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Re:The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" by Namahanna on Sunday April 20, 2025 @06:51PM (#43747124)
What you are looking for is this - https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/

"97% of project 4K77 is from a single, original 1977 35mm Technicolor release print, scanned at full 4K, cleaned at 4K, and rendered at 4K."

Opening scene comparison - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1b47UP6ZGI

Re:The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" by Henchman21 on Sunday April 20, 2025 @07:44PM (#43747387)
Thank you!!!
Re:The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" by matheusmoreira on Sunday April 20, 2025 @09:02PM (#43747713)
The dedication of fans never ceases to amaze.

> When a film is professionally scanned in 16-bit color as DPX image files, every single frame weighs in at 100 MB.

> With upwards of 175,000 frames in each film, a complete scan requires about 21 TB of storage

> 42 TB if you want a backup copy!

> And then you need at least another 21 TB of space to work on it

> over $1,000 just in hard drives is therefore required for every film

Re:The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" by SoftTalker on Sunday April 20, 2025 @09:35PM (#43747843)
A tiny expense in the grand scheme of things. The original film stock probably cost an order of magnitude more.
Re:The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" by Melatonic on Monday April 21, 2025 @03:07AM (#43749134)
You probably are not gonna to need 16 bit DPX for anything but high end compositing with CG

Your point still stands but a good quality cineform or something is plenty. And you can definitely get 21TB cheaper than 1000$

Re:The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" by spiderice on Sunday April 20, 2025 @09:05PM (#43747726)
That comparison is really cool. I was mostly paying attention to the 4K77 vs 2011 bluray, and in most cases I thought 4K77 looked better. Not sure why they felt the need to mess with the colors so drastically in the 2011 version.