New MEGA link for those that can’t view it via Google Drive
https://mega.nz/file/bAlwFRIC#1WbbeDvriVY9AnJ7pTTy6l9EGQmoCT6Hy9yQc6Gy53c
The link is not open for viewing, Ady. It asked me to request permission
Try it again. Its working for some but not others. not sure whats going on
Clip Time !
A fix that i wanted to do for ANH:R when i started, but no matter how much i tried it never worked. It’s the shots of 3P0 when he spots the sandcrawler in the distance. It was an obvious flipped shot due to the oil stain being on the opposite side of his torso suddenly. Rotoscoping 3P0 to fix the problems with the shot being flipped was a nightmare. I could never get it to look anywhere near passable . It was just impossible when doing the SD version and i thought i may stand a better chance when a HD versions became available. But i kept failing, right up until a couple of years ago when i decided to shelve the idea .
But sometimes, long after i’ve given up, i decide to give something one last try. I’m so glad i did because i worked out how to do it to a level that i feel works so i can finally cross that continuity error off my list.
In this comparison video you’ll notice that the official version goes out of sync with the Revisited one. This is because i had to shorted one shot and extend another for this to work once the rotoscoping with finished.
I have tried posting this numerous times now and everywhere i’ve uploaded it, it has instantly been blocked. My only option was to upload it to google drive. I don’t know how long this will last due to the bandwidth restrictions , but it was my only option. You can view the preview or download the clip to see it in better quality ( which is what i would recommend )
See if you can spot all the fixes…
(although i have used the 2020 Blu-Ray for this comparison, there are shots i used from the 2011 Blu-Ray, or a mixture of both)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IuT7b9MXkQmTF0Nxjpk8Wk3la9914L8f/view?usp=drive_link
For some reason i cannot access any of these “leaks”, pictures or the videos, but i did what the eckharts ladder video where he was talking about the leaks he had seen and showed some of the screen captures. Although the colouring was slightly different, i resized the screencap to the 2020 bluray and , apart from cropping, they overlay perfectly. If they were indeed a new scan of the theatrical then this would be impossible. Even a new scan of the SE negative would throw up differences. So , if he did see leaked footage, are they using the original pre graded scan of the SE that was done for the Blu-rays and then just scanning in the missing footage to make a “theatrical cut”?
EDIT: I’ve just found out the main why i can’t access anything :
Hopefully Adywan is okay, haven’t heard from him in months at this point.
He logs in daily, you can see on his page
Not sure how i could be logging in daily when i have had no access to interent for a long time.
Now i need to go back through the threads to see whayti have missed.
An update:
Hi. There are a couple of mistakes in your database concerning my edits.
Star Wars Reimagined by Adywan [Regular Version, Extreme Cut (download or stream VLC only), Regular Version]
My edits are called “Revisited” not “Reimagined”. And secondly the 2 versions of my EP4 edit are The regular version and the purist. Not sure where you got the “extreme” cut title from
I’ve just checked the total raised so far and we are so close to hitting the target, with just over £160 left to raise. You guys are amazing. Thank you all for donating.
Donated $50!
Thanks 😃
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
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 😃
Just donated $100.
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
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
Quick update:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
