Pretty laughable to be complaining about quality and claiming it’s an upscale if you’re solely comparing it to a YT upload; if there’s a trailer on D+ I’m unaware of, that’s a different story. Y’all do have more technical know-how than I do, but that seems like a stretch.
That being said, check out the shot of Han at 2:02–wonder where that source came from. I don’t think the GOUT has the damage evidenced in those frames. It might not be a new HD scan, but it’s definitely different footage than what we’re used to from Disney.
Why the hell is it laughable? I didn’t even mention quality for a start. I know that it’s compressed footage but there are tell tale signs in the footage that an AI program, like Topaz, was used. There’s even old style DNR smearing going on in one of the shots and another cropped where you can see that the source was indeed already cropped, like it was scanned from a trailer.
And why does everyone keep going back to the GOUT to “prove” that the footage is not upscaled or that it is all new? You really think that is the only source they have? Have you checked all the supplementary material over the years? But it’s also pretty obvious to see that, even with the lower quality compressed youtube vid, that all the film footage is lower quality than even some of the 16mm BTS footage they are showing in the trailer. It looks like older scanned footage they had already scanned from prints and not negatives.
OK, i have just found proof that they are using footage of the OT from trailers.
This is the snapshot from the doc trailer:
And this is a snapshot of the exact same frame from this trailer: https://youtu.be/h6aVWMb3J5M (at about 0.58)
So why, if they have a new scan, would they use trailer footage for that one shot?