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#115806
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ROTS without timestamp?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/115806/action/topic#115806
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Originally posted by: Hardcore Legend
Even if you complain about how bad the quality is at a movie theater and would rather watch this d/l at home instead, then go buy the ticket and then come back home and watch the film.


And for that matter, if anybody complains about the quality at the theatre, make a point of going to a DLP theatre. The one I saw in Daytona was the best cinematic experience I've had since seeing The Empire Strikes Back on opening day.

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#115548
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***The &quot;Darth Editous&quot; Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially &quot;de-specialed&quot; DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/115548/action/topic#115548
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Actually, the GOP editors preserve the original MPEG encoding as long as you don't manipulate the image beyond cutting it. If you apply any changes to a frame or a group of frames, then only those frames gets reconverted, but the untouched segments still retain their original quality. It's the biggest reason I went that route. The actual original data doesn't get mucked around with. If the software could do the same treatment to the AC3 files (when you're fading or crossfading, because straight cuts in audio also result in no recompression) then it would be that much better. I'd love to do an analysis of just how much audio degradation happens when we demux to wav, edit, then recompress to AC3.

That said, DE's disc just looks so damn good -- even in single layer format -- that any recompression drawbacks are pretty much unnoticable. I assume they're there, but nothing grabbed my attention so much as junk mattes and jump cuts do. What he's done really is the dog's bollocks. I'd love to see a DL version.
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#115495
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***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/115495/action/topic#115495
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I actually like the story better chronologically. Maybe that's the cinematic equivalent of painting "Dogs Playing Poker" over the Mona Lisa, but what can I say? I may not know art, but I know what I like.

Anyway, it's quite ugly in the current form and thus nothing I'd release, but I may take another stab at it one day. I have a few other fish to fry first. Going to be busy with real work for a while. Afterward, I think I'll try to update my Harry Potters and Tomorrow Never Dies to have surround. After that, The Terminator and Pulp Fiction look like good projects. They'll all be quick enough to do, but I don't even have that kind of time these days.

Whatever the case, Ep III will begin the day that the DVD hits stores and will take precedence over everything except feeding my family.
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#115363
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***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/115363/action/topic#115363
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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Pulp Fiction would be fun to do also, but it would be far easier (fewer scenes and very little overlapping.)


I really want to do pulp fiction, but the deleted scenes are non-anamorphic. Any idea on how to either up-convert them to anamorphic or obtain one of those old non-anamorphic versions for the main movie source?
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#115399
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CGI Yoda for TPM
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/115399/action/topic#115399
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I do chalk up the problems to the pupped in Ep I to the way he was lighted. There is a lot of sunlight and bright lights on Yoda in Ep I, whereas in V and VI, he's living in the darkness of Dagobah. The subtleties of lighting can make all the difference in one shot to the next. I just think they tried too damn hard to make the prequels look like something original and not part of the classic trilogy. Apparently they never heard the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" axiom. Or it's just that Lucas sees cinematic perfection as broke because he can't see the forest for the trees.

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#115359
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CGI Yoda for TPM
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/115359/action/topic#115359
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father

You could just cut the AOTC Yoda/Dooku fight. It was only there to show Yoda brawling, and he does that in Sith anyway.


And to expose that Dooku was Yoda's apprentice, drawing a direct line of apprenticeship from Yoda to Dooku to Qui-Gon to Obi-Wan to Anakin. And to establish Dooku's escape ... interrupting the saber battle to drop a Big Heavy Thing on Obi-Wan and Anakin, forcing Yoda to disengage from Dooku to save Obi-Wan and Anakin.

Consider this: If Yoda had chosen differently, things would have turned out quite differently for the galaxy. Obi-Wan and Anakin would have been dead before their choices destroy the republic. Dooku would have been captured before he could spread the fire of the Clone Wars and before he could get the Death Star plans to Sidious. Yoda was unwilling to sacrifice Obi-Wan and Anakin, and look at the results. This gives new meaning to why he tells Luke it's okay to sacrifice one's friends if you honor that for which they fight.
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#115236
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***The ADigitalMan non-Star Wars DVD Info and Feedback Thread***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/115236/action/topic#115236
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Dune was supposed to happen officially, and we should be holding it in our hands now. Universal pulled the release after even announcing the release date of May 10th. No idea why. The release was supposed to contain the original theatrical version and the Alan Smithee version, both in Anamorphic widescreen.

I actually did a hack job on Godfather II to separate Vito's story and Michael's story. You can watch Vito's story with the Corleone family dinner scene at the end, then The Godfather, then Michael's story. Then, if you really want, you can watch the story about Sofia Coppola and Anthony Garcia engaging in incest while the family whacks a pope. I think it was called Godfather III but I'm not sure.

Now that I've got a better idea of what I'm doing, I considered re-visiting that project to make the edits a zillion times better.

Incidentally, they actually released the TV-reedit of which you speak to laserdisc some years back, just not to DVD. I personally think that the DVD for Godfather II could do this via seamless branching, but it would need for the movie to all be on one disc. The movie was actually split onto two discs.

Yet another money-making idea for Coppola.
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#115239
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The Man Who Would Be Superman
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/115239/action/topic#115239
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I give Singer a lot of cred for finding diamonds in the rough, but this Routh guy was written out of a soap opera after one season. How bad can his acting be to get that treatment? I'm in that crowd that would have preferred to see Smallville's cast go to the big screen.

Singer better not screw this up. He's screwed X-men by leaving that franchise for this. If he pulls an Ang Lee and kills this franchise before jump starting it, he'll be the next Joel Schumacher, in more ways than one.
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#114598
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Revenge of the Sith DLP Digital THX
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/114598/action/topic#114598
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I'm familiar with this theater and only wish I still lived in the area to see that new Barco projector. A buddy of mine saw ROTS there opening week and raved about it in ways I wish he would describe here in this forum. The theatre in question is the newly-reopened Camelot in Greenville SC. This place boasts the largest screen on the east coast. I have seen it in person when it was first built a decade ago (as the Carmike) and it blew me away then. THX-certified sound, and the most ginormous screen I've ever beheld. I wanted to see Ben Hur play on this screen in the worst way.

Apparently a series of bad investments had this awesome facility change hands for a while, then be used as a church for a while, then sit unused for a while. Now it's back to being a badass theatre again, and I only wish I still lived in that part of the country to behold it.

Edit:
here are two links about the theatre

official site

Cinema Treasures forum (seems to take a while to load the posts, so be very patient)

The latter contains some of my friend's rave reviews.