D+77 - Star Wars - 4k Theatrical reconstruction (Released) — Page 2

What changes were missed in this awesome edit?

The changes that I noticed were:

• R2-D2 and C-3PO’s escape pod cover on Tatooine remained grey and was not changed back to blue.

• Darth Vader’s lightsaber stayed red when Luke blasted the door on the Death Star.

• The detention hall’s hallway remained altered with the special edition version when Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca were attempting to escape.

These were the only changes that I noticed which were not restored to the theatrical version; otherwise, everything else was pretty much originally unaltered and theatrical.

omas4071 said:

What changes were missed in this awesome edit?

The changes that I noticed were:

• R2-D2 and C-3PO’s escape pod cover on Tatooine remained grey and was not changed back to blue.

• Darth Vader’s lightsaber stayed red when Luke blasted the door on the Death Star.

• The detention hall’s hallway remained altered with the special edition version when Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca were attempting to escape.

These were the only changes that I noticed which were not restored to the theatrical version; otherwise, everything else was pretty much originally unaltered and theatrical.

I remember hearing that special edition “thud” noise from when the Storm Tropper hits his head on the blast door.

When I was checking it out on the computer and comparing it to other projects side by side, I think there are some shots that can be updated to better versions. You know the film scans used to cover up the crappy CGI.

One thing that surprised me was when Luke and Leia were in that tube where they had to swing over to get away from the Storm Troopers. Their voices were super echoey.

Ryan said:

omas4071 said:

What changes were missed in this awesome edit?

The changes that I noticed were:

• R2-D2 and C-3PO’s escape pod cover on Tatooine remained grey and was not changed back to blue.

• Darth Vader’s lightsaber stayed red when Luke blasted the door on the Death Star.

• The detention hall’s hallway remained altered with the special edition version when Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca were attempting to escape.

These were the only changes that I noticed which were not restored to the theatrical version; otherwise, everything else was pretty much originally unaltered and theatrical.

I remember hearing that special edition “thud” noise from when the Storm Tropper hits his head on the blast door.

When I was checking it out on the computer and comparing it to other projects side by side, I think there are some shots that can be updated to better versions. You know the film scans used to cover up the crappy CGI.

One thing that surprised me was when Luke and Leia were in that tube where they had to swing over to get away from the Storm Troopers. Their voices were super echoey.

i thought the audio was sourced from schorman’s Star Wars LaserDisc Audio Archive and hairy_hen’s 70mm recreation

nobodybutjarjar42 said:

Ryan said:

omas4071 said:

What changes were missed in this awesome edit?

The changes that I noticed were:

• R2-D2 and C-3PO’s escape pod cover on Tatooine remained grey and was not changed back to blue.

• Darth Vader’s lightsaber stayed red when Luke blasted the door on the Death Star.

• The detention hall’s hallway remained altered with the special edition version when Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca were attempting to escape.

These were the only changes that I noticed which were not restored to the theatrical version; otherwise, everything else was pretty much originally unaltered and theatrical.

I remember hearing that special edition “thud” noise from when the Storm Tropper hits his head on the blast door.

When I was checking it out on the computer and comparing it to other projects side by side, I think there are some shots that can be updated to better versions. You know the film scans used to cover up the crappy CGI.

One thing that surprised me was when Luke and Leia were in that tube where they had to swing over to get away from the Storm Troopers. Their voices were super echoey.

i thought the audio was sourced from schorman’s Star Wars LaserDisc Audio Archive and hairy_hen’s 70mm recreation

Was the “thud” noise in those audio versions? I had thought the thud was added for the special edition from what I remember people saying about it in the 2000’s. I remember being in a message board where people thought it was brilliant to add a “thud” noise to the Storm Trooper hitting his head. At the time, I hadn’t seen the Original Trilogy since the 80’s, so didn’t know what they were talking about at the time. It seemed like in the mid-2000’s, a lot of people were liking the special edition what I saw talking about it. But at the time as mentioned, I didn’t get it as I’d had mostly forgotten Star Wars other than seeing the prequels, which were still fresh.

