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This is absolutely incredible! And all in a day too!

Do not DM me for edits. Whatever you’re looking for I don’t have it.

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kg1977 said:

Williarob said:

Actually Viva Pro did most of the heavy lifting.

The full Diamant Film Restoration suite starts at a little over $20k. Dustbuster+ is the cheaper, stripped down version which can be had for just under $7k.

Ouch…pricey…Looked like Viva was more of a editor from the website. I assume there are retoration plugins within not shown that beat out anything from premier and AE which isn’t much as far as full frame scratch and dust removal. If that is the case , Adobe has some catching up to do as you examples looked clean and fantastic!

For free alternatives look into the ai market. I tried out this tool https://youtu.be/xkCtFafVlys but I didn’t have a sufficient amount of RAM to support videos larger than 1024x1024. It was a bit tricky to get running but gpt helped out. This one hasn’t come out yet but is the most promising so far with enhancement. https://supir.xpixel.group/ Probably work frame by frame (possible moving artifacts when all combined) till a video version comes out which is probably soon.

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Williarob said:

Here’s my quick attempt at restoring the Tosche Station scenes:

https://vimeo.com/912082416?share=copy

this looks incredible!
I’ve done a preliminary color correction over the whole scene with some shot-for-shot sprinkled in.
this is just preliminary and is still a WIP. it’ll get better when Williarob releases a better quality final version.
https://youtu.be/uAx0wuhn4AQ?si=FCV0Zns1q83-yOaS
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-TGWNN

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Very nice colours!

That guy with no name said:

Williarob said:

Here’s my quick attempt at restoring the Tosche Station scenes:

https://vimeo.com/912082416?share=copy

this looks incredible!
I’ve done a preliminary color correction over the whole scene with some shot-for-shot sprinkled in.
this is just preliminary and is still a WIP. it’ll get better when Williarob releases a better quality final version.
https://youtu.be/uAx0wuhn4AQ?si=FCV0Zns1q83-yOaS
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My edits:
https://ifdb.fanedit.org/fanedit-search/tag/faneditorname/phase3/

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Phase3 said:

Very nice colours!

That guy with no name said:

Williarob said:

Here’s my quick attempt at restoring the Tosche Station scenes:

https://vimeo.com/912082416?share=copy

this looks incredible!
I’ve done a preliminary color correction over the whole scene with some shot-for-shot sprinkled in.
this is just preliminary and is still a WIP. it’ll get better when Williarob releases a better quality final version.
https://youtu.be/uAx0wuhn4AQ?si=FCV0Zns1q83-yOaS
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thanks!

-TGWNN

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That guy with no name said:

Williarob said:

Here’s my quick attempt at restoring the Tosche Station scenes:

https://vimeo.com/912082416?share=copy

this looks incredible!
I’ve done a preliminary color correction over the whole scene with some shot-for-shot sprinkled in.
this is just preliminary and is still a WIP. it’ll get better when Williarob releases a better quality final version.
https://youtu.be/uAx0wuhn4AQ?si=FCV0Zns1q83-yOaS
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Looking solid. So happy to see work being done on these scenes.

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Well done on the Star Wars Tosche station footage looks very good.

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Question, do you use upscaling models to enhance the footage? presumably topaz. And if so, thoughts on Adobe’s Videogigagan upscaler? This upscaler (if ever released) will be a game changer for enhancing these old 480p resolution deleted scenes.

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I am eagerly awaiting the release of the touches station scene…

But I did get back to work on some things over the Halloween period.

There is four more deleted snippets required to flesh out and complete Star Wars 1977.

  1. The informant in the cantina.

After Obi-Wan says "“Chewbacca is first mate on a ship that might suit us” chewing walks past the bar. We then see the informant look and quickly leave cantina on the wipe not a wipe cutting him out the film. Then the wipe from him leaving the cantina and switching to the storm troopers makes sense. This deleted clip has a few frames in color then goes black and white. This could be done the same way other clips have been colorized.

  1. Vader Striking the wall from the 1977 trailer for star wars. This would require the lights are to be rotoscoped and footage resized. That guy with no name may have or may not have sorted this…

  2. There is a still image for an alternate take in the death star bridge or main control room. This is simply a quick cut away when Motti speaks. Not Sure if AI could be implemented on this? It would require his lips mouth the words and a slight movement exactly what AI limit is so do-able. It would be around 2 second alternate take. Not that important either but it’s a challenge. This is from the scene where they talk about the princess still being of some use to us and responding to alternative means of persuasion. The cue point for the take is the back of mottos head when he speaks.

  3. I think the big wide shot of the landspeeder with Luke and threepio would be a good addition to sandwich in-between Owen calling for Luke and then entering the kitchen continuing to wonder where Luke is. No dialog just sound effects a nice shot.

Now in further investigation. I have found further issues in the editing that are new by Star Wars 1977 observation standards.

In the briefing to attack the death star showing the plans. “It’s a small Thermal exhaust port right below the main port”

Change to “it’s a small Thermal exhaust port” there is no other port.

When gold leader goes on attack run his wing man says “we should be able to see it by now” this is in the completely wrong part of the sequence. It needs to be part of the missing conversation around “Almost there…” big editing error.

I am close to getting a total edit done but still a way off yet but mostly done. Just wondering if these last few pieces of the jigsaw can’t be sorted?

It is very close now…