That guy with no name

HanDuet said:

niko said:

Ye I probably should have just done that but I’m already committed to the RAR download so just need the steps on how to properly extract it once it finishes downloading

That guy with no name said:

niko said:

I just want an older version of the google doc because I forget how to use the Unarchiver 🥺

Once you’ve downloaded all the files, even if out of sync. Right click on the first one and press “open with” then click unarchiver. (Only right click one file, Don’t highlight all of them) Then unarchiver will do its thing and wham! Return of the Jedi!

Glad it sounds like things were all sorted! I’ll consider adding back in a few more details about manual extraction of the multipart RAR files. Note that the new recommended download manager, JDownloader 2, should take care of the extraction, although I haven’t verified that this works on macOS.

P.S. I do archive each version of my guide, so if anyone truly needs info from an older version, send me a PM on these forums and I’ll send a shared link!

It does work on macOS, I guess some people just prefer not to use it 🤷‍♂️

O00ll00O said:

That guy with no name said:

I’ve finally fixed that crappy blurry door in the beginning that always bugged me! they over-motion-blurred it originally to disguise the rickety mechanism that closes it, and after years of DNR and restorations by Lucasfilm it’s been scrubbed of all detail, it’s been finally fixed!

sorry for the low-resolution preview.

The original looked like the edge of the door blurred in to the background. Can definitely tell there’s a more defined edge now

definitely.

niko said:

That guy with no name said:

Why do you need an older version? Just use the unarchiver once downloaded?

I just want an older version of the google doc because I forget how to use the Unarchiver 🥺

Once you’ve downloaded all the files, even if out of sync. Right click on the first one and press “open with” then click unarchiver. (Only right click one file, Don’t highlight all of them) Then unarchiver will do its thing and wham! Return of the Jedi!

niko said:

Ye I probably should have just done that but I’m already committed to the RAR download so just need the steps on how to properly extract it once it finishes downloading

Why do you need an older version? Just use the unarchiver once downloaded?

niko said:

Hey is it possible to get an older version of HanDuets guide which uses FreeRapidDownloader and the Unarchiver, I’m on Mac. Thanks

I downloaded it on Mac using uTorrent took about 30 mins total.
Check it out it’s free.

I’ve finally fixed that crappy blurry door in the beginning that always bugged me! they over-motion-blurred it originally to disguise the rickety mechanism that closes it, and after years of DNR and restorations by Lucasfilm it’s been scrubbed of all detail, it’s been finally fixed!

sorry for the low-resolution preview.

Ftmch said:

Nearsighted Scrappile said:

I’m sorry, but if someone can point me to a simple torrent or something, I’d appreciate it. All of this info is a bit much. I just want to watch Harmy’s work.

Would also love a link for the 1080p-version.

You click on the link and you read. That shouldn’t be to hard.

Phase3 said:

Very nice colours!

That guy with no name said:

Williarob said:

Here’s my quick attempt at restoring the Tosche Station scenes:

https://vimeo.com/912082416?share=copy

this looks incredible!
I’ve done a preliminary color correction over the whole scene with some shot-for-shot sprinkled in.
this is just preliminary and is still a WIP. it’ll get better when Williarob releases a better quality final version.
https://youtu.be/uAx0wuhn4AQ?si=FCV0Zns1q83-yOaS
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thanks!

Williarob said:

Here’s my quick attempt at restoring the Tosche Station scenes:

https://vimeo.com/912082416?share=copy

this looks incredible!
I’ve done a preliminary color correction over the whole scene with some shot-for-shot sprinkled in.
this is just preliminary and is still a WIP. it’ll get better when Williarob releases a better quality final version.
https://youtu.be/uAx0wuhn4AQ?si=FCV0Zns1q83-yOaS
edit: top: Original Bottom: Corrected

Jedi122 said:

I was watching the Emperor Arrives comparison again, and it seems that the new color grade unfortunately makes the difference between the real and painted Stormtroopers and Scout Troopers more obvious.

Again, this is just and overall color correction, issues like this will be fixed later during FX and shot for shot color correction.

doubleofive said:

That guy with no name said:

darthsidi said:

Thanks, Man With No Name. That’s wonderful to hear!

no problem man.

When has Adywan promised a release date?

I took someone’s word for it:

If I’m wrong I apologise. I should’ve fact-checked him…

darthsidi said:

Thanks, Man With No Name. That’s wonderful to hear!

no problem man.

darthsidi said:

God Bless, Ady and I’m never one to nitpick over his work. I only wish he would pause the Jedi Revisited project and get to the finish line with EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION . I love seeing the work done on Jedi, so don’t get me wrong it’s just that I think 14 years(approx.) to wait for Ep 4 has been hard. Please, Please let me be able to add it to the top of my Star Wars go to viewing list, just like I do whenever I watch Ep 5 revisited.

it’ll be released in the summer darthsidi. not too long of a wait I hope.

