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#285558
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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Originally posted by: eros
Adywan I want to make a temporary OOT avi for my portable using both the 2004 se and editdroid. what would you say are the best levels to use overall in vdub for the 2004 se colour and brightness levels to match the OOT?


I attempted doing this at first and found out that an overall setting just wouldn't work. There are so many colour issues with the 2004 DVD's that you can get a great setting for the first section of the movie but then the scenes aboard the Death Star have a green tint to them, and thats only an example. The way i had to do it was to do 2 encodes with separate settings and then , almost shot by shot, had to tweak the colours & levels in both Vegas & Adobe After Effects (with a great plug-in to remove the horrible blue colour of the Death Star interior).

If you really need to do just one pass for colours then i would suggest using the white balance filter for Virtualdub (available as a free plugin on the net, just google it) and play about with various custom white balance settings, testing each setting using the preview feature, until you get a balance you prefer. For the brightness levels i would suggest using the "levels" filter, but try to keep the mid range settings pretty much the same or you will encounter video noise issues. At the end of the day just play about with the settings, do a quick encode of a short clip of a few scenes with different brightness levels (one best one to test is any shot with a starfield background to check for video noise) each time you change the settings and preview them.

just have fun, its a mess
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#285454
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285454/action/topic#285454
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Originally posted by: DGC General X
Hey everybody. nobody has posted for a while. I just wanted to know how everything is going. I f you need help with anything, just let me know.


Things are going pretty slowly at the moment. I've reached the hardest section of the movie and with so many FX shots to either touch up or redo its turning into a very long and painful experience.

I decided to redo the complete opening sequences that i posted for the audio test. i wasn't too happy with the Fx because they were done when i was a total newbie (I still am though too. lol) So the sequence you saw will look different in the completed edit, but it looks much better now.

I'm estimating that i have at least 4 months of work left to do on this so i can only apologise that its going to be a longer wait than i had originally planned. But these things happen.
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#285451
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Help: looking for... 1997 SE TB Digital Broadcasts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285451/action/topic#285451
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Originally posted by: Marvoloadywan, how did you download it so fast? I have only been getting 1.5kb download speed for twelve hours now, and it is getting annoying. I think my problem might be because it is on the pirate bay. If someone could up this on Demenoid it would be much appreciated.


Yeh, pirate bay can be a total pain. I've been seeding since it finished downloading now for for about 6 hours and , apart from the first hour, no one is even connected to me.

EDIT: spoke too soon. there's one person connected to me now @ 73KB/s. I take it this is you Marvolo. Hopefully you're getting better speeds now
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#285272
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Help: looking for... 1997 SE TB Digital Broadcasts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285272/action/topic#285272
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Originally posted by: wainscoI'm on an OC12 connection to the internet, so 622Mb/s. I've limited the connection (have to keep the campus up) to 800KB/s, which is 6.4Mb/s, which should do quite well. Perhaps your ISP rate limits torrent connections. I know my provider at home is obsessed with throttling torrent traffic.


No, my ISP has no throttling for torrents and i usually downlaod torrents at around 8MB/s. I wonder if pirate bay trackers have speed limits though as this should be going super fast.

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#285263
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Help: looking for... 1997 SE TB Digital Broadcasts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285263/action/topic#285263
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Originally posted by: wainscoI'm on a ridiculously fast connection, so if anyone out there has a pristine copy of all 3 broadcasts, I'd love to set up a torrent so that they're made available.


Fist off let me say thank you for this.

Secondly I'd love to know what you mean by "ridiculously fast connection because" i am the only one connected to you and the max its reporting is 56kB/s. have you limited your upload speed for this because if you haven't then i wouldn't call this "ridiculously fast" because my upload speed is 80kB/s and i'm on a standard UK 8MB connection.
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#284753
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284753/action/topic#284753
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Originally posted by: tellan
ady, if you need spacey sound effects ie final battle stuff, the xwing games are a good source.
all of the in game sounds are stereo wav files so there's lots there like hyperdrive, engine noise, lasers etc.


