AntcuFaalb

Guys, guys!

This bickering is pointless.

Back to work!

I just call it "Star Wars" and when people ask "which one?" I repeat "Star Wars" until they figure it out. It usually only takes a single repeat for people to catch on.

Yay! :-)

YanniD said:

Harmy said:

I do believe they could do better than this, seeing as how I'm using old LD masters for many shots and the whole thing is still a bit of a patch-work.

Would a 4K transfer of a Technicolor print be the definitive original version?

Is George Lucas the only obstacle to accomplishing this?

Attempting to define the "definitive original version" of Star Wars is an impossible task, so don't start crawling down that rabbit hole.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Print-variations-in-77-Star-Wars/topic/14705/

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Credits-Leaders-Thread/topic/12960/

Which crawl variation do you want to include?

Which credit variation do you want to include?

Which soundtrack do you want to include?

Which colors do you want to match? (Most people didn't see an IB Technicolor print of Star Wars when it came out in '77. Furthermore, the contrast and saturation changes introduced by Technicolor imbibition process means that the colors of an IB Technicolor print are rather different from a '77 print on Eastman stock.)

I can go on and on...

darth_ender said:

Sounds like a naive view to a complex story and character from a book that has been praised and received two prestigious sci-fi awards.  Quite honestly, I find the political views of many of my favorite series' authors (i.e. George Lucas) quite objectionable, but that doesn't mean I will boycott their products, call them names, or assume the worst in his motives.  I admire many people for what they do that is good, even though they, like all of us, are prone to the human foible of bigotry.  Yes, each of us is prone to it in one form or another, and OSC's views are not motivated by hatred towards homosexuals, but by ignorance.

lol, I neglected to put what I said in quotes. Those aren't my words and I don't believe them. I just thought that the following Kuro5hin article was well-known enough to mention in passing without having to cite it: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/28/22428/7034

OSC is an asshat and Ender Wiggin = Adolph Hitler.

yoda-sama said:

http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/the-making-of-the-best-version-of-star-wars...-which-of-course-you-cant-get

Ugh, the comments. Why do people keep calling this (and other projects like it) an "edit"?

Splinter of the Mind's Eye

I really like it so far. It's my first Star Wars book.

Bingowings said:

Anchorhead said:

DominicCobb said:

It'll be fantastic to have some truly NEW Star Wars movies. That's what I'm most excited for.

Bingo.  

As someone who fully lives in the Personal Canon universe; An interesting, adult, cerebral film is all I'm interested in.  The last five films are of no interest to me, so one more isn't something I'm going to lose sleep over. If it's as good as Star Trek09, great.  If it isn't, it's just one more of six.

Zahn is my Star Wars universe. Not Lucas, not Continuity, not the kids who will buy the vulgar amount of merchandising tie-ins, and sure as hell not the PT and it's twirling cartoon light sabers or high school level script reading.

If this weren't an Abrams-helmed, non-Lucas film, I wouldn't be giving it a moment of thought.

 

It's nice to get a personal open letter from you.

lol

re: 81 crawl

A PAL LD would have fewer blinking stars and more scanlines...

Mavimao said:

Really excited about this project and glad to see that there is a high-tech capture happening. I have a DVD 5 version that was made by an old member here years ago, but it could definitely be better.

Anctufaalb, when do you plan on doing the capture and combining?

Ha! :-) I wouldn't call it "high-tech". "Well-planned" might be a better description.

Was the old member Rikter Blaksvn?

I plan on doing the capturing in ~1 month. I'm still waiting to receive some cables and I need to setup my equipment in another room in our house (so our forthcoming baby can get the current computer room).

Part 2 is up: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/THX-1138-preservations-Italian-Cut-available-see-1st-post/post/664119/#TopicPost664119

msycamore said:

AntcuFaalb said:

[Part 1: The LD Player]

[Reserved for Part 2: The Comb Filter]

[Reserved for Part 3: The Capture Card]

[Reserved for Part 4: Cables, etc.]

Sounds great AntcuFaalb, I'll try to post those examples of smearing on Silver's captures I talked about earlier so you can compare if it's in the master or not.

OK, thanks!

TV's Frink said:

imperialscum said:

So it is 2011 version degraded to DVD format. I don't get the benefit of that.

Not everyone has a blu ray player.

... or a HDTV.

There have been some interesting discussions on AMPS recently. Come join and weigh-in!

Bingowings said:

AntcuFaalb said:

CO said:

I can't tell you how many TFN'ers have posted that they just wont recognize the ST, as they still believe that Lucas isn't involved in it at all.  They said the ST is like the EU, it exists, but it won't get into the way of their pretty little 'Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker' story.

Hyperlinks, please!

Are you hyperlinkosexual?

Yes

Bingowings said:

Hopefully you will be able to find someone who is Buy-Curious.

lol

quaffle said:

As an English speaking person - which is the best audio track to view this with?

My favorite is the restored mono mix.

h_h: The '77 English 2.0 track is the digital one from schorman13, right?

If so, do you plan to do the same thing with schorman13's TESB digital '80 English 2.0 track and ROTJ digital '83 English 2.0 track?

Thanks for all of your hard work!

CO said:

I can't tell you how many TFN'ers have posted that they just wont recognize the ST, as they still believe that Lucas isn't involved in it at all.  They said the ST is like the EU, it exists, but it won't get into the way of their pretty little 'Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker' story.

Hyperlinks, please!

Moth3r said:

Space Kaijuu said:

I have the video done.  The HDTV rip matches the Sony blu-ray, color-wise, but has the additional footage, so I used that with some minor enhancements.

As far as the HD trailers, I was considering remastering the trailers in HD myself, if I decide to go that route.

Wasn't there an earlier theatrical trailer that used the Terminator theme, as the Robocop music hadn't been written yet?

Yes. It's on YouTube.

TV's Frink said:

Massive overreaction ahoy!

 

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Curious/topic/15972/

Classic LOL moment indeed.

bluefrog said:

Besides, if I were gay, I wouldn't be posting on here looking for a companion. So, yes to me that was offensive!

Please explain.

If someone walked up to me on the street and asked out-of-the-blue if I'm bisexual (I'm not), I wouldn't be offended by the question. I'd wonder why he/she wanted to know, yes, but I wouldn't be offended.

What's offensive about bisexuality to you?

This is terrifying.

Sojourn said:

The ANH voice always sounded harsher to me -- not in a more realistic way, but in a poorer-recording-quality kind of way. I personally prefer the fullness and richness of the ESB and ROTJ Vader voice, but that's just my taste. 

I prefer the ANH voice, but I'm a big fan of consistency and it's lot easier to change all the lines in one film rather than two, so I'd vote for tweaking ANH.