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Honestly, all I want is "Masters of Teres Kasi 2"

That's fantastic, and oh so true.

Kind of like Soulcaliber 2 with Link for the Gamecube version, Heihachi Mishima (from Tekken) for the PS2 version, and Spawn for the Xbox version.

Only this time it's Vader for the PS3 and Yoda for the 360, with Vader's Secret Apprentice from The Force Unleashed on both.

I just can't believe they put them on the box.  It'd be like Tony Hawk 3 having Darth Maul and Wolverine on the cover...

PaulisDead2221 said:

You'd be surprised at what motion stabilization and proper color matching of sources can acccomplish.  I think using the GOUT PWNAGE avisynth script, upconverted to 1080 lines of resolution would look just fine.  I'm just speaking from experience, watching test encodes mixing 480p non-anamorphic and 1080 high def images.  Especially when it will just be the cloud car element, put through a stabilization script, I think you can pull it off easy.  Then again, maybe an entirely new fx shot is necessary.

I think that since the clouds need to be redone in one of the shots anyway, Adywan might as well just rebuild this whole shot from scratch.

The shot in question, for those lost:

The shot with the same clouds reversed:

Ripplin said:

A bit off-topic, but here's something from ComingSoon.net:

ComingSoon.net caught up with DreamWorks Animations CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg on Tuesday and learned that George Lucas is looking to repurpose the six "Star Wars" episodes into 3D format.

Katzenberg told us that Lucas is very excited about it and that he's got the technical resources to pull it off. "He isn't going to put a product out, I think, that isn't anything other than first rate," Katzenberg said.

PT and SE OT badness...right in my face! I have no idea how people would go about editing them. Haha. Might be more about simply removing things rather than full effects editing and such, unless they have access to the same 3-D technology so their work won't look out of place with the rest.

Ok, back to ESB...

I wasn't going to mention it, but since you did I just want to point out Katzenberg's quote about Lucas: "He isn't going to put a product out, I think, that isn't anything other than first rate."

I laughed out loud.

1. Toy Story 2
2. Finding Nemo
3. Toy Story
4. Monsters, Inc.
5. The Incredibles
6. Ratatouille
7. Cars
8. A Bug's Life

Not seen WALL·E yet because my wife is afraid it'll make her cry.  She gets misty during the previews just hearing "Waaaaall eeeeee."  ;-)

Star Trek Remastered never affected the plot, only enhanced it.  They tried to fix mistakes and redo the space effects, not make the Gorn shoot first.  Sure, some of the motion is pretty bad, but overall I think STR worked out rather well.

My Review of The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience

I love Ewan McGregor's performances in the prequels, but I have to say that he had some duds of lines.  A coworker and I are on a kick where we yell at each other:

"But haven't you noticed?!  The shields are still UP!"

Ziz said:

Sluggo said:

There was some talk a little while ago about a multi-disc cover for this set. Did anyone finish one?

 

I adjusted doubleofive's cover - the one that looks like the Vintage action figure cards - to list the features of both DVD-9 and Purist but I haven't uploaded it anywhere.  005 - OK with you to post it?

The rest of the ones I've seen have been either DVD-9 specific or generic enough that it could work for any version, single or multiple.

Yeah, Ziz, do it!

greedo said:

1080p will be awesome. i've only got a 720p screen but I'm bound to upgrade in the next year or so. presumably it will be available inkv format. this seems to be the format of choice for these monster files.

dunno why u guys bother with discs with their fail rate and compatibility issues. just hook up a pc/laptop to your tele.

Because I can't hand a 12 GB avi to a friend as a present. :-P

Honestly, I still have all the versions of ANHR (well, the NTSC versions), and I probably will have all of the versions of ESBR as well.  Heck, I'll probably burn a DVD-9 Blu Ray disc even though I don't have a Blu Ray player.  I know I'm tempted to for Ady's unaltered versions right now!

Ripplin said:

doubleofive said:

Are you thinking about DVD-DL Blu Ray playable disc?

Oy, that would definitely be an online purchase for me, since the hicks in my half-a-horse town probably don't know that such a thing is possible. And how many have Blu-Ray recorders? The few here that do would be working overtime on that.

I meant the DVD-DL versions that Adywan is putting the 1080p unaltered (well, unaltered from 2004) that plays normal on a Blu Ray player.

How many versions are you thinking about here, Ady?  1080p uncompressed avi, DVD-9 Blu Ray, DVD-9 NTSC, DVD-9 PAL, DVD-5 NTSC, DVD-5 PAL, and XVID?  Are you hoping to finalize the film first so we don't have so many differences like between the XVID, DVD-5, and DVD-9 of ANHR?  This all sounds like a lot of work for you!

adywan said:

I think i may be changing my mind about doing this in 720p.

 

Anyone fancy 1080p instead?

The downside to this is that it will take longer to finish due to considerably longer rendering times

The answer you're looking for is "yes".  I mean I only have a 720p screen, but we could always scale it down ourselves if we needed to.

Are you thinking about DVD-DL Blu Ray playable disc?

HotRod said:

Shouldn't Vaders Star Destroyer be somewhere around Hoth anyway?

