kg1977

merculix said:

Really good stuff. Do you also have the full scene ready for Tosche Station (when Luke meets his friends inside the station first and then continues to talk outside) or is the scene not ready for release yet? 🤔

Ha someone was just PM me on that 😃…yea that one is not uploaded yet as I was thinking about trying to get V1 done in the next 5-6 month and may be easier to post that so folks have everything + post what I have posted is 2.0 channel for the deleted and audio is the last thing I do so holding off to finish all Sept/Oct. and then do a spot check and audio check.

If enough people show interest here I can finish up to the cantina (but before they meet Han)

ANH V1 up to cantina meeting with Han ETA: 5/30/25

and post V1 up to that. That would give you all with 5.1 up to that point and you could even splice it into your current

…Are others here interested in ANH-X V1 (Act 1) sooner than later?

This would be the first 1/3 of ANH-X…never thought of doing it this way but I could upload and it might be easier than posting scenes ala carte.

Phase3 said:

Hi kg1977,

I’ve just started watching v6 of your edit, and was wondering if the restoration you’re doing on the deleted scenes are still a work-in-progress or not? The clips are of significantly lower quality than the main film, plus the colour correction doesn’t match the main film either.

You’ve written that you have restored deleted scenes; which software are you using for this?

Are you upscaling the footage? Some of the deleted clips, such as the shot of Satipo walking in the jungle, as well as the shot of the Jovitos Indians shooting their poison darts at Indy, are almost unwatchable.
If you’re upscaling, it would be worth doing more tests and experimentation with settings to get better results.

Is the audio for the deleted scenes a work-in-progress too? There was a big shift in audio quality for the scene of Satipo falling through the hole. Did you not have the soundtrack or separate SFX to make the scene work? Right now it’s not seamless at all, and the colour grading makes it look like a different film altogether.

Also, is the audio for the deleted scenes 2.0 instead of 5.1? It would be worth converting the audio to 5.1, which would go a long way to having a more balanced sound in the edit.

Please know that this is constructive criticism – your ideas for the film are great, so it would be a shame to not have high-quality audio and video throughout the entire film.

To an extent, the following shots from the latest shot list (which I did update today-see very first post) or here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gAUSRGFmFMHpOTdD8OqQZD-qPDdnvd05/view?usp=sharing

are “B” grade, so I know the ones you mean.

“B” grade is to describe ones that are the more rare deleted scenes that are not as good of quality as the more common and widely circulated ones. In some cases, these deleted scenes are not even in 1280 resolution and in some cases 800 as the highest avail. As such, they will have a different quality (even enhanced and upscaled to 1920/1920 cropped to 1:2.35 ratio).

In looking at the latest shot list, I would assume these are the ones you are referring and would be shots 1,2,10,11,18 (some of it), 21,22,23,29,32,47,51(to an extent), 53

I may produce a 1.8 before 2.0 that excludes these as I can certainly see people not wanting them if they are not at least 1280 upscaled and of decent enough quality to blend in. In some cases (I think you mentioned a few) the quality may be hard to swallow on anything larger than a 27 inch TV.

That being said, some of those did have a final pass on them using some some new software this spring that I think is about as good as it going to get on some of “b” grade scenes. These final tweaks at quality will be in 2.0 so hopefully that attempt works better.

I do value your feedback and if you do see any deleted that are not these numbered shots, that you feel need to be better color matched to the original do let me know the shot/the shots number.

As far as audio, I have to convert much of the deleted scenes that are stereo to 5.1 yet as well as do a balance out of it post conversion. The audio is usually the last I do right before the final version or in Raider’s case, 1.8 and 2.0. I would probably finish 2.0 and then go back and remove the “B” footage for 1.8. So there will be a final pass for audio specifically before calling it done.The reason I even release versions with audio that is still in process is that even with stereo a decent receiver can translate it to surround somewhat acceptable (sony/ pioneer receivers etc). But yea I hear ya. Don’t worry I’ll mix it as best I can on some of the deleted - mainly it’s just getting dialogue in the center channel and balancing the other channels.

