BarBar Jinkx said:As per usual I cant see it
Sounds good though
(if you like the sound of something being bouched around like a basket ball that is)
have you got the xvid codec installed? Just google it and install it then you'll be able to see it (and use vlc mediaplayer too)
Well the ban was lifted. It seems like it was just down to a mistake. they haven't altered anything i posted so all is good once again.
Ok here's a very short clip of the approach to dagobah. Again its a split screen but this time it is a completed scene with tweaked FX, and an attempt to sort out the horrible re-colour job ILM did on R2's dome.
unny stuff there ladyferry
Well TFN can go f**k themselves. I have just got banned with no reason even given. I did nothing over at those boards apart from defending someone who didn't like my edit and was being attacked for saying he didn't. I wasn't aggressive in any manor. Now they're trying to make out that i'm not adywan but in fact the guy who started the argument
The mods there can stick their pathetic site so far up their arse that they'll be able to clean their teeth with it.
Oldschooljedi said:Adywan,
I found ROTJ somewhere:
Format : x264
Source : HDTV
Resolution : 1280x544 6589 kbit/s
Audio : AC3 5.1 384 kbit/s English
Subtitles : English
Is this your next AVCHD release or made by someone else?
Just wanted to ask, because I would prefer your colour-corrected release and
would rather wait if it is not.
No. i haven't done jedi yet and that one is 720p and mine will all be 1080p. Its going to be early next year before the next release
ImperialFighter said:
Lots of interesting updates from you recently Adywan.
Although you posted that any new Wampa head model (!) would be shot in the same way as the original's first appearance (seen here at top), I get the feeling that you might be considering copying the whole look of the last original appearance (seen here at bottom).
I'd like to agree with those who seem to far prefer the look of the first appearance Wampa, rather than the brief one with the sticky-up ears and the smooth-looking, wide horns of the last appearance.
If you do a first appearance with horns, I hope you will consider using the excellent-looking first design with another go at added horns by you, rather than copying the last design.
No, no. The last shot is one that i want to get rid of. The wampa in that shot looks too cutesy. The model, if i even make it, will be closer to the first shot & the SE Wampa
Well i have to say that the movie was definitely more like a pilot episode and a really bad one at that. I hated that thing and will never be able to bring myself to watch it ever again (the first ever star wars related thing that i will ever only see once. Even the holiday special i've been able to watch more than once....just.) . I thought that this was what we had in store for the TV series the same as you vaderisnothayden. But i was wrong. They almost seem two separate entities. I'm almost ashamed to say it but i'm really enjoying the TV series. yeh there have been a couple of duff episodes and the recent jar jar one wanted me to reach for the sick bag, but there are some great stories coming out of it. It seems to be acknowledging the OT hell of a lot more than the PT ever did. I never usually judge a TV series on its pilot but this time i did and i admit i was wrong to do so. Hell just look at the original pilot for Star Trek, "the cage". that was a total piece of shit and a completely different tone than the series would become. And now that Tv series is considered a classic.
It does make me laugh me how people can say something is shit before they have even seen it
budwhite said:Well hopefully blu-ray will be the standard format in 5 years. My point is that it might not be that interesting watching DVDs by that time.
Ady:
Why not doin empire from the HD broadcast? Was is to hard editing those?
I am using the HD broadcast version as a source. it was just impossible to do Revisited in HD because not only do i need to use SD footage but also the FX work and rendering times was just horrendous, even with a quad core pentium. But the picture will still be sharper than the 2004 dvds with using the HD sources. I'l post some screenshots at some point to show just how different the picture will be.
Monroville, you have the plan of the command centre totally wrong. Here is the correct plan. As you can see that the flip shot(which is also reversed as you can see when leia turns her head. it looks unnatural) was done for a reason.
So the only fix needed for that shot is to swap the 2 guys she is standing by so it doesn't look like a flip shot
As for the stardestroyers i won't be changing their colour to match the Executor. The stardestroyers have never had a blue tint to them. If you look at the OUT you'll see that the stardestroyers colouring is now correct.
And i have mentioned before that i won't be adding any form of red tint to Veers AT-AT cockpit. it is red in 1 shot only. All other shots the red tint does not exist. So I'll be removing the red cockpit from that single shot.
if there are enough blocks in the par files it will rebuild the missing rar files. I haven't used newsrover but isn't there a way to download the incomplete rar files? I use newzbin pro and even if the file is incomplete you can download them so there are less blocks to repair with the par files
Latenite said:Let me start off by giving huge thanks to Adywan for working to set the trilogy right again with these releases.
