This is a shot that I’ve always hated, which is the Sandcrawler at night panning shot, because this shot has been messed with in the SE and we don’t really have any high quality sources for this because in 4K77, this is a heavily optically printed shot, along with Look Sir Droids, and the even worse Sandcrawler cresting over Tatooine at day static shot. The SE version featured a more consistent starry sky, but decided to add a horrendous power window in the upper portions of the image and on the shadow side of the sandcrawler, essentially crushing all of the blacks to make it look less like a “day-for-night” shot which was how it was filmed in the first place.
I basically overlaid D+77 over the SE shot using a Lighten blend mode with 50 opacity, then I had to camera track and add in a new sky because I didn’t like both the theatrical and SE versions of the sky, as they both are terrible quality. I then preceeded to match the OOT timing of the Look Sir Droids scene.
