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We have a scan of a THX intro, but haven’t used it.

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Thanks for the discussion, but please move further speculation of the new film to another thread. Some of the team members have not seen the new movie yet, and don’t plan too.

Talking about it is irrelevant to what our plans are for preservation.
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Here is the final preview of the nearly complete Reel 6.

Time : 16minutes:20seconds

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Although we haven’t mentioned them, we would wait for the best restorations to come out first, before thinking about a Grindhouse version of the other films.

That would increase the number of releases to at least 3 for each film.

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We’ve checked out the synchronizing with all of our Reels, and so far it sounds good.

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We’ve checked out all the reels, and the synchronizing sounds great.

We don’t have the Spanish crawl just yet, so we will keep looking for that.

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The workprint for Version 3 - has been rendered in 1080p, and we are doing some
final checks before release.

The Empire Strikes Back - Sanitized [V3]

1080p Mkv will be the first release - 25G
Bd ISO - 25G, will come later.

There may be one or two more previews before the final release.

Since this is not a full restoration, due to the use of heavy
digital manipulation, there might be some slight artifacts in it.

The intent of this version, was to test the cleanup, and make
watching Empire Strikes Back more enjoyable and presentable.

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Currently, the plans and workflow only allow so many projects to be worked on. Ultimately, there will be at least 2 main versions of each film released.

1 Star Wars LPP with Eastman replacements, this is the first priority.

The rest of the projects will be in parallel.

2 Empire Strikes Back - Sanitized - [Eastman-Fuji hybrid]

3 Star Wars [Eastman]
4 Return of the Jedi [LPP Hybrid]
5 Empire Strikes Back [Fuji]
6 Return of the Jedi [Eastman]

And then the SE, and the Prequels.

So there’s a lot to look forward to next year and beyond.

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No. But of course, that is not the information that should be shared. General discussion is ok.

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We have plans for Return of the Jedi, but it won’t take as much effort as the other films, so we’ll decide on what release versions will come out.

We do want the best versions to come out first, but in the case of the Empire Strikes Back, it would have taken much longer.

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Why? We discuss prints all the time.

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The audio is temporary. The video will be 1080p. This is just a preview.

There will be a much better version with the other Fuji print. This cleaned version is just a test.

We are not using the color correct tool with this yet, if adjustments are made, they will be done from
another reference.

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Here is a 90% complete version of Reel 5 of ESB grindhouse, cleaned up.
Time : 13minutes

There is a possibility that we will try to use a new color LUT on it, to change
the look of it.

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There is no current blog, or additions to the email list. That was for prior members from our past blog.

As far as the previews go, those were limited in time also. Members here will share them with you, feel free to PM them.

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It has taken us some time, but there will be a better preservation of the mono soundtrack, thanks to Jaxxon.

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Thanks for the offers, but we don’t need any more prints of this.

With the prints we have access to, we will definitely be able to have the best possible restoration out there.

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For subtitle support, please ask here:
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Project-Threepio-Star-Wars-OOT-subtitles/id/13794

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Thanks to Mr. Niceguy for posting V2 on myspleen. Looks like it will be a pretty good transfer.
Good job to the people that worked on this project.

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PDF of previous document : http://docdro.id/wx3u4Qd

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Here’s a document about the colors in GOUT Star Wars : http://docdro.id/4d1SbKw

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More information about the Library of Congress, via the old Save Star Wars site.
[This is copy of page there]: http://pastebin.com/HSTTsE1q

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Good to hear Harmy, and good job on the new version.

Glad to know you were able to use the scans.

If we need to coordinate on the future version, let us know.
We will see what we can do.

The color correction will always be an ongoing issue, so keep
working on fixing that also. We will see what our references
end up looking like. Everyone will have a different take on that,
as usual.

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At some point in the future, we will be working on the SE versions of the film. Not sure what the timeframe would be.

Also, good to hear the Harmy will be able to use the footage of the scans we sent him. The eyebrow shot looks good.

We will have some announcements about Return of the Jedi sometime next year.

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This will be V2 compared to the first original grindhouse release. The prints will remain separate, since the newer print is of higher quality.

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The other print of Empire will probably start restoration work next year, and thanks to the color correction tools, that will help speed up that portion of it.

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