adywan

Treadwell said:

I'm afraid I can't make a screengrab right now, but I've never seen this mentioned:

In ESB when the probe droid blows up, there's a quick shot, perhaps 4 frames, just before the explosion, that has a vertical scratch through the frame. It starts and stops with the edits on either side of the shot. Why a dupe of a scratched positive ended up in this, I have no idea, as ASAIK there aren't even any opticals in the shot.

Anyway, for Blu-Ray the scratch was finally fixed. IIRC it was still there in 2004.

i've gone through the scene frame by frame and i can only find one vertical scratch. It appears only in the GOUT. It isn't there in the 1997 SE or the 2004 DVD

Jaitea said:

So can it be done?

J

Well there is no way i'm building anything more than i am already for this edit. Not only would it add extra months to create this thing but would add to the already overreaching budget. And to go down the CG route, the foot would have to be so well rendered and have the movement match 100% to give it natural looking motion when interacting with the original speeder. And you only have to look at the speeder crash in the chase scene at the beginning of AOTC to see just how fake something like this can look.So, no i won't be doing it.  But if someone was to prove that this thing can look 100% realistic with Cg then i'm willing to change my mind

Monroville said:

Yup... don't forget the fantastic scale work Savmagoett has already done:

rescaling the foot on a still image is one thing, but actually doing it on a moving image is completely different. I know, i've tried. The main problem is that part of Lukes body covers the foot as it crushes the snowspeeder. Scale that foot up and you have a huge section of lukes body. It isn't so easy to cover that up, especially when the foot flipper is moving. The only way to do it would be to create a new CG foot or build a new foot and speeder miniature.

ImperialFighter said:

But I notice that the tiny Cloud-Car in the distance is not visible anymore.  I'm hoping it's movement outside the window will still be noticeable, now that you've further tweaked the shot you originally showed. 

It's an earlier frame than the original one posted. The sky traffic is still the same in the final version.

here is todays Christmas preview; (click to view full version)

emanswfan said:

convenient! I'm working on th ROTJ deleted scenes right now. But, I could really need some help on the BD ripping process, I was just going into my ripped footage and it doesn't seem to have compresssed properly or something, as I could see compression artifacts I didn't see on my tv. I'm using DVDFab trial, as I don't know what's the best ripping software.

use ANYDVD HD. You can rip the whole blu-ray to your hard drive without any recompression

emanswfan said:

So, I've been playing aorund with the deleted scenes and they CAN definately be cleaned up to look of equal quality to the rest of the footage, they just take longer than other color correction and other image enhacement jobs.

Is there any chance you can show some examples? I know the interior Falcon scenes with the troops and the blue milk scene are high enough quality that they could possibly be incorporated with little clean up, but the rest are such hit and miss quality wise that even cleaning up scratched etc they would still stick out when placed next to the blu-ray footage. I'd love to see what you were able to do on any of the other scenes through

Don't think for one moment that every picture or video i post is ever 100% the final version ;)If i did that then there would be nothing left to show in its final release

Well after seeing Yoda on the new TPM 3D promotional poster i think the case is now at rest. Puppet Yoda wins... No one can really say that this green CG testicle with ears looks more realistic than the ESB puppet ;)

To me the original has always sounded better. The new one is laughable at best. It is just two guys making stupid noises and stuck through a bog standard effects chamber. It never needed to sound more human. It sounded great that he could imitate a creature which scared the Tuskens. Now when i watch this scene and hear that new howl i keep expecting the Tusken's to tuen, pause then fall about on the floor laughing. And, yes i know they are supposed to be easily startled, but if they can be scared off by a silly whooping noise then how can they be so feared? It makes the scene in AOTC, when they talk about the Tusken raid and how many died pathetic. They should have just all made some silly noises and the Tuskens would have legged it ;)

Ignore the last comparison screenshot i posted. I thought something looked off but i was rendering a large chunk of the movie and couldn't check the tiumeline to make sure it was the correct pic. well it's just finished rendering and i posted an earlier test snapshot by mistake. This is the correct shot:

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/99525

Angel said:

There is a mask error on the tube on the top right corner(triangular shape) in your pic.