I've been trying to get ANH off Usenet (I'll admit to being a near-complete Usenet newbie), but I keep running into issues with parts 59 and 61 being incomplete. (Not corrupt, just missing messages making me unable to combine the messages) - Just wondering if anyone else has run into this.
Just download all the par2 files that are posted with it . You'll need quickpar (just google it, it's free). once you've installed quickpar open any one of the par2 files and it will scan all the rar files. If there are any incompletes, and you have enough par2's, just click "repair" after the scan and it will repair the incomplete files.
mrbenja0618 said:I have a technical question. Does anyone know how to get 3 hours of video on a DL DVD without losing quality?
The best mpeg encoder i have used is Canopus Procoder 3 and the quality is great. Unfortunately its not free but you will get great quality on a DL-DVD with 3hours.
Monroville said:
He even wired up the cockpit interior with fibre optics and stuck a pilot in there!
That last comment is really full of innuendos when you read it with that picture above it.
gavin77 said:So, it's completely understandable Adywan if you don't care to influence your edits with these new stories, but don't miss them yourself as a Star Wars fan.
No, i just mean that the EU doesn't exist purely for the Revisited edits. I've always been interested in all things outside of the movies and i'm quite enjoying the clone wars tv series (apart from the bloody jar-jar episode) even though i hated the movie and will never watch that ever again
Monroville said:PLEASE don't do a new head! If the first shot has to have horns, that's perfectly okay, just please keep that first shot.
Well the shot would be recreated as close to the original as possible if i did do a new head. It would just be a way to make the wampa look more uniform and would look much better than adding horns digitally
Well what i consider canon is what is in the OUT movies. those are what the canon for the PT should based upon and not the other way around. Influences from books, spin-off TV shows and movies just won't have any bearing on the Revisited edits. Just because GL has something to do with a show or movie doesn't mean that it should have anything to do with the Revisited canon. If i were to include the clone wars then shouldn't i also include the holiday special & Ewok movies. does that mean that the Ewoks should speak now? Too many things are now contradicting the OT but not in my edits.
When i first planned on doing the saga i wanted to bring the saga together as a whole and not have the PT ruin many of the surprises in the OT, namely Leia being Lukes sister and Vader being Lukes father. I want them to be able to be watched in chronological order. So in ROTS you will not have Anakin named as Vader or even see him don the costume. The last we see of Anakin is being led away in the life support chamber after it leaves the shuttle. Leia will not be named either. Palpatine has Maul, Dooku & Grievous in the PT, so when we see Vader in ANH we will just think that he's just another henchman. We will hear mention of Vader in ROTS but not connected to Anakin. And also the problem with Leia remembering her real mother but Padme dies in ROTS will be fixed in the PT, so no changes are needed in ROTJ.
There will be probably more work done on the PT than in the Revisited OT. I have so many ideas for the PT but a lot of new FX need to be done to achieve this. I'm hoping that a new version of TPM is released before i get to that movie with the new CG Yoda because the abomination that is the PT puppet Yoda just cannot exist in my edit. I'm even thinking of building my own mechanical puppet Yoda to replace the one in that movie. I know i can do it. I'm going to have to get myself a HD video camera to achieve most of wehat i want to do with not only the PT, but some work on ESB & ROTJ. The reason i dropped the idea of using models for some new FX work was only down to the fact that my video camera is just complete crap in quality, but having tested a couple of the £400 1080p HD cameras this is now once again a very strong possibility. It's going to cost me a fortune to do all this but its probably the only way i can do the versions i really want to do.
Now Needa's shuttle won't be a Lambda class shuttle in ESB, but it won't be the box one that exists in the movie now. I'm going to design a new shuttle that is similar design to the Lambda. This will either be built as a physical model or CG depending is i can film it as a real element or not in time. I'm also thinking of then using the same design for the Tydirium in ROTJ and have the Lambda class used only for dignitaries like Vader. The Tydirium is supposed to be transporting cargo and technical crew so why would the be using such an important ship? Vader had his own prototype TIE in ANH and i want him to have his own shuttle in ROTJ.
Monroville said:I know this has been beaten to death, but wouldn't it be easier just to remove the horns from the later "inside the cave" shot
and have the wampa keep the 1st image appearance? Those horns just don't work!
