adywan

Monroville said:

TV's Frink said:

If memory serves, killing Lando was a joke that people took seriously.

Well... that is debatable...

why is it, or are you calling me a liar ? ;)

The whole" Lando dies" thing started out because so many were asking what my plans were for ROTJ:R when i was clearly still working on ESB:R and that is what the thread is for. So i just threw out something that would be controversial as a joke. End of.  I don't plan on any radical changes to the OT, just little bits here and there in ROTJ:R. The PT is another matter entirely though.

Just google a free program called "multiAVCHD". This will convert the mkv into a nice AVCHD and it is really easy to use and fast. Then just burn the folders it creates with IMGburn. Simple :)

hope this helps

I've got to admit i have no problem whatsoever with the "stardestroyer" line. Now if they were all directly looking at it or we could see the stardestroyer when she says the line then i would agree that it's something that didn't need to be there. But, if you look at the scene, Lando and chewie are very preoccupied and haven't noticed that they are heading towards it, then they turn away from it.  Yes, Carrie does deliver the line in a very bland way but unless i can find an audio clip of Carrie delivering a more convincing "stardestroyer" line then it will not be changed.

AuggieBenDoggie said:

"BarBar Jinkx" said:

You know, for a movie that was going to have the least amount of work done to it for the revisited edits as it was a "perfect movie", there sure is a lot of things being suggested to fix it :-P

I agree. I never thought this edit would have gone this far. I originally thought that Ady was just going to color correct, fix the continuity errors, and change some of the problems the SE version caused. Now it's going through some major visual changes, and all of the suggestions that have come along ( with concept pics ) have also made a massive impact. This is edit is kind of approaching a point ( for me at least ) where it loosing it's appeal. While a few of the suggestion have been really cool, alot have been a crazy. Like the latest one where someone wanted leia's "look, Star destroyer"line changed.

 

I made the "least amount of work" comment before i had properly sat down and studied the movie. When i had actually done that i noticed so many things that needed fixing, a lot more then i thought it would be. Then there are the things that just can't be fixed with a quick FX fix, like the Wampa design discontinuities, the shield generator explosion which in turn needed new trooper elements to be filmed because of the many bright white frames they added for the explosion, then the "vaseline" smudged troopers fleeing the Walkers (which strangely enough doesn't seem to be a problem in the GOUT) and all the other shots that needed replacing with physical elements and not CG. Just because there have been many suggestions on what could be done to the movie this doesn't mean that these are actually being done to the movie.

And for those interested on how the edit is going, here is an updated screenshot so you can see what is left to be done:

XVID? Theres your problem right there. Vegas doesn't like XVID for some reason.  There is some workarounds to get Vegas to accept it and some programs/codecs installed can cause Vegas to accept it so it looks like you had something installed on your system previously that allowed Vegas to accept it. I've never been able to get Veags to import XVID or DIVX.

But i've got to ask, why did you use such a lossy codec as XVID to rip your DVD's and work with for your project? I don't care what anyone says about XVIDs being as good quality as DVDs because that is just not true. And it has nothing to do with not knowing how to encode an xvid either. You want to work with a lossless codec like lagarith or you will suffer compression issues when converting to DVD, especially with such a long movie. You could also just have ripped the DVD's without encoding and imported the VOB file (with no file splitting or audio track) into Vegas and that would remove the 2:3 pulldown.

Here's a workaround to your project issues you mentioned and it will give you much better final results. Re-rip the DVD's to 23.976 (2:3 pulldown removal) using a lossless codec. Save them in a new folder. Now once this is done open up your project in Vegas. ignore the missing files warning and search box that will appear if you have deleted any of your original files. Go to the "project media" tab and right click on your first movie file and select "replace" and replace it with the new rip for that movie, then do the same with each other file. Now you may have a small problem with your AOTC footage being a few frames out due to the framerate issues. But this will save you a lot of work. But make sure you have plenty of hard drive space.

Don't use Vegas's Mpeg encoder to encode such a long movie because its pretty crap with low bitrates. Use procoder as this produces amazing results for low bitrates. You would be able to use the DVD-5 Mpeg2 settings i created for procoder that i used for the DVD-5 of Revisited which would let you squeeze up to about 4 hours onto a DVD-9 with very good results.

