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== Team Negative 1, Project 4K77, and subsequent restorations ==
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Although widely praised, some have remarked that Harmy's Despecialized Editions are still technically reconstructions using digital effects and upscaling of low quality sources,<ref>{{cite AV media|people=Harmáček, Petr (Director)|date=2021-03-11|title=Introducing the Despecialized Edition and Its Sources|type=Motion Picture|language=en|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDz8VMMJU6I&t=767s|access-date=2023-07-25|___location=Czech Republic|publisher=Harmáček, Petr|archive-date=2023-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725204203/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDz8VMMJU6I&t=767s|url-status=live}}</ref> rather than truly unaltered preservations. This led to subsequent efforts to improve on it, such as the ''Silver Screen Edition''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Info-Improving-Silver-Screen-Edition-colors-on-the-cheap/id/49565|title=Info: Improving Silver Screen Edition colors on the cheap|author=Dreamaster|date=2016-04-22|website=Original Trilogy.com|access-date=2023-07-25|archive-date=2023-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725204204/https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Info-Improving-Silver-Screen-Edition-colors-on-the-cheap/id/49565|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''Skywalker Edition.''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/4K77-Released/id/60815/page/17#1241141|title=**4K77** - Released - Original Trilogy|author=Collipso|date=2018-09-18|website=Original Trilogy.com|access-date=2023-07-25|archive-date=2023-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725204203/https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/4K77-Released/id/60815/page/17#1241141|url-status=live}}</ref>
One of these efforts, ''Project 4K77,'' is a fan project to scan and restore original 35mm prints of ''Star Wars'' from 1977. The project name refers to the [[4K resolution]] used and the film's release year of 1977. In 2016, a few 35mm prints were located and donated to a group of fans called "Team Negative 1" (TN1), who scanned these prints at 4K resolution. TN1 released the film online in May 2018, first in the form of a 4K UHD file and then a [[1080p]] downscale. According to the ''Project 4K77'' website, 97% of the restored video came from a single print that was dubbed in Spanish, with the remainder from an alternate print and some frames upscaled from the official Lucasfilm Blu-ray.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Project 4K77 {{!}} The Star Wars Trilogy|url=https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/|access-date=2020-10-04|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-10-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028162528/https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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''Project 4K80'', a restoration of ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980), was begun by TN1 in 2020, reporting that although they have multiple prints, some were faded and they required substantially more cleanup, with a projected two-year time frame to complete.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Project 4K80 {{!}} The Star Wars Trilogy|url=https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k80/|access-date=2020-10-04|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-10-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001055812/https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k80/|url-status=live}}</ref> This is because unlike 4K77 and 4K83, which were either primarily or entirely sourced from a single print, none of the prints available for 4K80 were complete. Each of the six sources used also had their own unique color timing, meaning additional re-grading was needed to match each source's colors to one another.
TN1 has since discovered a complete print of ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980), in substantially better condition than the sources used up to that point. They have announced intentions to eventually use this as the basis of a V2.0 with more theatrically accurate colors, similar to 4K83's V2.0, and have also announced intentions to do the same for 4K77 using since acquired prints.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}} When discussing TN1's projects, Harmy expressed that he considered them "vastly superior" restorations to the Despecialized Editions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/4K77-Released/id/60815/page/7#1211042|title=**4K77** - Released - Original Trilogy|last=Harmáček|first=Petr|date=2018-08-26|website=Original Trilogy.com|access-date=2023-07-25|quote=I have previously already recommended the SSE over DeEdv2.7 and this one is vastly superior to the SSE, so I’d definitely recommend this as the go to version, at least for now|archive-date=2023-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725204205/https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/4K77-Released/id/60815/page/7#1211042|url-status=live}}</ref>
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