adywan

Fang Zei said:

Does anyone know where I can find a torrent of the theatrical TPM? I'm not talking about Ady's project, I just really want to get my hands on a copy that's better than the vhs but isn't the dvd cut, preferably one with NTSC speed and not the 4% PAL speedup.

It's kinda funny how AOTC and ROTS are the only ones officially available on dvd and in anamorphic video in their theatrical versions, and even then it's the DLP versions not the 35mm.

ROTS isn't available in its theatrical form. Even the DLP version had the wipe in it that is missing from the DVD

professa said:

adywan said:

There is a high possibility that once all 6 movies are finished i will never watch the Star Wars saga movies ever again.

that sounds like you're including your own edits in that statement!

is that what you meant?????

yes. i haven't watched ANH:R since i finished the DVD.

The Golden Idol said:

Darth Chronus said:

Btw, I was thinking - can Vader's hologram do with a tiny bit of work (the one where he appears before General Veers during the Hoth ground assault)? Maybe it can be sharper; with Vader's helmet looking better, and the hologram can flicker a bit.

 

 I'm pretty sure this is being fixed.

 

I'm really glad that Ady is going the non-CG way. It'll really make this edit that much more professional and will really assimilate it into the look and feel of the original ESB.

Can't wait for the Behind the Scenes clips! Oh, and the May 2010 [tentative] deadline isn't so bad.

Ady, I've got a question for you:

I know you're never returning to ANH:R, but if you were to (re)make this fanedit now, after gaining the experience you've gotten after finishing ANH:R and working on ESB:R, would you do anything differently (in terms of the Revisited changes)?

yeh, thats being fixed

I will never be returning to any of the revisited edits once they are finished. There is a high possibility that once all 6 movies are finished i will never watch the Star Wars saga movies ever again. The only thing i would change in ANH:R is the torture droid needle. it really didn't turn out the way i wanted it to. Apart from that i'm happy with what i was able to do

Well i think its pretty safe to say we are never going to see this or even probably hear from -1 again.  I had kept quiet about what was happening with this project  because it looked like it was a dead thread. But i don't think it is fair for him to keep stringing people along any more

I was involved in this as one point and was in contact with -1 to see how the best way we could get this done. I was going to help out with the colour correction and restoration once the transfer was done. I had access to -1's site and was in regular contact with him with ideas about how to get this done. Then he announced some good news about the transfer and then disappeared. Well he had been in talks with a person who some may know was doing a star wars restoration, had a site all about this restoration, but was never going to share the project with anyone but a select few and even that would only ever have been a screening. I became concerned that if this person was to become involved and would be the one that has the reels for the 4k scanning that they may want to solely use this for their own project for which would never see the light of day. I was assured by -1 that this would not be the case as he had spoken with him about this already. Now personally i have many doubts that this person was ever involved as i was unable to have any contact with him and every bit of information was only coming from -1

Suddenly, and without any warning or contact from -1, my account over at his site was no longer accessible and he ignored any contact i tried to make about this project. If progress about the transfer had been made i was now out of the loop and my services were obviously no longer required. Now his website domain is dead

Now i see it as one of 4 things happened:

1 -  the transfer did go ahead on the understanding that it was to be kept within a select few and never will see the light of day

or

2 - -1 had blown so much smoke up peoples asses about how he was definitely going to get this done and bigged himself up so much when people challenged him about this that when he finally realised that he could not get a decent transfer done because nowhere that did digital scanning would touch it with a barge pole he didn't have the guts to come on here and admit he was wrong

or

3  -  he was stupid enough to take it to a professional movie transfer house, got reported to Lucasfilm and got slapped with a lawsuit and is now sharing a small prison cell with a 7ft hairy biker and is now his bitch

4 - New that this could never possibly have been done and was hoping that everyone here would send him loads of money to pay for the transfer and then just disappear leaving everyone high and dry

I actually think that its #2. I fully understand the reasons behind the person who was doing the star wars project not wanting to release it because of who he was and his professional ties, so i was very surprised when -1 said he was to become involved and that he was fine with it being released for everyone to enjoy. Was he ever really involved? I guess we will never know.

This guy clearly did not know what he was doing. he was also someone who would never admit when he was wrong. This is the guy who said that newsgroups are way too slow compared to torrents. even when he was proved wrong he still claimed that he knew what he was talking about because he'd been programming computers since the 80's (or something like that) and that we were al wrong and didn't know what we were talking about. then he made a torrent of my EP 4 Revisited DVD, but unpacked the ISO using winrar and caused a couple of the video files to become corrupt. He failed to take any responsibility for this and said that he got it direct from the usenet upload i made, therefore saying the corruption was on the original and my fault. Again, when it was clearly pointed out to him that it was his fault because everyone that got it from usenet and didn't unpack the ISO had no problems whatsoever with it, he still never claimed full responsibility and the torrent was just deleted. Luckily i was able to provide a fix for all the people who had spent days downloading the torrent.