For those of you who have been following this one, know I have taken a break from it to switch gears over to ANH. I want to at least get that up to the cantina and then finish ESB V1 and I plan to get back to Raiders in June, so not too much longer I will be diving back into this one.

and @Artan42…yea I do not intend to add the rocks in front of R2 hiding in the rocks 😃

Thanks for the feedback and kind words…here is the full frame version of treaswell as someone was asking if I could post it…

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vZ9X6G0kE_xO_AcZvWaRrLid0xX7icls/view?usp=sharing

ok…so this took forever and I was on vacation a week and a half so that delayed it some… but finally made progress. The Treadwell and Luke scene edit is somewhat a little different than shot by shot of the deleted, plus this one has always been a challenge to fit in with that awsome opening scene. I think this works though…bout as good as it can get…hopefully it flows well. as far as the scene, the orginal is kind of boring so I had to improve a little, audio is radio drama and original and the color grade is of course in-line with the other deleted/color from adywan or BLU etc. …not a big fan of the yellowish color tint so I think this fits well with the finished film scenes. Music added as well to help it out… Anyway here it is…moving on next to some edits on the homestead and then off the finish the extended cantina which is a big one

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p1LUllwIQzSsUv-7eDeDiHXSo-a_Vfu6/view?usp=sharing

Mk_9000 said:

I didn’t hear the music until the second time i watched it. LOL. I feel like the vocals are just drowned out by the music a bit… that might just be my OCD brain picking at things.

no worries…yep will be revisiting the audio with a 5.1 track and will balance the background music with vocals…hard to sometimes gauge that when editing as are doing with just standard stereo speakers and sometimes not very loud when just at my desk…so will address audio levels and separation in due time 😃

Darth Robbie73 said:

So far, I like it very much. I’m really looking forward to the sequel, and then the finished work. Congratulations

thanks Darth Robbie73 & Slavicuss

I am working on treadwell and luke scene and then once finished will post the full frame of that and the full luke with friends scene. Holiday break coming up here, so will have a day to maybe catch up and and then a few days with family and off from editing, but It will get there…no worries…will definately post the link for 'em

Patali said:

Is the current version of this available to watch? I would love if you could send me a copy.

Does this lean into some of the CGI shots that Adywan made for his old version? I liked those. IMO my dream version of the movie was to have Adywans old CGI shots, the George Lucas CGI shots, and SC38, and make a new “prequelized” version of ANH. I love the old special effects best, 1977, but I want a version full of the CGI stuff Lucas and fans have made, to have a version that fits in with the greater series.

Also, a deleted scene that is my dream to see, though we only have poor quality is “This Sith Lord”. Rogue One tie in and mention of the word “Sith” in ANH. Hope we get a better copy one day.

ANH-X version 1 will include 90% of the deleted restored scenes
based on adywans version so yes all his enhanced FX, but upscaled to HD
and yes the “sith lord” extended board room scene with clean audio is already done and will be included in the version 1

Mk_9000 said:

Heyyyy looking pretty gooood!

Will the audio get cleaned up? I feel like there’s a lot of noise, no? For the first part, at least?

Do you mean maybe the background space “youngster” music playing in the tosche hangout + some sounds from the space air hocky table etc.? Not understanding the noise you mean, but when I get to separating the voices from background music (center channel voices, surround sound for ambient etc., than yes it may spread things out more. Right now all in stereo and together.LMK if this is the part you mean or other. I did leave the footsteps and some original wind in the beginning that I will probably clean-up on a 5.1 mix later…if that is the part? (before inside?). Thanks for your feedback

regularjoe said:

Thank you for sharing your work. Really appreciate these cleaned up scenes and can’t wait for the others.

Thanks…just posted #2 “Luke with friends”…see above…1 more to go for this group of scenes

Here is the next clip

Same as before as far as color grade to match archive photos

added music from 2 sources on Youtube where fans added music to this clip. I nice add I found and I think others have tried it is music inside Tosche station so they would be listening to some type of background space music that might have playing while hanging out…also there are some small radio drama bits snuck in too. After doing this I realized I need to have the treadwell scene now for Version 1 as it may not make sense without… so that is next and I have already started a complete redo with new tools… Hopefully next on that one and will still be on track for May Version 1 realse still. I will get back to small tweaks on the others after I finish treadwell.

