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#181890
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Indiana Jones 4
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/181890/action/topic#181890
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father

Indiana Jones and the Second Last Crusade (an aging Indy decides he really should have kept the youth-giving grail after all and goes in search of it again)


I have all the latest scoop on this movie. It is set in 1945, and Indy visits Sallah in Egypt, where the two uncover documents in the village of Nag Hammadi that include the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdelene. Indy immediately translates the ancient aramaic and realizes his father's lifelong (and his own in the last film) grail search was all a misdirect ... a hoax ... and that the "grail" actually refers to Mary Magdelene's womb carrying the progeny of Christ. It is reavealed that the Catholic Church has been complicit in the supression of this information, which is why Hitler has been rounding up Catholic Priests into his concentration camps. Furthermore, the knight who was left buried in the rubble behind the great seal was actually one of the original Knights Templar, and in a secret room next to the room with all the fake grails was a round room where this old man had sex with his estranged wife, who'd been camping out in Scottish church for the last thousand years, only visiting her husband on the equinox, so they could have sex while the other knights dressed in black and white robes and watched. Indy shoots some Nazis who are trying to steal proof of this coverup because that knowledge is powerful enough to turn the tide of WWII back in their favor and let them rule the world. Indy gets religion, Hitler shoots himself, and a bunch of anagrams are made out of Da Vinci's artwork titles.

Smells like a blockbuster.
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#181853
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Black News for Babylon 5 Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/181853/action/topic#181853
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My "Next of Kin" was named "G'Kar" and he was a "One Armed Man."

Rest In Peace. Here are a couple of great G'Kar quotes appropriate for the moment:

Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us.

We all believe in something... greater than ourselves, even if it's just the blind forces of chance.


I believe that when we leave a place a part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in these halls, when it is quiet and just listen. After a while you will hear the echoes of all of our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.
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#181129
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Info: HEY! You Fan Editors are all mini George Lucases!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/181129/action/topic#181129
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The tone of the original post is trollish, but it's more misinformed than anything. It doesn't draw the clear distinction between preservation projects and fan edits, which are two diametrically opposed concepts. One supports preserving the original work in the best possible manner. As technology improves, so will the quality of preservation projects. The other supports changing a given work in some manner that sets it apart from the original.

Not to sound like I'm trumping the issue, I've said many times that I feel that fan editors (myself included especially) are behaving exactly like Lucas. If anything, his tinkering has invited us to tinker ourselves. If there is no single definitive edition, and is subject to constant revision while being marketed as "The Original Trilogy," well, fan edits are completely on the table. So I've said many times before what the initial post of this thread says. It doesn't offend me to be compared to Lucas when it comes to incessant tinkering. It's how I learn, and if it makes Star Wars interesting to me after 500 viewings, then it's nice to still give a damn.

The original post also lambasts redundancy, failing to to take into account that all the various fan edits have been done by different people, usually isolated from each other. Given that fan editors don't work for a company and don't belong to a committee, the work may be both redundant and disjointed at the same time. Fan Editor A may make change x and y, while Fan Editor B may make change y and z. It's rare that editor A is colluding with editor B on any given change. (Hey Darth Editous and MBJ, if you're reading, thanks again for all the help on the crawls and fixes; you're the exception to my rule.)

Same goes for redundant bonus features. Who cares if more than one guy likes a particular piece of SW history enough to make it available? I mean, aside from The Henson Company, is anybody else's nose out of joint about having The Muppet Show episode on a couple of different discs?

And I agree, the 2007/3D version will probably be the last updates on DVD. Then there will be a whole bunch of new updates for Blu-Ray. Lucas will continue to tinker. Then so will his kids after he's gone. That's OK; it makes it easier for us to do the same.

In summation, with all of the logic of the original post debunked, if you don't have something constructive to add: HACAASASTFU.

There is one and only one part of the original post we should all take issue with:
just get a damn DVD-R of it and be done with it. No need for an official release. I doubt I would buy the original unaltered versions if they were ever released. I've already got 'em. (Well as soon as I get the ISO mixes of Empire and Jedi that is).

Jay, how does this apply to the newly clarified forum rules? Sounds like he's supporting piracy to me. I for one continue to believe that format is irrelevant, but we should all have one properly licensed source for any title in our collection.
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#180120
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Two More Questions about Using Womble
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/180120/action/topic#180120
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two ways:
1a) Use SubRip to OCR the original subtitles into a text file
1b) Use Subtitle Workshop to convert them to .srt format
1c) Import the result into DVD-Lab Pro, and adjust as necessary.

2) Manually time them and type them in DVDLab Pro. This can be QUITE a pain, but it works.

In both cases, be prepared for SEVERAL muxes before it's lined up and ready. Subtitles are the biggest pain of all. Export your results into a text file and save it for future use if you reauthor again some day down the road.
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#179518
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<em><strong>The &quot;Darth Editous / ADigitalMan Hybrid Edition&quot; Info and Feedback Thread</strong></em> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/179518/action/topic#179518
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Boba Feta is going to work one up. We spoke yesterday and I think he's just been a little preoccupied. Shouldn't take long when the time comes, as it'll be an update to the ADM Edition cover. New screen grabs (of some fave DE changes) and a new writeup on the back.

I'm hoping he'll do a cover for The Clone Wars as well. *cough cough* *hint hint*
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#178806
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How Did You Find OT.com?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/178806/action/topic#178806
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I was a very early signature on the petition, then I forgot about the site until the official DVD's came out, which I bought on opening day due to all the positive press they'd gotten. I was so angry at the actual product that I went onto Google looking for preservations of the O-OT and to find The Phantom Edit, and it led me back here.

Now I just twiddle my thumbs awaiting the X0 project.
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#178669
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ADigitalMan's Guide to MPEG2/AC3 Editing
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/178669/action/topic#178669
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I've had the problem if there are a lot of edits (like in Ep I and II) ... it becomes a long, tedious, mathmatical fix. You can speed it up in vegas by noting how many frames off the resulting audio is, then squeezing/stretching that many frames in Vegas and re-aligning your edits to match. It's not exact, but I haven't noticed anything being off when I do it.