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#92990
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Do they even exist anymore? (the unaltered theatrical version of the Original Trilogy)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92990/action/topic#92990
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Because as every year that goes past, the original negatives will continue to deteriorate. They were cleaned for the 1997 release, but not fully digitised for archival purposes. They were fully digitised in 2004, and so it would be in the best interests to provide the negatives in the highest possible quality. Even then they had to be extensively cleaned.

The fact of the matter isn't that the negatives are just a little dirty. They have deteriorated as film does. The point will come when no amount of work can be done to lift usable images off them. It's the same kind of thing with LaserDiscs, rot and warping. Let's say you have a rotted, warped LD. What are you going to do with it? You'll want to lift the images off it into digital preservation as soon as possible, so that it doesn't deteriorate any further. So you get the best player you can, tap the video stream early on, before any comb filters are applied. You then do what you can to de-warp the disc, and make it flat again. And then you clean the disc so that the areas effected by rot will be read as best as possible.

In two months your LD looks exactly like it did before you cleaned it for your archive project.... That's why they wanted to continue to clean the negatives. They may never again have the opportunity to digitise the SW negatives to the same quality that could have been achieved then.
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#92961
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Do they even exist anymore? (the unaltered theatrical version of the Original Trilogy)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92961/action/topic#92961
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
The original negatives were in really bad shape to begin with in 1997, so I'm not sure if those exist anymore, but as for the originals themselves, there are still VHS and Laserdiscs, which of course have terrible quality compared to DVDs, but I think that's the only way a fan can see the ov without bootleging anymore.
Of course they exist, they were still in really bad shape in 2004, but an Australian company had the task of cleaning them - frame by frame - for restorations. Lucas was surprised they managed to complete the task in time, however those that did it said they would have continued working on it if they were allowed to, because the negatives really are in such bad shape.
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#92582
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<strong>The Cowclops Transfers (a.k.a. the PCM audio DVD's, Row47 set) Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92582/action/topic#92582
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Originally posted by: Stuckmiru
Hi everyone.. Quite new to the forum and have been lurking for quite some time to get a feel for the board.
I am not sure if it is here or somewhere else i should post but this seems asw good a spot as any.
To preserve the films maybe we could set up something akin to the MAME project that is trying to save
all the old arcade games by having a community of burners who would be willing to make copies for just
the bare bones costs or just receive DVDS and send them back filled. Anyways just a thought.

I'll lurk some more but this board is so far my favorite with somethingawful.. learn new stuff everyday here. Lots of people are using the torrents now, that's fine. If people want to get burns sent to them they only need to ask around a bit in PM's, and they'll find sources. It's really not too concerning how people are getting them, so long as they know they do have access to them. Perhaps Jay could create an official distribution thread and allow discussion of "selling" discs there...

Cowclops, thanks for posting on this forum. I guess I haven't entered this thread in while... it is interesting to hear your thoughts. I still believe that a non-anamorphic preservation is in the best interest given the source material.Originally posted by: Laserman
With DVD9 blanks being cheaper than purchasing a movie, I don't see the point in going DVD5... Are people here really so cheap that they won't shell out 10 bucks for an excellent copy of any of the OT movies in the best possible quality? Or is it that Dual Layer sets would be less profitable for a seller?
I think it's a number of reasons. For what it's worth if there is enough interest I'd be more than happy to get a DL burner to supply discs to others. But reasons for preferring single layer DVD-R... it's cheap, very reliable (DL media will probably skip and pause more), and the fact most people with a DVD burner have single layer burners and probably don't want to get a new burner just to burn SW, and the torrent file will be twice as big to download, and if they don't like that it'll be much more expensive to buy one from a seller. Any sellers who sell the sets for profit, and not in the interests of film preservation shouldn't be here.
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#92410
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.: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92410/action/topic#92410
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Originally posted by: Laserman
By all means do it DB, and post the results. It would be interesting to compare a 3D rendered version vs the 2D solutions. I would really like to see what you come up with.
It would take about 15 mins to do in EI.
Electric image is old and clunky though - if you want the 3D approach I would use Maya or 3DS MAX and the renderer of choice.
The problem with most of these solutions is that the crawl is far too smooth. Adding an expression to dirty up the movement ever so slightly gives a more natural looking result - but it is really personal preference
If you watch the generated prequel crawls that were done with EI, they look so authentic. The size, the slope, the way they fade back at a consistent rate and don't look like they're "rolling up". All the crawls I’ve seen generated with AE just don't look that authentic. OK, true EI may not give the realistic camera-shake. I'll see what I can do about it for sure and post the results.

