doubleofive

Currently downloading the torrents for EPIV and EPV.  I'm excited to finally see this!  Once I get them, my friend set me up with a virtual BD drive, so I'm assuming I can watch the iso through that.  Eventually I'll figure out how to convert it to something I can stream through my 360, if that's possible.  Or at least downconvert it far enough to fit on a single sided DVD (of which I have plenty) so I don't have to cringe at the blue whenever I need a Star Wars fix.

Ady's news is great news.  I would love if this was available as both a faded version and a color-corrected version, in the far future of it possibly happening.  Just to remind people of the current state of the print:

Of course, these are flatbed scans by -1 by hand and are by no means perfect.  And this is only Reel 6, who knows about the state of the rest.

Prog5000 said:

Love the work, when is it going to be ready?

Ady says "2010", which means "Hopefully Before 2011, But Whenever I'm Done With It." :-)

I turned on the SpikeTV airings of the 2004 editions (cropped to 16:9) the other day and even my wife pointed out how stinking dark it is in Luke's garage.  It's ridiculous.  I don't know how that happened, but its inexcusable.

This begs the question: Why?  Is this problem on the LD, or did they deliberately cripple the DVDs?

TV's Frink said:

oh_riginal said:

Dub in Steve Carrel's voice from The Office saying "that's what she said" via comlink during the Death Star raid in ANH, as if he is an unseen off-screen X-Wing pilot, or maybe he is at the rebel base or something.

Best...idea...ever.

Agreed.

-1 is back.  Hope remains.

oh_riginal said:

doubleofive said:

Bingowings said:

As always please forgive the roughness of this mockup :

Lookin good!  I think if we had a matte of just the window, we could have new gunner elements shot and added so its not the same guys with their arms crossed...

Considering that the Imperials are not seen at all from the front, the shot could easily be flipped, to distance it away from being too recognizable as the same footage from ANH. Just a thought, though I don't know how convincing it could look. I suppose it would depend on how long the actual shot lasted. The shorter the better I would assume.

Its not so much it yelling "reused shot!" that I'm afraid of, its the fact that they literally have their arms crossed just watching the ships fly by.  It might work in a quick shot however...

Bingowings said:

As always please forgive the roughness of this mockup :

Lookin good!  I think if we had a matte of just the window, we could have new gunner elements shot and added so its not the same guys with their arms crossed...

Bingowings said:

It might be nice to see a revival and enhancement of the Star Destroyer gunner room from ANH in the space battle (where the officers contemplate shooting down the escape pod).

It could be used for showing Star Destroyers targeting fighter craft as the gun doesn't look big enough to do much damage to the capital ships.

I really like this idea.  I added it to the Wishlist.

My mom came across the Ewok movies, so I should have those soon.  I'll see if anything could be salvaged from them (2-sided full-screen DVD doesn't seem promising for very large elements).

g-force said:

Wow, just wow. You guys are too funny. I love doubleofive's forced subtitles for Chewie and R2 idea, but I love TheBoost's cockney idea just as much. Maybe these aren't mutually exclusive. The accent could be so thick and full of cockney slang that it needs subtitles just to understand it.

-G

Exactly!  You know that R2 is told to watch his language a few times, maybe he swears all the time.  Even if 3PO directly translates what he's saying ("He says that he's found her and keeps repeating she's here") 3PO could be editing R2 for content, if you know what I'm saying.

TheBoost said:

How about we go through and take out Artoo's beeping, and put in dialogue... to make the film easier to follow? I think he should have a cockney accent.

I was seriously thinking about subtitling R2 and Chewie.  I think it would be fun to try to figure out what everyone else is responding to.  Not in a serious way of course, but a fun side edit for someone.

I like the idea as well.

Ripplin said:

Chewtobacca said:

Indeed, no more blue movies from Lucasfilm!  :-)

We could start a new "Blu, not Blue!" campaign. ;)

Genius.  I love it!

I had my dad over this weekend and we were looking through my DVD collection for something to watch.  We had it narrowed down to two movies and were about to make a choice when he noticed my stack of Star Wars DVDs.

"Why do you have so many Star Wars movies?"
"One of them is a fan edit, where a guy went through and fixed all of the mistakes and stuff."
"Can we watch that?!"

