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Post #1449966

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Hal 9000
Parent topic
The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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Date created
22-Sep-2021, 3:20 PM

Just to think out loud, here’s how I would like to revise ANH ideally, feasibility be damned. I watched ANH recently along with a friend who wanted to watch the OT and hadn’t really taken it in before.

  • I’d remaster the audio for the opening crawl, since the same recording is out there in higher quality than what we hear.

  • Slow the opening logo down as it recedes, though the method I used for the 2011 source won’t work

  • I’d love to get finished versions eventually of what DatSWguy is working on, being Alderaan explosion with no shockwave and the Mos Eisley entrance

  • Replace the shot of the fighters moving from Yavin IV toward the Death Star because the CG doesn’t hold up and the astromechs’ panels stick out as incorrect at a glance (unlikely; it’d have to be a really good fan made CG shot but need not be identical; it could essentially recreate the OOT blocking using new CG elements)

  • Fixing the jump as R2 is lifted up into Luke’s X-wing while talking with Biggs (this will be available eventually from Adywan, though his fixes to R2’s red-blue light would need to be undone for consistency)

  • R2’s red-blue light being made to match its post-ANH appearance (Adywan is doing this beautifully, though I couldn’t use shots across the movie because many will have other changes that wouldn’t fit in, and it’ll be based on a different primary source; this one is pie in the sky)

Other then that, I’d say the ANH Custom SE makes for good viewing and nothing took me out of it.