LoL - got it. :)

Just finished watching it - awesome job, so far!

Happy birthday! Good to see things are moving forward :) 

OK, just finished it. Looks pretty good, but there were a few things that stood out to me. 

At 2 minutes in, just after the intro text, the camera pans down and we see the star destroyer. I think there is a Despecializing effect going on there because the ship seems to be cut in half and each half is wobbly. 

Between 0:05:00 and 5:30 - the key light on Han and Princess Leia seems a bit too hot and is blowing out details. 

At 13:00 and 13:11, the long shot with the force ghost, there is an obvious special effect matte that is very visible. (perhaps that was always the case?)

And finally, this is a bit controversial, but perhaps you could clarify exactly why you decided to use GOUT upconverts for the speeders and the initial scene of the Empire's fleet at 19:36? I know they were recomposited for the SE, but so was everything in ANH and that didn't stop you from using those recomposited shots there (the opening battle between the star destroyer and the Tantive IV for example).

Well, because the recompositing in those SW scenes didn't change the look of those shots as significantly as it did here (where it did change the look significantly, the shots were also replaced - like most of the fighter explosions in the Yavin battle).

And the shots in ESB are not simple GOUT upconverts either - just go ahead and compare these shots to the GOUT.

this looks awsome I guess that means 2.0 is almost finished

Harmy said:

... I decided to do something else to celebrate my birthday and release a workprint of reel 1 of The Empire Strikes Back v2.0.

Looking great, Harmy!

Harmy said:

Well, because the recompositing in those SW scenes didn't change the look of those shots as significantly as it did here (where it did change the look significantly, the shots were also replaced - like most of the fighter explosions in the Yavin battle).

And the shots in ESB are not simple GOUT upconverts either - just go ahead and compare these shots to the GOUT.

OK, and I apologize if I seemed to belittle your efforts by saying "GOUT upconverts". I see now there's a lot more work going on there. 

Poita definitely has a way. Puggo does not. His scanner is SD only. 

Happy (belated) birthday, Harmy!

The reel looks fantastic! Like the DE 2.1 of Star Wars, this has a much more film-like appearance and it just feels more natural than either the GOUT or the Blu-rays (alterations aside). Not the most useful observation, I guess, but your efforts are genuinely appreciated.

A big thanks to Harmy for the sneak peek, and to A_New_Hope for the mirror.  I’m downloading it now—can’t wait! Happy B-day, Harmy! =D 

Just a quick note. From ~frame 009836 to 010120, the image seems a bit desaturated. 3PO in particular looks muted. In the next shot, (“Why are you taking this apart now? I’m trying to get us outta here…”) they seem back to normal. Hope that helps. =P

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I'm assuming re-rendering the crawl and credits is not part of the 2.0 timeline, but is part of the later plan?  They're easily the most noticeable SD elements in 1.0 as far as I'm concerned.

The crawl's not SD in the workprint nor in v1.0.

I guess it just looks odd compared to the SW crawl, and I attributed the oddness to SD.  What's the source?  Puggo?  Either way it stands out--the sharply-defined Star Wars logo and the considerably less-defined crawl just don't seem to go together IMO.

It's straight from the BluRay.

Harmy said:

It's straight from the BluRay.

Mind blown.

CatBus said:

I guess it just looks odd compared to the SW crawl, and I attributed the oddness to SD.  What's the source?  Puggo?  Either way it stands out--the sharply-defined Star Wars logo and the considerably less-defined crawl just don't seem to go together IMO.

I see what you mean about the crawl, it seems like there is some ghosting going on with the text, strange that this is on the official blu-ray.

Kingherb said:

I see what you mean about the crawl, it seems like there is some ghosting going on with the text, strange that this is on the official blu-ray.

Well, knowing that this is from the Blu-ray, and pretty sure they wouldn't produce an effect like that if they re-made the crawl in '97, I think either 1) that's just how it was, or 2) it's a black level thing and originally was an invisible effect that got boosted somehow for the SE's, maybe when they added a purple tinge everywhere for no apparent reason.  Or some combination of the two.

Well, since this reddish kind of ghosting is present on every version of the ESB crawl I've ever seen, it seems likely it was always that way and is also why I made no attempt to remove it.