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- HARMY AND TOWNE32 PROUDLY PRESENT
- STAR WARS - DESPECIALIZED EDITION REMASTERED (v2.7)
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- |This is a fan preservation made for culturally historical and educational purposes. |
- |Fanedits and preservations must not be bought or sold. |
- |Please report every fanedit or preservation you find for sale to webmasters of originaltrilogy.com. |
- |Fanedits and preservations are an artform and to be shared among legal owners of the officially available releases only. |
- |Do not support piracy. |
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- This is a reconstruction of the 1977 theatrical version of STAR WARS. The original shots were painstakingly restored using
- various sources (listed below) and the film received an extensive shot by shot colour correction based on a fade free 1977
- I.B. Technicolor Print.
- The remastered version (v2.0) represented a significant improvement in picture quality over the earlier version.
- Version v2.1 further improved upon the previous version mainly by refining the colour correction but also by replacing many of the despecialized shots with higher quality ones.
- Version v2.5 offers few more little tweaks to the picture and contains an unprecedented number of audio options, including lossless
- DTS-HD tracks for the original mixes (the original 70mm six-track was recreated by hairy_hen, the original stereo mix was captured
- from LaserDisc PCM and fixed up by hairy_hen and the original mono mix was restored by Belbucus from a VHS recording), an isolated
- score, four different commentary tracks, dubbing tracks in ten different languages and dialects and a British commentary
- for visually impaired.
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- Note from Towne32: Version 2.6 featured a shot-by-shot color adjustment that I performed on Harmy's 2.5 MKV source.
- Harmy was informed after the release of 2.5 that the Technicolor reference scans that he based his color grading on were
- raw scans and not corrected to the way the print actually looks projected. Furthermore, Star Wars was the final major
- Technicolor film produced in the West, and the quality control in the UK lab during those final days was poor, resulting
- in less than ideal color including the prominent green tones that Harmy then incorporated into Despecialized Remastered.
- The color of 2.6+ is still vibrant, but some of the strong overtones and inconsistencies of 2.5, based on those raw scans,
- have been reduced or removed. Additionally, several shots that were based on the low resolution 2006 GOUT DVD in 2.5 have
- been upgraded using Team Negative 1's 35mm "Silver Screen Edition" after I manually cleaned, stabilized, degrained, and color
- corrected the shots.
- Version 2.7 is of higher quality, thanks to Harmy. He sent me the lossless encode of his previous release, allowing me
- to encode 2.7 without any generational encoding losses. Additionally, I corrected an error where several Mos Eisley shots
- were actually using GOUT-based footage in 2.6, rather than the 35mm sources of Harmy's 2.5. Many additional color changes
- were made to correct minor inconsistencies and to remove green tones from some desert scenes, as well as the Death Star
- interior walls in some cases. The "A Long Time Ago" card is now from a cleaned up version of the 35mm scan. And the Greedo
- subtitles have been replaced with an impressive rendering of the 35mm text made by CatBus. Additionally, Darth Lucas
- rotoscoped the lightsaber blade in Ben's hut from the 35mm print. The version 2.7 MKV includes several subtitle and
- audio dub languages not available previously, also thanks to CatBus, including a fixed Castilian track.
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- More information can be found here:
- http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Harmys-STAR-WARS-Despecialized-Edition-HD/topic/12713/
- VIDEO SOURCES:
- 1) STAR WARS Episode IV A New Hope Official Blu-Ray 2011 (Preliminary colour correction by You_Too)
- 2) STAR WARS 2006 Bonus DVD (sourced from the 1993 Definitive Edition Laser Disc Master - upscales by Dark Jedi, You_Too and Harmy)
- 3) Star.Wars.Episode.IV.A.New.Hope.1977.720p.HDTV.x264-DON (2004 DVD Version)
- 4) STAR WARS 1997 Special Edition (Reivax DTV capture)
- 5) Custom mattes, 35mm and 70mm film cell scans etc.
- 6) Team Negative1 35mm "Silver Screen Edition" LPP print scan
- 7) Puggo Grande (1977 16mm print transfer)
- Technical Specifications:
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- CONTAINER: AVCHD
- SIZE: 7.9 GB
- VIDEO: 1280x720p H264 23.976 fps
- AUDIO: (all Dolby Digital) Special thanks to hairy_hen and Belbucus
- TRACK 1) 5.1 1977 70mm six track mix @ 640Kbps
- TRACK 2) 2.0 1977 stereo mix @ 224Kbps
- TRACK 3) 1.0 1977 mono mix @ 128Kbps
- TRACK 4) 2.0 Isolated score @ 224Kbps (hairy hen)
- TRACK 5) 2.0 1993 LD Audio Commentary @ 192Kbps (silence filled with 1993 LD 2.0)
- TRACK 6) 2.0 2004 DVD Audio Commentary @ 192Kbps
- TRACK 7) 2.0 2004 starwars.com Audio Commentary @ 192Kbps
- TRACK 8) 2.0 2011 BD Archival Interviews Audio Commentary @ 192Kbps
- Subtitles: (Project Threepio) Special thanks to CatBus
- English (en)
- Chinese (Simplified) (zh-cn)
- Spanish (es)
- French (fr)
- German (de)
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