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DVD: Return of the Ewok and Other Little Films (Released) — Page 3

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Originally posted by: andy_k_250


Three empty posts... just a little irritating when checking all the new stuff on the board.

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Originally posted by: Hoichi, the Earless
Well I figured i'd lump this question in here as this thread deals with all obscurities for the most part, but in regards to the Holiday Special I came across this statement lately:

"Along with the TV special,the 1980 CHRISTMAS IN THE STARS-THE STAR WARS CHRISTMAS ALBUM is not to be missed. Put together by Meco(of the Star Wars Disco hit fame) featured R2D2 and Anthony Daniels as 3-CPO and an early career vocal by Jon Bongiovi,it's a hoot on a near equal scale of the TV special("What Do You Get a Wookie for Christmas When He Already Has a Comb?"-priceless). It was originally released on Robert Stigwood's RSO label(of GREASE and SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER fame)and was rereleased on CD in the '90s on Rhino(though currently out of print)."

Anyone own or heard about this at all? A rip of this I think would be an awesome bonus to any DVD version of the HS...


I've got this on CD. As others have said, it's pretty damn weird. You'll want to listen to it once, but never again, just like the Holiday Special.

You know of the rebellion against the Empire?

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Hi there ! (I'm new...)

I was just wondering if any torrent exists now for "Return of the Ewok" DVD?
Cause I'd be very interested to see that. For now, I've just seen the "sample" available at Hyperspace.
A torrent would be cool, cause regular mail could be espansive for me (I'm in France)...

I have just one more question: When a DVD is finished here, where are you uploading it? I know myspeen (I've downloaded some great Star Wars stuff there!), but is there any other place? Cause I see DVD releases on some threads I just don't see on myspleen...
So: How does this all work ?
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I actually bought the Star Wars X-mas album when I was a kid. Still have it. The best thing about it is the cover art. The songs are what you would expect them to sound like.
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is there a cover for this DVD somewhere ?
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Originally posted by: Ash595
is there a cover for this DVD somewhere ?


I was wondering the same thing, and I emailed Garrett (aka ocpmovie). He said that he had never done a cover for any of his star wars productions, although he did a disc cover.

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too bad about the cover.

I don't know where to find the dvd. I'va got mine from a good friend.
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I did a cover to match my old Holiday Special cover. (no disrespect to ROTE!!) Plus I am working on a different one as we;;. I'll try to upload 'em on grisan's site this week.
-TheSluggo
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thanks Sluggo,

don't forget to my update here when it is ready.
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[URL=http://img64.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rotesample5wy.jpg]http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4663/rotesample5wy.th.jpg[/URL]

Here is what it is. It's not real clever, but it looks good next to my Holiday Special cover. I have another one in the works, but it might be a bit before I get around to it.

Click here for full size.
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Heheh. Who did the drawing of Wicket?

I like the blurb on that back.

Three quick corrections: "Restaurants" is mispelled, it's "Little Films" not "Short Films" (though I suppose both would contain the pun if one was looking for it, I decided to use Little to make it more obvious) ... and this is certainly not the cleanest version of the film known to exist! I wish I had Warwick Davis' real copy, but obviously I don't .... =)


I do have a few photos from Return of the Ewok lying around .... I really ought to do my own covers for these releases one of these days ....
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I'll see what I can't get done on this.
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Originally posted by: ocpmovie
I have completed my third and I think final version of the Return of the Ewok disc.

Here's the info:

D1: first attempt.
D2: Same as D1, with an extra Jacket Picture added.
D3: Jabba scene further reedited and improved.


I have burned several copies of D2, so you might not get quite the best version of the Jabba scene ... all D1 and D2 copies are marked as such on the disc.

I would like to request that only the D3 version be torrented.
Which version has time stamp 2005-05-12 23:25:35 GMT ?
I hope it's D3 I've got, but I won't spread it until I'm certain.