Thanks tellan, i've got a couple of the games so i'll check them out
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#284714
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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I think i need to clear a small matter up before i go any further. There will be only 2 versions that will be doing. PAL & an NTSC DVD versions. The PAL will be the first release followed a short time later by the NTSC.\I will leave it up to someone else to do other conversions.

I'm relived that the new sound mix is on the right track. It's going to be a while before i can afford a new surround system so I'm glad that the surround headphones are doing their job. The PA announcement is actually from the radio plays and i added some Fx to convert it from normal speech to that of a PA & thanks infodroid for the speeder sounds. they have been very useful. I did have these sounds that i downloaded from somewhere but they became corrupt so its good to have them again. I think they were from one of the games. I know that i downloaded ripped audio from Star Wars galaxies but none of the ambient sounds from Tatooine worked, along with a lot of the others which would have been invaluable for this edit. Has anyone managed to rip the audio from Galaxies successfully and would be able to somehow post them for me?

Tellan, i know there are a couple of issues with the Tantive shots. these were actually some of the first shot i ever did so theres a strong possibility, if i have enough time, that i will be recompositing the whole sequence.
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#284590
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284590/action/topic#284590
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Originally posted by: bkevHmm, crawl seems a bit sped up in the video; pry just me. I am damn near technology-illiterate (at least in this subject,) so don't take my word for it.
Actually the crawl is slightly slower, it just appears earlier . the crawl now appears along with the music cue to match the pre ANH crawl. the crawl after the ANH addition caused the music cue to be off and i always preferred it the way it was originally intended. So for this to happen the speed was slightly slowed or it disappeared too fast.
Didn't you say you'd colour corrected the explosion shot on the Tantavive (spell)? Possible wrong render shot?

No this shot is the final one and it has been corrected. Just look at this comparison and you'll see just how much the colours have changed:
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3144/correctedfb4.jpg

corellian77, many thanks for the landspeeder clips. they were just what i was looking for.
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#284512
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284512/action/topic#284512
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Originally posted by: Marvolo
I would gladly help with the soundmix check to if you think two sets of ears is better than one set.

It's open to anyone really. having more opinions really would help.
The mix still isn't 100% complete in this clip. there are some stereo Fx yet to go into it to surround & l/r channels but i would like some opinions on how its sounding so far. The music for the opening titles is a new mix and not taken from the DVD, but a surround mix from the audio cd's which, to me, sound higher quality.. The reversed music in the surround channels have been fixed (in the most part is a new resynced track from the audio cd's). Only the center channel remains for the most part. I've added ambient FX to the surround channels (which for the most part on the 2004 dvds was just the reversed music & some sound FX.)

With this i'm aiming for a more theater surround experience, with more Fx in the rear channels when they should be, to give more of a feeling of being in the movie.

Also this is a quick video render and a few shots have been rendered with the wrong source selected ( the first few shots of 3po & R2 have the other droid looking bleached and not the finished colour). Oh well.

heres the video file:

Surround test clip 130mb approx - megaupload
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#284489
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284489/action/topic#284489
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Originally posted by: DGC General X
Sorry Adywan, the PIC was a low rez screenshot from the game Rogue Squadron 3 Rebel strike. Not as cool as I remembered. Darn, I would of loved to see what you could have done with it.

Anyway. That part in the Yavin battle where the x-wings first fly into the trench, The DS seems to be a painting at first but then there's a flash from the turret, and it's all of a sudden a miniature set. It happens twice in the film. I know you are probably aware of this already, and I want to know if it can be fixed?
hey, no probs about the pic.

I've been looking into fixing this issue but so far i haven't found a solution.

Sluggo, love the background you prepared. it would have saved me a lot of work on this edit

Originally posted by: MasterObiSwan
I'm in the US, so can you please make an NTSC version as soon as you can? And please make sure the speed is correct. I have a PAL DVD that was supposedly NTSC converted and it runs much faster than normal and the voices sound sped up like chipmunks.


