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Post #1350421

Author
yotsuya
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Info Wanted: The Prequel Trilogy - awful DNR - are there better versions available?
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Date created
29-May-2020, 10:58 AM

For my personal edits, I am planning on using Schorman’s HDTV for AOTC and ROTS. I do plan on restoring the wipe when Threepio and Obi-wan are leaving Mustufar off the blu-ray to produce what is basically the theatrical version. But those seem to have more life and better colors than later releases. I’m enamored with CG Yoda, so my go to version of TPM has to include that I have made my own edit which is the theatrical cut using the original DTS audio tracks, but using the BR with CG Yoda. I found an HD cut of the theatrical podrace to get the first shots of that sequence and I creatively edited one of the clips in the extended air-speeder sequence on Coruscant to cover the missing shot so it is all HD. A little noise and grain hid the worst of the DNR, but that one shot of Qui-gon can’t be so easily fixed. It depends on which cut you are after. Three shots from the original theatrical version of TMP only exist in SD so with upscaling I haven’t been able to get them to look even watchable at higher than 720p. But if you just want to put something on, HDTV version is proabably the best looking. Though ZigZig’s recent release of his LD preservation rivals it in some ways for color.