For what it is worth, I don’t think the ANH crawl has ANY place in a Theatrical Reconstruction of Star Wars.
I saw the film opening week in 77’ and it was called “Star Wars” LOL!!! If I want to see ANY of Georges evil changes I would watch my S.E. copy (cursed that it is). There… I said my piece.You do you, but I’m sure at least some of the VHS children like myself feel differently. After all, I don’t think the 77 crawl ever made it to home video before the GOUT in 2006. Us folks who weren’t around for the four years before the crawl was changed ought to have our Star Wars too.
Right.
My post could’ve probably been clearer. But I didn’t intend it to mean “please chime in if you support suppressing the release of an Episode IV crawl on princple”. It just meant that if there is no interest, or no interest beyond a perfect 1981 starfield, I can always not bother doing it. The ANH MKV was much less popular last time, as can probably be expected. But it seems there is some interest, even if it’s minimal.
DL: What did you have in mind for your V2 crawl? We’ve discussed the 1981 crawl before, but for the benefit of everyone else: I like what Darth Lucas has done in general. He got a cleaned up 1981 crawl from Harmy (I think originally from TN1?) and then used the ESB starfield and redid the pan and rotoscoped the flyover elements in.
I’d like to use it. But I considered the crawl just to be way too shaky. Not just a little bit of gateweave, but when you see the text in the far distance (just before fading out), it really bounces about a lot. But the starfield stays relatively still. So if it’s stabilized, it will need to be done with the separate elements. I am not actually sure how to do that stabilization, since normally you want a stationary element to focus on, like the stars. But we could make some guide lines based on the path of the text and manually do it I guess.
Secondly, the crawl is mostly cleaned up, but there is still a bit of noise and damage that pops up throughout. If needed, I can try to have a pass at this myself. But it would be better to do on the stabilized material and at as high of resolution as we can.
There also might have been an issue of the Tantive overlapping the Star Destroyer for a frame or two as they cross paths. But I might be mis-remembering, or it might look how it’s supposed to.