A true NTSC version will be available after the PAL version is finished. Also i won't be fixing the wobbly hologram table. I just don't think that its necessary.

Now i'm really hoping someone can help me with a couple of problems i have:

Firstly i desperately need some clean landspeeder sound effects. Because i've edited the mos eisley scene the music no longer fits but i will have to build the FX track from scratch. I have a pretty good library of star wars effects but the one thing thats missing are any landspeeder Fx. I really hope someon can help me with this cuz i'm pretty stuck.

Secondly i need someone who has a 5.1 cinema system to help me out. My system has just packed up and i cannot test the audio track until this gets fixed. If i post a section of the movie that can be burned straight onto DVD, could someone test it through their system to see if the levels are correct? At the moment i am working with some high quality true 5.1 headphones, and in the past the mixes have been true to what i am hearing through the headphones but its still not the same thing as hearing it on a proper system. It will probably be the first section of the movie from the opening 20th century fox logo to the opening of the Tantive IV corridor battle and will be a few hundred MB in size.

If anyone can help with these matter then just let me know.

Thanks
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#284487
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Sample Rate Woes
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284487/action/topic#284487
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This is a pretty common problem with virtualdub when combining xvid 7 divx clips that have been encoded separately. You best bet would be to search google for an avi joiner program. There are free ones out there that should be just what you need.

Alternatively you can load the 2 video files into Nero Vision express, set the output to the same settings encode settings as your clips and it will just join the clips together without re-encoding.
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#284227
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284227/action/topic#284227
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Originally posted by: Mojo_LA
Adywan, can you tell us how much of the film you've completed? 50%? 80%?
I'd say about 80% of the video work & 60% of the new audio mix is complete. I really can't give a definite release date at the moment because the work on the Death Star battle is probably the hardest part of the movie to do.
Originally posted by: Sojourn
I have great confidence in your abilities, adywan, so I'm not too worried about this -- but I was just wondering how well the Death Star schematics in the briefing room will work with a blend of old and new. What I mean is this -- the new schematics you've had done for this edit look awesome -- will the old wireframe Atari-ish graphics (even though they will have been colored red) fit in with these more advanced new ones?

Actually they fit in pretty well. I haven't finished this sequence yet but things are looking good.
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#283993
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Return of the Jedi Remixer Boss Edition (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/283993/action/topic#283993
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Ok, where do i start.

Firstly using that crawl generator really isn't the way to go for this. I can't quite put my finger on what doesn't sit right with me but it does kind of make the crawl look like an old video game sequence. Secondly this program is going to cause a little problem for you. Once the crawl has finished how are you going to pan down and have the starfields match up? I'm not familiar with the crawl generator program but , if this is what you are going to use, then it would make life a lot easier for you if you could render the crawl without the starfield. You could add the starfield in later with one that would help you match the pan down.

And now on to the wording of the crawl.....

The crawl is there to give a slight backstory to what has been happening and then the last paragraph leads directly into the film. The way your crawl is worded you would have to begin the film where Luke enters jabbas palace, cutting out a huge chunk of the movie.

I seriously think you should go back and rethink your wording for the crawl. The second paragraph makes no sense because not once does Vader address the issue of the vulnerability of the death star to rebel attack (unless i missed something or you are planning to add this in your edit).
So don't forget that your last paragraph needs to lead straight into your next shot.
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#283943
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/283943/action/topic#283943
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Well i was lucky enough to see Star Wars last year at our local tiny arts theater. They had one showing so i took my eldest to see it. the cinema section only seats about 100 and the screen was pretty small. It was a very battered print and we lost audio for about 15 minutes just after luke goes back to the homestead to discover the death of his aunt & uncle. One thing i can remember is that the canyon was indeed darker than my VHS copies but not as dark as it appears on the 2004 DVD (which is why it remains dark in my edit). It didn't look like it was due to the condition of the print because for the most time the colours looked almost the same.

