I actually suggested Frink make that ad into what happens to Padme after she dies. š
Whereās Anakin?
Very niceā¦
^^I didnāt realize it was from a commercial. Itās way funnier now that Iāve gone and watched it!
Brilliant, I really like it, the original commercial was pretty special and this is a great call back. I think it works better than the previous take on the scene, honestly.
BTW, sorry Iāve been away for a few months, hit the ground running with something completely new to me at work. Anyway, Iām back now, so letās Make Star Wars Funny Again!
I like the interaction.
Just watched SW 2.7. Itās been a while and I was reminded how awesome it is. Thanks Harmy and towne32!
I watch DeEd a lot, what I donāt generally watch is the SE versions (unbelievable thanks for that ability, as always, Harmy and all), so, in a similar spirit, when I do watch the SEās it reminds me how awesome the DeEd isā¦ And Iāve finally gotten around to watching the Rifftrax for the OT (forcing me to sit through every bit of the Blu-ray versions), and by God the changes stand out (be it aging CG, or just badly implemented ideas) worse than everā¦ As angry as I get watching the DeEd when I canāt help but think that the stuff Iām watching had to be fixed to be watchable, at least it is watchable, so that anger in no way compares to what comes over me when I see the SE crapfest play out before meā¦ There are so many show stoppers, and it is like theyāre each designed to hit you hard just after you might have settled back down from the previous horror (which actually might be the best comparison, SE changes are like jump scares in a bad horror movie, theyāre unexpected, cheap and annoying, all the while reminding you how bad what you are watching is). Hell, some stuff is changed just for the Hell of it, regardless of the intent of a scene, the one I went off on and ranted about to people recently was such a small thing, but when you think about the point of the scene it was hugeā¦ Iām talking about the Dug (is it an aged Sebulba? Who knows) that they insert walking around Jabbaās throne room when just about EVERYONE IS SUPPOSED TO BE ASLEEP, THATāS THE POINT OF THE SCENEā¦ That really got to me this time, it is a great example of things being changed with no regard to story or proper scene establishmentā¦ Hell, he stole the sceneā¦ whoās thinking about everyone being asleep when thereās this CG thing noisily lumbering throughā¦
(And if you really want to ruin watching the prequels and the SEās, any time thereās anything CG [creature or filmed people interacting with digital surroundings], try to focus on whether their feet convincingly touch the floorā¦ it is pretty rare they do.)
Overall, it was worth it to watch it all with Rifftrax, and hopefully when I watch OOT there wonāt be too many jokes I canāt get out of my head. I will say there was one thing in their jokes that was inadvertently telling about the varying quality of the SE changesā¦ When Han was released from the Carbonite, as all of us here know, the effects in that scene were changed for the SEās, but to the layman, as the Rifftrax guys would be when compared to us, the new effects can be confused as an old effect and reflect poorly on what they think came from the original, āThey spent all that money on that CG song and dance and left THIS effect untouched???ā. Not to say the original effect was amazing, but it is unfair to the original work to redo it at all if they werenāt going to dramatically āimproveā on it, it just makes things confusing and skews where blame should be placed for how things look in the SEs, often to the detriment of the original versions, which previously had award winning effects.
Anyway, thatās a long way around to saying the DeEd is amazing compared to the official Blu-rays, which I often start to lull myself into thinking Iām too harsh toward and that the movies canāt be as ruined and unwatchable as I often bitch about, only to be proven it is even worse than I have been complaining about. everyā¦ singleā¦ time.
Hereās part two of my last video, this time introducing how Nuke will be used in my new v3.0 workflow.š
I listened to the complaints from the last one and made this one on one monitor, so you guys can better see whatās going on š
Suggestionsā¦ they were
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith is a 2005 film written and directed by GEORGE LUCAS. It is the third and final film in the STAR WARS PREQUEL TRILOGY.
A.O. SCOTT of the NEW YORK TIMES hailed it as even BETTER than A NEW HOPE.
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Ridiculousness is a 2020 fanedit written and directed by TVāS FRINK. It is the third and final film in the STAR WARS RIDICULOUS PREQUEL TRILOGY.
TVāS FRINK of the INTERNET hailed it as EVEN better than REVENGE OF THE SITH.
Therefore by the TRANSITIVE PROPERTY, Revenge of the Ridiculousness is EVEN BETTER than A NEW HOPEā¦
Interesting take on it, but not yet spoilery enough.
The crawl is just the ROTS Wookieepedia entry.
And every hyperlink on the page is what youāll have be the capitalized words in the crawl.
At the very least, thereās always room for a Festivus referenceā¦
You sayingā¦you want a piece of me?
At the very least, thereās always room for a Festivus referenceā¦
If I was working on one monitor, the image part would be just as small, if not smaller. I had to make the monitor with the interface and the task-sheet larger, to make the text readable.