Amazing job on this one, good riddance matte lines :D

-Angel

It's ok, it's after effects being a shit. There isn't even a mask created in that area, especially that shape so i don't know how that section is missing. It's only on that screengrab on that one frame, but i'm pretty sure it's not in the full render. I'm having all sorts of hell with after effects recently, so i'm usually having to render everything a few times. I need to wipe the drive and reinstall everything soon, but i'm trying to put it off until i've finished ESB:R

Something that was missing from the latest clip......

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/99474

As 005 stated, the rails are split into sections. you can see this clearly in other shots of the gantry. Your interpretation of where the saber slashes is incorrect. You seem to have based it on the whole blade of the saber slicing the wall when in fact only the tip would have made contact with it with the angle of Vader's swing, so my placement is correct. I went through it frame by frame to get the placement correct. Plus, since that clip was originally rendered months ago, i had finished the rotoscoping of the sabers as these weren't 100% completed at the time. The blade was made slightly longer because it doesn't even come in contact with the wall, so this was fixed plus you can see when the saber slices through the rail its on the wrng side of the rail instead of slicing through it.  But even with the blade its original length it doesn't cut anywhere near the door entrance edge

bspaunhorst said:

I noticed this last night when watching ESB on TV, so I assume it has not been fixed yet.

When Luke arrives on Dagobah and R2 gets taken under water, you see a person run across the screen back in the fog.  Almost reminiscent of some Bigfoot footage.  :)

That's Luke.

ImperialFighter, the flipped shot of the chasm has only been flipped. Nothing else has been done to it apart from colour correction so the shape of it remains exactly the same as the original.

As for the hilt , the pictures you posted actually show why it was changed. Look at the position he is holding it and you will see that the shorter section of the tip is central between his thumb and forefinger. Then we see the close-up when it retracts and we are seeing it from the view of the back f his hand so we shouldn't see the emitter at all but the back of the saber. You can see this also in the shots after the closeup which way he is holding it. So if we were to see the emitter then he would have had to twisted his lightsaber 108 degrees for one shot only to twist it back in the following shots. For the new tip i took a photograph of the replica Vader hilt i have in the correct position it should be and rotoscoped that in.

ImperialFighter said:

 

1.  I've only studied this clip on my laptop screen, so the details are very small and I can't see if you've added a faint orange (or black?) 'scorch mark'/'lightsaber burn' to the 'Vane' immediately after Vader takes his 2nd swipe at Luke near the doorway, or not...

Here's how things look in your clip immediately after Vader's 2nd swipe -

...I think you've added a brief hint of 'smoke' here, but if you haven't already, do you think you could add a hint of the 'scorch' behind the railing too? (perhaps only as thick as the faint 'panel lines' that are just visible nearby?)...as it would probably be noticeable on a bigger monitor, and would tie-in nicely with when we then cut to the still glowing 'scorch mark'/'lightsaber burn' that you've added to the 'close-up' afterwards. 

Or would it be too hidden behind the 'walkway' railing at the angle we see Vader swiping twice anyway?  I can't really tell from the small screen size I'm looking at, unfortunately, but see what you think.

The scorch mark behind the railings has been added in that clip. It is visible when viewed on a larger screen

darth_ender said:

Maybe this has been noted elsewhere, but I think I just discovered something surprising and cool.  Watching The Lost Rebels deleted scene from ROTJ, and the Mon Calamari sounds like Jim Henson/Kermit the Frog/Ernie to me.  I thought, "I know George Lucas wanted Jim before he considered Frank Oz for Yoda.  Maybe he finally got him to participate."  Then at 4:47, the director is talking to him and calls him Jim!  This may be old news to everyone, but I'm pretty sure that's Jim Henson under that Mon Calamari suit!

