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#1558069
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Star Wars: OTRD83
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BetaMedia said:

adywan said:

BetaMedia said:

We also noticed 9 Special Edition pictures and sound effects in 4K83. We immediately cut them out and replaced them with 2006 Bonus DVD clips.

Sorry, but that is impossible. I don’t know what you and your friends are seeing but 4k83 is taken direct from a 35mm pre-SE print so there is zero chance that there is any special edition changes in there. Could you post some screenshots?

I can make a Docs file where are screenshots. But I remember clearly when editing that there were clearly some Special Edition footage. I am absolutely not sure if it was OTD83 or 4K83 but its color matched original 4K83.

OTD83 is a theatrical reconstruction that states that is is not a 100% faithful recreation as it used the UHD Blu-ray as its source. So it is more likely that you are using that as a source as 4k83 is 100% the 1983 pre-SE version

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#1558025
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Star Wars: OTRD83
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BetaMedia said:

We also noticed 9 Special Edition pictures and sound effects in 4K83. We immediately cut them out and replaced them with 2006 Bonus DVD clips.

Sorry, but that is impossible. I don’t know what you and your friends are seeing but 4k83 is taken direct from a 35mm pre-SE print so there is zero chance that there is any special edition changes in there. Could you post some screenshots?

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#1537777
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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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Telion said:

adywan said:

2011 Blu-Ray

ANH:RHD

2020/ disney+ version:

This might be a controversial opinion but of the three I find the 2020 version more appealing. Now of course its no where near perfect. The scubbing they have done has removed amost all the detail to the point at which it looks almost painterly and the sky is also very desaturated. But, the orginal SE feels over saturated and noisy and I also find that there is something of about the shading on the white tubes in the center of frame. I think its the highlight inside the top left of the tube, it doesnt match the sun direction.

The shading inside the tube is the same in the original

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#1537680
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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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Fullmetaled said:

@adywan you did you use sharpening tools just wondering Someone said this shot looked overly sharpened. It was on a discord

Well that shot is from 2 different sources, as was fully explained in the original post on this site where i posted that image. No sharpening was done. It was to show how much detail has been scrubbed from the 2020 blu-ray, which is the image on the left, compared to the detail in the 2011 Blu-Rays, which is the image on the right. The panels on the droid in the 2020 blu-rays have been almost scrubbed away including the weathering.

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#1537669
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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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krausfadr said:

Adywan I really applaud the painstaking effort to merge multiple sources into probably what will be the best looking 1080p ANH footage in existence. Too bad it has to be frame by frame and can’t be motion tracked??!! Could you do the initial crop and aligning of a clip and then raise the gamma (temporarily) to give the motion tracker something to hold onto?

It was motion tracked. Even altering the image to give better definition, as soon as the TIE swoops from right to left, the motion blur knocks out the tracking for where the lights should be. so , for the many frames where the tracking was knocked out, you have to go in manually and adjust the position frame by frame. For the most part it seemed to work when i was trying it originally, but the swooping section just never looked right as you couldn’t really see where the light should be. But, since i last posts, i decided to go back and give it another go and it seems to have worked now. Sometimes it’s just best to leave a shot that isn’t working, no matter how hard you try, and come back to it at a later date. 😃 (gif may take a while to load depending on internet speed)

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#1537662
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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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Fullmetaled said:

adywan said:

Fullmetaled said:

@adywan your shot of obi wan luke c 3p0 r2d2 going into mos Eisley space port is overly bright.

you’re going to have to show which shot you mean, but none of them are overly bright.

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This shot but someone said this about this I think about the mos esley scenes in general. that is a weird color ‘fix’, if he was going after original look, why would he add in all that contrast and color for Mos Eisley scenes? Those were notoriously drab and colorless on the original. First person who pointed it out said it almost looked deep fried that how bright that shot is.

I haven’t altered the contrast or brightness in any of these shots. All i did is remove the pink tint from the SE shots and have the colour of the sky match throughout, where it swapped colour and saturation throughout the sequence. You can see from there screenshots that brightness , contrast or saturation has not been boosted from the original source.

