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If you already know, in 1995 for the Star Wars special edition released in 1997, Pacific titles restored the film, cleaning it in a 104 degree sulfur bath which helped to remove dirt, dust, and any residue impregnated to the tape, then hand rubbed, the negative had never looked so clean and new, the only bad thing was the color fading, luckily George had copies of those films made in technicolor that had a slower color fading than the Kodak film, thanks to that they had the base to restore the colors, first they scanned the original negative with a professional scanner at the maximum resolution of that time, 2K, they also scanned the copies for the colors, the negatives had to be cut in the scenes where there are transitions to redo them digitally, they added the new CGI scenes and they printed everything on a new fine grain tape so they didn’t generate too much grain, now my questions are: If in 2004 Lowry scanned the special edition negative, which caused them to spend months working on grain reduction and sharpening contours unnecessarily, why didn’t they just use the digital master that pacific titles made for lucas film ? why if Lowry scanned the new physical master, it will have worse quality than the digital master, and the second question is: Lucas film in 2012 restored Star Wars to 4k according to media and leaks and we didn’t see any of this until Disney released the UHD version in 2019-2020, my new question is, where does this edition come from and what base does it use ? I have heard out there that this UHD version is a scan of the 97 physical edition, The problem is that it is not UHD, it is 2K, even if the negative was scanned to UHD, (3.8K or 4K) this will still be 2K, and of a quality quite inferior to Pacific’s digital master, except that Lucasfilm scan the original '77, '80, and '83 negative to UHD and on top of that put the changes in CGI in 2K, which still gives me as a third question: Does that CGI in 2K come from the physical master or the digital master, I know it’s a tedious field and there are many questions but I can’t get them out of my head for days now.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fze_NMFtCpFdgrHcL-0FmYQlNe2ad2ht/view?usp=drivesdk
Well, as you can see, this background shows the Death Star and below Coruscant, this was relatively easy although it took me some time, the problem is that in front of this background I want to put some Tie fighters but I have to rotoscope a movie and glue them together, but capcut doesn’t track the movement of the tie fighters well, That’s why I need a new editor that does better rotoscoping.Davinci resolve is not useful because in this program to make rotoscoping I have to pay for a Pro version

Star Wars Refined, what is it about? This is a personal project where what I do is try to improve and fix Star Wars. First, I will start with A New Hope. Above all, what I want to fix are the problems that still exist in the current editions, and try to polish and refine them. This edition is about refining the trilogy; hence the name. Those scenes that I do not like or I am not satisfied with the final results, I will replace with new ones created by me. What bothers me most is that there are scenes that were not recomposed digitally. There are scenes, like the Hoth battles, that were recomposed digitally, but some scenes were left the same, leaving those horrible black lines on the edges due to the optical rotoscoping of the analog processes of that time. I will try to fix most of those problems and add new effects to improve the existing ones.

But I also need help. My current editor is CapCut, which I use mostly for rotoscoping, but this rotoscoping is very limited. I don’t have money to pay for an editor like Adobe After Effects. I need recommendations for video editors with decent rotoscoping that are free. Please, I really want to start well with this project.

WHEN THE STAR WARS 4K BLU RAY WAS RELEASED IN 2020, AN HD VERSION WAS ALSO RELEASED. MY QUESTION IS, DOES THIS EDITION USE THE 2011 VERSION OR IS IT A NEW SCAN?

Well, if you’re looking for the '97 editions you can go to the ”
The Star Wars Trilogy” But they are scans of 35mm copies, and they haven’t even dedicated to re-establish them as 4K77, just a simple color correction or black and white balance, if you want a quality version, Harmy made a re-specialized edition, using the 2011 blu_ray as a base, the highest quality version of the project is the AVCHD which goes to 720p, although that edition has a lot of grain on harmy’s part, on the empire strikes back Adywan made a reconstruction using the HDTV which is like the Blu Ray, you can also find this version in The Star Wars Trilogy forums, of return of the jedi there are no fan reconstructions that I know of, I hope I have helped you.

When the 1997 STAR WARS negative was scanned, is the '97 CGI that can be seen in the 2004-2011 versions coming from the scan or are the CGI digital scenes put into the 2004-2011 editions?

JadedSkywalker said:

I think still having to argue with people over why the original should be on Blu-Ray and 4K and Han why Han shooting second is stupid, 20 years after we signed a petition to the get the original released just to get Lynn Hale’s spiel, kind of makes me think it’s a lost cause.

I have 4K77 and I’m reasonably happy with it.

It won’t be lost because the British Film Archive and Library of Congress have the original. Its just not available to the general public. Unless you have out of print DVD, VHS or laserdisc. Yeah none of those is theatrically accurate but whatever.

Does that mean that the original negatives are archived in a place where they are available for scanning at any time today? From what source do you get this information? It is really very interesting

That guy with no name said:

Alright It’s done and uploaded to google drive.
Its about 50gb so if you want it please shoot me a pm.
I might encode a smaller file later though, if people want that.

EDIT:
Release details:
File Size: 50GB.
1080x1920
File host: Google Drive. please message me for the link(s) (PM ONLY)

Smaller encode:
File size: 15GB
1080x1920
File host: Mega, please message me for the link(s) (PM ONLY)