******************************************************************************* Star Wars Theatrical Reconstruction ******************************************************************************* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDDDDDDDDDDD 7777777777777777777777777777777777777777 D::::::::::::DDD 7::::::::::::::::::77::::::::::::::::::7 D:::::::::::::::DD 7::::::::::::::::::77::::::::::::::::::7 DDD:::::DDDDD:::::D +++++++ 777777777777:::::::7777777777777:::::::7 D:::::D D:::::D +:::::+ 7::::::7 7::::::7 D:::::D D:::::D +:::::+ 7::::::7 7::::::7 D:::::D D:::::D +++++++:::::+++++++ 7::::::7 7::::::7 D:::::D D:::::D +:::::::::::::::::+ 7::::::7 7::::::7 D:::::D D:::::D +:::::::::::::::::+ 7::::::7 7::::::7 D:::::D D:::::D +++++++:::::+++++++ 7::::::7 7::::::7 D:::::D D:::::D +:::::+ 7::::::7 7::::::7 D:::::D D:::::D +:::::+ 7::::::7 7::::::7 DDD:::::DDDDD:::::D +++++++ 7::::::7 7::::::7 D:::::::::::::::DD 7::::::7 7::::::7 D::::::::::::DDD 7::::::7 7::::::7 DDDDDDDDDDDDD 77777777 77777777 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type.................: Movie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Video Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Video Format.........: HEVC (x265) Video Bitrate........: 55 Mbps Resolution...........: 3840 x 2160 Aspect Ratio.........: 2.35:1 (letterboxed to 16x9) Size.................: 51 GB Color................: 10 bit FPS..................: 23.976 Sources..............: UHD BR for non SE shots, 35mm sources for replacement shots Genre................: Science Fiction Duration.............: 2h 01m (approx) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Audio Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track 01.............: 2.0 AC3 1977 70mm stereo mix (theatrically synced) - Eng Track 02.............: 5.1 AC3 1977 70mm six track mix (theatrically synced) - Eng Track 03.............: 1.0 AC3 1977 35mm mono mix (theatrically synced) - Eng Track 04.............: 2.0 AC3 1993 Stereo remix (schorman, v3.0 2021) - Eng Track 05.............: 3.0 AC3 1993 Directors commentary (schorman, v3.0 2021) - Eng ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted to............: PRIVATE Release Date.........: May 4th 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is this you ask? This is a "theatrical" reconstruction (mostly) of Star Wars using the 2160p UHD BluRay HDR version as it's main source. This is not a pure theatrical reconstruction though. This is not a new Despecialized. I call it D+77. v2.4 info This is a colour tweak version. Much of the film in v2.3 had a yellow tint. I've fixed that. I've done scene-by-scene corrections and many scenes have had shot-to-shot changes applied to fix inconsistencies in the source. v2.3 info This is a minor release version to improve a few shots I felt were the weakest. I stabilized the end of the tiltdown a bit just before the flyover. It was quite jittery. I didn't completely stabilize it, I just reduced the jitteriness of it. The replacement shot of Artoo in the canyon has the colour tweaked. I felt it was too red and too dark compared to the shots right afterward. It's a closer match now. The shot of the entrance to the Cantina is digitally recomposited now to greatly improve the quality. The "doors locked" shot has been tweaked to fix what looked like light leakage in the scan. The shot of the Falcon blasting out of Moss Eisley has been redone to improve the quality. The shot of the Falcon backing out of the Death Star has been redone. The shot of the Rebel guy scanning the horizon on Yavin has been redone. The PG end notification is redone to eliminate the warping it had. I tweaked the colour of another shot a bit to better blend. Lastly, this version is NOT GOUT synced. Version 2.3 presents the full theatrical sync of the film. It restores the one frame missing from the NTSC GOUT DVD which was present in the PAL GOUT DVD and of course the UHD BR. For the stereo track I used hairy_hen's 70mm 2.0 v3 flac audio file. -edited in Resolve. Rendered out to pcm. Transcoded to ac3 using ffmpeg. For the mono track I used the DTS-MA audio track from 4K77 v1.4. -converted to wav using eac3to. Edited it in Resolve to sync to the stereo track. Rendered out to pcm. Transcoded to ac3 using ffmpeg. For the 5.1 track I used hairy_hen's 70mm 5.1 v3 DTS-MA audio