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Mielr
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Info: Best OUT materials at Lucasfilm?
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22-Sep-2006, 12:31 AM
Originally posted by: zombie84



4) A 4K DI of the Technicolour seperation masters. These I am not sure if they are Lucas' personal collection or in the LFL Archives--perhaps they are the same thing. Scanning each of the seperation masters and then making a Digital Intermediate of them would IMO represent the best possible version of the OOT, practically at IP resolution since they are struck directly from the IP (or IN?), with pretty much perfect colour fidelity and practically no dupe grain. They would undoubtedly be free of any kind of scratches since as far as i know they have never even been used.

That would depend on whether or not the separation masters were done correctly. Unfortunately, some separation masters were made, but not tested (like the ones made for Spartacus, for example) and when the time comes to do a restoration- it is discovered that the separations are unusable.

Also, if preservation/separation masters were made for ESB and Jedi, they would have been made from Eastmancolor/Kodak prints (since Technicolor prints of those films weren't circulated), so the quality of the separations would be affected by the quality of whichever Kodak prints were used (for instance- if the Kodak prints were starting to show any sign of fading, that would be reflected in their separations).

But, I would think that if the fading was just minimal, it could be corrected digitally.