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That is so cool.

Some of the flashes are quite purple on the prints, I'll dig out some reference frames.

Thanks, PM me if you would like some images for colour reference.

Yes, please contact me. I would be interested.

This print is cropped slightly tighter than the other print I have, and a bit more tightly than the neg-1 print appears to be from their screenshots.

I'd be interested if someone could upload a GOUT image to compare the framing.

A quick image from an incomplete 35mm print loaned to me by an Australian collector.

No cleanup done as yet, but the colour is pretty close to the print itself.

One of the interesting things is the shadow of the 'stick' used for the lightsabre being cast onto Obi-Wan's face.

Asaki said:

You should've asked for the intravenous antibiotics.

 Difficut to do at home... I'd rather intravenous air conditioning anyway, 49°C temperatures outside aren't making me feel a whole lot better (about 120°F for you old-skool folks).

Home again, have to pretty much do nothing but rest for a few weeks and eat antibiotic tablets that could choke a moose, but good to be back in my own bed.

TServo2049 said:

Wow, I know people said the Death Star originally looked green, but damn, it REALLY looks green here. The green shadows/pink highlights really remind me of that 1978 bootleg tape AntcuFaalb has...

I assume this is still from the LPP print?

 Different prints and different scanning techniques will deliver different colours.

A print I have is nowhere near as green as those shots. I have no idea if they have colour corrected those shots to any particular print, or at all. I think it is mostly showing the dirt and scratch removal.

I am being admitted tongiht for a few days to keep hydrated. I'll drop in when I am back home again.

PS> Moth3r, your PMs are full!

Happy New Year All, I have changed the thread title to better reflect the project.

An Australian collector has kindly allowed me access to a print (missing one reel) so I will be working on that and posting some images etc. soon.

Unfortunately I have managed to contract pneumonia, so am confined to bed for a few days, hopefully can avoid hospital and be back on deck soon.

I would love to get a crack at re-capturing the VHS at better quality.

Try it, it could be an impedence mis-match between the player and the Extron.

How is the colour if you go straight from the Pioneer to the BMI?

Whereabouts in the world are you Mike? I might be able to help.

Good to know, it means I don't have to take your Xmas present back. I thought you may have been suffering from an irony deficiency.

DarthKenobi said:

doubleofive said:

So what's your editing background? What are you going to use as the sources for the restoration of the original effects? Are you going to color grade the main film to better match how it originally looked?

 Well, what I do is take the blu-ray footage and if there is any change in the lightsaber blade (like vader's pink lightsaber in the 2004) I rotoscope the area of the lightsaber blade from the 2006 DVD and color correct it so, it will be like the blu-ray shot. I used after effects for most of the original HD shots (well, the editing)

What are you using to scale the 2006 footage?

Is there any more of this?

I updated my first post a bit with extra feedback after watching it again. Thanks for posting the vid!

Not sure which forum it would be best to post it, but I really enjoyed it. Nicely done, it looks like it was a lot of work.

I don't have any sound, so I am going strictly from the visuals, I may be missing some key information that is in the audio, so keep that in mind with any of my advice!

I enjoyed the 'bedroll' transition, the lighting around the barn door edges looks great, as does the blowout transition of the opening door, and I was happy to see a 70s era vertical wipe! Nice attention to detail.

As for constructive feedback, the vertical wipe, while very Star Wars, is a little too fast. I would also talk to your colourist and regrade the film, some shots need to match a little better, and some could really be enhanced by adjusting the colour to match the mood of particular shots. e.g. the opening shots, the shadows are long, so it is obviously the end of the day or early morning.

Making it the end of the day fits with the drama of the injury, maybe they have been on the run/escaping after a day (days) of action, so the mood fits the end of the day timeframe as well. This would be enhanced emotionally by a darker image and sunset colour pallete, to enhance that feeling that the day is quite literally setting on them, and quite possibly setting for the last time on the injured warrior. (Don't go too warm if you want a colder feel to the potential death/peril of the injured character, but the end of day feel could really work emotionally and visually)

Some tweaking to draw the eye where the director wants it to go would also lift some scenes a bit. You have a really deep depth of field, so that makes it harder to do, but a good colourist can still lead the eye to where it should go. A very mild vignette can help here.

I would probably add some grain to get the original trilogy feel and make it a little less sharp. The original films were shot very soft and with soft ambient light/low contrast to try and capture an older hollywood style. Your colourist could help achieve that look.

I really enjoyed it, is there any more?

Great stuff!

I'd offer you one, but I thought you were GPU intolerant.

Asaki said:

Yep, that's the same HDTV that's been around for ages. Cropped =(

Every once in a while, Netflix streaming will have an uncropped version of it, but nobody's capturing from Netflix.

 I capture from netflix all the time. Let me know when it is on again.

Hard for any movie to have such an impact today, mainly due to the constant leaks, making of's, clips showing key parts of the movie and marketing etc.

Back in 77 I went to the movie and had never even heard of it. I was worried it was going to be a war film and it would give me night-mares!

These days I parctice good film-hygiene to try and enjoy movies more.

I watch no trailers, news items, teasers or anything for a movie I am interested in. Nothing. Then I go see it as early as possible.

I am enjoying movies far far more than I had been over the past few years. It makes it so much more enjoyable when you haven't already heard the lines, seen the effects, know the twists etc.

I think it is why I enjoyed Tron Legacy so much more than my peers, I kept myself in the dark and knew nothing except the images on the posters. It was so much more impressive that way. It was like being a kid again.

Yeah, in Oz it is 'Uni' as well, school means high-school here. :), and yes, we do uni work at uni.