Info: Star Wars - Episode IV A New Hope Deleted Scenes (on youtube)

i think that commander bast one was recycled into the Holdiay Special

There have been efforts to try and clean up the footage but there is only so much that can be done with the source material in the state it's in.

What you have done there is very good (especially working around that nasty frame crack) there is some exciting software out there for sampling textures from still images and applying them to damaged and even monochrome moving images.

I can't remember where the link is (I will look again).

There were quite a few full colour production photographs taken of the deleted scenes and maybe these can be used to improve the quality (assuming that Lucasfilm hasn't hidden a mother lode of full quality out takes which they are sitting on for the 8D 2084 hologlobe release).

wow, vaderios moves into the world of the moving picture! i like the colour correction and removal of black bits. maybe the sequence could be used in an edit that involves flashbacks or filtered scenes. the tv series thread would be good mabye as it could be an episode in a style of its own?

would be interested in seeing it applied to what bingo is on about. id love to take a bunch of ninjas to the lucas film archives and liberate all their old footage! maybe they will release some for their blu-ray release (though unlikely)

Dangerous Incorporated said:

Just came across this pre-post production cut of:

 

 What is pre-post?

Angel, that clean-up was nice.  It seemed a but washed out, but the source is pretty crappy.  I like the sky in the correction.  The original looks like a smog is rolling in.

vaderios said:

Yeah the sourse was crap. Youtube what did you expect :P

 

-Angel

What you want is to get your hands on one of these : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=2748491

I had it years ago but gave it away when I split up with my Ex and in a moment of madness became a mac user.

Or you could try this one:

https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=UmNLRGwwNkdFc0lLSkE9PQ

 Or here is a larger version:

http://rapidshare.de/files/46652300/Anchorhead-1.avi.html

Maybe the best thing to do with these scenes is a manual frame-by-frame restoration and then you can insert extra frames. There are pretty simple programmes that can "inbetween" frames pretty well for you and it will likely create a much smoother scene. 

I think Angel's clean up of all the damaged and/or dirty frames is about as good as that material is going to get.

None of us is ever going to make this material anything above "workprint" quality from that source.

In 2009, I decided to revisit the major deleted scenes of Star Wars . Most of these scenes had only been released in low quality, 12 frames per second, on CD-ROMs in the late 90s. I used the program Twixtor to generate new frames and restore these scenes to 24 frames per second - not a perfect solution during fast motion, but jaw-droppingly successful during dialogue scenes, and an improvement that is like night and day. I combined a multitude of new sources within the same frame to restore the Jabba the Hutt scene. I animated a shot of Luke and a Treadwell droid, and a shot of Ben attacking with his lightsaber during the Cantina sequence. I have restored these scenes to a quality never seen before, and placed them on this disc for you, edited into the original, unchanged Deleted Magic feature documentary from 2005. Enjoy. -Garrett Gilchrist, June 23rd, 2009

This is from the .nfo to the 'Deleted Magic : Revisited' dvd which was released recently.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Deleted-Magic/topic/1284/page/20/

The Behind the Magic CD was converted to PAL and NTSC by MoveAlong (The Lost Scenes - http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/MoveAlongs-The-Lost-Scenes--Complete/topic/7553/ ). I believe OCPmovie used these 12fps and twixtor'd them into 24fps, see above. This was done using a free version so some of the work was done in sections so the burn in could be removed. Hand done adjustments were done after the interpolation, but he mentioned that things could be improved. This I believe is the history of the best version which you seek.

So if MoveAlong has a raw of the original BtM encodes, and if you have an frame interpolation program then that's the best source. Otherwise OCPmovie's version might be the place to work from. (i might have some of his working files before he made the dvd encode.)

Here's a list of things which he wasn't able to accomplish but recommended someone tackle:

THINGS YOU COULD DO ON THESE SCENES (if you're a faneditor, and clever)

1. Stabilize the Jabba scene using whatever software you've got. Download my 24p version of the Jabba scene from From Star Wars to Jedi, as posted earlier.

2. Draw mattes for the bits of the Tosche Station interiors that look bad. Go through frame by frame, and in Photoshop, over the original frames (not the rubbish Twixtor frames, so skip every other frame), draw an image, in Photoshop, which is all flat black and flat white, where the black area is Luke (or whatever characters are in the foreground) and the white is the background/everything else. This is a matte, which will show my editing program which part of the image is Luke (Biggs, Camie) and which part is the background. These two parts of the frame could then be run through Twixtor separately (by me, presumably).

3. Find a copy of that Entertainment Tonight footage of the end of the Jabba scene! On his Youtube, Jambe Davdar says "Thanks to Scott Weller for filling in those final pieces." Does Scott Weller have this footage? If so, he may be the only one who does, currently!

4. Remove the black scratches from the Treadwell scene, somehow. This would make it a lot easier to run through Twixtor without weirdness.

4. Fix some of the Biggs scenes yourself, frame by frame. Get the PhotoJPEG versions, full quality, as posted earlier. A lot of the Twixtor errors are minor and can be fixed by using the best parts of the frames before and after, reworking the frames in Photoshop. Well, if you've got the time .....

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