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Tobar said:

 

With all that said, I highly recommend you check it out for yourself. So without further ado here's Star Trek Continues episode 1 Pilgrim of Eternity.

Thanks for the recommendation. THIS. IS. AWESOME!

The sets and lighting are AMAZING. Kirk and Scotty are fantastic. I'm not as crazy about Bones and Spock, but there's enough other greatness to make up for it.

Do you happen to know what their expected turnaround times are for each episode?

SilverWook said:

 

With the rumors circulating about Enterprise getting revived ala Arrested Development...

WHOA! Don't scare me like that.

Great documentary, Harmy! I only wish it were longer :D

If I can offer one small critique to an otherwise excellent work, the yellow text on a white background (at the end of the Despecialized Logo with the Ronto bit) was a little hard to read.

Also, wasn't there some talk of a documentary on Lucas' changes made to the OT over the years, and the reason for the DeEd in the first place?

Well written, CP3S.

I was just thinking what an awesome period 1994 to 1999 was. Those were my optimistic years. Man, I miss those days when Star Wars fans weren't divided.

I'd say it's a 3-way tie between Dark Forces, X-Wing, and TIE Fighter.

Each was awesome in its own way. Getting these games to run was also a great learning experience in building and upgrading a computer.

I'll throw in an honorable mention for Jedi Outcast, which had awesome mechanics for lightsaber duels.

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for sharing your edits!

I checked out your vimeo clips, and the Episode I clip shows a lot of promise. Have you considered re-dubbing all the Gungans in English? Since they play such a large role in the movie, I'd imagine we end up with a lot of subtitles in your edit. On some level, I think TPM needs to stay kid-friendly.

Your Episode III clip retains a little too much Lucas-style humor for my tastes. And all the deleted scenes of them running around the ship just drags the sequence out too much. The part where they discuss what the beeps mean is especially painful.

Just my 2 cents. It sounds like you're done, so I'm not sure how helpful my feedback will be anyway.

I thought the gameplay in the Force Unleashed was pretty good. It was the story line that was questionable.

Harmy said:

Are you sure your TV's brightness and contrast are calibrated properly? I have to turn my TV's brightness way up to see the line. This would also cause the grain in the logos to be more intrusive.

The flickering is there and I'm well aware of it and I don't know how or why it happened but it's only in a few shots (I can't recall any beyond those you mentioned) and would probably again be exaggerated by improperly set contrast.

I'll check my contrast and brightness later, but I don't think they're pumped up. My TV is known to suffer from rising black levels, so I wonder if that's an issue.

Hey Harmy,

I downloaded the AVCHD and spent about 30 minutes checking out various scenes, but I didn't make it through the whole movie. The colors are very nice, and man, does that speeder flyby shot (where the ronto used to be) look sexy!

A few cursory observations:

• There's quite a bit of black noise on the Lucasfilm and A Long Time Ago title cards.
• On my TV, I see a faint green line at the top of the screen during the text crawl.

Also, I noticed a few instances of flickering:

• At the jump cut after R2 receives his message from Leia (on his dome)
• On the wall behind Luke when he looks for 3PO with the droid caller in the garage
• (There was another one but I can't remember where. Maybe some of the outside desert scenes with Ben.)

But since I used my WD TV Live player to stream the ISO from my computer to my TV, it's possible the flickering was caused by streaming over the network. I plan on burning an actual AVCHD to check out the whole movie.

Thanks!

georgec said:

I regret spoiling myself on pretty much everything going into ROTS. It was still a great experience (at the time...), but I think I could have enjoyed that film so much more if I didn't spoil myself silly with every tidbit and set shot in the months leading up to it.

I was spoiler free. It did not enhance the experience.

Adywan, you sly bastard. THANK YOU!

I'm looking forward to ESB-R now more than ever.

EDIT: Crap, has it really been 5 years?

Fang Zei said:

At least the SE is blatantly a different version that all but the most ignorant know is a revision.

I'm not so sure. There's absolutely nothing on the packaging that says it's the Special Editions.

Williarob said:

For those of you with young kids, I made kid friendly audio tracks for Back to the Future 2 and Back to the Future 3. I also made a few changes to my original edit of the Back to the Future audio, removing the 'Bastards' and SOBs.

All 2.0 stereo AC3 448 kb/s.

Thanks. I've downloaded all three.

I checked out your initial version of BTTF1, and the substitutions were pretty seamless to my ears. Were you still considering making 5.1 versions?

I still remember the moment I saw X-Wing on the shelf at the local Electronics Boutique. I grabbed it and excitedly asked the clerk, "Is this what I think it is?"

It was a sort of life-changing moment for me, and I think it really rekindled my interest in Star Wars.

So, do all these modern X-Wing installers work on Windows XP?

Harmy, the latest clip looks very nice. The detail on the saddle (is that a jerba?) is much better.

Concerning the differences between 2.0 and 2.1, have you replaced or redone any of the GOUT upscales for the Death Star battle at the end? The stars in particular stand out in the GOUT shots.

Awesome, Williarob!

I'm downloading now. Thanks!

EDIT: Did you edit out all the SOBs?

tortugash said:

Hey, Harmy. I see that you're using the GOUT to reinsert the shots that were replaced, but I also read that you have an IB technicolor print of the movie that you're using for a color reference.

Why not do a good 2K (or 4K) scan of the print? Do you think it's a release print struck from the IN, or is it a special print struck from the original camera negative? If it's just a regular generation print, than 2K with the highest color depth should suffice, otherwise I would opt for 4K. I'm sure it would cost a fortune, but I'm certain that many of the fans would be willing to make contributions, including myself. Do you have a PayPal account?

Let's do this.

harmy only has screenshots of the ib, not the ib itself.

Has anyone ever had any luck finding the audio that's edited for TV?

How about this idea for a TV show:

Set between III and IV, Vader hunts down the Jedi in hiding. I would set it on a Star Destroyer, and it would be part military show, and part police detective show. Sort of like the new BSG for Star Wars, from the Imperial point of view.

Of course, there would have to be a protagonist; maybe Kenobi is calling the shots from afar.

It would be a good opportunity to show some nuanced views of the Galactic Civil War: not all Imperials are bad, and maybe not all the Jedi are all that good either.

Throw in a Jedi of the week, an ongoing search for the Kaibur Crystal, and the occasional lightsaber showdown.

Yeah, that was pretty intense, especially for a "Saturday morning cartoon".

That is one of the most depressing pictures I've ever seen. No joke.

This sounds interesting.

Just keep in mind that The Phantom Editor pulled a few visual tweaks in his edits.

In Episode II, during the early scene in Padme's apartment where Obi-Wan and Anakin promise to protect Padme, I remember that he added someone walking across the frame in the background.

Good luck!

Honestly, I think you'd be lucky to get $50 for it.

I always thought the attack of the Malevolence storyline was pretty good.

The lightsaber you mention is actually 3 different sabers, each with its own unique features:

• Anakin Episode III (has gold highlights)
• Luke Episode IV (has a bubble strip on the activator)
• Luke Episode V (has a circuit board connector on the activator)

I'm pretty sure Master Replicas made each of these. So I would suggest you do some research and see which one you like.

I myself prefer Luke's Episode IV saber. I have the Icons version. It's a reasonable replica, but if you want it to be as accurate as possible, you need to build one yourself using a real Graflex flash gun.