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Post #1267321

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Fang Zei
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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Date created
31-Jan-2019, 3:32 PM

DrDre said:

I think it is likely Lucas had the negative and all the original elements scanned and restored. So, I don’t think there’s a version persé. There are masters from which the original and SE versions could be created, although I believe at the time he was mostly focussed on the planned 3D releases of the OT.

The planned 3D versions were most likely why these new 4k masters were created, especially since we now have confirmation from someone involved that they were finished all the way back in 2012. George didn’t sell LFL to Disney until the end of October, so maybe he had the new scan done as a good starting point for the post-conversion before Disney scrapped it. It would explain why they’ve sat unused for almost seven years.

Like the anonymous former RMW employee said, it’s unlikely their work on the OT could be surpassed even seven years later.

4k 16-bit is about as good as it gets.