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Laserman
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StarWarsLegacy.com - The Official Thread
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21-Mar-2005, 10:30 PM
Even if you had a complete print, and got it scanned at full rez, that is around one hundred and 80 thousand frames (180,000 frames) that need to be captured one frame at a time (it's automated, but still one at a time), and a cineon 10bit cinemascope frame at full resolution is about 40+MB in size, so around 7000 gigabytes of storage for the film. (or if you come in at low rez, around 1500 GB for the film).
The you have to fix the damn thing.

No surviving prints have the correct colour anymore, and we aren't likely to get access to the three strip masters anytime soon.
So even if you went to the massive effort, did a wetgate or infrared transfer. and then a two way anamorphic adjustment, you would be left with a massive cleanup operation, colour adjustments and so on.
Not the sort of thing one person is likely to do and then release to the masses for free only to get their arse chewed off by lucasfilm at the end of it.

You gotta remember that most prints of ANH are now over 25 years old, and have been through lord knows how many projectors. All the ones on Eastman stock are now a happy shade of pink to boot.

So no, I can't imagine you will be seeing a direct film transfer available anytime soon from an individual. It would take a dedicated team with a lot of money,time, resources and Death Star sized balls.