2011 Blu-Ray

ANH:RHD

2011 Blu-Ray

ANH:RHD

And Mos Eisley was never drab. I have a feeling that whoever said that may have been using the 2020 Blu-Rays/ Disney+ versions as a guide and those are horribly bland with crap grading, which is almost sepia in places and nothing like the films originally looked like

2020/ disney+ version:

The only shot i know about that someone mentioned in here was the shot of them looking over Mos Eisley that was shown in the last preview video, where it was commented that the contrast was too high in that shot. But, again. the contrast or brightness hasn’t been touched in that shot. The blown out highlights are there in the original source as can be seen below:

2011 Blu-Ray

ANH:RHD ( from the preview video)

But, as you can see from the following shot, this has now been swapped out for a new version using the 2020 blu-ray as a source, eliminating the blown highlights.

ANH:RHD Final version

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#1537636
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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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Fullmetaled said:

@adywan your shot of obi wan luke c 3p0 r2d2 going into mos Eisley space port is overly bright.

you’re going to have to show which shot you mean, but none of them are overly bright.

ZaneFlare92 said:

One thing that always has bothered me since 1997 is the Tie Fighter that chases Luke after “I can’t shake him.” in the SE doesn’t have the red thrusters on and I find it very strange it’s something Lucas let slide even years after 04, 11 and 2020. Yet the original shot model shot has them present. You having the continuity eye you have is this something you planned on fixing or already have???

It’s something i have tried to fix, but tracking where the red thrusters should be is not easy because of the motion blur. i tried tracking but it goes way off, so then tried sections and then manually tracking frame by frame in the impossible parts and it didn’t look good, so i put that shot to one side. If i can’t get it to look good then it will have to stay as it is now.

There are so many errors with the SE additions that never got sorted. Like the laser bolts in this shot being cut off. Thankfully i’ve been able to fix most of the rest

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#1534177
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'Return of the Jedi' Tennis Shoe Easter Egg
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timdiggerm said:

JF_Sanderson said:

Was the shoe erased in cleanup? Or were the Battle scenes recomposited at some point and the shoe omitted?

Most, if not all, of the effects shots were recomposited for the Special Edition. This allowed them to fix problems like TIE fighters appearing out of nowhere or transparent spaceship parts (and many more) but also lead to problems like omitting flying shoes

Not for ROTJ. Not a lot of the shots were recomposited. The TIEs still appear out of nowhere. The shot with the shoe was the famous one where the TIEs go through the Falcon, so this was recomposited. But most of the shots in ROTJ were left alone

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#1532964
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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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Hi everyone. Time for something i haven’t done in a long time…One of my super long posts 😃

Now this is something i have been wanting to talk about for ages, but didn’t know if i would be able to pull it off. But, thankfully, i have been able to achieve what i set out to do. Now i’m talking about the crushed blacks problem with the 2011 blu-rays. I had an idea about recovering the missing shadow detailing by using the 2020 blu-rays to overlay just the dark areas onto the 2011 footage. Well, it isn’t as simple as that because there are vast differences in cropping, frame warping & different stabilisation between the two sources. So i had to go through each shot, frame by frame, and manually align the two sources, then mask out the areas i didn’t want, keeping only the detail in the dark areas. And i’m pleased to say that it turned out pretty good.

2011:

ANH:R

2011:

ANH:R

now i can hear you saying “why go to all that work when you could have just replaced those shots with the 2020 Blu-Ray”. Well, to put it bluntly, the 2020 ANH blu-ray is crap. It’s been so heavily scrubbed, along with its flat grading, so much detail has either been erased completely or almost none existent. Take this shot for instant. Just look at the droids panelling (or lack of) on the 2020 Blu-ray, compared to how it looks when using the 2011 blu-ray as a source.

And then there are SE shots that don’t even look like they’re in HD, they are so soft and blurry.

2011:

ANH:R

What the hell has happened to all the textures on the buildings? So i will be sticking to the 2011 Blu-rays as my primary source. Although there are some scenes or shots that do look better in the 2020 version, so i have swapped out a lot of their 2011 counterparts with those shots and scenes from the 2020 source. It’s pretty much a hybrid.

