the clone war had thee lowest stakes for a fictional war
clones…versus droids
both expensive to produce, sure
but besides the jedi, there were few actual casualties
i could bid but i can’t store the print at home before it’d get cleaned, scanned, etc.
i meant to day it could be legacy not saying it is legacy
Legacy is great, but I’d be hoping for something sourced from better materials than release prints.
Anyway, no-one at Lucasfilm seems interested in the OUT, the merger with Fox would solve some distribution problems, but it doesn’t give any real change to the motivation of Disney/Lucasfilm to embark on an OUT restoration.
I hope that changes, but there seems zero interest within Disney to do it.
if they’d only hire you + mike + rob + dre + ohteedee + harmy to work with scans of negatives to rebuild the original films in 4k frame by frame, shot by shot, reel by reel…
the community will probably have to use whatever the next revamped/restored version they release to retail as a source for the next generation of preservation projects.
nice. they listened to the fans. though, this announcement demands that diehard clone wars fans cannot dislike the new season of clone wars. under any circumstances. it’s gotta be all fan-service, callbacks and expositional dialogue shoehorned into the plot of each episode.
“This particular print was struck in 1993, so unfortunately it has the censored song lyric at the beginning”
Would anyone here use a lossless rip of original pressing of the soundtrack CD with the uncensored “arabian nights” lyric? to SoX resample to 48khz and replace that portion in the title sequence?
Dunno how multi-channel separation would work with a TrueHD or DTS-HD surround track for that brief section, but since this release is just in stereo I figured its worth a shot for posterity.
[lt. maj. eyeroll said:]
the only reason why we aren’t restoring the original theatrical version of star wars is because it would take too much time and money. And we don’t want to spend the time and money to do it
a multi-billion dollar corporation short on money. wow.
anyone have a copy of restore24.avs? or restore24 revisited?
trying to convert this PAL telecine back to 23.976 and there are some blended fields even after QTGMC
Can someone with sources post a comparison of an uncropped frame of a lightsaber shot from 4k77 & the 35mm special edition?
ohteedee said on another forum that “Most FX shots have a smaller frame size than non FX shots.” (the post was regarding ROTJ specifically, but is a rather general statement)
I wonder if this is still true in the recomped 1997 versions of the same shots, and if the 97SE 35mm preservation wont need to be as cropped as 4k77, 83, etc.
They should get the Naughty Dog/Uncharted game developers to make a Han Solo video game.
You have the bridge that was added to the 2001 dvd, Just after the queen leaves back from Naboo following the shot of the palace. The Original theatrical didn’t have the shot the cgi bridge to the left where the river is. Also certain shots of the Podrace sequences look soft and I can understand you taking the route you did but maybe you didn’t know. Being you want to make this a HD Preservation, the digital movie collection has the original podrace sequence in full hd . So you can have that one crowd shot on and Watto yelling Subulba in HD and not a upscale. Also what kind of audio did you use out of curiosity. There’s nothing bad about it I was just curious if you went with the DTS track that’s available ?
at which store can one purchase the digital movie collection with extras that provides a download file?
“…to save on pre-printed coasters being made at your expense”
this is a great way to go about it, i think.
the poe dameron comic is cool
has anyone tried to apply this to the UHD disc?
A collab with Chewielewis for theatrical Episode I would be welcome.
i know Verta only likes the original Star Wars but i hope disney hires or consults him to do a proper restoration for ESB and ROTJ in time for the next big anniversary. It’d be great to see the films truly look their best once and for all.
empire strikes back
star wars
last jedi
force awakens
rogue one
revenge of the sith
return of the jedi
solo
phantom menace
attack of the clones
edit: return of the jedi used to be my favorite of the three, before the prequels (i started watching the movies on vhs in the 90s before the special edition was released in theaters). in retrospect, i’m surprised they made 4 more films i like more than that one. i haven’t seen the animated clone wars movie in a long time.
Han hasn’t been fully double-crossed by Qi’ra, left to become the jaded and cynical smuggler we meet in the first Star Wars film. He was tough (war is hell) and had some moral center (deal with Enfys) but the ‘price on my head, and my best girl left me, you guys can’t be serious about this ~the force~ stuff’ Han Solo doesn’t exist quite yet.
so, this is like the prequels, but for Han Solo and not Anakin Skywalker.
He ends the movie literally seeking out jabba the hutt.
WOW! Awesome looking forward to having this as the only copy in my Plex server.
“Austrian ORF PAL broadcast” does this source exist anywhere else?
The speeder shot is probably never going to look much better than Harmy has done with it, but if it proves the most popular, I’ll do it.
If the purpose of the demonstration is to show the strengths of the software you have developed, I would suggest also picking a sequence where you expect the maximum benefit of the software.
is there an nfo on what the software actually does?
based on what DrDre said maybe we should look at a lightsaber shot? or a shot from the dogfight that was replaced in the SE
The speeder shot is probably never going to look much better than Harmy has done with it, but if it proves the most popular, I’ll do it.
If the purpose of the demonstration is to show the strengths of the software you have developed, I would suggest also picking a sequence where you expect the maximum benefit of the software.
With regards to the speeder shot, I’m curious to know the maximum image quality that can be pulled from the prints, without reverting to the in my opinion somewhat revisionist techniques employed by Mike Verta to clean up the speeder shot, and essentially remove all the color noise that most likely also existed on the original negative. The downside of removing all the color noise in my view is, that you will never recover the detail that should be associated with such a clean image, and thus the cleaned up image may actually appear less natural without the noise than the image with the color noise in it.
Would stacking multiple scans of those 139 frames (channel aligned, free of warping) help reveal detail?
I’ve watched a few of the videos and am still not sure if verta used more than one print source on that shot to get ride of the noise to get closer to what the original negative looked like.
Did Harmy rotoscope some of the recomposited blu-ray background (buildings, etc) into the TN1 scan laserschwert cleaned up?
I’m interested to see what you can do with the Landspeeder scene.
are there any screengrabs of lightsaber shots from v2?
still hopeful the whole 9-film saga gets released in 4k when the next movie is released on home video.
releasing Legacy would be most ideal at this point. if there was a 4k remaster done by the studio the colors would probably look weird or modernized again. maybe they’ll figure out seamless branching. dunno if that’s feasible with some shots being different lengths & requiring different audio, but i don’t know how blu-ray playlists work.
would be cool to apply this LUT to JawsTDS’ 720p GOUT upscale
…that is, except The Asteroid Field - which seems to have most of the instruments bunched up on the left, with mostly low strings and reverb on the right. Really bizarre. I haven’t listed to all of these yet, but so far that’s the only track I’ve heard with such radical changes.
what a shame. that’s my favorite cue.