adywan

negative1 said:

Brooks said:

The 35mm film version sounds good.  The Silver Screen edition sounds nice too (like in the trailer).

Newer DSLR's don't have manual focus???  Is that true? 

 

we are using the canon hack software for control.

all the newer 10 and 12 megapixel and up cameras don't

allow for manual exposure without autofocus.

later

-1

What model camera are you using? My new Canon 500d DSLR definitely has the option  of manual exposure without autofocus.

Can't you customise the template in the render settings to change the framerate from 29.97 to 23.976fps? I know you can do this with the pro version but i'm not sure about Movie Studio. There should be an option to do this when you select your template

negative1 said:

timdiggerm said:

What's with the big blue ....thing?

don't know.. there's a lot of weird

color anomalies due to aging, turning red,

etc, etc.. not sure how it impacts the other

reels yet.. that's why we're not using these,

because it would take too long to fix... 

later

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I think its pretty salvageable without taking ages to fix. Just took about 10 minutes to do these in Sony Vegas;

nowhere near perfect (especially working from highly compressed images) but this just shows what can be done in a small amount of time. But, as pittrek said, you are darkening the image way too much

Now the bright spots/ colour anomalies down the centre of the image can easily be cleaned up by creating a mask in after effects and adjusting these spots to match the outer edges.

Kurgan said:

The "deal" was that if he got 4,000 "likes" he'd post an image, and if he got 6,000 "likes" he'd post two images. The "likes" were well over 8,000 (but not yet over 9,000) when I posted that.

Now I see they're back to 2,000. Is this a weekly thing?

 

This deal's getting worse all the time...

The deal has never changed. You seem to be mistaking the number of "Likes" on the Revisited page with the number of likes that we were trying to get for Stephen Stanton's page. I think that was made pretty clear:

While things are a little quiet on the Revisited front at the moment due to the break while i move house, i'd like everyone to throw some support behind some of those that have really helped in promoting Revisited and have been very supportive. So first off......

Stephen Stanton (captain Tarkin himself). Let's get his page to at least 3000 likes before the end of next week. If you all help to reach this goal then i will post a brand new completed image from ESB:R. If you manage to get that total to more than 4000, then i will post 2 new images. So, come on everyone, lets show our support and thanks.

Unfortunately only a few hundred of the 8000+ followers of the Revisited page helped out and Stephens page is only on 2064 likes as of today. But it did help get Stephen to his personal goal of 2000 likes so here is the new screenshot:

In regards to the "Two fighters...." line, it's not something i will be changing. The "copy...Gold leader" lone in ROTJ however is something i will be changing as that is terrible. But that is down to the fact that they spliced two different takes together and the gap between "Copy" and "Gold" is too long to sound natural, along with the delivery with different speech patterns.

This has just been uploaded to Youtube. Silent footage shot on Super 8mm.

http://youtu.be/kLRD1kDakcQ

Gameplay footage:

http://youtu.be/1X04haKdVwM?hd=1

Someone on these forums does have the DTS discs for the SE, but i can't remember who it was. I'd love to get my hands on a rip of the DTS audio tracks.

vbangle said:

What are your guy's opinions about the softness of the latest clip? Did it look a little soft to anybody else? I just hope Adywan didn't bother with sharpening up the image because it was just a preview clip. His stuff usually is so crisp and clear, seeing lots of detail.

ANH:R, even though it was only DVD resolution was very detailed and crisp without too much haloing or over sharpening. IMO of course.

I never sharpen the video when encoding. I used a different encoder (the main concept h264 built into After effects) because i haven't re-installed all of my programs/ codecs on my new PC yet. Main concept encoder is crap and has always suffered with softening an image both with its Mpeg encoder and its H264 one.

brash_stryker said:

Also, I don't want to be thought of as a nitpicker again, but I'm a little curious what everyone thinks. I've always thought the Executor's engines were more of a true red than an orange. On the off chance that I was just colour blind, I looked it up and Wookiepedia says the engines are red. I just recall the glow being deeper coloured in the original that's all. Can anyone offer their thoughts, even if it's just to contradict me?

I never trust any of the "...pedia's". There is only one shot in ESB where the engines are red and in that shot (the bottom shot) the engines have been added later as you can tell that the lights aren't even turned on (no light reflection on the underside). All other shots the engines are orange. Taken from the GOUT;

As for the meditation chamber view screen, i have removed all of the graphics and have just kept the outer detailing. It did look too busy so i'm going to keep those to use in ROTJ:R

I've just watched the 1080i version this. Unfortunately most of the footage was taken from the 2004 versions, with the couple of clips from the unaltered version being taken from the GOUT. Very disappointing.

new working link:

https://hotfile.com/dl/156074096/7439e3b/ep41138.rar.html

password: adywan

the link is still active. I just clicked on it and it worked. Hotfile sometimes reports a file is deleted to free users during peak times. try using jdownloader.

EDIT: seems like everyone is having this problem, yet my hotfile account still reports it as available with no copyright flag. I'll try uploading it again as a passworded rar file

For those that want a less compressed version without the blu-ray comparison:

https://hotfile.com/dl/156071090/22f6265/new_clip.mkv.html

doubleofive said:

My friends, the Visual Comparison:

http://picasaweb.google.com/doubleofive/ESBRPreview052012

You missed one ;)

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/125205

Harmy said:

Nice video Ady. I dig the display enhancements - very cool, yet non intrusive and in keeping with the spirit of similar things in the original film (like the binoculars for example). One thing I noticed though, you didn't fix this SE colour fluke:

yeh, i spotted that after i had already spent 45 minutes uploading half of the video and i couldn't be bothered to re-render and spend ages uploading again. It's been fixed.