I contacted them recently to see if they have any plans to screen this again for the 30th anniversary and i was told that they had got into a lot of trouble showing this version and it was recalled immediately after. When our old main cinema was closed down and demolished they found a copy of the print in the vaults which they shouldn't have had. So it looks like lucasfilm really doesn't want the original ever to be shown again. Pity but it was well worth the £2 admission fee.
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#283889
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Return of the Jedi Remixer Boss Edition (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/283889/action/topic#283889
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Originally posted by: RemixerBoss
I am redoing the preview, vbangle. You'll find it on megaupload before the end of April.

End of april???? Why so long. All you have to do is re-render the file. Even on the slowest computer this shouldn't take a week.
Originally posted by: RemixerBoss
I would love to let this thread die and make a new thread, like XO.


With comments like this you have my suspicions running high about this project. Why make a new thread like the X0 one? Or are you hoping for the attention that a project like the X0 brings in? Do you actually have anything to show or did you post a corrupt file just to get people off your back that wanted to see footage when in fact you have nothing to show but wanted some more attention? I really hope not, but saying that its going to be the end of April until you post the video now can make suspicions rise and will cause people to think that this is actually the reason, even though it may not be.

I really think you should prove me wrong and repost a working clip ( which is quick and easy to do so no excuses there) or i, for one, will not be giving your thread any more attention

I'm sorry if this sounds harsh but i took time out of my busy schedule to try and help you earlier in the thread and then at the first sign of people losing interest you throw your dummy out of your cot, threaten to leave, then don,'t, then want the tread to die and start another one. If things have just got on top of you and you now realise that this edit is beyond your abilities then just tell us that the project is cancelled. You'll earn a lot more respect than stringing people along.

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#283839
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Return of the Jedi Remixer Boss Edition (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/283839/action/topic#283839
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Damn, i wish i'd seen your post vbangle before i downloaded this. i did find something out though. i attempted to open this up in quicktime player and it says: "the movie file "ROTJ RB 1.dv" cannot be found. Without this file the movie cannot play back properly. " Remixerboss check your export setting prior to rendering. I don't use final cut but if you are having problems i'm sure someone with knowledge of this program would be willing to help if you ask.
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#283662
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/283662/action/topic#283662
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Originally posted by: corellian77
ERRORS & INCONSISTENCIES:
- In the scene where Vader is choking the Rebel, the placement of the stormtrooper’s legs in the background is inconsistent.
Already fixed
In the scene where Leia is stunned, one of the stormtroopers is missing the “hash marks” on the sides of his ventilators… can these be added?
I've no plans to address this issue. maybe its just a different uniform stock.
In the scene where Aunt Beru asks Luke to get a droid that speaks Bocce, there are some bushes that appear inconsistently between scenes
I wan't going to do this but if i have enough time i might give it a go.
After Uncle Owen decides to purchase C-3PO, there is a wire visible behind 3PO’s neck… can it be erased?
Again, already fixed
When Luke is eating with his aunt and uncle, Luke lowers his glass in one shot, then lowers it again in the following shot. Trimming a few frames after the cut should fix this and not interfere with Luke’s lines
Trimming the frames just won't work. luke's hand & glass would still be in view when his lines start
When Luke is eating with his aunt and uncle, it’s daytime in the background, but in the following scene when Luke goes outside it’s sunset. Can you play with the light level in the background of the eating scene to match the binary sunset scene?
I've brightened the sunset scene and slightly darkened the background of the eating scene.
C-3PO’s eyes are blue for a moment when Luke surprises him in the garage
this whole shot has been fixed. The colours are totally messed up so i have redone the shot to fix all the issues
When Luke and company enter docking bay 94, we see R2 climbing down the stairs as the camera pans right, then seconds later we see him join Luke and Ben. Given how fast R2 is descending the stairs, this would be impossible. Any possibility of fixing this scene by either erasing R2’s head toward the end of the shot? Or possibly by making R2 tackle the stairs like he did in AOTC?
i was thinking about having R2 do this but it just didn't work so i have left it as it is for now.
As the Falcon escapes Tatooine, we see someone walking away in the corridor, yet everyone besides Chewie and Han are seen buckling themselves in moments earlier in the cargo hold. Can this person be removed?
Again, already fixed
Since you’ve changed the graphics for the Death Star when R2-D2 is plugged in, will you also be changing the Death Star graphics shown in the briefing room? (I was thinking you could use the AOTC graphics first, then keep the existing FX and just change the colour to red.
Yes i will be using the original graphics for most of the schematics and recolouring them to red.
The numbers on the Death Star’s countdown should be changed to Aurabesh (as you did with Luke’s macrobinoculars) for consistency I'm planning on chaning the complete diplay for this anyway.
Every time we see the numbers on the targeting computers in the X-wings, they should be changed to Aurabesh for consistency
Doing this too
OTHER CHANGES TO THINK ABOUT:
- I’m not sure if this will be addressed during the colour correction, but I think the pink flashes during all shootouts in the movie (especially on the Tantive IV) should be more red than pink

