doubleofive

That screenshot of your Vegas screen was perfect, as it doesn't let us ask questions like"how's it coming?" and lets us see a new preview shot!

I don't think the two entrances need to be made to look the same. Don't forget there is a north and south entrance to the base. although the mattes need enhancing they don't need to be exactly the same

Makes sense to me, though I loved (as always) Vaderios' new version.

i have things planned for the sequence where the shield generator is destroyed but i'm keeping this one secret until the edit is released.

Awesome.  It must be so hard to keep secrets like that!  Its hard enough to have such secrets kept from us!

as for vaders chamber, i do like the corridor idea abut not an airlock or lift. he wouldn't need a sterile environment so his wounds wouldn't get infected because they would have healed after all this time. i've always thought that the actual  meditation unit had some sort of inbuilt force field protecting Vader when he has his mask off and that his breathing apparatus was linked into its systems which would allow him to have his mask off for short periods of time. i won't be doing any changes to that apart from the entrance.

So you are changing the entrance.  Sweet.  So, new entrance to Vader's Chamber, no new entrance to the Rebel base.  Vaderios, what's next for us to debate?  LOL

yes the soundtrack for ANH:R featured a rebuilt  sound mix with new sound FX and the same will be done to ESB:R

Awesome.  You do too much.  Now, I've been telling people you redid every sound effect and its a whole new mix of the music for ANHR.  Am I exaggerating, or did you truly scrap everything and start from scratch?

Adywan's AVCHD's are not technically the 97 SE, just an approximation using the HD broadcast of the 2004 SE with some edits to revert it back and recoloring that is probably better than the 97 SE.  It's probably as close as we will ever come to an HD 97 SE since Lucas disavows it more than he does the original versions.

If you're truly looking for the best versions, Wookiegroomer has HD copies of all of the movies up on torrents and such, including the 2004 SE.

There aren't an HD copies of the originals (obviously), but there are many efforts to make the best possible anamorphic versions using either the X0 laserdisc or the aforementioned 2006 DVDs.  Neither one is perfect.

seven said:

a short side track idea for a special feature...

 

To expand on the special feature on ANH revisited of the pop up track (pop up of all the changes), it would be cool to do a comparison track.

You can watch the whole movie with SE on top (proper 'all rights reserved' legal info attached) and Revisited on bottom . You can then add all the pop ups on the SE half of the screen of all the errors/things changed.

The problem is that that would be another video track and would double the amount of space needed just for the video.  I'm sure someone could make their own special feature DVD doing exactly that, but the time differences and edit choices would make it extremely difficult.  I'd love for someone to try though...

Ziz said:

DarkFather said:

Plus, the Imperials on that ship seemed to have near suicidal tendancies at times. Everytime I hear "and will apologize to Lord Vader", I wonder if the guy actually thought that would work. :P I'd be hauling ass to the nearest escape capsule.

Maybe they're hoping to catch him on a "good day".

A good day where he still chokes you but stops just before you pass out?

Hot dog, we put a lot of thought into this.

The more I think about it, there really is no excuse for Vader to not have his helmet on.  It doesn't matter how long we make the hallway or anything.  How come people can just go in and open the door without knocking or anything like that?

Matt_Kenobi said:

Bingowings said:

He could come down in a little lift which would make him even more isolated.

 

 

 I like it.   It could place the chamber anywhere you want it to be.

How does one get permission to use Vader's Personal Elevator?  How could Vader be caught unawares if his wall dings that someone is headed down to see him?  Just playing devil's advocate here (and I really like the hallway idea).

Open up a new file, and drag and drop your already erased layer.  That should allow you to insert a layer between (I use drag and drop all the time) for a new background.

adywan said:

i'm actually in two minds about this now. i'm starting to like the idea of having it a bit more isolated. hmmmm, what to do. lol

I love this project.  :-D

Bingowings said:

He could come down in a little lift which would make him even more isolated.

But a lift wouldn't show off more of the interior... :-(

Johnny Ringo said:

I really don't understand the mentality of some people but there were young kids in the audience. Needless to say they were ushered out after Rorschack started getting some decent screen time.

10:20 showing opening night.  Probably 7 year old kid in front of me.  Stayed the whole time, even after the film melted around midnight.  Some parents...

A friend of mine is working with a RED for a commercial shoot.  He said it was awesome.

I'm going to have to agree with Vaderios and others.  It's a 8000-19000 meter (5-12 mile!) long ship, but from the reused hallways it looks like the entire movie takes place in about 2000 square feet.  We never see anything from the interior to make this look like the huge ship it is.  Maybe a change in hallway outside Vader's personal bunk would help that out.