Sevb32 said:

Will someone explain to me what this crew of people dressed like Hoth soldiers and whatnot is about? Isn't that just adding stuff because you CAN,  or showing too much as you accuse Lucas of doing? Maybe not, but I haven't seen it clearly explained.

well for a start it's "explaining too much" that i accused Lucas of doing in the PT & SE, not "showing". As for the troopers, it has been explained a few times over the past few months so i guess you don't bother to read the thread before you pop in to ask for yet more stills/clips and then come out with crap like you've just said.

This is just one post where i mentioned what is being shot with the 2nd unit:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/STAR-WARS-EP-V-REVISITED-EDITION-ADYWAN-RELEASE-DATE-APPROX-DECEMBER-2020/post/392514/#TopicPost392514

Although filming has been pushed back due to everything that has happened in the past few months

corellian77 said:

Ady, seeing the pics of the Falcon got me wondering about the Fine Molds Falcon you got.  Have you begun assembly of it yet?  I'd love to see some pics of it when it's completed.

No, the falcon will be one of the last models built because it will used more times than the other models/miniatures. All the other miniatures can be dismantled after they have been filmed as i won't need them for ROTJ:R so i can recover space, but the Falcon needs more work done and the Hangar set will be one of the most detailed, so i'm leaving that until last.

Sevb32 said:

I asked if it was possible to get one still a week. I dunno how that was so huge. I'm just dying to see the cloud city mattes they we've yet to see.

 

I wish I had a couple thousand bucks to donate.

the thing is, if i posted 30 screenshots then that is a large chunk. I have to find 30 separate shots that are different enough to be worth showing.  After what i have shown already that doesn't leave much and there are things i don't want to show until it's released.  If i showed a snapshot of say Han's mouth movement fix then you wouldn't even see what's been fixed, so that would mean that i have to post screenshots of more of the FX work and i don't want to do that.

I will be posting a clip, however, on May 21st for the 30th anniversary of ESB

yoda1138 said:

Hi Adywan, been following your progress for a few years now, and been checking in on the forum, but i lost my password etc long ago under the username vader1138. Anyways, just rejoined as i have an offer/question etc for you.

 

I'm an artist/sculptor and LOVE your ANH-revisited. (would love to know if you ever plan to release a 720p mkv of that by the way)

Anyways, theres a shot that i would have liked to have seen in Empire, after at at captain says "Lord Vader, you may start your landing" we never see Vaders ship land on Hoth. Now, in the prequels, which have their flaws, i love the hardware in them, especially the gunships. So, i was considering scratch building an Imperial gunship of my own design. If you would be interested in including a shot of it lanfing on Hoth, wit vader anf a few troops standing in its doorway, i could film it against a bluescreen and send you the footage to play around with.

I would be making it in scale for the 5inch action figures, and animate it stop motion as a very quick shot.

 

Reason i was wanting to see a new ship in the battle is we would have normally seen vader shuttle, which is done to death, and seeing a new ship coulda been cool. Anyways, havnt built it yet, so let me know what you think?

 

On another topic, heard you on you-tube radio station thing, great to hear your a fellow Brummy. I'm originally from Walsall but not anymore. Great to hear you used cut-outs for tie-fighters in aftereffects too. LOVED that scene. I made film (crappy film) using similar tachniques as that. Its on you-tube also,

search... ESCAPE FROM KIRKUK, on youtube, rubbish i know but i was experimenting with animation etc. I know how gruelling the editing process is as it took me over 2 years to complete. Anyhow, good luck with Empire-R i cant wait.

 

Thanks for the offer, but i don't want to add any extra scenes of ships landing/approaching. It's the same kind of thing that GL added in the ESB:SE of Vaders shuttle docking with the Executor. IT is something we never needed to see and broke the flow of the scenes.

Things are almost back to normal here now. I've just got the workstation to repair and i can get back to work on this edit full time. I'm just so gutted that they threw a section out because it really has screwed the whole thing up. It's not as if i can even go out and just buy a new section, i have to make it from scratch, and if you saw my workstation you'd understand why this is going to be such a problem. In fact i'll post some pics once its repaired and everything is back in its place so you can see what i mean. I just need to wait for payday to be able to afford to get the materials for this (because i won't touch any donations that may come in as this workstation isn't really part of the edit)

Sevb32 said:

Ady, how about a new weekly still from ESB Revisited to look forward to? There are about 36 weeks left in the year. That would mean close to 30 some stills before the release in Dec. Is 30 some frames from a 2 hour movie too much to give out? It would be a great thing to look forward to once a week. I know we did it before. Just think about it, please.

