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Today I have been able to finish watching ESB. I was really thrilled when hearing things like "Bring my shuttle" and Clive Revill's and Jason Wingreen's voice.

Even though many colors are off, some do feel right to me, even without correction.

Overall, it has been a great experience watching the original ESB from 35mm copies in HD and without any restoration.

I really want to thank all current and former members of Team_Negative1 big time for making this possible. I've had every confidence that you could pull it off and my confidence has been justified. I can't wait to see the original Star Wars and RotJ from 35mm copies in HD. :)

I second that. Your project sounds quite promising. :)

I've watched the first few minutes and I am amazed. Despites being unrestored, this looks even better than the Special Edition DVD. I can't thank you enough for this wonderful christmas present.

And including those trailers is a wonderful bonus. :)

Is it just me or does the unflickering version have more detail?

Whatever the news will be, I'm looking forward to it. :)

FanFiltration said:

Synnöve said:

FanFiltration said:

I wish I could do a HD version with the corrections included. 

I just don't know anything about the newer ripping methods, video codecs, and how they work with Windows 7.  My SLV version was done on an old Windows XP computer.

FF

 

If you want I can provide you with the assets I'm using; I have all the non-theatrical SD footage ripped, de-interlaced, upscaled, and denoised in 422 ProRes (I still need to remove all the dirt from the footage); In addition to your analog track I'm in the process of securing a bit-perfect rip of another SLV LD that had a PCM track (it was a Japanese disc); and I have the HDTV broadcast, Blu-Ray, and both trailers (which contain some extra shots, such as the "smirk" from Chapel) in 175X DNxHD.

This should be enough to reconstruct your edit using any popular NLE software, as well as the latest Davinci Resolve which has some editing functionality.

 WOW!  You know I am seriously considering doing this. It would have to be started after the New Year holiday. I would start sometime in January, and hope for it to be finished by Easter.  How does that sound?

FF

 That would be cool.

Btw I'd like to offer the German VHS audio track, which I've offered to Synnöve, to you as well. Would you be interested?

I have the German VHS release of the TV-Version of ST:TMP. Would you like to have the audio track from it?

This looks great. That red-brownish grain gives off a certain warm and antique feeling.

The 97 Special Editions were also dubbed in German.

I must say that the colors are very good. I think if this scene needs color correction, then it's only minor.

You know, those theatrical prints have a far different feeling than all those home video releases. I really enjoy that. :)

Agreed. I also prefer "Lapti Nek" over "Jedi Rocks".But regarding the puppets in Jabba's palace: Despites certain weaknesses, they convinced me more than their CGI-counterparts did. That's one reason why I've requested to see the "Lapti Nek"-footage from the 35mm print.

It's nice to see the original Salacc again.

I've just noticed those cables to Han's right of the bottom screenshot. I don't remember seeing them in RotJ. Have I always missed them for some reason?

Something which would interest me is the original Sy Snoodles puppet from the original Lapti Nek scene. I'm especially interested in seeing how the puppet holds up compared to its CGI-counterpart in HD.

team_negative1 said:

We have all the contact information, so when the time is right, we will send you emails about getting a bluray or DVD version of it. No expense on your part. All you will need to do is confirm your address, and be confidential about it and not share it, until it is ready. If you agree not to share, but still do so, you will barred from getting Empire, and Jedi and other future releases we have planned. We will also take preventative measures.

 Also, will you ship the movies internationally or only in the US?

If you're interested, Jonathan Ross' guide to First Contact on VHS was also released in German:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzpLu6cNgic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBT3TwqEX9E

Awesome!

I've just watched the trailers and I enjoyed watching them despite many of the unfitting voice-overs. You all did a fine job in preserving them. :)

Also, is it just me or do the colors in those trailers look better than on the Special Edition DVDs?

I agree.

Thanks for sharing the links. The first one is very interesting to read. I think it's a good analasys of the situation regarding the unaltered movies. That's another reason why I fully support Team_Negative1's efforts to restore the unaltered movies.

CatBus said:

In other news, if anyone wants these subs for a 1080p preservation, I've just improved the upscaling process and it now produces great-looking results.  These will be included in the next release, but I don't know of any critical need for 1080p subs right now, so unless I hear otherwise, I'll sit on them until I get some more changes.

 Well, I think, now that Team Negative1's 35mm preservations are around the corner,  those 1080p subtitles would come in handy for those preservations. :)

Very nice. :)

I'e got a question: Have you also considered tracking down, scanning and restoring Star Wars reels in other languages, like German?

Wow, I'm really impressed. This makes me even more looking forward to the OUT in HD. :)

Maybe that's something which Team Negative1 could use, even with the pink shift.

Back when the unaltered Movies were shown, I wasn't born yet. However, I still grew up with the originals on VHS-Tapes. (It's not that I hate the special editions, but there are still many changes which I disagree with.) My brothers used to watch the unaltered Star Wars movies with me many times and they used to play X-Wing and TIE Fighter with me. (I still play them nowadays) We love Star Wars.

Since the originals are part of my childhood, too and since I disagree with many of the changes and the refusal to officially restore and release the originals, I strongly support this project.

I don't have much experience with movie preservation yet (except digitizing VHS-Tapes on PCs) but I'm willing to learn new things.

And since there are Star Wars fans in many different countries and even ones who are hard of hearing or deaf, it would be nice to have different language audiotracks and subtitles. So I'm willing to contribute the german audiotrack and the subtitles from my GOUT-DVD once it is decided to include them in this project, too. (I've done some research on how to extract subtitles and audiotracks from DVDs)

I agree with AntcuFaalb. :)

Btw what about subtitles? Are there plans to include them, too? If you wish, I can contribute the subtitles of my german GOUT DVD to this project. The subtitles it includes are in English, Spanish and German and there are also german subtitles for hearing impaired people.

That sounds very good. I'm looking forward to it. :)