You've mentioned two more alternatives to AE, does this mean you are thinking of generating a crawl yourself? Obviously I don't have much experience in this kind of thing, but I have the right font, and I have a friend who can help me - so I'll work it out. I would like to see the solutions you or others could come up with using alternative programs as well. I guess the good news is I can use the footage from the "emperor of dreams" doc (or whatever it's called) that was on the official bonus disk (which is stored in an iso on my HDD) to get the timing authentically perfect. If I have a good experience doing this I might do more in the future towards preservation myself.
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#92409
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.: The X0 Project Discussion Thread :. (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92409/action/topic#92409
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Joel Welcome to the forums. As far as I know your best option would be to ask LM to buy a HD for you and mail it to you (both at your expense) ... or to place an order with an online Australian retailer for the HD and have it sent to LM. The other thing is that LM hasn't told us when the transfer will be available for distribution. I haven't seen Laserman post anything too recently, but I'm sure he'll reply when he has the time. Zion or MeBeJedi may also be able to give you some idea of when the raw captures will be available.
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#92408
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The Matrix/ Terminator written by a woman?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92408/action/topic#92408
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
But Fox could point fingers at Warner and say: LOOK HOW EVIL BOTH SETS OF W BROTHERS ARE!...
Three things will happen if they do that: the public gets the idea that studios are mean and nasty ... two, the public think that Fox are bastards employing dirty anti-branding tactics against WB. And three the friendship between fox and warner is jeopardized.
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#92229
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The Matrix/ Terminator written by a woman?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92229/action/topic#92229
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Doesn't just about any lawsuit these days? C'mon. A woman sued two teenaged girls in her neighborhood because they left cookies on her doorstep. But since they rang her doorbell at 10:30 at night, they gave her an anxiety attack and she sued. She won. Just medical costs and court fees. No punitive damages. But seriously, though.
Your legal system sucks.
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#92226
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The Matrix/ Terminator written by a woman?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92226/action/topic#92226
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Can this really be true? I mean you'd think someone would have picked the story up...

Why not Fox, or a Viacom network???
Fox is another studio! How could it be in a studio's best interest to run a story against a studio? A story that makes a fellow studio the bad guy?
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Originally posted by: Starboy
It says she's getting payment for the terminator movies as well, and all three matrix movies. I wonder...why didn't she sue after T2 did so well? And why would Time-Warner continue making the other two movies along the same lines, after a suit was filed in 99?
She's not getting payment of anything yet, the trial begins later this year. The FBI were the ones to establish a link between the third eye and the terminator. Stewart was only interested in pursuing The Matrix - she hadn't seen the Terminator, however the FBI established a link and that is why the Terminator has been bought into it.
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#92118
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The DanielB Prisoners and Lightbulbs Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92118/action/topic#92118
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Allow me to display my program's ability to handle excessively large numbers:



For those of you not in the know the long integer variable used by Visual Basic is a 4-byte variable, meaning it can hold 2^32 or 4,294,967,296 distinctly different integers - starting from -2,147,483,648 and stretching to +2,147,483,647. The average is the sum of all individual runs divided by the number of runs. In this case 3,518,904,177/1,000,000... however 3,518,904,177 is far larger than the maximum value that a variable in visual basic can hold. Theoretically so long as my program reasonably limits the number of runs of you can run for calculating the average, there is no limit to how large a number it can process. You could safely have it run 100,000,000 times without running into any overflow problems (except that it would take a mighty long time).
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#92009
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Star Wars ANH 2004 SE DVD replacement, I made a boo boo! Help!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92009/action/topic#92009
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Originally posted by: Class316
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Originally posted by: DanielB
Look, I've already explained this to you but you haven't bothered to use it. Do you really think that LucasFilm is continuing to produce and distribute defective discs? Look at the serial numbers - all discs contain these pressing numbers around the inner hub of the data surface of the disc. They won't be identical. Call and ask LucasFilm which is which.


