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Post #1011010

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spoRv
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Info Wanted: Preserving RotS Theatrical Version - Is there any interest?
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Date created
19-Nov-2016, 11:04 AM

I made a comparison between the theatrical cut (russian crawl), the workprint and the HDTV, here you are my conclusions:

  • theatrical misses 72 frames between the six reel changes - I suspect this is present only in that russian print, must check with the DTS Cinema track
  • workprint and HDTV have the same colors, and pretty much the same frame size
  • when “Star Wars” logo is set at the same frame, HDTV has 36 more frames (in comparison with both theatrical and workprint) after the crawl disappears and the first shot - just 1.5s of still starfield
  • HDTV has replaced the wipe at frame 175966 with a cut

So, to recreate the theatrical cut, there are just two things to do:

  1. delete 36 frames after the crawl (and related audio if taken from HDTV/DVD)
  2. replace the cut at 175966 with the wipe present on BD

done!