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Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released) — Page 5

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Okay, this is a shoutout for help.


It's occurred to me that a good way to add some extra value to the dual layer version, without screwing up the single layer version, is to add DVD-ROM extras. These will simply be deleted from single layer copies, but add extra enjoyment to the dual layer, without changing the encode in any way. (The Story of Return of the Jedi album will be on there, I know that.)

What would really be nice would be to include the specials related to Return of the Jedi.


I'm talking AVI or MOV encodes of Return of the Ewok, Classic Creatures, From Star Wars to Jedi, maybe even the Horizon ILM special ... and Jedi-related toy ads from the era.

That kind of thing.

I have about 1 GB to spare ... so encodes between 100 and 400 megs, you know the drill.

I don't have the time to spend encoding these properly myself ... but if anyone has encodes, or can encode them, I'd be very grateful.

And I can guarantee one thing - if anyone gets me a nice quality encode of Return of the Ewok, I will include a version on this disc with Warwick Davis' commentary, which I didn't put on the DVD!
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Coov: Are you planning on doing a cover that would be more in line with the designs of covers like the first Star Wars:CE cover that you did and the red Vader ESB cover? Because I'm really liking those two, and they're the ones that I'm using for my copies of these DVDs... Just wondering (read: "hoping") since the one i've seen of yours so far for ROTJ doesn't really fit this theme/style, and I feel those two covers have a certain stylistic continuity and would like to be able to fill out the set in that same style...
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Coov's already done three variations of the official cover for Jedi. My choices is on red and combines the "Revenge" red poster with the characters from the familiar poster. I'll post it with text soon.

I don't know what you mean by a common design style - there IS a common design style, but not based in the posters you're thinking of, which are all alternates.

The red Vader cover is not my chosen cover for Empire. It's an interesting alternate, certainly, but it's not the basis of my design style. It's a great poster and I'm glad it got used on something. Go Coov!

I don't know what you mean by the first Star Wars Classic Edition cover "I" did either. I never did a cover for Star Wars Classic.

My official poster for SW is the "wood" style one by Coov.

http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-nonocp/classicwood-coov.jpg

My official Empire poster is the Japanese/Australian inspired version, either on snow and metal or on black.

http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-ocp/empireclassicnewweb.jpg

My work on Coov's template. Coov would pick his "style A" cover over this one I think - but I didn't want to use the Style A, as it's the "common" poster and I'd chosen style D for Star Wars, I wanted a more obscure yet good poster. This proved a huge headache, as I don't have a good scan of the Australian poster anywhere. Still don't! The Japanese poster was altered to get the current version, and it took foreverrrrrrrrr.
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If by the first Star Wars poster I did, you mean the first one Coov did, which used the Style A (or D) poster with a black back ...

There will probably be a Jedi cover like that as well. But the normal design will be similar to that one, only with red.
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Sorry for the confusion ocpmovie, what I meant was that the covers that I've printed out to use are the ones you have hosted as:
http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-nonocp/classic1withtext-coov.jpg
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<a href>http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-nonocp/esbredvaderwtext-coov.jpg</a>

I just like the uniformity of the bars running across the top and bottom on both, and I like the style of the posters (sorry, I'm not up on different poster designs so I really don't know what the "style" letters would be for them, or their origins) as they seem to have similar characteristics in so far as they both have an almost cartoon/comicbook-like feel to them. Like I said, I don't know the different poster variants, so I don't know if there is an ROTJ poster that could be used that would have a similar feel, I was just wondering if Coov had something like that in the works. I'd be very curious to see the 3 different covers that you said he's created for ROTJ so far though! Everything he's put together has been pretty impressive.
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Ah yes! Well, all the covers since then have been based on that basic Coov design in some way, and the variations Coov also created.


I'll see about getting a Jedi cover made in the same mold.
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Heh, I opened up that first one and just read across the top:
"Not the way it was, but... WIDESCREEN"
^_^
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I'll be happy just having the DVD at all, having a cover in that same mold would just be the icing on the cake, doncha know
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>> "WIDESCREEN"


This is as good a time as any to mention that today I was watching the disc in "pan & scan" mode (because my DVD player was set that way), and it looks pretty good that way too. (Seems to zoom in on the picture just a little bit, not full pan & scan.)
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Woah, didn't know that was possible. I'm not a fullscreener, but still, that's pretty cool.
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Hey, I'm a bit vague. What was the final decision on the dual layer version. Will you be mailing them as 2 singles layers or 1 dl?
Btw, a bit late, but OfficeMax has DL discs on sale this week (Sat. last day) for $2@
I think it was a verbatim 10 pack, but I won't swear to it.

Dr. M

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I just encoded an AVI (mpg4/mp3 640x480 25fps) version of "Horizon: How To Film The Impossible". It weighs in at 399.7 MB. Do you have enough room for this? I could make it smaller (320x240) if you need. I think I have those others you requested and I could encode them if nobody else has offered. Let me know.

