Star Wars: Clone Wars [ Micro-Series ] - Original Episode Format / Restoration (RELEASED) — Page 3

I appreciate the thanks but all the credit goes to @GabinDayback who did the real work. Without their knowledge to start from I wouldn’t even know what was different.

Just for fun I’m experimenting with a few shots to see if I can improve them. It’s been fun analyzing how this show was put together.

For instance, I’ve been working on cleaning up this speeder shot, as it gets cut off early in the DVD version.

Chapter 9 - Opening Shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV7bljJZA40

Very few “Next Time” and “Previously” on segments are available online from what I can find. The “Next Time” segments are literally 3 second teasers for the next episode while the “Previously” segments are a bit longer but easy to edit.

Chapter 9 Previously & Next Time HD Rebuild

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpeEHE4Lp0c

I did take a stab at a few missing segments which were replaced by wipes on the DVD Versions.

Chapter 8 Ending - Replaced with a wipe on DVD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzV4LRUd2og

Chpater 9 Ending - Replaced with a wipe on DVD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJSl9X54A50

While neither of these two tests are prefect, they are blink and you’ll miss them changes. Both shots are under 15 frames of content. It would still be nice to have them back at some point.

Chapter 9 - Replaced with a wipe on DVD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGTfRVtQKcU

One more blink and you miss it shot. This is also the result of a wipe being added to the DVD version of this shot.

Like I said, I’ve just been playing around with these in my downtime. I just wanted to share what I’ve been playing with.

Noois!!! 👏 😄

I ran some of the low-quality Clone Wars video through Topaz Project Starlight to see how well it could clean things up. While it did improve sharpness and reduce some noise, the results were ultimately limited by the original footage; bad in = bad out. It’s a decent quick fix for minor enhancements, but don’t expect miracles if your source is garbage.

https://youtu.be/EtRCpDsWCbQ

Any suggestions on where to start looking at that stuff? I’m completely new to all of this.

Hi, i’m not a pro in this topic, but worked in Topaz on few shows, and i don’t think there is much you can do.
You can only slightly improve the footage, so garbage in -> slightly better garbage out.
If you try achieving too much, you will end up with artefacts and horrible abominations (been there, done that).

Use fine tune model, and slightly increase parameters until you see too much artifacts. Stop at that, and that’s the best outcome you can achieve.
I didn’t find anything better for now.

I’ll have a bit more free time coming up and thought it’d be fun to work on some of the intros and next week’s segments. Unfortunately, I haven’t had any luck finding those segments online. I know it’s a long shot but does anyone have a source or know where I might be able to track them down?

I just discovered some more missing footage on the DVD release of this. At the end of Chapter 24 and the beginning of Chapter 25 there was a wipe on the DVD which removed a small bit of footage from these Chapters.

https://youtu.be/30e0_hUjOG4

I made the above video to show what was cut off.

Hey everyone, happy weekend!

I’ve kind of gone down a road that’s turned this into a full on passion project. I’ve been reworking all these episodes to create 100% Broadcast Complete versions. Things are moving along pretty well, and I’ve got a solid timeline mapped out for most of the remaining work. Hoping to share some stuff with folks soon!

That said, I’ve hit a couple of snags and was hoping someone here might be able to help track down a few missing pieces of footage:

• Chapter 7: Missing the intro
• Chapter 10: Missing the outro
• Episodes 21–25: These don’t seem to have intros or outros in any of the copies I’ve come across. I’m not sure if they were ever broadcast with them, or if they’ve just gone missing over time.

If anyone happens to have copies of these segments, or knows for sure whether those episodes aired without intros/outros, I’d really appreciate the info.

I’ve been using Topaz Starlight for my upscaling needs and it works pretty well after a few rounds of uploads. I’m stuck using the free version for now, so I have to wait for my credits to refresh before I can knock out a few more pieces of footage. If anyone wants to help out, let me know, it’s not much (less than 1 1/2 minutes total), but I’m limited by the 12 second per clip upload cap on the free version. Also, if you’ve got other upscaling ideas or tools you swear by, I’m all ears.

Thanks in advance for any leads, advice, or insight — and as always, thanks for being such an awesome community!

Thanks to the invaluable efforts of my “partner in crime - Mackey256”, a cool UPDATE for the project is IN THE WORKS. 😎

Stay tuned, folks.😁