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#249230
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Tarkin, The Rebel Base & The Mystery Of The Trash Compactor.
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These questions come up regularly.

1. The Death Star is Tarkin's home ground, his territory. Vader is the guest.

4. The garbage also has to be transported from deep inside the Death Star through tunnels to the surface, possibly through intermediate facilities as well. It is much easier if the garbage takes little space. Note that garbage trucks in the real world also have built-in trash compactors.
Also, you can't dump anything into space. Floating space debris orbiting the Death Star can be a real hazard for ships and other operations. In the real world, debris from satellite launches orbiting the Earth have already become a problem.

6. GL got it wrong, OK!
It was later explained in the EU book "Rebel Dawn" that The Millenium Falcon traveled very close to a cluster of black holes ("The Maw cluster") whose immense gravity distorted space thereby shortening the total distance. Nobody had flown that close to the Maw cluster on the Kessel run before or since, and lived.

7. Imperial "Credits" ?

8. He was built from parts of other droids.

As for technical questions: You can look them up in a Star Wars technical books or the various online encyclopedias:

http://starwars.wikia.com
http://www.starwars.com/databank/
http://www.theforce.net/swenc/
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#249224
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Star Wars HD coming in November! All SIX movies!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/249224/action/topic#249224
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Holy C...

Please someone capture the 2004 edition of the original trilogy. This should be better source material for retouching than the current DVD:s because of the resolution. I just hope the bitrate is up to par.

Personally, I don't have HD, but I would much like a 16:9 version of Star Wars on DVD later..
Edit: I mean a version with the O-OT storyline of course, with none of the CGI crap.
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#248677
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248677/action/topic#248677
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4. What is the problem with the ramp anyway? I see it as being there for not just R2 units but also for the various vehicles in the hangar that can't traverse stairs.

7, 9. I wonder, would the death star surface shots be improved if the image got a trapezoidal transform (drag it out sideways closer to the bottom) to give it more depth?
Also, how about speeding these shots up to convey a greater sense of speed?

13. They are in the middle of a hangar. There should be ships landing and rebels working everywhere in there, so mechanical sounds and cheers could come from many directions.
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#248043
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Star Wars Celebration Coming to Europe
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/248043/action/topic#248043
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Even if you are not interested in the event itself, there will be many various fan-organized activities inside and around Earls Court these days. For instance, there will be a huge Fan Party on one of the nights. It also looks like FanForce Europe will have its annual meeting in conjunction with CE.

Personally, I will be going there just as much for meeting people as for the event itself.
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#247320
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Info: Best OUT materials at Lucasfilm?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/247320/action/topic#247320
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Amazing what you can do with simple methods.

How does Eastman film stock work? Does it have separate "luminance" and "chroma" like video? In that case, how much does the black/"luminance" fade in comparison to the chroma?
If the black really is well preserved, I think for preservation reasons maybe it would be possible to combine the luminance from pink film stock with chroma from a less detailed source.
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#246547
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ghosting in the dvds
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/246547/action/topic#246547
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Originally posted by: Scruffy
"transcode -y im -F png" and hand-paint the trails out of each frame with the GIMP, then pipe png2yuv ...

There is also CinePaint (previously "FilmGIMP") which can work in YUV color space directly and which could be better than regular GIMP at flipping frames back and forth. I have not tried it myself yet, though. It also seems to be in an early stage of development and be based on an earlier (but not bad) version of GIMP.
Anyway...

I am not so sure that de-ghosting could be done very well automatically. I am afraid that any automatic algorithm would only add as many artifacts as it removes.
Possibly a user-assisted deghosting tool could work well for some scenes, though. In any way, doing the research, development and test of just the algorithm could be just as much work as cleaning up these three DVDs by hand using existing tools.
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#245158
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Ideas for the inevitable Super-Mega-Special-Ultimate 2007 Boxset
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/245158/action/topic#245158
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If I was GL, I would restore the scenes that were removed/modified from OUT (Han shooting first, Lapti Nek, Yub Nub, "Bring my shuttle" etc) and make seamless branching version for each of Episode IV-VI.
I would get just as much additional quality-improving work done for the movies as what is currently being done for Adywan's SE editing project. I would personally supervise the work on each and every frame to make sure that it gets the treatment it deserves.

Personally, I would prefer a release that is technically superior to any other release, but with the storyline, pacing and dialogue of the '93 versions. I know people who prefer the SE, so I think it should continue to be released.

For Episode I, II and III, make seamless branching versions with and without the deleted scenes (with exception of scenes that do not fit in the storyline). Use the CG Yoda in TPM.

For each deleted/branching scene, make it also a separate segment with preamble like on the current PT DVD:s.

