The "Star Wars: Revisited" Project

[Dangelus]

Dan i was wondering the DVD's that came out in 2007 with the original films on them as special discs did you not buy them?

Yes I did get those. A few problems though:

Those discs are not great transfers. What they did was use transfers that were made in the early 1990s for the Laserdisc releases and literally nothing was done to them, instead of using the restored masters from the 1997 cleanup. I think Lucas even said that the original negatives no longer exist as all the special edition changes were pasted into them after they did the restoration, others say this is bull.

Because they were Laserdisc transfers they are also non-anamorphic, ie the movies are letterboxed in 4:3 so you lose resolution as the DVD player has to zoom it in to fill the screen (if you're watching in widescreen) as opposed to anamorphic where the picture is squeezed into a 4:3 frame and stretched out on 16:9 screens without losing resolution.

[Meds]

Ah thanks for that. I watched Star wars a month ago and i wondered why it looked quite pasty that would be why.

[Dangelus]

More ESB updates, work progressing nicely.

Soon there will be a watchable HD version of ESB finally! ;)

Untitled on Vimeo

[ChrisMC]

The thing I like about it is the small touches, the X-Wing getting destroyed in the escape and the jump to hyperspace, the door of the Hoth base changed to look more like eh set, and the bluish tint taken away. This guy is dedicated. I watched the first SW revisited and thought he made some pretty good changes and some "eh" one in others. Looking forward to watching this.

[ChrisMC]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBAZGtBfcY4#

Gotta love this drawn-out version of the destruction of Alderaan.

[Rico]

Cool!  And at least Luke's lightsaber blade is blue too!

[ChrisMC]

Yeah, not that weird light green-ish tint. I have really been enjoying fan-edits lately!

[Bryancd]

I don't know, seems completly superfulous.

[ChrisMC]

Sure, but so are deleted scenes on dvds and teasers for trailers, but we still geek out on them! ;p

[Dangelus]

Cool!  And at least Luke's lightsaber blade is blue too!

And Hoth no longer will be blue in ESB: Revisted :)

[Dangelus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBAZGtBfcY4#

Gotta love this drawn-out version of the destruction of Alderaan.

This isn't actually in Star Wars Revisited. It was considered but he ended up going for the quick enhanced shot instead.

[Dangelus]

Latest visual comparison shots for ESB: Revisted


https://plus.google.com/photos/102542760950977079734/albums/5743155141051189121?banner=pwa

[ChrisMC]

I just rewatched the ANH revisited...while some stuff was just added to be neat, I particularly like the fixing of continuity gaffes , like visual wires and crew, also altering things to fit with the rest of the saga, as simple as giving Vader the flashing lights on his chest like in ESB and ROTJ, and a new effect like giving the rebels the Death Star plans as shown in Episode 2. Pretty neat, and a heck of a lot of work.

[Dangelus]

I just rewatched the ANH revisited...while some stuff was just added to be neat, I particularly like the fixing of continuity gaffes , like visual wires and crew, also altering things to fit with the rest of the saga, as simple as giving Vader the flashing lights on his chest like in ESB and ROTJ, and a new effect like giving the rebels the Death Star plans as shown in Episode 2. Pretty neat, and a heck of a lot of work.

Yep. A lot of work. Don't forget having Obi Wan cut off the correct arm!

[ChrisMC]

Yes, and having Vader actually cut into Obi-Wan and not an empty robe...not that big a fan of using the prequel music in that fight though.