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Interview with Matthew Wood

August 26, 2011 by Miguel Isaza

Home Theater Forum has interviewed Matthew Wood about his work on the Blu-ray edition of Star Wars.

We met with Matthew Wood from Skywalker Sound to find out more about the sound mix and what was done to ready it for Blu-ray.  He started working on the Blu-ray audio back in 2007.  Here are excerpts from that presentation.  It was very obvious that he has a lot of passion for these films.  Please note that the questions came from multiple participants, including myself:

I’ve [Matthew Wood] been involved in the restoration and remastering of Episodes IV, V and VI since about 1996 when we started the special editions and all the way through the DVD releases now.  I’ve actually brought all 6 movies that I got the print masters from Skywalker Sound so that we can listen to some scenes today. The cool thing about Blu-ray is the fact that when I play you these masters, it’s effectively as what’s on the disc, it’s the file copy that goes on the disc, we have an uncompressed master on the disc.

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Filed Under: interviews Tagged With: blu-ray, film sound, films, lucasfilm, matthew wood, mixing, restoration, skywalker sound, sound design, sound effects, star wars

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  1. STARWARS Bluray is shit says

    September 9, 2011 at 12:16 pm

    I hope this STAR WARS blurau is huge marketing flop! 

    Also fuck you Matthew Wood for fucking up the heritage of the original STAR WARS 
    leave it alone you TWAT FUCK CUNT ! 

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