Hope you like

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x-4jiato_b-NOhUoaHuXnSjGxpMJx822/view?usp=drive_link

Mk_9000 said:

Away from home right now, but let me take a look at these later tonight…thanks for letting me know

Update

In looking at this clip compared to the other where friends are around (what appears to be not much time between) I notice that where I placed it was a little off as far as on the timeline IMO.

I now have an updated version in which the scene with friends (getting close on finishing this one) is right before the droids landing as if Luke sees the battle and goes to tell his friends. Luke and friends at Tosche clip will then end right and transition into the droids just out of the POD and walking the desert

…this meant, I had to move the Biggs and Luke walk a little farther so it starts after R2 rolls away and ends with 3PO now by himself wandering.

I think this makes better sense and it breaks of the “desert wandering” clips a little which has always been the slow part of the film.

here is a link to this new clip with these transitions.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pHL-jieonb7Uei2cDqTH4OAEGO01DSiY/view?usp=sharing

The other link is still good if anyone wants the clip where it was in the timeline as posted prior.

Here is a link to full frame version of Luke and Biggs coming after R2 rolling away, which will be in my final version.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XECacCMFdbMgI67WHxjkenQZ1wHzXdTR/view?usp=sharing

will update more as I make progress on “Luke and Friend look to the sky” clip.

regularjoe said:

I would be eternally grateful for a link to that cleaned up scene if you are of the inclination to share it out.

Does not have a 5.1 track yet…it’s stereo, but when I get to the mix for that (V1 release) will have it

regularjoe said:

I would be eternally grateful for a link to that cleaned up scene if you are of the inclination to share it out.

All,

Here ya go full frame version of Luke and Biggs coming after 3PO calling the jawas if someone wants
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AZYzg7yL-_cbVG08FkOm3qaE1FM5HspX/view?usp=sharing

Slavicuss said:

Nice!

I like the new colours for the deleted scene.

MK900 & Slavicuss…Thanks

Biggs & Luke Take A Walk At Tosche

So wanted to share an update on ANH-X. It is coming along but I have some competing things going on. I just wanted to get this sample clip out as it seems like I have been working on this one for 10 years. I was never happy with it and technology was not there to clean it up enough to insert it into a final movie without it looking like it from the cutting room floor, so it was always throw it on the shelf and come back later. Love this scene ever since I saw the photos in the 1977 storybook

I wanted this in the movie, but with all the editions, we never got it.

the Tosche Station Biggs and Luke walk was a challenge because aside from being long, it has a little bit of everything…dust, scratch lines, blots, massive yellowing coloring jumps in frames, bluryness you name it.

My approach to this was to match a modern look where the color of the sky is a nice desert blue and colors are vivid, this also needs to match the Adywan base to which I am looking to match it all up with. Below is one of my reference sheets that I was using. The first Tosche station scene also uses this color grade (that is also 98% done)

For the final clip I added an all new music track that is actually a combination of 3 different music tracks that fans on Youtube who posted this clip not restored (Credit to others for mixing some excellant backtracking)…really helps when you have some samples and choice to pick and choose from.

I may tweak a few things right before a V1 of ANH (still hoping from sometime in May), but this scenes image should 98% and faithful to the photograph references we have seen throughout the years.

One last thing, the scene with 3PO at the start that transitions into with desert ridge is zoomed in a little more as intentional as I wanted to get a closer shot and dragon bones and the over shot framed.

The end fade into R2 into the caynon is another edit using the original Adywan FX composite from way back, but with his new HD sky (sample from what he posted (Sky graphic all credit to him). I personally like the idea of the caynon looking more like the Jugland Waste we see outside of new hope, Prequals etc. (complete with the BThazoshe Bridge). See sample artwork of that as reference below:

The version that we got with the Bluray was kind of just ok and somewhat overly orange, so wanted add this new composite.

Here is the a comparion clip with the final

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15BN3REpr5ilzVkhcjyAKGpQlmOxiYGH0/view?usp=sharing

and in a few days I will post an full res version if people want it now to insert into projects they have.

Enjoy.

Mk_9000 said:

kg1977 said:

Mk_9000 said:

Any progress updates? Im really looking forward to this! I’v always wanted to see the deleted scenes in action.

