adywan

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/41508/star-wars-blu-ray-reveals-new-content

Just couldn't help but laugh at this quote:

"The first three films were done on film, so they were never seen like this before. We’ve never seen them at this resolution, so you’re going to see things that you’ve never seen before," said Goodson.

Ermm, yes we have on our HDTV's for the past few years, or have i been imagining the HD broadcasts?

Bingowings said:

Thanks for posting that Ady.

It looks lighter blue but it still looks blue, where as here it looks pinky orange (even in it's shadows) :

 

Well it looks like whatever was used to capture the image from the star wars site has given it a pink tint. Here is a better capture:

But the dark areas of the death star defiantly look like they have a brownish tint

and here is a comparison between the 1997 SE & blu-ray trailer versions of vaders sabre in ESB.

erghhhhhhhhhh.

Bingowings said:

Has anyone managed to get a screen capture of the ROTJ Death Star and the Rebel fighters?

From the split second I saw the whole thing seems much more blue than before (indigo Death Star, magenta engine glows) that wouldn't match with the tangerine Death Star seen in earlier screenshots.

 

I'm really hoping that there is a colour shift with the trailer because if not they have really screwed things up this time.

We thought the sabres were pink in the 2004 versions but now they are super pink, including Luke's in this shot

The new official trailer is now up:

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/blog/article/234525/star-wars-the-complete-sagaexclusive-trailer.html

so they went in and fixed the crossed lightsabres (and the Emperors slug by the looks of things)yet made Vaders sabre even more pink in ESB. The colours of ESB still look pretty screwed.

The event is being covered by a live blog here:

http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/2011/08/12/big-screen-star-wars-panel/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Bingowings said:

At least you aren't claiming that your future version is your original version.

Well it will be the only version available in HD on Blu-Ray ;)

L8wrtr said:

You'll have to sign a promise to not steal his work. 

yeh, or you would probably have to give him the secret handshake of the order of Antimatter to pledge your loyalty before you would get a copy.

It's pretty funny that he is so paranoid of people wanting to steal his work though. Hasn't he already stolen george's work in the first place, along with most of the ideas from Star Wars: Reborn and the other similar edits?

well there are going to be many changes done for the HD version. There are some things i just don't think work and others that i just couldn't do with what i either had available or the knowledge to do back then, which i will be changing (oh my god, i am George Lucas. lol). What these things are, well i'm going to keep many a secret ;)

That guy has such a huge ego it's laughable.  digital-fanedits.com is his own website which he started when he decided to leave here (probably because he wasn't getting the attention and praise that he so clearly craved here). It's such a self promotional crapsite.  These bits really made me laugh:

There are only a handful of people on this planet who are privileged to own a copy of the Star Wars Prologue DVD, and maybe a dozen or so more who can say they've watched it. That's about to change.

Even more miraculous is the elusive DVD. By Halloween 2009, the Prologue had been enhanced and expanded into its final cut. This then prompted production of a master DVD and an updated AVI version for the community (the so-called "Extended DVD Cut"). Unlike most fan-editors, however, Anti-Matter never intended for his DVD to be readily available:

 

"By the time I finished, I had seen and read enough at the two largest fanedit websites to convince me that too many people might want the DVD only to exploit it or profit from it. I made the DVD for myself and people I trusted. The AVI release was a compromise of sorts. It allowed me to share the work responsibly with people I didn't know."

So why release the DVD now? It's a combination of two factors: continued interest in the Prologue on DVD, and the imminent arrival of the prequel trilogy on Blu-ray. Anti-Matter is betting on the popularity of high-definition media and the official Blu-ray editions to divert the attention of Star Wars bootleggers. In short, Anti-Matter feels that the DVD format is so less appealing today that the only people who would bother to download and burn a dual-layer, NTSC DVD are true fans of the movie who just want the best possible quality and packaging.

