Hal 9000

I guess nobody liked Leonardo's joke. Anyway, I've got a stocked Kindle (app) and a revised, though still ambitious, reading list. I've got a good 2+ years for all this catch up reading, and I can always skip some of these if my time grows short. I don't need to read every solitary book that's come out in this time period, though I do want to get a good sense of events and character development. 

I'm reading the Thrawn trilogy right now, as everyone says this is the more important. I like it so far; he seems to understand the characters. Afterward...

The Dark Empire comic series. Because why not. 

I, Jedi - I'll read this one in place of the Jedi Academy trilogy for efficiency. 

The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy 

The Corellian trilogy

Hand of Thrawn Duology

Union: The Marriage of Luke Skywalker (comic) - Again, because why not.

New Jedi Order - An abbreviated run of just five entries: Vector Prime, Star by Star, Traitor, Destiny's Way, and The Unifying Force

I would appreciate suggestions of which are the essential reads of the Legacy of the Force and Fate of the Jedi serieses. They're recent enough that I haven't found a reliable description of which ones are the barebones essentials. 

Now, this may be entirely too much content to shove into a relatively short time. I may go in spurts, but that's my goal. If I start to run out of time or get tired of it, I can go back to the abridged audiobooks for some of these. I haven't read a Star Wars novel since I was a kid, really, and I'm enjoying Heir to the Empire so far. We'll see. (And I might knock off the Black Fleet Crisis and/or Corellian trilogies in order to skip ahead if need be.)

Actual toast is better than what I usually get out of that app. Maybe I expected too much from it for crunching things down onto DVDs.

That Yoda origin story would... not make me happy. 

ALLOL

Do you have any plans to maybe put the Episode 4 ANH crawl in there too? :P

That's cool, just wondered what your plans were. 

Do you have any plans to include the '81 version of the opening crawl with "Episode IV: A New Hope" as an alternate option for the BluRay?

+1 for Toast

or VMware.

I found RLM's prequel reviews somewhat therapeutic, or at the very least fun. 

Did somebody say there was a version of Yub Nub without lyrics? A musical rendition might be an interesting compromise between OOT and SE endings. 

emanswfan said:

And yes, there is actually more detail there, the grain just helps to fill in and remove any digital artifacts.

That is fascinating to me. Could you elaborate a bit on that? Isn't it just like re-sharpening a blurred image? 

well he might need his job to pay for things like softwear and chips to eat; all the basic essentials of fan editing. 

do you know what sections or chapters your documentary will be divided into? maybe a behind the scenes part could be called "a view of the bottom"

Huh. That's really amazing; it seems very counterintuitive that adding noise to the video would improve its look and seemingly bring out detail.

Does it really bring out detail, or is it just our perception? That's a serious question; it looks that great. 

Let me put on my dunce hat and ask a stupid question. Wouldn't 35mm grain be more authentic for the OT than 70mm, even if 70mm looks better?

tomorrow? so it should be finished by end of day?

And how Episode VII will be shot, ideally. Looking forward to this greatly.

Do you have, or have access to, a Mac?

Asaki said:

Call me when this is on VCD.

And there's the thread. Goodnight, everybody. *locked*

No, just stumbled onto it.

I am interested to hear any and all of your ideas, man. I sympathize with not feeling up to tackling a fan edit. I, fortunately, am in the process of doing a set right now. I'd love to give more ideas a hearing!

For your consideration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGfOHT67KXc

Looks good. In motion (and on youtube) I almost can't tell what you did. And I think that's a good thing. 

After a week without this thread, it's Christmas. Beef log and everything.

He kinda looks like Jake Lloyd in that screenshot. 

Again, that looks much more convincing than the original. 

DominicCobb said:

What other sources are you using?

Oh, I was just thinking of things like custom opening crawls and end credits. Nothing revolutionary. And of course the same clip from The Other Boleyn Girl that Q2 used for ROTS. 

And that last shot looks great; having it appear to have been filmed really helps sell the FX. I have wondered, though I don't know, whether Episodes II and III having been actually shot on film would have carried that level of "aberrations." In other words, would they have looked this filmic? Then again, we haven't yet seen anything in motion. 

Hey, it's great improvement already, and I truly look forward to seeing the whole thing. 

i'm sure yours will be greater so it prolly dont matter much.

maybe you could include deleted magic as a bonus feature

Just curious, but do you know if there are any decent programs or plug-ins that can add realistic 35mm film grain? 

I have no skill in this area, and even if I end up making use of your promising project, I would still need to apply something to the other sources of footage I'm using to have things match up. Plus it'd be cool to keep in mind for other things.