Hal, if you’re reading this, were the blu-ray deleted scenes ever upscaled like the DVD ones?
No; none of them struck me as useful at the time. They were not presented well, at any rate.
Did you do the upscaling? I thought it might have been someone else (Dr. Dre?).
Most are definitely worthless. But there are a couple fun bits in “Elevator Antics” and I think “Changes to the Constitution” should definitely have been in the film. What do you mean by not presented well? Is the picture quality much worse than the DVD ones? I haven’t watched them in a while.
Man, I’d have loved to been able to use “Changes to the Constitution.”
It’s a solid scene. Totally sets up Palpatine seeding distrust in the council with Anakin in ways almost no other scene does.
Might be worth checking with Dr. Dre to see if an upscale is possible. Unlike most of the blu-ray deleted scenes the effects are finished (at least as much as the other “finished” DVD scenes), and the quality shouldn’t be any lower than that of the other DVD deleted scenes.
Here’s one of my first tries at the “General Skywalker”…
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx-b_Drhy38rc2x6Q3lLUUdkemc/view?usp=sharing
Audio is seamless. The shot of Anakin is a little awkwardly short, though.
Also, on the “roger, roger” edit you did, is the deleted scene not the same take? If it is, you shouldn’t need to use that kind of transition.