I get asked a lot “how much have you got left to do”. Well, it’s hard to answer this without counting all the shots left to do. A rough estimate is that its around 90% complete on the video side of things. But there is still a lot of the hard work left to do, which mainly involves lengthy rotoscoping. I’ve got a lot of the space battle shots left to do, a few shots in the Luke’s trench run ( adding the trench in the background in the cockpit shots), 3 or 4 shots in the cantina and various shots here and there throughout the second half of the movie. It isn’t a lot left to do, but these are very time consuming ones to do. So please don’t think that a release is imminent.

Another question i get asked regularly is “why is it taking so long when it only took you a couple of years to do it originally”. Well the simple answer is because i’m working in 1080p instead of 576p. There is so much you can get away with when doing effects work in SD compared to doing the same shot in 1080p. Rotoscoping for example. You can get away with not being too accurate when cutting out elements, like when replacing a background. In 1080p, you have to be a LOT more precise and this takes a hell of a lot longer per shot to accomplish. And, as with the original SD version, i am doing the majority of this work on my own.

There are going to be differences between this HD version and the original SD version. There are a few things i wasn’t able to do when i first started doing these projects. Like this shot for instance.

2011:

ANH:R

Chewie isn’t wearing his bandolier throughout this scene, apart from this shot when they jump into hyperspace. I wasn’t able to fix this originally because of chewie’s movement, but I have been able to now because I’ve learned new techniques. A bloody nightmare rotoscoping that fur though. This one shot took over 3 weeks to finish. Sometimes the shots that look the easiest turn out to be a nightmare to do.

Other changes that i have mentioned before are the extended space battle when the TIE’s appear. Thats not happening in the HD version. Most of the sources i used to make that were SD sources that, while looking ok in the original, would look like crap in 1080p. But the main reason is because it just doesn’t work in ANH. There’s not much space between dialogue in the yavin battle, whereas adding extra footage without dialogue would work perfectly well in ROTJ because of the way the space battle is structured. There is still going to be a new shot of many TIE’s approaching the battle and maybe an extra shot or two following this, but the rest is not. And, no, it has nothing to do with any “purists” badgering me to keep it like the original. I was experimenting when i did the original and it is something that i just don’t think works in the scope of the battle. it is 100% my decision

Another thing that’s going in this version is the extended scene where the sandtroopers are looking for the droids in the desert. For one, the CG there really doesn’t hold up and another is that these aren’t even ANH sandtroopers. They are using ROTJ helmets. So this scene is either going to be different to how it is now after i have been able to film some ANH style sandtroopers, or it will just go back to how it was in 1977 ( which i think actually works better). I’m also going to replace the mirrored troopers in this shot thanks to the newly filmed troopers.

And why are all the troopers added to Mos Eisley in the Special Editions just plain stormtroopers and NOT Sandtroopers?

Tantive3+1 said:

I remember adywan mentioning there would be more comm chatter during the Battle of Yavin (I guess he’ll take this from the radio play).

That’s not something i’m doing. Maybe you have it mixed up with when i said that the extended space battle i did originally needed more com chatter?

SomethingStarWarsRelated said:

Adywan, you may have come across this already but Adobe Enhance Speech is in beta right now:
https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance#

I used it here on some clips from ANH and it’s pretty amazing:
https://youtu.be/K3VBE5hMVu0

It’s not flawless. And I’m sure you can mix the vocals into your edit better than I did in my clips. But I thought you might want to consider using this for certain parts in ANH:HD.

I have tested out some of these AI programs for vocals, including the Adobe one. It a long way off being usable. All the processed stuff sounds artificial. It changes their voice for one. And a lot of the time they end up sounding like they have a severely blocked nose. Then they tend to alter words. I tested the adobe on with the cam SW Celebration footage of the deleted death star conference scene where they mention “Sith” for the first time. It was terrible. It altered so much of the dialogue. For instance, and i still have the audio clip, the line “until this battle station is fully operational, we are vulnerable” was changed to " until this battle station is fully operation, we are buggerable". Well that really changes the meaning of that scene 😉 These AI programs can be useful for separating music from vocals sometimes, but using them to enhance the dialogue is just not viable yet.

