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30th Anniversary DVD Idea

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During the holiday weekend that celebrated Star Wars, sadly, I was unable to attend Celebration 4. Even though I wasn't there I still had a blast that weekend. I was glued to my T.V and the internet with the amazing coverage provided by the folks that bring us RebelScum.net, theforce.net, and their podcast show The Forcecast. They even provided footage on YouTube.

I had the idea to make a DVD of the programs that aired on T.V. My skills pale in comparison to what I've seen come out of these forums. When I make a custom DVD I use ConverXtoDVD. After sampling a few of the awesome preservation DVDs, I thought I would present my 30th idea to fans with more skill than me. Would anyone be interested in helping me put together a DVD of the programs that aired during the weekend of the Star Wars 30th. I am willing to do a little learning.

I've also mentioned the idea to the crew behind The Forcecast, in hopes of acquiring an edit of their live show at Celebration 4.


The idea is to capture the essence of the wonderful experience I had celebrating Star Wars, even though I did not attend C4.

Here's a short list of my idea for the DVD
-The Leagacy Revealed
-Tech
-Star Wars at 30
-Forcecast live

DVD-Rom
-BBC 30th radio documentry
-Forcecast C4 megacast
-Forcecast C4 pt1&2

Ideas I'm thinking about
-George Lucas on Conan O'Brien
-Clone Wars trailer
-Footage from C4

Any help, thoughts, and feedback is appreciated.
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I just put together a DVD that has legacy revealed, tech, GL on conan, and star wars shortened. unfortunately there were problems with my cap of the two history channel shows so i had to resort to using AVIs I found on the web, thus quality is not the best, but its still pretty good. i was going to make the disc available to people, but I say if you can get better or even HD caps of the history channel shows, then go for it. there were a few other shows i didnt get like the G4TV specials and an X-play special?? it could be interesting to make the BBC radio documentary into a video by creating some sort of permanent image or slideshow for the visual aspect. this could be done with the forcecasts as well. there is probably enough stuff to pad out a DL disc or make multiple releases

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or just wait Babyhum will finally release all this stuff for sure.....
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Originally posted by: ThrowgnCpr
I just put together a DVD that has legacy revealed, tech, GL on conan, and star wars shortened. unfortunately there were problems with my cap of the two history channel shows so i had to resort to using AVIs I found on the web, thus quality is not the best, but its still pretty good. i was going to make the disc available to people, but I say if you can get better or even HD caps of the history channel shows, then go for it. there were a few other shows i didnt get like the G4TV specials and an X-play special?? it could be interesting to make the BBC radio documentary into a video by creating some sort of permanent image or slideshow for the visual aspect. this could be done with the forcecasts as well. there is probably enough stuff to pad out a DL disc or make multiple releases


I probably have the same AVI files, plus I found SW at 30 on a.b.starwars. I'm not a big stickler quality wise, considering the shows are mostly just talking heads. About the X-play show, am I crazy in thinking that it was a repeat?

The image slide show for the audio files sounds like an interesting idea. I wouldn't know where to begin. Like I said, my experience making custom DVDS has been to take files and dump them into ConverXtoDVD. I've made a few Transformers DVDs. The reason I came here was to maybe get some advise about programs and such to make a DVD like some of the preservation projects I've seen. I've tried to learn things like making menus and I have some experience with TMPGnc. I just get confused about things like what fps to use, how to change PAL to NTSC, and how to use programs like AVIsynth. On top of that I have an older PC that hampers things. Eventually I just threw my hands in the air and went with ConverXtoDVD. With Star Wars I think I'm willing to go that extra mile and try to get a handle on some of these skills. Is anyone willing to take on a Padawan learner....

Do you think what I have listed would be too much for a SL disc? I usally go with SL discs because they are cheaper. If I can I'd like to stick with one disc, but I'm not opposed to spreading the content on two discs.
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I think all of the stuff you have listed above is too much for a SL DVD. But if you said you have AVI files from the web, you may want to stick to the material that I didnt put on the DVD I made. I'll pm you about it. As for some instruction for editing, converting, and authoring, there are lots of experienced people here, lots of good tutorials, and you can find great help over at fanedit dot org also. The best idea is lay out what you actually want on the DVD, without restrictions, and then talk to people to see if its possible and how you can go about it. I'll try to help if I can with some ideas. I know a bit, but there are people here with more experience than me. Hopefully everyone can get you going in the right direction. Its always nice to have more people contributing

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Has anyone capped The Legacy Revealed? I'd love to release it but can only find the aforementioned AVI's on the net and a very low bitrate version on Demonoid. A hi bitrate DVD cap would be nice!
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All I've seen is the same version from eztv. I just uploaded SW@30 over on demonid if anyone is interested.

I have been taking your advise ThrowgnCpr by reading the forums. A lot of info. to soak up. The thing I like is that what I'm finding is that the tutorials are very easy to understand compared to what I've read on Doom9. I go there and feel stupid, it's like you have to have a PHD or something to understand some of their guides. Defiantly PM me with details about your DVD. If things work out with the folks at The Forcecast maybe I can just release their live show with SW@30 as disc 2 of what you've already done.
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Thanks, I sent a reply.

