TServo2049 said:
It DOES look like the element was slightly rotated. No idea WHY...
It definitely was, I guess it's because no effort was made to make an exact match of the original composites, very few has been made with that mentality, some of them were for the '97SE but even those aren't an exact match. All recomposites done on the trilogy end up with slightly different positions in relation to their surroundings, timings, flight paths and timings of lasers etc. I guess it wasn't their priority to get them exact as the average viewer or even we in some cases who knows these films backwards and forwards will not see the difference unless we compare with the original composites. As you can see on that comparison pic 005 posted, the different angle of the lower Stardestroyer is not the only difference, those pics are synced up.
TServo2049 said:
The only drawback is that the bigger stars don't really glow like they do in the GOUT - can we blame crushed blacks again?
Where as the 2004 footage have crushed blacks, the GOUT have clipped whites instead, I guess that's why you have the difference. The following shots of the fleet will be equally problematic to despecialize.