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Help: looking for... 'Back in Black' Marketing Video?

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Before Ep III came out, I downloaded a severely crappy SVCD version of some (purported) ‘marketing video’ that focussed on Darth Vader, and had movie clips and suchlike, along with interview snippets (?) and AC/DC’s ‘Back in Black’ as the theme music. I’ve never seen this again – including on my own computer, since for some reason the video no longer shows up; just the audio.

Anybody know what I’m talking about? Is there a higher-quality version around? Are all the bits and pieces available, for a preservation/restoration attempt?

I dunno – I thought it was pretty cool when I saw it. I wouldn’t mind seeing it again, with as much DVD-quality footage as possible.

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I dunno: it's 53MB, and shows up as black for me.

I suppose I could try getting it up on Usenet, or YouSendIt. I'm kinda hoping somebody else has a better version, though. So gimme a couple of days to figure something out.
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It's probably due to your version of Quicktime, or whatever program you use to display media.
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Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
It's probably due to your version of Quicktime, or whatever program you use to display media.


Since it's supposed to be SVCD, I don't think Quicktime has much to do with it. Both MPC and VLC fail to display the video, although they do the audio fine. Which is odd, because I'm sure at least one showed the video before.... Wonder what I borked?

Ell, if you have the same one as I do, then it's 52.2 MB (54,785,976 bytes); 52.2 MB (54,788,096 bytes) on disc. I grabbed it 2004-10-30. Maybe that might help you look?
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Originally posted by: Karyudo
Since it's supposed to be SVCD, I don't think Quicktime has much to do with it. Both MPC and VLC fail to display the video, although they do the audio fine. Which is odd, because I'm sure at least one showed the video before.... Wonder what I borked?
Something wrong with DirectShow overlay? Graphics card drivers? Do other video files play OK?

You could try extracting the pure MPEG file from the SVCD (ISOBuster, VCDGear, etc.) and checking with VirtualDubMod.

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This would be really cool. But even MORE importantly, the score-only footage from C3 would be FANTASTIC! That would be easy since it's just film clips.
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Heh, heh -- found it! I think that SVCD was always a write-off; the version I found today is ep3-footage.avi, 35MB, and is dated 2004-01-25. It's low-quality (can't really tell what Hayden is saying during his interview parts, and the picture is tiny), but it might be a decent guide track for re-creating the thing with DVD-spec stuff.

Biggest problem would be to find all the tons of tiny clips in amongst all the webdocs, etc., and there might even be stuff that doesn't appear elsewhere. Somebody more familiar with the webdocs than I might have a hope. I do not.

By the way: know where I got this? Yeah -- from my own hard drive.
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Sweet... Thanks, wertyqa.

I've been without Internet access for a couple of days (ISP's fault), so I couldn't have done anything before now. And when I go to get started, somebody's already taken care of it! Nice.

Now, I hope somebody starts to pick this apart, and suggest how it could be re-assembled in some decent quality.