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Post #960442

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Williarob
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team negative1 - star wars 1977 - 35mm theatrical version (Released)
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Date created
28-Jun-2016, 4:19 PM

Thanks Pittrek, we appreciate the feedback! Glad you are enjoying it.

To address your specific observations:

  • I looked at a few retail seamless branching discs and noted that they all made the user select the branch as soon as the disc was loaded. For example Aliens Theatrical vs Special Edition pops up almost immediately, and Star Wars invites you to pick the language before proceeding to the main menu. So that was my reason for putting the choice there. Also, I had prepared 2 versions of the main menu and this gave me a way to use both. Another option I toyed with was to randomly choose a menu background.

  • I was fortunate to have some help creating the menu backgrounds - while I added the Star Wars montage and the menu functionality, the actual backgrounds behind them were created entirely by Donny Versiga (http://rigel7studios.blogspot.com/).

  • I would have liked to add a bunch of new Bonus features but I didn’t have any handy, and I really didn’t feel like creating any more menu pages. Plus, you are only allowed 16 MB of memory for the menu, and I was already using 14 MB so adding another page may have pushed it over the limit. (Originally I had only 5 chapter images per page, for a total of 10 scene selection pages, but that used 23 MB and the project would not build. It took weeks to re-do it all! Weeks that might have been spent working on new Special Features. Don’t worry, though, when Team Blu gets around to doing the next version of Star Wars, there will be a bunch of new Special Features to share.)

  • You might be right about the space ship buttons.

  • Ironically I only have a 128 kb/s MP3 version of the pre-noise Reduction mono mix capture, so I went with the WAV which had already had the NR applied. As I’ve said before, I’m not an audiophile but as far as I could tell the only difference was the background hiss… If you would like to hear the pre-noise reduction MP3 you can download it from here:

https://mega.nz/#!N5h3xTib!kZSkEIXAtybQ7b8lUdGKsowky1ARMu607RGmZgPdUvA

I should point out that the MP3 is not GOUT sync’d…

  • I did not experience any issues with the droids in the Desert, did anyone else have that issue? You said you are using PowerDVD, perhaps your PC was just busy doing something else for a few seconds at that point?