Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
I am a little unclear about the specifics here.
So Lowry Digital got a digital transfer of the SE that Lucas made by permanantly altering the original negatives (to clean up for the DVD release), and they also got a digital copy of the unaltered trilogy so he could match up the color timing? Is that right?
How do we know all of this?
I am a little unclear about the specifics here.
So Lowry Digital got a digital transfer of the SE that Lucas made by permanantly altering the original negatives (to clean up for the DVD release), and they also got a digital copy of the unaltered trilogy so he could match up the color timing? Is that right?
How do we know all of this?
Have you seen the '04 DVDs? I don't think any color matching was done- LOL! Whatever color timing that was done was done for the '97 SEs, when they were restoring the negatives. I think YCM labs did that work.
There have been several magazine articles with John Lowry in the last few years. One of them mentioned how the Lowry people went to Skywalker Ranch to pick up the hard-drives that contained the needed info for the DVDs.
I don't think there was any further work done with the negatives between the '97 SEs and the '04 DVD release- I would think that everything was already in the digital realm by then, and whatever changes they wanted to make would have been done using the film elements that were already scanned.