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It was not in a Lacie enclosure. It was a bit more generic than that.

Ah, okay. Still, seems like it was the same drive inside that fucked us both. I'd say you harder than me, because Star Wars Begins is surely going to be better than my flick was. I'd like to donate, but I'm saving up a for a move...

Thanks for the three donations so far. I really do appreciate it.

You really need to put that in your sig, or at least update the first post. ;)

I'd love to donate immediately, but if I do, I probably wouldn't have enough in my account for the car payment. Haha.

Jambe, check your PMs

The drive recovery co got in touch yesterday with a list of the files that they are able to recover.  It was a very long list. And whilst I don't know exactly what is missing, things are looking good for a pretty full recovery.

Please donate if you can. This is costing me £650+!!

Thanks to the four kind people who have donated so far. I can't express how grateful I am, other than to say you guys rock.

Good to hear that it's recoverable! I may be able to donate a bit, but I have to see how things pan out over the next while financially. (among other things, I've lost a cleaning contract because of damage that a tornado did when it swept through town a couple of weeks ago) <-- true story

Good news. Drive is back. Cost me £758. Thanks for the six donations. You have helped me cover 1/7th of the cost which is amazing. Any other donations would be much appreciated. I was unable to reconnect the media to the FCP timeline automatically, so I am doing it manually, which will take a looong time.

Also, several files have become corrupt. For some reason it has also lost random parts of the edit including clips taken from the THX laserdisc. Is anyone able to send me the DVD version please? Also the lost edit scenes have disappeared from the timeline but I have the original media so I will have to edit all that in again.

So, in short, it will take a while to get back on track, but rest assured it will happen.  I have already spent a couple of hours on it this week.

Thanks for all your support.

JD

Great news! (mostly) If you can't get someone in the UK to send you the THX disc, let me know, as I do have it on DVD.

Hi Jambe,

Good luck with getting this back on track mate - and hope life is treating you well.

none said:

"Lucasfilm THX Ultimate Demo Disc 2003 NTSC" went up to a.b.sw in May.

I've found that FCP, once you've reassociated one file, it tends to reconnect others if they are in similar folder locations.  Hopefully the same will happen on your end.

none, I don't go on the boards unfortunately. I wonder if any of the UK based folks would be able to send me the DVD?

FCP is not automatically connecting because of a bug in my version. I even tried updating but the data is lost.  It knows that the media is offline but has lost the register to each of the media so I have to do the whole things manually. Plus its lots about 1/5th of the media completely.  It things 1/5th of the project came from a file called 'clapper sound', it didn't. So I have to edit all of that back in!

Hey oojason, great to hear from you. Life is good actually, thanks.  Things are really looking up lately.  I hope you are well too mate.

Darth Solo said:

Hello Jambe,

Glad to see you maybe back on track mate.

Speaking of back-ups i may need your support on the redisribution of a torrent i hope to put up soon(given the mess we made with Returning to Jedi at its release back in the day-remember)

I don't remember actually. What did we do?

none said:

Sounds like a significant pain. (but lots of practice!)

Another option is to open the FCP file in a text editor and find out where everything used to be.  Then create a virtual drive with those exact locations.  Then see if everything reconnects ok.  But if the real error is the editing file got corrupted and replaced the file locations with 'clapper sound' then this is probably not worth it.

I managed to get it to reconnect to a large portion of the edit. That being Empire of Dreams. For some reason it renamed that and the THX disc something completely random. I actually spent two hours last night editing. This thing is coming along nicely.

Jambe Davdar said:

This thing is coming along nicely.

Very...nice! ;) Even if they're not saying it in this thread, there are a lot of people who always hoped you would do your own Deleted Magic, so to speak, and it's great to hear of this progress even/especially after such setbacks.

Ripplin said:

...there are a lot of people who always hoped you would do your own Deleted Magic, so to speak, and it's great to hear of this progress even/especially after such setbacks.

Truly said. I wish I could afford to help you out and right now am trying just to breathe.  And am delighted for you that (what seems to be?) so much of your work is recoverable.

Hey guys, thanks for the support.

Been watching through what I've got so far and filling in some of the holes.

However, the scene on the Deathstar just after Chewie knocks that Imperial out, lacks something.  There are a few behind the scenes shots and I've mentioned the inclusion and lack of the Threepio line in different versions.  However, for the rest of the scene there is nothing much to say.  Does anyone have any good behind the scenes photos of that scene?

Thanks

JD

Did you ever see this:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Death-Star-Control-Room-found/topic/10503/

Actually never mind, that's a different control room. Sorry!

Hey M,

Yeah, I did see that thanks. Thanks for reminding me.  

I am still looking for something to talk about in the other control room. It does of course make another appearance in the film when Vader and the Tie Fighter pilots head to their ships. It's just to the left of the screen.  

Thanks

JD

Jambe Davdar said:

I am still looking for something to talk about in the other control room. It does of course make another appearance in the film when Vader and the Tie Fighter pilots head to their ships. It's just to the left of the screen.

Have you commented about the trooper hitting his head on the door? Which is then referenced in Attack of the Clones?

Doesn't this control room also appear in the deleted Chief Bast scene that was used in the Holiday Special?

Could you comment on the way that the actors had to freeze while the doors opened and closed, to achieve the "fast door" effect?

A bit of trivia: the actor who played the "TK421, do you copy?" officer reprised his role for the fan film The Dark Redemption.

Erikstormtrooper said:

Have you commented about the trooper hitting his head on the door? Which is then referenced in Attack of the Clones?

I didn't remember that. Stupid fanservice... :p

Erikstormtrooper said:

Jambe Davdar said:

I am still looking for something to talk about in the other control room. It does of course make another appearance in the film when Vader and the Tie Fighter pilots head to their ships. It's just to the left of the screen.

Have you commented about the trooper hitting his head on the door? Which is then referenced in Attack of the Clones?

Doesn't this control room also appear in the deleted Chief Bast scene that was used in the Holiday Special?

Could you comment on the way that the actors had to freeze while the doors opened and closed, to achieve the "fast door" effect?

A bit of trivia: the actor who played the "TK421, do you copy?" officer reprised his role for the fan film The Dark Redemption.

Hey Erik,

Yeah, spoken about the doors. Will check out the Bast scene again.  No offense but I don't think i will mention anything related to a fan film.

The tropper hitting is head is also of course referenced.  I even do an instant replay!

Has this been posted? Two collections of behind the scenes photos

http://worldfamousdesignjunkies.com/bits/rare-star-wars-photos/

http://worldfamousdesignjunkies.com/outer-space/more-star-wars-rarities/

Hope it helps.

Mac