dlvh

This is looking to be a very interesting project. Harmy did a wonderful job of De-Specializing Star Wars, but as you mentioned, some of the colors, lean a bit too much to the green side, and others colors are a bit jarring.

I’m glad you’re maintaining the Technicolor look though, even though it might not have been exactly like we may have seen in the theaters in '77, according to the links you’ve provided, your on the right path to a more consistent result throughout the whole film.

Keep up the good work…I’m excited to see what develops of this.

Williarob said:

team_negative1 said:

We’ll start a new thread for the Eastman vs Technicolor version when we are ready to discuss more about it.

Team Negative1

Team-1 did awesome work on this project, but this edit that Williarob posted here is indeed very exciting…Great Work folks!

Right - we have to finish the LPP first!

Edit: But I will add one more teaser, just for the OT crowd.

http://we.tl/8s0ABfcoLG

This video was produced using this technique (plus a little post processing to clean it up a little more), and it only took about a week… It has not been color corrected.

Darth Lucas said:

I’ve begun a very minor color correction to the despecialized edition for this release. Nothing major, just fixing a couple color issues. I think Harmy matched it a little too close to the IB Tech source, which at the time everyone assumed to be a perfect representation of the original colors, but of course we now know that isn’t entirely true, as technicolor prints have inaccurate idiosynchasies of their own. Im just fixing a couple things, notably the distractingly over-yellowed tatooine scenes. But again, nothing major. Harmy crafted a masterpiece and I’m careful to not mess with it too much.

Looking forward to this. Are you going to share just what corrections you’ve made exactly?

That is indeed good news about your daughter. Now hoping that the Doctors can relieve the pain that you are in soon.

Will keep your whole family in my prayers Poita, that they can figure out what is the matter with your daughter, and can bring her back to good health, and continue to pray that you are gaining strength and feeling better as well.

poita said:

FrankT said:

Geez, I hope he's alright! :( What was the surgery for anyway?

 For the opposite of Arnie's famous line unfortunately, and some other re-plumbing.

I am back home, have some new totally bitchin' scars  (as I imagine they might say in California) in the making, and will be off my feet for a while.

But it is nice to be in my own bed again.

 Well...Please take it easy, and get the rest you need. Your health comes first. We are all pulling and praying for you to regain your strength!

dlvh

poita said:

Indeed it can!

I just got home from surgery, rather battered and very,very sore, but glad to be home again. They are cautiously rating it as a 'success', will see more over the next 6 weeks or so of recovery.

Now you can all go back to your rooting, in its many and varied forms.

Glad to read that you're feeling better also. You are indeed a valuable asset to this community, for sure.

dlvh

poita said:

Just as an interesting cultural difference between North America and Australia, 'rooting' appear to mean 'cheering' or 'supporting' as far as I can tell in Northern America, but in Australia 'rooting' means 'having intercourse'...

So I am hoping you are from America :)

LOL...In North America, "rooting" does mean "cheering" for you, or "supporting", but it doesn't have anything to do with "intercourse".

I am also saying a prayer for you Poita...and I am from North America.

dlvh

This last one by DrDre, is indeed very nice. The others looked good too, but I think he all but nailed it with this one.

Harmy's edit looks great. I believe it is very similar to the colors from post 283 of this thread, which IMHO look spot on.

dlvh

This latest clip is very nice indeed!

The desert scene especially looks very nice...not too bright, as seen in a very popular recent release. Colors look very vibrant, if not a little too saturated maybe?... but that could be my VLC settings.

Great job overall team!

dlvh 

RandomHajile said:

an the blacks with uncle owen im sure.

is the "blue milk" in the tuppa ware containers blue enough bytheway? (and luke and aunts eyes?)

but the outdoors colours looks on point!

 The Blue Milk looks spot on...Good job guys!

We'll keep you in our prayers again Poita!

TServo2049 said:

Please get well soon, again! We're all still rooting for you! Waiting for you to blow this thing and go home (in good health)!

 Here Here!

