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Darth Richard

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#216177
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The legendary "Starkiller Ranch" Thread
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Originally posted by: Sluggo
I don't know how a medal on Chewie would work. Since he only stays in the back, there is no chance for Leia to give him one. Unless he had one before this, but why would he get one before Han and Luke? And I certainly wouldn't want to try to animate a medal on Chewie while he was walking.


great points, I was jsut thinking out loud.
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#215904
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Help: looking for... Fan prequels?
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Originally posted by: Dug
Hahaha! You see, this is funny... um... how can I explain this... I was rewriting ROTJ to make it more palatable for myself, and I in research, I found that Lucas, in an early creative session, came up with Endor as the moon that circles Coruscant (There is evidence of this still in the final script---the story was that the Emperor was going to move his palace from crowded Coruscant [not called that in the script btw] to the Jedi Temple on Endor. So, if you ever why the Emperor calls Endor the 'sanctuary moon' this is why)... On Endor there was suppose to be a Jedi Temple. This would have EASILY settled my clamoring for a Jedi Temple on a nature-filled world, and would satisfy those who want a temple close to Coruscant.

I truly say that if Lucas had stuck with some of his original ideas (Leia not Luke's sister, the rebels invade Coruscant, two or three small weapons platforms instead of one giant DS...) and committed to them, we would've had a better ROTJ, and better prequels. But that's just IMHO.

Wouldn't Coruscant have a protector, too?

Not necessarily. Jedi are not as numerous in my rewrite ideas. However, I toyed with the idea at one point that there was a protector for Coruscant, and he had turned to the dark side. Obi-Wan was forced to battle him and killed him. Then, when I was treating Vader and Anakin as separate characters, Vader took the position left vacant.


Most of that is gonna get accomplished in the Starkiller Edit =]
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#215877
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.: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
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Originally posted by: boris
Originally posted by: pupil
Essentially, Blu-ray has the ability to display video at either 24/50/60Hz, like Film or PAL/NTSC TV signals, so depending at what frame rate the footage was filmed/produced it can be put onto Blu-Ray disc at whatever speed it needs to be in, either 24/25/30fps. I'm hoping that over time, especially as the whole HD thing is adopted en masse, we will see a universal frame rate accepted. The whole resolution thing is not an issue anymore as everything will be at 1920×1080 (for 1080 naturally).
HVD is the future. I'm unimpressed by HD-DVD, it's only 15Gig/layer - that's not very much of an improvement upon DVD. In fact if you were to record a 2-hour movie onto a DVD-9 maxing out the space using the latest Mpeg-4 codec you'll have something in a quality at least 10 times better then the DVD standard alone allows for - yet HD-DVD doesn't make a "huge" leap in the quest for greater space. Remember Laserdiscs would split movies up between discs to keep them in high quality - HD-DVD dual layer discs are 30GB? That's less then half the size of a standard HDD. Also remember if you want to reduce piracy, you should release a movie in a higher format then can be easily ripped. HVD has claimed they will exceed 1TB discs - now I'd like to see a consumer rip and pirate THAT! a movie on a 1TB disc could be presented uncompressed - and still be of a quality equal to cinema. Boost it up with some lossless video and audio compression and the disc will probably hold information in greater then cinema quality, and it's good business because consumers can't easily copy it (even if they crack your encryption).

I wonder if they'll try regional-lockout again? Surely it'll be ruled illegal within 6 months if they do.


thats what I thought too. Jsut wait in 15 years that will be the standard. At maximum that thing can hold 3.6tb thats friggin amazing.
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#215740
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Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
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Originally posted by: Trooperman

I want to pick a couple with great interest in the project, as well as one person that likes fan edits but hasn't heard of the changes in advance. I'd like these people to get me a written report as to what (if anything) was jarring in terms of editing, pacing, or dialogue. Then, I can implement any changes into the much more time-consuming dual-layer encode for general release. The first version could also hold over those of you who are losing sleep because this isn't in their DVD player yet (where are you, MTH?)

Sound good to you?

