This is gonna be great!

Are there any Special Edition changes that you don't think you'll be able to remove?

What are your plans for the matte lines? I'm hoping you won't be restoring them.

Yeah, in my humble opinion, merely recompositing original elements doesn't constitute a "change," per se.

I'd also hope against reinstating matte lines and, even worse, garbage mattes for the same reason you elected not to mess with any of the Hoth battle. 

Honestly, the Rancor scene in ROTJ is the only one I'd waver on, but even then I'd ultimately hope for leaving it the new way.

But hey, we're all purists here. I'd also be interested in initial thoughts on what changes you think will be outside your sphere of influence.

As always, I'll be silently watching, spellbound.

In STAR WARS, just like in Empire, I will be leaving most of the recomposited shots alone, unless there are other changes in the shot, such as noticeably repositioning the elements. I tested replacing the recomposited lightsabres but it didn't work very well, so I'll only colour correct them to fix stuff like Obi-Wan's sabre being purple in some shots and so on.

I can't yet say what I will or will not be changing, because I'll have to test some things out first and decide whether it works or not.

There's a lot of matte replacements, repositioning. But you know that. I wonder if there are high res SW mattes, I've never seen any...

Yeah, I never found any, which sucks major ass :-(

Isn't that what "despecialized" means?

There will be no obvious CGI. I think that the fact that I'm removing the prison cell block corridor extension speaks for itself as to how much will be despecialized :-)

Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold said:

I know this one's rather meaningless (and nitpicky) but have you considered putting back the mountain that was removed from in the Binary Sunset?

Interesting that DVDActive doesn't mention it, but it does show in the pictures.  I never knew about this one.

Can't wait for you to complete ANH Harmy. Your ESB is the definitive version hands down. I know you had mentioned that there were a couple of explosions etc. that didn't match the theatrical release, but I watched the thing all the way through and I didn't notice anything. The picture quality is unreal, and the whole thing appears seamless to me. Your ESB makes all other versions seem really gay by comparison, I'm sure the same will be true for ANH and Jedi.

Thanks :-)

And as to the mountain in the sunset, I'm definitely doing it, actually I'm working on it right now :-)

And these DVD active comparisons are pretty shit compared to 005's.

Yeah, but they're shorter :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGjgPzrFMk

Well, like I said a million times before, I don't think the matte-lines are faults and if I could return them all while keeping the HD quality, I would but that would be an impossible task.

This looks awesome, I'm gonna have to buy a new hard drive or something holy hell.

wow...you corrected that cell block.  now that is hardcore.  i didn't even notice that change in the special editions.  well done.

Harmy said:

There will be no obvious CGI. I think that the fact that I'm removing the prison cell block corridor extension speaks for itself as to how much will be despecialized :-)

Harmy said:

And these DVD active comparisons are pretty shit compared to 005's.

TV's Frink said:

Yeah, but they're shorter :p