I understand that it’s a massive undertaking, but I believe my idea is genuine.
While, my idea is not so simple,
I want to at least see what the maximum amount of detail is that I can milk out of a downgraded obsolete master, and the silverscreen edition.
I want to at least get 10 seconds of footage rotoscoped into 3 layers, a foreground, midground and background and maybe more, I’m hoping that doing this may not compromise depth of field sensitive shots, and eliminate ghosting artifacts inherint in The GOUT uprez.
The idea is to minimize changes and artifacts that would occur.
So I would need to deblock the footage, and then convert it into an uncompressed Raw video format.
I at least want to test out my concept in the future and see the potential of it.
It may provide more benefits and I’m a bit skeptical myself.
I also wanted to see if I seperated this footage down to the RGB level if there was any potential of extracting more detail that was lost.
So I’m not trying to introduce any changes, but trying to see if we have anymore definition to gain. The only things we have access to at the moment.
I worry that we’ll probably not see Star Wars rereleased ever again on home video.
And if there is a potential perhaps I can assemble a team of people to assist me in such a massive undertaking.
If we could break down the movie into say 8 segments and recinstruct it in such a manner
It would take less time.
The 10 seconds of footage I want to use are Han shooting greedo first.
So my resources are only two.
After editing from them I will rotoscope this into the 3 sections and seperate them into 9 sections
And once finished I will reunify these elements to the original and compare.
I’ll be starting this project in 6 weeks, and I’ll share then bit I need to get a desktop first.
But it’s hopefully going to work and be a decent preservation attempt.