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#278053
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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: tellan
you used the the original grainy death star beam. if you've done all the other changes to that shot, I would recomposite the beam.

The laser is being recomposited, but because i haven't finished the Death Star firing sequence as yet i want to do both beams together so they match. The beam was only added as a temp element so i could show the clip.

Originally posted by: tellan
ha! beat you to it with mine!

but

you total git! ;D stealing my thunder like that.


But seriously, it does look like we're almost running parallel with the sequences we're working on at the moment

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#277950
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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/277950/action/topic#277950
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Originally posted by: Marvolo
Congratulations on your promotion, adywan! Also, if you have room on a DL version of your edit will you include your expanded destruction of Alderran as an unused concept or deleted scene? I would love for it to be included with maybe some other abandoned concepts.


I am hoping to include extras like this on the disc.
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#277949
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Return of the Jedi Remixer Boss Edition (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277949/action/topic#277949
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Originally posted by: RemixerBoss
Why isn't anybody interested anymore? I try to get people here and they shut me out. Well, here's a headline for ya,
I'm outta here! If all of you don't want me to leave, let me put it this way. I may be just as crazy as Adamwookie, I could even be related to or be Zigfried, but I want to be taken seriously. I'm gone.

Hmmmm. Seeing this type of attitude has really put me off from following this thread. You have asked questions, posted ideas and people have responded. Then all of a sudden you get this attitude when no one posts anything for just 3 days?
Originally posted by: RemixerBoss
No response to my use of an inferior source for my edit?

Another post to provoke a response. This is your first post that made me suspicious that this was just an attention seeking thread and that nothing is really going to come out of this, but now you have posted that last comment you seem to have confirmed peoples suspicions.

Personally i think you should have purchased the tools you need for this before you start attacking people because they haven't posted replies. You have just posted ideas so far and you have no idea if they are even viable or not because you have no knowledge of using any of the tools needed, yet you seem to want daily attention in this thread?

If you are doing this because you want to do a fan edit for yourself then i wish you all the best and i will offer help if you get stuck, but if this is just an attention seeking Zigfried exercise then it becomes tiresome very quickly and people lose interest.

So if your threat to leave was a ploy to stir up people posting in your thread then maybe you should leave. But if you are serious, get the software needed, start learning it and get some shots done & posted. Then you will see that the community starts posting when they know its not just another thread like Zigfried's that following is a complete waste of time.

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#277943
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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/277943/action/topic#277943
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Thanks for the link GhostAlpha26. I have seen this site before a while ago and it does make some good reading.

The energy wave wouldn't really have been a problem in the Alderaan explosion because only the death star (which presumable had a pretty good energy shield) was nearby but Yavin IV would have been pretty hard hit if one was produced from the explosion of the death star so its definitely going in this edit.

The explosion shot is almost finished so i'm going to post the clip in a bit, probably got about another couple of hours of work left to do on it.

I have also decided not to add any extra shots, like the shots from the Enterprise episode mentioned earlier in the thread, or any surface shots of Alderaan. The destruction is going to be as quick as it is in the official releases because , originally when i intended to stretch out the destruction of Alderaan, i completely forgot about Obi-Wan's line straight after.
" I felt a great disturbance in the force... As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.."

This indicates to me that the Destruction of Alderaan was very quick and adding the extra shot, although it would have looked pretty cool, would make that line pretty incorrect. So they're all gone. And after all, i'm not making a Lucas special edition..
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#277918
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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/277918/action/topic#277918
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Well i've gone though about 50 episodes of star trek so far and found only 4 decent explosions, but still got a long way to go.

I have been doing the new Alderaan explosion scene but then on Tuesday night i recorded the last ever episode of Stargate SG1 and it had a perfect planet explosion. I've now decided to use that explosion with a little modification. It looks so amazing now. It has some camera shake and it really adds to the impact of its destruction now. but this has now caused me to go down a different route that i was originally going down for the explosion. Originally i was going to eliminate the energy wave from the explosion but after seeing this new effect it actually fits in much better. I know this is probably going to be a controversial decision but it just looks so great. I probably won't be including the energy wave in the Death Star explosion though. A planet the size of Alderaan probably would produce an energy wave like that but the Death Star is a lot smaller so the explosion wouldn't be as powerful, so no energy wave. Not only that but if the Death Star had produced an energy wave of the size it is in the SE then surely it would have effected Yavin IV and caused a lot of damage.
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#277851
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The legendary &quot;Starkiller Ranch&quot; Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277851/action/topic#277851
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Originally posted by: Trooperman
Jar-Jar is in English.

Nute and the Nemoidians are recorded by Sluggo's friends who speak an obscure language I can't remember at the moment, so they are subtitled. I think they did a fantastic job, especially after I lowered their voices a bit.

They actually took my English lines and translated it into the other language, so even for the handful of people that may speak that language, the subtitles actually match up with what is said!


wow, thats gonna sound great. I can't wait to her the new dialogue.

