Hi. I have a request. I would love to burn this to a DVD or Blu-Ray, but I want the title crawl which has “EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE” on it. It’s a banality, so I thought to add it myself, but apparently technology hates me because the only editing software that managed to import the movie without trouble was nerfherding Movie Maker for Windows XP (which is obviously a problem, since I don’t want my Star Wars in 4:3)
So I humbly ask, could anyone please edit and post a version with the “EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE” in the crawl?
I may be wrong… But I doubt you’ll find anyone willing to do this for you as it is not in keeping with the spirit of the project. The absence of the ‘Episode IV’ header is what makes it the original, as-released ‘Star Wars’ and not ‘A New Hope’ which is just a bad subtitle. No one really ever referred to the Star Wars movies by ‘Episode’ number before the prequels came out and they sure as hell didn’t refer to the original film as anything but ‘Star Wars.’ No one went to their friends house to play ‘A New Hope’… They went to play Star Wars! You didn’t see rabid fans bragging that they’d seen ‘A New Hope’ 25 times in the theater… Just my two cents. Also, you had a lot more technical problems with your plan to attempt to use Movie Maker to accomplish this than a 4:3 aspect ratio! Also… I don’t mean to be an a-hole. Like I said, someone may be willing to do this, but I think it’d be a bit insulting to all the work that went into making this particular project a historical representation of the true original film.