Here's CRCs for my jacket pictures and Jabba scene:
J00___5L.MP2 85388611
J00___5M.MP2 6ACDDF40
J00___5S.MP2 A3DBCC4B
VTS_10_0.IFO A4F0088F
VTS_10_0.VOB 7840CE50
VTS_10_1.VOB B98668CB

Is this D3 I've got ?

However, in practice you must take into account the “fuckwit factor”. Just talk to Darth Mallwalker…
-Moth3r

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Really enjoyed the editing on this. Just got a copy today. Just wish the bitrate had been higher on the original recordings and that so much material wasn't smushed onto one DVD. seems to be a big problem lately with the way people master their discs. Dual-layer or a split disc set is your friend.
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I'm pretty sure it's D3 you've got, but if you really don't know I guess I could check. Very few D2 copies are in circulation and if your copy actually has a printed cover, it's D3 you've got. Only the first couple of copies mailed were D2.



As far as "smushing" too much material on one DVD, in this case it was used to fill up the extra space on the disc, the quality of the material was NOT compromised in any way. It was all presented as originally encoded.

People seem to forget how much material really fits on a single layer DVD. If encoded properly there's usually very little reason to go double layer with a fan project, as an entire film can fit comfortably on one layer if you don't have to go overboard with alternate audio and video. Anything else like extras you just put on another disc.
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I should mention that there is another OCP disc that not too many people know about - because there aren't many copies circulating and I haven't talked about it here before.

It's a quick remix of the 1975 Star Wars Auditions. Rikter's version (I think it was) was good, but I thought my VHS copy (from a Con somewhere) was slightly better.

I transferred that and then stuck on real commercially-available DVD rips of the Richard Pryor cantina skit (finally, the n-word is said in a Star Wars context), and Weird Al's "The Saga Begins." Both in good quality of course, as they're from proper DVDs.

It's not a major OCP project, just something that was slapped together very quick, but it exists - ask for the Auditions Remix. (Often I just send out the regular old auditions instead.)
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Originally posted by: ocpmovie

As far as "smushing" too much material on one DVD, in this case it was used to fill up the extra space on the disc, the quality of the material was NOT compromised in any way. It was all presented as originally encoded.

People seem to forget how much material really fits on a single layer DVD. If encoded properly there's usually very little reason to go double layer with a fan project, as an entire film can fit comfortably on one layer if you don't have to go overboard with alternate audio and video. Anything else like extras you just put on another disc.



No...i'm not forgetting. The bitrate on your DVD was pretty low. It hovered around 5. I prefer it as close to 9 regularly as possible. If the space is there then it should be used. Also, the THX demo, though of good quality, is windowboxed. I have no idea why anyone would master this in 16x9 and not zoom it.
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Originally posted by: ocpmovie
if your copy actually has a printed cover, it's D3 you've got.
No printed cover since I received it over the wire.
No cover files either -- just the jacket pictures whose checksums are in my previous post.

However, in practice you must take into account the “fuckwit factor”. Just talk to Darth Mallwalker…
-Moth3r

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Is this torrented anywhere? I can't find it. And I'd LOVE to get a copy of the Auditions remix.
Don't Make Me Destroy You!
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I think someone asked the board on myspleen if they could put it up a while back. It might be up there now.
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It is not up at myspleen. Again, I send these out via mail.


[quote]Also, the THX demo, though of good quality, is windowboxed. I have no idea why anyone would master this in 16x9 and not zoom it.[/quote]



Blame THX. They're the ones who made that bizarre encode. I used it exactly as they did.



There's no real reason for a video bitrate to hover around 9 all the time, with a good encoder really doing its work, a bitrate of 4, 5 or even 3.6 is great.

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Originally posted by: ocpmovie
It is not up at myspleen. Again, I send these out via mail.


There's no real reason for a video bitrate to hover around 9 all the time, with a good encoder really doing its work, a bitrate of 4, 5 or even 3.6 is great.


And with that, you just lost all credibility.