I can't help but notice he didn't say anymore about the print/source that shot came from. Why is it that this kind of high quality source always seems to fall into the hands of those who dont want to share it with the community at large? :(

Ignorance is bliss, IMO if someone has access to such a high quality print/source and is planning to do a restoration but has no plans of releasing it to the community then they should keep it to themselves rather then rubbing salt in the wound!

He's a professional in this field, and apparently he has access to a fantastic source. He's mainly restoring the original Star Wars trilogy, but I think he's also making a few very subtle adjustments here and there to stabilize ship movement in some of the space combat and so on. But it's 99% straight restoration/preservation. And he has the skills to do it.

LeeThorogood: I don't think "want" has anything to do with it, he's simply worried about getting in trouble if he made it publicly available. If he could, I'm sure he'd be happy to. He's a big Star Wars fan. :)

zombie, how do you like those starfields in that shot?! :)

Dunedain said:

He's a professional in this field, and apparently he has access to a fantastic source. He's mainly restoring the original Star Wars trilogy, but I think he's also making a few very subtle adjustments here and there to stabilize ship movement in some of the space combat and so on. But it's 99% straight restoration/preservation. And he has the skills to do it.

The print looks awesome. I can't believe he's messing with it, though!

I apologise if I came across a bit strong, as I said I understand he doesn't want to get into any trouble over it. ;)

Dunedain said:

What wonders of restoration could be done if the tech guys here had access to a source like that... :)

 Personally, I think he does a great job all by himself @_@

Nice to find his site again, I remember reading it many years back and enjoying it immensely.

Has there ever been a reason discussed why we don't see mverta around here anymore? I've seen some of his posts, and they were often well-thought out. I sure hope he actually releases whatever he's got up his sleeve this time...

@ zombie84, I have been doing some reading on your site, very informative, I also read that you said the 2004 DVD's color is better than the 2006 GOUT, which I 100% agree, but that is the SE, so are you saying that the 2004 SE DVD's look better than the 2006 SE DVD's or are they the same? I just looked through my retail collection and saw that I have the 04 and 06 SE's, but I have to admit, I have watched neither LOL, so I was just curious if there was a difference between the 2 SE's, I assumed that the 04 DVD was just packaged with the GOUT bonus DVD and that is it.

Thanks for your time

Asaki: I mean a restoration that we can actually watch at home. ;)

The Aluminum Falcon: It is the same disk in the 2004 SE set and the 2006 original trilogy DVD box set.

ChainsawAsh: Incredible, isn't it?! :)

Mike Verta is very private about everything he does. I doubt his work will ever see the light of day. The projects here that tried to coordinate with him suddenly went silent. 

"The standard definition restoration of Star Wars was indeed completed, long ago. I just never got around to updating the site." Thanks! So you have possibly the holy grail of Star Wars preservations, but it slipped your mind to mention it? I don't know Mike personally, but this is pretty insensitive.

The fact that he has the DVD version completed, but is sitting on it, is more depressing than if he'd never done it in the first place.

zombie84 said:

People interested in this topic can check out an improved version of my initial page here, with a lot of extra-GOUT source comparisons.

http://www.savestarwars.com/goutcorrect.html

 

You need to know that the screen-caps of Moth3r's widescreen bootleg you have in that article is not the actual source that was recently posted on usenet, what you have there is the regular color corrected xvid by Moth3r, the source look vastly different.

Really? Hmm, I didn't know that. Do you have any caps from the source?

Not the best source when untouched. Skin tones are often almost purple.

That might make a bit of sense, since it usually deviates the most from Catnap and Puggo:

You can see screen-caps of it on the bootleg comparison page, none created in his Theater Performance thread.

Erikstormtrooper said:

"The standard definition restoration of Star Wars was indeed completed, long ago. I just never got around to updating the site." Thanks! So you have possibly the holy grail of Star Wars preservations, but it slipped your mind to mention it?

 As far as I'm aware, the restoration he's talking about just fixes all of the more glaring (fixable) errors in the 2004 SE (color timing, visible mattes, blaster/saber colors, etc). It would be useful for other projects (or to people who actually like the SE), but I wouldn't exactly call it a "holy grail".

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, though. But if I'm not, I'm pretty sure he said he never intended to actually release the project, that he would only give resources for others to do it themselves.

Erikstormtrooper said:

Mike Verta is very private about everything he does. I doubt his work will ever see the light of day. The projects here that tried to coordinate with him suddenly went silent. 

"The standard definition restoration of Star Wars was indeed completed, long ago. I just never got around to updating the site." Thanks! So you have possibly the holy grail of Star Wars preservations, but it slipped your mind to mention it? I don't know Mike personally, but this is pretty insensitive.

The fact that he has the DVD version completed, but is sitting on it, is more depressing than if he'd never done it in the first place.

Yes, he's restoring various things, but he may not have used the SE as his source, I think he had a better source. His goal is a restoration without the SE changes, if I recall correctly. And his new source, well, it looks just awesome...

And yes, he never said he would publicly release it when he was done, because of the trouble it would cause. But has released methods in the past. The problem is that we don't have access to the kind of sources he does (and that's an understatement). :)