Harmy

Like for real? I thought he was joking.

OK, so is anyone going to tell me where that screen came from?

That picture really is creepy. Where's it from?

If the mistakes were there on film, in cinemas, they will be preserved but I don't think they were.

Just to let you know guys, I've got lots of school work piled up (what with my final exams coming up and all), so there hasn't been much development lately. I'd wanted the edit to be done before I had to start doing all the school work but since I didn't manage to meet that dead line and I don't want to rush it, because I want to get everything right, I won't be able to resume work on this until the end of May. 

Don't be bitter, dude ;-)

People are too f*cking sensitive about these things. Sure, it was a disaster and 1500 people died in the middle of Atlantic one hundred years ago. But so what? Approximately one hundred times that many people died in the world yesterday.

Retired Jedi

http://youtu.be/88Wva0Jgve4?hd=1

doubleofive said:

 

Harmy said:

Second, the movie itself lost none of it's charm and epicness for me (and had some extra added on top by the 3D).

Admit it: You just like seeing Kate Winslet's boobs in 3D. ;-)

I'm not going to deny that that was a part of it. Kate Winslet's absolutely gorgeous in this movie.

I saw Titanic in 3D today and dude was it awesome!

First, the 3D conversion was flawless; 99% of the time it seriously looked like it was shot in 3D and even though it didn't have any of the stuff-happening-right-in-front-of-your-face effects that I enjoy so much, for the first time in my life, I didn't even miss them - here, for me, the 3D did exactly what it's supposed to do according to the advocates of the behind-the-screen 3D: it made it a more immersive experience - and yet I was consciously aware that I'm watching 3D throughout the whole of over 3 hours (something that is very desirable, since you're paying the extra money for the 3D). The transfer was pretty great too; I heard Cameron saying somewhere that they did some grain removal but he said the same thing about the Aliens BD transfer and it was plenty grainy. I definitely saw no typical signs of DVNR, like waxiness or smearing.

Second, the movie itself lost none of it's charm and epicness for me (and had some extra added on top by the 3D). I saw Titanic more times than I care to admit, in the cinema, on VHS, on TV, on DVD and in HD and the 194 minutes still just flew by in a blur of awesomeness. Sure, it's a cheesy love-story and it's a bit melodramatic from time to time but it is so masterfully executed that it simply makes me forget all that and enjoy the ride. It was simply a beautiful cinematic experience; on several occasions, I found myself smiling so wide that the corners of my mouth were tickling my ears - and not because it was funny but out of sheer enjoyment. It was also the first time I shed a few tears watching Titanic - but it wasn't when Leonardo died, they weren't sad tears - it was in the final moments of the ship sinking and they were tears of joy, because what was happening on (and behind) the screen in front of me was so awesomely epic and such a beautiful piece of film-making, it got me to a state of pure movie enjoyment.

Now this is what I call a movie-going experience. Thank you Mr. Cameron, I forgive you for Avatar now :-)

AFAIK, short of the commentaries, there are no bonuses on the film disc itself, so you'd simply hold on to your bonus disc. There will be DeEd specific bonus features on the BD.

^This.

Here's hoping you do. I still haven't seen the movie and intend to wait for this release :-)

I applaud this :-) These mixes are perfect companions to my edits, since they are trying to achieve basically the same things in basically the same ways, only in audio realm. And I'm really glad that I'll be able to add a perfected v2 of these to my own v2s :-) Thank you hairy_hen!

Yeah, these guys are awesome. Check out their other videos.

I actually like the second video, somehow seeing Twi'lek chicks and princess Leia in golden bikini dance in Jabba's palace is far less embarasing than having Han dancing in the carbon freezing chamber. And they have the original Max Rebo band!!! Sy even looks like the original puppet, not the CG version!!! And the graphics are good, maybe they could use them as a basis for a proper new STAR WARS Trilogy game :-)

OMG that's terrible! :-D

Relax guys. I clearly remember Ady saying that after he'd gone through a similar situation on ANH:R he started backing everything up very regularly. I thing he even said he backs it all up twice, but don't quote me on that.

A rock maybe? I don't see any problem with it (and I checked it out in movement too).

Rwandan Patriotic Front?

Cool thread. I actually did the exact same thing with our home made movies from when I was in secondary school. Nothing too serious, just some snipps of where the screen was dark for too long and stuff like that, although I did crop it to 16:9, which was something I really wanted to do back then but I just didn't have the technology ;-)

I have been planning to do a super duper special edition for years but never got around to it.

If anyone wants to watch it it's here: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z9ZqwZGg6g

And the sequel is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNElq_Uz8to

The dialogues are mostly just Czech profanity (especially in the first one) [edit: I actually added English subs to the first one], the image quality is terrible (I only had a copy of a copy left when I did the digitalization) and there's no real story to speak of (it's our take on Alien and I only wanted to do it because I saw this documentary about how they did the Alien queen test for Aliens with garbage bags and stuff like that and I wanted to try stuff like that too, so it was all about the awesome locations and creature effects and the groundbreaking digital special FX in the sequel ;-D ). But I still find it hilarious.

Thank you :-) Always nice to hear.

And I think that you in turn will be happy to hear that for v2.0 I'm not adding scratches and am most definitely not adding any garbage mattes (as opposed to matte-lines, which I'm adding back on several occasions) and all the problems you mention that you noticed should be very diminished or simply completely gone :-)

Western Union is a great way of sending money internationally but I understand that you guys want to keep it simple and only use PayPal.

As to the deleted scenes, I saw some guys here work magic with cleaning stuff up, so I'm sure it's possible. Even colourizing the B&W ones should be possible, it's something that was already being done in the 80s. Whether they'd be useful for Ady's edits is of course a whole other question, but there are some nice ones for ROTJ.

Actually the packaging of the SW BDs is so ugly, I wouldn't even use it as a doorstop, as it would totally destroy the look of my room, which has these different BDs and DVDs with beautiful cover-art lying everywhere disorderly :-)

Oh, not by far. I do have a month to do it and I intend to use it. I have to consult with my supervisor and stuff and so far he likes what I've got. I want to include a chapter on the LoC and the foundation of the NFR and the general cultural value of movies and the importance of their preservation, which is what I'm working on now, so I didn't really even get to writing much about STAR WARS yet.

OK, let me try and explain: 

A) Anamorphic vs letterboxed has absolutely nothing to do with cropping, it only affects resolution.

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/anamorphic/anamorphic185demo.html

B) All home video releases are cropped to a certain degree, regardless whether they are anamorhic, letterboxed or even HD. This slight cropping that appears in widescreen transfers isn't the same as pan&scan, it only crops a relatively small portion of all four edges. And if the cropping is reasonable, this is a good thing, because those edges were never meant to be seen.

C) GOUT means George's Original Unaltered Trilogy and it only refers to the 2006 bonus DVD, which came from 1993 THX laserdisc master.

It definitely isn't white, it's always blue and all the blue sabres in SW seem a little less cyan than on the GOUT but more so than ESB and the Revenge trailer.