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Kaweebo said:

Man, the restored deleted scenes combined with Adywan’s new ANH:R HD footage + tweaked sc.38 would make a definitive version of the movie for me. I will argue against the Jabba scene tho. It’s honestly redundant with information we’re already aware of and it kind of doesn’t make sense given how Jabba looks in RotJ later, as well as why he’d let Han talk to him like that. That’s one deleted scene we could do without imo

Think Jabba works better as a hologram if the scene stays but would work if jabba was a little more of the ROTJ version in that hologram… kind of a tough FX to pull off unless AI, but not really into going heavy with AI that atm. I dont neccasrily think that Jabba worries too much about han trying to talk his way out of getting an extention as I am sure he is used to that and working deals…meaning the way Han talks to him is in character for Han i think if the scene is to stays that it… Yea keeping it could go either way, but since my version is an extended version and that scene was in the novel, comic and script, would be a reason to include in a full cut. If feedback is strong to exclude it I could always make a segment for folks to add with it gone (but still dissolves to the Vader and Bask hallway walk scene).

Right now I am waiting on a member of the forum to share their tosche biggs and luke walk which they did a good job on, but has water marks and “subscribe” now added on top of it, since they posted on youtube and are trying to get subscribers I guess. I rather have the best quality of that so holding a few weeks on a V1.5 waiting for that is all.

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regularjoe said:

I downloaded the film some time ago and one of the Tosche Station scenes has some garbled sound. Is there a newer version made that corrects that? It’s at the end of the scene where Luke and Biggs reunite and the action starts to move from inside the building to everyone leaving the building. The dialogue there is unitelligible.

yea the next version will have some updates to the toshce stuff

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kg1977 said:

regularjoe said:

I downloaded the film some time ago and one of the Tosche Station scenes has some garbled sound. Is there a newer version made that corrects that? It’s at the end of the scene where Luke and Biggs reunite and the action starts to move from inside the building to everyone leaving the building. The dialogue there is unitelligible.

Right now I am waiting on a member of the forum to share their tosche biggs and luke walk which they did a good job on, but has water marks and “subscribe” now added on top of it, since they posted on youtube and are trying to get subscribers I guess. I rather have the best quality of that so holding a few weeks on a V1.5 waiting for that is all.

His last forum post here was some time ago, but he did respond to a comment I made on his YouTube. Maybe you can try contacting him there?

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Finally got back to updating the Adywan briefing room scene to HD quality for my ANH-X edition. For this one I could not just rely on an upscale as the graphics on the screen they are watching were still too fuzzy and pixelated. As such, the graphics here are partially reconstructed (from scratch in some spots) and follows his original idea as close as I could. source footage that is not the screen is the adywan 1080P color grade base. There are some trench run vector graphics that I was able to use courtesy of JPH edits blender recreation posted on Youttube that he based on the public released John Knoll’s video from Star Wars Archeology panel at Celebrations. I think this particular FX is a major boost for the scene and I have always loved the way it ties into return of the Jedi and AOTC’s red death star plans hologram.

The new cleaned and updated footage is the lower video of the two in the sample below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kfQGaojqoA9OIK6RWs6aVb4I1zJF73Mk/view?usp=sharing

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I’m so excited to watch this when you’re ready to share it! I adore the radio drama and your changelog is impressive. Most impressive.

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feronstost said:

I’m so excited to watch this when you’re ready to share it! I adore the radio drama and your changelog is impressive. Most impressive.

Thanks…Making some progess as of late, so hopefully get this one to the stage to share out

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Another update for ANH-X version 2 (WIP)

This is the restored Vader Bask walk scene. This one was a collaboration with forum user “DarthChanbara” who gets credit for the upscale, cleanup and audio (based on the actual script). I went further to remove some more yellow tint, added a vader breathing FX and removed some more dust in a few spots. Mostly it is his work so I walk to call that out. I cleaned the end where there is a massive film scratch/distortion but that ended up being around the same time as the wipe to the next scene so that area of restoration unfortunately will not be as noticable in the final. I think this scene is in my top 5 deleted scenes for sure…nothing wrong with seeing more vader 😃

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Video sample (googledrive preview is hit or miss as far as quality – download if wanting best preview)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ODbvWc-XGHn-rQ60FmZEb9RxuEYrCCrT/view?usp=sharing

next up is two deleted shots from Yavin hanger and upscale on an adywan hyper space shot that I missed and then back to the Biggs and Luke walk which is the last scene before this version is done. Really wanting to use forum user “_Sky”'s restoration of this for the first part but he has a “subscribe now” animation and various watermarks that track with the footage …hoping to get ahold of him to see if he can share the “clean” version of this one…just wanted to provide an update

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Sounds cool, though I can’t really see the quality difference because the video is like 360p

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G&G-Fan said:

Sounds cool, though I can’t really see the quality difference because the video is like 360p

Google Drive usually takes about 10 minutes to finish the higher res version but I posted 2 hours ago and are surprised it is still the 360P temp version. You can download and watch and it will be the full res or wait maybe later.

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This seems awesome. Is there an approximate date when it will be released?