anything that fixes print damage must surely be considered a good thing. if we had an original print in pristine condition, then it wouldn't have the damage evident on the LD transfers that we have, I mean things like emulsion blobs, spots, tears, scratches.
a lot of what Mebejedi is doing is fixing this print damage and I can't see how anyone can say that this is wrong. re-rotoscoping botched lightsaber stuff again must surely fall into the same category. it's fixing the film.
he's not adding revisionist scenes like lucas,
he's not adding out of place CGI
he's not extended scenes and changed music tempo to make it fit.
he's taking the original movie and repairing it.
you didn't see people complaining when Ben Hur got 'restored' and put on DVD. same goes for Lawrence of Arabia. those were both films that were recomposited digitally, color corrected, had print damage repaired and were cleaned to give as nice a presentation as possible.
you didn't see anyone shouting from the rooftops that they weren't the original versions of the film. what Mebejedi is doing is the same. he's repairing visible damage, colour correcting, sharpening to get best possible picture quality and fixing a few dodgy effects that have been flaws since the beginning which would never have been missed if Fox hadn't rushed lucas at the end of production.
as regards Mverta and his legacy edition I think kudos to someone who's putting in such work to repair the botched 2004 DVD.
lets take the changes mentioned, the red on the tantive and the opening crawl starfield.
the red on the tantive was color correction.
he re-rotoscoped the bolts on the opening corvette star destroyer dogfight because the digital work has erased the glows around the bolts
he redid the starfield because you could hardly see it. the sharpening routines had obscured it from view.
all of that by any film restorers yardstick would be classed as restoration to the original print. none of what he has done thus far has been revisionist. he has not deviated from the original film apart from keeping the new FOX studio logo
so fair play to them. I did think that danielb was fairly moderate but this thread has just convinced me otherwise and that he better either pony up and do his own set and show us how it should be done, be quiet on the relevant threads or download TR47's or Gonzo's sets if he wants the unsullied originals.