adywan

Originally posted by: cbaka
impressive, most impressive, well done work adywan, that's great..definetly "the special ultimate fan edition" !!BRAVO, more updates please ! (oh! again same question) when it will be finished ? again BRAVO.

Originally posted by: tellan
adywan. some nice work there. we stil need to chat/talk footage exchange by the way.

Originally posted by: SomethingStarWarsRelated
I know you're focusing more on the visuals right now, but I'm wondering (so I can be on the look out): are you thinking about adding in some PT sound fx to ANH?
I can't think of anything off hand...but maybe replace a few of the poor sound fx in ANH (maybe buttons and knobs-...maybe the lightsabers! )...

I think one thing that really dates this films is the sound track...particularly the foley fx. They used so much of the on-set voices and not enough ADR...and the ADR has an odd EQ or something...like they recorded it in a tin can or something...

Just one more thing to think about!

Originally posted by: ReverendBeastly
Adywan, I don't know if you saw my post earlier in the thread, but I was wondering if you planned on releasing a standalone version that's just the 2004 DVD, but color-corrected?

Originally posted by: wookielover69
Adywan,

Just been looking at your clips again for the hundreth time.

Noticed during the Obi-Wan Vader fight that there is a powder coming off the sabers on some blows. obviously this was the pratical prop at the time coming apart with the blows, just thought you might be able to at least dimish this as it ruins the light saber effect for that fight.

Thanks

Originally posted by: Sluggo
Have you thought about souping up the Fox logo? I know most edits here are about restoring the old fox logo, but I think replacing the logo with the longer version from other films where the POV starts above and swoops down would look better.

Originally posted by: INv8r_ZIM
What exactly do you want to do for the DS schematic? rotating 3D wireframe as in Jedi and AotC, or a red wireframe scematic on the viewscreen? Interior with the reactor core, or just surface detail? It's not complicated to produce the assets, and I too think the SciFi 3D meshes should be adequate for your purposes here (just either render as wireframe, or use a wireframe material if you'll be working in Max, you can either produce the colour and glow in Max at render time, or, as I prefer to do, do it all in post in Vegas...just remember to include an alpha channel when you render).

Originally posted by: AvatarX
Hey Adywan, I was wondering if you were going to correct any flip shots in the film, such as Vader's chest plate during the duel or painting out the white wire inside Obi-Wan's sleeve?
Also you may have mentioned it already but what's your color correction tool? The yellow tint in the corridor does seem to be something part of the DVD footage, despite the overly blue tint to the Tantive corridor. Has there been any success in isolating it?
I am trying to fix many of the flip shots in ANH. Vaders chest plate is proving a little difficult to change, but i'm going to crack it but Vaders chest plate now has flashing lights to match the rest of the trilogy. I've switched to Vegas to do the colour correction as it seems to be a lot better than premier for this task. I've eliminated the blue tint but theres also red & greenish tints in some shots to fix now. How can Lucasfilm release the trilogy on VHS with great colours but then release it on DVd so messed up. What then hell has happened to their quality control.
Originally posted by: cbaka
hi fans, here's a little shot of luke training in the falcon, i've redone the lightsaber, training ball'lazer, and the impact on luke's arm, that's just an "essai", i'm trying, to improve some ANH sequences, what do u think of it. thanks.

Originally posted by: Marvolo
I agree with tellan about the 3PO image. 3PO looks amazing but the corridor is yellow.
yeh, its does look like the wall have a yellow tint. not sure how that happened because the gold colour was overlayed onto 3po and i didn't change the background colour at all but the whole colour correction process is turning out to be a pain in the ass.I'll give it another go.

There is a lot more added into that scene now and i'm also hoping to add a scene as the death star first approaches Alderaan. I'm not using the scene to kill off characters that ain't in the OT but using it to add to the horror of Alderaans destruction. In the scene prior to the destruction i will have the citizens of alderaan looking up to see the death star and Bail looking out from the balcony. i'm hoping to add some dialogue if i can find the right lines. All will become more clear once the scenes are together.
Regarding the light sabers, I think the colours are still a little too weak.
The lasers from the fighters take some getting used to, but they look decent. Never bothered me on the official DVDs though.
Two scenes I didn't like were: The Falcon flying into the hangar. The glow has a very smooth edge and looks a bit unnatural.
And the tractor beam scene with the Matrix colours. Dunno, just didn't dig em.

