S_Matt said:
zombie84 said:
It is redoing. The effects weren't complete until the compositing was done; this was its own art, and until it was finished it was just a bunch of bluescreen elements.
Well you should apply that argument to the final release prints as well - photochemical colour timing too was an art but they'd definitely not be using it for a release to a digital medium. If you're completely logical and consistant in your arguments you *have* to decry the lack of a photochemical process in the final output of the restored film. Your arguments preclude the use of any digital restoration tools.
No, because there is absolutely no visual difference in photochemical versus digital grading, the latter is just easier and gives you flexibility, but it would and is possible to mimic the chemical grading of Star Wars exactly in the digital realm. If I timed one chemically and one digitally and put them side by side, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. You're going to be scanning it and then watching it digitally anyway, so if you want to be this strict then we'll all have to buy 35mm prints in order to get the "100% authentic" experience.
The original prints have faded anyway, so you literally can't have the "original" timing work--you have to do it again, you have to recreate it, so there is no point in doing it chemically when you can recreate the same effect much easier and at lesser cost digitally. Different argument than the visual effects. The original effects are still there, whereas the original timing has unfortunately been destroyed by the passage of time and will never be able to be recovered precisely as it was, and therefore must be recreated.