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#1523976
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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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Tantive3+1 said:

Just a question

In RO, the DS plans are shown to be white; but for ANH:R HD it’s shown to be in red like in AOTC.

What brought about this change?

They were red in ANH:R, which was completed 8 years before Rogue One was released, so they are staying the same in the HD version. It will still tie in with the plans seen in Rogue One. Someone has already guessed the solution i have done 😉

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#1522571
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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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DZ-330 said:

Per the WordPress site,
“Remove Yub Nub & Victory Celebration”

That must have been written waaaay back, during the briefest of times i was thinking of ending it on the funeral pyre. The ending is going to be pretty much the theatrical ending. NO planets, no Hayden, no Victory Celebration. I hate the SE planet celebrations and victory celebration music. Victory celebration sounds so out of place musically. Williams just basically ripped off the original animatic guide track ( and didn’t even bother to try and hide the fact) and it sounds so out of place in the OT. The guide track was for a Native American mini series and you can tell it still has that theme.

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#1522158
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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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Tantive3+1 said:

doubleofive said:

Tantive3+1 said:

I really hate to be that guy, but the one thing that I question is the color correction made for the binary sunset scene. Shouldn’t it be a bit more towards blue?

You’ve been here long enough, what do you think the answer is going to be?

Ady thinks it looks better.

Without a doubt. Just thought it could use a bit more blue.

Funny enough, when i original graded it, i made it more blue and everyone complained that it should be more red. But it’s a toss up between which version you want to go for. 77 starts with a pinkish sky, then more blue, then the close-up suns its red. 97 cinema release its red sky throughout but the home video its blue . 2011 boosted the blues throughout. 2020 back more to the pink/ red sky. So i just chose to match the sky through the scene

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#1522089
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The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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Ronster said:

That guy with no name said:

I pasted the officer in white’s footsteps onto the motti shot like you said,
it doesn’t match at all:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iHnnR_QJNAA5S3tXwY4oRa93EtbvWs65/view?usp=sharing

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/250641294

The first footstep is off camera

Yep, proof that the footsteps don’t match

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#1521944
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The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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Ronster said:

The guy in the white attire officer is not in the script only Motti. Where does it state about this officer?

You wasn’t talking about the officer in white, you were talking about Tarkin viewing Alderaan on the screen not being in the script. Editing your original post to try and make you look " right" won’t work because i quoted your original unedited post.

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#1521939
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The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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Ronster said:

BedeHistory731 said:

Ronster said:

…all I’m sayibg is “No! Get rid of it, it’s not helping the story” the story is good but having the planet there to explain the viewscreen ruins the story.

Well why wouldn’t you lead with that?

Because it’s not in the screenply or script

Because of the radio drama version of the scene.

And because it does not have a proper sound mix for instance stealing Mottis footsteps.

1 - It IS in the script. Revised Fourth draft March 1976:

2 - The radio drama is an adaptation, padded out and events adapted so they work on radio. Nothing more.

3 - There has been no “stealing Motti’s footsteps”. The footsteps of the officer who approaches Tarkin while he is looking at the viewscreen is foley. Specifically created for that shot, so that the steps match what we see on screen. These " footsteps" would not even work for Motti.

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#1521825
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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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timdiggerm said:

Why did you make the second sun more round in the sunset? Being so low, it ought to be elliptical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_refraction

It’s the same height to the horizon as it would be in the previous shot, with it being only a couple of seconds after that one. I matched both the suns to their previous state. Both suns wouldn’t be so elliptical as they are in the original version.

As for the red R2, well thats something that was done in the original version and it has been recreated to match that. No one complained about it in 15 years. But i have another option to fix that shot that i’m exploring at the moment.

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#1521823
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The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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Ronster said:

Hal 9000 said:

  • The crap Alderaan image out the Death Star window, as fixed way back by Darth Editous.

there was never meant to be a planet at all on the screen at this point. Notti strolls over and states “we have reached the Alderaan system” like Tarkin is blind and princess Leia also is oblivious to the fact she is at alderran too and act’s surprised like it was’nt there already.

