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msycamore said:

zombie84 said:

The 1995 mix has mono elements, while the 1993 DC mix does not, right? Even though its just DC+mono, that still qualifies it as a seperate mix. It's based on the DC mix, but it's not the DC mix.

Sorry, but I honestly don't understand what you mean. The 1993 THX-certified Digitally remastered and remixed audio track that accompanied the Definitive Collection LD set, used elements from the original mono mix as well as entirely new sound-fx, this same mix is the 1995 mix. And this is the same mix that's on the Gout and the one hairy_hen used as a base to do his 70mm recreation. The '93 and '95 audio is not seperate mixes.

 Ah, okay. See, it was my understanding that further mono elements were added to the 1995 mix, beyond what was already added to the 1993 mix. Thanks for the correction!

The SW 70mm frames are not pink though. The probably have faded a bit, but the source is different. Probably some sort of dupe, which therefore has had less time to fade, while the Jedi frames are based on the original-release master of some kind. Prints fade at different rate depending on how tthey are stored, but SW vs Jedi is pretty extreme difference.

Anyway, yeah, they aren't a pristine reference for colour, but they aren't totally useless either.

Bkev: as far as I can tell, the DS interiors are supposed to be a greenish hue much of the time. How else could you explain a "pristine" print that has totally screwed up wall hues while having normal looking skin tones and white balance? And which also happens to correspond with caps of the Technicolor fade-free print, as well as other sources...

The notion that the DS interiors were always neutral grey appears to be highly erroneous.

Yeah, it certainly looks blue in some of the I.B. caps. The cellblock control shootout is blue-ish, as are certain shots in the control room, just from the caps. A very deep, saturated blue too, not just from the print tint or camera balance.

They have been off because of the fading and low saturation of home releases. Also the earlier transfers, which would have been the least faded (i.e. 1982-1985) were very poor and had their own tinting, aside from Laserdisc being unable to display the full colour information and subject to its own custom colour correction.

If you jack up the GOUT colours to the I.B. colour levels you see the DS walls become pink. Which means there is colour in them, that seemed grey because it was so washed out. If you then shift the pink out until the rest of the image looks normal, much of the time you end up with blue and green walls. Either this is how it was photographed, regardless of the actual paint pigment, or this is how it was colour-timed to get correct skintones. But in either case it looks like a coloured DS was normal for most, but not necessarily all, of the shots, to varying degrees of intensity. My two cents.

none said:

While I was bootlegging the 30th anniversary ESB presentation in Time Square, a random passerby-er let me know that most of the theaters in NYC have gone digital and all the projectionists are being let go, since you can higher a kid in high school to run the new digital projection systems at vastly reduced prices.   

 What does this mean.  What were you bootlegging?!?

xhonzi said:

Your new site should have a new new roleplaying board.

I approve of this message.

digitalfreaknyc wrote:

What does this mean.  What were you bootlegging?!?

The explanation/results are available:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/AN-EMPIRE-SPIK-BOOTLEG-FAN-COMMENTARY-EDITION/topic/11687/

http://noneinc.com/AESB/AESB-FAQ.html

Thanks for the feedback guys. Anchorhead, looks good, might try it out. What font is on the title there?

For now though I need a bit of fact-checking here since this one is basically a history of OT.com.

http://savestarwars.com/fanpreservations.html

I'm sure there's misreported info in there, was a lot of stuff to touch upon and juggle; the page is also still unfinished. Also, Dark_Jedi's new release I have not yet seen, but I felt confident enough to include it; I'll make any needed modifications upon release.

I also put up another editorial (http://savestarwars.com/dontrocktheboat.html) Again, it's not the final form, and I need to confirm a couple things, but you can see where I am going. Feel free to comment.

He's always been. The impression I get is that he's basically like one of the guys from TFN, whos world would shatter if Lucas was shown to be less than a god. Steve Sansweet has his head so far up George Lucas' ass he could probably see Rick McCallum's feet.