I tried to place these switches in inconspicuous places, reediting some material from the original Deleted Magic in 16×9 to make the transitions easier. Instead, there’s an ugly jump as to another track as your DVD player switches ratios. So, it was impossible to place the new material into the film seamlessly. However, the original Deleted Magic was edited in a 4×3 aspect ratio, due to the many different sources used in the film, and the onscreen captions. I had edited these scenes in 16×9 aspect ratio to preserve their quality. The object of Deleted Magic Revisited was to recreate my original Deleted Magic DVD from 2005, but with new versions of five major deleted scenes. You might find subtle references to two of my other fan DVD projects. Slightly different menu music this time round. The 1977 crawl does not appear this time round due to disc space (I had intended to use the version from my own Star Wars Classic Edition 2.0). Enjoy.Ī note that the special features also appear in slightly better quality than on the original Deleted Magic … ripped directly from other fine fan DVDs. I have restored these scenes to a quality never seen before, and placed them on this disc for you, edited into the original, unchanged Deleted Magic feature documentary from 2005. I animated a shot of Luke and a Treadwell droid, and a shot of Ben attacking with his lightsaber during the Cantina sequence. I combined a multitude of new sources within the same frame to restore the Jabba the Hutt scene. I used the program Twixtor to generate new frames and restore these scenes to 24 frames per second – not a perfect solution during fast motion, but jaw-droppingly successful during dialogue scenes, and an improvement that is like night and day. Most of these scenes had only been released in low quality, 12 frames per second, on CD-ROMs in the late 90s. In 2009, I decided to revisit the major deleted scenes of Star Wars. I’m told that Clive Young’s book Homemade Hollywood called it “The best documentary ever made on the making of Star Wars.” In March 2005, I created a DVD called Deleted Magic and released it for free, on a non-profit basis, on the internet.

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