I wasn’t trying to start any drama, I just wanted to clarify if this was a new scan or not. It’s sometimes difficult to determine what sources are new or not, with so many floating around here. And that’s exciting! It feels like a renaissance of Star Wars around here recently, with things happening so fast it can make your head spin.
No worries. I just had visions of everything spiraling out of control like it did earlier this year, with everyone freaking out about the prints, me getting banned and all of you missing out on something pretty cool.
I’ve had this other Tech scan since December 2014 and some of it was actually used in the SSE - most notably shots that included a star field in Reels 1 and 3, since most of those stars were too faded on our scan of the LPP.
Meanwhile the work continues. I cleaned two more shots today, bringing the tally up to 78 shots completed (26% of Reel 1). The first 15 “shots” include the Fox intro, logos and title cards, Crawl and Flyover. I currently only have all that on Eastman stock at 2k, (Plus the ANH version at 4k and a 35mm '97 Special Edition version also at 4k) so most of that is currently just upscaled SSE at the moment. It looks pretty good, but not quite as good as the footage that follows it. Hopefully I can get a new 4k scan of all of that before the project is complete, and can come back to that section later.