army. They wouldn’t all be clones of Jango, but of a handful of Mandalorian warriors, who remain on Kamino to train the clones. Geonosis would be the discovery that the federation were amassing a droid army to attack the republic. Yoda wouldn’t use a lightsabre in the duel against Dooku.

ROTS: Same opening as original. Obi_wan and the Jedi council have begun the be suspicious of Anakin after hearing of things he had done during the clone wars. They know all about him an Padme but are saying nothing, but are keeping a close eye on him. This film would now be set a decade after AOTC. Anakin would NOT be named as Darth Vader. Grevious would sound nothing like Dracula with a bad cough in this either. There would also be no “dreams” of Padme dying. palpatine is sowing the seeds of doubt in Anakin about the Jedi as in the original. Obi_wan finds grevious and confronts him where he discovers that Palpatine is the Sith Lord and contacts the council. Mace goes to confront Palpatine to discover if Grevious was telling the truth or misleading Obi-Wan. After he leaves Anakin finds out what he is doing and goes after him as his mistrust with the Jedi has deepened. Mace alone confronts Palpatine in his office, who was viewing tech graphics of an armoured suit (Vader’s), where he reveals his true form to Windu and battle commences. Anakin arrives just as Mace defeats Palpatine and stands above him as he lays on the ground. Palpatine now is fully in his true form and claims that Windu had disfigured him. Mace’s willingness to kill Palpatine instead of putting him on trial is what finally turns Anakin against the Jedi and, as Mace raises his saber to slay Palpatine, Anakin lashes out with the force as pushes him far out the window. No force lighting and melting Palpatine. Palpatine talks about how the jedi want to take over the republic and they have been deliberately allowing the war to continue, but that Anakin could end the war if he was willing to go against the Jedi. He tells him he has learned the location of the leaders of the federation/ separatists and that he needs to do what must be done; assassinate them all, to bring an end to the war. That how the jedi wiped out all of the Sith because they didn’t believe that only the Jedi should be allowed toi master the force. Anakin head to Mustafar. When Obi-Wan returns to Coruscant he learns of the death of Mace. Yoda has received a holo message from palpatine informing them what anakin had done and that he had learned that anakin was a sith apprentice who knew who the sith lord was and he had killed Mace when he tried to arrest him, but doesn’t know where he had gone Yoda shows Obi-Wan altered footage of the moment Anakin kills mace. They must stop anakin but Obi-Wan struggles to believe it. He reaches out to padme who he knows anakin would have told her where he was going. Continue like the original with obi-wan hiding in the ship and when he confronts Anakin. Cut back to Palpatine in his office and one of his aides informs him that Anakin is in danger, but he shrugs it off saying something like " I have forseen skywalkers demise. It is of no concern. Soon i shall have a new apprentice. One far more powerful than young Skywalker could have ever been. Prepare my shuttle. We shall go to Mustafar to discover Skywalkers fate."

Kenobi leaves Anakin as he burns of the lava shore as Palpatines shuttle arrives. We don’t see him claw his way up, but instead believe him to be dead. He meets up with Yoda on the medical asteroid. he informs him that Anakin is dead. Yoda explains that he senses the dark side descending across the galaxy and that something terrible is coming their way. Padme is injured but doesn’t die. Yoda realises that if the sith discover that the babies survived that they would hunt them down. Can’t remember what i had planned for in-between this bit and the next. Some time later Palpatine is in his office and an ominous voice can be heard off camera…“what is thy bidding, my master”. We see that large dark figure emerge. " Ah, my new apprentice…" This is Vader’s introduction. We don’t know this is Anakin (especially when there’d been so many other sith apprentices suddenly pop up from nowhere). Palpatine begins order 66. Palpatine then addresses the senate and informs them of the Jedi plot to overthrown the Republic, while it intercuts with scenes of the clones turning on the jedi then we see darth Vader emerging at the jedi temple, slaughtering jedi, but no younglings. Yoda and Obi-wan return to find the jedi temple ablaze and the jedi slaughtered. They see security footage of Vader killing the Jedi. Can’t remember how i ended everything or what happened after this. But Padme was alive and the twins were split up, but not named

it was going to take a lot of time and funds to achieve this. With the AI tech available today and it could more easily be pulled off. But , with the amount of time left needed to complete the OT Revisited saga, and i’m almost 60 now, i just don’t think my heart would have been in it, especially when i just can’t even bear to watch the prequels any more. I spent years planning all of this out. It would have kept the “Vader Father” reveal intact. And anyone saying that this would be a waste of time because “everyone knows who vader is” are completely discounting new generations that will discover these films and would probably watch then in episodic order. Even now there are those that don’t know that identity of Vader. My Grandson knew who vader was but had no idea he was Luke’s father until he watched Empire, so there is a good argument to keep that reveal intact.

