Fang Zei said:

Could you please quote directly what he said?

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/star-wars-the-digital-movie-collection.427154/page-7

Vidiot said:

captainsolo said:

Please tell me that they didn't do what LFL has claimed at times, and actually conformed and edited the negatives to match the Special Edition.

They did not. All the new versions were reconformed with digital files -- the film itself was not spliced and respliced. A lot of it is so damaged, it can't be used because it's just falling apart. There are copies of the negative that survive and look just fine. It's just sections here and there that are bad, but even the 1977 IP still survives and looks fine, last time I saw it in the 1980s.

Sounds like he describes the workflow on the 2004 release. Vidiot (Marc Wielage) was the main colorist on that disaster.

In 1996 a new negative was most likely produced from which new IPs and INs were struck in order to make release prints. Since the original negative is A-B rolled they easily removed the shots that was going to be replaced or digitally altered in the computer, without any loss of frames.

This has been documented in many articles over the years. That's why it was so enormously ridiculous when the statement of Lucasfilm in 2006 was that the negatives had been permanently altered.