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JehutyNinja said:

I can’t tell you how detrimental this movie was to my childhood

lol

Oh, certainly. Again, this is the sort of minutia that makes this a diversion from normal life.

My thought on this is the finished film presents a planet in the viewscreen, after an exterior establishing shot of “hey look we made it to that planet mentioned last time you saw us.” So having Tarkin with a blank starfield wouldn’t feel right unless you removed it from the exterior shot too. Which could work, but would be a level of divergence I don’t want to bring to bear on “Star Wars (1977)”. (See prior pushback to me considering deleting the line about Ben never owning a droid!)

This is the sort of minutia I come here for. However, it’s an academic point as I wouldn’t want to modify ANH in that way. Making the shot look better would be welcome, but not erasing the planet.

I could believe it may not have been in mind when writing the scene, but Ady’s certainly right that it was meant to be there at least by the time it was filmed. I never did notice how odd it makes things, though, for Leia standing there.

Good point. Not sure I’d want to remove it but good observation.

Not to speak for him but probably something along the lines of, “Because 1080p is really nice, I can’t perpetually update these things every seven years, and it’s a high upgrade from the DVD quality the project started as.”

Thanks, and I’ll give that a shot. I’ll see what source material I end up with by the time this goes out.

Yes I will, I only hadn’t already because I knew I was going to revise ANH.

And TMWNN, that sounds wonderful!

Hmm… I can’t imagine why that’d be the case. But I’ll keep it mind if anyone else corroborates.

How so?

Well, here’s my wish list. This includes things that probably are outside the realm of feasibility. It also includes a few things that are available via TMWNN’s v1 of his Devastator edition.

• Mos Eisley entrance - as much as possible to work with. The SE shot with the mirrored troopers sans extra pair of troopers, rat, or robot. The shot with the Jawa swinging from the Ronto, with those removed to be the original shot with the SE background. (I like how my cut has this sequence but it could be better.)
• The SE scene where Luke reunites with Biggs has R2 jump upward where they removed some lines. Since it’s a SE inclusion it’s a prime target for improvement. Adywan has done this already, so when it’s released in HD I may cull this from that.
• Make R2’s blinking red/blue light work, as the original prop was broken. Adywan has done this but his will be the 2011 source. TMWNN has done a lot of this, but not the trickier shots where there’s a lot of motion.
• Removing Yavin IV from the first shot of the Battle of Yavin. Adywan has done this also, so perhaps when Revisited appears in HD.
• That one weird shot where Vader has been brightened in the Death Star hallway. I believe Dat_SW_Guy has done this.
• The Falcon needs its radar dish in its first appearance.
• The crap Alderaan image out the Death Star window, as fixed way back by Darth Editous.
• TMWNN’s version of the droids outside the cantina spotting troopers, removing the foreground CG dewback but leaving the background one.
• Remove extra vaporators in a SE wide shot of the sandcrawler parked outside the homestead that disappear later (or add them to that shot).
• Use TMWNN’s or Dat_SW_Guy’s Alderaan explosion to avoid the added shockwave I don’t like.

ROTJ has been updated and is available now in the usual places. DrDre’s color matching tool has allowed me to make the Lapti Nek, Death Star II explosion, and ‘Yub Nub’ scenes closer to blending in seamlessly. I remain open to revising it down the road if superior source material becomes available. If Adywan presents a color-corrected ROTJ I’d be glad to update this with it.

ANH will come in time. I await TMWNN’s forthcoming project to fix up the 19SE and color correct it to be close to Adywan’s work on the 2011 BluRay. I plan to publish an update before then, with only minimal color tweaks from the OTD-19SE primary source, and redo it whenever that is ready. I’ll post updates here as I go, as there may be a few things yet that I could use some help with.

FWIW I agree. If the original shot of some speeders and people going by that originally opened the scene didn’t have so many foreground antics added in, I’d like to use a version of it without the silliness but with the SE backdrop so it fits in a bit better. I’m not unhappy with what’s in my current version, but it’s an area ripe for improving upon.

There’s a lot to love there! R2’s blinky lights are spot on. I like the shot comparison inside the sandcrawler; it looks like the R2 prop were repaired on set and working properly.

I don’t care unless they’re 4K.

It’s rewarding! Break a leg.

Doesn’t mean there can’t be mistakes to notice and be aware of; nothing is flawless.

If it’s official, there’s no problems, then?

Crossvader said:

Anyone have any idea if there is a colour corrected version of the 2019 Blu-ray Release of Return of the Jedi?

There’s OhTeeDee’s. I’ve got a LUT that makes it look better overall, but I honestly don’t remember at this point who provided me with it.

Yeah, if the aqua tint wasn’t there so strong I probably wouldn’t have felt the need to do this. It’s beyond me to remove it completely, but it’s at a pretty good happy medium between OhTeeDee and Adywan(‘s 1997 Reconstruction).

Only to correspond to using the SE (and Adywan) version of the expanded windows in one scene.

And including a natively ProLogic II stereo track as a bonus.

Film preservation is often much more of a cobble job than you may realize. I think we all understand your opinion on things at this point, so why not direct your attention to threads belonging to projects you are interested in?

You’re barging into a thread for no reason other than to shit on something.

This project is quality work, even if it’s not your thing in particular. The only thing that may not be natively 1080p is the Emperor scene, and Adywan made it fit in rather nicely.

V5 of ESB is now available in the usual places. I am very pleased with how it turned out, very much thanks to DrDre’s color matching tool. If I do say so myself, it’s the best I’ve seen this movie look. It now feels truly complete, this project as far as ESB is concerned.