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Adamwankenobi

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#139981
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Has anyone now second guessed the prequels
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I can see how the 70's child would see all the movies, having had the Vader revelation, but I was a 90's child who saw everything from a different perspective. Despuite having never seen the originals until after TPM in 1999, I grew up knowing Vader was Luke's father. That was never a shock to me. What interested me most was how he became Vader, which is why I like the prequels. I see all the movies as equal. I don't set around bashing any of them, I have just grew up appreciating all of them.
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#139918
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Has anyone now second guessed the prequels
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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
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Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
If you are going to show them the films, show them as George intends. It truly is an amzing experience. Just becuase you experienced and remember the films a certain way doesn't mean they have to. Hey, you never know. They might (gasp) like all the movies as a whole!


you mean as Lucas intended back in 77 or back in 83 after Jedi came out? How about in 95 after he released the Original Trilogy for the last time as it was seen in theatres. Or perhaps you refer to how he intended it to be seen in 97 when he released the special editions. but then again you could be talking about his 'final' version of how it should be seen in 04 when he released the official dvds. though based on talk, come 07 all these versions will be obsolete cause lucas would have changed his mind again and released a new version of how he has always intended them to be seen.

why do people still defend him on his 'this is how i intended it but didnt have the technology back then' how did he not have technology to make greedo shoot first? answer, he did, it was just NEVER his intention until 97 to do so. End of story. 85% of the changes actually hurt the flow of the story,10% are completely useless, and the other 5% are the kinds of fixes he should have made where errors and actually technical limitations were corrected.

-Darth Simon


I am referring to the 2007 six film box set release. Myself, I grew up with the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy. To me, they are all great, and have their own good qualities. The first of them I saw ever was TPM, then I saw ANH. They were all great to me. And take the deal all purists have with the Luke/Vader revelation. The scene is much much more powerful and sad when have seen the prequels, because you start fearing for Luke and feel sorry for him, rather than being mad at Vader or being shocked by the scene. It's one of those deals whhere you know it, and he doesn't.
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#139814
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Wal-Mart gets Star Wars bonus disc for ROTS
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/139814/action/topic#139814
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Originally posted by: booah
Clicking on it to enlarge the picture, and after a lot of squinting to make out what it says on the sticker:

The title of the bonus disc: The Story of Star Wars.

Sticker: R2-D2 and C-3P0's chronicles of Luke and Anakin Skywalker
Almost __ minutes of additional content. (can't decipher how many minutes)


Wal-Mart.com has just updated their page and specify the number of minutes. According to the site, the DVD will contain almost 60 new minutes of footage.
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#139781
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Rotoscoping Lightsabers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/139781/action/topic#139781
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Originally posted by: Commander Courage
I KNOW there was a thread about this very thing in this very forum, but for the life of me I can't seem to find it.

My question is a two-parter:
I now have Adobe After Effects, and am very excited about using it to rotoscope lightsaber duels. You can read it However, not only do I need to instructions on how to do it, I also need to know how to get video off of a DVD and into a format that you can edit. I have loaded the DVD onto my computer with DVD Decrypter, and now everything is is TS files. What do I need to do to transfer it to an editable form? Any help would be much appreciated.


TheForce.Net has an excellent article detailing how to do the lightsaber effects on after effects and premiere here. To get video off of a DVD, you will need a program that will demultiplex the audio and video. This will make the two in a format where you don't have decompress the video and lose quality from decompression. You will then have all the files in m2v's and ac3's. m2v is the video and ac3 is the audio. Once you import these into the timeline of a video editing program, you are all set!

I can reccomend the perfect software for this if you are using a PC. This software can demultiplex the video and has its own timeline. The program is called MPEG Video Wizard. Check this site to dwonload the prgram:

MPEG Video Wizard

You will need to enter a serial number to use it. I can't post it, but you can find one for free easily at www.serialz.to by searching the phrase "MPEG Video Wizard."

Hope this helps!