Got em, I think!msycamore said:
I don't know if you missed my post on the last page, 005. But the Death Star shot Treadwell was talking about in comp 60. was recomposited for the '97 release, on the frames I posted you can clearly see this in the different positioning of all the elements in it. The easiest way to spot it, is to look at the position of the stars against the battle station. The original elements recomped in '97.
You also have the recomposited sunset I posted a few examples of a few pages back. I've noticed that there actually was always static dirt in the close-up of the twin suns in all home-video transfers of the original film, at the bottom of the frame in the middle, there is some dirt, I don't know, could be what they're talking about, it's not there in the '97 footage, (when you can actually see the restoration job) in the documentary "The Magic and the Mystery". I believe both the wide-shot and close-up was recomped, in the process they took the opportunity to also revise the colortiming.
Nice finds! especially the Jedi- skiff, actually very professionally done, ooh, that hurts to say. ;)
Those torpedoes had motion blur applied as well. Good job, everyone!
The gate weave would make that a pain, unless g-force's script is perfect.none said:
Thinking out loud, is there a more computational way to find these variations? Is there a negation filter (maybe exclusion) where if the two movies were overlaid you could negate one from the other, leaving behind the changes. What if the originals were modified so that one was just cyan and the other was just red, then when combined you would ignore the purples (or process them out) and focus on the left over cyan and red material. Problem is they probably don't align close enough, because of the widen frame composition...