I just finished watching A New Hope

I was definitely impressed with what the guy did. I never had too much of a problem with Lucas' edits or re-touches of film as long as they weren't blatant attempts to reference the prequels. This guy here did a pretty good job fixing all the colors and such, but when he added the EpIII main song during the Obi-Wan/Vader fight, I was kinda "eh" on that. I did however really enjoy how he sped that battle up with different cuts and alternate angles, as it made it seem a lot better. The extended scenes during the Death Star fight were cool too, but the main extended TIE battle he threw in you can definitely tell was choppy. Almost 20 seconds it seems goes with no dialogue yet we cut to 5 different pilots :/. Another thing I DID like was how he seemed to speed up all the times where the characters had to get on the ship quickly. I never liked the whole "gotta get away! Let's take down some people first!" thing, but he seemed to fix that.

All in all I'll prolly keep this version around because it still looks very damn good, and it is nice just to see some continuity with the FX. He made things faster that needed to be faster, and he made scenes slightly more efficient.

Well, Greedo shoots first, so I'm assuming it's the revisited release.

You can mount the ISO with Virtual Clone Drive, it supports Bluray discs (is the format different at all?) You can just open the stream folder and play the video with Windows Media Player. Unfortunately, WMP doesn't let you seek through the video. Media Player Classic does, but I can't get audio working with it. VLC works fine, but new releases look ugly on Win 7 for some reason.

Edit: Now I'm not sure. There's special edition content like the dewbacks and Jabba, but Han shoots first. The lightsabers still look like **** though.

Im still downloading that torrent you gave me, god it's slow.

I watched several clips of this fan edit. Like mscbuck, I'm not too keen on the Battle of the Heroes music being used for the duel. For some reason it felt out of place. How did Adywan acquire extra footage for the Battle of Yavin scene?

From what I can tell by watching, he actually did do a lot of new FX himself. You'll notice in the new TIE battle over the Death Star that he uses a lot of similar cuts and scenes, repeats them, but definitely throws in more TIE fighters and such to make it look new. I kind of caught on when I saw Wedge look over his shoulder during it, and later when flying through the trenches, it was the exact same scene.

He did a pretty damn good job with the FX, but you can still kind of tell which ones are his. Then again, I could be completely wrong and maybe he merged footage from ROTJ or Empire and somehow stuck it in New Hope. I know for sure though he definitley re-did some FX like the Death Star blueprints, and most anything that appears on a computer screen during the flick.

I wish I could watch this, I get picture but no sound.

NEED MORE SEEDS

MOAR SEEDS

MOAR

(lolcaps)

Hey neato it works now! My review will be forthcoming.

I forgot how cheesy the end of Star Wars is. Everybody's smiling and nodding at eachother and then they're like, "here, have a trophy".

It's really awkward.

That's why ESB is the best!

WTF? Han shoots first in recisited!

Ahh thanks, mscbuck. The extra sound clip of Luke shouting "BIGGS! BIGGS!!!" after Biggs is shot down. Where did he get that from?

I was wondering about that too.

i was expecting an awesome review tracer.

i am disappointed.

It's pretty impressive for a fan hobby-edit, but otherwise it's kind of a wash. The colours look good although I've never seen the official DVDs (I haven't watched Star Wars since VHS) so I wasn't aware there was a problem, but it's a job well done on that. I did like a few of his additions:

The Yavin control room has holograms, so the rebel commanders aren't just standing around staring at a table during the death star battle. He also added Yavin into a lot of the background shots of the battle, which makes sense.

I thought that the redone death star exterior shots were good - he's got the death star orbiting a planet/flying with the imperial fleet instead of just being off on it's own in the middle of nowhere.

Also he made Han shoot first, and I liked the aforementioned BIGGS BIGGS yell.

Stuff I didn't like:

The biggest thing that bugged me about this edit was that the guy ruined (IMO) some scenes by dumping music behind them, notably the death star meeting where Vader chokes a guy and the sabre fight. I thought both were much better without music.

As buck said, the space battles are kind of strange...his exterior spaceship stuff looks pretty sharp, but there's no new dialogue. I also agree that you can generally tell which effects are new.

Unless I've forgotten something, everything else is sort of neat but kind of pointless. It's little things that don't matter a whole lot, like the escape pod burning through the atmosphere, or the blue hyperspace dealie seen out the window. The interrogation droid's needle now shoots lightening or something.

Stuff that was interesting:

BIGGS BIGGS must have been taken from the hangar scene. Oh, and "only a master of evil, darth," has been cut out of the sabre fight. I can't believe Alec Guiness agreed to say that. It's this big climactic sword fight and Lucas kicks it off with a "yeah well I know you are but what am I?".

Er, had that backwards, I meant Han.

He took the "Biggs Biggs" from the "Star Wars radio drama".

Oh.

It stopped at 88.6% :saddowns:

[EDIT: nevermind]

I actually think Luke yelling out Biggs's name seems more fitting since they were suppose to be childhood friends right?

Right.

Star Wars Ep IV - Revisited 2008 NTSC DVD9 7.78GB

PM the torrent and I will be grateful.

It's not the same thing.

I'd like a torrent link as well.

Watched it a couple of nights ago... I enjoyed...

You know, just using some really really really basic searching skills with google you can find a torrent. Think of the keywords. Adywan. Star Wars. Torrent. Boom

The problem is don't go searching for 1080p Revisited because THAT doesn't exist (although it's still incredibly good quality, but true 1080p couldn't fit on a DVD9). It was taken from a 1080p source, but the end result is not true bluray quality like 1080p

I found one, But it only has 2 seeds.

I found another, but only 3 seeds.
:saddowns:

Then you are by far the worst google user of all time

I think I found a good torrent of the 4gb DVD EP4 ISO (9 seeds), but I can't find one of the ep5 (just the 1080p "color corrected" one). Anyone wanna PM or IM or IRC PM me the torrents they're using?

[Edit: NM, figured out why I couldn't find 5 :downs:]

Wow, where did he find the Biggs, Luke, scene? I didn't even know that existed. His "Enhanced" Alderaan explosion plan is kind of.. uhhh, well it's something.

It was on a Star Wars Behind the Magic disc I had some time back around when JK was released.

it was also on youtube for a while and was posted in the forums a couple years ago.

What Biggs, Luke scene?