I have ran across people like this all throughout my life, but this was one occasion i was preying i would be proved wrong. sadly another time waster getting peoples hopes up and failing to deliver anything

goonar said:

ok....

Wrote the uncompressed files onto my dvd-dl, and popped it into my ps3........ works like a charm!

Going to watch it tonight!

Good to hear that. I wonder why the fanedit.org version has been unpacked from its original ISO? This can cause all sorts of problems as the structure could be changed during burning. Unless the NTSC fix was applied before posting there, then that would make real sense. When you burned it did it suggest cell 28 as the layer break and no other? If so then the fix has been applied and all is good.

Sevb32 said:

adywan said:

Sevb32 said:

adywan said:

I like the idea of seeing the flaps open on the snowspeeders in the cockpit shots. not sure if i would be able to do it or not but it looks like i need to build something else now. :)

 

 

Another 3 months delaying it!

But i don't care how long this takes me to do. If an idea comes up that i think would benefit the edit then i will try to do it, even if it delays the release by an extra year or so. The last thing i want to do is rush the edit just to get it out there and look back thinking "god i really wish i had done that" and not be happy with the finished product.

doubleofive said:

Ady, don't be tempted by the Snowspeeder flaps! You've got enough on your plate already!

And good luck on the canyon. Are you going by the one already in the movie, or designing your own (as far as one can design a rock)?

But i really do like this idea and i think it will really add to the edit.

The canyon is not going to look the same as the original. The first shot as the falcon flies into the canyon looks really fake as it stands. But it is going to match the rock formations we see in the craters so everything matches up.

 

 

 

 

You could wish "I'd done that." for an eternity though, something will always come up. You always add on stuff later anyway. I think I had better leave this forum for a while (to vbangle's and some others delights), perhaps even a year, it's making me nuts. It will be done when it's done doesn't fly, we've only got so many years to live. That's why I sometimes hate the criticism some filmakers get, they actually have deadlines not indefinite time periods. Call me whatever you want, impatient, bratty, prick, whatever variant insulting synonym you can think of. I'm trying not to be a prick but it's hard to hit a moving target. It's line seeing the finish line up a head with joy, then someone moves it out further again, and again, and again.

 

So much for a Christmas 09 release, or even release for ESB's 30th Ann. next year. If it's going to take forever we should at least get more trailers, those who don't want to be spoiled don't have to watch them, no one is forcing them. I am willing to donate more if we can get some of that stuff. Willing to donate quite a bit more actually. I want to support this project being that ANH:R is the only version of ANH I watch now. It's beyond terrific.

The Xmas 09 target was set well before all the extra fixes and improvements came along. You have to remember though i've only been working on this for a year now. I started the basic colour correction and made the first trailer in Feb 08, yeh, but i hadn't even finished the DVD version of ANH:R back then so didn't start on it properly until about June/ July. ANH:R took me over 2 years to complete. Even with all the extra work this is still going to be ready by May 2010 at the latest. So again a 2 year project.

If i offer another clip for donators i will get accused of bribery to get people to donate again and that was never my intention. You say you are willing to donate quite a bit more but you want a clip in return. Well you do realise that the donations are enabling me to get this all done a lot quicker anyway instead of having to wait for me to save up for months to get a few items. Although there won't be any more proper clips to come before its release i did say that i will be posting behind the scenes video blogs so you will be getting new footage but not having enough funds to get everything needed to get this edit finished is what is slowing me down. Most days i have been working over 16 hours a day. i couldn't possibly have gone any faster than i have been without having a breakdown. But i find it unfair for you to keep dangling a donation in front of me when you know just how desperate i am for funds for this edit.

I have posted many more clips and snapshot previews of ESB:R than i ever did for ANH:R. I really want to keep all of the rest of the edit a secret until its ready to be released.

vaderios said:

Siliconmaster482 said:

Haha. Knowing Ady, he'd be much happier building an entire snowspeeder and running it on cables than doing it in 3d. :)

Sure thing. I just said that to support 3d :)

 

Dont start if its accurate or not. i just find a pic and place it there. also i put both flaps/wings whatever to show how can be.

 

-Angel

you see, that demonstrates just how little of the flap i would need to build. you can't see the insides of the flap compartment so just a basic flap and film it. It really wouldn't take me much more time to add this, maybe a week or 2 at the most.

