chyron8472

MalàStrana said:

[Anakin] still has fascist tendancies but Padmé thinks he’s joking so it’s ok…),

Objectively, a dictatorship is more efficient. If something needs to be done, and quickly, decisions get made without the endless squabbling.

That isn’t to say that it’s better since there is a greater potential for corruption due to so much power, and the ability for one man to lead civilization to ruin, but it is more efficient.

Anakin’s real problem isn’t his political views. It’s that the Council allowed him to get too friendly with Palpatine. Even Windu explicitly says he thinks it’s dangerous, but Obi-Wan trusts Anakin and allows him more latitude than he should have regarding that relationship.

JEDIT: Frankly, I prefer to delete the scene where Anakin turns to Yoda for advice on death (who, honestly, is nearly 900 years old and is absolutely the wrong person for a young adult to ask about it.)

It feels better to me if Anakin doesn’t seek advice from the Jedi at all. He turns to Palpatine because he values Palpatine’s opinion most, second only to Obi-Wan (whose opinion he automatically infers as disapproving and therefore doesn’t confide).

towne32 said:

chyron8472 said:

I gave Q2s Prequels and Harmy’s DE to my cousin, Josh, for his birthday on Saturday, and I used 2.5 Recolored for Star Wars.

Awesome!

V1.2 will be up in a couple days. It’s essentially just a BD ISO version with seamless branching selectable crawl.

But I have also replaced a couple of quick shots that were previously purely GOUT based, with TN1’s SSE (that I further cleaned, grain-adjusted, and color corrected myself). The shots in question are one shot in the Mos Eisley entrance sequence, two shots as Luke prepares to board his X-wing (Harmy used a GOUT upscale to remove the Biggs scene), a few diving shots during the battle of Yavin. I’ve also used the SSE for a couple explosions in that battle and the closeup of the torpedos entering the Death Star. The latter weren’t GOUT, but the color should look less altered with TN1’s version.

I am leaving alone anything that Harmy roto

Thanks again for the interest.

What I would really love to have is a BD menu.

I know there’s a DE2.5 BD on the spleen that has menus. Is there a way to mux it into this, or can we get someone to work on making menus for Recolored?

JEDIT: I just thought of something: Star Wars DERP (Despecialized Edition Recolored Project). ;D

I gave Q2s Prequels and Harmy’s DE to my cousin, Josh, for his birthday on Saturday, and I used 2.5 Recolored for Star Wars.

chyron8472 said:

I went to a relative’s house tonight for a family get-together because my cousin was in town. My cousin works at Disney, on the software for Disney Movies Anywhere.

I was talking to him about Star Wars, and he told me about how, a week before TFA came out, people in his office there at Disney dragged a bunch of chairs and couches from various conference rooms into one large room and watched all 6 Star Wars movies on a projector.

And when they watched the Original Trilogy, they watched Harmy’s Despecialized Editions. In an office at Disney.

No joke.

He also said that it was his understanding that an 8k scan had been done of the OUT. I asked if it was from the original negative, and he said he didn’t know if it was from the actual original negative, but at the very least it would only have been within a couple generations from the o-neg, which is certainly closer than the prints our community have been using.

He did agree that a major sticking point is the fact that Fox owns eternal distribution rights to Star Wars (aka. A New Hope), and it was for that same reason that Disney Movies Anywhere (the software he develops) does not include that particular movie in its catalogue.

But, and I reiterate this, he already knew about Harmy’s Despecialized Editions before I said anything. I gave Q2s Prequels and Harmy’s DE to a relative for his birthday on that day (whose 14yo daughter said she had never seen any SW movies), and when I explained the OT was the original versions, my cousin asked if they were Harmy’s.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

If I may ask, why are L8wrtr’s prequel edits (and only L8wrtr’s edits, among the various available) listed on the Ultimate Guide?

What Ultimate Guide?

The Ultimate Introductory Guide.

Nitpicker, stop picking nits. 😉

I went to a relative’s house tonight for a family get-together because my cousin was in town. My cousin works at Disney, on the software for Disney Movies Anywhere.

I was talking to him about Star Wars, and he told me about how, a week before TFA came out, people in his office there at Disney dragged a bunch of chairs and couches from various conference rooms into one large room and watched all 6 Star Wars movies on a projector.

And when they watched the Original Trilogy, they watched Harmy’s Despecialized Editions. In an office at Disney.

No joke.

If I may ask, why are L8wrtr’s prequel edits (and only L8wrtr’s edits, among the various available) listed on the Ultimate Guide?