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#277809
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The legendary &quot;Starkiller Ranch&quot; Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277809/action/topic#277809
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Now, adywan: in suggesting these scenes, are you implying that this may actually be possible?

Yes, they may well be. i would have to do a few test when i have more spare time but they shouldn't be too difficult to do. The tricky ones would be the creation of Maul, but the droid scene i reckon i could pull off.
If we don't have Palpatine in Episode I, though, then I don't think we would even have to deal with using the name, Maul, though--I think he's the only one who uses it. However, we can add it in the subtitles for Nute, and that would be fine.

Are you guys definitely going down the subtitles route for the Nemoidians? i really think it would be cool to record new dialogue for them. there wouldn't be a lip sync issue as their mouths really don't move in sync with the dialogue anyway (especially in TPM). I never really liked the subtitle route because, in the fan edit i saw (can't remember exactly who's it was, sorry) the alien dialogue wasn't really convincing and still sounded like reversed or foreign language. Adding filters to english speaking dialogue could make them more convincing.
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#277649
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.: The Lancer DVD Project :. (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277649/action/topic#277649
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Originally posted by: tellan
a consistent tattooine presentation. ie the atmospheres. I'm aware there are still issues with the planet itself. but the stars are there, the bolts are there, engine glow etc. + I 've finally managed to make the atmosphere haze appear consitent in the six shots we see it.


Looks a lot better now Tellan. How is the rest of the edit coming along? Any closer to a release date?

What dual core system are you running now? Is it a core2 duo or an AMD X2 one? I'm thinking of upgrading mine soon but still unsure what chipset to go with. I was thinking of going back to AMD but the benchmark i have seen indicates that the Core2 duo are a lot faster when video rendering, but cost hell of a lot more, especially for a decent motherboard for the intel option.
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#277648
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&quot;The Clones Revealed&quot; (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277648/action/topic#277648
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Originally posted by: daveytod
another question of opinion for you folks-

There's a few instances where i run footage twice, wether to show a difference in video or audio, but as it is I simply cut back. Is this too much of a jump do you think or would I be better of doing something similar to the trick JD uses in Building Empire and RTJ where he uses a white flash and a beep to jump back? Or possibly some kind of 'rewind' effect?


I say go in the direction of what JD has done.
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#277645
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The legendary &quot;Starkiller Ranch&quot; Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277645/action/topic#277645
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I think the Maul/ Grievous idea could be pulled off by adding a couple of small scenes at the end of EP1. after the scene where Palpatine arrives there could be a small shot of a droid hovering over the pit where Maul fell and you see it go down or better still you see it emerging from the pit with the body of Maul, then cut to the obi-wan/yoda scene. Of course the droid would probably have to be built by some 3D wizard or maybe use an existing background droid to pull this off. then you could have a scene after where you see the body of Maul on the operating table, it would probably have to be in Palpatines ship though. It could mirror the Vader creation scene but be more extreme as there wouldn't be much of Maul surviving as Grievous. Of course there would have to be dialogue changes in EP3 and the stupid accent would have to go, but because his face is hidden beneath the mask there would be no problem with dubbing his lines. with Maul splitting in two as he falls down the shaft this can set up the reason why not much of him survives as Grievous.

I never really liked the whole "taught by Dooku" reason why Grievous would use a lightsaber. Why would Dooku bother training someone who has no ability to use the force. Surely he would have recruited someone who could.

Also the part where Grievous reveals his true identity to Obi-Wan could be just as the lightsaber fight end and obi-wan does the force push. if you look at that scene Obi-Wan looks suddenly angry as he does the force push so that would fit in perfectly.

The only problem that arises from this, however, is the whole name issue. why would he be called Darth Maul in EP1 then General Grievous in Ep3? I think he is only mentioned by name once in EP1 so to help get around this the line where his name is mentioned could be changed, then there would be no problem with his name in EP3, but getting around the whole "General" part could be more tricky
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#277644
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A fanedit concept: Star Wars movies as a TV series? (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277644/action/topic#277644
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This looks like a pretty cool project.

Instead of having the opening crawl for every episode how about having an opening title credit sequence? That would make it feel more like a TV series than an opening crawl and give this project a really unique feel to it. That way you wouldn't have to have every episode start with a space shot.
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#277626
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Subtitles.....help needed guys
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277626/action/topic#277626
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Originally posted by: ColinK
I've been using Subtitle Workshop and DVD Lab Pro for a little while now but what frustrates me is the lack of colour support and being able to locate the subtitle on-screen.

Does anyone know of anything that would let me create blue / green / yellow / white subtitles and be able to place them anywhere on screen for use with DVD, something that won't break the bank


The one program that i know can do this is Sony DVD architect. I use the professional bundle with Vegas 7 and its great but it is a bit pricey. There is the home software though, which is considerably less ( about $49). the features actually seem to be the same as the full bundle so this might be what you are looking for. They have a trial version online so you can try it out first to see if its what you are looking for.