Sevb32 said:

adywan said:

I like the idea of seeing the flaps open on the snowspeeders in the cockpit shots. not sure if i would be able to do it or not but it looks like i need to build something else now. :)

 

 

Another 3 months delaying it!

But i don't care how long this takes me to do. If an idea comes up that i think would benefit the edit then i will try to do it, even if it delays the release by an extra year or so. The last thing i want to do is rush the edit just to get it out there and look back thinking "god i really wish i had done that" and not be happy with the finished product.

doubleofive said:

Ady, don't be tempted by the Snowspeeder flaps!  You've got enough on your plate already!

And good luck on the canyon.  Are you going by the one already in the movie, or designing your own (as far as one can design a rock)?

But i really do like this idea and i think it will really add to the edit.

The canyon is not going to look the same as the original. The first shot as the falcon flies into the canyon looks really fake as it stands. But it is going to match the rock formations we see in the craters so everything matches up.

goonar said:

Hey Guys!

Last night i figured out how to use a .dlc, and downloaded the movie from fanedit.  I downloaded the movie and unpacked it, and so far have not ran into any issues.

 

I am now uploading the video_ts into img burn, but when I check the audio_ts folder, there is nothing in it!  Is the audio track already on the video TS? Or did I get a bad download? 

I would try to test it and make a disk, but DVD-9's are expensive, and  do not want to waste them.

I thought the version from fanedit.org was the original ISO and not the unpacked folders? When you unpacked the rars did it give you an ISO file? if so DO NOT unpack that or you will run into problems. just use IMGBurn to burn the ISO image.

I like the idea of seeing the flaps open on the snowspeeders in the cockpit shots. not sure if i would be able to do it or not but it looks like i need to build something else now. :)

Haven't restarted the canyon this week. had a few family things to get done this week. will restart it on Monday

doubleofive said:

Wrong thread, Ady!  LOL

ha ha. Just shows what a stressful week has done to my brain.

I like the idea of seeing the flaps open on the snowspeeders in the cockpit shots. not sure if i would be able to do it or not but it looks like i need to build something else now. :)

Haven't restarted the canyon this week. had a few family things to get done this week. will restart it on Monday

Episode 1 is only available through usenet so far. Unless someone else starts a torrent there won't be a torrent of it because i don't use torrents

PM sent dark_jedi :)

Sluggo said:

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Now Ady, were you needing the theatrical version to replace shots or is just for timing?

 

Well there are a couple of shots that are missing from the DVD version and the TB broadcast version looks like it would be perfect for both replacement shots and the timing. dark_jedi, could i please have a copy of this DVD off you somehow please?

dark_jedi said:

I was just digging through all my old Star Wars DVD's I have collected over the years and I stumbled upon the TB EP 1 Theatrical Release DVD,it is 16:9 PAL with DD2.0 audio.

This would be invaluable for my TPM theatrical DVD. Would it be possible in some way for me to obtain a copy of this please?

And Coov, i just love those covers.

budwhite said:

Disc 4:- A NEW HOPE - (basic colour correction) (AVAILABLE NOW)
Details:- 1080p True 24fps 
AC3 5.1 English Dolby Digital Audio
Ac3 2.0 Directors commentary (selectable with the audio button on your remote)
aC3 2.0 Alternate commentary (selectable with the audio button on your remote)
Chapters
No menus
Greedo doesn't shoot

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

No 5.1 from the LD?

yes the EP IV AVCHD does use the laserdisc 5.1

Janskeet said:

xhonzi said:

Davnes007 said:

It's a free alternative to DivX.

 

 Don't feed the troll.

LOL

Adywan, why would you give Vader's voice one frame delay?

only the second layer with the robotic filter had a 1 frame delay. the main track had no delay. If you listen closely to vaders voice in ESB & ROTJ you can hear a double tracking effect as if there are 2 voices.

ChainsawAsh said:

Skyjedi edited his post after I quoted him.  Whether he really was joking or not is something I can't know for sure, but his original post sure didn't seem like a joke.

actually Skyjedi edited his post 2 minutes after his original post and 3 1/2 hours before you posted, so his joke remark was already there before you quoted him

Possessed said:

And now that I'm done kissing ass, what's the latest on the theatrical DVD? :)

I'm struggling transferring my NTSC laserdisc of TPM. I need this only as a guide layer so i can match up the HD edit with the theatrical version but my bloody DVD recorder remote is being an ass and i can't access the settings menu to change the input from PAL to NTSC. I even tried copying my PAL VHS and the damn macrovision prevents me from doing this. I know someone did a laserdisc transfer of TPM a long time back but i can't find a copy anywhere

i wonder who wookiegroomer is pointing this at:

from the nfo for his ROTJ blu-ray

To re-edit, mix and adjust video/audio, re-encoding is required. When this happens if you re-encode at anything like or less than the original bitrate you lose quality. Since my releases are meant to be enjoyed by the big boys with REAL home theater systems I encode at the highest possible bitrate to guarantee the best quality- without question. It would be embarrassing to share all this work and then shit on it by encoding it to a DVD9.

