Absolutely would love that. Just use the English template files, and you might be able to use Tagalog Wikipedia to find the “official” Tagalog translations for various Star Wars characters, etc.
PM sent (font-only link doesn’t exist, so it’s the whole project)
Undetermined.
It was horrible in its day, sure, but horrible has long since been redefined, and the Holiday Special simply no longer qualifies.
You’ve already watched ROTS. The Holiday Special will be a cakewalk.
Just use eac3to’s “speedup” feature, which compresses the audio the right amount, but this also increases the pitch of the audio, so the pitch will be wrong, but no more wrong than the original PAL GOUT. Compressing the audio without changing the pitch would likely require more serious audio editing software. Don’t worry about the extra frames, you’re not going to notice and it’s quite a lot more work to fix those.
I don’t know of any Tagalog resources for Star Wars – subtitles or dubs. If you find anything at all, please let me know!
I suspect the dub was created by the local TV broadcaster, and so would only be available if someone recorded them. I haven’t seen Tagalog dubs on any Lucasfilm home video releases. Editing SE audio to match the GOUT is possible, but not easy. I’ve done it before (and might do it again).
If you’re interested, Project Threepio has English “template” subtitle files, which anyone could translate into their language of choice. That would probably be the easiest way to make it Tagalog-accessible, and I’d love to add Tagalog to our supported language list.
Quality issues aside, there are also content differences between official releases.
The GOUT is the only official home video release with the original theatrical crawl and flyover for Star Wars. All other releases feature the revised 1981 crawl and flyover, the one where the musical cue for Tatooine’s arrival is about two seconds off.
Each home video release also uses the latest audio revision, which at least for Star Wars and Empire, includes content differences. A sound effect is missing on all Empire releases using the 1993 audio, and pre-1985 Star Wars releases are the only ones with theatrical audio.
Buy used, throw away everything except the so-called Original Trilogy discs, glue those three together (shiny side in), run a string through them, and suspend them inside a wall cavity, or even a hollow tree in the yard. You can pull them out if you ever need to prove ownership, but there will be no risk of an unsuspecting houseguest or innocent child accidentally being exposed to the films on them.
At least that’s what I did.
I know this is probably a long shot, but any chance of pulling the snake reflection, rolling rock bar out of the LPP scan? i.e. to replace onscreen content that’s simply not present in the HDTV version?
I don’t think he wants to get into any roto or clean up, so he’s just using the WOWOW and BD.
I figured that was likely the case, but I was tempted to ask because it would be so great.
I know this is probably a long shot, but any chance of pulling the snake reflection, rolling rock bar out of the LPP scan? i.e. to replace onscreen content that’s simply not present in the HDTV version?
04 Oct : Shaun of the Dead (2004)
14 Oct : The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Not that I disapprove at all, but there’s a couple comedies in the mix 😉
Seems like a very good list IMO. Just saw “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”, which starts off threatening to go a little too far in the kitschy-artsy vein, but quickly becomes quite good. Plus, skateboarding Persian vampire, what’s not to like. Kinda like if Jim Jarmusch made a vampire movie, highly recommended.
Random troopers seems pretty easy. Storm/Snow/Scout gives you some decent variation without even leaving the OT (which I always hate to do). It is originaltrilogy.com after all. Rebel/imperial insignia would work too.
I’m inclined against any imperial images as a default, though. Some people can be strangely sensitive to being designated a “bad guy” on day 1, so I’d say rebel insignia.
The “standard” symbol of the rebellion was retrofitted onto the OT as a branding exercise, but there were actually lots of rebel insignia to choose from.
Careful, draw too much attention to the topic at hand and people might realize the topic was a little silly to begin with.
Huh. Really did not expect Frink being the one coming out of this exchange smelling like monkey pee. Others, sure, but not this one.
I’ll take the 42nd Anniversary Thread for two reasons.
Someone start a thread to guess what those two reasons are.
I’m hoping if you take back this request, you can make the resulting thread unhappen.
I’ll take the 42nd Anniversary Thread for two reasons.
Someone start a thread to guess what those two reasons are.
Done.
My guesses for the two reasons:
Reason #1: This is the easy one. Just the simple Hitchhiker’s Guide reference.
Reason #2: A slightly more abstruse Hitchhiker’s Guide reference. One very nice explanation for how 42 could actually be The Answer was that “To Be or Not To Be” is The Question, and could be written as “2B || !2B”, which in hexadecimal, means “43 or not 43”. The answer being 42 means that the answer to “To Be or Not To Be” is “Not To Be”. Which, very cleverly, also answers the thread title.
Nice job, Frink.
Are you gonna make a thread for the 41st anniversary too?
Don’t give him any ideas!
I’ve got dibs on the 50th Anniversary thread, but I promise to phrase the thread title as a question (“Will we finally see an OOT release in 2027?”) so that people can simply apply Betteridge’s Law of Headlines (“No.”) and move on.
I’m leaving the 60th Anniversary thread for someone else though. Diamond Anniversary thread, big demand, reserve it while you still can. Platinum’s also available as far as I can tell. I’m afraid there will be new threads for this topic going for as long as people keep deluding themselves into thinking it’s a possibility.
Then you’ll need to DL ImgBurn. Again, it tries to DL shit and horseanus onto your PC if you allow it.
I tried to tell the Enumclaw Police Department that’s where those photos came from, but they didn’t believe me.
You’re in WA, CatBus?
Well, yes, but not in Enumclaw. At least around here, jokes about Enumclaw and horses never get old.
Edited to add: Not the best subject to Google from work.
If you two can’t stop fighting for five minutes we’re not inviting either of you to the wedding. I’m serious. SilverWook can give me away. It’s my special day, dammit.
IMO the H1/H2 font is a free implementation of the Trade/Franklin/News Gothic font family used in the Star Wars crawls and subtitles. While I’m also not entirely sure it’s a great choice for general-purpose web design, I think there’s an aesthetic to it that actually matches the site’s reason for existing, which shouldn’t be easily discounted.
Jay–feel free to use the fonts from my project if you want to embrace that aesthetic even more, but with the warning that there’s such thing as going too far.
I have a very worse news, FatherSkywalker got
banned from originaltrilogy.com, why, because
he has sexy thoughts about Hayden Christensen
later,
catbus
Pfft. You can’t outmaneuver me on technicalities, Frink. Read between the lines. The flowers are already in the mail, and we’ll be related by next week. Nice try.
EDIT: Damn, was that the Internet’s first mid-air marriage proposal collision?!? You saw it here first, folks.
I think I’ve fallen asleep during every one of the acclaimed Studio Ghibli films. So boring.
Tell that to
KanjiklubCatBusPM sent.
I know this is a response to an old post, but this is exactly why I should browse all the topics more often. Should I just assume that this entire forum is brimming with brilliant jokes at my expense, or is this an exception? Either way, well played.
I’m mostly hilarious.
And the remainder is awesomeness.
I think I’ve fallen asleep during every one of the acclaimed Studio Ghibli films. So boring.
Tell that to
KanjiklubCatBusPM sent.
I know this is a response to an old post, but this is exactly why I should browse all the topics more often. Should I just assume that this entire forum is brimming with brilliant jokes at my expense, or is this an exception? Either way, well played.
Thank you, that’s great news and I will.