adywan

Originally posted by: Jaxon's Dad
Well fifth time is the charm, apparently. It finally took, however playback is sketchy. It freezes all over the place and in the PC it will skip chapters. Is there any reason to believe that trying this again will correct the problem?

Originally posted by: GhostAlpha26

One thing I did mention to Darth Editous was the scenes aboard the Falcon when Luke is training ( I know you probably want to punch me already ) when the view shows C3P0 R2 and Chewie at the table and Ben off to the left, Lukes actual blade continually looks to get off kilter with the hilt, the blade jumps around from the edges of the hilt back to the center and in some shots it actually looks to bend at an angle. I dont know if its something you can look at or not.
I'm fixing that scene right now. No more wobbly saber blade
Originally posted by: Zion
I'm not 100% sure it was the right font, but for my ROTS DVD, I used "Franklin Gothic Medium Cond Regular" to create the end credits. I hope that helps.

Originally posted by: GhostAlpha26
How close do you think this is to being released?
Its going to be a few months before its ready at least i'm afraid. Once i've finished all the colour correction and effects shots i've then got to start the new audio mix, so loads of work still to do.
Originally posted by: Jaxon's Dad
Here's something: Following Vader's and Tarkin's conversation about the homing beacon in which Vader states, "They've just made the jump into hyperspace," we then cut to Han and the Princess' conversation in the Falcon's cockpit. Forward shots in this sequence reveal normal space and not the mottled blue of hyperspace. How difficult would it be to replace the starfield plate with a hyperspace background plate? Would this even work?

Originally posted by: DarthBalls1138
Is there any chance you would ever attempt to remove the contact flashes? The pt ones are ok, but still kinda annoying, but its one of the blemishes I think the ot could have done without.

Originally posted by: dumb_kid
adywan.. pretty impessive fx so far...
At roughly 0:12 when darth lowers his saber out of frame there is some red bleeding up in to the frame. Is that jsut an artifact from encoding in divx?
Also why are the contact flashes green?

Originally posted by: Sokudo Ningyou
DVD Rebuilder confused me immediately, so I went with DVD Shrink to make the DVDs. But does anyone know why Sony DVD-R are considered "illegal" discs by the program? I bought a hundred of them on sale, and the effing program won't let me use them to burn.

Originally posted by: Erikstormtrooper
The new Death Star clock looks pretty dim to me. At first I didn't even see it. Can the numbers be brightened?

The background in Luke's cockpit is a clever touch, but it kind of implies that the rebel fighters just go straight up into the sky. I'm not sure how I feel about that. The original movie leaves it unclear how the fighters get out of the temple. So is there just a big hole in the roof.
Don't worry, this was just a quick encode and it has turned out a bit darker than it should be. I posted a pic of the new clock a bit further up this page so you can see how light it should be.

I used a bit of artistic license with the background in Luke’s cockpit. Having it fly straight up just flowed better with the next shot of the X-wings rising as they fly away from Yavin IV. I originally tried it with it flying out horizontally with the temple in the background, but it just didn't look right and didn't seem to flow with the previous and next shots.

Sorry, I thought I had replied to your PM a few weeks back. I think its a brilliant idea and it does look much better than the red but, after trying on short scene, the results weren't too good. There is a lot of red colour bleeding especially on 3PO that caused a lot of problems, so I’m afraid I won't be changing that.
Originally posted by: Erikstormtrooper
Whatever you did with the Han shot and the Y-Wing, I can't see any difference.

Originally posted by: boba feta
Man that really sucks ass. Is the Hard Drive salvagable? Would some Data Recovery Software Help?

Originally posted by: Darth Lars
In all due respect, your laser bolts and lightsabers are too blurry for my taste. I liked in the original ANH that the edges of the lightsabers blades were sharp. They also flickered. Those two aspects made them feel dangerous.

The lightsabers in the trailer were only prototype effects shots and will have a stronger core & more natural glow in the finished version. The flicker is definately still there though.



It may well have to be a dual layer but i'm going to do a 9 pass CCE single layer encode first to see how if i can stick to single layer without sacrificing quality.