Hydra Spectre said:

Ryan said:

nobodybutjarjar42 said:

Ryan said:

omas4071 said:

What changes were missed in this awesome edit?

The changes that I noticed were:

• R2-D2 and C-3PO’s escape pod cover on Tatooine remained grey and was not changed back to blue.

• Darth Vader’s lightsaber stayed red when Luke blasted the door on the Death Star.

• The detention hall’s hallway remained altered with the special edition version when Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca were attempting to escape.

These were the only changes that I noticed which were not restored to the theatrical version; otherwise, everything else was pretty much originally unaltered and theatrical.

I remember hearing that special edition “thud” noise from when the Storm Tropper hits his head on the blast door.

When I was checking it out on the computer and comparing it to other projects side by side, I think there are some shots that can be updated to better versions. You know the film scans used to cover up the crappy CGI.

One thing that surprised me was when Luke and Leia were in that tube where they had to swing over to get away from the Storm Troopers. Their voices were super echoey.

i thought the audio was sourced from schorman’s Star Wars LaserDisc Audio Archive and hairy_hen’s 70mm recreation

Was the “thud” noise in those audio versions? I had thought the thud was added for the special edition from what I remember people saying about it in the 2000’s. I remember being in a message board where people thought it was brilliant to add a “thud” noise to the Storm Trooper hitting his head. At the time, I hadn’t seen the Original Trilogy since the 80’s, so didn’t know what they were talking about at the time. It seemed like in the mid-2000’s, a lot of people were liking the special edition what I saw talking about it. But at the time as mentioned, I didn’t get it as I’d had mostly forgotten Star Wars other than seeing the prequels, which were still fresh.

I’m pretty sure the “thud” was originally added in the elusive 1977 mono mix.

I put in my 2006 DVD GOUT disc and it does have that “thud” noise. Then I put in the regular 2006 DVD, and the thud is there too, just louder. So I guess the “thud” was there from the beginning. Which, for whatever reason, I had read over the years that “thud” was a special edition change.

Just saw this an hour ago. Very nicely done! The original scenes blend in quite nicely with the 4K sources.

This is now my go-to Star Wars to watch.

About the only thing I would change is that known glitch during the Death Star battle.

jdryyz said:

Just saw this an hour ago. Very nicely done! The original scenes blend in quite nicely with the 4K sources.

This is now my go-to Star Wars to watch.

About the only thing I would change is that known glitch during the Death Star battle.

What “glitch” are you referring to? The one where some ships are in front of other ships when they should be behind those ships?

Ryan said:

jdryyz said:

Just saw this an hour ago. Very nicely done! The original scenes blend in quite nicely with the 4K sources.

This is now my go-to Star Wars to watch.

About the only thing I would change is that known glitch during the Death Star battle.

What “glitch” are you referring to? The one where some ships are in front of other ships when they should be behind those ships?

I misremembered it as being a “glitch”. It is more like an artifact of the effects used at the time. I am referring to that black diagonal line that shows up very briefly when a tie fighter is destroyed, starting at 1:46:28 right before Luke thanks Wedge. I believe Mike Verta talked about it in one of his restoration videos.

This is one area where I kinda prefer the CGI scenes. There were times where I got used to them so much, I totally forgot about how it used to look and it was a bit jarring when seeing the old scenes again.

Don’t get me wrong. Ever since I became aware of what Harmy and others have done to preserve the original presentations, that is what I usually watch.

I also really like D+77 because I get 4K without the HDR making everything look too dark. I do not know if this was another mastering error with the official 4K UHD release or just something that happens with playback on a non-HDR 4K display. I have seen something like this happen with other 4K UHD discs I have but most look fine.

hello I would like if someone can add spanish audio track
I could add and sync spanish audio track of harmy version, but I need to know if this video track has different duration

Hey, just stumbled on this while trying to find the original trilogy without the CGI added. The only places after looking around, the only places I’ve seen to download is on invite required sites. Is there a link I’m missing where I can see this?

maupintcm said:

Hey, just stumbled on this while trying to find the original trilogy without the CGI added. The only places after looking around, the only places I’ve seen to download is on invite required sites. Is there a link I’m missing where I can see this?