No, he says Tim because it was Tim Rose who was the puppeteer. 

http://youtu.be/7_WckG-GC9s

doubleofive said:

The Glee Christmas episode is up for HuluPlus members. Anyone going to risk it, or do I have to?

It was on SKY1 tonight and i decided to check it out. What a mistake that was. How the hell can people actually watch this crap? Well, after all the hype about chewie being in it he was on screen for all  of about 3 seconds. It was a blink and miss it cameo. The only other star wars related stuff was the opening of their TV special, which was a nod to the holiday special opening titles and 2 characters dressed as Luke and Han. That was it. And boy was it cringe-worthy. I wanted to gouge out my eyes and rip off my ears after watching that.

This is what the Phantom menace puppet should have looked like:

http://youtu.be/cLeCDqtBAIs

the problem you have with the corrupt video part is that you extracted the ISO file. Your best way would have been to use IMGBURN (google it, its a free burning program). when you run the program select "write image file to disc" and select the original ISO file, pop in your DL DVD+R, set the write speed to 2.4x and burn the disc. If you need it to fit onto a DVD-5 (Single layer) then just run the whole thing through DVDShrink. yes you will lose some quality but it will still be better quality than converting it to mp4 then back to DVD

Sevb32 said:

Everything looks amazing, but I have wondered why Vader's saber looks so short at 1:12 on the clip. Anyone else spot this? It's always looked that way.

It's the angle he is holding it at. The saber is the correct length.

Ah, i see what's being said now thanks to aalenfae's explanation. i just could see what angel was trying to say. well the clip isn't a new render and was an older render of this scene which i was going to upload for the 2nd unit quite a few months ago, but forgot about it with everything that happened with my father. As you can see in the clip the overhead matte shots are incomplete, but these were completed in October. Also there have been a few other tweaks since this original render and the gantry shot was not complete ( in this one the gantry shot had the lightsabers with an added motion blur which was just a test to see if they flowed better, but is not in the completed shot). I had this clip lying around and had forgotten about it so used this for the xmas clip. I prefer not to post fully completed scenes because i  like to keep things until the final edit. much of the masking layers were incomplete when this video was originally rendered and was more to be used as a test to check masks etc before rendering the final version. So the lightsaber glows around the masks along with the slight white edge on the cape later on in the scene weren't complete back then. here is a shot that shows a completed frame:

oh_riginal said:

adywan said:

Now i need to go back and read through a lot of pages to try and catch up.

I would like to take this opportunity to bring up old mock-up ideas that I made, and see if you would like to use them in ESB:R or not.

 

Vader's saber spark with smoke and added audio change:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF-mZxhprVQ

 

Han Solo's cave locating skills:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKGFj5OYY9Q

and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4An0G1pFiU

 

I had other mockups, but I recall you saying you would not use them. These are the only ones I think you didn't state an opinion for originally, so I thought I'd dig them up.

I'm pretty sure i did answer these two. I remember saying i added a flash in that shot already and the Han/ locating cave thing never bothered me because he could always have seen it on the sensors.

I'm working at 32bit in after effects unless a plugin i'm using isn't 32 bit compatible then i have to work at 16 bit, but this shot was 32 bit

aalenfae said:

There was another issue I noticed. Right after the shot with the added burn marks, there's a shot where Ady made the railing broken. The glow of the lightsaber passes behind the added railing matte, and for a few frames, it stands out. (I saw it just watching at normal speed).  

yeh, i spotted that and fixed it.

Harmy said:

I don't see any difference at all in that picture Angel posted.

Neither do i

BarBar Jinkx said:

An Error has occurred while expanding the file "xmas 2011 clip.rar" (Format error). Error #17540!!!!

 

 

FRAK!

Are you using winrar to unpack the file?

EDIT: oh i see you got it sorted now