Originally posted by: INv8r_ZIM
Adywan, do you think you'd mind sharing your approach to recreating the laser bolts? I've got a technique that's close that I'm using on my project, but I think you're a little closer. Would love to hear what your approach is regardless!

Originally posted by: eros
I never liked the pacing of the movie after OB1's death. do you plan to do something with that?

Originally posted by: Sluggo
So does the list actually say that we see the superlaser power up (from the outside) before the DS blows up?

Originally posted by: Jaxon's Dad
Adywan,

I really gotta get me one of your DVDs. This is shaping up to be one of the better SE reimaginings around. Please do an NTSC version!

I'll do both PAL & NTSC but the Pal one will be finished First.

Originally posted by: vbangle
How about a fix on the overall color balance for the complete movie? It would be nice if the stormtroopers armor was white and not bluish-white....LOL

Originally posted by: Erikstormtrooper

And I know I for sure would like to see a list of ALL your tweaks, however minor.

there isn't a full list as yet because i'm finding minor things all the time but here's whats been fixed / changed so far (well as much as i can remember at the moments anyway):

All laser blasts repainted.
Lightsabers repainted.
"Pink" blast flashes are now white.
R2-D2 jump cuts aboard the Tantive V smoothed or fixed.
Changed the line "there'll be no escape for the princess this time" to just "there'll be no escape this time" because when luke sees the hologram 3P0 doesn't know who she is.
A close up shot of a Rebel trooper being hit had a laser coming out of scope part of the gun by mistake. I've painted out the blast and added a blast that hits him because originally he dies without being hit.
While 3P0 is looking for R2 a rebel trooper falls as if he's been hit but no lasers & 3P0 turns as if reacting to something. Added a background flash and a few lasers as the troops retreat and 3P0's reaction looks better.
When R2 arm opens the pod door it dissappears in the next shot. The arm can now be seen to retract.
Fixed 3P0's blinking eyes in the sandcrawler.
Slightly reedited the scene where the Jawas sell the droids to fix the continuity error of the reappearing red R2 unit behind R2-D2.
Filtered Beru's voice while sitting at the table to give it a more natural feel instead of the overdubbed studio feel and slightly resynced the line "he has to much of his father in him to omit the pause before "father" and give it better lip sync.
Smoothed out a jump cut when luke ignites his saber at Ben's home and the saber can now be seen to ignite
When Tarkin enters and explains that the Emperor has disolved the council the bottom right officer can clearly be seen mouthing a line. I've added a line from the Radio play that syncs his mouth movements.
Batboy's eyes are no longer transparent in the Cantina.
Han shoots first.
Fixed a continuity error in the Jabba scene where Chewie can be seen clearly behind Han by the Falcon but cuts away to a shot of Chewie walking from the entrance and next shot he is back behind Han.
Radar dish on the falcon in docking bay 94 added (many thanks to Darth Editous)
As the falcon escapes Tatooine a few explosions can be seen through the cockpit window but nothing creates them. I've added a few lasers to fix this.
The shot of Tarkin standing in front of a poorly projected static viewscreen on the Death Star as it approaches Alderaan has been altered so that the viewscreen now has a motion picture than matches the rest of the sequence.
The conversation between Tarkin & Leia has been equalised so there isn't a noticable audio difference between shots.
Fixed a jump cut when Luke turns off his saber aboard the falcon and you can see the blade retract.
Smoothed the jump cut when Luke ignites his saber while wearing the helmet with a morph.
Before Tarkin says the line "terminate her immediately" Vader can be seen gesturing where a line had been cut. He no longer gestures.
When the TIE flys over the falcon after it it has left hyperspace you can see a couple of blasts through the falcons cockpit window but again nothing creates them. Added lasers to fix this.
Enhanced the glow of the Death Star docking bay widow which eliminates the gap in the glow at the bottom.
Fixed an Imperial's shirt colour continuity error while Han, Luke & Chewie wait for the lift.
The tractor beam matte painting has been fixed
Fixed some frames where Ben & Vader's sabers swap colours.
When the falcon is seen leaving the Death star docking bay it always seems to be going to slow as it blasts away. The Falcon now retreats faster.
Matt boxes around TIEs have been fixed
Changed the camera shake when Luke and Han are in the gun turrets by adding motion blur and a created a less linear shake.
reframed a shot of a Tie figher approaching the camera where about 1/5th of the right side of the frame was missing.
Darth Editous' new Death Star schematic has been inserted so the weapon bowl is now in the correct place ( more thanks)
When Red Leader crashes into the Death Star you can now see his X-wing crashing instead of just an explosion.
When the Ties first approach they now begin to fire.
The shot of the Imperials firing the turret guns , even though the lasers are green, the room is lit with blue flashes. I've recoloured this so that the room is now lit with green flashes.
The Death Star clock now displays the correct countdown ( thanks again to Darth Editous)
Slightly recoloured some of the ship explosions to eliminate the pink tint.
Whe R2 is hit it cuts to a shot of Luke in the cockpit but R2 looks fine. You now see the smoke coming from R2 out of the rear cockpit window.
A couple of shots prior to the Death Star exploding have been rearranged or added . this is due to the fact that the Death Star now can be seen to begin to fire just as it explodes.
I've eliminated the horrible blue glow around the explosion of the Death Star.
As Vader straightens up and flies into the distance I've added the Superstardestroyer in the background.

