Originally posted by: DanielB
Firstly, all were made from original material. None of the material was digitally tampered with. The one exception to this is the title crawl on ANH which was replaced with something new. However since it was replaced BEFORE the entire trilogy was complete and shown theatrically I'm willing to forgive this.
The only reason the material wasn't digitally altered was because at the time it wasn't economical to do so. Had today's digital technology been as cheap and available to do back then, there is no doubt it would have been done that way. To go even further, had today's digital technology been available back in the 80's, we wouldn't even be talking about this since Original Trilogy preservation and digital transfering wouldn't even be an issue. This web site wouldn't even exist.
I do not have an original, and prints aren't exactly hard to come by now are they? I am creating something for myself, it's only by chance that you people on this web site get to read about my progress anyway. And besides you, it doesn't look like the community has much of a problem with what I am doing.
Now if I WAS in posession of an original celluloid print of these films, do you honestly think I would release only an altered version of it? Well maybe you do, but the answer would be no. Having something of such prominence would demand it be preserved in an unaltered state. I clearly am not in such a position.
Please see sense.
Firstly, all were made from original material. None of the material was digitally tampered with. The one exception to this is the title crawl on ANH which was replaced with something new. However since it was replaced BEFORE the entire trilogy was complete and shown theatrically I'm willing to forgive this.
The only reason the material wasn't digitally altered was because at the time it wasn't economical to do so. Had today's digital technology been as cheap and available to do back then, there is no doubt it would have been done that way. To go even further, had today's digital technology been available back in the 80's, we wouldn't even be talking about this since Original Trilogy preservation and digital transfering wouldn't even be an issue. This web site wouldn't even exist.
Zion, here it is. If you're saying I can't ask you to release your restoration unaltered - then it is hypercritical of you to ask Lucas to do so. I don't care what you say. If Lucas owned a Picasso (yes, I'm going to keep using Picasso) and refused to release prints of it - how do you think the art community would react to you and MebeJedi editing your prints of the painting and then distributing it?
I do not have an original, and prints aren't exactly hard to come by now are they? I am creating something for myself, it's only by chance that you people on this web site get to read about my progress anyway. And besides you, it doesn't look like the community has much of a problem with what I am doing.
Now if I WAS in posession of an original celluloid print of these films, do you honestly think I would release only an altered version of it? Well maybe you do, but the answer would be no. Having something of such prominence would demand it be preserved in an unaltered state. I clearly am not in such a position.
Please see sense.