If you’re not familiar with the format in which this preservation will be delivered, I have some very bad news for you.
I T ’ S M A D E O F P I X E L S .
(MySpleen is private.)
It does suffer from not having Despecialized’s colour correction, even if you said that one needed improvement.
Also if you were a little less rude/dismissive you could just ask someone for a MySpleen invitation (in the appropriate thread) and you’d probably get one.
Harmy’s point isn’t that it’s better, but definitely more authentic. He’s repeatedly stated that the Despecialized Edition, though put together with love and care and the highest quality sources available, is still a patchwork effort, one whose seams you can easily spot if you’re familiar enough with his process. This might be the GOUT-sourced sandcrawler or X-wings, or–one which sticks out to me and will probably be fixed in the next version–the looping crowd animation when the Falcon blasts out of Mos Eisley because some frames were missing. Team Negative1’s preservation is a straight up, unaltered 35mm print. There were some splices and replacement shots but they’re 1. unnoticeable and 2. from the same definition source.
They’re two different beasts. Harmy’s has sharper image quality for the most part because the vast majority of it is sourced from the official Blu Ray, which in turn was mastered from the original negative, whereas Team Negative1’s preservation comes from a theatrical print which is a couple generations removed from the negative and has more grain and thus slightly less detail–not too much less, though; furthermore, it has scratches, reel change marks and still some dirt. Team Negative1’s version is, however, a more visually consistent work.
EDIT: Harmy, being the one in charge of his own project, put what I was saying much more succinctly.
This is one of the coolest preservations/edits I’ve heard of. Good to know there’s at least one version of the film immune to spreading the vocal cord parasite.
(Sorry, couldn’t resist a MGSV dig.)
I’m noticing that lights and reflections are “streaked,” like it was a slow exposure and their luminescence is trailing off a little. It’s especially noticeable when Artoo and Threepio are in the sandcrawler. Is this the result of overexposure in the scan or is it native to the print or negative?
EDIT: Here’s an example of what I’m talking about.
In terms of detail, I’d say the only real edge the official Blu Ray has on this preservation is when it comes to showing skin pores on the actors. We don’t need to see Hamill’s spots anyway.
I’m watching this now. Ideally I would get my hands on a Blu Ray burner rather than running it to my TV from my laptop (the latter of which has difficulties playing 1080p video), and those damned reel change marks still irk me, but this is a truly breathtaking preservation.
Things that really stand out to me: high definition shots of certain models or optical composites (like the Tantive IV being overtaken by the Star Destroyer–previously it could only be seen as a digital composite in the official version or GOUT-sourced in Harmy’s. Now it’s in its full, high res glory).
I often play the Star Wars movies on my laptop at night to lull me to sleep. It will be nice to have a version so authentic.
My inquiry about that reel 2 preview seems really paltry now. Can’t wait for this to finish downloading! Thanks for all the work.
I lost a bunch of video files when I loaded a restore point on my laptop. Is anyone able to upload the reel 2 preview somewhere? I have 1 and 3 and it would be cool to have the first half of the movie in a rough form. PM me please!
I missed something cool, didn’t I.
Mmmm, those are some juicy broken image links.
Will this be a similar level of detail to the Grindhouse version?
Whoa! I wasn’t expecting this so soon. I cannot wait.
You could release subpar versions of Star Wars and Jedi right now and everyone here would be overjoyed. We have seen your progress, we have a fairly good idea of what the end product will look like, and I for one would not be disappointed if there was a grindhouse to tide us over for a bit. I love the Empire grindhouse, even with the reel scratches and red shifted colours.
In short: C’mon. Camaaaaahhhhhnnnn.
cough Um, please.
If Rey is a self-sufficient scavenger she would probably have to learn astromech-speak as part of her trade. Makes about as much sense as Han being able to understand Chewie and vice versa.
I don’t know if this entirely puts the kibosh on the “Finn will die” rumours but he’s one of the four actors listed on IMDb’s Episode VIII page.
I absolutely hope Finn does not buy it. It would be a slap in the face to tons of black kids who might find a role model in Finn or John Boyega himself, especially when there’s a dearth of leading roles for black people due to discrimination in Hollywood. I would easily forgive plot holes or Abrams copy and pasting the story of the very first film, but killing Finn off before the end of this first movie would be an awful bait and switch.
That makes a ton more sense than it somehow being retrieved from the gas giant planet below.
Daaaaaaamn but does that preview look good. Fairly low contrast but that was the look of the first movie.
Look, if you're that desperate for cash I just want to let you know I'm open-minded.
I absolutely hope it doesn't look like Kershner would have shot it in the late '70s. The art of cinematography has come leaps and bounds since then, it would be utterly inane to keep this movie's camera work in the past just for the sake of nostalgia.
So am I past the window for watching this preview? If not, where do I go for this thing?
Oh, wait, I already did that. Never mind, I'll just go to that board.
EDIT: Wait, is it not the AMPSDeux board?
Alright, where do I subscribe to this damn thing?
