adywan

Janskeet said:

Adywan, you sound like you have a lot of health problems. Are these type A or type B health problems. Type A meaning are these inherited health problems or are they type B where you spend too much time in front of the computer eating junkfood type of health problems?

actually its type C. It stems from a motorbike accident i had when i was younger and the injuries have caused problems with my health as have become older.

I'm having hell this week. 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. i've had the air-conditioner on full all week but i suffer really badly with hayfeaver so unable to open the windows so the room is a sauna. if i open the windows i'll be sneezing non stop and not good when your mixing plaster power cuz the room would end up looking like Hoth. So that's being put on hold until it gets cooler.I was hoping to get this section out of the way but so much has been wasted because of the heat so I'm still in desperate need of funds to get the rest of the stuff so any help is always greatly appreciated.

EyeShotFirst said:

George thought colours were symbolic so he tinted all of the films a different colour.

the colour mess of TPM had nothing to do with anything like this. It was just a bad transfer plain and simple. If you watch the featurettes and documentaries on TPM's dvd you can see that there is nothing wrong with the colouring in the clips shown in those, which are from an earlier transfer

Well TPM is almost ready. I did a test encode but it came out 100mb too large. Gutted.

Doing the final encode now and hopefully iit should start showing up in a.b.starwars later tonight

Here's the specs for TPM:

1080p colour corrected video 23.976fps
5.1 English AC3 audio
2.0 English directors commentary
Hardcoded English subs for alien spoken parts
English subs
Dutch subs
German subs
French subs
Spanish subs
Danish subs

dark_jedi said:

adywan said:

Octorox said:

what are they called and how big are they? I want to make sure I get the best quality versions for my edit. Also If someone could PM an alternate means of obtaining these I would be grateful but I'll find a way to use usenet if I have to.

Wideload said:

I am obtaining these from Usenet and am happy to help you Octorox....PM me if you want help.

They are typically 17-19GB each!

Incidentially, I cannot see the German Empire Strikes Back on Usenet...all the others, just no Empire.  Can anyone else confirm this?

Cheers,

 

you both have a PM ;)

 

 

Ady do you have any more info on where these are(German versions) I can't seem to find any of them,I would love to get these in my collection to.

Thanks

They are in alt.binaries.hdtv.repost but the posts are around 210 days old so you'll need a good usenet provider with a high retention to be able to get them. here's what to search for using binsearch:

c-sw1h264
c-sw2h264
c-sw3h264
c-sw4h264
c-sw5h264
c-sw6h264

dark_jedi said:

adywan said:

Here's a small split screen sample so you can see the colour correction and juts how bad the pink tint was in TPM

TPM SD SPLIT SCREEN XVID SAMPLE - approx 15mb- rapidshare

 

 

That looks very nice Ady,can you please tell me how you did that split screen comparison,this could come in very handy for me in my projects.

Thanks

It was done in vegas. I had the uncorrected video on one layer and the corrected video on another so the timeline matched up then applied the "cookie cutter" filter on the corrected layer using the "square" shape, applied a blackborder of 0.01 and then positioned the cookie cutter shape so the picture became split in half.

Bingowings said:

Here is a mini preview of the scope of the thing, I still have to find and map in a lot of details and correct wonkyness but you get the general idea all of this made possible by Ady's HD version of ANH, still can't find any quality info for the near end of the arch as it never appeared on screen anyway:

don't know if this pic would be any help to you or not

Ripplin said:

Alrightly. I just figured that since it seems every time it airs or is pressed somewhere, it's a bit different, y'know? :p As far as the theatrical cut, has anyone really seen that (without making their own) since it was actually in the theater?

The theatrical cut is on the VHS and on the laserdisc releases. It was only changed for the DVD release. The laserdisc has the theatrical 5.1 mix so i will be using that for the DVD. The Theatrical cut DVD  will be a NTSC only release and only a DVD-9. I won't be sending out any copies of this and i will only be posting it to usenet, but no doubt someone will start a torrent of this after

mrbenja0618 said:

Great work, Ady... But I also thought the earlier scenes were way too blue. But the non-pink looks great.

 

You mean like this shot?

Docta Nick said:

adywan said:

Here's a small split screen sample so you can see the colour correction and juts how bad the pink tint was in TPM

TPM SD SPLIT SCREEN XVID SAMPLE - approx 15mb- rapidshare

 

The colour correction is now finished and i'm starting to encode the AVCHD later tonight. Should be showing up on the next at the weekend

 

Great logos there Coov. I really like the bottom one.