Wow, don't you ever just give it a rest? please. I've released so much more stuff than i ever did with ANH:R yet you keep asking for more all the time. So, ok, here's a new still from the completed section of ESB:R, just for you ;)

You could actually sync the foreign languages up to ANH:R and just release them as a AC3. It is easy to replace just the main audio track with a different language and keep the whole structure of the DVD, with all the menus and extras intact. That way there won't be loads of different versions out there.  But you need to remember that i added a lot of extra things into ANH:R and the new sound effects need to be in there or it will look very strange especially during the battle of Yavin. You'll see all these extra ships and lasers etc but there would be no sound.

EyeShotFirst said:

Cloud city soundboard up.

 

http://www.starwars.com/games/playnow/soundboards/#/?theme=37

Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully they'll be adding more ESB stuff soon

darthmunky said:

Star Wars Blu-Rays In the Works!
http://bluray.ign.com/articles/108/1084415p1.html

Best part: "We're finding all kinds of scenes from dailies that have never been seen before."

Does that mean there will be a SW:R:R? lol

Well lets hope that each episode of the OT gets it's own features disc this time. I highly doubt that it will be available before i finish ESB:R but i'm holding out hope for a lot of unseeen footage/ deleted scenes from ROTJ because that will come in very handy for ROTJ:R. And, no, there won't be a new version of ANH:R

brash_stryker said:

Hey Ady. Hopefully this video will give you a more accurate/impartial idea of how the new roto brush in CS5 works.

http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/workflow/welcome-cs5-an-intro-to-the-new-roto-brush/

Yep, just as i thought. It isn't going to be the miracle plugin that it tried to make out in their demo. I wasn't very impressed by what it does in that new video.

vaderios said:

ady will you consider adding some more hull detail/dirt tech stuff to the life set of falcon? (since you will replace many shots with the model one ;)

I'm only replacing the on set falcon with the model for a few shots or using it to overlay some details on the top section for a few others. The rear end of the Falcon doesn't have that much detail on it anyway, as can be seen here, so i don't think it needs anything added to it. The model at the bottom is the highly detailed 5ft filming version

OMG, what the hell have they done to the Daleks? The new design sucks big time.

If you have Windows 7 you will have the UDF 2.50 driver preinstalled so you can read the disc. If it isn't windows 7 then you will have to install the driver first. Then all you need is IMGBurn (it's free, just google it) to create an image file which you can then burn to a DVD.

Hope this helps

46fleetline said:

ummmm, like i said, if you look back, the other guy called me a cock. so sure, come suck mine.

you're welcome to it too. my "mommy" aka mummy for your brits stopped breast feeding me back in the 70's.

you tried pointing out facts which you did not read up fully on.

breathe in,breathe out............maybe after some of that ash humbles you, you will realize what an ass you really are, and keep your mouth shut.

y despues, cuando quieres dicer algo a mi bien, dime, que no, calla su pinche voca puto.

shit, you really need to learn to read then, because Moth3r only called you a cock when you started spouting your shit and insults. So maybe you should get your facts straight first

Moth3rs reply to your first post:

Moth3r said:

46fleetline said:

doesn't matter how long someone has been around. a stupid comment is a stupid comment. non contructive.

rather him hold it in, like a fart or it will stink, and i do smell something from his comment.

Who are you?

I have been around for a long time, and when I give advice such as that in Post 669 I'm not making stupid comments - I'm totally serious.

Although it's a shame when a project is marred by "technical issues", I predicted that something like this would happen, and if it was predictable, it could have been avoided.

Both Ady and I have tried to help Asteroid-Man by requesting sample clips to help work out what these "technical issues" are, which he has so far not bothered to provide.

I'm not saying I've never screwed up myself - but at least I can admit to my own failings and not blame it on shoddy Canadian DVDs (which, FYI, are likely to be identical to the US releases just with the addition of some French text on the DVD cover).

And if Asteroid-Man find these comments hurtful, he needs to grow a pair and toughen up if he wants to be taken seriously.

Hmm, wasn't your first post before he replied to you just full of insults towards him? But i see no insults towards you in any way from Moth3r.

