adywan

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)

I totally forgot the main reason i came in here in the first place. lol. I posted this earlier over in the facebook group:

OK, i have come to a major decision regarding the prequels. I will be approaching these in a completely different way to how i am with the OT. I have decided that, instead of concentrating on one movie at a time, that ALL THREE will be done simultaneously. Madness, i hear you all cry. Well, yes it is pretty insane but it's actually a pretty logical move.

Now the prequels aren't going to be like the OT:Revisited saga. With the OT it has only been minor editing changes (well part from ROTJ:R) but the PT really need a major overhaul. A LOT of editing will be done. Now working on all three will really help with this. Say, for instance, that i have an idea of how the story flows in TPM that will later affect something in say ROTS then, if i finish that one first only to find that i can't pull it off when i get to ROTS, i will hit a huge stumbling block and the whole trilogy would fall apart. This way i can make sure that this doesn't happen as i will be able to try the changes out in the later films as i work on the first. Plus, as many of the locations are featured in all three films, and miniatures i need to build can be all filmed and used for each movie without the chance that these will either get damaged or that i won't have the room to store everything. And another thing, i will most likely need to film extra scenes/ inserts and if i needed someone for a character in TPM and then later in AOTC/ ROTS there is the chance that this person/ persons wouldn't be available and could put a stop me being able to finish what i started.

So there you go. Complete and utter madness and a huge workload but this can be done and is really the only possible way i can accomplish what i want to do with the prequels.

Ghost said:

All in all, Empire should not have taken this long considering it needs the least amount of work done to it. Im all about coming close to perfecting these movies, but honestly, when the trailer came out, it seemed like this movie was going to be done shortly after the trailer release. And now we are all thinking of silly ways into delaying the release of the movie that really needs some fun, and difficult work done to it.

Well i'm really sorry that these "silly ways to delay the release" was down to my personal health issues, caring every day for over 2 years for my sick Mum and then losing her early last year followed almost immediately by my dad discovering he had cancer and i continued to care for him every day until we lost him a couple of months ago.And now it's the battle i have with my brother who turned into a huge ass since Dad died and wants everything his way. And also now because my ass of a brother has demanded a sale of dads house, i'm having to reorganise where the hell i am going to film and store all these miniatures and the Wampa cave set, which was all to be done at Dads.

The breath video was just a test to see if it could be done and how long it would take to do and if i liked the look of it, which i don't. I stated a long time ago that i would be taking time out from this edit so doing these few things were more of a distraction for me. Most people that have gone through what i have gone through since starting this edit would have given up a long time ago and, to be honest after seeing so many comments around the net complaining how long its taking me, i really wish i had.

I'm aiming for a May 2012 release date. I just need this break away from full on working on this edit or i will just go insane. All i want to do is build the miniatures in my spare time and then film them once ready. I will not be touching any effects, editing or composite work until all these are done and filmed. Last thing i want at the moment is to be stuck at the PC 24/7 like i was before all this happened.

Ghost said:

I know these little changes are making all of you happy, but i dont think any of you realize what kind of potential you all have into getting some serious recognition and attention. 

I don't do these edits for recognition or attention. They are just something i wanted to do and share with everyone.

Ghost said:

(I realize that there are threads and stuff for the PT and ROTJ, but i guess this ramble is mainly talking to adywan).

Just a ramble i felt i had to give. Dont hate me everyone!!

Sometimes personal things get in the way of these edits and reading a little way back in this thread would have given you all the answers as to why this is really getting delayed. But we don't hate you ;)

That is certainly not blowing about in the wind. That is the three legged version and those things are pretty heavy, even if it didn't have the mechanics in it. For the wind to move something like that then it would have been strong enough to blow Alec's wig off and you can see that the wind isn't very strong at all. More likely that it's a crew member moving the R2 unit to give it the wobble effect that kenny gave the two legged version

MultiAVCHD used to be good for this. Haven't used it for a while and there were always frequent updates so i don't know if it is still any good or not for what you want to do. But this program will create menus etc for you and it was basically point & click

Has anyone noticed the unseen yavin command centre footage at the beginning of this video:

http://youtu.be/CYo6xmhwkw4?hd=1

And some unseen Yavin hangar footage here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p99urAvak88

The Aluminum Falcon said:

Will the Blu-Ray's increased gamma fix at least this issue?

And, yes Frink, I'll be haunted by it still too.

No, a plain gamma increase won't fix this but only make the Emperors slug look even more prominent. This snapshot has had the gamma changed to match the screencaps on the official SW Blu-Ray site. Looks even more shit now.

Han reunited with Chewie

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

I'd say we are going to find out a lot earlier than Sept 16th. These things are going to leak early, just like the 2004 DVDs did.

