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#1578820
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Original trilogy deleted scenes restored Project?
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kg1977 said:

Williarob said:

Actually Viva Pro did most of the heavy lifting.

The full Diamant Film Restoration suite starts at a little over $20k. Dustbuster+ is the cheaper, stripped down version which can be had for just under $7k.

Ouch…pricey…Looked like Viva was more of a editor from the website. I assume there are retoration plugins within not shown that beat out anything from premier and AE which isn’t much as far as full frame scratch and dust removal. If that is the case , Adobe has some catching up to do as you examples looked clean and fantastic!

For free alternatives look into the ai market. I tried out this tool https://youtu.be/xkCtFafVlys but I didn’t have a sufficient amount of RAM to support videos larger than 1024x1024. It was a bit tricky to get running but gpt helped out. This one hasn’t come out yet but is the most promising so far with enhancement. https://supir.xpixel.group/ Probably work frame by frame (possible moving artifacts when all combined) till a video version comes out which is probably soon.

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#1540629
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Return of The Ewok and the 40th Anniversary
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I was reading a few articles on the return of the ewok, hoping to see if any new news had come out but no. But an old article mentions: “While it would have made excellent promotional material at the time, it would be an even brighter gem now that the film it was shot around is about to celebrate its 40th anniversary. It’s unlikely, but Davis hasn’t given up hope just yet.” And It’s a terrific idea! It’s such a shame that ROJ seems to be the most disregarded by Disney. And since the 40th anniversary is coming up tomorrow and Disney hasnt announced anything, it’s not likely that they’re going to release any new restored version of Return Of The Ewok.
Like there’s even an unreleased ROJ documentary featuring Richard Marquand in the interview which is only in the hands of one collector which hasn’t been publicly and fully released. I mean seriously, what is Disney doing?
Basically what I think too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB_0G56Mcu4

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#1540145
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Enhancement of a deleted EMP scene
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Alright, a bit of a update: I have been on and off on this project. Removing scratches periodically, getting burned out, and returning a few months later. But Im just about to be finished restoring this entire scene. I’ve gone and manually had to remove most of the scratches, the horizontal ones are pretty tough and are most noticeable since they leave a glitch afterwards but ill try and fix all of it once I finish school and start summer which is like in a month. So here’s a snippet of what I’ve got. The rendered preview doesn’t fully render the entire scene so I’ve only been able to screen capture a few seconds before it starts to lag and here’s that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m2r-G5Ufsw

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#1524233
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BTS Star Wars Ebook question
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schorman13 said:

Bobson Dugnutt said:

Every video file is also tagged with “SD for Apple Devices”, so it seems unlikely that there are any HD versions out there, unless anyone wants to test the Google Play versions, but I will not be sadly.

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There definitely were HD versions available when these were released. If you look at the store pages for the different Making of Books, you’ll notice that the SW and TESB books were “updated” to version 2.0 in December 2018. I don’t know what was changed at that point, but I only seem able to download the newer updates that only have SD video.

You may also notice that ROTJ is still v1.0, and has HD videos included still.

I wonder if it’s possible to access the v1.0 or v1.0.1 versions of SW or TESB from the iTunes store.

Could you send me a link to the page that’s got the ROTj 1.0 version?

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#1520285
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BTS Star Wars Ebook question
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Bobson Dugnutt said:

Ronster said:
Put your mac screen in a NDI

https://www.ndi.tv/

then stream your epub book videos to a screen capture like OBS on another computer?

It’s honestly not really worth it for an extra 0.3mb/s. you’d end up losing any improvements over the screencapping anyway.

can you send in some screenshots of the roj deleted rancor scene if you have that version? I want to see if its any better quality than the ones on youtube.

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#1518793
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Does anyone have links to HD Return of the Ewok?
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Im going through searching for any high-quality rote clips and keep coming across old forums from 2005 where the links no longer exist and the user who posted them is banned. I’ve searched through youtube looking for any good videos but all are 480p highly compressed. I have contacted one of the two original restorers who has yet to respond and I’m not sure where to contact SKot Kirkwood.
I want to try and make another version that’s slightly better quality.

