Attack Of The Clones - upscaled deleted scenes

Hello all,

I have upscaled the eight deleted scenes from the Attack Of The Clones NTSC DVD; each video is a H.264 1920x1080 MKV, with 5.1 AC-3 audio, plus each video comes with captions (subtitles). If you’re after these videos, send me a private message and I’ll send you a link.
Here are some screen-shots from each video:

Padme addressing the senate:
This scene has a lot of compression artifacts, which are most visible when looking at Captain Typho. I did three separate upscales, and combined them into one final video. I have also removed the green tint from the deleted scene, so it matches the final film.

Obi-Wan in the Jedi Temple analysis room:

Obi-Wan and Mace on the landing platform:

Padme & Anakin with Dooku:

Padme & Anakin arrive on Naboo:

Padme & Anakin on trial:

Padme & Anakin chat in her bedroom:

Amidala family dinner:

DarthTzetzo said:

Great! Are you planning to finish the extended scene of Django’s death?

Yes, I have plans to finish off that scene. It got put on hold so I could finish my AOTC edit, as well as the AOTC deleted scenes and other projects I’m doing. The scene is around 85% complete; all of the SFX has been finished, a new background plate has been done, plus I rotoscoped Mace and Jango from the deleted scene on the Blu-ray bonus disc, and started on the final VFX.

What is left to do is to animate the leg of the background Super Battle Droid (so it’s not a static image), add in Mace’s Lightsaber, do a colour-correction on Mace and Jango so that they blend in better with the new background plate, plus finish off how Jango dies. I do want to have Jango’s left arm to be sliced off by Mace, however doing that would add a considerable amount of extra work to the scene…It may well be easier to leave his arm unharmed! In order to make the scene different to the original, it would be good to have his arm sliced off though…I’ll see what I can do!

Here is a sample image, showing what I last got up to — the VFX is unfinished, plus no colour correction has been done. This image is not the final version – this is a test image only!

O00ll00O said:

Have you considered talking with Hal9000? Your up-scales are a massive jump in quality, nice work!

Thanks for your kind words! I haven’t spoken with Hal9000, but of course I would be more than happy to share the upscales with him! I’ll send him a message now.

Dazman said:

I think your “mad scientist” extensive testing on upscaling the deleted scenes has really paid off!

Hahaha I like the sound of “mad scientist”!

That detail on Obi-wan’s face on the landing platform for example is pretty unreal. I made some comparisons and believe that you have achieved a new gold standard on upscaling these.

Thanks very much! I really appreciate that! 😃

The shots that no upscale can unfortunately make look good are the establishing shots that are very low detail/ poorly rendered in the original footage (senate dome, Naboo shots). But some detail adding/guessing AI could help improve those.

Yeah it’s a shame that the backgrounds were never properly finished. I think that fans with experience in Blender and VFX software such as Nuke would be able to replace the backgrounds, however it’s a mammoth task.
I did some tests with rotoscoping the landing platform scene with Obi-Wan and Mace, to see if a different background could then be inserted. To say that rotoscoping is a nightmare of a job would be the understatement of the year haha! I’ll have to leave that job to the VFX professionals!

I would be interested in getting these if you could drop me a link?

Yes of course! I will send you a link shortly. 😃

O00ll00O said:

Hey Phase3, what do you think about a color correction like this for the Obi/Mace scene?

Or do you prefer a warmer look?

Mate that looks fantastic! 😃 The only reason that I left the colours untouched on the deleted scenes, was so that other people could then adjust the colours as they see fit. I would love to see what other people do with the deleted scenes!

The only scene that I adjusted the colours on was Padme addressing the senate, as that had a green tint applied to it, which I removed. I also adjusted the shadow levels and highlights on the scene of Padme & Anakin on trial, as a majority of the details in that scene were far too dark and not really visible.

For my own AOTC edit, I have left the colours on the Obi-Wan & Mace scene as they are, however I may revisit it, as the cooler colours really look great.

DarthTzetzo said:

Phase3, it would be great if you consider upscaling the deleted scenes from The Clone Wars movie as well. 😃

I can take a look at those scenes, and see what condition they’re in. Is there much demand for upscaled Clone Wars deleted scenes?
I’m finishing up upscaling the TPM and ROTS deleted scenes first though, but after that I will play my Blu-ray disc and take a look at them. 😃

DarthTzetzo said:

I think there were 4 or 5 deleted scenes. I only had the movie on DVD, but it got damaged last year. I hope the quality of the scenes are better on blu-ray and upscaling is possible.

I took a look at the deleted scenes on the Blu-ray disc, and the quality is really good. Upscaling might make the images a bit sharper, but I don’t think that upscaling is really necessary for those scenes, as the image quality isn’t bad.