Here's the clip.  I think as far as dirt removal it worked pretty good.  It's not perfect and the tape splices,horizontal lines, and vertical lines are still present. 

Perhaps this script would speed up the process of bringing these scenes up to a presentable standard? They are gonna need a little more TLC than just this script but it certainly helps with dirt removal and sharpening. I've turned the sharpening way down to where it's just a bit sharper than the original scene.  It might be better with less or a bit more.  I'm not an expert at this by any means.

EDIT:

Here's another from ESB.

emanswfan said:

althor1138 said:

Here's the clip.  I think as far as dirt removal it worked pretty good.  It's not perfect and the tape splices,horizontal lines, and vertical lines are still present. 

Perhaps this script would speed up the process of bringing these scenes up to a presentable standard? They are gonna need a little more TLC than just this script but it certainly helps with dirt removal and sharpening. I've turned the sharpening way down to where it's just a bit sharper than the original scene.  It might be better with less or a bit more.  I'm not an expert at this by any means.

EDIT:

Here's another from ESB.

That's great!  That would do definitely do most of the hard work.

 i agree.. i've been running some tests with all the star

wars deleted scenes.. and they look pretty decent..

there are some areas where it doesn't help or look worse.

so you can back and export those and fix those by hand..

i'll post some more example.

later

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Thanks Negative1 for the links!  I'll definitely check out the tech forum for other references too.

althor1138 said:

Here's the clip.  I think as far as dirt removal it worked pretty good.  It's not perfect and the tape splices,horizontal lines, and vertical lines are still present. 

Perhaps this script would speed up the process of bringing these scenes up to a presentable standard? They are gonna need a little more TLC than just this script but it certainly helps with dirt removal and sharpening. I've turned the sharpening way down to where it's just a bit sharper than the original scene.  It might be better with less or a bit more.  I'm not an expert at this by any means.

EDIT:

Here's another from ESB.

That is some smooth work.  I hope it works just as well in the hi-def.

Kurgan said:

Imagine the alternate cantina scene... in color, with proper background noise.

 

That'd be friggin' amazing!

 i didn't recolor it,

but here's the scene with music and sound effects:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4hKbVDhmt0

here's the black and white luke treadwell scene

with audio from the radio series:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3jR_8Ke8MU

later

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Sluggo said:

althor1138 said:

Here's the clip.  I think as far as dirt removal it worked pretty good.  It's not perfect and the tape splices,horizontal lines, and vertical lines are still present. 

Perhaps this script would speed up the process of bringing these scenes up to a presentable standard? They are gonna need a little more TLC than just this script but it certainly helps with dirt removal and sharpening. I've turned the sharpening way down to where it's just a bit sharper than the original scene.  It might be better with less or a bit more.  I'm not an expert at this by any means.

EDIT:

Here's another from ESB.

That is some smooth work.  I hope it works just as well in the hi-def.

After playing around with the script for awhile now I'd say it works just as good or even better in HD.  Of course some of the parameters have to be adjusted for higher resolution. The downside really is that it is pretty slow.

EDIT:

here's some more scenes.

Beru's blue milk.

Luke and Biggs.

Luke and 3-PO.

With the rear projection sequence would it look better and match up with the desert footage if the background material was colour shifted so the yellowy white landscape became more orangey brown?

althor1138 said:

Sluggo said:

althor1138 said:

Here's the clip.  I think as far as dirt removal it worked pretty good.  It's not perfect and the tape splices,horizontal lines, and vertical lines are still present. 

Perhaps this script would speed up the process of bringing these scenes up to a presentable standard? They are gonna need a little more TLC than just this script but it certainly helps with dirt removal and sharpening. I've turned the sharpening way down to where it's just a bit sharper than the original scene.  It might be better with less or a bit more.  I'm not an expert at this by any means.

EDIT:

Here's another from ESB.

That is some smooth work.  I hope it works just as well in the hi-def.

After playing around with the script for awhile now I'd say it works just as good or even better in HD.  Of course some of the parameters have to be adjusted for higher resolution. The downside really is that it is pretty slow.

