doubleofive

EyeShotFirst said:

ladyferry said:

Darth Solo said:

Woot? V2 of SWR? For gods sake dont become another Star Wars tinker man!

 

Hang on, we aint stung in the pocket for every re-release :-)

Id love to say i had the new updated edition to people who have revisted already (just for those in the know ;-)).

I find all this V2 of SWR a bit anal, and also insulting to Adywan who spent over two years of his life correcting mistakes and tinkering with effects to make them better - for free!!!

No matter what Adywan did, some people were never satisfied with what they got, and feel the need to go one step further with the ultimate 'Revisited' edit. Even then they'll complain or want to change something else. Any edit past the 'Revisited' edit by Adywan is a totally different edit and therefore shouldn't be called a 'Revisited' revisited edit.

Its done, dusted and best left as is, and that is a masterpiece. Thank-you Adywan!

And I thought it was Anakin that was whiny.

Damn Straight if it aint broke don't fix it

Um, it was Ady's idea, and its mostly so we can have an audio commentary.  He might change maybe 3 things.  I would think of it as a NON-PURIST version with commentary more than ANHR Revisited.

I think a shockwave in any form is a good idea.  It seems in the original that Alderaan just sort of popped like a balloon when hit, which I don't think works very well for a planet.  Since the Death Star is basically overpowered reactor and metal, I think its alright and even more dramatic when it just pops.

The real question for me is will this prequel contradict the AvP movies?  Not that it would be a huge loss, but the AvP movies are so far removed from the Alien timeline that they fit pretty well.

And I for one would not be against a movie with no humans.

G E Predator said:

adywan said:

Maybe next year, after ESB:R is finished, i may do a V2 of ANH:R with a few very minor changes with a commentary track.

The only thing I would suggest for a ANH:R 2 would be to remove the Trade Federation Droid head from the Jawa Sandcrawler.  It was cute, but not really necessary.  Also, it boggles the mind.  We haven't seen the Seperatist army anywhere on Tatooine, and Jawas are not known for traveling off of Tattooine.

OK, I've been afraid to admit it, but I was thinking about writing a fan fic about that battle droid (OK, I started writing it).  I'm thinking it was discarded by Jabba after buying a few dozen after the war, but they weren't very efficient.  Don't want to spoil too much in case there's actually an interest and I feel like actually finishing a writing project (I'm not much of a writer, just an idea kinda guy).

Monroville said:

Rhikter said:

Something I just noticed in Adywan's list of corrections...

adywan said:

...140 - The window at the back of Vader's cockpit has been blacked out because there should be no window...

...154 - When Vader spins out of control you can now see stars through his cockpit windows...

Is this a typo?

I'm taking it that the window Ady is referring to is the one that could be directly behind Vader, as opposed to the ones above him.  In the regular TIE fighers, the pilot area is just a pod, with the engines on either side.  With Vader's TIE, the pod has a tube with wings connected behind it (which means that any portal directly behind him, be it a door or a window would be blocked).  The windows in top (the 4 long rectangular windows) are indeed present on both versions of TIE fighters.

Monroville is right:

vbangle said:

I guess I'll throw my two cents worth out there....please ditch the star trek "praxis" ring. please.

The Praxis ring is in the Stargate explosion he used to replace the original.  He'd have to find yet another explosion to replace it with in that case.

ImperialFighter said:

Okay, even though that's just a maybe, seeing as I just missed out on finding out about ANH:R in time to contribute any ideas for it the first time round....I hope to get a chance to mention a couple of little extra touches / missed possible 'fixes' for consideration this time round.

Now I give you permission to ruin ANHR for me like you always threatened.  If there's a chance to fix it, bring it on!

doubleofive -  I have a couple of things in mind for a 'mock-up' of the 'Torture Droid' that Adywan wasn't 100% happy with the first time around, if you'd be willing to help me with that sometime....

I would love that.  Didn't get into the credits the first time around, time to earn my keep! ;-)

Sorry, I'm still in shock.  I'm trying to compile a complete list of changes to what will be V1 (what does that make the XVID then, or the DVD5?!) and not a day has gone by since I posted it that I haven't found at least one thing I missed or never noticed.

I can't think of what you would change.  Unless you'd be changing things BACK (spinning starfield, anybody?)

adywan said:

Maybe next year, after ESB:R is finished, i may do a V2 of ANH:R with a few very minor changes with a commentary track.