Now he hadn't seen the movie in a long time and maybe saw the 97SE once and never saw the DVD, but I think he really liked what he saw (he had to leave before it was over and didn't get to see the DS Attack).

It was nice to watch Star Wars with my dad again, because I remember when I was growing up he used to read the crawls to me even after I could read.  I wanted to thank Adywan again for giving us a version of Star Wars we can watch and it be new again.

BTW, my wife commented (it was her second time watching ANHR) that she liked the electric needle: "i liked it.  it made it NOT look like they glued a syringe to the bot."  I agree with her.  Maybe some tweaking (it looks like it appears a bit late in the shot since the needle is so small), but I still think you should keep it.

Also, I really watched the Kenobi Hut re-arrange this time, and I have to say that it makes so much sense in its scripted order that I don't think I can go back the way it was.

TV's Frink said:

doubleofive, awsome work on your Revisited Visual Companion.  Second only to Adywan's text commentary track! 

One small note, however.  The shot that shows the new Tie reveal says that it features "GC Tie's" rather than CG. 

I just host it because it was my idea, but Ady did all of the comparisons and text.  Which is good, because I was trying to do it myself not having either movie on my computer, taking each disc out.  I got about 45 minutes into the movie when Ady said that he started doing it himself and had literally found hundreds of changes more than I had.  So I let the master do it himself. ;-)

Movie: The Empire Strikes Back.

EU: The "Tales from..." series, especially the last two (New Republic and Empire).  Something about getting to know more about the other characters in the universe really makes sense to me.  Its a huge universe, why only follow the same 6 people and their families?

oh_riginal said:

Is it just me, or does Luke's saber in the 2nd frame look too short, too skinny, and too bent?

No need to get bent out of shape, Luke!

Looks to me like every frame Ady posted has something wrong with it's lightsaber rotoscoping (no new ESBR screens indeed!).  Something we'll only see if we go through it frame by frame, but you know some of us will.

Ripplin said:

doubleofive said:

(since Ady said that no one but him has figured out the real reason behind it)...

I don't think Ady had to figure it out...

Just playing. Language is funny sometimes. :) Think he'll ever clue us in?

You know, I knew it would come across as that, but I was too lazy to restructure the whole post.

I think its either for splitscreen video ease or he did a rough version of PURIST for the Visual Comparison...

Tobar said:

doubleofive said:

Someday, I'm want to make a splitscreen comparison of the whole movie.  Not sure how I could do the straight-up rearranged scenes short of rearranging them on the original...

If it's a DVD comparison you could have two seperate audio channels for the viewer to switch between.

Right, I'm thinking something like WookieGroomer's Split Screen.  But this is definitely a "someday" proposition, and others could definitely take this up instead of me.

I'm beginning to wonder if this was the reason the PURIST edition exists (since Ady said that no one but him has figured out the real reason behind it)...

Someday, I'm want to make a splitscreen comparison of the whole movie.  Not sure how I could do the straight-up rearranged scenes short of rearranging them on the original...

Bingowings said:

There is a R2 unit right at the beginning of the Mos Eisley sequence that has a white dome with white panels and a green frame thing for the eye.

If a colour scheme like that were used it would make the droid look even less like R2 and push the impression even further away.

Ah, interesting.  Replace this red droid:

With this green one:

I'm gonna give that a shot, see how it looks.

According to Ady, there are no speed-ups in the Ben/Vader fight, just faster cuts.  Interesting, no?

I'm keeping track of the changes he says he might make to V2 at the top of my ANHR Change List in my signature.

But this is the wrong thread, sillies.

Tobar said:

G E Predator said:

It would be interesting to see how a battle droid would function without the remote assistance from a Trade Federation Ship.  One would argue that Palpatine gave the order to have all of the Trade Federation droids shut down.  Then again, he also gave the famous "Order 66" to the clone army to kill all the Jedi, and in the book "Dark Lord: Rise of Darth Vader" it was revealed that not every clone trooper followed that order.

That being said, I look forward to your fan fic about that battle droid head in Adywan's fan edit.

Fan fic should be fun, though true be told I never liked that battledroid in there. I think a pit droid would have been more appropriate, ah well.

Fan fic would be fun, unless Ady approves of it.  That would make it EU.  Then we would become the very thing we're trying to fight... ;-)

I'll work on it some more, but I would need to know a couple things about the PTR (will battle droids talk? etc.)