What makes me laugh is that you kenkraly, along with the other Lucas worshippers over at Blu-Ray.com slated me and others who pointed out the 2004 glitch on the blu-ray preview at comic con along with things from the official screenshots pointing to these being the same old 2004 transfer, saying that we were pathetic for using a video taken of a screen (even though we even used screenshots DIRECT from the original source video). You all said that how the hell can we tell anything from these videos and that we know nothing. But now, all of a sudden since the new 360p youtube video was posted, taken from a camcorder with no direct footage, you are all saying how good the blu-rays look. Here are a few direct quotes:

shelldweller:
From what you can tell by that the footage of the Blu-Ray looks amazing again... really no reason to complain by now.

kenkraly2004:
Agreed no reason to complain by any means. Looking forward to September 16th for sure.

Beast:
All the footage they keep showing in these videos look great. I'm actually astonished how good some of it looks.

georgec:
Agree with everyone that the footage in the video earmullet posted looks pretty solid.

Can't you see the hypocrisy here?

The thing is you slate this site and the members here over at the blu-ray site, constantly tell anyone who dares question the great god george to shut up and that they can't call themselves a true star wars fan, amongst other things, then come back here and act all apologetic as if no one here would have seen any of this crap. You need to take a step back and really see what you are doing.

Another epic fail from Lucasfilm. They have just added the youtube comic con video to the official Blu-Ray page, but they have disabled embedding on youtube so the video can't be played on the official site

http://www.starwars.com/movies/saga/

shandy706 said:

Looking at these four images I have to say that I think, even if it's the 2004 source, that they have definitely altered/tweaked/messed with the copy quite a bit for the blu-ray release.

Vader's lightsaber is MUCH different in the direct capture for the blu-ray than in either the 2004 or the Original Version.

The Original Version has a fat blade with a red/orange tint to it while the 2004 version is a fat PINK blade. The blu-ray versions is a MUCH thinner blade that has clearly been altered and appears to have a "redder" tint to it than the '04 version.

Welcome shandy706. The reason why the blade looks different on the Blu-Ray image is because it is in fact a different frame (plus the gamma change ). Look at all the other frames on vaders cloak and there is a small section that sticks out towards the bottom of the cloak. And because the blade pulsates, the thickness of the glow changes from frame to frame

If they have just increased the gamma then this will actually be worse than the 2004 DVDs. This type of thing causes all sorts of problems. Just look at the stars in the ROTJ pic. Artefact city.

joshdv said:

http://i51.tinypic.com/2eb5zme.jpg
http://i51.tinypic.com/29ofhuw.jpg
http://i54.tinypic.com/xcsjcw.jpg
http://i55.tinypic.com/f028zr.jpg
http://i55.tinypic.com/24n3b10.jpg
http://i54.tinypic.com/2hd1p50.png
http://i52.tinypic.com/f56rfa.png

 

lukes and hans heads keep going in and out of focus.

it's most noticable on lukes eyes in that shot

it may not be fixable.

It's motion blur, not an error.

none said:

WookieGroomer Split for 1977 (he used GOUT right?) and 2004 DVD, and blu-ray 2011 pic from the recently posted official site update:

 

It looks to me that they just increased the gamma for this shot:

Could it be a difference between PAL and NTSC players?

The complete footage of the Blu-Ray preview at comic con:

http://youtu.be/CYo6xmhwkw4?hd=1

Guess they couldn't be bothered to fix the 2004 error of the blue haze when the Death Star explodes. My guess is that it is the 2004 transfer

Blu-Ray deleted scenes:

http://www.starwars.com/video/view/001267.html

Shame they couldn't have spent a bit of work and cleaned them up

Oh great, the always insightful JT34 is back. Looks like his senility has finally got worse because he is down to a few words sentence now. But why even bother posting on a site where you have blocked almost every member? Looks like he is upset with Blu-Rays because they are much smaller than his Laserdiscs and he has problems finding them with his old eyes. Idiot

Pictures of the US box set:

Harmy said:

Well, no, I'm totally useless with audio. But the mono mix is there.

But I think it would be a nice idea (as someone here already suggested) if one of the sound guys made a nice 5.1 mix that would have all the mono mix sound choices. But I'm definitely not the right guy to attempt something like that.

Harmy, my ANH:Revisited 5.1 track has most of the mono mix dialogue, so that might be useful for you. I don;t think any sound effects were added in the places these lines were replaced

Angel said:

Jaitea said:

Here's another link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCe66d5uShI

J

That!

Feel free to follow that project for future images :)

These are pretty handy too :)

http://www.therpf.com/f10/building-death-star-production-52108/index96.html#post1584705

 

-Angel

Shame they incorrectly raised the trenches at the top