Perhaps Iām just not following your setup, I assumed you probably have two (similarly sized?) 4K monitors side by side you work on. I just meant while youāre talking about what is happening more in the left screen, such as visible differences between sources or various levels of filtered content, it would be nice to make that the larger of the two for those moments. Assuming that the sizes of the individual screens in your video was a conscious choice, rather than an inherent workspace recording limitation as you might get if this is a 1080p monitor next to a 4K monitor, or that whatever you used to record or put together these two screens didnāt force you to choose a dominant one for the duration.
Hereās the promised new video. š
https://youtu.be/XuXb2BuUpJ4
Great stuff, though in future videos it would be great if you could make the screen youāre focusing talking about the one that shows up larger, youād say āyou can see hereā about various small details on the left screen, but thereās no way we can. Anyway, this video is fine as is, just a request for the future. Thanks for everything, and really glade to see this sort of progress and revitalized attention to the project!
Very nicely done.
I dunno, but SPOILER ALERT:
We have a sighting of the four-eyed stormtrooper, the early years.
BEFORE:
AFTER:
My God, so it is GOUT sourced after all!
Harmy said:
Will start working on v3.0 this weekend and start filling in the tasksheet, so you guys can see my progress šHow will we be able to access the tasksheet?
This question, it tasks meā¦
I had my eye on 5TB ones - I need external, because I donāt have any more free HDD slots inside my computer.
Not sure the prices of them these days, but on my file server I have some 8-bay eSATA (port multiplied) enclosures, all you need is free PCI-e slots for the port-multiplier cards (and Iām sure there are USB3.0 options out there by now). Saves space compared to a bunch of separate enclosures, looks decent, runs wellā¦
Iāve now got the one-year Adobe license and enough to spare for a couple of large HDDs!!!
Just curious: How large are the HDDs youāre getting?
Iād personally push him to look at 8TB WD Red drives, Iāve found those to be a pretty good value sweet spot at the moment, especially when I was plucking them off ebay for like $150 each around December.
Certainly something to consider - it sucks that we canāt get seamless branching to work properly - Iād love to have one disc where youād go to the menu and select between the US 1977 Version, US 1981 version or one of the foreign language versions, each with their own crawl, burned in subs and (for some) credits. Iām not sure if we have scans of both but it would be awesome to have both versions of the English credits as well, where one would run with the '77 version and the other with the '81 version.
And then the MKV release would be the US '77 version.
You forgot to mention the '97, '04 and '11 branching optionsā¦
Iām considering it. Although after the backlash, Iāll have to think about it some more š
What backlash? I was all for it.
So, what will the difference between 2.5 and 3.0 be? Resolution?
Iād say thatād probably be the most significant thing. Probably a lot more defaulting to film elements and stuff like that, but overall, Iād say resolution. Which, it is nice to put out something consistent with the other movie releases before moving on, especially since the work will not go to waste as far as v3.0 goes. Oh, and Iād guess weād probably see a difference in file size, so hold onto your butts.
When will The Empire Strikes Back Despecialized Version 2.5 come out, or has it been cancelled in favor of 3.0
Weāve given up on asking the āwhenā question around here. But I have it on reasonable authority that 2.5 is still expected before 3.0 (and the work on 2.5 will be usable for 3.0, so it still makes sense to do both with a minimum of wasted effort).
What is meant by ābranching opening crawls?ā
Branching is when there are different sets of video/audio that can be played based on a selected path; so in this case, if you wanted to watch the English '77 crawl, youād select that in a menu and it would play the crawl and then proceed on to the normal video of the rest of the movie, if you wanted the '81 crawl or a Spanish crawl, youād select that, the selected one would play and then it would proceed on to the normal video. Basically, instead of one contiguous movie, it would be broken up into parts that āseamlesslyā (youād hope) jump from one to another to form the full movie. It can be complicated and doesnāt always work out so well with the tools available to the masses.
Wow, late to the news but Blade Runner 2049??!! Harmy thatās amazing!
I had no idea he looked so much like Ryan Gosling!
Sadly, I think he was referring to Harrison Fordā¦ (Star Wars, and all)
Sadly I was simply congratulating Harmy on getting work on such a prestige film. I know better than to try and joke around here when my possible accidental attempt at humour is twice re-written and bested in quick succession š
Wow, late to the news but Blade Runner 2049??!! Harmy thatās amazing!
I had no idea he looked so much like Ryan Gosling!
Sadly, I think he was referring to Harrison Fordā¦ (Star Wars, and all)
One more thing: if Despecialized went all soft-sub, that would require changes to most subs. Not just foreign subs where translations of alien dialogue would shift back down to the bottom of the frame, but also English subs, which currently skip over the alien dialogue entirely. English subs in particular would need the most work, since youād need to merge the standard-appearance subtitles for the rest of the film with the theatrical-appearance subtitles for Greedoās dialogue. Weād also need to consider if we want to use theatrical-appearance alien subs in the other languages where we have them (Italian, French, German). Itās all doable, but itās significant.
V3.0, if anything warrants a fresh take on subtitles, this would be it. Finally fully Despecialized in āFull HDā, might as well give all the subtitles some extra touch up while at itā¦ and itāll take Harmy a while to produce v3.0 anyway, so it isnāt like thereās an imminent time crunch to worry about.
