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A lot of people have been asking me, if v3.0 will be coming out soon. Unfortunately, the answer is no, and I'll try to explain why in the video. Not only is Star Wars: Despecialized Edition a true sign of fans' unyielding devotion, but it's an impressive effort in film preservation and history. When Star Wars first released in 1977 it won several Academy Awards for art direction, sound editing, and visual effects, and it's been argued that the constant digital alterations layered over the original films have removed those award winning.
RotJ was hit so hard by changes. You must log in or register to reply here. The 4K77 is the first scan that I feel is worthy. Oct 29, 1, Archived from the original on November 29, As of a few days ago, The Empire Strikes Back just went from v1.
Correct Vaders lightsaber appearing white 6. Which is why most prints, on Eastman or Fuji stock, are faded to a lovely pink hue. The legality of downloading Harmy’s Despecialized Edition is contentious. Why piece meal stuff together when you have a complete source? Sounds super crisp compared to what I’m used to. It’s really strong, almost blurs the picture to my eyes. Oct 25, 12, Star Wars fans can be the worst, but also the best.
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Oct 29, 1, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Replacing puppet monsters with CGI in Cantina 5. Unofficial Star Wars media. He was three when I started working and I showed it to him when he was five and he hxrmy it. Nathan Barry of Wired praised the films as “an absolute joy to watch”, while Gizmodo described them as “very, very good”. Some projectionists would defocus slightly on really grainy films.
Oct 27, 1, Inland Empire. Definitely gonna check out that 4K. Consequently, the films are only available via various BitTorrent trackers and through specialized rapid download programs using file sharing sites.
It’s a shame that it has to come to this, but I’m happy there’s some crazy fans out there.
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How are the CG X-Wings a good thing? Dec 9, Fan creates ‘despecialized’ original trilogy”. Writing for Inverse, Sean Hutchinson placed it at number one on his list of the best Star Wars fan edits, and described it as “the perfect pre way to experience the saga”.
New falcon taking off scene ANH neutral changes 1. I have the actual lasers, but there are steps deslecialized puggo and 4k As a fan edit, Harmy’s Despecialized Edition cannot be legally bought or sold, and is “to be shared among legal owners of the officially available releases only”. Only a few Technicolor prints were made as the process was mostly discontinued in the early ’70s.
Archived from the original on May 5, Adding more gizmos to R2 when he gets shot by the Jawas 3. Share Your Thoughts Click to share your thoughts.
If so, you’re doing God’s work.
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By ’83 low fade stock was available so Jedi prints are usually okay. Desprcialized 26, 3, The laziest way is to just search The Pirate Bay or Kickass Torrents to search and download the files using a torrent software.
Just use some common sense and google it.
The easiest way to download legit version of the Despecialized Editions would be to use the private torrent method, but if you don’t have a MySpleen account, it’s almost impossible to get. Fallout tactics character editor steam.
Archived from the original on December 14, hxrmy People rated despecialised that highly? I personally didn’t notice all of the different sources when I watched them a few years ago. Updated versions have been created in the years that followed.
Oct 25, 2, The Watcn AwakensI highly recommend you watch these versions beforehand. Which version do you consider to be superior to the Despecialized version prior to 4K77? Oct 25, Melbourne, Australia. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
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I remember Gareth mentioning watching a 4K version of A New Hope, but I never caught the tidbit about it being a new print. With no experience in professional film editing, he taught himself as he went, using programs such as Avisynth and Adobe After Effects. Plus he still uses the God awful BDs and the garbage Lowry masters as a source. New sandcrawler shots 2. Inone year after the project had begun, the first version of Harmy’s Despecialized Edition was published online.
Oct 25, 14, USA. Retrieved January 27, Sean Hutchinson of Inverse placed Harmy’s Despecialized Edition at number one on his list of the best Star Wars fan edits and called them “the perfect pre way to experience the saga”.
Very happy about this. If you plan on seeing Star Wars: Oct 29, It apparently has yet more changes. Despecialized gave us the OT in higher quality and Harmy kept making improvements to his projects over the years when new sources became available.
