The Official babyhum Release Thread — Page 9

Author: baby hum
Time: 4-Aug-2005 8:48 AM
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Originally posted by: younso
OK, a single disc version would suffice for me, but I was more interested in a Baby Hum release with menues and cover art matching his previous releases. Please...

Patience. Eventually. With disc and cover art AND menus. AND dual-layer. No single layer version. Rikter has a single layer version. If you want it, ask him.

And no whining about dual layer. It's about time we started realising that dual-layer is here. In a years time I'm hoping all my new releases will be h.264 encoded on Blu-Ray or HD-DVD (or if those idiots at Sony and Toshiba get their act together a unified format). I'm even thinking of delaying Science Of Star Wars for the new format seeing as I have the HD transfers.

Author: digitalfreaknyc
Time: 4-Aug-2005 9:15 AM
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Originally posted by: younso
OK, a single disc version would suffice for me, but I was more interested in a Baby Hum release with menues and cover art matching his previous releases. Please...

Again, check out my thread. We're teaming up to give you the best possible sources for certain programs. It will have the same great quality supplied by me with the same great cover art and menus supplied by babyhum!

Author: Ash595
Time: 4-Aug-2005 9:39 AM
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The galleries on The Story Of ILM DVD are amazing, especially the behind the scenes pics of Samuel L. Jackson on the set and the storyboards.

Baby hum, can you tell how you obtain them ?

Author: baby hum
Time: 4-Aug-2005 9:44 AM
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Originally posted by: Ash595
The galleries on The Story Of ILM DVD are amazing, especially the behind the scenes pics of Samuel L. Jackson on the set and the storyboards.

Baby hum, can you tell how you obtain them ?

Jon Kroll's site

I'm glad you enjoyed the disc.

Author: Sluggo
Time: 5-Aug-2005 4:15 AM
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Haha I was expecting Jon Knoll!

Author: baby hum
Time: 8-Aug-2005 8:23 PM
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Here's some interesting stats from myspleen.

bh001 snatched 640 times
bh002 snatched 40 times
bh003 snatched 71 times
bh004 snatched 177 times

And my future plans...

bh005: The A to Z of Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones. Extras include complete coverage of the opening of EP2 in the UK
bh006: When Star Wars Ruled The World. New NTSC transfer thanks to DigitalFreakNYC. Extras include the extended Triumph the Comic Insult Dog skit from the EP2 line.
bh007: Star Wars: Heroes & Villains. Still with the AOL CD but with a couple of TBC extras AND reauthored to work in all players
bh008: Star Wars: Feel The Force. Extras include all the Sky & Orange trailers plus whatever else I can cram on (maybe some commercials)
bh009: POSSIBLY Generation Jedi, I'm still waiting for a clip I need as an extra.
bh010 onwards: TBC

I'm hoping these will be ready for torrenting in the next couple of weeks depending on work commitments.

Author: klokwerk
Time: 8-Aug-2005 10:41 PM
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BabyHum,
Just wondering if you're still willing to make me the Australian distributor of your DVDs... let me know via PM or email about this (don't want to hijack your thread). Thanks.

To contact me outside the forum, for trades and such my email address is my OT.com username @gmail.com

Author: segaflip
Time: 8-Aug-2005 10:51 PM
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I would also like to know if you would like me to upload these to a.b.starwars for you? PM or Email me please?

Author: SKot
Time: 17-Aug-2005 6:17 PM
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Hello babyhum,

On bh006 for the VH1 special, what happened with the raw TiVo footage and extras I sent that you were going to use on the re-release? Is the footage from DigitalFreakNYC actually better quality? You certainly have my blessing to use that instead if that's the case. However, don't forget to include the bonus interviews from the VH1 site I sent you.

Just making sure. I've been looking forward to seeing your final version of this for a while now.

--SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

Author: baby hum
Time: 17-Aug-2005 7:16 PM
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Originally posted by: SKot
Hello babyhum,

On bh006 for the VH1 special, what happened with the raw TiVo footage and extras I sent that you were going to use on the re-release? Is the footage from DigitalFreakNYC actually better quality? You certainly have my blessing to use that instead if that's the case. However, don't forget to include the bonus interviews from the VH1 site I sent you.

