Wazzles said:

Harmy said:

I'm not sure what you mean. The 2004 SE lightsabers in the Vader Ben duel are recomposited original elements (at least for the most part) and the RMV video seems to be exactly the same way, just with much better colors.

So I'd much rather talk about this than whatever the hell Maxim Recoil is on about, even if it has been done to death. So in the OUT (at least in the GOUT and 95 tapes), Ben's lightsaber's rotoscoping seems to "fizzle out". This was fixed in the 2004 SE (as in this picture: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--PxX2nzQ2rM/TIkhT1Yj8XI/AAAAAAAAcjM/GInu6VOLyNE/w1045-h899-no/Comp-096.jpg). Was this a part of the original element and/or in the IB print you saw?Or was it recreated digitally?

That is exactly the part because of which I said "at least for the most part" - they did add new digital color-glows to a few shots where the glows were missing completely in the original - why they didn't also fix the core going dim in that shot is a total mystery to me.

Could the look just be a result of their cleanup techniques? If that were the case, then it would still be possible that this is an OUT work.

I can't imagine that possibly happening - the glows in both the '04SE and the RMW video are either digitally recreated or they are recomposited but kept much more in focus than in the original compositing (when they originally made that effect, they animated the glows as perfectly sharp color "bars" and then printed them out of focus to blur them out - in digital recompositing, they would have to simulate this by adding some kind of blur effect and they obviously added way too little of it compared to the original).