Yeah what’s up with the chromatic aberration on these? But they have a different look to standard prints.
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By Daniel Miller
Updated December 15, 2015 14:35:10
Director George Lucas used special effects to make controversial changes to his Star Wars series. Now one fan is trying to restore the originals.
Introduction
'People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.' — George Lucas, 1988
A long time ago
In 1988 George Lucas issued a statement to the US Congress rallying against movie studios releasing altered classic films, and urging the preservation of the unaltered works.
'Tomorrow, more advanced technology will be able to replace actors with 'fresher faces', or alter dialogue and change the movement of the actor's lips to match,' he predicted, emphasising 'our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten'.
Decades later fans are now trying to preserve the cultural history of the Star Wars films, which Lucas blotted out with successive 'Special Edition' revisions.
Academy Award-winning practical effects were covered up with 1997-era computer graphics (CGI) that now look sorely dated. Actors and voiceover work were replaced and story elements changed, most famously the 'Han Solo shot Greedo first' debacle.
This would all be fine, says 'Despecialised Edition' project creator Petr Harmy, except for the fact that Lucas made it his mission not to make the classic versions of the films available again in decent video quality.
Opening zix files. In a 2004 interview Lucas famously said, 'I'm sorry you saw a half-completed film and fell in love with it. But I want it to be the way I want it to be.'
Harmy and other fans have been painstakingly restoring the original trilogy, frame by frame in high definition, as close as possible to the version released in cinemas.
He has been sourcing and splicing footage together from 35mm film, a 1993 master released on DVD, HDTV broadcasts and the high-definition Special Edition Blu-Ray release, in order to produce a HD version of the films without any traces of Lucas's changes.
A fan emerges
Harmy, a 27-year-old former English teacher from the Czech Republic, seems an unlikely candidate to lead the charge to restore Star Wars.
He was not even born when audiences were first introduced to a Star Destroyer crawling across their cinema screens in 1977 and he has no background in film editing.
'I remember seeing Star Wars on TV when I was about five,' he says. 'I have a distinct recollection of seeing the [Death Star] trench run on TV.
'Then later I got a copy of an old VHS of the original version of Star Wars which I watched so much as a kid that I totally wore it out.'
For the sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, he watched Lucas's Special Editions first and then later hunted down the originals.
'It took a lot of effort to find the original versions on VHS here in the Czech Republic,' Harmy says. 'It was one of the greatest Star Wars moments for me when I finally got to watch it.
'Though it also made me pretty angry when I realised that some of the special effects shots I was admiring so much were actually re-composited digitally [in the Special Editions] and thus lost much of their historical value.'
The last look Star Wars fans got at the original unaltered trilogy was in 2006 when old, un-restored masters also used for the Laserdisc versions were again used to make a limited run of companion DVDs for inclusion in a set with their Special Edition variants.
These editions also had their issues: the frames were not cleaned up, they were based off a master that was made with 1993 technology rather than the latest advances, and importantly, the DVDs were not anamorphic - enhanced for widescreen TV - or in high definition.
Until fans took charge, the original Star Wars trilogy had never been released in restored quality without Lucas's changes.
Far cry 4 toggle aim. 'I wanted to be able to show people who haven't seen Star Wars yet, like my little brother or my girlfriend, the original Oscar-winning version but I didn't want to have to show it to them in bad quality,' Harmy says.
'Cultural vandalism'
Lucas changed a myriad of things in his Special Editions: from adding in CGI characters and backgrounds to changing audio — like bounty hunter Boba Fett's voice and making Darth Vader scream 'Nooooo!' during Luke's final confrontation with the Emperor.
The ghost of Anakin Skywalker, played by Sebastian Shaw, was expunged from the end of Return of the Jedi and replaced with Hayden Christensen.
Lucas even went so far as to make nuanced changes like removing Anakin Skywalker's eyebrows during the scene where his helmet is removed by Luke.
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Plus there is the issue of whether Han Solo shot Greedo first in the cantina on Tatooine (he did), and the inclusion of Jar Jar Binks's race, the Gungans, at the end of the final film ('Weesa free!' one of them cries).
