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Post #904804

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Harmy
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Info Wanted: Averaging the various versions of the 2004 master?
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Date created
5-Feb-2016, 8:01 PM

There are some scenes in the HDTV versions, where the compression is downright awful - well at least in Schorman’s version but with his attention to detail and the huge bitrate of those releases, I have to assume that it is present even in the best available sources and I was hoping that maybe that could be helped a little by averaging the different sources but I don’t know enough about the process - I just assumed the program would compare the three or more sources and only keep what they all have in common, thus eliminating some artifacts.

In the scene, where Leia meets the Ewok in ROTJ, I actually ended up rotoscoping the original eyes into the BD footage, rather than using the full HDTV shots, because the difference in compression was stupendous.