Mielr said:
That could explain why there are still obvious matte lines in the Rancor scene in ROTJ SE; they didn't re-comp the scene, they just monkeyed with the black levels.
Are you kidding? The Rancor scene is very, very obviously recomposited. Trust me, I had the two versions layered over each other trying to salvage the matte lines and it wasn't possible because the objects are in different relative position. The same goes for the snow battle, 90% of the model shots were recomped. Maybe some of the cockpit shots weren't or they were simply recomposited badly.
Check out 005's comparisons.
BTW- you said the missing frames from the Wampa scene didn't come from the GOUT, but I'm still unclear as to where you harvested them as I assume they're missing on all post-1997 sources (?)
I'd like to know this as well. Maybe Ady used SE background plate and rotoscoped Luke in from GOUT in the
missing frames, like I did it in my ESB using this reconstruction.