'I have no problem with extended or director's cuts of movies at all but only as long as the original cut is also available in comparable quality,' Harmy says.
'Like Blade Runner, when you buy that set on Blu-Ray, you get beautiful HD transfers of all five existing versions.
'The original visual effects in Star Wars were completely groundbreaking at the time and trying to suppress the original versions is, in my opinion, an act of cultural vandalism.
'It's an attempt to bury the work of those artists who spent thousands of hours working all the Oscar-winning art that was altered or replaced in the Special Editions.'
Restoring a legend
'Sometimes some of the smallest changes were the most difficult to undo,' says Harmy, who taught himself film editing skills as he went.
Some shots have taken him an hour to restore, others hundreds of hours — it varies with the complexity of the scene.
One of the most difficult scenes was in A New Hope where a CGI droid from Lucas's Special Edition moves through the background as Stormtroopers walk along on the planet Tatooine.
'The little droid flies through the scene and I had to replace everything it covered up, but also make sure that everything that is supposed to be in the foreground is there,' Harmy says.
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'I would always find some new problem - some edge of some object would move wrong, or the background would warp, or the shadows on the ground were wrong and there were like 50 layers, so it was difficult to find where the problem was. That one gave me a lot of headaches.
'If I had a 35mm HD source for it, it probably would have been a piece of cake, but this way it was super difficult.'
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Harmy used the limited 2006 DVD release of the untouched trilogy, which was based on a 1993 master, to patch footage without the droid into a shot from the HD Blu-Ray release. He also had to create custom layered 'mattes' to make the patchwork scene appear seamless.
Aside from patching footage from a variety of sources, one of the major tasks was colour correction.
Lucas's DVD and Blu-Ray releases did a poor job of keeping the colour palette of the original films, and also introduced 'glaring errors', Harmy says.
In one scene on the Millennium Falcon Luke's lightsaber is tinged green in the Blu-Ray release, but it should have been blue.
The entire trilogy on Blu-Ray also has a magenta tone that messes with the look of the film, he says.
Kanzi engine. Harmy had to colour-correct each shot to how the original would have looked using a scan of a Technicolor print.
The Despecialised Edition project has been helped along by the works of other Star Wars fans dedicated to the same cause, who Harmy knows online as: Dark Jedi, YouToo, Pugo, Team Negative 1, Belbucus, Hairy_Hen, CatBus and Laserschwert.
Fans have provided audio restorations, scanned 35mm film reels, upscaled footage and redone subtitle tracks.
Work needed to be done cleaning up scanned film reels to remove visual artefacts like scratches and dirt, and some of the aged footage was severely pink-faded, requiring the original colour palette to be sourced elsewhere.
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It has taken years to the restore the films to the point they are in Despecialised, but even now they are not perfect and likely will never be 'complete', Harmy says.
'Despecialised is not a true restoration, it's a mashup of different sources of varying quality and it has always been meant to only be a placeholder until such time that a true restoration from 100 per cent authentic original sources becomes available.'
Harmy has no plans to revisit his edition of A New Hope any time soon and Empire Strikes Back has had its 2.0 release, leaving a redo of Return of the Jedi's 1.0 version with better tools and footage the next focus.
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Harmy's Despecialised Edition is well known among Star Wars fans online but it is only available to download as a legally questionable torrent.
So far, Lucas and new Star Wars franchise owners Disney have let Harmy be.
Since the franchise was sold, Harmy hopes it now means an official release of the original trilogy is possible.
'[Disney] have the resources and I think if they hit the right nostalgia strings with the marketing, they stand to make huge profits from the release,' he says.
But for Harmy, the project is a hobby that has changed his career trajectory.
The former English teacher has now taken a job at Ultraflix, where he is working to prepare and restore films for Ultra-HD 4K streaming.
Credits
- Reporting: Daniel Miller
- Pictures and video: Lucasfilm/Petr Harmy
- Design: Ben Spraggon
- Development: Colin Gourlay
- Editor: Matt Liddy
Topics:film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, czech-republic
First posted December 14, 2015 06:57:55