file. -converted to flac using eac3to. Edited and synced in audacity using the stereo track as a reference. Exported to flac. Transcoded to ac3 using ffmpeg. I was hoping our audio experts would have theatrically synced these by now but it hasn't happened yet so I did it on my own the best I knew how with the tools I had. DTS-MA versions of these tracks are in a separate folder for those who want lossless audio. AC3 files were muxed into the file for maximum compatibility. This is how I always wanted to present D+77, in it's full theatrical sync. Enjoy! v2.2 info This release is to improve the quality of many shots. The Fox intro is redone to be a more theatrical colour correction. The source for this is an original Star Wars 35mm print. The opening crawl has been redone and retimed to be more theatrically accurate. The starfield during the crawl is now repositioned more accurately. The timing of the tiltdown after it is theatrically timed now. In the SE it gets to the planet too quickly so the music queue was off. The 3PO "over here" shot is now UHD Blu-Ray which has a custom wipe to the 35mm Tech print with R2 in the canyon. This is a huge improvement in quality. The wipe to the "look sir droids" shot is cleaned up a bit. The twin suns shot is replaced with the theatrical version. Greedo hardcoded subs are redone to improve the quality. The grate that Leia shoots to the trash compactor is theatrical now. The ships taking off from Yavin shot is redone. Many ships where faint or missing. The final wipe to the credits is cleaned up a bit. White specks on the sides of the end credits are cleaned up. Many other shots are better colour matched. I also fixed light leakage on the sides of many shots. v2.1 info Note v2.0 had a couple of errors so it was quickly terminated. v2.1 is the first proper release using the UHD BluRay. Sources used... The 2160p UHD BluRay was used as the primary source for this project. My DNR of 4k77 shots are used to restore original shots where needed. For many shots I went back to the RAW anamorphic scan used to make 4K77. A shot from another Technicolor print was used as well. A few shots were provided by SkyDude for this project. Thank You. Greedo subs... The UHD BluRay has m2ts files with and without hardcoded Greedo subs. I used the version without because the hardcoded ones were different than they originally were. I hardcoded the original Greedo subs using the .sup file from Project Threepio. The subs in the .sup were a bit blocky so I added a bit of blur to them to smooth them out. Audio... I muxed in the English stereo, 5.1 and mono tracks but I used ac3 files instead of the DTS-MA files. Too many people have issues playing the DTS-MA tracks so it's more accommodating this way. I personally always convert DTS to ac3 anyway. I figure anyone who really needs DTS-MA could probably mux them themself. The audio in this version is NTSC GOUT synced. I would have preferred it to be theatrically synced but I didn't have properly synced audio available in time for this. Audio from any 4K77 or Despecialized version will work with this project. Colour... The original HDR grade took advantage of the wider colour gamut. Since I'm working in SDR, rec.709, I needed to tame the HDR grade. What this means is areas that lacked saturation have been boosted but areas that would have gotten oversaturated with that change have been scaled back. Other colour tweaks were used to make it the best I could. Colour is - HDR tonemapped with a LUT provided by age - final colour by me using only curves (sat-vs-sat, luma-vs-sat, hue-vs-sat, and standard RGB curves). Colour is loosely based on a colour correction by DrDre. Theatrical but not completely theatrical... I restored most of the original 1977 shots of the film, removing almost all of the CGI and other unnecessary changes. My preference was quality over authenticity though. My intent was to keep it as theatrical as possible, but I'm willing to sacrifice some authenticity for quality sake so some creative license was used in the process. It's theatrical in spirit. previously v1.0 and v1.1 used the WEB-rip source. v1.2 used the WEB-DL source. More info can be found on https://forums.thestarwarstrilogy.com/ MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU oohteedee and PS please buy the official version of the film if you haven't already.