Onto the new Death Star plans ( well not new because they featured in the original SD version). I see people complaining that having the red plans that match those seen in AOTC completely contradicts what we see in Rogue One. But not necessarily. It all depends on how you deal with it. Someone already guessed what i was planning on doing, but not you can see it for yourselves (albeit in low res gif). Might take time to load in your browser depending on your internet speed.

One last thing; today marks the last day i will ever rotoscope & enhance a blue lightsaber. I finished the very last Obi-Wan shot (Vader striking him down) earlier today and that will be my last for the Revisited saga. Moving onto green ones for ROTJ. I’ve seen some claim that i just use the videocopilot saber plugin to do the lightsabers, but i can assure you they are all done by hand, frame by frame.

So that’s it for now. Back to work on ANH:R for me

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#1532006
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Celebration 2023 in London. April 7-10.
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It looks like again this year its just going to be filled with promotions for stuff they sell rather than the panels. Looking at what is set to stream its really screwing over the fans that not only can’t get to the event but also those that have paid to go but can’t get in to the panels. Not a single one of the Return of the Jedi panels is going to be streamed, including the hour long 40th anniversary panel. Yet they are going to stream the 15th anniversary Clone wars panel. Screw that. 15 years isn’t even a bloody special anniversary.

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#1528978
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<em><strong>ANDOR</strong></em> - Disney+ Series - A General Discussion Thread
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Emre1601 said:

adywan said:

I wonder why we haven’t had a “Disney Gallery” for Andor yet? With Mando & BOBF we have had these a few weeks after the last episode aired, but no sign of one for Andor. There’s already a BTS for Willow which aired its last episode long after Andor.

Poor, isn’t it? It is like Lucasfilm do not want to plug, promote or even talk about their own show.

No “Disney Gallery: Andor” or similar “Behind The Scenes” special, as there has been for the other series.
Nothing on the official Andor twitter for over 2 months.
Nothing on the official Star Wars YouTube channel for Andor for over 3 months.
No videos at all on Andor on the ILMVFX YouTube Channel - no “Behind The Scenes”, or “Inside ILM”, or “Virtual Production” videos.
No Andor books; such as an “Art Of Andor”, “Making of Andor”, or “Visual Guide” for Andor.
There is one panel on Andor at Celebration 2023, for an hour, but nothing else I could find.

I find it underwhelming. Lazy and unengaging too, considering both the fans’ and critics’ positive reactions and praise for Andor.

“Disney Gallery” is a formulaic show, and Disney+ and Lucasfilm have done a number of previous “Gallery” or “BTS” shows, so it shouldn’t be too difficult or time consuming to put a show together for Andor.

 

A Visual Guide book for “Dawn Of The Rebellion” has been announced, featuring “content from the movies, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Andor” - https://twitter.com/swbooks/status/1634091342337908736?.

From https://twitter.com/eleventhirtyate/status/1633939968316911616 with their fun take on the book announcement. I think Pablo Hidalgo tweeted something on that thread or image, but he has probably deleted it since.

I think i might know the reason why we haven’t got a BTS feature yet. Disney have recently announced the panels that will feature at Celebration Europe in May and there are 3 Andor panels;

The Making of Andor Season One
Fri, Apr 7, 2023 • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Celebration Stage
Executive Producers Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna and their team of creatives recount the making of the epic first season of Star Wars: Andor.

Andor, the Empire and a History of Resistance
Sat, Apr 8, 2023 • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Fan Stage
Star Wars is full of conflict between good and evil, and the stories of the galaxy far, far away center on that fight against oppression. Using real world history of resistance and rebellions, we will examine the entire saga and the Andor series in particular to see how and why our heroes seek to stand against the Galactic Empire in their own ways. Our panelists include Chris Kempshall (author, The History and Politics of Star Wars: Death Stars and Democracy; co-author, Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy), Rebecca Harrison (author, BFI Classics: The Empire Strikes Back), Manuel Barcia, Oli Mould, and Jake Rowlett. Join host James Floyd (Star Wars Insider regular contributor, Star Warsologies podcast) in exploring the freedom fighters that helped topple the Empire.

