danny_boy said:
Jaitea said:
danny_boy said:
.........It was this special edition negative that was scanned completely in 2004 to create the high def masters for DVD and Blu Ray.
As far as I understand Lowry were handed the 2k files of the 97SE versions, which they were expected to clean up.
J
Yes that is correct.
Later......
danny_boy said:
.......This 2004 article that coincided with DVD release states explicitily that it was the special edition negative that was scanned(and not the 1977 o-neg)---therby implying that there is a physical distinction between the negatives of 1977 and 1997.
Interestingly, the negatives that were scanned were not those of the original releases but of the 1997 Special Edition reissues, because of their additional effects sequences (more of which are said to have been added in the DVD releases). Defects such as dirt and scratches from the original negative, then, had made their way through to the 1997 negative
Restoring the Star Wars Trilogy.
Article from: Videography | September 1, 2004 | Hurwitz, Matt
An interview with Lowry:
Did George Lucas actually let you borrow the original camera negatives of his Star Warsfilms to do your high-resolution scan for the restoration?No. We sent one of our 6-terabyte servers up to Skywalker Ranch in San Rafael , California, where they loaded it with full RGB [red, green, and blue] data without having to go through the component output that tape masters would demand. We processed those images, cleaned them up, and sent them back in little packages of discs. The net result was that we never lost a bit in the process of moving all the data back and forth, and we were able to work on full high-definition-bandwidth imagery. It was an unusual approach, but we got some pretty stunning results.
So the Star Wars films were processed at high-def, but not at the 4K level - four times high-def resolution - that you've been using for some other films?At high-def, yes.