I redid Star Wars because I knew I could do it much better.
The menus will be the same original menus from the first Classic Edition, which I'm fond of. Due to compression they look rather blocky in this new version, but oh well.
All special features and menu navigation is/are identical to the original release - only the film transfer itself has been improved.
The GOUT menus make me vomit a little in my mouth.
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Star Wars Classic 2.0 is NOW COMPLETE.
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I've had a look at it, and it meets my standards, which I think are pretty damn high.
When I made the first Classic Edition, my goal was to create a better version of the original cut of Star Wars than had previously existed on DVD.
That was my goal this time too, and I feel I achieved it. It looks, sounds and feels like the original Star Wars, and all the edits done to remove Special Edition elements are seamless, often completely invisible.
I actually still managed to learn a lot from editing this thing -- I seem to learn a lot every time I do one of these edits, and my reaction after I finish any edit is always "Oh - I've figured it out now! I could do this edit so much better now - I wish I'd known this when I started. But oh well. I'll use the knowledge next time."
In this case, my real problem was frame rates. MPEG Streamclip wasn't recognizing the video as 24 frames per second video, and the eventual result was that throughout the edit, if you're watching VERY carefully, you'll see little dropped or repeated frames.
By the end, I'd figured out how to avoid this problem in the future. It's present in this edit, but it's a minor problem.
I really should stop admitting all my little mistakes. Most people won't notice any mistakes unless they've heard me point them out!
It really is a wonderful version of the original Star Wars, I think the best in existence.
I DO recommend getting the Dual Layer version, and I've never said that before in my life. (My previous edits have shrunk down to a single layer without any trouble.) The single layer version is nice, but I can see the compression that was done to get it down to 1 layer.
I've used the old original menus from the first Classic Edition, and they look particularly compressed in the single layer.
Since I'm using the same menu system from the original Classic Edition, I've inherited the same little problems present in the menus there. I will report that the second chapters menu and the last chapters menu are the ones which don't work right .... If you're using a computer they work fine, but on a DVD player you won't be able to see what you're doing.
As before, I'm not too concerned because they're just chapter menus.
The special features are identical to the original release also.
-- Play with Isolated Score by John Williams
-- Fanmade "THX" Intro (Death Star Trench Run)
-- A really wonderful commentary track created for the Classic Edition, featuring dozens of members of the cast and crew.
-- Animated menus taken from the 2004 release by Van Ling.