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Post: #206475
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206475/action/topic#206475
Time: 4-May-2006 7:15 PM

If anybody remembers the Chicago Tribune article, I think one of the persons involved said even if Lucas suddenly announced the release of the originals, he would finish it just to see how it measured up. I have a feeling this project and most definitely this site may have been decisive in getting the originals released because Lucas doesn't want to lose money from fans that he could get.

Post: #206439
Topic: How "original" do you think it is going to be...? (the 2006 GOUT DVD release)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206439/action/topic#206439
Time: 4-May-2006 6:20 PM

I voted cleaned up but uncut because that's what Spielberg did with the original version of E. T. The terrorist line was reinstated (it was actually censored for the first video release) and the guns were there. But the picture looked the cleanest, colors were vibrant, not murky and washed out. The matte lines around the flying bikes as well as the mismatched contrast was fixed however.

It should be noted that unaltered scenes in the official dvd's had similar fixes (Luke falling down Cloud City shaft, cockpit view into space, rancor, speeder bikes in Jedi). I'm fine with that because those things weren't really supposed to be there, they ocurred during compositing, and fixing that is like doing a better transfer. It also gives the old pre cgi effects more credibility because then they don't look so obvious to spot.

Post: #206431
Topic: The Official 2006 Discs Will Be No Better Than What We Have!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206431/action/topic#206431
Time: 4-May-2006 6:05 PM

It's too early to complain about possible shortcomings on the discs. However, we should be asking questions about just how original they will be, will A New Hope be in the crawl, which sound mix. That way Lfl will know they have to deliver, without us sounding like we just whine and bash Lucas all the time.

Regardless of what they do, the release will be better than any laserdisc or certainly vhs release. Most likely better than any bootleg except possibly X0 project. The fact that the original films (at least in some form) are actually going to be released deserves a lot of praise. Just the fact that dvd has more resolution and telecine transfers have improved should make it look better, even if they do nothing else. It can be pretty much assumed that there will be a blu-ray ultimate set in '07 that should have everything. I'm just surprised Lucas will have released three Star Wars ot dvd sets. What was the point of last years release without the bonus disc?

Post: #206425
Topic: ITS HAPPENED-- OOT AVAILABLE FROM LUCASFILM
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206425/action/topic#206425
Time: 4-May-2006 5:43 PM

At last Lucas has returned to the light side of the force and redeemed himself. Balance has returned to the Star Wars universe. There still was good in him, we were right about him. Tell your friends, we were right!
I don't think there's any question this wouldn't have happened without this site and maybe even the X0 project which would give the existing official set a run for the money.

Post: #204208
Topic: ***The Official RowMan*** Release Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204208/action/topic#204208
Time: 25-Apr-2006 5:10 PM

You mean SP FX was laserdisc sourced? I wonder why the quality looks so much worse than Making of Star Wars if it was from the same format. Some of the clips from Making of Star Wars were false letterboxed and used in Empire of Dreams. And even those didn't look that great.

Post: #204207
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204207/action/topic#204207
Time: 25-Apr-2006 5:06 PM

Right, that's the specific shot I'm talking about. That's what I referred to as red in my list. In other versions before '97, it looks much like a purple blue. What source is that from?

Post: #204105
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204105/action/topic#204105
Time: 25-Apr-2006 4:31 AM

As you guys are trying to be completely faithful to the original look and color of the films, there is something I've noticed that I've been curious about. What color should the sky be in the close up of the two suns during the binary sunset scene, bluish purple or reddish orange? Now at first this would seem like a original vs special edition issue but it's more tricky than that. Here's what I've noticed:
Making of Star Wars- red
Star Wars to Jedi- blue
1992 vhs tape (cover has theatrical poster)- red
Cowclops dvd transfer from '93 THX Def. Coll. laserdisc- blue
Special edition onward-red
So what color should it be? And does anyone know the reason for this pre-special edition inconsistancy?

Post: #204104
Topic: ***The Official RowMan*** Release Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204104/action/topic#204104
Time: 25-Apr-2006 4:17 AM

Of the four old documentaries (Making of Star Wars, SP:FX, Star Wars to Jedi & Classic Creatures) which ones were only released on laserdisc with burned in Japanese Subtitles? I thought it was the last two but I'm not sure. SP:FX looks much worse quality wise than Making of Star Wars. Even on an old vhs tape that had both on it. So in that case the quality difference was not due to laserdisc vs vhs.