Removing the horns from the later Wampa is not something i want to do. The wampa has always had horns and to me it should do. The horns in the clip you posted screenshots from was in HD and therefore hard to use an SD image to look any good at that res. It was also only a WIP. I might even build a new Wampa head for those shots anyway. It might be easier. lol
I've jumped on seeding for as long as i can, which probably won't be too long because i'm close to my usage limit, but it should help out a little
thunderclap said:adywan said:And the X-wing that disappears at the end, i noticed that when i was doing the colour correction. I though ILM was supposed to have fixed these types of FX gaffes but the whole SE just seemed to me to be a half-assed job
I just went back and watched the last shot frame-by-frame and don't see any ship disappearing. Where is it?
Spot the difference. lol
Well here in the UK Argos now has a bluray player for under £100, so prices are coming down a lot faster than they did when DVD was new
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/catalogId/1500001151/productId/1500317761.htm
Oldschooljedi said:Adywan.
just another technical question:
Did you use ImgBurn to create the ISO-file?
If so, did you have to specify a layerbreak-point in ImgBurn? When I want to create an image of a normal DVD, I have to specify where the layerbreak shall be but when I create a image as UDF ImgBurn doesn't ask for the layerbreak-point.
I deleted your image after burning and I'd like to create a new image...
No, imgburn did that automatically. If you want to create a new image from the disc you burned just use the "create image file from disc" function in imgburn. It will make a 1:1 copy to an iso with the layer break intact
the rar files shouldn't have disappeared after using quickpar to check them. The par files are only there to check that all files have downloaded correctly and to repair any files if necessary. You don't need to try and unpack them. The ISO file is under 8.35GB and packed up the ISO does only report as 7.86Gb. After quickpar reported that everything was ok al you needed to do was unpack the rar files to get the ISO & mds files
DarthRayne said:Could someone post a shot of the rotj ones? I never noticed them but did immediatly in ANH-R.
Now all these were captured when the lightsaber is absolutely still so no extra thickness due to movement. As you can see The thickness of the lightsabers changes in ESB but in ROTJ the sabers are pretty thick, much thicker than the ones in ANH:R. Don't forget that for ANH they used reflective strip on the sabers to produce the core glow, whcih produced all the jagged edges and varying thickness's which i had to attempt to cover up, but for ESB & ROTJ they rotoscoped the blades so there really shouldn't have been a problem with the thickness. All the images were captured from the GOUt so they have always been that way. When people pointed out that the lightsabers in ANH:R were thicker they almost all referred to the ones in the PT which use a totally different rotoscoping technique than the OT and are a lot thinner.
Now Vaders helmet moving in the wind may not be able to be fixed. If he was very still then there would be no problem but because his head is in motion its is going to be hard to pull off. I'll give it a go sometime but i can't guarantee that i'll be able to do it.
DF Shadow said:Also, this may have already been mentioned but will you be slightly altering the scene where Vader tosses objects at Luke so that Luke actually hits a few of them instead of just swatting at them?
I'm not sure if i will do anything about that. After all, with Luke missing almost all of them it does show just how inexperienced he is and that Yoda was right when he said that he wasn't ready to face Vader
Ganamae said:1: When the stormtroopers drops Han off in the detetion cell the trooper on our right ( Han's left ) almost looses his helmet.
I don't think this needs to be fixed because they are only just wearing helmets and this would most likely happen if knocked anyway
Ganamae said:2: A new explosion scene made for when the snowtroopers blast their way into the rebel base, the explosion seem so bad, like a wobby star trek set from the 60's, perhaps make it more grand?
I think the explosion is fine as it is. If the explosion was bigger it would have probably blew up most of the command centre.
Ganamae said:3: A bigger ground battle when the AT-AT's attack the rebel base, it seems so small and the explosions so few and not that harmful, would like to see it be upped to a more Epic style of battle, More lasers, troopers, ships and intensity.
Would be fun to see a AT-AT actually debark its troopers ( like Veers orders ) see Snowtroopers on the battlefield and perhaps blasting their way into the base.
The battle will be more intense but adding something like the troops debark would probably slow down the pace of the battle. Plus with no existing footage it would be impossible to do
Ganamae said:4: To make the Mynocks inside the space slug look less "puppety" and to perhaps give added depth to the environment there? also perhaps do something about their breather apparatus, it looks a bit strange.. like there's something missing.
