Stupid question because I'm technologically incompetent: can I burn these to a regular DVD or do I need a blu ray burner?

mosh4jebus said:

Stupid question because I'm technologically incompetent: can I burn these to a regular DVD or do I need a blu ray burner?

Use IMGBurn and burn them to a standard dual-layered DVD-R. 

This app will automatically set the setting for BLU/AVCHD, all you have to do is drag, drop and burn. 

CatBus said:

The fonts used on the theatrical subs cannot be recreated using any existing font--they need to be hand-modified in Photoshop, so a straight SRT-to-subtitle conversion is simply impossible if you want good-looking results.

Well, this is not entirely true. Has the original on-screen subtitle font been identified? It will likely have been a photo-film font supplied to Lucasfilms. I can supply a digital font that can be used if a consensus of the original font name can be supplied. Drop shadow and 'stretch' included and everything.

On the topic of subtitles... I guess you'd have to burn  them in to make them look 100% as they did, but I'd be fine either way I guess.  While not an issue for ANH... will the misspellings be recreated or corrected in ROTJ?  As I recall Wookiee was misspelled and I want to say there was something else too, but not 100% sure.

Ben

Harmy said:

If the mistakes were there on film, in cinemas, they will be preserved but I don't think they were.

Just to let you know guys, I've got lots of school work piled up (what with my final exams coming up and all), so there hasn't been much development lately. I'd wanted the edit to be done before I had to start doing all the school work but since I didn't manage to meet that dead line and I don't want to rush it, because I want to get everything right, I won't be able to resume work on this until the end of May. 

No worries Harmy.  Something like this is definitely worth the wait.  Take care of yourself and school work, and we will be eagerly waiting a summer release!  Best of luck with school!

Yeah, good luck with school Harmy!

Harmy said:

If the mistakes were there on film, in cinemas, they will be preserved but I don't think they were.

Just to let you know guys, I've got lots of school work piled up (what with my final exams coming up and all), so there hasn't been much development lately. I'd wanted the edit to be done before I had to start doing all the school work but since I didn't manage to meet that dead line and I don't want to rush it, because I want to get everything right, I won't be able to resume work on this until the end of May. 

NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!  - Darth Vader

Harmy said:

If the mistakes were there on film, in cinemas, they will be preserved but I don't think they were.

Just to let you know guys, I've got lots of school work piled up (what with my final exams coming up and all), so there hasn't been much development lately. I'd wanted the edit to be done before I had to start doing all the school work but since I didn't manage to meet that dead line and I don't want to rush it, because I want to get everything right, I won't be able to resume work on this until the end of May. 

Thanks for the update Harmy.  It's your baby, we're just patiently waiting for your magnificent product.  Good luck with your exams and we look forward to hearing from you when things settle down!

Harmy said:

If the mistakes were there on film, in cinemas, they will be preserved but I don't think they were.

Yes, lest we forget, none of the official releases have the original theatrical subs. VideoCollector's cropped bootleg and Puggo's 16mm are the only sources we know of with the original subs. By the time Harmy gets to the DeEd 2.0 of Jedi, I'm sure Return of the Pug will be out and we'll know for sure what the theatrical subs looked like.

Hey Harmy, I just registered (or rather re-registered, since I apparently had an old account long fogotten) to give a heartfelt thank you.  A friend screened your despecialized versions of the OT for a group of pals on Easter Sunday, and they blew us all away.  Thank you thank you and, ok one more time with feeling, THANK YOU!!

It's been the proverbial long, long time since I first saw Star Wars about two weeks into its theatrical release in the Spring of '77.  With each passing and largely infuriating change, I've been longing to get back to that beloved version.

I've reviewed most of this thread, though hardly not all of it.  But I'm all asquee you're working on a version 2.0.  Heheh, no worries from this quarter that you're going to take your time with it and do it right when you can manage to devote the time and effort.  For me, this has been over 30 years in coming - so more waiting is insignificant at this point.

Just wanted to give you some added encouragement and some well-earned kudos.  Your efforts are sincerely appreciated by many.

Hey Harmy!

Thank you for the update!

I wish you a lot of luck for your exams and will come back here then at the end of May.

Btw. I watched the official Blu ray release a few days back and now I know why your version 2.0 will be a release that will long be remembered ;-)

May the force be with you and all the best wishes!

There are subtitles for this release? I'm brazilian and I'm willing to resync some subtitles to match this release, but if someone provides some correctly timed subtitles, it will make the work much easier.

thanks in advance

While we all play the waiting game, Harmy, any though that you might work the Scofield project in as an alternate audio trackÉ  Seems like a natural - theatrical presentation, 1977 theatrical audience participation.  Anyways, just a thought.  Best of luck with finals!

And now back to the waiting game......forget this, the waiting game sucks, let`s play Twister.