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Post #571195

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Spaced Ranger
Parent topic
Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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Date created
20-Mar-2012, 5:51 PM

snicker said:

Look out for a dedicated thread in a couple of days.

Impressive! And looking forward to it, as I'm sure it will be an awesome technical resource on the OT forum.

Harmy (and crew) is doing a great job with spectacular results on his "despecialization" v.1 & v.2. But despecialization is not only restoring missing shots and removing new shots & shot-elements -- although that is a big and obvious part. Whether by sloppiness-commanded or sloppiness-approved, George Lucas has ruined the Star Wars picture, generally, in his post-production "specialization", with the blown out hi-lights, the crushed shadows, and the shifted colors ... even in isolated color-layers ... as a side-effect of his company's incompetent toying with "grading". (Side note: this seems to be an industry fetish now-a-days, as many different forum postings have attested to -- Star Wars, The Lord Of The Rings, et al.)

Although it may not be in mind for this project (didn't Harmy also do a "partial-despecialization" once?), "full-despecialization" would include these corrections. Hopefully it will be included ... maybe in v.3? ;)