I’m back 😃

Feeling much better now ( well , apart from the past week where i’ve been laid up in bed with a nasty gastric virus.) Thanks to everyone for the well wishes.

I’m back working on ROTJ:R & ANH:RHD. Getting a long quite nicely with the grading for ROTJ. I’ve juct completed the section where Leia meets Wicket, so that will give you some idea where i have got up to with that. It still shocks me just how dull and lifeless the 2020 blu-ray is. And it really has some shocking sections where the image has been completely bleached out, either with the colour grading that’s seemed to somehow remove most of the blues of the film or the fact that the grader decided that he would brighten the image up so much that it would blow out all the details, or just using crappy power windows to brighten sections of the image and losing all contrast.

Anyway, this is just a short one today. I will be posting a clip showing a new section of ROTJ:R’s colour grading later in the week, but for now here are some screenshots:

The 2020 Blu-Ray, for some unknown reason, removed the blue tint to not only the TIE fighters but also the Executor. These were blue in every version up until 2020.

With this one, the grader used a power window mask around Leia and Han in the 2020 edition, but didn’t properly track the movements so you get a moving mask with almost grey blacks. I replaced this with the 2011 blu-ray, with major clean up. Surprisingly , for the 2011 blu-ray, there’s a bit more detail in the shadows than the 2020 version.

And , one shot that took me forever to fix, is this one. What the hell has happened to all the colour in the 2020 edition? (The Gifs may take some time to load up, so be patient)

EDIT: POsted the wrong stuff

Director said:

adywan said:

Director said:

doubleofive said:

I do not understand what is happening here. So you got full film scans (from the Team Negative One forums?), and then you color corrected them, then un-color corrected them, they compressed them to DVD resolution?

No? But maybe I explained it unclearly; so I got the scans years ago and NOT from TN1 forums. I did some remastering and cleaning, and then I used a foreign colour-match tool (not the one in this forum) to make the colours perfectly match the cinema versions. TheStarWarsTrilogy.com forum has a 4K97 but it is not the best in colour and the quality of the films were always 480p, I did nothing but transfer the films to an MP4 file as 480p.

Why do you keep insisting that the quality of the films were always 480p, when you have been told on numerous occasions that they were NOT?

The films were 480p in 1997, and I do not understand why have you not understood it? The films were released as 360p in home video releases, and the original videos from 1996 were 480p. And when I got the scans, they were 480p. If they are not 480p, what is it then? the films were 480p in 1997, and I have no intention of making a 720p, 1080p, 1440p or 4K version. I do not wish to argue, but this is getting me irritated.

The films projected at the theatres in 1997 were NOT 480p. Depending on where you saw it you were watching the equivalent of over 720p when viewing a 35mm film print. as these prints were newer than the originals, taken from the newer negative and with newer film stock , it’s closer to 1080p that it would be to 480p. Even back in 1977, with older projection and different film stocks , you would still be viewing something around 720p, if not higher. Just take a look at the scans of the films done by TeamNegtive1. They were taken from theatrical prints that would have been shown in cinemas. THAT is what you would have been seeing. You can’t honestly think that they are really only 480p worth of detail in there.

Director said:

doubleofive said:

I do not understand what is happening here. So you got full film scans (from the Team Negative One forums?), and then you color corrected them, then un-color corrected them, they compressed them to DVD resolution?

No? But maybe I explained it unclearly; so I got the scans years ago and NOT from TN1 forums. I did some remastering and cleaning, and then I used a foreign colour-match tool (not the one in this forum) to make the colours perfectly match the cinema versions. TheStarWarsTrilogy.com forum has a 4K97 but it is not the best in colour and the quality of the films were always 480p, I did nothing but transfer the films to an MP4 file as 480p.

Why do you keep insisting that the quality of the films were always 480p, when you have been told on numerous occasions that they were NOT?

Has the cancellation been officially confirmed? All of the articles i’ve seen floating around are quoting from the same site that originally posted this “scoop” which only claimed that their “sources” told them. Haven’t seen anything coming from Lucasfilm or Disney about this.

timdiggerm said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/arts/star-wars-films-george-lucas.html

Notably, a member of TN-1 goes on the record with his name.

Locked behind a paywall for me 😦

The fact that all 6 discs freeze at the layer break seems very strange. Disc rot could account for one disc doing something like that but not all 6. Have you tried to play a scene from later on the movies via the chapter scene menu?

Did you buy them from Ebay by any chance?