Professional7 said:

Any plans for 4K H264? I’m asking because PS5 didn’t support HEVC.

you can just use Avidemux, super easy to use and is 100% lossless. it’s available on mac and PC. it’s free.

https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/download.html

adywan said:

The third and final video for this week, as promised.

https://youtu.be/Gy8b1L318Sw

This one, having the original 2020 grading played alongside the new grading may through out the perception of the new colour grade in places, especially with skintones. The 2020 shifts from having an almost fully desaturated image with a heavy blue filter (why the hell is endor suddenly blue?) for the space shots shifting to a more green shifted grade with yellow/ orange skin tones. Subtle colour tones on the Death Star equator mattes have been lost in this new grade, similar to what happened with the 2004 grade. So after watching it in comparison mode, watch it again while covering the top image and you’ll get a better idea of the grade.

And for anyone wondering why the TIE’s are blue in this , well they were blue in this scene and others in 1983 right up until the horrendous 2004 grade ( yes, they were blue in the '97 SE release too) where they became more desaturated and a heavy blue tint added to the picture, and the 2020 grade seems to have gone down that route too but this time eliminated all of the blue colouring, except for the matte shot where they part from the shuttle.

There are about 3 fixes in this video this time around. See if you can spot them all

great! they look beautiful.

the two changes I saw were:
Jabba’s palace door
camera movement retimed before the wipe to tatooine
and maybe you fixed out-of-focus Vader?

Phase3 said:

I just watched the preview video for v2; the colours look great - did you adjust the engine glow for the Falcon? If so, it’s a nice touch!

It was also great to see the moving starfield in the cockpit shot of the Falcon, as well as the radar dish in the docking bay scene, but the best of all was the manoeuvres Han does to evade the Star Destroyer!

One thing I did notice was the SE audio during the search for the droids; you can still hear the small patrol droid’s sounds from the SE, however no droid is visible on-screen.

Yeah the audio is from DevEd v.1 because the 5.1 mix for 2.0 is on the Mac that was stolen.

Williarob said:

You could just use virtualbox, parallels, or maybe even WINE to run the windows version.

I have tried almost everything, Playonmac, wine, wineskin, and nothing ever seems to work.
may I ask how you compiled it in the beginning? what software did you use?

first comparison: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18mMfX4wgeLqyDn3rQrxlPag6TYiCZgdf/view?usp=sharing
please tell me your thoughts.

first shot coming soon…

hopeless4ever said:

That guy with no name said:

sorry do you mid re-uping this… missed it.

I can tell you that it no longer works under Mac OS Sonoma. The app installs and loads fine, but it freezes on adding a sample image.

well that sucks.

Telion said:

As always amazing to see you work come together. Its hard to see the issues in stills by boy when its in motion that static grain hurts. As far as colours though, its nice to see the saturation back, with a beautiful blue sky again. However, I feel like the skin tones are suffering from over yellowing. I know your basing you colours on 4k83 (at least in part) who used original cinema reals to restore from, but I’ve always thought they never accounted for UV exposure in there clean up.
Those reals sat through who know what in the intervining years and weren’t exactly Lucasfilm Archives pristine when they picked them up. Fact is all the skin tones look too yellow, especially when you compare them to the other films, at least on youtube (which Ik doesnt always preserve information the best.
I’m no going to pretend I know anything about colourgrading film, but it doesn’t look right to me, if its not fixable or you don’t agree, thats that.
Anyhow, great to see some ROTJ stuff again, I still think you diserve a chewie medal.

your gonna have to keep in mind there in a desert, they gonna have to look somewhat yellow. even though I don’t personally think it’s that bad.

Jedi122 said:

Someone pointed out in the YouTube comments of the ROTJ color grading comparison that at 1:13, there’s more contrast and dynamics in the Blu-Ray shot, while Han’s face looks almost yellow/orange in the regrade and loses some of the highlights.

um, that’s not how color correction works, you can’t lose highlights because they are inherently part of the original photography, the 2020 Blu-ray is both overexposed and has muted highlights, so Adywan fixed this by re-brightening the highlights and fixing the over-exposure in the mid-tones and what not. also, the skin is not yellow, that’s just how the skin looks. in fact, there is LESS contrast in the Blu-ray shot. and there’s no such thing as dynamics, I’m pretty sure Adywan is working off of Sdr.

Jedi122 said:

Jar Jar Bricks said:

I believe somebody said he could bring on Ryan Golden. Honestly, I’d prefer he does it. But if it’s any other impressionist than him, then AI is definitely the way to go.

I’d like Adywan’s personal opinion, though.

Adywan has said countless times that he already has a darth vader voice voice actor. there is no question about it.

here it is:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sb5P5MwRKiNpa2HaHvfuXkQqxjLIvg9t/view?usp=sharing

by the way, greedos subtitles aren’t going to be burned in this time. they’ll be included in the subtitle track. just a heads-up.

first preview dropping today 8pm est.