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That looks great!

That guy with no name said:

new clip, cool idea? or should it be left out?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LtisXHOaCNtUP6GF5UMT2AXSU_C-Wy_Q/view?usp=sharing
audio is still a wip

This is a fantastic idea!

That guy with no name said:

An example of how good an image can be yielded if you just work hard enough to fix 4k77’s shortcomings.
no power windows, no qualifiers. pure full frame manual cc. and amazing grain reduction and regraining. not to mention the hours of manual cleanup.

Looking at each of these photos and video clips, it’s clear that you have managed to extract a lot more detail that was previously obscured. Nicely done! 😃

Great work on adjusting the colours!

Yeah, definitely! It’s a great idea, and lets the audience know that he got away.

That guy with no name said:

what do you guys think of Vader going into hyperspeed? is it a good idea?

That looks fantastic! 😃

The colours look great; I didn’t see any artefacts or any visual issues at all. Nicely done!

That’s very interesting! Over the last few years I’ve heard many attempts at recreations, but your version is the first I’ve heard with the audio from the ‘From Star Wars to Jedi’ documentary. Nicely done!

Very nice colours!

That guy with no name said:

Williarob said:

Here’s my quick attempt at restoring the Tosche Station scenes:

https://vimeo.com/912082416?share=copy

this looks incredible!
I’ve done a preliminary color correction over the whole scene with some shot-for-shot sprinkled in.
this is just preliminary and is still a WIP. it’ll get better when Williarob releases a better quality final version.
https://youtu.be/uAx0wuhn4AQ?si=FCV0Zns1q83-yOaS
edit: top: Original Bottom: Corrected

mrbenja0618 said:

I’m interested if you could toss me a link. Thanks… And yes, I’ll take an older cut if that’s what you have. =)

I just saw your message now sorry! I seem to only receive about 50% of notifications. I’ll send you a PM.

If anyone is after this (soon to be revised) edit, please send me a PM, as notifications don’t always work.

The technology already exists; there are people already doing amazing restoration work on deleted scenes.

Is the Episode V Revisited “Canon Friendly” audio mix still available? I’d love to use it in an edit! 😃

I just watched the preview video for v2; the colours look great - did you adjust the engine glow for the Falcon? If so, it’s a nice touch!

It was also great to see the moving starfield in the cockpit shot of the Falcon, as well as the radar dish in the docking bay scene, but the best of all was the manoeuvres Han does to evade the Star Destroyer!

One thing I did notice was the SE audio during the search for the droids; you can still hear the small patrol droid’s sounds from the SE, however no droid is visible on-screen.

The revised colours look fantastic; I also noticed the new background, the new blaster effects, and the Probe Droid steadily moving – all of which look great!

Adywan:
Do you have any plans on changing the Lightsaber that Artoo shoots out to Luke during the Sail Barge sequence? The close-up shot shows the stunt Lightsaber, with the completely flat top, whereas the ‘hero’ Lightsaber has the emitter piece at the top.
It’s only a very small detail (and is on-screen for a very short time), however I was simply curious as to whether or not you’ll change this detail.

Amazing colour grading work by the way – it genuinely looks amazing!

That’s looking great! 😃

Thanks CatBus - I’m glad to hear that! 😃

Thanks for the extra information – that is interesting to know! 😃
Oh and have you told the fans over at the Star Wars Trilogy forum? They have an audio archive section – I’m sure they’d love to know about this unique version of ROTJ.

I finished watching this dub today, and wanted to say thanks for sharing it – it’s a fantastic dub! It was a nice surprise to hear the different foley work done for this dubbing, alongside the actual voice dubbing itself.

Out of curiosity, was this dub only ever done for the 1988 Japanese TV broadcast, and not released on LaserDisc, VHS or DVD?
If so, I imagine that the only way to obtain this dub would have been via recoding it onto a blank VHS tape when ROTJ was broadcast?

Have you asked Wraith at the IFDB? He released a fan edit of the most complete version of the Godfather series anyone has made to date, by gathering all known versions of the trilogy.
He would be your best bet for information on any television broadcast versions!

robertb. said:

This sounds very good. I agree with these changes to the TPM and would love to get a link to see your edit. Can you please send one? I’m new to this and haven’t been able to download SW fan edits. Thanks a lot

No problem! I will send you a PM.

Thanks for the in-depth explanation! This has cleared up some questions I had about the source of audio found in various restoration and preservation projects.

CatBus said:

So, “matrixed stereo” is a stereo mix encoded in a special fashion where, if you pass it through a proper Dolby ProLogic decoder, you can get four-channel audio. The Laserdisc audio can be decoded in this way to get true multichannel. The six-channel reconstructions are based on this four-channel decode of Laserdisc audio, and for the past several releases has used a proper professional-grade decoder for that work. We also have in-theater recordings of the six-channel mix, which aren’t an audio source per se, but allow us to know which slight variations of sound effects happened, and when. The LFE is a bit of a best-guess, using some SE when it aligns with theatrical effects.

This work is all based on the theory that the six-channel and stereo mixes were based on the same four-track master audio, which has at this point been proven enough through various audio discoveries to be considered fact. There’s a lot of archaeology in this as well…

Keep in mind that, at the time, only the Star Wars six-channel mix even attempts to match any unique 70mm six-channel content. That may change, but right now Empire and Jedi are more like “tasteful and respectful upmixes” than 70mm mixes – although they may end up being extremely similar to their respective 70mm mixes, due to the shared lineage of the four-channel master.

ProLogic decoding can’t get you literally back to the discrete six-channels on a 70mm print. For one thing, there’s still a bit of channel bleedover that would not be present on a 70mm print, the other is of course the missing two LFE channels*. But these things were done with love. It’s not at all like those Blu-ray mono-to-5.1 upmixes which kill the soul of the original audio. It can be done well, and in this case, it’s been done in an exemplary fashion.

* The original 70mm six-channel audio was 4.2, not 5.1. It was L, C, R, and a single surround, plus two LFE channels. So a four-channel ProLogic decode gives you everything except the LFE. Since 5.1 is far more compatible with modern playback systems, that’s how it’s encoded for these preservations.

I’ll send you a PM!

No problem; I’ll send you a PM!

I’ve just read your shot list; I was wondering, do you think you might use the deleted scene of General Veers’ AT-AT being destroyed? There is grey, black & white footage of him and the two drivers in the cockpit about to be rammed head-on by a speeder.