I shall. The “miniature” 720p encode is finished, uploading for feedback from you guys now. I think it’s pretty seamless, as much as possible anyway. It’s the 2011 version, with new modern looking lightsaber blades and blasters shots courtesy of telecine7. There is a base gamma and color correction as well but it’s not extensive it merely fixes the darkness and makes the existing color timing on the blurays look more pleasant. It also uses the 97 sound mix, but the entire mos eisley sequence is 77 theatrical, going back to the Blu Ray cut when the Stormtroopers start firing on Han and co entering the falcon. So no greedo shot, no cgi rontos or slapstick, no jabba, etc. Obviously due to limitations in the source material for that it looks sightly different. I used harmy 2.7 for that color adjusted to match as best as I could. Some shots look less than perfect, but I mean they already did. I had a screening at my house on my projector with some friends who only having a casual knowledge of star wars and all they noticed was that “Han shot first” like they’d always heard it was “supposed” to be but I didn’t say anything about why it was like that and I didn’t tell them it was something I cobbled together I kinda just made it seem like it was a rare custom edition I found and nobody said anything about quality changing or anything.
There are three original changes in this version but they are all pretty minute.
-Shot of the walking trash can on the jawa sandcrawler cut. Just that one shot of it walking, because I hated it. One of the few shots in the film that actually look very dated to me.
-Bad audio edit during the sandpeople reveal fixed with audio lifted from adywans revisited
-Edited out the section of a shot in the scene where Darth Vader and tarkin discover the princess lied to them where Vader continues gesturing with his arms well after he quits speaking. Accomplished this by lifting a shot of a closeup on Vader’s face from a different scene that takes place in that same room and he’s in the same spot and just flipped it to make him face the right way (the background is repeating panels so it doesn’t really look flipped) and color adjusted it. I think it’s seamless, but even if somebody can notice something is different about it I’m sure you’ll agree it’s smoother than what’s there now where he just kinda awkwardly gestures for no reason.