Harmy, i like it! 

Yeah, i think if you just fine-tune it a little and possibly make the animation a little more subtle, it will look awesome.  Personally I would slow it down a bit and I would probably choose the "Force Theme" to play over it, but that's just my personal preference.  

But I definitely like the look and idea of this a lot.

*edit - nevermind about the speed, just saw your last post

Harmy, I'd love to see your final render when it is finished.  This actually got me even more excited about 2.0 if that's possible. 

Nice, although I don't really like the focusing twice. But I like it anyways.

Well, yeah, my plan is for it to slide into position like it does here but maybe more slowly when the menu opens and then the camera would keep changing view very slightly and very slowly in the background the whole time, so the menu is never completely static.

djchaseb said:

Man you guys are so picky haha.  I guess that's a good thing! Menu totally blew me away.  Awesome stuff.

Haha yeah, we shouldn't. Harmy is doing an awesome work while he shouldn't be. Remastering the Original Trilogy should be the work of Hollywood professionals. As I say in my signature, why doesn't Lucas make his crappy changes for himself? I'd go further than Harmy if I could and restore the localized crawl opening of A New Hope. Will see if I can do that with an iOS app I just downloaded. Would anyone be interested if I can do that? Harmy maybe?

Huh? What do you mean localized crawl opening?

I'm just really hoping at this point that this is ready for my birthday next week! Holding out, however unlikely. I can't wait!

Were different Greedo subs available in different languages too?  I never knew that.

Mavimao said:

 

That's what usually happens in films when there is a foreign language spoken. New subtitles: but in the language of the country it's being show in.

 

I know that.  But the Greedo subtitles are different... they aren't really subtitles in the traditional sense - they are a part of the original film because of the segment of speach in an imaginary alien language that no viewer could possibly know. The Swedish 16mm film I digitized had Swedish subtitles that ran through the entire film, but during the Greedo scene they sat on top of (in addition to) the original English Greedo subtitles.  They didn't replace the English Greedo subtitles with Swedish ones.

So I repeat my question - in the case of the Greedo subtitles, what displayed in non-English-speaking theaters?  Does anyone know for sure?

Well, I assume that whoever did the editing of -1's print must have been aiming for all English presentation, probably playing the sound from an external source.

But this is actually an interesting issue for those who want to do their own foreign language version of DeEd.

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

So I repeat my question - in the case of the Greedo subtitles, what displayed in non-English-speaking theaters?  Does anyone know for sure?

as soon as we get a tape, we'll get back to you on that.... but I'm pretty sure the subtitles were localized.... If they went through all the trouble of localizing the crawl, the "a long time ago", the Lucasfilm card, why not the Greedo scene?
Plus, the SEs were done that way

Well, in many markets, Greedo was simply dubbed over speaking the same language as everyone else, so there would be no need for subtitles at all in those cases.