The reason I ask is it will take me a while to download 7-8 gigs so if the sabers are going to be revisited and other such fixes I'd rather wait. I haven't started dl'ing this one.
Originally posted by: INv8r_ZIM
The other issue which I'm kind of on the fence about is the cut and paste of LD material into the edit to replace altered scenes. I love to see the original stuff back, but the grain suddenly jumps out at you like crazy, since Lowry pretty much destroyed the film grain in the film. It's probably a choice between grain or some combination of blurs and softer, less detailed replacement footage, so I can see the dilema. OCP's approach of creating mattes of just the needed areas of each shot was I think a little better, if not as "authentic" and certainly more time consuming.
The other issue which I'm kind of on the fence about is the cut and paste of LD material into the edit to replace altered scenes. I love to see the original stuff back, but the grain suddenly jumps out at you like crazy, since Lowry pretty much destroyed the film grain in the film. It's probably a choice between grain or some combination of blurs and softer, less detailed replacement footage, so I can see the dilema. OCP's approach of creating mattes of just the needed areas of each shot was I think a little better, if not as "authentic" and certainly more time consuming.
Considering the source material being used here is slightly better compared with OCP's I'd have to say leave it the way it is (although again I'm yet to see this). Some of the grain in OCP's shots were noticeable no matter how much he combined footage. But with what he was working with it was the best he could do I suppose, I'd expect this edit to be better.
Thanks again for all the work you are doing and getting it out there for us to enjoy.