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#1198957
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Star Wars Deleted Scenes Restored (a WIP)
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pittrek said:

Restoration - great.
Adding the buildings is in my opinion similar to Greedo shooting first. Why would the moisture vaporators be between houses? That defeats their whole purpose

few people have said this but i feel there kinda wrong in some sense, them water vaporator are everywhere, i used original set pics for inspiration for that
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#1198825
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Star Wars Deleted Scenes Restored (a WIP)
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^…^ said:

Just saw the images added in the first post, and I repeat: amazing, great job!

Please note that, in this shot, you added some space on top, where it should have been some image on top of the vaporator, there is now empty space - my hint is to cut out at the same point of the original frame. I appreciate the shadow, that is barely visible in the original, but I’d rotate it towards left, taking subsequent shots as reference, because the shadows there are more visible (so, also shadows in next “molested” shots should be fixed). I know they are small things, but probably you wanted to know our opinions, right? 😉

I must admit that, after seeing your great work, it makes me want to work back on that “always delayed” extended version! 😄

Last thing: I like the “molested” version, apart houses that should not be there; but the rest is good, perfectly in line with the Special Edition. IMHO, you should release the “molested” version without the houses.

Eagerly waiting to see the next restored scene!!!

im aware of all that points you made including the Vaporator, that does not show in the video as this frame is a few pixels bigger than the video frame, and the rest of the points you made im working on them, currently at this very moment intime im working on the the conversation Luke and Bigss have outside the station, its causing me lots of problems due to the quality and colors, so im having to Rotoscope the crap out of it as that Auto roto in After effects is not doing a great job, actually its terrible maybe its because of the resolution and all the colors seems to be blending into one another… damn, its getting on my tits

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#1197421
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Star Wars Deleted Scenes Restored (a WIP)
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towne32 said:

Now that I’ve looked a little more carefully, I see that huge amounts of the frame were replaced (most of the sky, ground, etc). Presumably that makes it much easier to clean, when only a few objects on screen are carried over from the original (though they do generally look good). Handy for avoiding the enormous tramline scratches and such, but it has me managing my expectations for what can be done with purely the original frames!

Actually I have the version with no elements just raw footage cleaned up, not as clean as this but it’s like 90 percent cleaner than the original as thats as far as i could with the raw footage, it only then that I decided to go with the method that you see now, the first stage of clean took a very long time

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#1197273
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Star Wars Deleted Scenes Restored (a WIP)
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^…^ said:

I feel like John … amazed, but at the same time annoyed.

I must admit that, even if you Lucasized it, it will blend quite well with the Blu-ray; but agree that those houses should not be there!

But you did a very good job, kudos! Hope to see also the other scenes restored - not too much Lucasized, though! 😉

If you will do a new version without houses - added clouds are OK to me - I’ll use it for my (future planned but always delayed) Star Wars Extended Edition.

Once it’s completed, I mean all Roto corrected, it will be very easy to remove all the Extra stuff as there on different layers, so I’ll make 2 versions, one with all the extras and one without… That should be fine for anyone wanting to use it… 😃

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#1197171
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Star Wars Deleted Scenes Restored (a WIP)
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Edit Update Thursday 14 July 2022
If you haven’t been reading the posts on here. I am no Longer adding the extra Stuff So a lot of you will be HAPPY
about that. I’m just keeping it to the original and only replacing Elements that Are too far Goone to repair
and replace with something I can create to match the Damaged element

These Work in Progress have not been finalized

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Just another update for you guys. still need some work with stabilizing

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Iv been working on this for quite sometime now, this is one of the deleted scenes from Star Wars IV A new hope… To clean up this footage I exported the Video in to images, took them in Lightroom, did what i could in there and then over to after effects using various Scratch and dust removal effects and a lot of Roto scoping, Theres still a lot to do, its not 100 percent clean yet but its what Iv done so far
 

https://youtu.be/23qor8CQJGQ

Edit: I forgot to add that this will available for anyone to download once it’s finished, that’s if you want to make your own edits etc or whatever just give me credit that’s all 😃
 

Edit 24th September 2020
Return of the Jedi (Deleted Scene Restored)

https://youtu.be/qGcArxTB-dQ

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