Originally posted by: Sluggo
It seems almost appropriate that you would be able to see the tombstones there for that shot. It would be interesting to see if that shot could be widened or reframed in a way to include them. It would be cool to see the stones smoldering as well from some stormtrooper vandalism.
I think i may have found a way of adding a couple of shots of the tombstones. one before Owen & Beru are killed, and one after. I like the idea of the stormtrooper vandalism. Its going to take a lot of work so the shots may not appera in my finished version. but if they look good enough then they will.
Originally posted by: InfoDroid
Adywan, maybe this has already been answered, but are you planning to do anything about Vader's red eyes or the moments when we can see through his lenses to David Prowse inside?

Originally posted by: Hal 9000
Wow, can't wait to see how the emperor will be fit into ANH. Are you sure you don't want to spoil it for us? Hehe

Just out of curiosity, where in ANH would the tombstones be visible?

Originally posted by: Darth Editous

That's what mverta was doing - taking one of the other language's logos and putting it on the English crawl. But if you look closely, it's not the same logo. it has a much straighter top line on the ST of STAR. One of my fixes was retiming the original logo to the correct speed, so I can make that available to you as well as the other stuff.
DE

Originally posted by: Hal 9000
I have an idea of something you can add to make ANH seem more like part of the saga.
Why not add the tombstones in the Lar's yard into ANH in the same place? (Unless they're absent from ROTS. Do we see the same part?)

Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
vbangle, can you please link to the thread and page with the screen shots?

Originally posted by: Sluggo
I'm not sold about the rain idea. It seems too contrieved for my liking.

"Oh no, Luke is sad! Oh no, it is starting to rain."

Originally posted by: tellan
but surely it's worth leaving that shot in unfixed?

if something is riding on a repulsion field, then it is subject to movement based on weight etc. luke getting out of the speeder would make it bounce on its field as the weight changes and the internal projector adjusts to the new weight to maintain the ride height.

makes perfect sense to me.

Originally posted by: SomethingStarWarsRelated


It's highly doubtful that i'll be taking anything out of this release or trimming it (apart from greedo shooting first), but quite the opposite actually.
Originally posted by: Hal 9000
You know that shot of Luke pulling up in the landspeeder where Ben says "there's nothing you could have done, had you been there"?

The landspeeder always wobbled in that shot and drove me crazy, it's so obvious it's just on a rig. Can you do something to stabalize it so it doesn't wiggle around long after Luke steps out?

Originally posted by: tellan
oooh go on. I'm using vegas 5 for this. I would imagine doing it in photoshop using a premier filmstrip would be much easier to control but I don't have the program.

actually, something else also springs to mind.

on the main establishing overhead shot of the tantive and star destroyer as they go over our heads.

as the planets come up into shot. the main big moon is all blue and then becomes grey. if you could supply an in all other respects untouched version of this shot with the black bars cropped off I'd be quite happy, I can't track the moon properly in vegas.

Originally posted by: Weezer12
Would you re-host those files, adywan?

Originally posted by: SomethingStarWarsRelated
I guess it would help if you discussed the extent of the changes you are making here, adywan.
Is this a stand alone version? or episode 4 in the saga?
My guess is it's the later. Just by looking a your first post in the thread:

"Pistol blasts now match closer to the prequel trilogy..."
"Also re-painted the sabers so they tie in with the rest of the saga."

As far as the senate scene goes, it would be fun to see, but I feel the same way as tellen. Just not needed.
Maybe as a deleted scene though?

Originally posted by: wookielover69
Adywan,

You did a brillant job covering up marks on the door in the detention block before it blows.

Is there any chance you could do the same for the wall during the Obi-Wan and Vader fight. As everyone knows you see the damaged wall before Vader hits it while trying to swing at Obi-Wan.

Thanks.
Originally posted by: Jaxon's Dad
Another suggestion for you Adywan: Throughout the OT, the shadows cast by the saber props are plainly visible on floors, walls, etc. Any way to get rid of these?