Does anyone know if the 5.1 surround audio for the 1997 SE being used for this project came from somewhere else, of if it is being made by Team Blu?
Just showed the DEed v2.5 at my house to a group of family and friends. There were five or six adults who aren't Star Wars fanatics, a few young adults (one of which has never seen Star Wars), and my 12 year-old niece who had never seen it either. The DEed was enjoyed by all, and I was totally amazed how utterly seamless everything looked. There was no point when I or anyone questioned anything about what we were seeing. It was indistinguishable from a proper HD release of the OUT. And the best part is that two of the viewers do not know that Darth Vader is Luke's father, and everyone else was prompted ahead of time to play along with Obi-Wan's lies for their benefit.
Empire is next week, so we're all looking forward to it. Thanks to Harmy for making it truly possible to watch the original version without even thinking about it.
The sudden movement that George makes at four seconds into the video on the first post always manages to make me chuckle.
SilverWook said:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Frames/post/458942/
Am I to understand that this has been in development for three years? He must be very proud.
All by himself. Let's go around the circle and say thank you to George for sharing with the rest of the class.
Speaking of Beru's voice, there was a very slight change to her dialogue for the SE. Compare the audio of the original to the SE or post-SE when she says, "He has too much of her father in him." Ever since '97, there's a very slight pause inserted before the word 'father.'
I learned that while researching to make a custom GOUT-synced audio track for myself. I grew up with the 1997 SE and certain bits of audio don't sound right to me unless they're there. Things like the computer noises from the SE (and from the mono mix) as the Falcon takes off from the Death Star. I'm glad the DEed is GOUT-synced, as it makes these kinds of things relatively easy to do.
George Lucas' story treatments are cursed. Ideally, they humored them to his face only to utterly disregard them later.
Darth_Sidious said:
thanks night for a real anwser and grow up tv
That's one for the wall.
Threepio's left leg (golden, prime universe)
vs.
Threepio's right leg (silver, also prime universe)
The left leg is original, straight from the factory, while the right one was salvaged from a CZ-3 bounty hunter droid that Space Jimmy Smitts fought off with his bare hands and crushed him in the airlock door. The leg and part of the pelvis was all that remained onboard.
I'm pretty sure I saw the EE in theaters, and this will be the EEE. The short scene between Elrond and Bilbo was kind of nice, but the rest was totally unnecessary.
The nice thing about the LOTR EE was the extra bits and pieces that were largely based on things from the books that otherwise don't have a solid place in the films. I guess for the Hobbit EE it'll just be extra dwarven buffoonery that even the extended, three-film version doesn't have room for.
Seeing the word 'prime' after a Star Wars character makes me a little sad. I don't even know why.
No problem. For muxing on my Mac, I've been using an app called Subler. There's probably several Windows alternatives. Just search for how to mux an MKV.
It's on the spleen, but not visible yet. I'm gonna let my torrent client seed overnight and see if the tracker sees it.
Turisu said:
Any chance somebody who grabs this could upload it to MySpleen?
That'll be me. I'll keep you posted.
Hey, I'd take the lossy one if you would share it.
You might try hairy_hen's alternate ROTJ audio that you can find a link to in his thread. There's an alternate musical cue during the Kenobi exposition scene, but perhaps the audio is synced perfectly.
You could even just do a quick edit and splice the two together, circumventing the alternate music in that scene.
Y'know, for lack of anything better before your marathon.
I agree; I have no quibs with "special edition" treatments, but Star Wars is the only one I can think of that intentionally tries to obscure the original version.
I'd like to do a fan edit of a "tasteful" special edition, but I doubt that Harmy's DEed would match up very well with any other transfer in terms of color and grain and things.
Perhaps he was able to write something halfway decent given that he did it of his own initiative and with no deadlines. At least it isn't a script. It's not dialogue we're talking about, just the napkin-sized synopses that others will run with.
I'm surprised to hear myself say this, but I think it's good that GL is involved in that capacity. (But only that capacity.)
I like the new streamlined thread title. Makes it feel pure, like it's finished. And that's pretty cool. Congratulations once again. You deserve to be discovered and put to professional work doing this sort of thing.
Was the 2003 retconned out of existence? If the two are mutually exclusive, I'll take the Samurai Jack style cartoon any day.
I can give you one post now, plus fifteen... when 2.5 is released.
DVD9, for best possible quality source for upscaling.
Subtitle contest: "Please don't throw it at me this time."
As have I; sincere apologies; hope to see you abide in the forum.
Just a pesky request. Since you're in the process of uploading JasonN's prequel edits, might I ask that you upload Ep3 next instead of Ep2? It'd be much more useful sooner.