Just making sure. I've been looking forward to seeing your final version of this for a while now.

--SKot

I've compared the two and DigitalFreakNYC's transfer just comes out on top. I've noticed with some TiVo transfers some interlacing issues. I will be including the bonus interviews.

I'm working on DigitalFreakNYC's Indy discs at the moment and as soon as I get the first 3 done I'll be back working on the next 4 re-releases.

Author: SKot
Time: 18-Aug-2005 11:22 PM
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Excellent. Sounds like it will be even better, then.

BTW, babyhum, I now have a TiVo of the AFI George Lucas Tribute... are you planning on doing a release of that one?

--SKot

Author: jokabofe
Time: 19-Aug-2005 12:16 AM
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First of all I just wanted to say a big "thank you" to BabyHum for all the hard work he has done on these releaes (as well as everyone else that gets them out to the public). I've DL'd them all, and am eagerly awaiting the others.

Now, a quick question (only a question, not a complaint). My DVD player only plays NTSC discs, it will not play PAL discs. All of the releases are in the PAL format. I've used the patch method to change from PAL to NTSC and the discs play fine on my DVD player. Except that on the menu screens, the text is a little messed up. The white text is about 4 - 5 inches above where the blue text shows up omn the screen (the blue text being what color the menu item is when you have it selected I am guessing, while the white text is the other, unselected options) which makes it a little confusing to select which button you want to click. Does this have something to do with the patch method that I used to change from PAL to NTSC or did I do something else entirely wrong?

I can try to take a screenshot if anyone doesn't understand what I mean with the white/blue text not lining up properly.

Thanks again.

Author: digitalfreaknyc
Time: 19-Aug-2005 2:46 AM
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Originally posted by: SKot
Excellent. Sounds like it will be even better, then.

BTW, babyhum, I now have a TiVo of the AFI George Lucas Tribute... are you planning on doing a release of that one?

--SKot

Yes. We have teamed up for that as well. It will be dual layered and MUCH better than the one already released.

Author: younso
Time: 19-Aug-2005 5:21 AM
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I still think that some of us would like to have a single disc release as well as the double disc version if possible. Those of us that are not on fast link will have to wait twice as long to download a DL version and not having a DL burner will then have to convert it to SL before burning. I do not what prices people around the world have for DL discs but here in Sweden they cost ca $10.

Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc

Yes. We have teamed up for that as well. It will be dual layered and MUCH better than the one already released.

Author: baby hum
Time: 19-Aug-2005 7:07 AM
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Originally posted by: younso
I still think that some of us would like to have a single disc release as well as the double disc version if possible. Those of us that are not on fast link will have to wait twice as long to download a DL version and not having a DL burner will then have to convert it to SL before burning. I do not what prices people around the world have for DL discs but here in Sweden they cost ca $10.

There is a single disc version available via Rikter. Look on myspleen.net and you'll find it. I'm not going to release a SL version as I'm moving with the times and I'm not going to compromise quality. If someone had captured in HD then I'd wait for the next gen of DVD before I released it.

Author: younso
Time: 19-Aug-2005 9:05 AM
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Originally posted by: baby hum

OK fair enough. Which ever is released I would like to thank you for all the hard work. A lot of VHS tapes are been thrown away thanks to you.

Author: baby hum
Time: 20-Aug-2005 6:41 PM
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Re-Release

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/7357/bh0058vv.jpg

bh005: The A To Z Of Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones

Author: babyhum
Video Format: MPEG2/704x576/16x9/PAL/Av.Bitrate 8293kbps
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 256kbps
Source: 2002 DV recording from digital satellite transmission
Duration: 23m 05s
Size: 3.96GB
Artwork: COVER.tif & DISC.tif in DVD_ROM folder
Source equipment: Sony DCR-PC110E-PAL, Panasonic TU-DSB31 Sky Digibox
Capture equipment: Panasonic DMR-E100H HDD/DVD Recorder

