Originally posted by: GuruKenn
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?
GK
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?
GK
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