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Post #536411

Author
yotsuya
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What do you want to see if George Lucas cared?
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Date created
15-Sep-2011, 10:33 AM

I want pretty much what the initial post listed, except that for the original theatrical versions I want one extra soundtrack and for ANH, I want the option of paying any soundtrack with the 77 opening crawl or the 81 opening crawl. The extra soundtrack would by the last mix done before the special edition... the one the 97 special edition was based on.

My ultimate ideal would be to have 1 disc for each film and have it programed to play it any way you want, including a version with the deleted scenes and alternate scenes. For ANH, that would include all 3 jabba scenes (human, cg 1 and cg 2). But unfortunately, cramming all that on one disc might degrade the picture quality too much.

And as a note on sources, the best source for the original trilogy original theatrical version would be the separation masters. As I understand it, they are color specific b&w negatives that preserve what the film looked like when it was new. Using them will produce a properly color timed original image which is far closer to what we want to see than the restored image from the color negative. For ANH, I don't know how many people have noticed this, but all the bright white colors have turned pink. This isn't just a 2004 DVD transfer issue, it is on my 97 SE LD's as well. Going back to the separation masters would eliminate this and give us the best possible version of what these films looked like when they were new.

Also, while TPM was filmed on 35mm film, all the shots were scanned to create the movie digitally. So the best source of the prequel trilogy is not from film, but from the digital masters. I have no information on how TPM was scanned, but AOTC and ROTS were shot and edited at 1080p. They are 100% digital from start to finish. So what we are getting on Blu-Ray is about as good as these two films are every going to look.