As a lot of other things have come up, this project is on hold at least until the semester is over.
What I'd like to do, if Ady is okay with it, is use his Revisited edits as a base, with his AVCHD release for things that I'd replace.
Here's an example of what I want to do with SW (yes, I know this has changed dramatically from my initial posting):
- Use the ROTJ-style Fox logo from another movie, probably Alien 3 since I know that uses the same logo and I own the 2-disc set
- Use the old-style Lucasfilm logo, possibly recreated by me, possibly a cleaned-up GOUT
- Recreate the GOUT crawl in After Effects, but use Ady's Revisited starfield so I can use his opening shot
- Use Revisited until the escape pod goes to Tatooine
- Use SE AVCHD shot of escape pod (not a huge fan of Ady's twin sun lens flare)
- Use Revisited until they're on the sandcrawler
- Use SE AVCHD of sandcrawler interior (to remove Ady's added battle droid - the PT never happened with these edits, remember!)
- Remove added 2004 Threepio line ("We've stopped!")
- Use SE AVCHD for Ben's hut sequence (keeping the theatrical cut of this scene, though I actually do kinda like the "intended" cut Ady reconstructed)
- Use SE AVCHD for torture droid (one of the only changes I legitimately hated about Revisited)
- Use Revisited from there until Mos Eisley
- Attempt to restore as much of 1977 Mos Eisley as I possibly can from a cleaned-up anamorphic GOUT
- On the fence about the cantina sequence (though I'll definitely keep the Revisited DVD-9's severed arm) - I'm not sure if I should keep Ady's digital tweaks here or not
- Keep using Revisited until Alderaan, where I'll restore the original explosion (mainly because I hate the "shockwave" thing, and I was kinda disappointed Ady used it)
- Remove added 2004 stormtrooper line ("There's no one here!")
- Use Revisited until Han runs into a dead end, reverting to a cleaned-up GOUT for that shot
- Use Revisited Purist for the duel (no music, but updated lightsabers)
- Forgot where this was chronologically, but I'll use the SE AVCHD for the "round-table" Death Star discussion (removing added music)
- Use Revisited until Luke/Biggs, which will be removed
- Use Revisited for pretty much the rest of the movie, with the exception of restoring the last shot of Tarkin just before the Death Star explodes
- Use the theatrical mono mix for most of the movie - the parts that I can't use it for, I'll mix-down to mono to match
That's my tentative plan. I'm going to wait on ESB/ROTJ until Ady finishes his Revisited trilogy.
And if Ady would rather I didn't use his edits, I'll just use a cleaned-up GOUT, which means SW/ESB will be more or less untouched. SW will use the mono mix entirely, and ESB will have the crawl change and theatrical stereo if I can find it.
I'll post an update when I re-do the logos again.