 

 Nice, you also gonna make that theatrical DVD version you mentioned earlier? It'd make a lot of people happy :P Good job seriously

yes, i'll be working on that as soon as the AVCHD is finished. I needed a bit of a break from ESB:R as i am waiting for some materials to be delivered before i can do any more work on it so i decided to squeeze these TPM projects in . I'll be making some covers for the AVCHD set later this month too.

Here's a small split screen sample so you can see the colour correction and juts how bad the pink tint was in TPM

TPM SD SPLIT SCREEN XVID SAMPLE - approx 15mb- rapidshare

The colour correction is now finished and i'm starting to encode the AVCHD later tonight. Should be showing up on the next at the weekend

Great logos there Coov. I really like the bottom one.

just thought i would post these pics here just in case anyone hasn't seen my AVCHD thread.

Episode 1-

(sorry the file is so large)

Ok. Well the first colour correction pass for Episode 1 is now complete. Over 48 hours to encode the first pass colour corrected movie to lossless avi. So many colour filters used causes everything to crawl. If i didn't have my quad core processor i would have never attempted to colour correct this in 1080p.  There are about 100 shots that need some slight tweaking but here is a comparison sample of the final colour correction.

Sorry about the size of that but there were so many i wanted to show. In the last 2 shots you can see :

A- (the shot of Obi-Wan) many shots seem to be very dark with the white levels way too low. Finally the lightsabers have the bright white core

B- R2 in TPM is the wrong colour in almost all shots. In fact his blue decals change shades throughout. Finally he is now the same colour as OT R2

Darth Chronus said:

adywan said:

rcb said:

for the cloaking device debate, the sith infiltrator, maul's ship, was a craft developed by the sith and since it was created by the sith, it has a cloaking device. the sith aren't retards and they needed to keep a low profile. i'm sure someone would've noticed a sith infilitrator taking off out of couruscant traffic. its a bit noticeable.

and ady, no offense to u, but u can't take everyline in a movie, in this case ESB, seriously.

Isn't the whole "Sith infiltrator having a cloak" having a cloak an EU thing anyway? because it certainly isn't in TPM.  If the sith created cloaking devises for their ships then why the hell when a sith is ruling the galaxy doesn't any of their ships have a cloak? Another useless EU addition. The amount of ships flying around Coruscant, with many different types coming and going, do you really think one little ship would stick out? no.

And it has nothing to do with taking every line in ESB seriously at all. It has to do with continuity. The EU and especially  the PT for that matter, should have taken what was said in the OT seriously then we wouldn't have the amount of fuck ups between the 2 trilogies and having the EU trying to explain it all.

 

 

You're absolutely right. :)

Btw Ady, my Torrent for ANH:R has finished downloading and all I have to do now is get that Verbatim dual-layer writable DVD and start burning the ISO.

I'm gonna use imgburn so should I select the one that says 'write image to disc' or 'write files to disc'. Thanks.

"write image" as long as the torrent isn't an unpacked one. It should be an ISO file

rcb said:

for the cloaking device debate, the sith infiltrator, maul's ship, was a craft developed by the sith and since it was created by the sith, it has a cloaking device. the sith aren't retards and they needed to keep a low profile. i'm sure someone would've noticed a sith infilitrator taking off out of couruscant traffic. its a bit noticeable.

and ady, no offense to u, but u can't take everyline in a movie, in this case ESB, seriously.

Isn't the whole "Sith infiltrator having a cloak" having a cloak an EU thing anyway? because it certainly isn't in TPM.  If the sith created cloaking devises for their ships then why the hell when a sith is ruling the galaxy doesn't any of their ships have a cloak? Another useless EU addition. The amount of ships flying around Coruscant, with many different types coming and going, do you really think one little ship would stick out? no.

And it has nothing to do with taking every line in ESB seriously at all. It has to do with continuity. The EU and especially  the PT for that matter, should have taken what was said in the OT seriously then we wouldn't have the amount of fuck ups between the 2 trilogies and having the EU trying to explain it all.

Ok i have to put an end to this. I though all this would have died out ages ago.