Then you replied

46fleetline said:

It doesn't matter who I am !!!!! circa 2001 the rock wwf.

anyway, i am not speaking for anyone, just taking a look at what i see. when people talk smack aka shit, about someone or what they are doing, kinda sucks buddy.

didn't know to be on a site, you had to grow a pair. another stupid comment. so many "tuff guys" are behind a keyboard. tell you what, take your pair and go boil them.

comeback with something positive to say.

More insults towards Moth3r.

So maybe you're the one that needs to keep your mouth shut because you seriously talk so much shit i can smell your breath from here, and that's through all the volcanic ash that's over here, as you keep pointing out.

Like Forest Gump once said: "Life is like a box of chocolates. And there is always one person at the end of the day that has all the brown stuff around his mouth from spouting so much shit". And that, my friend, is you sir.

So maybe it is you that should "shut your mouth" because you have been proved wrong.  Yes, Moth3r did call you a cock, but that is just the way you were acting towards him.

And you sure do seem to like to try and get guys to suck your cock. Maybe that's why you are being so aggressive? Confused about your sexuality maybe?

vote_for_palpatine said:

Google translator said:

 

and then, when you want dicer something to my right, tell me, no, shut their

goddamn fucking vocation.

lol. this is what babel fish came up with.

and later, when you want to dicer something well, it tell me, that no, it shuts up its damned little mouth puto.

Anyway, that's it from me. This is A-Man's thread. So we need to get back on topic.

46fleetline said:

i was civil until the words and b.s. started flying around, simply for the fact i don't agree with someone making fun of another guy and his project.

 

Ah, did me not agreeing with you hurt your little feelings?

But seriously, i didn't attack you in any way. I merely put my point of view across. But you resorted to personal insults so you got back what you dished out. If you had remained civil then none of this would have started. There are ways of putting your point across without resorting to "suck my cock", which is probably your only chance at getting a blowjob without paying for it.

Grow some balls man cuz not everyone is going to agree with you in life. That's just the way things go. Just put your points across without the puerile and childish insults. It's called maturity. Something you'll learn once your Mummy stops breast feeding you

46fleetline said:

i just always like it people dish it out, and when it comes back at them, they can't take it.

sshhhhhhh.

Wait a minute, wasn't it you that started dishing out all the insults and crap? You fire insults at me and i'll fire them straight back at you twice as hard, boy. I made a simple comment, which didn't agree with you, and you turn into a little child and throw your toys out of the pram. I think it is you that can't take it.

God, if kids like this are the future of our world then someone please drop the bomb now.

Hope you've got your popcorn guys :)

46fleetline said:

i spelt it like that on purpose. e like the symbol for internet.

i hate it when other people, (look in your mirror) get into my comments. had nothing to do with you, but you cme through the back door. must be like your orientation.

however, be well, breathe in some of that ash, have a nice day.

no offense to the site, but i was in the right to begin with.

*noone should make fun of someone or throw out make fun of comments to someone trying to make a project.

That's what a forum is for you numpty. So people can reply to other peoples comments. What, do you think you are so bloody important that no one is allowed to reply or even comment in a public thread?  And now you insult me yet again by insinuating that i'm gay. Fuck me man (and no i don't mean that literally) , are you 8 years old or something? And now you go on about the health risks that our country could face due to the volcanic ash? Fuck me, you are the biggest superiority complexed dick-head i have come across in a long time.

When you are old enough to start growing pubes then you may realise what a grade-A knob jockey you really are

46fleetline said:

sorry, he started the whole cock thing buddy. ok, didn't spell it right or two. in a hurry.

ok, my lime-e friend. like i said, i am done with it. "move a long, move along"

"He started it..". Fuck me, am i back in the school yard now?

And i fucking hate being called a Limey (which again you can't even fucking spell). Who the fuck do you think you are asshole? I'd like to see you call me that to my fucking face, but you're so brave hiding behind a keytboard. That has really fucking offends me being called that. Someone ban this shitebag!

Again, I'm sorry A-Man

46fleetline said:

hey, he is the one that went off to cockland first.

adwan-kenobi, mod or not, i see his initial comment, if you back up a page or too, insulting to the guy.

but i'm done, just want to see this project through.

everyone stop bitching about it.