Release Return of the Ewok, Beneath the Dome and the Muppet Show episode together with documentaries on a bonus disc, with the Holiday Special as an easter egg.
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#240777
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What movies do you consider canon?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240777/action/topic#240777
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Most of the Han Solo trilogy. (books)
Episode IV - Original version + Tosche station and all Biggs scenes. No Jabba.
Episode V - Original version. No cutting arm off a wampa. Original hologram dialog.
Episode VI - Original version + Luke building saber in Obi-Wan's hut and sandstorm.

I don't want the Jabba scene in In ANH as it does not make sense to me that Jabba would be so forgiving towards Han Solo.

The prequels were cheap dramatizations made in the Star Wars universe, broadcast on the Holonet as a miniseries some 50-odd years after the battle of Endor. Because many records were lost during the Empire and in the destruction of Alderaan and also because of the time constraints for a rushed Holonet production, the creators took a lot of creative decisions that were not true to history.
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#237109
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What did the Prequel Trilogy need?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237109/action/topic#237109
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The ones I think are significant in AOTC:

"I love Democracy, I love The Republic..."

"I'm just a simple man, trying to make my way in the universe."

"Always a pleasure to meet a Jedi" - I was greeted this by John Rhys-Davies no less, at a con when he saw that I was dressed as Jedi.

"The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the future is."

"This weapon is your life."
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#235136
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POLL: WORST ACTOR OR ACTRESS IN THE PT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235136/action/topic#235136
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Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen:
Um, though, come to think of it, Hayden Christensen hasn't had any post-StarWars work, has he?

You could have done a quick search on IMDB, and seen that he is acting in five post-Star Wars movies in various stages of production.
He also starred in Shattered Glass which came in 2003.

I voted for Natalie Portman. I have not seen her portray any character particularly well since Leon ("The Professional" in US), which incidentally also was her first film. But then I have seen neither Closer nor Garden State yet, which has received good reviews.
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#233112
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How the prequels should’ve played out:
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/233112/action/topic#233112
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I hate to say it, but actually... Obi-Wan's old robes is one of the few things that were part of Lucas' original vision. An aged mentor "dressed in the robes of the old religion" is included in a couple of early drafts.
I would interpret the tan raw silk robe, obi and tabard that he wears underneath his brown wool cloak as the "Jedi dress" though, the brown woolen cloak as being a necessary dress for living on Tatooine.

I would have liked more japanese influences in the films...
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#232602
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Poll: Who is more annoying, Lucas or McCallum?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/232602/action/topic#232602
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Rick McCallum. I just can't stand his lying and constant over-exhaggerating. At least GL seems to be having had good intentions for the films.

George Lucas might have been lead creative mind, but McCallum was the man in charge, pulling the strings. He was one of the very few who could have stood up to Lucas when he has made a bad decision.
He deserves at least as much of the blame for the lack of quality in the special edition and prequel trilogy.

Edit: I wrote this comment before reading his quote from Total Film or any of the other comments in this thread. Right now, I have no respect for the guy (I refuse to call him a "man", because that is not what he is) whatsoever any more.
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#230554
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What did the Prequel Trilogy need?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230554/action/topic#230554
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A lot of good points have already been said.

I would have liked to see more 70's style sci-fi art direction. The PT was too modern, too much like Star Trek TNG.
I would have liked to see clothes made from 70's patterns, people having 70's haircuts and environments and space ships more inspired by Ralph McQuarrie, i.e. the man who designed the look for the original trilogy. I want the Star Wars feel, but on a more grandiose scale.
For instance, I would have liked to see this scene, as drawn by Ralph McQuarrie.

GL claimed that he cast Hamill, Fisher and Ford as a team, because the chemistry between them was just right. That is also something that is lacking from the prequels, that he did not do.

What GL should have done more than anything else would have been to let other people (SMART people) influence how the movies were designed and made. For instance, he needed a "Marcia Lucas" to tell him when his ideas were bollocks.
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#230537
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230537/action/topic#230537
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In all due respect, your laser bolts and lightsabers are too blurry for my taste. I liked in the original ANH that the edges of the lightsabers blades were sharp. They also flickered. Those two aspects made them feel dangerous.

A shot of Vader in the duel has been flipped. Could you un-flip his chestbox?
Also, I don't know if you have fixed the lightsaber in the shot after the duel where Vader walks towards the hangar.

There are also tonnes of goofs with the Stormtrooper costumes, but they are many and I think they would be complicated to fix. White gaffer tape, bits of armor falling off, white straps showing, missing brow, troopers swapping weapons etc. Especially noteworthy is Luke's shoulder bell during the prison fight.