Bobson Dugnutt

Wicketthewarrick said:

I want a fanedit of the Star Wars Prequels, etc…

Glad to see you aren’t giving up on your vision.

Sorry but this just looks bad.

I cannot determine your exact goal but it looks like you’ve mixed a VHS Tape with the GOUT and then rendered it with a super low bitrate.

If this makes you happy then sure, but I cannot imagine sitting down and watching this odd mismatch when there’s lovely high-def film scans done of the 97SEs.

Director said:

you can have access to them too if you find the website I downloaded them from. it’s been some time and I never wrote it down so.

Director said:

Bobson Dugnutt said:

Also, I still don’t believe you that these 2012 Swedish 35mm scans from either 1996 or 1997 or 1998, or whatever year you keep moving them to, are real. Why has no one else heard of them before?

because they are fan made and private? why are you so insisting here?

Because as far as I am aware, or anyone else for that matter, fanscans of films didn’t really start appearing online until late 2016, with the Silver Screen Edition. TN-1 started work on them in 2012-ish, but nothing complete got posted until 2016.

If there was scans done in 2012, even of the 97SEs, this site would of known about it, they would of been great sources for Despecialised and other restorations and fanedits.

If they were real scans, and this was a real unique project, you would show them off to everyone and shut everyone up and prove them wrong. Yet you haven’t. Why?

Posted this on FE but may as well double dip.

Of course this isn’t my edit, but after seeing all the comments saying that the first episode should open with Cass and the Ring of Kafrene, before transitioning into the Jyn flashback to 15 BBY, I had a crack at doing just that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdnG3S-kwYk

Dave. said:

Maybe you should give up and start your own project instead of trying to fix blocky pixels or whatever on a scan that already exists. If the Blocky Moments get on your nerves so much, maybe you should just watch the Blu-ray. It’s not a big deal. What’s done is done. Move on.

love that norbit movie lol the waterslide scene is the best! when are we gonna get a good open matte scan of that lmao

Director said:

I am using several sources because the colours in most restorations are incorrect.

Incorrect according to what? What are you using as your colour reference that shows every other release as incorrect?

Also, I still don’t believe you that these 2012 Swedish 35mm scans from either 1996 or 1997 or 1998, or whatever year you keep moving them to, are real. Why has no one else heard of them before?

Director said:

the sources of this preservation are clear, but there were, I am unsure if still are, debates of this.

I used only one source for each movie. The first movie’s source comes from a 1997 print. seemingly the same master was used for 4K97-4, but I am not sure, the scrathes are similar to 4K97-4 but I am not sure is it the same master.

The second movie: I used a print from 1998. It has colours in the other side of the image, but I am once again not sure why.

The third movie: it has rounded corners, I am not sure why, but some debated it was from 4K97, which it is not from.

I assume this was edited and added in the past few days. A wonderful non-answer that contridicts previous statments.
If you aren’t just using some weird edit of 4k97, then you aren’t making it easy for yourself.

Bobson Dugnutt said:

What is the source of this “restoration”? You have previously mentioned that it’s based on some late 90s prints, that were scanned in 2012, with the original files being over 200gb but you insist on working in 480p.

Director said:

to the 2012 scans, they absolutely are real scans. I don’t remember talking about 200GB sizes, but could be wrong. I will look into it if you find a message about that.

Director said:

The files were converted to mp4 with resolution lowered since the original files were almost 200 GB each, they were not mp4 originally, but I made them since mp4 is the easiest format. And I have no much to say about it right now

1. What is the source of this “restoration”? You have previously mentioned that it’s based on some late 90s prints, that were scanned in 2012, with the original files being over 200gb but you insist on working in 480p.

2. Why has no one else ever heard of these scans from 2012, and why do you insist on working from them rather than any other better print that has come out since? You said that the 4k97 scans have bad colour?

3. Why haven’t you shown any visuals from your “restoration”?

4. What is your goal with this project?

Still confused about everything to do with this “project” as many questions still remain unanswered. Glad to see you haven’t given up on doing whatever it is that you do.

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I mean there can’t and won’t be noise removal since it’s a digitally produced program. Likely what you’re seeing is probably just due to resolution issues. Maybe your Disney+ stream just isn’t fast enough to show the full 1080p stream. The DVDs are also only just 480p too. I assume you’re comparing them to the full bitrate Blu-Rays or something.

hinventon said:
Then phase 6 could maybe look like this:

3. Blade

Mk_9000 said:

So far I’ve reached out to almost every active editor that has an edit on here to double check if they want a direct link to their fanedit, or to link to PM them, if they don’t want to give control.

