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.

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

Tantive3+1 said:

It looks great. Hope to see more progress with this.

Thanks, Currently working on the deleted rancor scene, about 4/10 finished. But I’ll also keep working on this on the side. Probably finish it on the weekend or close to finished.

Finally starting on a second side restoration project, working on restoring this deleted rancor scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-LTrYx_0sY Ive completed 3 shots so far out of like 20? or more… And I will also need to colorize them.
Big Thank You to Bobson Dugnutt for sending me the high quality versions!

Still haven’t heard back. Guess he just never saw the two emails or is just ignoring them? not sure, but a shame we will never the full quality of this documentary
08/02/2023 Edit, still haven’t heard back from either email…
-05/21/2024 Update, still nothing. Got Tom to respond (who showed off the video in the video) and he says: “it was Howard’s footage but from a while back, he may have forgotten. It’s not our footage to share and we only had permission to share at SWC. Just courtesy and integrity there. (and no, this doesn’t involve Disney)”
So Howard forgot about it and now it’s in this collectors files but he doesnt want it shared and its not because of disney regulations. So in my conclusion: Hes keeping it to himself for some reason and this is pretty annyoing. This is STAR WARS History and should be archived and uploaded publicly if already shown to a viewing. I’d go on, but whatever.

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

I actually made a post asking if any HD movie trailers existed for OG movies because I noticed some unused scenes. I have like 12 or more shots mostly from ROJ and Empire that I have upscaled/color-corrected already. I just have to remove the scratches. I’d send some sample photos but I don’t know how on this website.

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.

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?

DarthTzetzo said:

I found this 😁 but the scenes are not in high resolution.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3-aof14nI-spSheznklCZKbKZdbSe-jS

ya I saw that too, which is why I asked if there were any HD versions available

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.

alright thank you adywan and ronster!

The Making of Star Wars: ____ (Enhanced Edition) Ebook
does anyone know what quality/resolution the deleted scenes in this ebook are? Im going through youtube and found a bunch of clips but they’re all 360p and Im wondering if they’re the same resolution as on the ebooks.

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.

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…

not the best but not bad, https://archive.org/details/when-star-wars-ruled-the-world I wonder how people find this footage because there’s gotta be an even better quality one out there

Allot of behind the scenes footage that could be enhanced but the only sources are old 360p videos and I know there has been other re releases of old documentaries in higher quality

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

I was watching a 35mm trailer of star wars and realized they were showing off clips that had not been released in the final cut. So I want to try and restore/enhance some of these shots but Was wondering if there were any 4k versions out there?
Heres one that I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Nv2v5eHOs&list=PLF3yi1mU9hNgXFxYFVTr6KAOD6piLtrfC&index=51&ab_channel=StymyParsley

I want to try and find all trailers from ROJ/EMP so I don’t miss anything

Ronster said:

Fruit672 said:

Guys, how do you go about downloading youtube videos? screen capture or just a converter somewhere? my laptop’s screen recorder is terrible and the website I usually go to for conversions got rid of its URL uploader.

Y2mate.com Is where I normally go to for general URL downloads. It is still active.

There is a Vimeo URL downloader too but I can not remember the name of the site. Just google vimeo downloader.

You can use OBS studio for decent screencapture it’s free app it will only handle up to 2 video sources.

When I go on Y2mate it says it’s been discontinued or is no longer working. I also got 2 security warnings before getting on there 😕
I might try OBS but I also remembered another software called handbrake which I used for conversions along time ago, although can’t recall if it did url’s

Guys, how do you go about downloading youtube videos? screen capture or just a converter somewhere? my laptop’s screen recorder is terrible and the website I usually go to for conversions got rid of its URL uploader.