DVD ARCHITECT DETAILS, PURCHAS & TRIAL

Hope this helps.
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#277433
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Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277433/action/topic#277433
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Originally posted by: andy_k_250
Originally posted by: Molly
I got Batman Returns into 700 MB, Star Wars GOUT in 800, Star Wars Darth Editous in 950, possibly 1-1.4 GB?


Oh, I meant uncompressed AVI.


Uncompressed can run to over 400gb, better to use a lossless codec like lagarith. That will give you a file size of about 60gb with no loss of quality

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#277414
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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/277414/action/topic#277414
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Thanks for the links InvaderTim & Sojourn. I checked out the stock footage but unfortunately they have filmed the explosions at normal framerate and not used high speed cameras. They have used a slow motion technique in their footage that you have to pay to download which doesn't look as natural as using a high speed camera and suffers from frame mix blur. If they had used a high speed camera then they would have been perfect.
Originally posted by: InvaderTim
As for Star Trek stuff, are you just looking for Starship explosions in general or something specific? I have all of the Star Trek DVDs and could probably help you narrow the search a little bit.

i have found a couple of explosions from Enterprise which are perfect but i still need a lot more. I'm mainly looking for any sort of explosions in space, the bigger the better.
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#277295
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Big issue with Vegas 5.0 - please help!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277295/action/topic#277295
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Originally posted by: klokwerk
Adywan, does Vegas have a problem with the Lagarith codec? That's the one I use (since Huffy crashes my computer no matter what I do about it). I was going to be starting a major edit later in the year and I don't want to have this kind of problem. I believe I'm using one of the version 6's.

I was using Vegas 6 when i began my edit and i use the lagarith codec without any problems.
Originally posted by: Trooperman
You guessed it. This is Vegas 5.0c and I am editing directly off of the MPEG-2 DVD files. I hope Version D fixes these problems.

Yeh, i thought you might be working with MPEG2. Vegas is ok when you are working with just a couple of edits using mpeg2 but i had hell if i tried to do anything extensive then it really started playing up, the same way you mentioned. I can't remember is 5d fixed this problem though. I think you mentioned that you are working from the NTSC DVD. The problem with Vegas that it sometimes fails to remove the 2:3 pulldown correctly and can cause loads of problems. There is a way around this but you do need a lot of hard drive space. Open up the dvd files in DVD2AVI. in the "Video" tab select the field operation as "forced film", then the colour space to "RGB24", then "clip & resize"
- set the filter type to " precise bicubic" and the "video aspect" to "free" and slide the resize slider to max to show 720 x 480. now you can export your video. using something like picvideo mjpeg codec the file size will be about 30gb but could be smaller for ntsc. Now you have your 24fps film but it is split into 2gb chunks. Its a pain that this program does this. Now you can load your first chunk into Virtualdub. once you ahve done that select "append segment", select all the other chunks and import them. now you can export. just select "no audio" in the audio tab and "direct stream copy" in the video tab and export. now your video is joined so you can delete all the split chunk files.

Now open vegas and import your project. once this has done go to the project media manager. right click on your main video file in the media manager and select "replace" and swap it for you avi footage. now save the project under a different name so you still have a back up of the original mpeg2 version incase somethings gone wrong.
Now there is one thing that vegas does that is annoying. with some avi and other files it adds them as field based footage even if it is progressive. so right click on the footage in your timeline and select properties. change the field order to "progressive". check each section of video on your timeline to see if it has changed them all to progressive.

hopefully 5d will fix the problem for you so you don't have to go through all that. But to be safe for any future edits convert the mpeg2 to lossless avi first
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#277205
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Big issue with Vegas 5.0 - please help!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277205/action/topic#277205
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Which version of 5.0 are you using? I had similar problems when using using Vegas 5.0c. There was an update to 5.0d available freely on the Vegas site that fixed a few bugs like this. I'm using 7.0 now because even with the updates 5.0 had too many problems (and so did the first few versions of 6). v7 is a lot more stable and you can still import the project files from 5.0.

Also what codec are you using for the basis of your edit? I know it plays up sometimes with a few of the lossless codecs and doesn't like Mpeg2 much either.
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#277201
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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/277201/action/topic#277201
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Originally posted by: RemixerBoss
No activity lately?


Well i'm pretty busy at the moment. I'm looking through my DVD collection to try and find some better explosions to use for the FX because some are so bleached they look really dated. I've narrowed it down to Episodes of Star Trek TNG, Voyager, Deep Space 9, Enterprise, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis and a few movies. Problem now is that's added up to about 150 discs with most having about 3 - 4 episodes on each to check through. I've got my work cut out for me but its something i have to do, so i will probably be a bit quieter on here for a while.

Wish me luck.