For those who have access to the release document, a v2 copy of the Rogue One/A New Hope Supercut has been updated and added to the google drive links. Torrents will come at a later time. I’m still working on proofing the rebels batches to ensure there are no encoding errors… so that will keep me busy for much of this weekend, but changes for the Episode IV V2 Supercut are as follows.
- A typo in the crawl has been fixed.
- The HDR color timings of Rogue One have been very subtly tweaked to ensure they display correctly.
- A fade to black crossfade between young Jyn and the Rogue One present “montage” has been added to make that transition a tad more natural.
- An HDR color timing error when the Tantitive IV flies away has been fixed to ensure proper brightness above 100 nits is preserved.
- The 3 New Hope Deleted Scene bits have been newly white balanced to help them match the aesthetic of the rest of the film more closely, removing the overly orange tint from the previous raw version.
- The transitions both in and out of the second Biggs deleted scene have been modified by a few frames to fit more naturally, slightly better covering up the original transition the restored scene was replacing.
- The entire HDR color transfer of A New Hope has had very small tweaks, but nothing substantial. My goal is to retain the color timing of the 4K HDR/4K Blu Ray version as much as possible, even though it sharply contrasts with the more vivid look of Rogue One. Many fans are so used to the DVD and Blu Ray releases of the film they don’t even realize that those transfers were overly saturated and did not closely resemble the color timing of the theatrical release. The 4K Blu Ray version is a much closer match for the original.
- A new, higher bitrate source for the entire A New Hope encode was used, making the transfer look just a sharp more crisp as a whole. It’s a small difference, but it’s there for those who want the best looking encodes these file sizes can provide. As a result, the file size is just a tad larger (maybe about 500MB).
- A few small subtitle errors have been corrected, including slightly off or missing lines.
- The HDR color balance of the entire SC38 sequence has been modified, with extra focus being placed on the shots of Han, Luke and Leia to have the shots more closely match the rest of the transfer. I can’t make it match perfectly, but it should be close enough to prevent it from standing out too much.
- Very small alterations to the color timing of the Lucasfilm and Disney logos at the start of the cut have been made, ensuring better black levels and color levels. Same applies to the end credits to ensure better black levels.
The sound and runtime of the cut is otherwise frame for frame identical. No scene order changes have been made, and I’m keeping the 4K 2019 Special Edition transfer as the version of ANH hope used due to the excellent quality of this master as a whole and the fact that the Special Edition “changes” more line up with the modernized Rogue One aesthetic. Using bits of Adywan’s cut would have been an interesting alternate take, but his version being permanently stuck in 720p SDR just doesn’t produce quite the same visual quality that I want to see here.
I’m not planning to release any new clips of this cut at this time, but you can still see the original youtube clips at the top of the thread. I’m quite pleased with the current updated version of this cut.