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Post: #307138
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307138/action/topic#307138
Time: 20-Jan-2008 5:32 AM

The model hand is exactly the same shape as it is above. it's just that at the angle it needed to be it looks different. I will post a photo of the actual model hand later when i charge up the camera batteries and it'll be the same position as in the pic above and you'll see what i mean.

i would like to hear everyone else's opinion about this is possible. Should i redo the shot or keep it as it is?

Originally posted by: Kurgan
PS: Spotted the battle droid, and it looks good, very unobtrusive. But I'm at a loss where Georgie is. Is it "old George" or "young George"? Give us a hint!

Its George circa 1976

Post: #307134
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307134/action/topic#307134
Time: 20-Jan-2008 4:52 AM

There was no speeding up of the film involved in the Obi-Wan/ Vader fight at all. the pace was changed only by editing so slowing it down wouldn't have made it the same speed as the original. And it isn't PAL it's NTSC.

As for Ponda Baba's arm, i modelled the had from all the sources available and i kept it true to the original. This edit was just for the fans and i'm not really bothered if it confuses people when see the flipper. it is there to correct a mistake and the original hand sticks out like a sore thumb to me knowing that he had a flipper (that can be seen clearly in other shots). As for the blood, the saber cortorizes the wound so there would be no blood. here's a snapshot from the holiday special that shows his flipper, even though the colouring is different to that in ANH because of the lighting:

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/919/aqualishsittingmf4.jpg

It was originally changed to the wolf hand because of the original flipper not being able to hold a gun and might confuse the audience but as i said it's there for the fans who know what it should look like. I might tweak it slightly for the DVD but i can't change the angle. I have to keep it at the angle it originally was due to the other elements in the shot.

and it wasn't "Lord" Darth Vader in the special edition credits so i haven't changed anything there

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/1279/creditsoriginalim5.jpg

I knew that the changes i made wouldn't please everyone but this was originally just for me and it's exactly the way i wanted it . Oh my god i have turned into George Lucas.

Post: #307113
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307113/action/topic#307113
Time: 20-Jan-2008 12:18 AM

Originally posted by: corellian77
Quick question:

I'm downloading this via torrent, but took a peek at Usenet.com after reading some of the posts earlier.

I'm tempted to join due to the extreme difference in download speed, but do all newsgroups require you to pay for the service? Any free ones out there? (Yes, I know I'm cheap...)

Well giganews are doing a 3 day free trial at the moment which allows you to download up to 10gb

Free 3 day Giganews Trial

Post: #307071
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/307071/action/topic#307071
Time: 19-Jan-2008 5:49 PM

Originally posted by: Denryanj
I just finished watching this thing and I have one MAJOR complaint, Adywan......

In the closing credits, you spelled the City By The Bay as SAN FRAN"S"ISCO.....how dare you?

OOps

That'll be fixed for the DVD

If anyone else spots any mistakes in the credits can you let me know as soon as possible please so i can fix it for the dvd releases. thanks

Post: #306980
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306980/action/topic#306980
Time: 19-Jan-2008 8:29 AM

I'm seeding on the torrent now too for as long as i can before my ISP cut me off. Currently seeding at 80kB/s. Hope this helps a bit

Post: #306966
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306966/action/topic#306966
Time: 19-Jan-2008 7:13 AM

Ok the last part has just uploaded. hope you've all got your popcorn ready

Post: #306963
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306963/action/topic#306963
Time: 19-Jan-2008 6:50 AM

Originally posted by: eros

Originally posted by: adywan

Originally posted by: eros
Why 652 x 272 ????

Because a lot of commercial divx players will not play any xvid greater than 652 width

well its down to the last 50minutes of uploading.

Almost there....

I'd have thought 640 X 272 would be a more logical ratio.

Yeh, thats what i thought but the conversion program selected that ratio and if i changed it to 640 it would crop too much off the top & bottom. It might have something to do with the fact that the xvid is taken direct off the lossless avi master and not converted from the mpeg2. Anyway i'm not too concerned with a slightly wrong ratio for the xvid because The DVD's will be correct and that is the way i would prefer people to watch it anyway

all the rar files have now been uploaded

Post: #306960
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306960/action/topic#306960
Time: 19-Jan-2008 6:39 AM

Hmm, i wonder how you got hold of a picture of the new death star schematic used in my edit for your would be avatar, WXM?