All the flashes have been recoloured. they are now white. i think these were originally changed to pink due to epilepsy issues with the lighter flashes, but i could be wrong.
Have you thought about changing Ben’s krayt dragon scream (when he scares off the Sand People) back to the original sound effect? Or perhaps using an entirely different effect altogether (perhaps something from Jurassic Park)?

yes i will be changing the scream for this. I really hate the new one (even though it was there in the original effect). It just sound lame to me and not scary at all.
Are you planning to edit out R2-D2’s “beep” just before Ben removes his hood and says “Hello there?” (the sound effect was not present in earlier versions of ANH; it occurs at 00:30:05)

no plans to do this.
The Duros’ hands in the cantina are mismatched (one has human-sized hands in white gloves, the other bare hands with much longer fingers). Any possibility of making their hands consistent?

No plans to do this either
I know you changed the background behind R2’s head in a certain scene as it looked like the background on the Death Star (I believe it’s the scene immediately following the Falcon’s fight with the TIEs, right after 3PO says, “I think I’m melting.”). If that’s the case, I just wanted to point out we see a similar background while R2 is playing “chess” with Chewie (at 00:59:53, 1:00:02, and 1:00:31). That being said, it MAY just be the panel on the Falcon… not sure.
Already fixed all of those shots
In the scene where Vader and Tarkin just find out Leia has lied to them about the Rebels’ secret base, Vader’s hands move but there’s no dialogue… think you might trim this scene and omit this?

One of the first things i fixed
As Ben’s making his way to the tractor beam controls, we see a group of stormtroopers marching, but one’s armour on the arm is falling apart – can this be fixed?

No plans for this either.
Since you’re changing the blue Rebel insignia on the pilots’ helmets in the hangar, will you be changing them to red in the briefing room as well?

yes i've done this
The explosion of one of the X-wings is pinkish in parts instead of orangish/yellowish; not sure if this will be addressed along with the rest of the colour correction

haven't got this far yet so i'm still unsure what i will be doing with these shots
Just a thought… give Chewie a medal during the closing ceremony? (Although I’m not sure there’s sufficient time during the scene in which Leia could actually give him the medal)

This was covered a while back in the tread. yes, Chewie is getting a medal.
CONFIRMATIONS:
- Did you edit out the scene where the floater droid laughs at and is knocked down by the ASP droid upon entry to Mos Eisley?

Its been changed slightly and only the worker droid remains now.
Did you drop the shot of Walrusman’s severed arm in the cantina? I understand some think this scene goes against the idea of lightsabers cauterizing injuries, but I always liked it. If you decided to keep it, you could try cleaning up the bloody floor and make the wound look as though it’s still smoking a bit. You could also try replacing the hand on the arm to match the “flipper-like” hand we see earlier. I’ve done a quick example to show you what I had in mind

I haven't dropped this shot. i have built a new "flipper" hand and i will be finishing this shot later next week. No more blood
Ben’s saber is purple in a few shots during the duel. I know you fixed the sabers in the entire second half of the duel, but I wasn’t sure about the earlier half, so I figured I’d mention it

All the saber shots have been re-rotoscoped so no miscoloured sabers remain.