You can go about your business. Move along, move along.

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Hell yeah! You always seem to come through, Bo. There's room on the disc for that -- considering it's an hour program, 400 MB is reasonable. 320 x 480 is a better image size than 640 though - helps you avoid interlacing troubles.

If you could encode any of the others that'd be great - especially Return of the Ewok. =D
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I started a new job this week, so I was out of commission for the last couple days, but I'm now doing the sound syncing, which apart from the Jabba subtitles is the very last thing that needs to be done for this thing to be done ....

The 2004 DVD sound, for some reason, constantly goes out of sync with the new picture when I use it. No idea why, as the picture edits are the same.

There is no way to predict what the sync will be like from using the sound with my original edits in Final Cut Pro.

So what I do is - I play back the DVD itself on my DVD player, and capture THAT analog to my hard drive as a guide. I then sync the sound to that captured picture. And it matches!
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A while back, I saw a posting by someone on a site, might have been X-Entertainment, confused about suddenly seeing the Jedi briefing room sequence filled full of Orrimarko aliens, which he'd never seen before. (He thought it was a special edition change, or something.)


I never noticed those aliens before, but while doing this sync I've been forced to look closely at weird parts of the frame, and DAMN if I don't notice them now. They're everywhere.

They were there in 1983 though. i checked.
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Ick, no ... you don't have the versions without subtitles? They're on Rowman's discs.
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I quickly read most of the threads here, later I start to ask myself questions and then I can't find the thread were it was discussed anymore, sorry about that. ocpmovie, I think I read somewhere in one of your threads you made darth vader's lightsaber red again by brightening the picture? The whole picture or only the saber? How exactly do you do this because I tried it myself but it didn't work...

EDIT: Ah, I think I figured it out, I increased the "intensity", it made the picture a bit brighter and the core of the blades white.
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Originally posted by: ocpmovie
Ick, no ... you don't have the versions without subtitles? They're on Rowman's discs.


Duh, I knew that . I'll get those two encoded. The other two are done and I'll start uploading them to my server later on today. I'll let you know via email when they're available.

You can go about your business. Move along, move along.

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The isolated score is courtesy of Editdroid. I don't hear the sail barge music in it (I expected something sourced from one of the Making Of specials), but there is an instrumental version of Lapti Nek which took me by surprise. Don't know source on that.


I've never heard an instrumental version either! Have you since found where is originated from? I wonder if it comes from any these

Whilst on the subject of Lapti Nek, does anyone know anymore details on this item

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Originally posted by: Jambe Davdar

Whilst on the subject of Lapti Nek, does anyone know anymore details on this item


This sounds like the promotional 12" used on the EditDroid isolated score for ROTJ..........


All of the soundtracks were mixed on an Avid Media Composer. The
soundtracks were from the Definitive Collection LDs, the Wide Screen
edition laserdiscs, and the aforementioned VHS tape was the source of
the mono mix. This process was extremely time-consuming because of the
isolated scores, whose sources were all the commercially available
soundtracks, as well as the promotional Lapti Nek 12" single (NO other
sources were used for the music. Period). This process gave us an
unswerving admiration for the job done by music editors on feature films.


..........and also included as mp3 files in the DVD-ROM extras on the official release by the EditDroid team.

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The disc is now done, I think! I got up at 4AM this morning - it's 11 now and I spent the time finishing resyncing the sound - a painstaking process and a lot of work, trial and error and annoyance ... I think I've finally gotten it right.

I've done Jabba's subtitles, and at the end on the same subtitle track you'll see some brief credits for this edition. I've thanked a few people who deserved thanking. =)

I'll burn the disc as is and test it thoroughly to make sure it's perfect. But I can send out orders soon. Maybe not til next weekend since I work, but soon.

This completes the Classic Edition trilogy. It is also my last Star Wars disc, as far as I know right now.


It's been a good run.


Would like to thank everybody for all the moral support, and the more tangible support, during all this. It's been fun and I'm glad to have done this for the community - I think they're the best releases out there. But that's just me.


I will go back to concentrating more on my own films - I've got a few sci-fi related projects in the pipeline which ought to be of interest.

But I think I'll keep making fan DVDs.

I am still planning an expanded version of The Bonzo Dog Band: Talking Pictures, which was one of my more popular releases. It was previously on one disc, now it'll be on at least three discs with a lot of added footage.

Baby Hum is sending me some material for a possible restoration of Richard Williams' classic animated film The Thief and the Cobbler (Williams also animated Who Framed Roger Rabbit).

I MIGHT, MIGHT possibly be considering an extended cut of Army of Darkness, and a multi-angle greenscreen cut of Sin City. Possibly not, though.
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"I MIGHT, MIGHT possibly be considering an extended cut of Army of Darkness"
yes please do this one
thanks ocp
DJ