kg1977

benduwan said:

some updates on this?

Progress - Now posted at the first post in this thread

benduwan said:

maybe some sites that could help you:
http://starwars.rossiters.com/index.html
https://starwarz.com/tbone/
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Clean-up-and-restoration-of-deleted-scenes-unfinished-project/id/13327
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Info-cleaning-up-dirty-frames-for-scenes/id/14044
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Info-Wanted-Colorized-Classics-is-anyone-preserving-them/id/9758
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Extras-on-SW-laserdiscs-and-not-on-DVD-or-BD/id/15232
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-OT-BONUS-materials-repository/id/15985
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Guide-to-Star-Wars-Documentaries-and-Special-Features/id/75409
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-Radio-Drama-update-in-1st-post-completed-review/id/7900/page/1
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-saga-Extra-Extended-Edition-1080p-unfinished-project-WIP/id/52131
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-deleted-and-extended-scenes-database/id/51879

Thanks benduwan…I’, only through first 3 links and already seeing some things for the first time!

benduwan said:

kg1977 said:

benduwan said:

maybe a extended discuss between han and leia after escape from the deathstar with The 1975 Casting Auditions?
this fan do this in his version :https://www.starwars-union.de/star-wars/bdfc_anh_trailer/
push Version 2004 (11 MB, 4 Minuten 24 Sekunden)

Never saw that actually, I’ll have to add that, but hopefully a better quality footage somewhere?

what do you mean with…“but hopefully a better quality footage”…?
there is only the black & white casting record.
used the audio with exists movie scenes…

Meant audio and already have grabbed the 2 existing reads. There appears to be 2 takes/a longer one available when I looked.

exitzero said:

kg1977 said:

CamSMurph said:

Newly filmed footage? I hope your camera is good enough.

For newly filmed, I plan to not really do real sets, but do nearly all compositing live actors against existing footage background rotoscoped to clean background plates. Aspect ratio of finished composite will match though. Actor shots would be as much as I can get away with not showing faces, but where faces are needed, plan to use deepfake/similar technology to map faces than synced over to actual actor performances from radio drama etc.

Hoping I can pull it off and be seamless or near. full edit without extra shot footage to be done first.

Camera would be gopro or similar 4K (more than I need just for the body shots on green screen). Nothing fancy… Will probably more effort in composting than doing a location shoot but I dont live near the desert or have access to real set 😃

Will post a first sample clip of a “deep fake” new scene before year end. I have a near completed edit of extra 3CPO and R2 scenes when they land on Tatooine using existing footage and various angles that allow the extra scene to blend in. Anthony voices from this extended scenes in radio drama of course, so that makes it extremely easy to pull off.

I am sure most here are familiar with the actors and lines from the radio drama, but here is rundown of original actor performances for extra scenes, I have to work with.

-ANH
Anthony D
Mark H
Bigs (Garrick Hagon) does not perform, but Kale Browne is very close and with audio software I almost have an exact match to Garrick
Alec G, again not performing, but Bernard Behrens is very close as well and with audio software I almost have an exact match

needs work:
Vader -Brock Peters to me sounds nothing like James, but there are plenty of ways to get the voice, actually not many vader extra scenes have talking
Solo - Perry King from the RadioD can come close to harrison, but we’ll see, there are plenty of audio clips of harrison I plan to use to recreate what lines I need + will deal with it when it comes
Leia - Ann Sachs is somewhat over dramatize for a Leia, but can get close carrie with digital adjustments + of course carrie’s movie lines and words from her list films should be enough options. Like vader I don’t see too many additional speaking for leia

for ESB (orignal actors)
Billy D
Anthony D
Mark H

for ROTJ (orignal actors)
Anthony D

I hear about these kind of Voice mimic programs, but I don’t know how well they actually work-

https://www.phocuswire.com/Baidu-AI-app-voice-recognition

wow …another good find…I was planning on just adjusting current acted radio drama voice/s…but these software (like deep fake for vouce) appears to capture voice and then anything typed is played back…might sound flat or no emotion, but maybe with speed or overlay on top of an acted voice might be something (same here on not knowing how well works)…has to be some demos out there…thanks for the lead

benduwan said:

maybe a extended discuss between han and leia after escape from the deathstar with The 1975 Casting Auditions?
this fan do this in his version :https://www.starwars-union.de/star-wars/bdfc_anh_trailer/
push Version 2004 (11 MB, 4 Minuten 24 Sekunden)

Never saw that actually, I’ll have to add that, but hopefully a better quality footage somewhere?

CamSMurph said:

Newly filmed footage? I hope your camera is good enough.

For newly filmed, I plan to not really do real sets, but do nearly all compositing live actors against existing footage background rotoscoped to clean background plates. Aspect ratio of finished composite will match though. Actor shots would be as much as I can get away with not showing faces, but where faces are needed, plan to use deepfake/similar technology to map faces than synced over to actual actor performances from radio drama etc.

Hoping I can pull it off and be seamless or near. full edit without extra shot footage to be done first.

Camera would be gopro or similar 4K (more than I need just for the body shots on green screen). Nothing fancy… Will probably more effort in composting than doing a location shoot but I dont live near the desert or have access to real set 😃

Will post a first sample clip of a “deep fake” new scene before year end. I have a near completed edit of extra 3CPO and R2 scenes when they land on Tatooine using existing footage and various angles that allow the extra scene to blend in. Anthony voices from this extended scenes in radio drama of course, so that makes it extremely easy to pull off.

I am sure most here are familiar with the actors and lines from the radio drama, but here is rundown of original actor performances for extra scenes, I have to work with.

-ANH
Anthony D
Mark H
Bigs (Garrick Hagon) does not perform, but Kale Browne is very close and with audio software I almost have an exact match to Garrick
Alec G, again not performing, but Bernard Behrens is very close as well and with audio software I almost have an exact match

needs work:
Vader -Brock Peters to me sounds nothing like James, but there are plenty of ways to get the voice, actually not many vader extra scenes have talking
Solo - Perry King from the RadioD can come close to harrison, but we’ll see, there are plenty of audio clips of harrison I plan to use to recreate what lines I need + will deal with it when it comes
Leia - Ann Sachs is somewhat over dramatize for a Leia, but can get close carrie with digital adjustments + of course carrie’s movie lines and words from her list films should be enough options. Like vader I don’t see too many additional speaking for leia

for ESB (orignal actors)
Billy D
Anthony D
Mark H

for ROTJ (orignal actors)
Anthony D

Just joined, and letting all know of my An New Hope extended that I am working on. I actually started this one 6 years ago in 2015 and now it’s back on, since I have some time and have finally built up a new machine that can handle some of the edits

Short summary of this version:

Specs:
• Adywan 2K color grade as the base (resolution of this version is 1920 x 816)
• 120+ extra restored scenes or corrected shots (final res, same 2K)
• Adywan revisted’s FX (another 200+ shots) upscaled & composited into 2K base where applicable
• 5.1 audio from Adywan’s 2K base
• Radio Drama audio (where used), converted to 5.1

Note: this post has recently been updated to include the PDF full shotlist that will be constantly updated by same link. You can view this PDF by the following link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GoP-1unifyMTxXjanqdXZAehXkvgf2PS/view?usp=sharing

does the reedit of this (planned but not start) in 720P HD version really mean 816 x 1920? bluray size of empire revisited is this I believe. And if I am understanding this right, there is a 816 x 1920 adywan regarded version already (minus the additions)?

Can you PM links to you upscales…much appreciated!