Star Wars: A New Hope DEVASTATOR EDITION (V.1 RELEASED - V.2 a WIP)

Hello, Star Wars fans!
This edit will be a mixture of the SE and the original version, with some additives, of course. The main source of this edit is the 2011 Blu-ray release, Color corrected by Adywan in 2018. I am hoping this edit will be a more purist version of the famous “Adywan Revisited”. All the basic info, including the change list, will be listed below.
-That Guy With No Name.

Sources:
Adywan’s Color Corrected 2011 Blu-ray (Was made in 2018).
4K77 (1080p) non DNR
4K78 (1080p) non DNR.
Hal 900’s custom special edition.
ANH/ESB Revisited.
Many 35mm cell scans and screenshots.

Tools (software Etc.):
Video Editing Software: Davinci Resolve 17.
Audio Editing Software: Audacity.
Color Matching software (for matching 4k77 to blu-ray): Dr dre’s color match tool.
Color grading software: Davinci Resolve 17 Studio.
Dust and scratches removal: Neat video 5.0

When released:
File: MKV.
Size: 72.9GB (ProRes) 15GB (H.264)
Resolution: 1920x818 ProRes, 24 fps. (there will be an H.264 encode as well)
Audio Tracks: New 5.1 mix (english)
Subtitles: only English

Video changes:

MAIN:
.New lasers/muzzle flashes.
.Smoothed jump-cuts.
.Continuity fixes.
.Color correction
.Re-edited some scenes.
.slight lightsaber enhancements.

Specific:
.New 20th century fox logo borrowed from ESB:R
.New tatooine matte and removed blue haze from star destroyers egnies.
.The Tantive can be seen moving faster to match the previous speed.
.The laser that hits the Tantive has been re-positioned to hit the right spot.
.Artoo now flashes red and blue as he does in ESB and ROTJ.
.Lowered the intensity of the red flashes.
.One of the officers gets shot but no flash appears, That has been fixed.
.this same officer also accidentally shoots a laser out of the scope, That also has been fixed.
.fixed a jump cut where you can suddenly see a trooper has fallen.
.A laser bolt has been added to the officer that originally fell behind Threepio.
.Artoo now retracts his hand in a long shot (overwriting a bit of the next shot).
.The escape pod. now moves faster and goes down instead of up.
.New VFX for the shot of the officers arguing about the escape pod.
.The inside of the escape pod now glows blue.
.The pod hatch now has motion blur.
.cloudy skies on Tatooine have been replaced with real skies from Tunisia.
.Inside the Sandcrawler has been replaced with the 2019 Blu-ray for better quality.
.Threepio’s “switching eyes” have been corrected.
.The original Dewback scene has been reverted to its original timing. (thank Hal for this)
.All mistakes or continuity errors at the Lars homestead. have been fixed.
.Scan lines have been added to the Leia hologram.
.The rocks in front of Artoo have been removed
.The hut scene has been re-edited.
(And many more changes too much to list.)

Audio changes:
.Music cues all over the movie have changed.
.New Tantive Iv alarm.
.The officers now scream as they get shot, Instead of just opening their mouths.
.The blaster sound effect has been changed into one Uniform sound.
.There are now wind/desert sounds in all shots of Tatooine
.Lightsabers now have a uniform sound.

visual change list (WIP)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5kED5fe56duiLx639

Blu-ray case: (Criterion size)

ThatGuyWithNoName’s Plea for support:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTpL_yvwY_NtcO44c2tmQTsxM356lC95uKplvTgxNApYcpPHCjTtSCVH1uJioBpsLBc19UyI1eN8MvH/pub

Atom-88 said:

Sounds good ThatGuy, looking forward to your Gout preservation also.

Out of curiosity will you be fixing Vader’s chest control panel, so it has the blinking lights like ESB and ROTJ.

Sure, I was originally going to include that but I thought it would be too tacky.

Crossvader said:

Will you be upgrading the lightsaber effects? Especially the falcon training scene! I don’t understand why Lucas never fixed this in the special edition

Yes of course, I didn’t include that because I thought it would be self explanatory.

Also, here is the available clips:
Death Star explosion: https://youtu.be/Sxy1K3jcn8Q
Teaser: https://youtu.be/9NefNvy1zyA

Will you edit or change the lightsaber duel in any way? Not SC 38 Reimagined, although if you want to do that it’s fine. What I mean is are you gonna edit it kinda like Adywan did, with things like speeding the duel up or adding Battle of the Heroes? Also, will you keep the Jabba scene?

Also, cool title, DEVASTATOR EDITION. Has a nice ring to it. 😉

Grand Master_ Luke Flywalker said:

Will you edit or change the lightsaber duel in any way? Not SC 38 Reimagined, although if you want to do that it’s fine. What I mean is are you gonna edit it kinda like Adywan did, with things like speeding the duel up or adding Battle of the Heroes? Also, will you keep the Jabba scene?

The duel will be changed slightly, sped up in some scenes, and polished,
No music will be added though.
also, the Jabba scene is going to be pulverized.
Ps. “Devastator” is the name of the star destroyer at the beginning of the movie.

Ok, thanks for letting me know.

Done with the mos eisly scene:
https://mega.nz/file/TdwyEAYQ#aCPHocnbOD8wgwbTuSKqGoRC82q8SBvHbBcwQMC_jQA

Cool clip, glad you removed the Dewback walking across the screen. Why there is no audio? The same thing happened with the GOUT clip, except the GOUT clip had music.

Grand Master_ Luke Flywalker said:

Cool clip, glad you removed the Dewback walking across the screen. Why there is no audio? The same thing happened with the GOUT clip, except the GOUT clip had music.

I haven’t done the audio tracks yet, so that’s why you cant hear anything.

What was the process for that scene? Did you do any stitching of multiple sources or clean up a single source?

It’s probably a good sign I can’t tell.

Hal 9000 said:

What was the process for that scene? Did you do any stitching of multiple sources or clean up a single source?

It’s probably a good sign I can’t tell.

No stitching In this shot. I just replaced the shots that were altered with the 4k77 source.
I then cleaned it using PFClean. And color corrected it With Dr. Dre’s Color Match Tool.

I have finished about 21 minutes of the film and I am now at the tatooine shots (video-wise)
Everything is going great except for grain, Which is why I need Neat Video,
But for now, this will have to do, Have a great day.

Here is a short clip of how the laser beams will look like.
clip: https://mega.nz/file/rFgAFCJT#3b-qfmAJhtiUY_Ylic2kNoixh5InMeuoi959hG7W4bM

Those look amazing! I love how thick and red they are. Impressive. Most impressive.

Grand Master_ Luke Flywalker said:

Those look amazing! I love how thick and red they are. Impressive. Most impressive.

👍

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Atom-88 said:

Lasers and image look amazing That Guy👍

Thanks!

Thanks for all your support expect a clip soon!

Here it is: https://mega.nz/file/HFASVJTR#9KpuxlQHdMG6NZBsHNOmTly9TB87fT98S4MJo28Wi0g