The audio track had been redone using the original 5.1 DVD soundtrack with its reversed rear music channels fixed and new effect elements added to enhance the surround experience and the sub channel has been lowered slighly because it was just way too loud for.
A few new music cues most notably Darth Vaders theme has been added.
The surround channels during a lot of the film has music only and no ambient sounds yet other scenes it has. I've added ambient sounds for the missing parts, most notably the Cantina sequence now sounds fuller.
Slight gaps during scene changes in the music and audio has been fixed

There is more but i just can't think of any off hand at the moment but it'll give you an idea

Originally posted by: Erikstormtrooper

Any plans on removing the rear window from Vader's TIE cockpit? It's obvious they used the same set for his cockpit as the regular TIEs. Regular TIE's have a rear window, whereas Vader's TIE model does not. I'm not positive, but I think this may only be an issue right before Vader spins out of control in the trench.

Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
"the pink flashes have now been fixed"

I don't get it. What's wrong with the pink flashes?


I prefer the plain white flashes as i remeber them before the 2004 DVDs. White flashes just seems to look more natural than pink.

I just notices that when Tarkin explains that the Emperor has disolved the senate that one of the officers at the bottom left mouths some dialogue so i have added a line taken from the radio play that matches his mouth movement.



The lasers, especially in the Death Star battle, were pretty badly composited. Sometimes the TIE & turret lasers were bright green with a yellow core then some weren't coloured and some even had a blue outer glow. I took the most coloured shots as reference for the re-colouring. The shot just after Luke says "This is Red 5. I'm going in" shows The intensity of the X-wing lasers. The shots below have been untouched to help explain it better:





Originally posted by: Sluggo
Could I recommend something for the sheilds in the death star hangar bay? I got to say I love that you rampped up the lights on them. Maybe they could actually dim as the falcon passes through? It has always bothered me that they never really did anything.

Originally posted by: wookielover69


However I did notice that the core doesn't seem to have quite the right whiteness to it as the OT had originally, also Vader's saber appears to be a bit too Strawberry Red.

Yeh, i agree it was too Strawberry red. I've tweaked the coulour and fixed that now




Originally posted by: Moth3r
I enjoyed the trailer. Except for this:



An example of why I, personally, find watching the DVD-sourced edits distracting.

Originally posted by: Darth Editous
Actually my edition is PAL, although I made an NTSC version of it as well. If you feel the urge to post any clips, I'd love to see the morphs you've done.

I'd also love to see a screenshot of your replacement Alderaan projection!

DE

Originally posted by: Darth Mallwalker
Hey adywan, did you know Darth Editous had already fixed some of that stuff ?

Originally posted by: Darth Richard
This project looks really cool. When it is done I would love a disc.
Will the finished product be PAL or NTSC?