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#1462309
Topic
Restoration Of The Star Wars Deleted Scenes (a WIP)
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yellow05maze said:

I’ve cleaned another snippet of these deleted scenes, and I have to say I really enjoy working on them. I’ve got a decent amount of spare time at the moment, so I will hopefully make a fair bit of progress on these scenes.

Thanks for the note by the way ifjg. I remember watching his restoration a few years ago and being pretty amazed, but from what I’ve seen, he is changing backgrounds and adding new graphics to the scenes, which is not what I’m doing, so I’m not sure if the vision aligns there.

I’ve published a quick comparison of a fairly simple scene that I have done: https://youtu.be/XL4qsva6l9s

god job.the red should more reduced…and luke less shaking 😉

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#1460604
Topic
Star Wars ANH-X (the eXtended version) (WIP)
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kg1977 said:

IlFanEditore said:

Sounds intriguing! I hope you’ll share some screenshots or clips, sooner or later 😉

Got some new After Effects Plugins for restoration at discount for black Friday sale. Here is some first samples using them on some tough scenes. The focus is pulling out the detail from shadows and boosting contrast. While I did use Adywan color grade version only as a base to compare, the actual “after” is from UHD downscaled to 1080P so get that hidden detail and then had to tweak the image color quite a bit to match what it should be. Technically these are detail enhancement verses color grading. For grading I may need to do some masking which is more work and later on in the process. On the deleted scene samples, there are no UHD versions so it is the 1080P of those. I plan to do Dust and scratch removal later and they will get some more misc enhancements, but that will require frame by frame work, so its more involved…just wanted to share some test so far. still moving on to try and finish the entire movie as far as full timeline as a first draft to work off of.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tnHL2O9gaXJoR1TRJF-O6ljFNlbSjk0l/view?usp=sharing

i think it´s a bit to bright and yellow.
adywan has done a good job with this.
remember,it´s a windowless room in the crawler that drive in the night.should more darkness…

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#1459520
Topic
The Star Wars Holiday Special: Remastered and Restored (Released)
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beeswithchainsaws said:

benduwan said:

i have try to watch this but it´s in terrible shape.file less than 1gb.😕
sorry for these kind of words.
watched this movie several times in different quality but for a “restored” movie it´s very,very bad…
no offense to your work,but it´s the worst i´ve ever seen.
this bad movie needs a quality upgrade not a downgrade…
i´m sorry to say this,but it´s unwatchable…😦
try again.
harder,more intense…😃

It’s okay. I understand I didn’t do a very good job, I just really wanted to release it. This was a very special project to me, and I just really felt like I needed to get it out to the public.

this movie is really special…😃
the movie is on the spleen in very respectable shape.give them a try…
and this is no offense in your work or would be like rude.editing is very tricky.
regards

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#1459513
Topic
The Star Wars Holiday Special: Remastered and Restored (Released)
Time

i have try to watch this but it´s in terrible shape.file less than 1gb.😕
sorry for these kind of words.
watched this movie several times in different quality but for a “restored” movie it´s very,very bad…
no offense to your work,but it´s the worst i´ve ever seen.
this bad movie needs a quality upgrade not a downgrade…
i´m sorry to say this,but it´s unwatchable…😦
try again.
harder,more intense…😃

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#1458859
Topic
Star Wars Holiday Special - Zion Hybrid v3 (a WIP)
Time

zman said:

Zion, I hope you are well.

I found an interesting resource for the “Darth Vader Widens the Search” scene. There was a project called “Star Wars Leftovers” created by Bobson Dugnutt that I believe contains this exact scene. It seems in the Holiday Special they cut a portion out of the middle of the scene, but Bath’s mouth movements seem to match exactly. The scene appears at the 28 minute, 22 second mark in “Leftovers”. It could use a slight cleaning, but looks far better than what we see in the existing SWHS versions.

it´s a deletet scene on the bluray…

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#1457250
Topic
Star Wars ANH-X (the eXtended version) (WIP)
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kg1977 said:

benduwan said:

is there a list of deletet scenes you will use? i added some behind the scenes and pics for my version…
thanks

@banduwan, so what is your version?

my name is benduwan…😉 you should it downloadet,you recieve a pm for a week or so…

is it extended with deleted video + pictures where pictures fill when video does not exist or other?

yes

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#1457249
Topic
Star Wars ANH-X (the eXtended version) (WIP)
Time

kg1977 said:

benduwan said:

is there a list of deletet scenes you will use? i added some behind the scenes and pics for my version…
thanks

Sorry took so long to compile, but here is my shot list. Bold is deleted scenes, where as non-bold would be new made from radio drama audio and some compositing other shots, new shots etc.

Cockpit Tantive IV arriving at skarif
• Leia enters the fleet above skarif shortly after the Raddus, which was supposed to be here escort to Tatooine. The scenes cuts to some new scenes inside the Tantive IV’s cockpit and inside then Raddus where Leia is instructed to dock inside for protection.

Imperial Officer Scenes & Vader After Skarif
• After Vader returns from the raddus, there is dialogue between him and officer about tracking the Rebels which has now jumped to hyperspace (end of R1). Vader’s Devastator enters hyperspace in pursuit.

Hallway Tantive IV, Antilles and Leia Enroute To Tatooine
• Captain Antilles talks to the droids and instructs them to go to go to a certain area of the ship for now + follow all orders of leia that may come. Leia informs Antilles of the mission they must proceed with, being to get plans to jedi general and that Tatooine is next stop.

sounds good so far without the R1 stuff.i don´t like it in the old movie…