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***//BUILDING EMPIRE\\: PAL & NTSC DVD - NEW EDITION NOW ONLINE! *** — Page 40

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Have you checked out the NTSC version? It was painstakingly converted from 25fps to 23.978fps (rather than the usual IFO tricks which use the PAL soundtrack for compliant, if not truly converted, NTSC video) and pitch corrected so it sounds like the Empire we all know and love yet still showcases Jambe's marvelous work on this project. I say painstakingly because it took a month of trial and error to get it right due to some weird conversion glitch. The Jedi one went flawlessly and took only a few hours (it's never been distributed, though and only Jambe and a couple others even have a copy).
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I've only checked what was on youtube just now lol...

I'm assuming that when you pitch corrected, you didn't touch the portions he inserted (as to maintain their pitch)?

if so, then that's cool... Ill have to look into that


Is it not sad that in this time, we are more surprised by acts of love than acts of hate?
-Me

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The main concern was the movie soundtrack itself. As beautiful as PAL is to look at (and I was indeed jealous), the voices all sounded like they were sucking helium. The entire soundtrack was slowed down to 23.978fps which naturally corrected the pitch. The added commentary voices were a mixed bag. Because I was most familiar with Mark's and Carrie's voices and they sounded the most like sloths when slowed down, I re-pitch corrected them back 4% higher. The other voices didn't seem to suffer as much so they were left as they were. I took the lessons learned on Empire and when I did Jedi it went perfectly the first try so I actually took the time out and manually re-pitched nearly every voice while leaving the movie soundtrack naturally corrected by the speed change. I even took out some pops and denoised some commentary. Empire and Jedi both have their supplemental material converted in the usual ways so that the PAL soundtrack wasn't altered (mainly because they were taken directly from CDs to begin with).

Empire does have the issue that the menus aren't as smoothly transitional as Jambe's original because of the way Encore did them. Jambe's Jedi was previously converted by Boon23 into NTSC although not pitch-corrected or slowed down but the disc was better authored (keep in mind that while the content is 100% Jambe's work, the menu authoring had to be re-created from scratch) so I converted Returning to Jedi in my method and inserted it into Boon's authored disc. It's also a dual layer DVD encoded at the same bitrate as Jambe's original while Boon's was single layer and much more compressed. Thing is, after finishing it, no one seemed to want it and folks were satisfied with the single layer version available. I've sent a copy to Jambe and to two other people that requested it (1-post noobs that went as quickly as they came) and that's it.

Anyway, Jambe's original PAL versions of Building Empire and Returning to Jedi are available on torrent at Demonoid, and NTSC versions of Empire and the single layer Jedi are there as well. Dual layer Jedi is as yet unavailable.
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Hello,

I am new here and just happened to be watching the "Building Empire" videos on youtube. Is there somewhere I can download this? I read a few post about demonoid or something like that? I also saw that there was one called "Returning to Jedi" that I would like to download also..

Any help would be much appreciated..

Thanks in advance!

Jeff
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Hi
Is there any way to get this DVD in France?
I could pay shipping fee to any good samaritan...
Many thanks.
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Hi
Is there any way to get this DVD in France?
Would happily pay for the shipping fees to any good samaritan
Many thanks
Philippe
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Originally posted by: caligulathegod
The main concern was the movie soundtrack itself. As beautiful as PAL is to look at (and I was indeed jealous), the voices all sounded like they were sucking helium. The entire soundtrack was slowed down to 23.978fps which naturally corrected the pitch. The added commentary voices were a mixed bag. Because I was most familiar with Mark's and Carrie's voices and they sounded the most like sloths when slowed down, I re-pitch corrected them back 4% higher. The other voices didn't seem to suffer as much so they were left as they were. I took the lessons learned on Empire and when I did Jedi it went perfectly the first try so I actually took the time out and manually re-pitched nearly every voice while leaving the movie soundtrack naturally corrected by the speed change. I even took out some pops and denoised some commentary. Empire and Jedi both have their supplemental material converted in the usual ways so that the PAL soundtrack wasn't altered (mainly because they were taken directly from CDs to begin with).

