Hi,

Just wanted to fill you all in on a little project I have been working on. It was very frustrating for me that I have not been able to use my CD-ROM “Making Magic” on my Windows XP system. “Making Magic” was included as a bonus CD-ROM in one of the Lucasarts re-issue game bundles a few years ago, and does not work with newer operating systems.

What I have done is make a high quality VGA to S-Video capture of all the CD-ROM content, and I am now in the final stages of re-assembling it all using Adobe Premiere Pro 6.0, Adobe Encore-DVD and TMPGEnc encoder. The format of my “Re-Making Magic DVD" will almost exactly match the one on the original CD-ROM, and the video quality is very close to the original. The hard part of this project so far has been re-constructing the menus and the menu buttons. It has been slow going as I am also learning the Encore DVD software at the same time.

I know that most of the content on this title is in the realm of the Special Editions, but there is some out-take footage of the original Han & Jabba scene from Star Wars that cannot be found anyplace else. I also placed the Star Wars lost scenes from the “Behind the Magic” CD-ROM as a little Easter Egg off one of the menus. So with that content included, this title should fall into the Original Trilogy Preservation category.

Any Comments?