I heard rumors a while back about a digital transfer of Episode I scheduled for release. Does anyone know anything about this?
Reason I ask is that when editing this for my own fan edit, shrinking it makes it really suck compared to other DVDs. The rest are either digital or digitally remastered. Not so with TPM. Thanks for the info.
I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently.
I realy, REALY hope so! Rob Coleman confirmed at the ROTS DVD press event that they had already replaced the puppet Yoda with the CG one for TPM, so I guess a digital transfer would follow. Yeah, the curent transfer does have a lot of flaws, which show up painfuly when viewed on a plasma TV. The edge enhancement is horible, there are specks of dirt, a small but visible amount of grain, etc. It's quite interesting that ANH has a beter tranfer to DVD than TPM does. But I'm sure they'l get John Lowry to do "the process" on it for the 2007 archival editions.
Originally posted by: Hal 9000 I heard rumors a while back about a digital transfer of Episode I scheduled for release. Does anyone know anything about this?
Reason I ask is that when editing this for my own fan edit, shrinking it makes it really suck compared to other DVDs. The rest are either digital or digitally remastered. Not so with TPM. Thanks for the info.
Episode II and III were filmed with digital cameras, so there was a direct digital to digital transfer for their dvd's. Episode I was not filmed digitally, so hence they did a film to digital transfer. It's still digital on DVD just like episode's I and II, it just didn't come from a digital source. You don't need a digital transfer anyway, there are tons of films that look as good as Episodes II and III and were not filmed digitally. Episode I just needs a new, better transfer. I can't see though how they could ever do a true digital transfer as the original elements or film based.
Most of Ep I was shot on 35mm, but there was a little bit shot digitally. I can't remember which portions were done digitally, but it was literally two or three shots. I want to say the overhead establishing shot of the Mos Espa stadium miniature was one, but don't quote me on that. I'm pretty sure that somewhere on the DVD or possibly in that issue of Cinefex it was revealed where the digicam was used.