Empire does have the issue that the menus aren't as smoothly transitional as Jambe's original because of the way Encore did them. Jambe's Jedi was previously converted by Boon23 into NTSC although not pitch-corrected or slowed down but the disc was better authored (keep in mind that while the content is 100% Jambe's work, the menu authoring had to be re-created from scratch) so I converted Returning to Jedi in my method and inserted it into Boon's authored disc. It's also a dual layer DVD encoded at the same bitrate as Jambe's original while Boon's was single layer and much more compressed. Thing is, after finishing it, no one seemed to want it and folks were satisfied with the single layer version available. I've sent a copy to Jambe and to two other people that requested it (1-post noobs that went as quickly as they came) and that's it.

Anyway, Jambe's original PAL versions of Building Empire and Returning to Jedi are available on torrent at Demonoid, and NTSC versions of Empire and the single layer Jedi are there as well. Dual layer Jedi is as yet unavailable.


caligulathegod, I've sent you a couple of PM's relating to your dual layer version of Jambe's RTJ....Its up to you but I hope you to hear from you....PIF or torrent, your wish is my command....

(my apologies for being off subject in this thread)

I love everybody. Lets all smoke some reefer and chill. Hug and kisses for everybody.

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skyvaquer, turn on your PMs and send me a PM with your address. I'll sort you out with a copy of this.
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hey guys! Would someone be kind enough to help me in getting a copy of Jambe Davdar
two movies or tell me how I can download it? Jambe Davdar suggested I check with you guys here. Any help is appreciated, I really want to be able to watch the movies!!

Thanks in advance!
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I am looking for all the available covers for Building Empire, in particular this one:

http://www.fulori.com/~skot/BE.jpg

Anybody have it full size?

--SKot

EDIT: Whoops! Link fixed.

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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Originally posted by: Moth3r
http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/BE.jpg

That's your site isn't it SKot? Did you forget that "hotlinking is for monkeys"?
Curses! Foiled by my own website!!

To tell the truth I didn't set that anti-hotlinking thing up, but it is pretty funny... except when it keeps me from linking my own material I'm hosting! Ah, well...

Anyway, I fixed it now.

--SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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Originally posted by: sammy1
hey guys! Would someone be kind enough to help me in getting a copy of Jambe Davdar
two movies or tell me how I can download it? Jambe Davdar suggested I check with you guys here. Any help is appreciated, I really want to be able to watch the movies!!

Thanks in advance!


ANYONE?

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You need to turn your private messages there, slick.
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OOPS. I didn't realize that the membership here defaults to no private messages. Its on now
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Originally posted by: Jambe Davdar
Hi Skot,

Will these do?
They will indeed! Much obliged, Jambe. Any idea who made the one I was pointing out above? I have the matching Jedi one, but the spines don't match. I may end up having to modify it to match the Jedi one myself.

--SKot

Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]

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Originally posted by: Sluggo
You need to turn your private messages there, slick.



PM sent Sluggo
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Jambe,

This past weekend I was at the '07 version of HobbyStar's Fan Xpo in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The guests this year were Temeura Morrison, Daniel Logan, Jake Lloyd and Dave Prowse

I was able to give Mr. Prowse a copy of 'BE' & 'RTJ'

He hadn't heard of it but after a quick explaination of it's features, originaltrilogy.com and it's community he said he would give it a watch w/ great interest

Another cast member taken care of
'And you call yourselves human'

- Leia to Tarkin
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Hey JD...can you tell me where I can get labels for the RTJ edit?
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Thanks JD! That's exactly what I was looking for!!
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NEWS FLASH.

'Building Empire' is going to be entered into the 'Miami Underground Film Festival' at the request of the guy in charge.

All rather exciting!

Creator of Star Wars Begins, Building Empire and Returning to Jedi
Follow me on twitter @jamieSWB. Please support me at - http://www.patreon.com/jamiebenning/