Get better Poita. We are all wishing you the very best recovery possible. Take care and God Bless.

You have a chip on your shoulder...But you're correct, that would cause anyone pain, and shouldn't be there. I'm presuming that they told you that you're going to have to have surgery to remove it?

Sorry to see that Poita.

dlvh

Thanks Poita,

Very interesting to see both of these scenes.

This is a snapshot from Ben's shack:

And the same frame from Harmy's Star Wars Despecialized version 2.5:

Interesting to see the difference, even before a proper cleaning, repair or color grading.

Really looking forward to see what this scene looks like after all that is finished.

dlvh

Jetrell Fo said:

friendlyskywalker said:

Hey guys!! This is my first time here, I'd really like to watch the despecialized edition of Star Wars by Harmy but I'm having some issues with the MySpleen invitation. Do I need to get an invitation from you guys or what? I'll seed! Please help :( 

We hear this all the time.  :(

This is NOT the thread to use for this.  Use Silverwooks link.

dlvh said:

Also friendlyskywalker....check your PM (Private Messages)

I am not sure why some members continue to encourage posts that are against the rules like this.  It defeats the purpose of the redirection to the proper thread .... and it was just posted by a mod, Silverwook.

:(

 I did not give out an invite. I also only gave redirection as to where the edition could be found.

Also friendlyskywalker....check your PM (Private Messages)

Really looking forward to this. Your group is doing great work!

superbond said:

Did Blofelds Cat also do an EON-nized Never Say Never Again? can't seem to track it down anywhere...

Bump...

Yes he did, and it's a really good edit. He is also considering doing a re-edit of it in the not-to-distant future as well, that will be even better.

Congratulations Harmy...Very well deserved!

Donation Sent. Thanks from The U.S.A.

EyeShotFirst said:

dlvh said:

dlvh said:

bump...any new updates?

What exactly were you planning on doing really? Were you planning on doing a "Never Say McClory Again" type edit, or what? Did you have a set of music that you wanted/decided on using? 

Let me know..I may be able to help out. This project doesn't need a lot of color editing (IMHO) just maybe an overall warming-up, like you showed in one of your earlier posts....and a good Gun Barrel opening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhYWiQMZ2kU 

I was going to use the gun barrel from Thunderball, as it was actually Connery and it was shot in color.

Music wise I mostly grabbed a lot of music from the John Barry Seven and even from collections like the Ultra Lounge. I didn't want to stray far outside of the 60's music though. I feel it suites Connery's Bond. I was also going to keep some of the music that is already in the film, as it isn't all bad. It just needs some cues that remind you of what you are watching. Classic ones like Bond is Back, or 007, or even some from the under appreciated Lazenby Bond (which is probably the best Soundtrack for a Bond film).

I even have a CD called Basie Plays Bond that I pulled from. I even planned on having some cues from the Dr. No soundtrack to use for the bahamas scenes.

I just wanted to really scrub out as much of the 80's from the film. I wanted to find a way to cut out Rowan Atkinson, but watching it several times, I don't think I could. It's not that I don't like him as an actor, I cannot stand the character he played in the film. Should've been much more straight faced. He could've even been a good substitute for Q.

I hear what you're saying about using the actual Thunderball gun barrel, but Sean looked so off-balance in that one (and the fact that he had a hat on, make it very dated) that I never personally cared for it, myself.

I do like the idea of a Connery-based-era soundtrack though. It is indeed too bad that Atkinson's role was so bad, even though I do like him in the Mr. Bean series and in Johnny English movies, but I really cannot see how you can edit him out without major difficulties.

I also never liked the opening song sung by Lani Hall. I thought Phyllis Hyman's version was much better. The Hall version always sounded terribly warped to me, but legal issued didn't allow Hyman's version to be used.

Hope your project goes well, and do keep us updated!

TV's Frink said:

team_negative1 said:

This was posted just to show the people that wished for a Grindhouse like version. One of the earlier team members wanted to do that project.

Erm/uh/what/wut

I wonder if you know what "Grindhouse" means.

...and the answer is...