Williarob

Atom-88 said:

That guy with no name said:

I have finally finished tweaking Adywans colour graded Blu-ray. To match the Gout.
Here are some pics: http://www.framecompare.com/screenshotcomparison/F29BFNNU

They look really good ThatGuy, good work👍.

Yes, it really does look good. Having scanned at least 10 prints of Star Wars at this point I have come to accept that the colors of the GOUT are not always representative of the theatrical look of the film, however, I spent the 80s and 90s watching the VHS tapes over and over so this is how I remember the film looking and I’m very glad that you are preserving that look in such high quality. I will definitely enjoy watching it.

That guy with no name said:

nobodybutjarjar42 said:

That guy with no name said:

And unlike many other edits It will be very easy to download and watch.

What do you mean?

I mean I will post a link here instead of putting it on usenet or something.
Which is complicated for some people.

If direct download links were allowed here, don’t you think we’d all post them?

I finally got around to fixing Framecompare.com

We do have a 70mm projector though, so we can capture the frames the old fashioned way - with a zoom lens attached to a 4K digital camera pointed straight into the film gate, which was how we captured this:

https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/2016/02/04/70mm-empire-strikes-back-in-4k/

Here is the Jabba sequence from the Cintel as Prores 444. It’s about 33 seconds long and 3 GB. The link is good for only 7 days:

https://sendgb.com/sXVa5fOqPuY

Since this is just a clip hopefully it doesn’t violate any rules, but if it does and the mods remove the link, send me a PM.

I recently rescanned the first reel of From Star Wars to Jedi on our Cintel:

which does a much better job of hiding the base side scratches than the Retroscan:

I’ll render out the Jabba sequence for you when I have a moment.

Yes, we are moving to theatrically sync all three films from this point forward. 4K77 2.0 and 4K80 1.0 will include all available frames even if they were missing from the NTSC (or PAL or both) GOUT versions.

Presumably, however, we will continue to ensure that the Star Wars logo appears on frame 689 as it does on the GOUT, so that all the audio tracks still have the same starting point.

erichf69 said:

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Testing.

Yes, that’s much better.

Here's how to post an image: ![Tooltip](http://www.example.com/path/to/image.png)

Yes, I used a single grade for the whole print. Here’s how that shot looks currently:

I’ll probably take another look at the colors when I’m done stabilizing, see if I can make it any better. I still see some pink in the snow there.

It came on 2 reels. The telecine wobble is just as bad on our copy too, because that’s how it was printed. I had stabilized the whole film to the sprocket holes, but when I went to watch it the film still wobbled all over the place:

https://vimeo.com/497685100

So now I’m going shot by shot, stabilizing to the picture which takes a little longer.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the print we borrowed for scanning was in very good shape. There was a fair amount of warping which made it twist and turn in the film gate, causing distortion and “focus breathing” too, but it’s still fun to watch.

calculon559 said:

Williarob said:

benduwan said:
will there be release of the SPFX: making of the empire strikes back too?

Yes, I’m working on that right now actually. It will be a bonus feature with 4K80.

That looks like a two-color print, as opposed to a faded full-color film.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is there much you can do with that sort of film? Reds and skintones should be easy to fix, but either the green or blue is missing or maybe even mixed together?

That’s after some color correction - it is faded to pink:

benduwan said:

Williarob said:

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can´t login anymore.
“The requested user ’ could not be found.”
but i didn´t change anything…

I don’t see any record of an account with this username. It’s worth noting that any registrations with disposable email addresses, or addresses/IPs that are blacklisted on SPAM lists are automatically rejected. (I’m not suggesting that you’re a spammer, but if you signed up while connected to a VPN, it’s possible that the IP Address you were using at the time is blacklisted somewhere.)

benduwan said:

will there be release of the SPFX: making of the empire strikes back too?

Yes, I’m working on that right now actually. It will be a bonus feature with 4K80.

YellowYoda said:

Bluto said:

I’ve never noticed that before! I don’t have 4K77 but can confirm that the lightsabre glitch looks exactly the same in the corresponding frame of Harmy’s Despecialized Edition.

So it’s just meant to be there?

Yes, that’s how it is on all original prints.

benduwan said:

will there be as bonus the making of star wars release?

Yes, we have scanned 2 x 16mm prints. Just need to clean them up.

Nilbog said:

Based on the provided info on 4K77’s webpage, 97% of the film comes from a Spanish print. If that’s accruate, I assume the other 3% is for the opening scrawl, end credits, and damaged frames?

I’m unsure about the audio source for the SSE, but is all the audio for 4K77 from the GOUT or does is some from prints?

That’s incorrect. Waht is says on the webpage is that “97% of project 4K77 is from a single, original 1977 35mm Technicolor release print”, the other 3% is a mix of Spanish LPP, a second British IB Technicolor print, a 97 Special Edition print and 2011 Bluray (for any frames that were missing from all prints at the reel changes).

Audio is from Harmy’s Despecialized, which is mostly laserdisc sourced. All of the print audio is incomplete since there are frames missing throughout, and the LPP audio is obviously in Spanish.

PJ said:

Hey does anyone recommend a painless way of matching the frame size of two different sources? I’m trying to align footage from the 2020 Bluray of ESB to Harmy’s ESB Despecialized and I just can’t get it right.

Photoshop: Edit -> Auto Align Layers

Here is a reusable invite code join to https://forums.thestarwarstrilogy.com/

4K77J21-5TC0tuNTFqk01rKvGQ5ivpqG

This code will expire at the end of January. Happy New Year!

These links are still working for me.

The main 4K77 print scan is a professional scan. The 4K83 and 4K80 prints we scanned using our own custom built film scanner. Poita’s Empire prints were professionally scanned, but we don’t have access to those scans yet.

Poita scanned this same Ep IV print on a professional grade film scanner, but never released anything beyond a few samples. He may have access to the other SE prints too, but if so (as far as I know) they have not yet been scanned.

Fang Zei said:

So a ‘97 35mm print of ANH was scanned, just not cleaned up?
Correct

Was this from Poita’s project?

No, this is our own scan of the same print.

What About Empire and Jedi?

Find us some prints and we’ll scan them.

There is one of Star Wars '97 A New Hope, available 1080p and UHD:

kujythrgefdw said:

It’s been relisted

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/35mm-STAR-WARS-IV-A-NEW-HOPE-97-FEATURE-FILM-MOVIE-TRAILER-FLAT-TEASER-LUCAS/324279554953

However the description says it is the whole movie but says it is only two reels. This is obviously not true, the movie is 6 reels.

It’s on 2 x 6000 foot reels. That’s the whole film. (Normally 6 x 2000’ reels)