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Someone I know through our website is currently having a stab at doing a LD/DVD conversion of the OT, with emphasis on the bonus material as much as anything else. I know there are loads of them around, but I thought I’d share what he’s come up with for the menus as they’re pretty nice. Here are the images he’s done for Jedi so far. He’s pretty much decided on the one with the central red border.

http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/jedi_menu_test_1.jpg
http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/jedi_menu_test_2.jpg
http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/jedi_menu_test_3.jpg
http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/jedi_chapter_selection_test.jpg
http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/jedi_audio_menu_test.gif

Here are the others:

http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/anh_menu.jpg
http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/empire_menu.jpg

I like the use of the artwork, rather than the standard clips from the films etc. The menus will all be animated, with different central images cycling every 30 seconds, accompanied by appropriate music from the trilogy. Obviously they’re nowhere near cmplete yet, but they look promising.

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PCM *and* AC3? Don't think that's been done before ...

But the menus kick ass. I personally prefer the non-bordered one, myself.
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Some very sweet artwork on those menus - very impressive m8

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Those menus are great. I think that the borderless one is the way to go though.
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" PCM *and* AC3? Don't think that's been done before ..."

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I love the idea behind this set. Is there an official thread or site for the project?

I love bonus material. I've seen some of the menu paintings before, but they look really great on DVD.

Which LD's are they coming from? Definitive Collection or Faces? If it's a good transfer, this could be a great set.
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This project has been a bit quiet lately, but I've just been given a massive update on how it's progressing. It's not far off completion, and looks to be a very nice set. Here's how it's shaping up:

Movie Discs:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Surround
PCM 2.0 Stereo Surround
Definitve Collection Audio Commentary layered with original soundtrack
Isolated Musical Score

English Subtitles
Commentator Identifying Subtitles
Animated Menus featuring full motion video and sound
Original THX Trailer that first appeared before ROTJ in 1983 (Return Of The Jedi only)

Bonus Discs:
From the '93 Definitive Collection and '95 THX Laserdiscs:
George Lucas Interview
Ralph McQuarrie on Designing Star Wars
A Tour of The Lucasfilm Archives
Ben Burtt on The Sound of Star Wars
Time Lapse Featurette on The Imperial Walkers with Dennis Murren
Film vs. Storyboard Comparison of the Asteroid Field Sequence from ESB
Dennis Murren on the special effects work on ROTJ
Cut Jabba's Palace Music Video from ROTJ
Animatic of the Death Star Raid from ROTJ
Behind the scenes slideshow galleries for each of the films taken from DC LDs
Ralph McQuarrie artwork gallery
Leonard Maltin Interviews George Lucas from the 1995 home video release
Trailers for each film

Documentaries:
From Star Wars To Jedi: The Making Of A Saga (1983)
The Making Of Star Wars (1977)
SPFX Empire - The Making Of The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Classic Creatures - The Making Of Return Of The Jedi (1983)

Easter Eggs:
Marvel Comics Star Wars gallery featuring the covers for all 107 issues, 3 Annuals and 4 issue ROTJ Limited Series
Official Marvel Comics Adaptations for each film (DVD-ROM)
MAD Magazine Parodies for SW, ESB, and ROTJ
Topps Offical Movie Cards gallery
The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
Bill Murray's rendition of Star Wars (audio only)
Kenner Toy gallery
Kenner Toy and other, miscellaneous television commercials
Star Wars Video Games gallery
Star Wars Video Games from the arcade, Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo (DVD-ROM)
Star Wars scripts (DVD-ROM)

Note: I was originally intending on including the Muppet Show episode featuring Mark Hamill, however, due to available disc space and the fact that it will be available commercially in the very near future I decided to omit it from the set.

Here are a few menus from Star Wars, jedi and one of the bonus discs. The author sent me the complete menus for Empire and they are very nice (great use of music and artwork). He also included a short clip of Vader and Luke fighting on Cloud City, which while not completely restored is probably as good as anything that's already available. They're taken from the DC rather than the Faces set, as according to the author the transfers for Empire and Jedi are better on the DC set (even if a few seconds of Empire are missing). As he put it, he's using the lesser of two evils.

http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/sw_main.jpg

http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/sw_audio.jpg

http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/sw_chapter.jpg

http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/jedi_main.jpg

http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/jedi_options.jpg

http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/jedi_chapter.jpg

http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/doc_main_menu.jpg

http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/jedi_video.jpg

http://www.dvdanswers.com/misc/chris/images/swlddvd/jedi_video_2.jpg
"Whatever! I digitally put Jabba the Hutt back into the original Star Wars movie! I'll do what I want!"
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Is there actually any point in including both Dolby Digital 2.0 AND PCM Stereo considering the Dolby is just an inferior version of the PCM?
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They are DL discs, which is probably why he added both Dolby and PCM tracks. Be nice to compare them if nothing else.
"Whatever! I digitally put Jabba the Hutt back into the original Star Wars movie! I'll do what I want!"
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Cool, If you need help uploading them to a.b.starwars just let me know.
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Not my menus I'm afraid, I'm just posting them on behalf of the guy who's working on them.
"Whatever! I digitally put Jabba the Hutt back into the original Star Wars movie! I'll do what I want!"
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These look absolutely stunning!
Maybe a certain Mr Lucas should take a look at this, to see how things should be done?
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These look nice but I am guessing they are from the NTSC release, right?

Too bad you don't have access to a PAL LD set.

Love your menus.
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Looks very cool, keep us updated!

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The menus are definitely nice, and the Easter Eggs list is very cool, but since there's so many of them, too bad it's not just all included on there instead of being Eggs. I personally think Easter Eggs are getting old and wish the stuff would just be on the discs and not hidden.
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Is this set still being made? Any updates?
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I love the mcquarrie menu's way better than the official lucasfilm moving image menus.

speaking of mcquarrie it's weird no one has made a fan project using his paintings to make movies, since their was a trailer for empire that did. a fan dvdr of his stuff would be cool. other than his star wars stuff, i love his artwork for the asimov series of books.

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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Hope this project is still active. It looks great. I too love the menus. Wonder if there is room on the SW disc to also add the mono audio track?
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
I love the mcquarrie menu's way better than the official lucasfilm moving image menus.

speaking of mcquarrie it's weird no one has made a fan project using his paintings to make movies, since their was a trailer for empire that did. a fan dvdr of his stuff would be cool. other than his star wars stuff, i love his artwork for the asimov series of books.


Once I have a few million in the bank, I'm gonna hire an overseas animation company to make a cartoon version of Lucas first draft of Star Wars: The Adventures of Luke Starkiller in the artistic style of the McQuarrie paintings. And then I'll be going to jail. It'll be worth it.
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what happened to this promising project?

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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Mentasm is your friends project done?

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.