pat man said:
zombie84 said:
The thing is that a lot of the SE changes were made in 2004. That means they are hardwired right into the Lowry transfer, so to speak. That was one reason why they re-used the transfer for the blu-ray, and I am guessing the 3D releases as well. There basically is no more "negative" of the SE, it's all digital now because the 2004 changes were never put on film in the first place.
When it comes to an eventual OOT release, I predict they will either use an early generation archival print master and restore it, or base it off the negative. Obviously there will be a lot of challenges with using negative because so much of it is the SE; they'd have to fill in the holes using another source and then somehow match them together. Personally, I don't trust them to do it right. A lot of the SE changes are so subtle that they might overlook them or just leave them in. Stuff like the re-comps. They might not see the point. That's why I hope they just go get the best non-o-neg print that exists and clean it up, the negative has just been too reworked. That might be seen as lazy by some, and creating a poor quality scan by others, so I'm not sure what they will actually do. Probably they will use the negative and fill in the holes, but probably they will accidentally leave some changes in the film. The amount of work they will do will depend on how big of an 'event' they want to make the release.
Yes most of the changes was in 2004/2011, but can't they use the 2004/2011 files as a reference for the changes (Apart form the color, crush blacks) and audio form the 6.1 blu-ray (not from the 2004 DVD and the No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!)?
Are you talking about using the raw scan from 2004, before it was further altered, as the basis for an OOT release? Because what they scanned was the negative, which basically exists in the state of the 1997 Special Edition. When it comes to the Special Edition, what you see today is what you will always get. It was always be 1920x1080 lines of resolution with the sound and colour all weird. That's how George Lucas wanted it, and since he no longer owns the film he's not in a position to "correct" it--nor would he be even if he did own it since nothing is in need of correcting, in his mind. But even if he had a second opinion it would be a lot of work for him to come back and re-tinker, and I think just mentally he's said his goodbyes and let the films go. Disney won't be deliberately tinkering with the SE--nor should they be.