Some more details on the sources. I did the end credits first. Originally they were form the GOUT credits, but they weren’t good enough. So I took the raw images from the SSE and made a very long composite 1920 wide by 17128 pixels. I upscaled my previous effort and the original Puggo Grand composites and I moved the text of the SSE to match - some resizing of some components was necessary. Then I realized how the text was put together (a white layer and a wider blue layer yielding light blue letters with dark blue edges - with different alignments for the Kodak and IB prints) so I cleaned it up by playing with the color layers and getting rid of the one with the most noise. Then I color corrected it to match the GOUT. Then I reduced the size to 720 by 6423 (to match the GOUT resolution). Then I just matched the Puggo Grand pacing. The last piece was the transition from the static title cards to the scrolling text. I had to extend the last card to match (I just looped a bit of it, forcing a fade out to match). The last piece is actually a piece of Puggo Grand - during the fade out of the last title card and the fade in of the credit roll, there is a blip where the two were double exposed. I could not accurately recreate that so I just lived those fre frames and placed them where they belonged. The final step was to introduce some dirt and gateweave to match the GOUT. I also added the PG card at the end.
For the Opening sequence, I used the JSC 20th Century Fox, then the scan of the 35 mm (reduced to 720 by 404 to match the GOUT). I handled it in for sections to color match it to the GOUT (more the original LD version than the greenish 77 crawl we got in 2006). The aim is for Return of the Jedi to match the Grindhouse scan so I am forcing the others to match. Williarob did too good a job cleaning it up and stabilizing it, so like the end credits, I added some dirt and gateweave to match the GOUT. When I watched it in the wee hours of the morning, I think I saw a glitch so I think I need to edit the transition from my crawl color adjustment to the pan-down and flyover color adjustment. It is a simple fade so I probably need to move it closer to the pandown and lengthen it.
And some of my patches need some work. I patched the partially disappearing starfield in the escape pod (Hard to see a way to make that one better), R2 in the Canyon (except when he is covered with energy arcs), the stormtrooper who stands up, the Landspeeder entering Mos Eisley, the Landspeeder approaching the Cantina (he has his legs back, though the color isn’t quite right), Han getting up and being stopped by Greedo (there was a ripple in the arch in the background that was driving me nuts), and the closeup of the Death Star with the Falcon being pulled in. Some need more work, some look great, all look better. The three shots I replaced look seemless so I doubt they need anything other than minor color tweaking.