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#1463596
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STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - ** PRODUCTION HAS NOW RESTARTED **
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That guy with no name said:

Bobson Dugnutt said:

Movies Remastered said:

I’m after the deleted calamari pilot shot so if anyone else takes this on would you mind sharing?

I did a quick DNR pass at the footage and it doesn’t look half bad

https://vimeo.com/637686756

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Still needs dirt and scratches cleaned, but if you give me a specific clip or segement to work on, I can give it a shot

Not to brag, but I’m not half bad at removing scratches in PFClean, if you want I can clean it for you.

i have tons of scenes that need clean…😉

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#1462915
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Star Wars VHX - A Re-Cut / unused music/ sfx / deleted scenes / Unused and new Matte paintings / elements and some fun. (WIP)
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Bobson Dugnutt said:

The bloopers are partially on the Ep3 2020 disc, but they’ve been cropped and have been re-encoded to 30fps or something because there is some significantly bad ghosting. I’ve never heard of it being on iTunes before though, but I’d love to see it if it is

could your next project.all star wars mistakes from the ot in one video…😃

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#1462309
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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
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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