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Who's making the color correction on these? Fritz? pittrek? I can PM links for reference regarding it.

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LexX said:

Who's making the color correction on these? Fritz? pittrek? I can PM links for reference regarding it.

Well, it certainly isn't me :-)

Pittrek has first dibs, but I believe Ringwraith will make a major contribution to the process.

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At least I have a goal for the San Diego Comicon when I go this year.  Search the floor for a good copy of Coby and the other ones we are missing or find the Mexico tape.

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How about combining the Sci-Fi version of Coby and the Starhunters with the one from Ontherunvideo?

The watermark on the Sci-Fi channel version isn't half as annoying, and plug in the missing scenes from the Ontherun. Colour-correct to match. When Pittrek runs his logo-be-gone filter on it, this should leave a pretty clean episode, no?

The Mexican tape remains elusive, so this may be as good as we can make it. Still a helluva lot better than the torrents.

Ted, do you have good sources for the missing Ewoks as well?

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retartedted said:

Just the same SciFi channel rips.  I never got ahold of the ontherun DVD's for The Ewoks.  The watermarks just disgusted me too much.

I take it the Sci-Fi Ewoks are edited as well?

Hmm.. We really should get some good sources for those two Ewoks as well. Watermarks be damned :-)

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Video Collector said:

I take it the Sci-Fi Ewoks are edited as well?

Yeah it looks like they edited about 30 seconds off each episode.  Things like a frog snatching a fly and such.  We do have the lead ins for those episodes though on the scifi copies. Pittrek I have a feeling its going to take a lot of editing to splice all the little things together for each episode like the lead-ins for the Ewoks on the second season mixed with the PAL copies and then the same with the recaps for the Droids episodes we have.

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Video Collector,

I know you asked before if you can get the opening for Droids... I have never seen the PAL tapes.  Does that mean the opening isn't included on the tape?

 

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Just to give you guys an update, retardedted and I have been talking.  We are going to look into seeing if we can have professional transfers of the PAL tapes done.  It will be easier for us cost wise, since we live closer and the quality for all of us (not to mention the time involved).   Pittrek, we are in no way taking this project away from you but we figured it will be the easiest, quickest and cleanest result and I believe that is what we all want.  After the transfers are made (our understanding too is they can adjust for proper color corrections too) then we can collectively decide how we want to proceed to the next step in the editing process.  This method will be expensive but I think it is going to really be worth it in the long run since we all have that "oh i want the best" mentality.

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So it's not this one?
 

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Do you have "The ABC Saturday Sneak Peek and Fun Fit Test".  It was the preview show for the season the Droids and Ewok started.  R2 and 3po appear throughout the show.  (it's on one of the SW Rarities discs, can send it to someone)

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retartedted said:

An interesting note, the ontherunvideo end credits for Droids actually contains the "Droids and Ewoks Adventure Hour" credits.

Good find. That puts us this much closer to recreating the original broadcasts.

Does anyone know which episodes were paired for these airings?

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I have the ABC Saturday morning fun fit test too.  None, we need to compare mine and yours and we should go with the best quality.  Mine is in NTSC... I think it would make a good addition on the restoration.

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Is anyone good at making Fan based DVD covers?  I found these UK poster images and they may make good fronts for the covers for the restoration project, since it hasn't been used on any other custom (or produced) Droids and Ewoks videos that we have seen.  Just throwing it out there to see what you guys think.  The posters are available right now through ebay in the UK.  Maybe someone can get them and scan higher resolution images for the future.

 

 

 

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Sweet! We can incorporate it too. 

Does anyone have a good copy of this clip too or do you know how we can get ahold of this guy to get a copy of it.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf-gBgnUFfI

It would be a good addition to put with the ABC Saturday Morning Fit Test and anything else relevant we can find in an "extras" section if we collectively decide to have one.  It would be great if we can find clean copies of the commercials for the toys for both Droids and Ewoks too. 

Don't forget we still need to track down the full length missing Ewok episodes too if anyone has any leads on those so we don't have to resort to the SciFi versions.

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This is getting MUCH bigger than I originally expected :-)