Your so gullible. lol. Killing Lando was never going to be part of my edit, but was being considered as a special feature only. Only the PT will be getting ripped apart. There will be some changes in jedi but none will be drastic in a way that will change the story. Yes there will be a new ending but that's being kept a secret. The Lando thing came about because so many people kept asking about the ending so i made one up.

Don't hate me :)

If you are going to London then i would definitely visit this place.

The Movieum

Shame your not going the weekend starting 11th July though.

rcb said:

vaderios said:

If Maul's Ship have A cloak device then why not Boba's one :) Heck with EU lol

 

-Angel

 

 

 that would be cool. instead of fett's ship flying so close, as it gets closer it cloaks itself. anybody up for a mock up? anyone?

And here is a good reason why i stay well clear of the EU and all its bullshit. half the time its as if they haven't even bothered watching the films when they create this crap. So Mauls ship was supposed to have a cloaking devise? what a load of crap. what happened to the fact that "no ship that small has a cloaking devise"? or have people forgotten that line in ESB? We see ships in the PT that are still around in the OT so if mauls ship has one and its smaller than the falcon then it makes this line redundant because if his had one then there would be ships as small with cloaking devises running around in the times of the OT. So no cloaking devises for Slave 1.

Serji-X Arrogantus said:

Have you noticed one of the pieces of garbage appears to be a rather huge Snowspeeder engine ? :)

yeh i noticed that. I also noticed what looks to be a y-wing engine dome in there too

vaderios said:

Finally... Cant wait to take this pinkless beauty:)

I hope you worked the contrasts too.

 

-Angel

can you give some examples of what you mean by the contrasts?

oh_riginal said:

This seems like something Ady would have already caught (IF he considered it a continuity error)... but I did not see it listed anywhere as a fix, so...

... I took it upon myself to do a mockup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4_tZ6Yd9fs

Even in 1997, the SE shot bothered me, not because it was poorly done, but because it seems to break continuity! In one shot, the Falcon and Slave 1 pull out of the garbage trail... only to wind up back in it again!

Deja vu? Groundhog day? Hmm...

i haven't listed it as a fix because the scene is being changed

Coming very soon......

Its not going to be the theatrical version this time around. The only sources with missing shots just aren't good enough quality to work with (But a DVD version of a colour corrected theatrical TPM in the near future is highly likely). But its been colour corrected so, goodbye Mr. Pink.

Something is coming..........

vaderios said:

Control! You must learn control!

wow Ady! I see ppl that manage to make these models for years and are you going to make them all in a short time?

I cant imagine a rush job from you because i know you will not do it :D

You can always ask for help or already models. I know that some ambitious thoughts can lead to frustration and i wanted to ground it a bit.

Think again what some things can be done with 3d or mattes :)

 

Do you best as always...you are an Autobot after all

-Angel

I've always been a quick worker. Back when i was doing fantasy painting on peoples leather bike jackets in the '80s i had been known to be working on 7 jackets at the same time, all hand painted with no airbrushing, with a completion time of 2 days or less. Now these weren't just simple designs but full blown paintings similar to the works of Chris Achilleos ( who i had the great pleasure of meeting).Over the years i have developed techniques that enable me to work faster, but without cutting any corners or causing a drop in quality.

Now , yes this puts a huge workload onto me, but i refuse to use a matte or CG unless its impossible for me to film with miniatures and sets. CG mattes just don't work , mainly because the lighting & colouring just doesn't look natural. CG mattes are getting a hell of a lot better since EP3 but i don't want to turn the OT into a CG background fest.

The good thing about all this is that i am learning new stuff every day and all this will be invaluable when i get to tackling the PT just before my 90th birthday in 2057 (j/k)

Sevb32 said:

Gonna be 2 or 3 years from now before this edit is done most likely. And someone will retort "It will be done when it's done!".

i'm estimating a 2020 release for ESB:R with all the extra stuff now ;)

Just be patient. It will be done when its done

(just couldn't resist that. lol)

Now back to seriousness.....

The millennium falcon in the garbage is going to be fixed so it will look more natural without the sudden pause

MICHAEL JACKSON

FARRAH FAWCETT

you seem to be constantly making new thread with these soundtracks but where are the links? And being crappy quality has nothing to do with a track being live. i have many live recordings of music that are actually better quality than the studio versions. Are you sure you are not just going through youtube and taking bits of music from there and taking credit for it? a little info about your sources etc would go a long way