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asterisk8 said:  "The fact is, it's a movie from the 70s, and I want it to kind of show. I don't want it to look like a movie from 2012. I much prefer the handmade feel of the original trilogy. It gives character, and having a space slug puppet come out of the hole is A LOT more charming to me than a computer-generated image."

- I completely agree 100%.  They should change the abbreviation from CGI to CGC in my opinion.  *cough*yoda*

asterisk8 said:  "There's no way to fix it without replacing it with CGI."

- I must respectfully disagree, I think adywan has proven this at length.  It would be a pretty simple matter as it isn't that long of a sequence.

to all:  I do find it hilarious though, that when in the previous 12,000 pages every little shadow and glow and "cumulo-nimbus or cirrus?" has been picked over beyond belief yet this glaring slug puppet suspension of disbelief killer has people all nostalgic.  O_o?

amazingly I never noticed it myself even after years and years of viewing this film in and out of theaters, that is until I saw adywan's trailer when he first released it.

I want to know who's arm is in that puppet!

please someone tell me that the 'space slug glove parachute pants arm puppet' is going to be fixed eventually.  once you look away from the falcon and look at the crater's edge and the fabric rippling over it, it becomes so obvious it is a poorly realized puppet and you can never look at it the same way again!

you know I'm probably the last guy you should ask, but I have done some fiddling w/ virtualdub among other programs, and I think that maybe a delogo type approach might work here. logos are often translucent down in the corner and if you do it right you can 'subtract' them from the frame giving a pretty decent result. I think the stars when behind the helmet are sort of like a logo if you think of them being on top instead.

it will take some work but I think you could do it successfully. at least maybe this will get some of the gurus here to chime in a bit...

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/221665-Removing-Logos-using-DeLogo-vdub-filter?p=1284902&viewfull=1#post1284902

sorry to butt in, i've been lurking for years, but have missed several months lately...  i have to ask, and you can kick me in the head if this has been beat to death:

"Has the horrible space slug arm puppet parachute pants been fixed?"

i really never even noticed it until I saw one of the first trailers ady released, and I almost fell off the roof.

i guess i was always looking at the mouth and the ship, but looking at the rim of the hole, it is so obvious that is a persons arm with a slug puppet and some sort of nylon going down the arm.  seeing the wrinkles as it misses the ship is just awful. 

I'll be quiet now...

Any word on this?

ADigitalMan I was thinking considering your prowess that an english edit of Phenomena - Integral version would be outstanding.  The full blown Integral version has only ever had italian audio but with some editing I think the english audio of the shorter versions could be made to fit with the longer audio.  I would assume that most of the dialogue is the same in the films and whatever there wasn't any english audio for could be subtitled.  This seems to be still an immensely popular movie...

Coov said:RiK will have these out later....

I know I'm a little (a lot!) late but any chance I could get a copy of these from somebody?  All of the links are long dead... :(