You clearly didn’t since my edits are listed there, some unatributed to me.

Rarydem7 said:

Forgive my ignorance, but I remember reading somewhere, maybe it was reddit I can’t remember exactly, that Bobson and Numeral are the same person?

Can confirm I am Bobson Dugnutt

Mocata said:

JediUncut said:

This project is sadly cancelled.

I still don’t know what the project was, but this part was pretty funny.

This guy wanted to do a scene-by-scene recreation of Return of the Jedi, with every scene being remade by a different fan or group of fans, similar to how it was done by the Star Wars Uncut project in 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Uncut

Except that he had no idea how to do anything to get the ball rolling. He was trying to recruit people to do literally everything because it appeared he didn’t know how.

After that, he changed his Youtube with plans to do a similar recreation of the Youtube Geek Week 2013 Interactive Adventure? Whatever the hell that is, anyway that was cancelled too.

Long live Jedi Uncut, we hardly knew ye.

This is going to be released in 4-5 months and you’re looking for people to code a website first?

The user was banned from TSWT Forum for failing to communicate with donors and moderators and failing to release any kind of full preview after 2 years. As far as I know, he is currently working on it privately with no timeline for release.

There is another scan that has been done by desertfox on TSWT, with a full preview being available, which is likely the one on Myspleen you are talking about.

CamSMurph said:

I wonder why the editor was banned?

Have a look at his last 3 posts from 6 years ago and it will answer your question

Director said:

Well, it seems you have more questions than I can answer inside a thread,

Why? Is there a character limit or something?

Director said:

I do not wish to use any TN1 scans due to their scans having bad colour that would require me to spend another 5 years.

Another 5 years? I thought you started working on this in “November 2023” as per your current original post.

Arguably, you are wasting your time by working with such a low quality source, being this mysterious scan done in 2012 that no one has ever heard of that looks more like the GOUT.

And yeah, look at those bad colours. Terrible, unusable. Definitely better to use some “unknown scan from 12 years ago in SD” (GOUT) rather than a fresh HD scan.

Yeah I still don’t understand what this project is, nor what the goal is.

There was no wide release of the OT in 1996. The SE was 97.

No one is familiar with any 35mm scan of the SE OT being done in 2012. Certainly not from an anon user on “a Swedish site”. As far as I know, no 35mm SW scans were released until at least 2016 with the SSE.

If a scan was released on a swedish site, then wouldn’t it be from a swedish user, scanning a swedish print of the Stjärnornas Krig Trilogin? All the crawls and credits you show off are in English, not swedish.

You say it was discoloured so you “corrected to look like it was in 1997”, what’s your source on colour reference?

And why is this in 480p? You insist that “the films were 480p in 1997” but clearly a cinema print of a brand new $20 million restoration of the most successful films of all time would not be in standard definition.

Also, why do this in SD too? There are at least a dozen scans of the OT that have been done in the past few years. Why use a “35mm film print from 1996, scanned to digital in 2012” that is apparently only in 480p. Why not use 4K97_IV or any other high quality sources?

I get more questions than answers from this thread.

Off the top of my head;

• the Rebels hid in a giant ice fortress, supposed to be an ancient abandoned castle of some kind
• A lot more of the Hoth sequences focused on the Wampa attacks on the base
• after leaving Hoth, they went to find Han’s stepfather, a head smuggler who sells them out instead of Lando
• Yoda is called Minch Yoda
• Luke trains with the ghosts of Obi-Wan and his father (not Vader) and Minch Yoda on Dagobah
• Vader is not Luke’s father
• In a different draft, Lando was a clone left over from the Clone Wars

These are all half baked memories and I’m unsure how accurate they are

I believe it was shot on a sort of Anamorphic film, making it impossible for there to be any more image than what is shown on the Blu-Ray.

A beta release of v2 is now available for anyone that would like to watch and give feedback. I don’t want to widely release yet, but if you want to sit down and give some critiques and spot any errors in these cuts. They should be 99% done, but I’ve been staring at this for a while and can’t be subjective anymore.

Please shoot me a message if you have 5-ish hours of free time! Not in a row, the edit is still split into 13-parts of course.