Post: #200763
Topic: The XØ Project Official T-shirt Design Contest - And the winner is...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/200763/action/topic#200763
Time: 13-Apr-2006 5:09 AM

Would it be possible to post all some of the other entries as well, so long as those who submitted them don't mind of course.

Post: #199798
Topic: Info: Theatrical Trailers...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199798/action/topic#199798
Time: 11-Apr-2006 1:22 AM

Universal doesn't have trailers on their discs? But don't they have those stupid start up previews? And worse Universal usually doesn't have a link to them from the main menu like Disney does with the Sneek Peeks section. This actually sounds like a really cool project. I would be interested in seeing those start up previews included as well, but that way they would be more organized and not play when you're excited to watch something else. The only thing about dvd previews I hate is when they automatically start up for a dvd playing. It would be cool to see all the previews for the Disney Platinum editions included on one disc, for example.

For trailers that are missing.
Fifth Element: I think there are plenty included for the Regions outside 1.
Harry Potter: Azkeban only had one, the disc was missing the Choir Song teaser. Goblet had the cool one with shots of the trio from all four years but there should be others. Menu design for movie 4 sucked.
Dragonslayer: early 80's movie with nothing else on the dvd, not even the trailer.
Dune: Did the new R1 extended edition have the trailer, I heard it didn't. A widescreen vhs tape did plus a preview for other features with the theme "Science Fiction is now more popular than ever."

Post: #197966
Topic: Problem with slow motion in Vegas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/197966/action/topic#197966
Time: 4-Apr-2006 10:02 PM

Most of my captures are from analog video, either vhs or Hi8 from a sony Hi8 camcorder. I have plenty of memory on the computer although both hard drives (120/250 gb) are roughly 3/4 full, all with video. And I have about 16 single layer data disc dvd's of raw video capture files. This is so I can save the complete raw captures for a later possible use without having them take valuable hard drive space. I use a custom assembled computer that was designed specifically and exclusively for video editing. I don't use it for anything else, it doesn't even have an internet connection. I don't know what you mean by LEAVE THE COMPUTER ALONE, you mean don't open up any other applications or programs? Like I said there's nothing else to do with it.
When you mentioned to have plenty of hard drive space, why is that? I mean sure you need enough to store the video you're capturing but is there a further advantage to having hard drive space well beyond what you need? Would a computer with a less full harddrive perform better such as not drop so many frames or resample slow motion much better? It does seem that it has gradually dropped more and more frames recently so this would make sense.

Post: #197357
Topic: Problem with slow motion in Vegas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/197357/action/topic#197357
Time: 2-Apr-2006 5:08 AM

I'm pretty sure the double ghosting image was caused by resampling because when I disabled it, the picture merged together and looks fine in the vegas program. The jumpiness only occurs in the rendered avi file. I just looked at the motion perfect samples and I think I'll consider purchasing it when I go home for the summer. Can motion perfect help with the kind of frame correction you're doing for the X0 project. And if you're using something more advanced, would it still help some?
One other question. Are there any ways to reduce the amount of dropped frames? I get way to many frame drops at a vhs vcr rainbow edit. Worse, I often get this huge 30 min amount of black empty space placed between a frame drop of 30 frames at the most. It's such a pain to cut and bring the working video parts together. Sometimes when I capture a scene of a longer video that dropped frames before, less will be dropped. Why is that?

Post: #197356
Topic: Star Wars: Full Frame + Widescreen = ?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/197356/action/topic#197356
Time: 2-Apr-2006 4:41 AM

There was some discussion about this before. However, none of the THX certified Definitive or Faces were in pan & scan, I think. Doesn't full screen VHS roughly equal laserdisc resolution of a 2.35 film?

Post: #196952
Topic: The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196952/action/topic#196952
Time: 31-Mar-2006 1:22 AM

I hate how dvd's (at least in Region 1) are costing more and more even as the price on blank dvd's (particularly dual layer) continues to drop. Plus some movies (like Goblet of Fire) are being sold in single disc bare bones additions for the same price two disc special editions used to go for. Of course there is a Deluxe Ultimate Collector's Special Edition but you have to pay $5-10 more for that.

Post: #196950
Topic: HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196950/action/topic#196950
Time: 31-Mar-2006 1:16 AM

Does anyone have a picture of the R2 Goblet dvd back cover and bonus disc. I really hate the grey cast for the R1 two disc set. That and the fact the previous movies were available in a two disc set for roughly the same price the single disc, no extras, versions of GoF cost.