The Planet was meant to appear only on the screen when Tarkin says “Home planet of Alderaan”. It was meant to be a reveal at that point.

No true at all. The planet was always meant to be there. It’s a rear projection, so that was all filmed in camera. It’s not an element that was added later.

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#1521274
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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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Ice said:

adywan said:

FVDnz said:

Seeing that the “Extended Death Star” battle is now no longer being a thing, could it be a possible deleted scene under your Bluray Special Features?

There’s a hell of a lot of work that would be involved in recreating that whole scene in HD and i feel it would be time best spent on working on finishing the trilogy, so it’s a no i’m afraid.

You could just include the 720p version that is already completed; no need for deleted scenes to be full HD

There is no 720p version

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#1521263
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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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FVDnz said:

Seeing that the “Extended Death Star” battle is now no longer being a thing, could it be a possible deleted scene under your Bluray Special Features?

There’s a hell of a lot of work that would be involved in recreating that whole scene in HD and i feel it would be time best spent on working on finishing the trilogy, so it’s a no i’m afraid.

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#1520885
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Original trilogy deleted scenes restored Project?
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Ronster said:

Hmmmm I read off Media info it says 23.98 Windows says it’s also 23.98

I will run it through a convertor and see what heppens… This was from a long time ago back in the day 😃

probably a bodged up rip I reckon. I will get another version.

I wasn’t talking about your version. I was talking about kg1977’s link that he posted here:

kg1977 said:

Ronster said:
I redid the Techdome Edit to improve it and added the Blue Milk Scene.

Nice! if you want 1920 wide blue milk with no dust here is a link (no audio).

the google preview stinks so download to see full qual.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o2fmTaQL1RFOqgSPhoSJQkSXiTqc1oQR/view?usp=sharing

I don’t know if the google drive download option from that link is screwed and its only letting me download the preview version, but the version i grabbed (it’s 40mb), which had the duplicate frames, is 29.97fps and contains the duplicate frames and stuttering that was mentioned.

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#1520646
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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That guy with no name said:

I just noticed a Glitch right edge of the screen:

Nice catch. Thanks 😃

Checking the original 720p master , the glitch isn’t there but it is on the 1080p upscale master. Looks like part of the next shot bleeds into this one for a couple of frames. I’ll fix it 😃 If you spot any more, please let me know so i can fix them for the full release

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#1517023
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Star Wars: A New Hope DEVASTATOR EDITION (V.1 RELEASED)
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That guy with no name said:

So I’m having a bit of an issue.
After rendering the file to my external drive, It doesnt open and instead sends me an error message like this:

I’ve tried to render a portion to my internal drive and it seems fine.
but the problem is that my internal drive is almost full and can’t hold a 30GB file.
what do I do?

I also tried converting it via AVIDEMUX but that doesn’t seem to work either.
I’m using Davinci resolve for rendering BTW.

It sounds like a corrupt encode. Resolve is useless at detecting any problems during render and will just continue and report a completed render. Rendering to an external drive can cause problems with large files. It’s best to render to an internal drive. Also resolve will continue to render and produce a " completed render" even if the hard drive was full prior to the render completing because it doesn’t check to see if there is enough space before rendering. Best thing to do is to shift some files temporarily from your internal drive to your external so you have plenty of space to render the movie to the internal one. Sadly you will likely have to re-render the file again.

You could possibly try loading the file into tsmuxer and demuxing the file, then remuxing as this did solve a couple of problems i had with encodes when using resolve in the past. Resolves muxing process seemed to be a bit hit and miss with larger encodes, which is why i scrapped using it and went back to Vegas.

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#1514140
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Return of the Jedi Renewed (released)
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honestabe said:

Atom-88 said:

yoshif8tures said:

Hi, I have the files but I’m unable to unrar them. Are they corrupted?

I was unable to unrar at first, kept tellinh me that rar001-002 is missing. The files just needed renaming the last 3 digits of the file to matche the file 1 (e.g rar001-002, *rar02-03 needs to be rar002-003 and so on). Hope this helps anyone else experiencing the same issue.