Post: #306958
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306958/action/topic#306958
Time: 19-Jan-2008 6:32 AM

Down to the last 6 rar files and then the par2's

Oh yeh, and if anyone is going to torrent this can you please include the nfo file please. thanks

Post: #306953
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306953/action/topic#306953
Time: 19-Jan-2008 6:08 AM

Originally posted by: eros
Why 652 x 272 ????

Because a lot of commercial divx players will not play any xvid greater than 652 width

well its down to the last 50minutes of uploading.

Almost there....

Post: #306939
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306939/action/topic#306939
Time: 19-Jan-2008 4:48 AM

There are 128 parts all together, not including the par2 files, and it's on part 84 now. Reporting 2.5 hours left to go.

for those who are new to usenet i would suggest getting quickpar from here:
quickpar downlaod - freeware

install this and then once you have all the rar files & a couple of the par2 files (you probably won't need all of them so just get 2) open any one of the par2 files with quickpar and it will scan the rars for incompletes. If, for any reason it reports as incomplete then quickpar can repair the damaged files. It will tell you how many blocks you need to be able to recover if you don't have enough, so just download a few extra & open up the par file again. If you still don't have enough then repeat this until it reports that it is ready to repair, & click the repair button. once this is done you can unpack the rars without problem. There should be plenty of par2 files to reapir if needed but if anyone does have a problem i can always post some extra.

Originally posted by: Sevb32
Can anyone post an idiot's guide to downloading this?

If you look 7 posts up from you, darkhelmet posted some usefull links with what you need to know.

Also, anyone that is going to torrent this then if you torrent the whole rar set as they are then anyone else that has downloaded this from usenet would be able to help seed

Post: #306917
Topic: STAR WARS: the alt.binaries.starwars thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306917/action/topic#306917
Time: 19-Jan-2008 1:00 AM

Now posting to alt.binaries.starwars....

A certain little fan edit in XVID

Post: #306916
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306916/action/topic#306916
Time: 19-Jan-2008 12:28 AM

Originally posted by: hempler
Just saw the first file post.....should all be there by morning.

Yeh, its saying its going to take about 7 hours to complete.

Have fun

Post: #306913
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306913/action/topic#306913
Time: 19-Jan-2008 12:09 AM

Creating Par2 files and will be going up in about 7 minutes.

Post: #306910
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306910/action/topic#306910
Time: 18-Jan-2008 10:43 PM

Just checking the XVID now. So far everything looks to be ok. You should see it starting to appear in the next hour or so. Just got to create the sample and the nfo and rar the files up and it's good to go. Its approx 1.8gb NTSC,with 5.1 AC3 . Any smaller and i just wasn't happy with the quality. plays fine on my PS3 & Sony DVD player.

Post: #306900
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306900/action/topic#306900
Time: 18-Jan-2008 8:28 PM

Originally posted by: mbmapit
Hey Adywan,

I know this is completely off topic but.....

Please could you upload your edit of Titanic that you did? I stupidly burnt it to bad media and now it wont play and i can't retrieve it. Pretty please. I'd be willing to make a small donation of some kind for your trouble if you could???

Thanks

I actually replied to you both times you PM'd me about this. Are your PM's turned on? i don't have a copy of the edit any more. I used Riktek media to burn the copy and it has now degraded and unless someone has a copy of this then that edit is lost forever. That is why i only use Taiyo Yuden media now. Ritek was always one of the best media to use but when they changed the dye it is unbelievably bad and i didn't know about this issue until it was too late. hell of a lot of my stuff that was backed up using RITEK is now unreadable.

Just finishing off the last few tweaks needed to the audio, the xvid is ready to have the audio track applied and should start going up in a.b.starwars in about 3 hours followed by the DVD-5 versions starting in a couple of days

Post: #306871
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306871/action/topic#306871
Time: 18-Jan-2008 6:02 PM

Originally posted by: dumb_kid
From what I understand Ady is doing separate encodes for the SL and DL versions. Each encode will be optimized for the space allowed on each disc. They will be mpeg2 with variable bit rates.