I'll do it:

SQUEEEEE!

To quote Lord Vader (who will never say this again):  "HOW is that possible?"

I grew up on a VHS copy of the CED of ANH.  It was time compressed?!  I had no idea!  I wish my dad still had that tape, I'd love to preserve that nostalgia for myself.

doubleofive said:

The Golden Idol said:

I definitely like the SE shot better, as it actually shows Cloud City instead of blank and dull clouds. I hope Ady keeps this shot.

Maybe I should have clarified that this isn't a pre-SE/post-SE comp; these are both from the DVD.  The top is the shot while the Cloud Car pilots tell Han not to deviate from his present course.  The bottom is the SE Approach shot where they reused that same plate for the expanded footage.  This is fine, I never noticed they were identical, I was just searching for where they got this plate.

ImperialFighter said:

Anyway, although I happen to really like this additional SE shot of the Falcon interior and crew (perhaps someone can put the WHOLE screenshot up? -  it seems to be a re-use of one just a little earlier in the approach to Bespin City), I personally always found this 'floating' element in the top left-hand side a HUGE distraction in the overall shot, as the eye is drawn away from everything else....including the more interesting subtle 'Cloud-car' elements that are going on.  Also, it is not seen in any of the subsequent background shots of the City whatsoever.

As you wish.

C3PX said:

Ah, a text commentary. Seems like that'd be pretty hard to read on an iTouch! Still cool, I didn't know about the text commentary, a spoken commentary would have been awesome though.

It's a bit difficult to read:

I love the text commentary.  While an audio commentary would be awesome (I still want Ady to do an MP3 we can sync along with the DVD, shame he doesn't like the sound of his voice), the text commentary allows for simply pointing out changes as they happen.  When I showed it to my wife and her friend, I ended up doing an audio commentary of my own though! ;-)

Desaturation I was OK with.  But that's like color-tinting, which doesn't seem right at all...

Thanks Bingo.  I just went through the lists we already had and I have ANHR with the commentary track embedded on my iPod Touch that I watch when I'm bored.

Hate to post twice in a row, but here's the link to the "complete" list.

I didn't go through each individual frame that was changed (like the Visual Comparison does), but I tried to compile everything from the First Post, the DVD commentary, and the Visual Comparison text.  Since most of those deal with visual changes, I may have missed some audio stuff.

I don't believe it is complete, so feel free to PM me if you notice anything I missed.

Anything else anyone can think of not being in the original list?  I'll post it on one of my sites when I get done shortly.

Sure enough, a change never before documented!  An interesting change.

The flight path of Tantive IV has been moved down so the viewer can see it the whole time.  Also, this frame happened to have a bonus bolt!

I believe those erratic movements were in the original.

Right Bingo.  Changes Ady made, not changes others would make.  Sorry, the context was a bit off.  I think the After Adywan thread isn't too long to catch up on if you were interested in other changes, DV.

Yeah, ANHR.  I started working on a definitive list of changes a month or so back.  I should pick back up on that.  I got all the way to the beginnings of the Falcon vs TIEs before I stopped.

I think it was incredible desaturated (its hard to talk serious when you're wearing bright colors, I'm sure), but I don't recall it being one color dominating.  Maybe grey... ;-)

I was wondering if perhaps you were on the same local network with a shared public IP.  Makes sense, in a way.  Anyway, make your own thread and post some shots!  I love me some matte work!

Moth3r said:

Darth Venal said:

Being a whiny bitch

You call someone a whiny bitch and expect to be taken seriously?

Why do you appear to be posting from the same IP as Mr Ghostface?

:-O

The best ways to show off your work is make new threads on the parent forum here.  I'm interested in what you two "new guys" have to show!

The PURIST version has no music from the other movies.  That's about it, really.  It's also only a single-layer DVD with no menus.  If you did not download one of the DVDs, you may have ended up with the XVID version, which is almost a "rough draft".

And you're free to have an opinion.  The edit does have parts that people seem to split on, and that's OK!

I'm still not sure how they broke that saber.  It looks like one could adjust the brightness and get a decent fix (I set the white balance to the core of Vader's saber on this):

This brings out the Emperor's "slug" in a big way (never noticed it until I was playing with this yesterday).

The best way is saber replacement:

Special thanks to Ady for sending me an AE project file with his sabers so I could replicate them exactly using Photoshop.  This is also responsible for my random signature.