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Post #570440

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TServo2049
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Cropping the Original Trilogy : 35mm vs dvd (gout)
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Date created
16-Mar-2012, 4:16 PM

OK, here's one of the lightsaber frames -1 posted earlier (albeit brightened by me). Again, I combed together previous screenshots from the forum as my references - thankfully, I could find plenty of images of this shot.

Again, I didn't include '97 or '04/'11, as the image is pretty small and extra lines would just clutter everything. (And also because the scene was recomposited in the SE anyway.) Same color coding as before - blue is 5%, red is 10%, cyan is GOUT, magenta is JSC, yellow is Technidisc.

The aspect ratio of -1's screenshot isn't 2.35-2.40:1, it's closer to 2.20:1, but I can't tell if it's cropped a bit, or vertically stretched a bit. I included the 5% and 10% anyway, even though the actual 5% and 10% cropping may be wider.

Again, the horizontal cropping of the GOUT and JSC fall in the 5% zone; Technidisc seems to be halfway between the 5% and 10% lines. The vertical cropping is a different story: GOUT's is near the 10% line (I wonder if they were trying to hide the aforementioned bright areas on the edges?), while Technidisc is close to 5%, and JSC is even less (which is why the glows are so visible on those, JSC in particular - the gamma boosting didn't help either).

This time, it's the JSC that has the least cropping - probably too little cropping on the top and bottom...