 

EDIT:

here's some more scenes.

Beru's blue milk.

Luke and Biggs.

Luke and 3-PO.

wow! these are fantastic! will you make them available as stand alone clips without the comparison?

althor1138 said:

After playing around with the script for awhile now I'd say it works just as good or even better in HD.  Of course some of the parameters have to be adjusted for higher resolution. The downside really is that it is pretty slow.

 

EDIT:

here's some more scenes.

Beru's blue milk.

Luke and Biggs.

Luke and 3-PO.

Wow. That's incredible althor. I'm very impressed. This is all with avisynth?

Yes it is an "off-the-shelf" avisynth script used for 8mm restoration.  It's just had a few of the parameters tweaked.

Making the clips available without the original comparison is something I could do but...

I don't own the blu-rays and so these are from a re-encoded 720p source grabbed from the innernets so I think it would be best if someone interested in doing a restoration of these took a look here and recreated the results themself with a higher quality source clip.

I legally own the bonus disc, but have no idea how to Avisynth. Is it hard to learn? I am currently engulfed by school, but at some point in the future I would definitely like to take a crack at the deleted scenes restoration myself, if no one else has done it and shared it with others. 

i'm done with the first attempt with deleted scenes from star wars

using avisynth.. it needs more work..

also i'm using other software too.. but it's still going to

take awhile..

later

-1

negative1 said:

i'm done with the first attempt with deleted scenes from star wars

using avisynth.. it needs more work..

also i'm using other software too.. but it's still going to

take awhile..

later

-1

Well I'm glad to hear it's coming along. Keep us posted! I am extremely interested in this project

SS4DarthPayne said:

I legally own the bonus disc, but have no idea how to Avisynth. Is it hard to learn? I am currently engulfed by school, but at some point in the future I would definitely like to take a crack at the deleted scenes restoration myself, if no one else has done it and shared it with others. 

Sounds like N1 is using this coupled with some other software that should produce some good results. 

Avisynth has a learning curve and it's sometimes hard to find the right plugin for the job but other than that it's quite fun.  I have to say it is probably the best freeware I've ever downloaded.

  If you have any knowledge of scripting it will maybe come naturally to you.  I started learning it at avisynth.org using just the base package of plugins that comes with it and after i had figured out how to make some easy scripts I started looking through all of the available external plugins.  Definitely download the latest avsp mod so you can have a gui with video preview.  Otherwise you'll be using virtualdub to open the scripts for a preview.

althor1138 said:

Sounds like N1 is using this coupled with some other software that should produce some good results. 

Avisynth has a learning curve and it's sometimes hard to find the right plugin for the job but other than that it's quite fun.  I have to say it is probably the best freeware I've ever downloaded.

  If you have any knowledge of scripting it will maybe come naturally to you.  I started learning it at avisynth.org using just the base package of plugins that comes with it and after i had figured out how to make some easy scripts I started looking through all of the available external plugins.  Definitely download the latest avsp mod so you can have a gui with video preview.  Otherwise you'll be using virtualdub to open the scripts for a preview.

Wow I don't know how I missed your reply. Sorry! I blame finals. Thanks for the info. When I have some time, I'll have to try and learn it. Hopefully it won't be too difficult to pick up

        The Biggs at Toshe station scene could be used to make things a bit more clear. The dialogue could be altered to state that Owen has a "Moisture Farm" with condensors. The situation could be more clear, earlier. Maybe change "Nationalize" to "Imperialize". The scene could begin with the gang viewing the battle.

         I think someone mentioned turning Jabba into a hologram. Maybe the ROTJ footage could help with that. Greedo-Han and Jabba-Han could be recut to be more consistent and less repetitive.        

        ^I think of a "Nation" as a subdivision of a single planet. "Imperial" just seems to have a more cosmic sweep.

daneditor said:

Yeah I would recommend to the kind souls doing the cleanup job that they not change anything, and leave it to the fan editors to play around with.

Agreed.  We need a pristine source, then others can mess with if it they want to do so later.