[…] I am thinking about releasing […] a sample progress full res clip just to keep things fresh and moving […]

Any chance we can catch a sneak peak?

Funny you ask 😃…Just finished Biggs and Luke Walk tonight…Getting a post ready and share a sample in about 20 minutes

Mk_9000 said:

Any progress updates? Im really looking forward to this! I’v always wanted to see the deleted scenes in action.

Shooting for this May for version 1 but it’s looking tight, got some competing things. Working on the Luke and Biggs deleted walk (been a waiting years to get at this one and get it restored and hoping for this in a few weeks. I am thinking about releasing it as a sample progress full res clip just to keep things fresh and moving, but it will also be in version one. Thanks for the interest.

benduwan said:

here some scenes from the trailer with unused scenes:
https://www.directupload.eu/file/d/8840/evztwz7w_jpg.htm
https://www.directupload.eu/file/d/8840/9djoeui7_jpg.htm
https://www.directupload.eu/file/d/8840/nb5ahkv5_jpg.htm
https://www.directupload.eu/file/d/8840/j6qeuyg9_jpg.htm
https://www.directupload.eu/file/d/8840/tfshiv7h_jpg.htm

Thanks. I did not know about the other Lando shots here (middle and bottom of page).

https://www.directupload.eu/file/d/8840/j6qeuyg9_jpg.htm

DarthTzetzo said:

Hello everyone, I think I found two unused shots from the original trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNwNXF9Y6kY&t=12s&ab_channel=StarWars

1. the first one is of Lando walking down the hallway with his men (maybe before meeting Han on the platform ?) - at 00:47-00:49;
2. the second one is in Wampa’s cave (an alternate view of the hanging Luke before he opens his eyes) - at 01:09-01:10.

I hope they are helpful.
If you have already discussed them - sorry for the “spam”.

Got 'em in my version. That trailer (narrated by Ford) has tons of other as I think Benduwan was saying. Watched it again I think there are also some extra shots (for a sec) on hoth with the soldiers (just random stuff) will have compare later and see. I think maybe 2 shots. A lot of shot like that were very similar

Nice call out though.

benduwan said:

wow. i blow away… 😃
there are some cool ideas. can´t wait to see this.
you add more scenes or is this the full list of your changes?
what running time would be expected?
would ther be updates of your other movies?
thank you very much for doing such a big task…
regards

This is the full list that should include all deleted scenes and shots that I know to exist. Will not know run time until each version is completed.
update for ESB is the same and here is link to that post where shot list is now updated
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/ESB-X-the-eXtended-version-WIP/id/94195

Shotlist for Jedi started some but a ways to go and will not visit unitl after May as I want to get extended versions of ESB, ANH and Raiders done first

thanks for showing interest

Hi all and happy new year!

This is an update on my ANH-X (A New Hope Extended).

I have the final shot list done and have many new scenes completed for a Version 1.
Below is the updated shot list of ANH-X and I have also added this as an update to my original post for this tread since it will be easier than having to read through everything.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUXrjmAZjB__71BXwHY-_5XaDh4R2Cl2/view?usp=drive_link

I will be updating this file as I go, so the link should stay the same and the file should show updated progess as it happens.

I would like to say this version 1 will be done by EOM, but then things come up personally and I am also working on other projects…Raiders extended, ESB etc…so I hate to give a release date. Instead, I will say that I am shooting for end of Q1 of this year and before May the 4th of this year, – more of a realistic range.

The process to finish version 1 is below:
1. Finish all V1 noted changes
2. Move all footage and changes to single timeline
3. Work on audio adjustment for final V1 5.1 track
4. Finish and Adywan upscaled FX I do not have done composited into the master (if adywan has not released by this point)
5. release

Art3x said:

Would love a link!

Here is the link …latest is version 1.6…Merry Christmas

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lmshFw8jqvgr0CdmoETEWRrMwDnNWGnL/view?usp=sharing

Version 2 final version will still be a few months out as I am behind

Internaldeer said:

Hi there. I would absolutely love to see whatever the latest version you are up to. It would be an awesome Christmas gift for myself.lol

Will send later tonight for ya 😁