Description:
Transmitted on the ITV network in the UK on May 25th 2002, "The A To Z Of Star Wars: Episode II" was a 25 minute programme consisting of EPK interviews with the cast, documentary footage and scenes from the film edited to form an alphabetic look at the movie (A is for Anakin, B is for bluescreen etc.). I originally posted this footage in 24 parts on theforce.net in VCD format, and also sent some early DVD copies out to a chosen few. When originally recorded onto DV, the image was anamorphic but it had a 4x3 pixel aspect ratio. I have now fixed the aspect ratio and this version is a proper 16x9 transfer (thanks to Adobe Premiere).
Note: The original programme features source material of varying qualities.

http://www.theforce.net/latestnews/story/the_az_of_aotc_complete_files_66167.asp
http://www.theforce.net/latestnews/story/itv1_screens_a_to_z_of_star_wars_66509.asp

babyhum Release List:
bh001: Clapperboard: The Empire Strikes Back
bh002: Horizon: How To Film The Impossible
bh003: The Mythology Of Star Wars
bh004: From Star Wars To Star Wars: The Story Of Industrial Light & Magic
bh005: The A To Z Of Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones

Greetings:
Metallaxis

DigitalFreakNYC
Jedi Master Maddi Cordobi
Dr.Gonzo (an expert in his field of medicine)
Rikter Blaksvn (a VERY busy man)
tibur55
All at originaltrilogy.com
russs15

Contact:
Via the forums at originaltrilogy.com

This DVD is a fan created preservation project intended for entertainment and educational use only. This DVD is NOT to be sold for profit. If the material contained on this DVD is ever made commercially available on any format please destroy this DVD and purchase an official release.

DON’T SUPPORT PIRACY.

Author: baby hum
Time: 20-Aug-2005 6:58 PM
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Yes, i know what you're thinking. "These re-releases are all well and good, but when are we going to see something new?"

I never intended these re-releases to take so long, and this disc has taken more time than i wanted to spend on it. The authoring was a bitch. This final version is actually the third draft! That, and the work I'm doing with DigitalFreakNYC has slowed the process down slightly, but I intend to get the remaining re-releases out as soon as I can. Believe me, I'm more bored with them than any of you.

Next... When Star Wars Ruled The World. With... Outtake interviews (in the DVD_ROM section, I don't want to reencode these) & possibly the uncut Triumph the Comic Insult Dog sequence from the AOTC line.

Author: baby hum
Time: 20-Aug-2005 9:57 PM
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And just to keep you up to date on the distribution of these discs:

Metallaxis, Russs15 & Rikter are kindly upping the releases to myspleen.net for everybody to download

segaflip will be posting them to alt.binaries.starwars as soon as he receives them (he should receive 1 to 4 next week)

klokwerk is now my official distributor for the southern hemisphere. So if you live in Australia or New Zealand (or nearby, in a geographical sense) get in touch with him via PM and I'm sure he'll see what he can do.

Author: klokwerk
Time: 20-Aug-2005 10:47 PM
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Thanks Babyhum. I guess that means you've sent off the first few discs for me? I'll be glad to distibute them once they arrive. Thanks again!

To contact me outside the forum, for trades and such my email address is my OT.com username @gmail.com

Author: segaflip
Time: 21-Aug-2005 2:47 AM
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I would be more then happy to post your future releases as well.

Author: baby hum
Time: 21-Aug-2005 7:43 AM
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Yes, all discs are on their way. segaflip and klokwerk will be handling all the releases, not just 1 to 4.

Author: russs15
Time: 21-Aug-2005 9:01 AM
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If Segaflip gets bh005 onwards onto a.b.sw as fast as his recent uploads, there will be plenty of people who can seed when the torrents start.

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Author: baby hum
Time: 21-Aug-2005 9:32 AM
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Thanks for the update on the site russs15. It looks great!
Here's the menu for bh005 if you need it to update even more!

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/6978/bh0053tg.jpg

Author: russs15
Time: 21-Aug-2005 10:15 AM
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Done!

I will add all the details shortly.

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