As suggested here is everything I'd want on the DVD/S

-The Legacy Revealed
-Tech
-Rev. Tech Trailers
-Rev. Tech exclusive web docs.
-Star Wars at 30
-Forcecast Live
-Clone Wars Trailer
-George Lucas on Conan
-501st marching in the Rose Parade (Great suggestion Throwgn)

DVD Rom
-BBC 30th documentry
-Forcecast C4 Megacast
-Forcecast C4 pt1&2

Things I'm still thinking about
-C4 Footage
-Promotional material relating to the 30th

The reason I want to make this DVD, or possibly set, is because I want to capture the experience I had celebrating Star Wars. I'm still waiting to hear from the Forcecast crew, but if worse came to worse I could capture the live show off YouTube. I need some advice about that. What is a good program to dl or capture streaming video? I'm thinking I need something to get The Clone Wars trailer off the official site, and the vids on The Leagacy Revealed site. Unless someone already has these vids. I have programs for getting WM and Real Media streams, but I believe I'll need something different.

Thanks again for any feedback.
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i have to search but i think i have the clone war trailer on my HD....
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for getting stuff from youtube, do a google search, there are websites that can extract the flv file from the web site. You can then convert the flv to an mpg using either a web converter, or some software that you have. I usually try to clean the videos up a bit, especially if they are widescreen, by rematting the vid. Regardless of what you do, the video isnt going to be that great though (really crappy at times)

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If you could share that trailer....

I know that almost any streaming vid is not going to look pretty. You work with what you can get. Thanks for the link. Does that work with any kind of streaming vid?

I think right now my best is to just gather all the files I want. Once I do that I can start thinking about a plan for the lay out of the discs.
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Only those on YouTube.

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)

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i grabbed the trailer from the History channel site. There are other sites out there that can grab from sites other than youtube. the format is basically the same, mostly an embedded .flv. when i get back into town i can get more info for you if you still need it.

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Hrm, I've been trying to figure out how to get the vids off the History Channel and I'm stumped. I did find a really cool firefox extension for extracting YouTube vids though.
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Thanks for the link that looks like it will be very helpful. I think where I'm running into trouble is figuring out what the exact url is for each doc. The container for the vid player is http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Video_Clips&content_type_id=54086&display_order=2&mini_id=54078

a614.g.akamai.net seems to be where each vid is stored, but I don't know what the exact urls are. After searching google I did notice that a614.g.akamai.net seems to relate to a few history channel items.

On the bright side I did find a halfway decent capture of the Clone Wars trailer.
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Pat-Fett, I'd be very interested to see this. How news on this project?
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CNBC "On the Money" had 40 minute Star Wars 30th anniversary special. Has anyone recorded it?
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Originally posted by: tb1971
CNBC "On the Money" had 40 minute Star Wars 30th anniversary special. Has anyone recorded it?


when was this??
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Originally posted by: tb1971
CNBC "On the Money" had 40 minute Star Wars 30th anniversary special. Has anyone recorded it?
when was this??


5/25/07 : I've got the last 10-12 minutes of it.

to review what happened this year in SWTV: Upcoming SWTV Thread]

Either E! or MTV did a special on Swimsuits and they had a Leia segment, anyone get it?
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I've only seen tv spots for CNBC's "On the Money SW special" but even though I watched it at the announced time, it never aired (at least not in my region). Couldn't find a single clip of it on the internet, but here is an official info:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/18897013

There is another Lucas approved "special" - The Apprentice : Store Wars, that you can find funny SW themed spot at youTube. Torrents are also available. Never saw the show, though. I was wondering what are "Rev. Tech exclusive web docs"... any connection to Discovery channel's "science of SW" docs?


The Apprentice : Store Wars
First aired: 11/10/2005 Production Code: 408A

The players undertake one of the coolest tasks ever on The Apprentice - the marketing of the DVD for the latest installment in the movie franchise Star Wars using posters. Excel hits trouble when they miss their meeting with high-power executives due to a judgement error from Project Manager Brian. Later, Marshawn bails out on her team when she backs out of doing the presentation, forcing Rebecca to make up for her slack in under an hour. Although Rebecca pulls through with an understandably mediocre presentation, Excel loses the task and are sent to the boardroom, where they square off with each other in a figurative lightsaber battle. Because of their mistakes, a dissapointed Trump fires both Brian and Marshawn.
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So did Legacy Revealed get canceled?  Tech got an official release, and I retired my preservation of Legacy Revealed / Tech because both were to have official DVDs, but it looks like Tech is the only one that actually got released.

I really want to put a DVD together with the LR documentary.  I recorded it myself, but the cap isnt very good.  IIRC, there was a bad signal, and the cap is a bit fuzzy.  There is also an SD xvid AVI floating around, but its compressed.  I saw on a web search that there was an HD version floating around on newsgroups.  Did anybody grab this? or have it?

I'd like to get this preserved on DVD and even AVCHD (if the HD version is available).  I can resurrect bits of my old DVD, and I have some fun ideas for menus.  Any help?

 

EDIT: This topic should probably be moved to Star Wars Preservations? mods?

 

 

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