This did not work for me unfortunately. I was only able to extract part 1, which was about the first 15 minutes of the movie.

This is odd because in the part 1 rar file, I can see the movie it has prior to extraction. Parts 2 - 9 do not show any files within the rar files. I find this strange because in the past I did something similar to this with rar files with Adywan’s ESB with no issue.

Try the latest version of Winrar to unpack.

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#1512578
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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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doubleofive said:

What needs to be shown is what happens when you take the 60 FPS version and take it back down to 24 to cut back into the movie. I imagine the effect will be pretty much the same as it was originally.

I tried this while working on ESB:R. The results weren’t great. In many cases the effect looked worse than the original stop motion. You are losing so many frames going from 60 to 24. I tried halving the frames and then interpolating them back to 24 and it worked a little better but , even when going from 24 to 60, you get weird artefacts where the program tries to interpret the missing frames and causes horrible results. There is one shot in ESB:R that ended up in the final version ( the TaunTaun shot running across from right to left just before it stops on the ridge and we first see Luke) In the end i used added motion blur to just the stop motion objects to smooth out the stop motion and this worked better than using the frame interpolation method. I have used the same method on the holo table creatures in ANH:R HD

I really don’t see the obsession of this whole 60fps interpolation thing. why do people think this looks better, when all it does is eliminate any filmic look and gives the horrendous " soap opera" effect. Everything looks fake. It also makes the models lose the intended scale. Looking at that clip, the AT-AT’s now look like small models , especially the closeup shot of the head, and the Rancor, which wasn’t even a stop motion creature anyway, has lost its scale and looks like a small puppet.

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#1511232
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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 someone told me if you have the hdr or Dolby vision metadata from the original trilogy it can be added to your fanedit but the only thing I wasn’t sure on was would your new footage complicate that or not just wondering. because if it doesn’t I’m surprised you and nobody knew about this I didn’t know about until yesterday.

I don’t know who told you that, but they really have no idea what they are talking about. You can’t just take HDR data and apply it to something completely different. Plus the Dolby vision and standard HDR grades for the OT are complete garbage. As i have said to you before, there will be NO HDR grade for these edits, so can this please be the last word on the subject?

yotsuya said:

Telion said:

Adywan, this my be seem out of the blue or random, but I’d just like to say for no reason at all, that (as I’m sure you know) not everyone appreciates you only for you window shopping suitablilty.
This is an Adywan appreciantion post. You’re great and you should be told that more.

Everyone has their own ideas about their perfect edit. Adywan’s purist edition is one of the best as it is the original cut with his fixes. He has made so many and spent so much time on the tools and skills that it would be hard to replicate everything. I just stuck to the 4 that bug me most and that was hard enough. I can edit, but such FX work is very difficult. I admire his skill and what he has produced and can’t wait to have his purist 1080p version in my collection. It probably will supplant the actual original cut, except when I’m feeling nostalgic.

There isn’t going to be a “purist” 1080p version i’m afraid.

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#1508384
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Battle of Hoth with Lego Snowspeeder
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Ronster said:

Ok Ady but that is camera pointing into the snowspeeder. that one shot where luke pulls up and away and i am sure if the model was placed under we would see the Speeder outside the cockpit and there is only sky there in the film…

It’s within cockpit overshoulder of pilot shots looking forward i am talking about.

Not camera looking in to snowspeeder front window looking back out towards the gunner.

Ok got the shot I am most suspicious of 7.01 in video below just after Dak get’s killed.

https://youtu.be/BTP-PXeG9Fg

Usernamegeri don’t worry about doing a whole masked in video but that particular shot Luke ovetshoulder pulling up to me feels like we should see the snowspeeder body. Not a torpeedo cockpit.

If you can even do a rough still image I’d like to see it. No probs same boat not much time sorry.

Like i said, that snowpeeder prop was used for ALL the cockpit shots, both front and rear facing.