Behind the Magic: The Visual Effects of Andor
Sun, Apr 9, 2023 • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Twin Suns Stage
Join Industrial Light & Magic, and members of the creature effects and special effects teams for a deep dive into the special and visual effects that brought a burgeoning rebellion to life in Star Wars: Andor.

Sadly it looks like only the first one is going to be streamed. So i guess they are keeping all the BTS stuff for Celebration.

Talking of celebration, there are a few panels for the 40th anniversary of ROTJ and not a single one is going to be streamed outside of the event. So, unless you’re lucky enough to be able to get into one of the panels, you’re shit out of luck.

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#1525956
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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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theprion said:

adywan said:

Visual comparisons of most of the altered shots seen in the January preview

https://photos.app.goo.gl/vAm1r5o7PZtiuSjT9

This looks so good, can’t wait!

Really minor gripe with the added holo display of the Death Star orbit. It’s well done for sure, but unlike the interactive tactical panels added to Echo Base that blend in seamlessly, the colored 3d holo as a centerpiece here feels detached from the OT aesthetic somehow (plus the original is such a cool design).

But we see the rebels using a colourful hologram as a centre piece in Return of the Jedi, so i think it fits in with the OT asthetic

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#1525935
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<s>The inaccuracies in &quot;How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit&quot;</s>
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Omni said:

adywan said:

Ejn said:

I thought this was an improvement over the first video, with the only complaint being that he was a bit too flippant about Lucas adding and then removing Luke’s scream. (However, this again would’ve been a great time to note that according to Matthew Wood, it was an error that Lucas never approved of in the first place and that Ben Burtt put it in himself and must’ve forgotten to ask.)

According to Matthew Wood, the scream was added at George’s request for the '97 Special edition. It was when it came around to doing the mix for the 2004 DVD’s that Mathew , who hated the scream, removed the sound effect and George didn’t notice it had gone, so it stayed that way.

No that’s incorrect. He said George didn’t remember approving it for 1997 so they removed it for 2004.

Actually, Mathews original story was that he took it out because he hated it and George didn’t notice. When asked about it for the Blast Points podcast he gave your answer. But Ben Burtt has also stated that nothing was changed in the 1997 SE’s without George’s approval.

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#1525798
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<s>The inaccuracies in &quot;How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit&quot;</s>
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Ejn said:

I thought this was an improvement over the first video, with the only complaint being that he was a bit too flippant about Lucas adding and then removing Luke’s scream. (However, this again would’ve been a great time to note that according to Matthew Wood, it was an error that Lucas never approved of in the first place and that Ben Burtt put it in himself and must’ve forgotten to ask.)

According to Matthew Wood, the scream was added at George’s request for the '97 Special edition. It was when it came around to doing the mix for the 2004 DVD’s that Mathew , who hated the scream, removed the sound effect and George didn’t notice it had gone, so it stayed that way.

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#1525068
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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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ifjg said:

Nice to see I’m not the only one who thinks 2011>2020 BD’s. I echo the sentiment on the newer transfers having way too much DNR. I am also surprised by not using 4K77 or 4K83 as a source, though. 4K83, especially, is a pristine print with several excellent color grades available, and I don’t think it’s hard to find spots where it blows away the official releases.

Spots, yeh but not enough to qualify to use fully as a basis for my edits. The BD’s are still the best sources to use for an edit like this, even with their problems. 4k77/83 will be used to remove some of the SE stuff in certain shots, but still mixed in with the BD’s to get the best image.

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#1525067
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STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - ** PRODUCTION HAS NOW RESTARTED **
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ifjg said:

kg1977 said:

G&G-Fan said:

I’m pretty sure them using Shaw when for unmasked Vader is because he was a seasoned actor who turned in an amazing performance. Prowse was a body actor. Look at his filmography on Wikipedia. I’m not really sure why he was so upset or what he was expecting. Playing tall imposing monsters was basically his thing.
Not saying that in a derogatory way at all. The body acting for Vader by Prowse is masterful. But that’s what Prowse was.

