Originally posted by: gwr
I still have an off-air copy of ROTJ taped from ITV in the UK in the 80s which has the original subs, so much so that some very dodgy panning was required to read the lines as they were spoken.
I had the same recording, and remember that dodgy panning. I've since lost my tape - do you have any way of recording those segments to DVD and making clips available for reference?I still have an off-air copy of ROTJ taped from ITV in the UK in the 80s which has the original subs, so much so that some very dodgy panning was required to read the lines as they were spoken.
Funnily enough, the ITV airing of Star Wars did not have the original subtitles. The widescreen bootleg is the best reference, but it's so blurred it's hard to get an exact match. I made an attempt to approximate the original with subtitles overlaid using AviSynth:
However, I found such an approach is not suitable for CRT displays because the extreme left and right edges extend past the "safe title" zone and might end up being geometrically distorted, or even cropped out altogether in the overscan region.