 

Star Wars Prologue was edited from high-definition sources, but produced specifically for standard definition. Thus, the DVD is as good as it's ever going to be. According to the rumor mill, the DVD-9 image will be available to the Digital Fanedits community on Friday, July 1.

So everyone just wanted to exploit and profit from his DVD? This guy is so out of touch with reality. Anyone would think that he invented fan edits.  And only the privileged few own his DVD? ...............................................................

Sorry, i just fell off my chair laughing.

Some of my older pieces of work:

Painted on a leather jacket:

A commissioned painting of someone's scooter:

And some sculptures all created using pva glue, cardboard & toilet paper/ kitchen roll:

Made for a Halloween party:

Here's my ratings:

ANH - 7    SE version - 5

ESB - 8     SE version - 6

ROTJ - 6    SE Version - 4

TPM - 1

AOTC - 2

ROTS - 1 (maybe a 1.5)

Well, back on topic, here's another video from the Blu-Rays:

http://see.walmart.com/moviecenter/star-wars

binarymelon said:

Adywan,

Have you thought about possibly applying your color correction changes to the Blu-rays once they're released?  I've seen some of the discussion over at blu-ray.com but I figured this is a better place to discuss edits.

It's a possibility because i will be using these for my edits. But it all depends on what these films look like on the Blu-Rays so i wouldn't know until i have seen them

kenkraly2007 said:

I never said the problems of 2004 would be fixed I said it would be nice if they where fixed.

Hmmm, selective memory at work again:

kenkraly2007 said:

Because LFL has learned from their mistakes and will get it right this time around. The reason why the sound mix for ep4 and the colors where rushed is because they had to meet a dvd release date. Some don't belive that but it's a fact. This time around LFL will get it right.

kenkraly2007 said:

Here's proof that the colors on the blu-ray release of the star wars will be fixed. http://www.mediafire.com/?2c36vh18yc9ryjc              Now can you please stop saying that they won't be.

kenkraly2007 said:

No I don't. But the blu-rays of the saga will sell well desbite all of the complaining about how the transfers about the picture and sound and it will be the best the films have ever looked.

kenkraly2007 said:

I've talked about this with you for 7 years about the dvd color timing issues and sound mix problems. We know about them my opinion is all of those problems will be fixed for the blu-ray release by LFL and hopefully they will be. You have your view opinions on star wars and I have mine.

kenkraly2007 said:

The Star Wars Films will look good on blu-ray come this September. And I'm sure LFL has taken their time to get the transfers of the Special Editions of the OT right this time around and knock on wood all those errors from the 2004 dvd transfers of the OT will be fixed and correct (Sorry if I said that before) also the prequel films will look good on blu-ray I'm not worried about that.

1 - Yoda actually says that Luke is too old to be trained in ESB

2 - Yeh, that's one of the problems thanks to the prequels

3 - Owens surname is Lars and not Skywalker

New video posted on the official Star Wars site showing a behind the scenes look at the X-Wing and then large section of video of the fighters approaching the death Star in EPIV. . It does look like there has been some tinkering with the colour as the cyan tint seems to have gone and it seems lighter, but those damn pink/ magenta engines just make me cringe ( a bloody SE change so they would match the bodged CG shots) instead of red and the crushed blacks are still the same..  Now you can guarantee that there will still be some who say that this clip isn't what we are going to get on the Blu-Ray, well why the hell would they post an old video to promote the blu-ray so close to the release date? Not only that, if you listen to the soundtrack, that IS NOT THE 2004 MIX

STAR WARS ON BLU-RAY/ EPIV/ X-WING

I was thinking the other day about the scene where Han & co come across the biker scouts and that they just seem to de doing nothing apart from one playing about with some kind of tech. What if, instead of this these troopers were near a small bonfire and it looked like a small battle had recently happened. There were bodies of Ewoks lying around and these troopers were throwing the carcases on the fire (a mirror to the jawas in ANH). Not only does this give the scouts something to do which would actually make the distracted, but also show how ruthless the Empire is to the indigenous population and why the Ewoks would be so ready to help them.

