timdiggerm

Yeah, the blowout of the white areas in the R2 shot actually causes loss of detail.

The lyrics are also just generally awful.

muddyknees2000 said:

timdiggerm said:

Just so we're clear, you're suggesting changes to ANH, a very good movie, that would remove the big finale explosion (or at least most of its intensity), in order to fix small problems in ROTJ, a decent movie.

BOOM.

Or, after they're done with it: pffffft

Just so we're clear, you're suggesting changes to ANH, a very good movie, that would remove the big finale explosion (or at least most of its intensity), in order to fix small problems in ROTJ, a decent movie.

imperialscum said:

KilroyMcFadden said:

RLM wasn't jumping on the prequel hate bandwagon.

That's exactly what it did.

Isn't that an unanswerable question of motivation?

Bingowings said:

The Rebel base could have been on another continent.

It's a planet sized moon and they weren't there for that long.

Yeah, but try explaining that to the viewer.

Darth Lars said:

There are some really obvious similarities from this song to the "Victory Celebration" that John Williams was asked to compose.

True, although Williams has certainly worked that way before (see: most of A New Hope)

ben_danger said:

so if the DSII is actually the husk of DSI, could the endor moon actually be yavin IV?

The presence of the Ewoks, their unfamiliarity with the Rebels, the Rebels' unfamiliarity with the Ewoks, and the Rebels' general unfamiliarity with the terrain make this idea problematic.

Bingowings said:

Does the opposite exist a human choir English lyric of "Celebrate The Love"?

Sadly...yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RShn_zxm4lY

AntcuFaalb said:

timdiggerm said:

The easiest way to do this is continuous distribution, so that the files are stored in many places, and are continually being stored in new places.

If your preservation isn't freely available, it's probably not very well preserved.

Finally! I finally have someone who agrees with me that distribution is necessary for preservation.

Unless, I admit, you have a very good and secure backup system.

But yeah, there are good reasons why even the Internet Archive, the paragon of digital preservation probably, hopes to someday have multiple locations.

CatBus said:

Will we finally have Lapti Nek in HD?  Could it be?

I knew you had a thing for Sy.

In the physical world, preservation sometimes involves modifying or restoring a piece to some extent, in order to prevent further decay. In the digital world, this is not quite as necessary, as usually we're transferring from physical media (VHS, etc) which could decay into bits. Great, except that transferring something to digital media does not really ensure preservation. Digital files are stored on physical media, usually HDDs, and physical media can decay, either from calamity or age. As such, the only way to truly ensure digital preservation is to ensure that the files will survive both disaster and time. The easiest way to do this is continuous distribution, so that the files are stored in many places, and are continually being stored in new places.

If your preservation isn't freely available, it's probably not very well preserved.

Thanks for that, A New Hope

Akratus said:

I'd advocate editing the kiss scene, so that the actual kiss only lasts as short as it can. So that it's more of a peck than a romantic thing. But not any more changes to their relationship.

You've missed the point of the kiss. It's long to make Han jealous. Making it shorter takes away the purpose of the kiss.

No he's not and there's already a thread

That is one the best really-strange ideas I've heard for changing the OT.

I really love the '97 celebration, but I've never felt that it fit the Ewok celebration visuals all that well. It wasn't until I heard the Ewok-voice version of Yub Nub that I realized how good Yub Nub could be...but it's inappropriate for the Galactic Celebration visuals and the ending is so bad.

So...this.

And Bingo's criticism of the 97 Victory Celebration music is spot on.

Unfortunately, the Force theme is a little too slow and mournful.

Spaced Ranger said:

Turisu said:

Aliens: Teal, teal & more Teal. :(

NOT ON BLU-RAY - Orange and Teal, or How “Re-Mastering” is Distorting Our View of Classic Films (link from OP) shows this stupefying Aliens Blu-to-DVD comparison:

Fortunately, it can be easily color corrected with a few histogram settings (in a paint program):
HISTOGRAM
RED       Gamma 1.6  Midtones +15
GREEN   Gamma 1.1  Midtones +20
BLUE      Gamma 1.1  Midtones -3

 

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

Speaking of Aliens (Extended Edition, though)... what about a spoRved version?

Your use of the Avisynth ColourLike() should do short work of Aliens -- except the problem areas of crushed blacks and blown-out whites, which this Blu-ray has.

BTW, I was impressed by your nice work on The Matrix correction and tried that filter (in your ColourLikeFBF function) ... but kept getting an error message "Evaluate: System exception - Access Violation ([ScriptClip], line 5)". What did you do to solve this?

What are the chances of a similarly easy correction for Great Escape?

ben_danger said:

Does it really matter?

We have a winner!

For a long time, I’ve wished that we could keep Yub Nub without keeping the “celebrate the looooooooove” ending, while still keeping the galactic tour (for larger-saga reasons). If possible, I also wanted to use the Ewok version of Yub Nub, instead of the chorus.

My little laptop isn’t so great with the video editing, but I’ve done what I could to make the audio for such a sequence. I pretty quickly realized that using the soundtrack versions of everything would mean replacing all the sound effects (crowd noises, including R2, Chewie & Lando), which I’d rather not attempt. But layering the Ewok version of Yub Nub on top of this worked pretty well, with some edits.

I chopped a section out of Victory Celebration, so that the sequence is approximately the right length. The concept is that everything proceeds as it would in the 1983 version of the film, until at some point (unfortunately this has to be music rather than visual driven) we pan up to the sky, see more the stars, and fade/wipe into the galactic tour. Spend a little time here, then return to Endor for Luke & the Ghosts to have a moment. Not sure what to do about that terrible group photo at the end, but I’m just here to work on the audio, not visuals.

If you would like to hear my concept: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3291640/AlternateROTJEnding.mp3 The actual Ewok Party starts just before the minute mark.

If you would like to create the appropriate visuals to go along with this and upload that somewhere, please do! If you’re trying to do this, but require a few adjustments be made to the audio, just let me know and we’ll do it.

Ronster said:

Wether or not you trust wookiepedia I found this so you can make of it what you will.

I trust Wookieepedia to give a pretty good account of the EU. Not that the EU matters for Revisited, but there it is.

Although, if I remember right, Slave 1 in AOTC suffers from the same problem as most every other ship in AOTC: They based everything on sounds of propeller planes, and so they're all thrummy. Thrummy is okay, but in AOTC there's too much of it. I wonder if, on the other hand, thrummy would stand out like a sore-thumb in the midst of all the other, non-thrummy sounds of ESB.

Let's not forget that the Senator photos are taken casually with a DSLR from a weird angle with no real prep to ensure accuracy.

Yeah some of these look better than GOUT

Bingowings said:

The first rule of Poe club is mental handicaps are not a viable source of humor but I'm not medically trained enough to walk these egg shell carpeted wards.

I'm glad someone else had this thought.