g-force said:
none said:
But there seems to be a specific caveat which made the lightsaber hit blasts fade more into the background.
That's the DNR. It tends to remove things that only last 1 frame.
It looks to me like the same reason the star fields, glow of engines and lasers got eaten up by whatever Lowry or Lucasfilm used to artificially enhance/clean up the films with.