Originally posted by: Scruffy
The SE was not created from a 1993 video master of the trilogy. It was created from a restored negative that was begun, IIRC, in 1995. Most Lucas apologists claim this negative no longer exists and no duplicates of it were made (though why such carelessness is considered meat for apologism is beyond be). You can say the 1993 master "represents" the later restored negative, but that's kind of stretching things. It represents the narrative starting point for the SE, but not the filmic starting point (except insofar as both the SE negative and the 1993 video come from the same original source).
The way I understand it, Lucas permanantly altrered the original negative in creating the SE version, which is why he no longer can use that negative to produce a brand new O-OT print.The SE was not created from a 1993 video master of the trilogy. It was created from a restored negative that was begun, IIRC, in 1995. Most Lucas apologists claim this negative no longer exists and no duplicates of it were made (though why such carelessness is considered meat for apologism is beyond be). You can say the 1993 master "represents" the later restored negative, but that's kind of stretching things. It represents the narrative starting point for the SE, but not the filmic starting point (except insofar as both the SE negative and the 1993 video come from the same original source).