doubleofive said:

AntcuFaalb said:

timdiggerm said:

Sorry, 005, which is which?

I think it's: RMW/GOUT/Blu-ray.

Exactly. The colors are different, the flashes look like what the GOUT might look like if it wasn't overblown. Shot 2 is the most telling, the flash is green in the SE and doesn't go as high on Vader's shoulder. I don't know guys....

And I highly doubt they re-did the SE's in 4k from scratch. That's them going back to each original element and the original negative AGAIN, scanning them AGAIN, redoing all of the CG AGAIN.

Not from scratch, but still a fresh 4K scan. I'm pretty sure the '04 scan didn't discriminate between different parts of the negative. The cgi shots from '97 were scanned back in along with everything else. You can still notice filmic anomalies in those shots, some slight wobble and so forth, even after Lowry's clean-up job.

When Spielberg commissioned a new 4K master of Minority Report in 2009 it was a similar thing. The cg shots were simply scanned back in.

If this is in fact a new transfer of Star Wars, I'm sure they could stabilize the '97 shots and make them look as good as possible. Remember, even today a movie's cgi is rarely rendered at anything higher than 2k unless it's being comped into native imax footage or something. Even movies that get 4k finishes only get 2k cg renders if they were shot in 35mm (or the digital equivalent thereof).