Thanks to everyone that sent me PMs with the links.

I would love to hear the new versions. If anyone could PM me the links, it would be much appreciated. thanks

Pay-it-forward doesn't work and i'm not going to be doing it this time around.  I will be sending out a certain amount of copies but not for PIF. I sent out over a hundred copies last time, many of them to people who promised to make copies and send them to people closer to them that asked. but only a handful bothered to PIF. The rest just disappeared after they got the copy, many not even bothering to stick around to say thanks. 

The main releases will be upload to newsgroups, then it is up to others to add it elsewhere. The chances are, if things go according to plan here in my personal life, then i probably won't even have a fast enough connection to upload any versions myself, so i would have to rely on the help of trusted others to get them to newsgroups in the first place.

euroherbal said:

I knew there was going to be another clip, I knew!! :P

The clip i was trying to upload was just for the 2nd/3rd unit page so i could get some feedback from the new Hoth command centre displays (ion control etc), it wasn't going to be released to the public. Not only did facebook ban me for a while and have permanently banned me from ever uploading any more videos, but when i tried youtube, they also deleted the video and threatened me with a ban. i guess adding the 25 second intro no longer works . It won't be long before vimeo utilises the same software. If the damn blu-rays hadn't been released none of this would be happening. Fox are being very heavy handed with their copywrite enforcement since then.

Update:

Today i did an update ;)

The completed Hoth Shield Generator model. Just need to add the snow and its ready for filming (just click on image to see full size)

Looks like The Sun (where the article first originated) has yet again been making crap up. :

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=411096898907652&id=135520326465312

Rapidshare have changed their "free user" policy recently. Now free users get limited to 30kbps even when traffic isn't high. But many times the files now show as unavailable, even though the files are still there. You just have to keep trying.

EDIT: Just checked the rapidhsare links for the purist edition and they are all still online. I'd recommend using jdownloader to grab these files

Monroville said:

The bottom line is that it IS Ady's edit.  All anyone can do is argue their point logically or illogically.  There are plenty of extreme close-ups of the TIEs in action throughout ANH (specifically during the Falcon escape battle) and not once do they even remotely appear bluish in any way, shape or form.   To do it for EMPIRE is one thing, as that is how they originally appeared.  Considering that even Lucas has never blued the TIEs in any incarnation of ANH should say something.

not blue

 

In the end, this will probably be a good thing, being that it will give me one more reason to learn After Effects and other programs so I can re-color correct the TIEs to grey.

The TIEs appeared as blue in many shots in ANH. As we know, the GOUT is pretty faded and desaturated, losing a lot of the blue tints. You can't use this as a reference for colour. but even with the fading you can see shots where the TIEs are blue tinted, even in the scene you say they never appear bluish in any way shape or form

Now these were just 2 examples

The 1997 SE is supposed to be the closest for colour reference to how ANH originally looked (before the tinting added in 2004). Now there are many times that the TIEs are clearly blue tinted

And the model you posted the pic of was sold at auction in 2008 and the pic of the model used for the brochure shows that it wasn't as white as it looked in the bluescreen photo you posted:

Now the TIEs changed from grey to blue even in the original. They were never grey 100% of the time

Monroville said:

Watch Ady's latest clip; in some cases, his TIEs are bluer than the originals (pause during the first fly-bys with the 3 SDs).

Now that's just not true and i posted links to screenshot comparisons a few pages back that proves that isn't the case.It may look that way in the youtube video because the blue may stand out more because of the tint added to the whole shot in 2004 coloured the stardestroyers in the background

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/STAR-WARS-EP-V-REVISITED-EDITION-ADYWAN-UPDATED-CHANGES-LIST-NOW-AVAILABLE/post/565636/#TopicPost565636

Well it looks like ANH had the Great Flipper debate, ESB has the Great Blue TIE debate and i hate to think what the Great Debate fro ROTJ will be. ;)

Maybe you could do a final colour pass in After Effects as this could possibly give you more control when adjusting the reds.

I've just had a chance to see the sample. I had to watch it a few times because i just couldn't believe that this was actually GOUT sourced. Yes, some of the jaggies and problems inherent with the GOUT are still there, but these are a LOT less noticeable and have been greatly reduced. The colours look great. Seeing colours, especially blues,  that were thought lost from the faded  GOUT, finally make an appearance was outstanding.

I did notice the reds bleeding somewhat, but that has been mentioned that is a problem with the encode.

My only criticism would be that the reds are slightly too saturated.  If you could knock the saturation of the reds back slightly, this would be prefect. I just popped it into after effects and reduced the just red saturation slightly:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/109786

It's such a sad state of affairs when people with a PC at home can do a much better job than the half assed effort of Lucasfilm. Its sad to think that there are so many Star Wars fans that truly think that the 2004 DVD/ Blu-ray versions are how Star Wars should look colourwise. These fans should be forced to watch this version as THIS is how Star Wars should look.

Great job guys.