I doubt there is much i can do about them without creating all CG Mynocks (which i have no clue about how to do anything in CG). Adding depth to the environment isn't needed either. The falcons external lights are the only things lighting up the outside and they are not very powerful. The darkness of the surroundings provides a greater depth than adding in any backgrounds ever could. The breathing apparatus is also ok and doesn't need changing. Although really they should be wearing suits because they should have all frozen to death when they went outside. lol
Ganamae said:5: And something that I have always wondered about, the Ion cannon on Hoth, should it's bolts not be blue?
Now this is something that has only cropped up since the PT and the new Clone Wars cartoon. There were no blue laser blasts ever in the OT. This is one thing that seemed to be added in the PT to go with the over-colourful look of those movies. Turning the Ion cannons lasers blue just wouldn';t work. it fires against a blue background so the laser would just blend in. I don't want to change the colour of lasers at all in the OT
Ganamae said:6: The Destroyer that gets hit by Hoths Ion cannon should have better FX as it gets hit.
yeh, this will be getting an FX overhaul.
Bewy said:And to come back to ESB (I don't recall having read it before on the forum), is it planned to add any flashes in the overhead shot when Luke and Vader are fighting on the bridge (before Luke falls and Vader says "It is useless to resist"), because I don't see any of these flashes when sabres hit each other. Just checked it out again to be sure :)
And also to fix the X or Y-wing fighter in the last scene (2nd shot, when the medical fregate enters the shot and fighters fly along with it) that disappears something like 2 frames before the end of the shot.
yeh there are flashes.
If you look closely the flash actually happens before the sabers clash, so that's something that needs to be fixed. Also then the rails get hit the explosion lights up the surroundings but this causes you to be able to see the edges of the matte painting. So again another fix to be done
And the X-wing that disappears at the end, i noticed that when i was doing the colour correction. I though ILM was supposed to have fixed these types of FX gaffes but the whole SE just seemed to me to be a half-assed job
That part in AOTC where the lights go out and you can see them illuminated by the saber glow will be going from my revisited version. Its just horrible. They're supposed to be in battle but its so obvious that they are just swinging the sabers around their heads. Also it only seems that the CG characters have any sort of glow added to them for the most part so i don't think i'll be adding any form of glow on the characters
DarthRayne said:Please Adywan make the sabers less fat than you did in ANH.
There was a reason for that in ANH. If you look at the original FX the sabers have some really harsh jagged edges and the thickness changes due to the changing light intensity as the sabers move shining off the reflective strip on the saber. Unfortunately making them slightly fatter was the only way to cover them. But they are still nowhere near as fat as they appear in ROTJ. Boy those are going to be a nightmare to fix.
yeh, i watched the ITV showings. Funny thing about them using the 2004 version for ROTJ. Last year they showed all 3 of the '97 versions so i was hoping they did the same this year so i could get a higher res of Sebastian Shaw for my ROTJ:R. I recorded all 3 and was so disappointed when i got to Jedi. But i have ANH from ITV if you need it
Well i always use Megui to reencode the files to x264 then use Tsmuxer to create the AVCHD.
There's a guide for Megui here:
Plus a good forum here that also has some great presets for Megui
http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?s=bb3ee9b98ce331ab358093bd749d1ca4&f=78
SithTrooper said:I was watching ESB on Spike TV last night and saw a couple of things that I did not see on the list (page 1).
1) during the Cloud City battle between Luke and Vader I could not see the blue or red glow from their sabers. Can anyone else?
Which part? I didn't see any missing glows when doing the colour correction. Could you give a timeframe at all or a bit more information?
2) when Vader is talking to Luke on the platform (after cutting Luke's hand off) you can see the shell of Vader's helmet moving in the wind.
Yeh, this has been mentioned. I'm not sure if i'll be doing anything with that because we do see that the hood part of the helmet is separate and it does help show just how windy it is up there.
Ady,
I wasn't sure if the list is final, but I wanted to throw those in there if it's OK.
No, the list isn't anywhere near final yet. Ther are just so many things to add to it yet.
Darth Yub Nub said:Star.Wars.EP.V.1997.SE.AVCHD.1080p.ADYWAN.READ.NFO**REPACK**[001/179] - "star.wars.ep.v.1997.SE.1080p.avchd.adywan.REPACK.nfo" yEnc (1/1)
collection size: 8.35 GB, parts available: 34869 / 34869
can we download now?
yeh. its fully uploaded now.
