He didn’t have access to original film negatives. Instead, he developed a hybrid approach. He would take the high-resolution 2011 Blu-ray (which had the best picture detail) and painstakingly "despecialize" it—cutting out the CGI additions and pasting in footage from lower-resolution, but unaltered, sources.
The project began as a modest attempt to color-correct the 2011 Blu-ray release to match the original film stock. However, it quickly evolved into something much more complex. Harmy realized that to truly "despecialize" the films, he would have to engage in a painstaking process of reverse-engineering. He would have to strip away the CGI additions of the Special Editions and reconstruct the original scenes using whatever high-quality sources he could find. harmy 39-s despecialized version
By the time the DVDs and Blu-rays arrived, Lucas had made it nearly impossible to buy the unaltered theatrical cuts. The 2006 DVDs included "bonus discs" with the original versions, but they were non-anamorphic, low-resolution transfers lashed directly from a 1993 LaserDisc master—widely considered unwatchable on modern TVs. He didn’t have access to original film negatives
Used as the primary high-definition base for scenes that remained largely unchanged. The project began as a modest attempt to