Originally posted by: mverta
Ok, I've done some checking and I can confirm for you that there are at least two different composites of the first shot. There are any number of reasons why this may have been done, most likely having to do with crawl issues, but the matte painting, starfield and foreground ships were optically composited in the printer at least a couple of times, leading to variations in versions. I'm not 100% sure, but I will be once I finish checking, but it appears that both versions here use the same starfield, only one of them is reversed horizontally and slightly higher up.
I did the reversing and moving, but didn't have any success in matching the starfields. Ok, I've done some checking and I can confirm for you that there are at least two different composites of the first shot. There are any number of reasons why this may have been done, most likely having to do with crawl issues, but the matte painting, starfield and foreground ships were optically composited in the printer at least a couple of times, leading to variations in versions. I'm not 100% sure, but I will be once I finish checking, but it appears that both versions here use the same starfield, only one of them is reversed horizontally and slightly higher up.