Originally posted by: Jambe Davdar
Skot,

Thanks for compiling this for me, I didn't realise you were beaving away on this. I have actually begun to edit the footage together, though I am waitingo n the arrive of 'Making Magic' for some of the missing pieces. Yes, you'll definitely want this... especially if it can be extracted directly.

Ocpmovie did a tremendous job of the original Jabba scene for Deleted Magic. Unless you try to do this yourself you won't quite appreciate how much work he must have put into it. Just trying to make the 4:3 widescreen by using the 2004 DVD footage is a huge job in itself. Indeed; I remember when he was working on that. I think I provided him part of the Jabba footage captured from Making Magic, but he may have used a better source that came up after mine. I was blown away by his overlay of the original footage on top of the widescreen footage to make the whole scene widescreen.

Sluggo and his friend Brad, to their credit, did a widescreen version of the compiled Jabba footage as well some time earlier. It was also very good, but lacking a few pieces that were found later.

The last part of the scene doesn't exist anywhere (publicly available anyway) with Mr Mullholand. Maybe one day LFL will release it.

Yeah, that's a shame. You'll have to find a way around it without incorporating the digital Jabba, I imagine.

I don't currently have copies of:

- Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition Home Video Featurette(s) (unless this is one on 'Return of the Ewok')
- The Force Returns (Sci-Fi Channel)

If any one can hook me up with copies I would really appreciate it.

The Force Returns is on ocpmovie's Special Edition Hype DVD, and is probably the best source for it. The Home Video Featurette is on Return of the Ewok, and appears to be the same 30 minute one that's on babyhum's Press Kit DVD. For best quality, though, you'll want to use babyhum's DVD as the source for that.

The Special Edition featurettes are confusing (maybe somebody could clarify if I'm wrong here?). First, there is the 7:44 featurette that was included with the Audio/Visual Press Kit. Then there is the 30 minute one that I think was taken from the 1997 Trilogy SE laserdisc set. Lastly, I believe the latter was also available in separate pieces on the 1997 Trilogy SE limited edition videotape box set, only with less total footage than the laserdisc version. In any case, babyhum's DVD has both the 7:44 featurette (with and without text) and the 30 minute one in good quality. Maybe babyhum can hook you up directly for the project if you don't have a copy.

Anybody in the UK got ocpmovie's Special Edition Hype they can send to Jambe?

--SKot