-TM


I'll participate in a review. I have been going crazy sense I first read about it that it wasn't in my DVD player. And I would give a true review not just oh this great kinda thing.
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#215712
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The legendary "Starkiller Ranch" Thread
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Originally posted by: shanep
boreddusty hehee. That has triple meaning here!

Darth Richard
It was a joke. As in: window dressing and Ranch(house) flavour. Get it?


Sorry i'm a bit slow today hahaha.

And Trooperman I was actaully thinking the same Idea. But definately not for the ranch. I was also thinking some other things which I'll talk aobut once at least episode one is done.
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#215690
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.: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
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Originally posted by: pupil
Originally posted by: Darth Richard

I though that Blu-ray still used NTSC and PAL??!?!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p

Essentially, Blu-ray has the ability to display video at either 24/50/60Hz, like Film or PAL/NTSC TV signals, so depending at what frame rate the footage was filmed/produced it can be put onto Blu-Ray disc at whatever speed it needs to be in, either 24/25/30fps. I'm hoping that over time, especially as the whole HD thing is adopted en masse, we will see a universal frame rate accepted. The whole resolution thing is not an issue anymore as everything will be at 1920×1080 (for 1080 naturally).

PAL and NTSC are really terms used to define the colour encoding systems in analogue TV signals, but is used (kinda incorrectly) to describe resolution and frame rate, but it's not a term that is appropriate for HD signals. The only difference between regions now for HD is the frame rate.

The 24Hz Disc is for Blu-ray only though. HD DVD doesn't allow this, it's still holding on dearly to the old DVD technology of 50 or 60HZ only. IMHO the MAIN reason that Blu-ray should be the successor and not HD DVD.

All this is to my understanding though, correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no expert


thanks for the explination. And ya I think that Blu-ray will win cuz one it is better and two thats what the PS3 will be so in my opion it has already won.
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#215681
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The Reason the OOT was released
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Originally posted by: Hal 9000
I agree with Darth Richard. It sounds like LFL really does want to release them nicely and give them what they deserve. Lucas himself, however, is doing what he can to prevent that.

And sadly, he can do a lot.


Ya cuz for years LFL had been talking about releasing them. I think when they tried in 2005 GL made them jsut use the SE disc. And Now I think Jim Ward actaully announced it before GL knew and after he found out he stepped in and made them use the 93 LD master instead of the using the pint that was cleaned again last year.
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#215660
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.: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
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Originally posted by: pupil
Originally posted by: Darth Richard
With all this PAL NTSC talk made me think. they need to merge or something. Cuz NTSC obviously is the worse of the two. It wo0uld be nice if there could be a universal one that use the frame rate that is was shot in but with PAL resolution. Or something like that but anyways


It exists (but better) and it's called Blu-Ray at 1080p/24.


.... and all this is wildly off topic.


I though that Blu-ray still used NTSC and PAL??!?! and yes this wildy off topic but I doubt citizen would mind cuz it all (sorta) is about his preservation.
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#215639
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The Most Boring Commentator Ever
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Originally posted by: greencapt
Originally posted by: Ozkeeper
they could have spiced up the SW commentaries by having Mr. Krabs from Spongebob pop up everytime Lucas speaks and just say " I like money!"


Money, money, money, money, money!!!!

http://php.scripts.psu.edu/users/m/a/mag357/midterm/img/mr_krab2.gif

Now THAT would be worth it!


HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I wish the Harry Potter Movies had commentary tracks. Maybe for an eventually super uber boxset extended edition/ SE/ Director Cuts ( ) They'll get some.
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#215635
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Dont give up being a fan
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I agree with JediFlyer06. But mine circumstance is a bit different. I will tolerate the SE's and Preqeuls but the OT is what I truly like. I also look at Star Wars in different ways. Here I'll explain

STAR WARS (no ANH) is a story about a farm boy that helps blow up a weapon of the Empire. The End.

OT is jsut a wonderful trilogy about taking done and destorying an Evil empire. Ahh I can't put the rest into words

SW Saga. Now I really don't like what the Prequels have become but ROTS was jsut ok. I'll deal with the SE's for that and if there are more changes O well I'll still watch them. But once the Starkiller Ranch Edit is done that will be the only way I look at a Saga version of SW.