I not a huge fan of the prequals, but coming to accept them more since kenobi tie-ins and Hall9000 edits. I actually like this idea for the vader un-masking. and I never thought I would say that (also nice to see it released in HD or scaled). needs some sharpening on the eyes and maybe some fix on the skin under the eyes (compositing), but I like the effort here…still not sure hot it should end with the ghost and was going to go shaw in my extended version, which still might work since he doesn’t speak. I think shaws acting is good and that would still remain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbrzXdiuxi4

That actually looks a lot better than I expected. Still needs a lot of work obviously, but it works as a proof-of-concept. For the ghost part, I’ve been thinking for a while that it could be interesting to go all-in on the PT tie-ins by deep faking Yoda and Obi-Wan back to their ROTS versions as well. Maybe even throw in Qui-Gon to really cement the old gang being back together, since him having a force ghost form is apparently canon now.

😉

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#1525035
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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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adywan said:

Fullmetaled said:

Adywan are you fixing shots like these as well to look like the one on the top.

That’s a problem with the 2020 version , i’m using the 2011 mainly. Although that shot is a little softer in detail than the previous shot, it is nowhere near how badly scrubbed the 2020 blu-ray version is. I did give it a tweak to restore the detail though

2011 Blu-Ray

2020 Blu-Ray

ANH:RHD

I really don’t know why so many rave about the 2020 blu-rays. ANH & ESB are worse than the 2011 blu-rays in many respects. ESB is horizontally stretched and cropped, The static grain on all 3 is horrendous, the grading is flat and dull, the terribly executed use of power windows to brighten areas of a shot without bothering to move the masked area to track with the section as it moves in frame is mind blowingly amateurish, especially for someone that is supposed to be a professional, plagued with bed DNR smearing, the films have been scrubbed of so much detail and more. Why we can’t have a decent copy of these films in 2023 is beyond me.

I’m having to combine the two versions. For ANH:RHD, certain shots or sections from the 2011 version are being replaced with the 2020 version, but only in the places where the 2020 has a better image, which surprisingly, isn’t as much as you might think. For ROTJ:R though i’m having to use mainly the 2020 version as this is actually better quality than the 2011 version, for the most part, but there are some parts that are going to have to use the 2011

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#1525033
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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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Fullmetaled said:

Adywan are you fixing shots like these as well to look like the one on the top.

That’s a problem with the 2020 version , i’m using the 2011 mainly. Although that shot is a little softer in detail than the previous shot, it is nowhere near how badly scrubbed the 2020 blu-ray version is. I did give it a tweak to restore the detail though

2011 Blu-Ray

2020 Blu-Ray

ANH:RHD

I really don’t know why so many rave about the 2020 blu-rays. ANH & ESB are worse than the 2011 blu-rays in many respects. The static grain is horrendous, the grading is flat and dull, the terribly executed use of power windows to brighten areas of a shot without bothering to move the masked area to track with the section as it moves in frame is mind blowingly amateurish, especially for someone that is supposed to be a professional, plagued with bed DNR smearing, the films have been scrubbed of so much detail and more. Why we can’t have a decent copy of these films in 2023 is beyond me. I’m having to combine the two versions. For ANH:RHD, certain shots or sections from the 2011 version are being replaced with the 2020 version, but only in the places where the 2020 has a better image, which surprisingly, isn’t as much as you might think.

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#1524542
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Star Wars: A New Hope DEVASTATOR EDITION (V.1 RELEASED)
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That guy with no name said:

It amazes me how much detail was lost in the re-done scenes of the se:

Blu-ray

4k77 Skymaster edittion

Thats shot is down to lowrys cleanup. There are so many frames in the 2011 release that have part of the image from the following frame . Its usually the first frame in a shot that has a section of the following frame. You can see the ghosting where the real frame in that section is underneath. But also the SE changes, so many weren’t rendered in full HD, just 720p. Some elements weren’t even render in HD at all.