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Post #717719

Author
Darth Id
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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Date created
23-Jul-2014, 6:50 PM

Please do not get your hopes up that this will happen.

The climax of the Con is more likely to be the keynote speaker announcing that Adam from Girls will indeed go shirtless in Episode VII!!!!!!!

Edit: For a little perspective, look at this note regarding the mono soundtrack included in the new Criterion release of A Hard Day's Night.  For a real restoration/recreation of the OT, this same painstaking process would need to be done not just for the soundtrack, but for the entire film and optical effects.  There's no way anyone is doing this in the throes of EPISODE VII hyperventilation:

In consultation with Lester, the monaural soundtrack was restored from digitally archived optical elements. These sources included fragments of surviving productions stems and the print master that yielded much of the dialogue and effects material for the new 5.1 surround mix. This restoration would not have been possible without the generous contributions of archivists and engineers who evaluated a vast range of surviving audio elements in Hollywood, Abbey Road Studios, at the BFI and in Lester’s personal collection. Most of the digital transfers of these elements were done at the NT Audio Video Film Labs in Santa Monica, California. Unfortunately, the most complete sources were unusably overmodulated, and the cleaner sources were incomplete. By combining different elements of similar character, a new master was carefully reconstructed. As some sources exhibited dramatically different tonal character and even alternate effect mixes, Lester’s participation was critical in determining which version was the correct one. The track was assembled and synchronized with the new video master in Pro Tools Hd. Chronic overmodulation, with resultant distortion and sibilance, was gently mitigated, and hum not common to all sources was attenuated. Dropouts and other indications of decay were repaired on a case-by-case basis, taking care to preserve the documentary character of the film.