As i am the only person to have done any work like colour correction on the saga for AVCHD releases i take it that its pointed towards me.  Whats with all the sudden hostility?

Vader's voice hasn't had a subwoofer channel added. I added an extra layer with a robotic type filter and gave it a 1 frame delay and also lowered the pitch very slightly. this extra layer mixed with the original gave Vaders voice a very subtle difference to match it closer to the ESB voice.

maggot_brain said:

Yet another quality release from Adywan!  Thanks a lot Ady.  For those of you that don't have AVCHD hardware and want to watch it on a PC please note that the TPM is split into 3 m2ts files.  You'll need to use Tsmuxer to join them.  Open the first m2ts and then use the 'append' option to add the other two in order.  Then select 'm2ts muxing' to create on big m2ts file.  You can then open the new big mt2s file in Tsmuxer, demux it and remux into an mkv if you want to.

Just out of interest Ady, will there be a high bit rate mkv of your colour-corrected TPM?  The ESB high bit rate encode looks magnificent.  Thanks again.

Yeh, the files are split this time around because i have used new software to create the AVCHD which should now make it compatible with more blu-ray players with AVCHD capability and it splits then at 3.99gb automatically . I'm not sure if i'll release a high bitrate of TPM

Very nice covers there sluggo :)

Darth Lars said:

adywan said:

Managed to get some more materials and started building the Asteroid trench but its just so damn hot here the plaster and other stuff is drying out way too quick. not a great start. lol.

How about using an air-humidifier? I have one that is quite effective, with a nozzle that I can point where I want the mist. I also think it helps a bit to soothe a sore throat, so maybe it could help against your hay-fever also. Maybe someone you know has one that you cold borrow for this project.

Plaster does not get hard by "drying". It cures hard in a chemical reaction, and (at least in my experience), the curing time is the same even if you mix it with a lot more or a lot less water than the prescribed ratio. After it has cured, the plaster needs to dry to become hard and be less brittle. You can not add plaster to dry plaster - the cured plaster needs to be wet for the uncured plaster to bond to it.

The plaster i am using is a modelling plaster that is an "air drying".  The moisture evaporates to set it so i can use a hair dryer to set it once i have finished work to speed up the process. this gives me a longer working time than ordinary plaster would. Luckily the weather is changing here and the temperature has dropped today so i'll be able to get back to work on it this week.

oh_riginal said:

Okay, let me get things back on topic again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7g4lW-ECA0

TAAAAAUUUUUUN!

Here's some more Taun Taun eye appearance mock up goodness!

The Taun Taun will SEE you in hell!

The Taun-Taun eyes idea is an interesting one but not one i will be incorporating into this edit i'm afraid. There's just something fake about eye replacement that i don't like. I don't have a problem with the eyes as they are

Janskeet said:

Hey guys, we should write/type letters/emails to film institutions and videophile websites and ask them politely to donate money to Adywan's cause. I'm going to write to the American Film Institution and to the digitalbits. Anywhere else you suggest I write? I was going to write one to Lucas and be like hey douchebag, I know you think you're too good to read this so one of your ass kissing PR guys is probably reading this right now so look, here's somebody who gives a damn, why don't you give him some money since you're too lazy to do it.

This is a terrible idea and i hope that no one will ever do something like this. This is the quickest way to get my edits shut down. If that happens because of someone's stupidity then i will hire a bounty hunter to track their ass down and there WILL be disintegrations. lol

dark_jedi said:

Thank you very much Ady,but was curious,where can 1 find the opening crawls to all films in HD but in English,would very much like to swap that part out.

Thanks again for the heads up.

Just use binsearch to search for "star wars 1080p hv"

ChainsawAsh said:

God, I hope not ... is the awful edge enhancement at least not present in the HD broadcast?  I can live with for the color correction and theatrical cut, but it'd be real nice to be able to watch TPM without it for once.

Unfortunately it is present. One thing i found interesting though was that it isn't present or as present in every shot of the movie. it seems to be really noticeable where there is an special effect present in the shot. shots that don't have an effect element seems to have no or very little edge enhancement. this makes me wonder if this was applied in the computer when they were creating the effects and a slight sharpening filter applied for the DVD/HD transfer. it does seem a bit strange that the only the shots that would have had some processing done in the computer has the really noticeable haloing effect.  hmmmmmm.

and something has begun to appear in a.b.starwars. wonder what it could be? ;)