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#1657388
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Making our own 35mm preservation--my crazy proposal
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fanO.U.Tpreserver4K77 said:

Hello guys, I am new to this forum and recently have been doing a late of research on the original unaltered theatrical versions of Star Wars. I have also downloaded the Puggo Grande trilogy as an MP4 and I have watched it on my iMac’s QuickTime Player. I have enjoyed watching the trilogy however it kind of really upsets me how they’re only in a 480p video quality. I got the idea that I could use sowtware and programs such as iMovie, DaVinci Resolve Studios, etc. to upscale the videos to 4K or even 8K if possible and use the upscales as digital high quality raw print scans to create my own preservation. I own the 2019 digital Blu-Ray version of the trilogy and the 1997 Special Edition Fullscreen VHS tapes that are almost in mint condition. I also plan to by getting a copy of the 1995 VHS tapes boxset. I have been inspired by old post made by Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda, team_negative1, Harmy, Laserman, Zion, etc. I plan to make this fan preservation the same quality as, if possible better than, Harmy’s Despecialized Edition. This is a dream come true for me, however in order to do this it’s going to take a lot of money, I estimate $200,000 give or take. First I need to get 12TB iCloud+ since I’m going to be doing this on my iMac. Not to mention expensive of the shelf software. When I finishing the preservation (If I even do it, life is hard) I plan on buying a PC and transferring the preservation there and upscale it again. I plan on starting this project asap. However, I will need a lot of help and money to do this. If anybody has any helpful advice please let me know, thank you. Also if anybody has a new mint condition copy of the 1995 Star Wars VHS tapes boxset, please lot me know.

I… what? No. That’s not how anything works.

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#1644273
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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ThiscouldbeR2D2 said:

There is a subtle change made to R2 in this shot in the 2019 transfer, in case you didn’t know. Will you be using it for ANH:R HD? I know it’s not much of a change, but it’s still a change.

https://i.ibb.co/hxsCs4gL/IMG-1239.png

Probably a “fix” more than a “change”, I’m sure Ady would have done the same himself.

I have logged it for examination for VisComps.

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#1642306
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STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - ** PRODUCTION HAS NOW RESTARTED **
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asterisk8 said:

ThiscouldbeR2D2 said:

That guy with no name said:

ThiscouldbeR2D2 said:

Honestly, I’m starting to get very fearful right now.

What are you talking about? Are you ok?

Sorry, I just feel extremely worried about all these things that kept getting in the way of the Revisited edits being finished.

Pretty selfish viewpoint, no? Not “I’m worried about adywan” but “I’m worried I won’t get to see Revisited.”

To be fair, it’s entirely possible that Adywan has been working on Revisited for this user’s entire life. 😉

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#1628419
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STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - ** PRODUCTION HAS NOW RESTARTED **
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BedeHistory731 said:

I find it funny how the compositing error survived the 2004/11 SE and 2012/19 SE, given how much attention was paid to recompositing shots in ROTJ.

There are only a handful of space shots recomposited for any RotJ SE. I’ll spare the whole list, but overall they seem pleased with most of the VFX in RotJ.

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#1627074
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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Telion said:

doubleofive said:

I can’t believe I didn’t cover the dead end/hanger in my Wired article. In short, they had a hanger in 1976, they had stormtroopers, they could have done this if that was the plan. The same two troopers wearing the wrong helmet copy and pasted a hundred times was just proving that they could to this for the prequels if they wanted to for clones. Cutting the existing troopers out without the help of a bluescreen was a test to see if they needed to depend on bluescreens for the prequels. It’s a bad idea poorly executed only added to test prequel technology, just like most of the other SE changes.

OMG thats sooooo cool, haha it would be so funny to imagine hundreds of clones just coping 2 or three peoples actions over and over. Your link doesn’t work btw

Fixed the link.

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#1626948
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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I can’t believe I didn’t cover the dead end/hanger in my Wired article. In short, they had a hanger in 1976, they had stormtroopers, they could have done this if that was the plan. The same two troopers wearing the wrong helmet copy and pasted a hundred times was just proving that they could to this for the prequels if they wanted to for clones. Cutting the existing troopers out without the help of a bluescreen was a test to see if they needed to depend on bluescreens for the prequels. It’s a bad idea poorly executed only added to test prequel technology, just like most of the other SE changes.

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#1620364
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STAR WARS: EP V &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - <strong>12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW</strong>
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timdiggerm said:

doubleofive said:

G&G-Fan said:

Is there a visual comparisons for ESB:R? There are so many changes that it’s almost hard to spot them all.

Ady said he was going to do one because he didn’t think anyone but him could do it. So I was leaving it to him!

Maybe we (“the community”) should start on one anyway. Wouldn’t want to slow his progress down on the other films!

Maybe I will, as is my custom.

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#1595885
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❗ <strong>#ReleaseTheOriginalTrilogy</strong> | OriginalTrilogy.com’s enduring goal | How <strong>you</strong> can help ❗
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Advertising costs money. And the hashtag is #ReleaseTheOriginalTrilogy. It’s in the title of this thread. It’s been in use for years. I sell merch with the text on it.

You’re not inventing anything new or trying something the rest of us haven’t. Literally half of this thread is Jason describing what people should do.

You can use whatever hashtag you want, but don’t harass people with it, and don’t think it’ll make a difference. I had a popular Twitter account and wrote a 20 page article for Wired.com establishing the #ReleaseTheOriginalTrilogy hashtag and very few people but me EVER used it.

Hashtags aren’t the answer. It’s convincing a company to go against the wishes of its founder, which no tweet is going to fix. Most people who work for the company agree with us, but it doesn’t change the fact that ultimately they don’t want to go against Lucas.

I just don’t want you or anyone else to re-invent the wheel and think we’ll end up somewhere different.

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#1595738
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❗ <strong>#ReleaseTheOriginalTrilogy</strong> | OriginalTrilogy.com’s enduring goal | How <strong>you</strong> can help ❗
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My feeling after years of study is that Lucas doesn’t want to be reminded of work he wasn’t happy with at the time and only reminds him of what he lost. Every movie he swore it was the last and that he and Marcia could settle down after, but by the time RotJ was done, she was gone.

Doesn’t change the fact that it’s film history and should be preserved, but I get his hesitation now.

It’s not spite, it’s regret.