Post: #196894
Topic: Problem with slow motion in Vegas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196894/action/topic#196894
Time: 30-Mar-2006 7:51 PM

I don't think turning smart resample back on will work but I will try it whenever I go back home. Various slow motion clips are at different speeds. I just stretched thrm out in the timeline, not by imputting a play back speed. I'd say they average about half speed.

Post: #196628
Topic: Problem with slow motion in Vegas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196628/action/topic#196628
Time: 29-Mar-2006 8:35 PM

Basically, the movement of slow motion is not as smooth as before. That is what jumps. I don't think sceenshots could illustrate this problem. Turning off resampling was necessary to stop interlacing artifacts within a single frame, the problem I first wrote about. I do render in the BEST setting. It's as if the performance of the rendering software or interpolating has deteriorated over time, but a part of a computer can't degrade (like analog tape gets dirty or a car rusts), can it?

Post: #196405
Topic: HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196405/action/topic#196405
Time: 28-Mar-2006 8:20 PM

I heard that there was a lot more filmed for the first one, in addition to the hidden easter egg deleted scenes on disc 2. Someone was supposedly even cast as Peeves (some name like Rick Maikal?)
Chamber of Secrets has the most deleted scenes available of the 4 and I heard there was a lot more filmed with that too. One of the actor interview features has a behind the scenes shot of Harry saying "and the crowing of the Rooster can kill it." This is not in a deleted scene and was cut from when Harry and Ron realize from the page in Hermione's hand just what lies in the chamber.
Azkeban I don't think had a lot of extra material but I still think the movie moved way too fast at the end. Why weren't the great quotes from Sirius "Harry you are truely your father's son" and Dumbledore to Harry "I believe you did see your father last night. You discovered him inside yourself. Prongs rode again" in the movie.
And where the hell was the menu for the deleted scenes in Goblet, it just played them all in sequence? I did hear the graveyard scene was cut from 20 minutes.

Post: #196400
Topic: Problem with slow motion in Vegas
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196400/action/topic#196400
Time: 28-Mar-2006 8:02 PM

Well, I had a chance to try Vegas again. I disabled resampling and I think I set it to not deinterlace. It was a big and the raw clips in slow motion in the vegas timeline were fixed. However when I rendered them to an avi file the slow motion parts were much clearer but kind of jumpy. It's better but still not as good as it used to be before last summer. So I'm sort of baffled now.

Post: #194775
Topic: Info Wanted: seeing as the screenshot threads are locked....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/194775/action/topic#194775
Time: 21-Mar-2006 2:35 AM

Could the official screenshot thread be pinned or whatever it is that means it will stay at the top of the first page?

Post: #190227
Topic: Info Wanted: Superbit?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/190227/action/topic#190227
Time: 6-Mar-2006 7:39 PM

Should Sony be notified of this since someone is stealing their dvd standard and false advertising? I know it's a lost cause trying to fight pirates on ebay but they might listen to Sony. By the way, how does The Fifth Element superbit compare to the newest Ultimate Edition dvd?

But the packaging is awesome.

Post: #189873
Topic: Idea: Fan Edit of ROTJ
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/189873/action/topic#189873
Time: 6-Mar-2006 12:12 AM

For Jedi, how about cutting out some of those static shots in the throne room of Vader just staring at the camera. It totally dumbs down the viewer and makes his redemption less of a surprise than it could be. (Look at Vader, he's thinking, he's going to do something important!) What about piecing some of the scenes together so it doesn't cut to a different location every minute like during the throne room, endor battle and death star II attack?

Also: no Sarlacc cg beak
Must have Lapti Nek and Sebastian Shaw

Post: #187525
Topic: ***The "official" Screenshots thread ***
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/187525/action/topic#187525
Time: 28-Feb-2006 5:12 PM

I saw some screen comparison shots of the premier digital special edition broadcast and the 2004 dvd's. It's unbelievable how bad some of the dvd shots are. The site was dvdbeaver which compares high quality screenshots of various region and dvd editions. It's a pretty cool site. Scroll down to star wars in the link and you'll find them for all three films.
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/comparisons/navigation/navs.htm

Post: #185492
Topic: 1992 vs 1995 video releases
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/185492/action/topic#185492
Time: 23-Feb-2006 2:47 AM

I think the Def. Col. had the sound remixed. And the faces vhs of course had the THX cleanup.

Post: #185484
Topic: Star Wars DVD Covers
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/185484/action/topic#185484
Time: 23-Feb-2006 1:18 AM

I really like the faces covers with the vhs backs. However I think they appear too dark (especially SW and Empire) with blacks crushed and contrast lost. Kind of like the official star wars dvd's.