4K restoration on Star Wars — Page 56

Author: nightstalkerpoet
Time: 13-Dec-2014 11:02 PM (Edited)
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Has anyone tried recompositing Jabba into that shot with altered lighting? Also seems that a slight blur could do wonders, as he appears too detailed in comparison to the original film elements.

My attempt: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/104248

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Author: Alderaan
Time: 13-Dec-2014 11:38 PM
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Looks better but still not close to right.

Probably a good idea for that scene to die in a fire anyway, because it's unnecessary after the scene between Han and Greedo.

Author: RicOlie_2
Time: 13-Dec-2014 11:46 PM
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Jabba's size never seemed right to me in that scene. Is he actually the same size there as he is in RotJ, or did they make him too small?

Author: AntcuFaalb
Time: 13-Dec-2014 11:48 PM
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RicOlie_2 said:

Jabba's size never seemed right to me in that scene. Is he actually the same size there as he is in RotJ, or did they make him too small?

I definitely think they made him too small.

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Author: Bingowings
Time: 14-Dec-2014 10:30 AM
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It sits better with the original material but the colars are still wrong.

He looks like he is made of twiglet and his eyes make him look like he has hepatitis.

Author: unamochilla2
Time: 14-Dec-2014 11:55 AM
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I thought I remember hearing or reading (I think from Lucas' own mouth) that they deliberately made him smaller so his moving on his own would be more believable before he became the fat slug he is in ROTJ.

Author: Bingowings
Time: 14-Dec-2014 1:33 PM
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So losing Han to the Rebels depressed him so much he let himself go and got hooked on frogs?

Author: darklordoftech
Time: 15-Dec-2014 8:26 PM
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I found an interesting post that Harmy made in another thread years ago:

Harmy said:

Here are a few funny pictures from the 2004 DVD chapter menu:

This is the 2004 ANH scene selection menu. The images don't match the movie on the same disc. This, combined with Empire of Dreams, shows that something other than the 2004 and 2011 versions exists at LFL.

Author: AntcuFaalb
Time: 15-Dec-2014 8:28 PM
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darklordoftech said:

This is the 2004 ANH scene selection menu. The images don't match the movie on the same disc.

lol!

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Author: moviefreakedmind
Time: 15-Dec-2014 9:03 PM
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That's really odd, especially since the sunset was altered before the DVD.

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Author: Tobar
Time: 15-Dec-2014 9:34 PM
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The company that was contracted to do the menus for the 2004 release talked about this at the time. Lowry was still working on the films when they had to have the menus done so they based all of the their work on a different transfer provided to them by Lucasfilm. I'm blanking on the name of the company at the moment.

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Author: moviefreakedmind
Time: 15-Dec-2014 10:02 PM
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It may have been the laserdiscs for all we know. I really have no idea though

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Author: ElectricTriangle
Time: 15-Dec-2014 10:19 PM (Edited)
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We've gone through this before, I think. Van Ling used a separate scan/color-correction of the 1997 SEs for the DVD menus since the 2004 master was still in progress.

edit: Tobar beat me to it. Here's the link:http://www.eias3d.com/featured-artists/van-ling-star-wars-trilogy-dvds/

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Author: darklordoftech
Time: 15-Dec-2014 10:26 PM
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That there's a digital scan of Shaw as ghost Anakin makes me very happy.

Author: Handman
Time: 15-Dec-2014 10:43 PM
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Well, they had to plaster Hayden's head on top somehow!

Author: RicOlie_2
Time: 16-Dec-2014 1:18 PM
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Didn't you know? They used scissors, glue, and the original negative for that.

Author: Fang Zei
Time: 16-Dec-2014 4:11 PM (Edited)
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Y'know, if this 4k job was for the SE, I wonder how they would go about re-doing stuff like Ian as the Emperor's hologram and Hayden's head on Shaw's body.

Maybe they would just take those shots as they are and plug them right into the new version? The TPM blu-ray did the same thing with the lower-res added scenes from the dvd and, from what I heard, it still looked like that even in the theatrically-released 3D version.

Author: Hal 9000
Time: 16-Dec-2014 8:18 PM
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Really? So, for example, the air taxi scene from the TPM DVD was from a different source than the rest of the BluRay?

My stance on revising fan edits.

Author: Fang Zei
Time: 18-Dec-2014 1:46 PM
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The stuff that was added for the dvd was probably finished at greater-than-dvd resolution, maybe even full 2k, but those scenes exhibit aliasing and other issues compared to the rest of the blu-ray.

Author: RicOlie_2
Time: 18-Dec-2014 2:12 PM
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Fang Zei said:

The stuff that was added for the dvd was probably finished at greater-than-dvd resolution, maybe even full 2k, but those scenes exhibit aliasing and other issues compared to the rest of the blu-ray.

Why do they have to be compared in order to exhibit those issues? ;)

Author: Mike O
Time: 19-Dec-2014 1:36 AM (Edited)
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So, no official line on this? I have to admit that the rumor sounded too good to be true, but I guess we'll see. I'd comb the thread, but the forum software is still such that I can't go through my old posts and then align to where they are in threads like I can on most other forums, follow a user, search for specific things, etc, and have come to the conclusion that this is just the software we're going to be stuck with :p. I'm just popping back in, I guess. It's late, hopefully this post is semi-coherent.

And why do we have no search function?! Seriously, we're stuck in the Usenet era :p.

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Author: AntcuFaalb
Time: 19-Dec-2014 1:41 AM
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Mike O said:

So, no official line on this? I have to admit that the rumor sounded too good to be true, but I guess we'll see. I'd comb the thread, but the forum software is still such that I can't go through my old posts and then align to where they are in threads like I can on most other forums, follow a user, search for specific things, etc, and have come to the conclusion that this is just the software we're going to be stuck with :p. I'm just popping back in, I guess. It's late, hopefully this post is semi-coherent.

Nothing definitive yet, unfortunately. :o/

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Author: GlastoEls
Time: 19-Dec-2014 6:17 AM
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To be fair though you wouldn't expect anything to be announced yet.

Possibly at Star Wars Celebration for an autumn release?

Author: TV's Frink
Time: 19-Dec-2014 6:54 AM
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Mike O said:

So, no official line on this? I have to admit that the rumor sounded too good to be true, but I guess we'll see. I'd comb the thread, but the forum software is still such that I can't go through my old posts and then align to where they are in threads like I can on most other forums, follow a user, search for specific things, etc, and have come to the conclusion that this is just the software we're going to be stuck with :p. I'm just popping back in, I guess. It's late, hopefully this post is semi-coherent.

And why do we have no search function?! Seriously, we're stuck in the Usenet era :p.

Put on your Google Goggles.

Author: DuracellEnergizer
Time: 19-Dec-2014 7:21 AM
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The Googles do nothing!*

*Well, not entirely true -- searching the forums by way of Google is, more-or-less, satisfactory. Still, it is far less than perfect.