Wow, nice little dig at my  forum name there, 46shiteline? The only one being a cock around here has been you. And it's "a page or two", not "too". See, i can be a childish as you too.

And no one is bitching about it. The one thing about fan edits is that if there are technical issues that may otherwise spoil all the hard work that someone has done then you will get people flaming it and fail to get people interested in a flawed release, which by helping A-Man we are trying to help him avoid.  When an idiot starts a flame war it only derails a thread and pushes the important issues to the side.

Just zip it so we can continue to help A-Man out

And, they're off...... lol

Actually nothing Moth3r has said was attacking A-man and his edit. If you read the post he linked to then you will see that he has been offering advice and helping out.  But the comment he made didn't warrant the attacks you started to throw.  At the end of the day Moth3r was right in that he did predict something like this might happen. The last thing we want is for someone to spend ages on an edit only to have it fall apart due to technical problems. The last thing this thread needs with everything that is going on is someone starting a verbal war, and quite honestly, being very childish. Best just relax and let us carry on trying to help out A-Man with this edit.

46fleetline said:

hopefully is he is smart enuff, he'll listen to my constructiveness in that being not to talk smack on someone's project.

And hopefully you are smart enough to realise that nothing you said was constructive in any way. Just let it rest. It isn't fair on A-Man to derail his thread like this

TV's Frink said:

Moth3r said:

Both Ady and I have tried to help Asteroid-Man by requesting sample clips to help work out what these "technical issues" are, which he has so far not bothered to provide.

If I've followed things correctly, A-Man has asked for adywan's help on this.

I think Moth3r was referring to the fact that we have asked for samples (i did pretty recently) so we can see if we can figure out what the problem might be but A-Man hasn't posted any, so we can't see what the problems could be.

A-Man, you're not re-encoding the DVD's again to post the clip i asked for are you? I need the original that you worked with so i can see what codec was used and if there is any problem with the video which would stop Vegas accepting it. It should have only taken a couple of minutes to rip a very small section out of one of them and posted it. If you can't give me a sample of the original file then there is no way i'm going to be able to help you out

Moth3r said:

I'm not saying I've never screwed up myself - but at least I can admit to my own failings and not blame it on shoddy Canadian DVDs (which, FYI, are likely to be identical to the US releases just with the addition of some French text on the DVD cover).

Yes, the video part of the Canadian DVD would be identical to the US version. It would only be the menus, audio & subtitles that may be different, but the video part would use the same NTSC encode, so there shouldn't have been any problem with the video just because it's a Canadian DVD

Ripplin said:

Have you and the family begun to reconstruct the house yet, Ady?

I'm redecorating at the moment and covered in paint, lol. It's going to take me until next week at least to finish everything :(

it use to be common for trailers and features to be stuck on the end of the movie file. I've never heard of the menus being tagged to the movie though because they use a different structure and have to be separate.

Well my account is an admin account and i am the only user on the PC but if i disable UAC then thats when i run into permission issues. I just hate that almost everything i try to do i get a bloody popup box asking me if i want to do it.

when will you be uploading the clip A-man?

sbassen said:

Crypto_Sith said:

A decent solution to the administrator rights problem with W7 is to disable User Account Control in the User Accounts Menu.

I'm not sure where this leaves you security-wise, but as long as you have a decent anti-virus program, I'm sure you would be fine.

 Yup, just hit the state button and type "uac", the user access controls should come up.  Move the slider all the way to off or whatever.

yeh, but the problem with turning it all the way off is that if you need administrator privileges to do a certain task then it just won't let you do anything. For example, if i turn it off i can't overwrite some of my project files. It's a really annoying thing and it was one reason i never upgraded to Vista and i was hoping they would have changed it in 7.

just any of the avi's  won't load, but it does need to be one that you are using in your project and thinking about it a clip of the AOTC avi would be a good idea

Asteroid-Man said:

Well Ripplin, although one problem is more or less solved, this brings us back to a problem I had a few months ago and was never able to resolve: Sony Vegas will NOT play AVI files for some reason! (It did on my old computer, but that computer was more or less unusable anyways)

If you still have your avi files can you load up one of the files into virtualdub, select a small section (only a couple of seconds worth) and export the file using "direct stream copy" and then upload the file to rapidshare or somewhere and i will test the file out in my vegas and i may be able to figure out the problem for you