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#1518647
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Return Of The Jedi never released documentary
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update 02/16/2023 still no response. He’s also asked other people about it but it seems like Brandon is the only one and doesn’t check emails very often. If it takes another month I think I’ll send Brandon an email myself in case he missed Howards email, if I can find it… This started in October, crazy…

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#1512731
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Return Of The Jedi never released documentary
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Fruit672 said:

I was watching this video of behind-the-scenes talks of star wars when on the ROJ panel, they played a snip of an unused ROJ documentary with never seen footage. This video was only shared with Tom Spina and I can’t find his personal email so next I emailed one of the two people who owned the video. He replied by saying he’s never seen the video but he’ll ask the second owner if he’s got it.
It’s been about a week and a half and he says he still waiting for a response.
Here’s the panel https://youtu.be/RWw8-s_a0vM?t=226 they also have two others, one of new hope and the holiday special.
Ill update this post If I ever get it, and if so, start digitally restoring it.

Still no response

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#1511200
Topic
Return Of The Jedi never released documentary
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Slavicuss said:

MonkeyLizard10 said:

Slavicuss said:

Finally got to see an outtake of Walrus Man’s severed bloody head. Great stuff!

I think there is some other youtube video that has that footage and a bunch of other stuff.

You wouldn’t have a link?

I remember seeing a fan reconstruction of the scene a few years back. Great to finally see the real deal. I wonder how many fan edits will make good use of the outtake?

https://youtu.be/qRmCUjvZti0?t=1290 here’s the shot where his head gets chopped off

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#1510831
Topic
Star Wars Deleted Scenes Restored (a WIP)
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Sky_ said:

Fruit672 said:

Thats incredible, maybe just composite the shadows and coloring matching the reference and it should look good. Don’t know much about blending but maybe this can be used for other deleted scenes too… maybe deepfake could also help

Hay thanks for the Message. The Problem with DeepFake is that It needs a Face to Latch onto, There is no information in the original shot that it would understand where to put the deepfake, I’ve Tried

deepfake the added cgi head

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#1510643
Topic
Return Of The Jedi never released documentary
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I was watching this video of behind-the-scenes talks of star wars when on the ROJ panel, they played a snip of an unused ROJ documentary with never seen footage. This video was only shared with Tom Spina and I can’t find his personal email so next I emailed one of the two people who owned the video. He replied by saying he’s never seen the video but he’ll ask the second owner if he’s got it.
It’s been about a week and a half and he says he still waiting for a response.
Here’s the panel https://youtu.be/RWw8-s_a0vM?t=226 they also have two others, one of new hope and the holiday special.
Ill update this post If I ever get it, and if so, start digitally restoring it.

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#1510557
Topic
Star Wars Deleted Scenes Restored (a WIP)
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Sky_ said:

Guys I need your help

as you can see from the top image Luke’s face is really Dark, no matter what I do I can’t bring the face details out.
so I had to replace it with a CG Luke… but im not sure if this was the right way to go, there is a point where I tried to Blend CG luke with real Luke, but I don’t even know if that works, the Main reason is, the HAT is slightly different and this is because I can’t seem to model it correctly…
if there is anyone that can help me with creating that?, that would be awesome.
I also don’t know if there are enough people viewing this thread to see if I need help here, anyway worth a try

Thankyou For reading

by the way, the CG Luke was ripped off from the Star Wars Battlefront II game. The Hat and Goggles were created by me in Cinema 4D, and it’s an awful job as I can’t model for shit

Edit -oh Yeah Roto Still needs cleaning Im aware so Ignore that Part

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Thats incredible, maybe just composite the shadows and coloring matching the reference and it should look good. Don’t know much about blending but maybe this can be used for other deleted scenes too… maybe deepfake could also help

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#1507958
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35 or 16mm trailers of EMP or ROJ
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Ronster said:

This Empire Strikes Back Trailer has a lot of Deleted footage in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWLksS3wtWA

The Best bit however is Chewie Whacking the Storm Trooper In my Opinion But there is quite a few shots in it.

Next one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nccmNk8gsOc

This is the trailer with the Wampa Claw Deleted scene which is a Brilliant shot.

Then the next one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLhsM1NFKew

The Vivaldi Trailer This perhaps the best shot of the Shield generator Explosion?

The last one I think is the teaser which is Raplh McQuarrie stills

Thank you! Also I finally got my PC fixed so I can start restoring again!