Just thinking about it that's all. I mean, we don't see any sign of the Super Star Destroyer when either the Rebels or Han & Co leave the planet.

An excellent point, which ImperialFighter will express directly in the next week or so.

adywan said:

But i think i may hold off releasing these now for a while. I need to do something a bit different or it will be a waste of time. I may do some basic colour correction on the OT. I may replace the Emperor in ESB with the original and return the Anakin force ghost in ROTJ to that of Sebastian Shaw.

Can't... release... crappy... quality... Must... fix...

Sounds like Ady to me!

Adywan said:

AxiaEuxine said:

I am of course looking forward to this. But isnt this distrating you from Empire revisited? Uses mind trick "You will work on Empire Revisted."

No. I needed a small break from ESB:R because i've got to the planning stage now and i'm looking through the movie to list things that need to be don & how i can achieve things.  This project can be done at the same time as ESB:R because once all the fine tuning is done it can be rendered without taking up much of my time on ESB:R

Glad to hear you're in the planning stages.  ImperialFighter and I are almost done with his analysis of... well, im not sure exactly.  I have all of the "what" of the screenshots he wanted, but every time he sends me the "why" it gets lost in cyberspace...

There's going to be almost 40 screenshots he wants me to post, so what would be the best way to do this, you think?  Should we make another thread just dedicated to it?  I don't want to take up that much space in this thread if few people really want to scroll through all that.

This is awesome, but since I took the "wrong step" into HD I'd rather just stream it to my 360, which I think I can do already.  Besides, the wife would kill me if I bought more DVD-9s and a Blu Ray player just for this. :-P

adywan said:

sorry been realy busy working on ESB:R pretty falt out along with a sideline project that i will be announcing shortly which should please PS3 and Blu-Ray owners :)

I look forward to hearing what this "sideline project" is about, because I have not yet made that step.  Well, I made that step, just in the wrong direction.  ;-)

Maybe they charge some places because you aren't the first person to think they charged for them, but they were definately labelled free on my standee.  I was thinking of grabbing more, like a bunch...

Kurgan said:

 

Well, sadly, after looking up what the glasses look like on google image search, I'm concluding that the "free Hanna Montana 3d glasses" are polarized lenses (in black plastic "Harry Caray" style frames), not the familiar red & blue that would let you view the Jabba images.

 

Random kids wearing them:

 

Vs:

Try here instead: http://www.rainbowsymphonystore.com/3dglasses.html

or here: http://www.studio3d.com/pages2/store_glasses.html

 

I once though it would be easier to just make my own, but it seems like obtaining the right colors of cellophane and cardboard (or cheap sunglasses and plastic) is just as much bother to obtain as the glasses themselves.

I know what you're talking about, those are the 3D glasses for the Disney 3D digital theater release.  The one advertised at Wal-Mart is the Disney Channel version of the concert, which was re-rendered for red/blue glasses, so that's what they're giving away.  They still had a few hundred if anyone lives in south central Indiana...  I tried out the Jabba scene and you really had to squint, but sure enough Jabba and Han kind of poked out of the frame a bit.  It's not much, but when it's just one guy doing it for the heck of it, it's pretty awesome.

I really need to suggest that someone 3D the scenes from Jaws 3-D as a fan edit...

I have to say, that does sound interesting.  I'm all about parodies if they are well written, and I have a knowledge of all of the franchises mentioned, so it hits really close to home!

ben_danger said:

Erikstormtrooper said:

seven said:

 

I have seen the coat first hand at Celebration IV, and it is 100% brown.

 

Yeah, it's not like LucasFilm would ever display something that was inaccurate or in any way re-created.

*eye roll*

 

maybe there should be an originaltrilogy task force armed with a crowbar and some blue spray cans to correct this possible inacurasy...

That's what we need, a task force!  "Fixing Lucas' oversights: THE HARD WAY"

I've been looking for red/blue 3D glasses since the DVD-9 came out so I could see the Jabba scene in its new 3D glory, but I really didn't want to have to buy some 3D coloring book or something in order to get one.  So I was at Wal-Mart the other day and I saw a huge display for Hannah Montana's new 3D DVD.  I ignored it until we were in the checkout line when I noticed the word "FREE."  On top of this display rack were hundreds of red/blue 3D glasses, free for the taking.  I ended up taking 4, just in case I have a party and want everyone to see it.

Yeah, you'd look stupid with Hannah Montanta star-shaped 3D glasses, but they're free!  Check your Wal-Marts, or wherever crappy Hannah Montana stuff is sold.

I've got no problem with Slave 1's changing paint job.  It's not like it changed shape or anything over the years, it just got a different paint job in the last 30 years.

Sevb32 said:

Look at these two shots! I just noticed that the same plate shot was used with and without the generator in two different shots just a few seconds apart!

I'm surprised that the Imperials managed to find the shield generator since the background its next to changes EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU SEE IT.  In front of a mountain, no where near a mountain, with a turret next to it, all alone on a plain...

And I'm not sure how much HD shots from the movie will help Ady since he has the HD copies of the movie already...