What are the major differences? (besides the addition of editor commentary)

Threw together some covers for my cousin. I know they have their issues, but it looks fine for him since he’s not nitpicky on the details. I really liked the TFA-style title text, though.

JEDIT: The issues I refer to are things such as:

• The posters I used for the front covers are made such that using them here cuts Vader off above the neck at the top of 3 of the covers. It works out better for the Q2 Episode 3 though, because the suit was cut from the movie.
• The poster I used for ROTS was actually unfinished, as it said “Attack of the Clones” instead. I fixed it, but the only fonts that I could find cut the very top of some letters in the subtitle off. I don’t know why they did that, but I couldn’t easily correct it.
• The Emperor is not in Ep 4.

But my cousin probably won’t examine it as closely as that. Next time, I’ll use a better poster, and create my own TFA-style titles so that I can position the posters properly.

mike138 said:

Here they are with the colour fixed around the Rebel/Empire emblems.
I also removed all mention of “A New Hope” in case anyone wants to use it for a despecialized edition (as I will be).

Can you make Prequel versions of these, please?

I already went through the film and gave towne some feedback on certain shots/scenes.

I’ll look at the higher bitrate version you linked me to tonight, towne. Sorry I hadn’t got to it last night. Was busy doing dad-related stuff.

MalàStrana said:

TV’s Frink said:
OT Vader doesn’t ask stupid questions like that.

I wonder if it possible to edit the scene so he would just walk into the office and instantly help Palpatine by cutting Windu’s hand (just after he delivers the “you can’t” and “i need him” lines, with “he must stand trial” removed), and not sit afterwards but would rather stand and discuss with Palpatine their next move. So all the “dark side knighting” part of the scene should be removed

I’m pretty sure this is the way it’s cut here.

MalàStrana said:

Little Nemo said:

Wow, losing the “what have I done?” REALLY helps that scene in RotS.

You really think so ? Because only 5 minutes later Anakin has no second thoughts killing Jedi (and kids !) in the Temple. The “what have I done?” line has however a meta value, with Lucas expressing himself through Anakin 😃

“You don’t know the power of the Dark Side. I must obey my master.” -Vader in ROTJ

chyron8472 said:

Give everyone googly eyes.

Give everyone googly eyes.

Hal 9000 said:

Thanks. Hopefully that will consist of taking a good month or so detoxing from Star Wars altogether!

Well, in either case, it’s rude to just walk into a random thread and say “Yeah, this story you’re trying to fix. Yeah, it sucks. You might be able to make it suck very slightly less, but it still sucks. Have a nice day.”

The guy says he just created an account, and some random noob walks in and says “But why?!?”

Jerk.

SputnicK said:

Interesting… It seems to me that the majority of people watching it would be doing so digitally (since it’s a web file). Will he be releasing it in a smaller digital format?

If you want it in a smaller file, reencode it with Handbrake. But if I were you, I’d still get the MKV to begin with because of all the audio tracks.

Skyfocker said:

Wario64I said:

Public torrent exists, look up Return of the Jedi Harmy on kat.cr its literally one of the first results.

Try to keep up, Hayden

Nice. Probably needs to wear a Vader suit as a result of that BURN.

TV’s Frink said:

All hail the Frinkiac.

Seeker27 said:

I was wondering if someone could drop me a myspleen invite?

Cheers guys

PM sent.

Now now, children. Play nice.

And besides the whole “inconsistencies” thing. What it’s really about is creating movies which have interesting characters with believable motives and also telling a good story. I believe Q2’s and Hal’s edits tell good stories. I believe that they, meanwhile, also succeed in making Anakin’s fall believable by changing his motives. But I prefer Q2’s storytelling decisions for specific reasons.

Simple as that.

MalàStrana said:

Removing inconsistencies with new ones is not a good deal.

Yes it is. I’m not saying one should fanedit the OT story elements. I already said the OT is fine. But it does have inconsistencies, like Ben saying Imperial Stormtroopers are precise; or 3PO saying he’s not very good at telling stories; or Han saying Lando is the respectable one; or Ben saying Anakin wanted Luke to have his lightsaber when he was old enough, even though to protect him from the Emperor, Luke was hidden from his father when he was born; or saying Luke was hidden from his father when he was born while Ben seemed to have had to give up the name Obi-Wan long before then.

Again, I say watch Fall of the Jedi before you pick it apart. And try to give benefit of the doubt going in, because if you expect to be disappointed then that’s likely what you’ll get.

MalàStrana said:

Just to clear something up, in order to lessen any disappointment: Anakin’s fall to the dark side will never be really believable with the available material.

I disagree.