And if there's all those officers outside, why couldn't they tell Vader about the energy shield?  I guess that Vader doesn't recieve calls in there, that's why someone had to go tell him personally, then he calls Ozzel from there.  It would help Veers' (right?) nervousness if there is no one around to help him if Vader decides to kill him.

Sluggo said:

Luiswookiee said:

Beautiful images, Adywan, ESB is looking better than new.

I've read the list of changes in page 1 and I have a doubt: Have you noticed that Luke turns his head early to look at the Millennium Falcon taking off in Hoth?:

Greetings.

Regarding this scene, it seems Luke heard the sound of the Falcons engines, then turned in time to see it fly past.   With his helmet on, he wouldn't have any periphery vision so the falcon would not have caught his eye unless he heard it first.   I don't see this scene as being a blooper.  It flows pretty naturally.

This scene might be improved if possible by tracking the path of the falcon for just a little longer.  Maybe.

If he didn't have any periphery vision, he would have been looking even more straightly at it or behind it, not looking far ahead of it.

Luiswookiee said:

Beautiful images, Adywan, ESB is looking better than new.

I've read the list of changes in page 1 and I have a doubt: Have you noticed that Luke turns his head early to look at the Millennium Falcon taking off in Hoth?:

Greetings.

I know that it's been mentioned before, so I wouldn't worry about it.

Shadows was a terrible book.  No character acted the way they were supposed to.  Part of the book is Leia fighting against some kind of pheremones Xizor lets off that makes her want to make out with him.  It's really weird.  And EVERYTHING from the beginning of RotJ is set up.  The Boushh disquise, the thermal detonator, everything comes together in a nice little bow.

Back to the Flipper?  Really?  Didn't this debate end over a year ago? :-P

Sluggo said:

Mark Hamill would never kick or punch someone in the groin.

Jay and Silent Bob dare to disagree with you on that one.

corellian77 said:

Every time you post new stuff Ady, it's like Christmas morning :)

Very nice screencaps... your work on Bespin with the new sunset and background building elements was really impressive.  Where'd you get the buildings from?  They look great.

I see there's also a slew of new sample vids on page 1 (unless they've been there awhile and I'm just slow to realize it).  Downloading 'em as we speak... can't wait.

These are the same videos he's been posting, just combined on the front page.  You can find my listing here.

Darth Lars said:

Bingowings said:

The guy being kicked could be moved to the right and behind the railing to begin with. I think that would be easier to do than to move Luke forwards.

Then the victim could be moved slightly left as a result of the kick to make it look as powerful to the victim as the throwing of the blaster is ...

I find the kick itself to look a little wimpy. Maybe when it actually hits the victim would the leg movement look better.

I wish Vaderios was here.  If you import a GIF "video frames to layers" you can edit this in Photoshop, then export it back out.  I tried to matte out everything and make an all new background, but I really didn't have the time/patience/skill.  You'd also have to move the guy closer to Luke, re time the hit so he reacts at the right time, and redo Luke's saber that seems to disappear as it goes behind his body.

I found more words now.  The replacement of the pre-destroyed rebel trench is awesome!  I can't believe how great it looks.  Are those other troops running into position?

WOW.  That's all I can really say.

ImperialFighter said:

ladyferry said:

What google link?

 

It's on doubleofive's first post on page 261.  His current compilation of member's forum names (that appeared on this thread) are shown, and being updated until Adywan calls a halt.

And its in my signature now.

Sluggo said:

Bingowings said:

 

Holy crud!  I can't stop laughing!

 

At which ridiculous element?  The Force Kick?  The huge wobbly saber blade?  The stick being swung at Luke from a mile away?  The Air Swim?

So much work, one second of film.

You know that between Boba's "air swim" and Luke's lightsaber, SOMEONE (probably multiple people) from ILM looked at this scene frame by frame several times and sill left the Force Kick in.  I guess it would be harder to move someone in those days instead of just copy/paste today...

I like the Lando and Han books that were before the EU actually existed.  I liked the facts that you could have several adventures and NOT run into the Empire or any of the other main characters.  It's a big galaxy, and I think the books showed that people didn't have to be "Imperial" or "Rebel".  They could choose to be neutral and just try to live their lives.

I like the Thrawn books, if only for Thrawn (for all the reasons TheBoost gave).

I especially like the "Tales from" books, especially "Empire" and "New Republic".  The Star Wars Universe is too big to focus just on the Skywalkers, Solos, and Wedge.  The short stories in those showed other sides to the war, other opinions on what was going on.