Check the first post here for info relating to invite:
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Project-4K80-a-WIP/id/63909

hi thx for these…question how do i go about adding the lossless audio file to this? im a novice at this any advice would be much appreciated!

oohteedee said:

D+77 has been updated to v2.3 to fix a few things I didn’t like in the previous version.

v2.3 changes
I stabilized the end of the tiltdown a bit just before the flyover. It was quite jittery. I didn’t completely stabilize it, I just reduced the jitteriness of it. There is still some jitter (gate-weave) left.
The restored shot of Artoo in the canyon has the colour tweaked. I felt it was too red and too dark compared to the shots right afterward. It’s a closer match now.
The shot of the entrance to the Cantina is digitally recomposited now to greatly improve the quality. It’s a little less theatrically accurate now without the purple patch in the middle but the overall quality is much higher.
The “doors locked” shot has been tweaked to fix what looked like light leakage in the scan.
The shot of the Falcon blasting out of Moss Eisley has been redone to improve the quality. It had some textural stability issues before.
The shot of the Falcon backing out of the Death Star has been redone.
The shot of the Rebel guy scanning the horizon on Yavin has been redone.
The PG end notification is redone to eliminate the warping it had.
I tweaked the colour of another shot a bit to better blend.

Lastly, this version is NOT GOUT synced. Version 2.3 presents the full theatrical sync
of the film. It restores the one frame missing from the NTSC GOUT DVD which was present
in the PAL GOUT DVD and of course the UHD BR.

-For the stereo track I used hairy_hen’s 70mm 2.0 v3 flac audio file. - edited in Resolve. Rendered out to pcm. Transcoded to ac3 using ffmpeg.
-For the mono track I used the DTS-MA audio track from 4K77 v1.4. - converted to wav using eac3to. Edited it in Resolve to sync to the stereo track. Rendered out to pcm. Transcoded to ac3 using ffmpeg.
-For the 5.1 track I used hairy_hen’s 70mm 5.1 v3 DTS-MA audio file. - converted to flac using eac3to. Edited and synced in audacity using the stereo track as a reference. Exported to flac. Transcoded to ac3 using ffmpeg.

I was hoping our audio experts would have theatrically synced these by now but it hasn’t
happened yet so I did it on my own the best I knew how with the tools I had.

DTS-MA versions of these tracks are in a separate folder for those who want lossless audio.
AC3 files were muxed into the file for maximum compatibility.

This is how I always wanted to present D+77, in it’s full theatrical sync.

The 2160p is rendering now. It’ll be ready in a few days. 1080p is now in the usual place.

I’m content with this version and don’t plan any updates for a while.

enjoy!

Late to the party but I just found this and love it! How do I download a copy? I own lots of copies of the original. Thank you!

Would also love to know how to get these. I asked on the forum, but it seems to have been deleted now. They linked me to the wrong version, that I wasn’t after and I can’t even see links on there anyway. 😦 I can’t believe how difficult these are to find. Been looking for a couple of months.

I guess that’s a good thing, in some ways…

D+77, D+80 and OTD83 are what I’m looking for.

dannybaws said:

Would also love to know how to get these. I asked on the forum, but it seems to have been deleted now. They linked me to the wrong version, that I wasn’t after and I can’t even see links on there anyway. 😦 I can’t believe how difficult these are to find. Been looking for a couple of months.

I guess that’s a good thing, in some ways…

D+77, D+80 and OTD83 are what I’m looking for.

The latest versions of D+77, D+80 and OTD83 are still available on the forums.

I figured it out. It’s right in front of us lol. The long string of letters on those posts of all the screenshots are resilio download keys. D+77 is spectacular. Now I need Empire…

This looks like an incredible project!

Out of curiosity - since most of this was sourced from the 4k (HDR) blu rays and the re-graded in SDR - has there been any discussion of doing an HDR release of this or the any other D+ restorations? As HDR displays are being more and more common, I would imagine its something people would be interested in.

Forgive me if that has already been discussed - I could not find any info searching the forums using google.