You are correct

Its coming along nicely now. i should have some great news for you in a few hours . (hope i haven't jinxed it now)

Post: #306813
Topic: Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306813/action/topic#306813
Time: 18-Jan-2008 1:51 AM

Originally posted by: Johnny Ringo
You really shouldn't be asking us.

So, I guess I should buy a PS3, huh.

I really can't tell if you are being sincere or sarcastic. I wouldn't, But hey, It's your money...In any case, you should look at everything that's available to you and decide for yourself. Don't be a hater, Just be happy with what you've got.

In terms of Bluray. If you steer clear of 1.0 profile you SHOULD be okay. As far as I know you can't go from 1.0 to 2.0 outside of PS3.

I know I'm probably in the minority but I really hope Bluray loses. I really can't stomach the thought of Sony being in control. But I guess we'll just see how things pan out.

Well i would recommend the PS3. In terms of picture quality the PS3 is amazing for both bluray & DVD. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to test out a couple of bluray players, a samsung and philips, and quality wise they were really inferior to the PS3. the price was slightly more than the PS3 at the time and i just couldn't justify the extra bucks for worse quality. After all not only do you get a player but also a great games console (even though the games available at the moment are pretty crappy). i also think that some of the 1.0 profile players can be upgraded to 2.0 through a firmware update.

i do have to admit that i'm not a sony lover in the slightest but bluray is winning the format war at the moment and i hope that bluray comes out on top because microsoft are pushing the HD-DVD format and i hate Microsoft hell of a lot more than Sony.

Post: #306799
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306799/action/topic#306799
Time: 17-Jan-2008 10:35 PM

Originally posted by: bkev
Hey, that´s cool... but why have all the previous clips been at PAL speed?
beacause i was working with a PAL source due to the higher image quality and hadn't created an NTSC version when i was posting the clips
Originally posted by: teharri
how many GB's with this movie be on usenet.com?

the XVID will probably be 1.4gb with ac3 audio

Post: #306795
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306795/action/topic#306795
Time: 17-Jan-2008 10:16 PM

Just to let you know, the XVID will be NTSC 23.976 fps and not 25fps PAL so no PAL speed-up on the audio

Post: #306778
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306778/action/topic#306778
Time: 17-Jan-2008 9:17 PM

well the audio problem looks to have been solved. using Maven3D Pro to encode the AC3 file has produced 100% better results than using Vegas. The difference in clarity is amazing. it sounds just the same as the uncompressed original, and the volume is the same level too. it will be a bit quieter than the original 2004 DVD's but that is mainly due to having to lower it slightly because of all the extra elements in the mix. Just crank the volume up. So with any luck you should see the first version (probably the xvid if i can get the quality a lot better) as early as tomorrow evening

Post: #306758
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306758/action/topic#306758
Time: 17-Jan-2008 8:04 PM

Originally posted by: bkev
So, this means the DVD9 will come later?

yes, but that would be a few weeks away because there are more things to get ready for the DVD-9. Some of the menus would be different from the DVD-5 versions

Post: #306754
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306754/action/topic#306754
Time: 17-Jan-2008 7:52 PM

Well a spot of good news. I've just discovered that it is indeed a problem with vegas' ac3 encoding. I have just tested a problem section using Maven3D pro and the problem has gone away, but the audio is a little quieter (could be due to the wav exporting because Vegas is reporting the audio as too loud when the peaks clearly show that they are well below the threshold). I might just skip the xvid completely and go straight to the PAL & NTSC DVD-5 versions because the encoding quality of the xvid, even with a 2 disc size, is below par. But i may still do an xvid if i can get it looking better

Post: #306746
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306746/action/topic#306746
Time: 17-Jan-2008 7:22 PM

Bad new guys, and you are all going to hate me for this. Somethings pretty screwed with the audio. For some reason the volume is fluctuating during the louder scenes. I think the problem is down to exporting the ac3 through vegas. So unfortunately until i have sorted out the audio problem i have no other choice but to delay the release. Hopefully i will have found a solution by tomorrow at the latest and have things back on track for a release the next day. Sorry

Post: #306726
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/306726/action/topic#306726
Time: 17-Jan-2008 4:22 PM

Thanks for all the comments guys. I'm doing a test XVID encode now. if all goes well then it should start uploading in about 3 hours. The PAL DVD-5 should start to appear in the next couple of days