I wrote about those 2 numbers that I found (normally written and mirror). If that's not them, where do I see the number on the inner hub of the data surface of the disc?
My bad. The printed number on the top of the disc is useless, it's only part of the s/n. There's what looks like a barcaode, then the s/n will appear further around, going by my AOTC disc, however different discs will have the s/n printed differently it is standard to have it on the OUTER part of the inner-hub on the surface side. You've already said they're different, so probably #8 is your fixed one, call Fox and ask.

I can't work out how you got so many numbers, the s/n is one continuous number seperated only by hyphens. It will start out looking the same as the printed number.
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#92005
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The Matrix/ Terminator written by a woman?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92005/action/topic#92005
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Originally posted by: Windexed
Well, there's a seemingly finer line between plagiarism and 'inspiratation' these days.
Rubbish. If I "take inspiration" from a book and directly convert that to film (with minor alterations) that is plagiarism. Apparently half an hour of material was cut out of the Matrix to lessen the similarities between it and The Third Eye.
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#91983
Topic
Star Wars ANH 2004 SE DVD replacement, I made a boo boo! Help!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/91983/action/topic#91983
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Look, I've already explained this to you but you haven't bothered to use it. Do you really think that LucasFilm is continuing to produce and distribute defective discs? Look at the serial numbers - all discs contain these pressing numbers around the inner hub of the data surface of the disc. They won't be identical. Call and ask LucasFilm which is which.
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#91977
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Forget bluray and hd-dvd, check out hvd
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/91977/action/topic#91977
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This is not a new development. Holographic discs have been developed to this point for a good couple of years now. From what I remember there are still many concerns with the proposed format. It requires two physical lasers. It is not a true digital format. As I understand it, they are wanting to release the format in 12cm form - the standard disc size. Also, the disc you mentioned holds 200GB of information, not 1 TerraByte (1,000 GB)!! Optware might CLAIM that the discs could (theoretically) hold terrabytes of data, but they are only developing for commercial use 200GB recordable, and 100GB read-only discs, ten times smaller than 1 terrabyte! The format won't be released before 2008 either, by which time it's entirely possible a rival format will be able to compete with the 100GB of storage offered by the format.
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#91969
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The Matrix/ Terminator written by a woman?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/91969/action/topic#91969
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Originally posted by: Count Dushku
What a bunch of bull...
If they're plagiarized material then Sophia Stewart owns all revenue and income associated with them, and should sue for damages on top of that. She was robbed of credit, and of creative control - assuming that her allegations are true. There is nothing worse than plagiarism, and those responsible deserve to be put in gaol for at least 5 years.
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#91781
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.: The Zion DVD Project :. (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/91781/action/topic#91781
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There are a few things I don't like about it, like the way the SW logo flies in and the blockiness of the text as it gets farther away from the screen, but things like that can be fixed easily (it also looks much better in MPEG2).
Zion, since I still haven't seen it - what program are you using? Have you thought about actually using Electric Image? I mean sice LucasFilm used it for TPM's crawl, you really only need to find an anchient version....
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#91780
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Episode III Crawl revealed
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/91780/action/topic#91780
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Originally posted by: Darth Balls
Heres the best video ive seen so far
ROTS Crawl Fan vid

Very nice

also from theforce.net boards
The scroll doesn't look right. For one the text (horizontally) is far too flat. The left side curves up more than the right and there is an obvious dip in the text. The prequel scrolls have kept this consistency. The text also looks like it's being rolled up; the "vertical" left and right edges are not flat, as they should be, but are curved.