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Thank you for that.  Since I already have something like six slideshows completed, I will probably include those anyway, just to display what I was hoping to accomplish.  Glad I can contribute something since I've borrowed so much from so many others.

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So I'm nearly to the point where I will be able to upload all my content. I will be leaving out most stuff related to variations between releases, but otherwise it will be most material I had intended to release, though not as organized as I'd originally intended. I hope that it will be the groundwork for others to complete.  It really is a lot of material including some pretty obscure stuff.  Keep your eyes open :)

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Deleted, that was supposed to be a private message and not a reply :-)

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Friday.

Or sooner.

Or maybe later, but probably not, and if so, not much.  Very soon.

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darth_ender said:

Friday.

Or sooner.

Or maybe later, but probably not, and if so, not much.  Very soon.

 Good, i think....

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It's Friday night.  I didn't quite make it.  But I really am close, that I promise, and I'm anxious to be done and share all this crap so I don't have to worry about it anymore.  But please don't fret.  I'm so very near done.  Hang in there.

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hello darth

will you release your stuff next weekend or a bit later?

do you have find new scenes from videos? ;-)

greetings

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I just might release it all today!  I'm nearly done organizing what I have as much as I care to.  I am a little sad it's in rough shape, but I'd better get it out there or it will never get done.  I figure once it's released, I can allow others to finish the work I started.  You clearly have a passion for this stuff, so perhaps it might be you :)

In any case, I am not sure of one other thing: do I want motion clips of the changes made to the movies?  I have a few clips comparing the differences, and my plan was to include pictures of most changes (which I have already) and clips of the most substantial changes, but the actual clips are not fully collected and may take a little longer.  So in my limited time today, should I begin gather those clips?  Still not sure.

Also, I need a pretty extensive description of what is present and where to find, including thanks to those who helped and suggestions for continuing the work.  So these are the main holdups.  I've worked on it every day for the past several days, so I really am almost there.  Sorry to everyone who has been holding their breath.

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take all the time you need.i can wait.i think you do a good job.thanks for doing this.

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Well, I took your advice and am taking a little longer.  I really am trying to be fast.  I probably should stop trying to set timetables, but believe me, I'm trying to get it done while balancing real life.  I spent a lot of my time gathering in the past, and not enough organizing.  It's really surprisingly time consuming, but it's getting there.  I put in several hours yesterday.

As far as size goes, it's pretty large.  I've got a lot to get rid of, but the final product will probably be about 20 gb.

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darth_ender said:

Friday.

Or sooner.

Or maybe later, but probably not, and if so, not much.  Very soon.

 I know you missed your target, but I wanted to clarify anyway.  Sooner would be Thursday, later would be Saturday?  I only ask because I have to decide if I'm going to kick it in the front seat or the back seat, and I guess the day of the week determines which seat I shall take.

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darth_ender said:

Friday.

Or sooner.

Or maybe later, but probably not, and if so, not much.  Very soon.

 I know you missed your target, but I wanted to clarify anyway.  Sooner would be Thursday, later would be Saturday?  I only ask because I have to decide if I'm going to kick it in the front seat or the back seat, and I guess the day of the week determines which seat I shall take.

JEDIT: :-/

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I'll be done at the thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month, so keep your shirt on! ;)

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darth_ender said:

I'll be done at the thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month, so keep your shirt on! ;)

 Then I shall await Smarch!

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So here's the deal.  I know I keep making promises that I keep breaking, but I really am going to try extremely hard to get this posted tonight or tomorrow night.  It will be incomplete, as I've said before, but hopefully in a state of presentability at least.  I would recommend and encourage others to contribute and improve upon the collection.  Hopefully one day, working together, a more complete version of this project could be put together.  I only got about halfway on the slideshows, for instance, as that was an extremely time consuming prospect.  But it would be nice for the whole of the films to have such slideshows completed.

I also don't have the best looking versions of certain things.  For instance, I was having trouble ripping my PT bonus DVDs.  Even though I've got decent software, and even though I can rip other portions of the DVDs, I can't seem to rip the deleted scenes themselves.  Therefore I had to resort to lower quality versions from online for most of them.  I lack the technical expertise to rip them more successfully I guess.

I had ultimately planned to find all clips of even the briefest of deleted material, then trim off any unneeded ends from the beginning and end of where I found them, but at this point I don't care.  I'm just sending them as is.

I know there are still a few things I am probably missing.  I am aware of a couple of Ewoks: The Battle for Endor shots that Jambe Davdar resinserted into ROTJ, but in my rush, I dind't catch which they were.  I'm sure there are other things like this, but I hope others will complete even the minutiae, as this is part of the fun, but I'm just about "funned" out on this project.

So again, I will upload this project, hopefully by tomorrow night, with the disclaimer that it is incomplete and the suggestion that others conplete and refine it, and then I will wash my hands of the collection of all this stuff.  Hang in there guys.

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About the ripping - DVDDecrypter and VobBlanker are what you need.

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pittrek said:

About the ripping - DVDDecrypter and VobBlanker are what you need.

 or dvdfab or anydvd

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Well, what do you guys think?  Should I take a little longer and invest in different commercial software, or should I just release the project as is?  I mean, even today there is much more I could do to better organize it.  Most of what I've done for short clips is just use VLC and recorded appropriate clips from the original source.  But now most of them have not been renamed, and this would take a while.  I have so much going on right now, it makes it really difficult.  Honestly, I just want to delete any irrelevant clips (like when I started recording late or ended too soon), make sure I have enough descriptions present, and just be done with this.  If I had more time, I wouldn't mind taking longer on this, but it feels like more of a burden than I'd like.  I really want to share this and forget about it for a while.  Hopefully others can improve upon it and polish the overall project.  If you guys are up for it, that's cool with me.