DF Shadow said:

^^ Ah, gotcha.

Jae I have a personal request which maybe you can accommodate.

I made this edit of Obi-Wan telling Luke "I wanted you to have this" instead of "your father wanted you to have this" and was wondering if you could pop it over that clip to see how it works?

http://www.zshare.net/audio/9330572530c4775f/

The timing hasn't' been changed so it should be okay. Plus, miraculously Obi-Wan is turned around at that exact moment so this should fit.

Do you have this in higher quality (sounds a little too compressed)? It sounds like it fits perfectly. That was the one thing i really wanted to do in ANH:R but just couldn't pull it off

I find it strange that many people have written to lucasfilm but received no replies and the only ones that have supposedly got a reply are those that constantly argue that they will be new transfers or that all the colours and lightsabers will be fixed. Funny though how not one of them would provide proof with the original email

Bingowings said:

Further to my earlier post about associating fund raising targets with specific goals, it might be handy if we had a general ball park figure to aim to.

If we had a rough idea how much money is needed to finish this project I imagine it would push some people along much more than incentives like offering props as prizes (not that the prizes are a bad idea in of themselves).

You could use a graphic display for how close you are to getting the necessary funds.

For example if this were ANH:R you could have had the tractor beam power gauge or the targeting computer from the trench run.

I'm not sure how that would translate into an ESB:Rometer (maybe it could be the AT-AT's getting closer to the Rebel generator). 

I'm compiling a list of things i need, the quantities and checking all the prices so i will have a close enough total. It's going to take a while though because i want to find everything for the cheapest possible price

I was just watching the deleted scenes trailer again and i spotted something right at the very end that i didn't see on other viewings. It's a real "blink and you miss it" shot, but here it is:

doubleofive said:

 

none said:

Harmy....

http://starwarsaficionado.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-blu-ray-deleted-scene-clip-chasm.html

LOL, love it. I was going to mock them for not reading the description, but Harmy changed it so it doesn't say that its a joke!

 

Gotta love the Russian Blu-Ray trailer they linked to. I recognise a lot of that footage in there ;) **cough**Revisited**cough**

none said:

^ http://www.starwarz.com/tbone/index.php?categoryid=10&p2_articleid=412

Explanation and pics at bottom.  Here's some of the info:

The only thing that really makes me believe this scene was actually shot (besides the look on Mark Hamill's face) is the following quote from Jon Knoles in the Star Wars Insider, Issue #33 (page 59) talking about the game, Shadows of the Empire for Nintendo 64:

"We knew, for instance, of the scene where a wampa actually broke through into Echo Base and mauled a tauntaun (and possibly some Rebel troops) and a scene where Luke actually took over an auto-laser cannon and blasts a wampa or two. The wampa filmed in this shot looked absolutely hilarious with a big fluffy face and metallic round eyeballs. We saw the picture in a Kodak shoebox Photo CD that Lucasfilm Ltd. provided us with some time ago."

 

The picture of Luke using the cannon is just a publicity photo. The Wampa attack happened before Luke was even rescued, just before Han goes out to look for him.

SW:

• Luke's first trench run (It was originally edited so he had two runs, so this was filmed)
• Extra Mos Eisley & Cantina footage (some can be seen in Holiday Special)
• Vader & Chief Bast scene
• Luke, Han etc celebrate after evading the TIE fighters
• Luke deciding not to replace 3PO's restraining bolt when fixing him in Ben's hut
• Leia's reaction after Alderaan is destroyed

TESB:

• Alternate Han & Leia on bespin scene
• Full length Han torture scene
• Lando & Luke on top of the Falcon during the bespin rescue
• Lukes long walk back through the Hoth battlefield
• General Veers death

ROTJ:

• General Madine commanding the Mon Calamari ship
• Falcons gunners in the turrets
• Obi Wan's full conversation with Luke (probably will never happen because it goes against the prequels)