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#241389
Topic
Preserving the "German" Original Trilogy (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241389/action/topic#241389
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Originally posted by: R2D2
So for now I can post both Fullscreen and Widescreen - German Title Crawls from the first movie. You need audio, too? Which format (they are captured with Huffyuv-Codec) you want me to post them? With Huffyuv they have over 700MB each! I can run it through CCE-SP and post a MPEG-2 PAL Videoclip.


I guess MPEG2 will do as long as you boost the bitrate to maximum.

The fullscreen captures showed some serious ghosting (black halos around the text, visible on the greyish/greenish starfield), but I think the higher resolution allows these to be recomped on a cleaner starfield-background. It would of course be best if you could post both versions (widescreen and fullscreen) as MPEG2 clips (without audio).

EDIT: Oh, by the way, does your "Das Imperium schlägt zurück"-VHS still have the misspelled "züruck" in the crawl?
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#240171
Topic
NON-Star Wars Fan Edit and Alternate DVD Covers SHOWCASE
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240171/action/topic#240171
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/3025/hp2labelprevxv2.jpg

You know, if you were to put your finger through that hole it would look like.... ah forget it.

Yep, it does... tried it.

Originally posted by: Rikter
STUNNING cover Laserschwert!!!!!


Aw, stop that... I didn't do much to it other than adding a "Special Extended Edition" and a spine to two existing artworks.

By the way, people, stop bashing DarkGryphon now... actually don't waste ANY line of text on him.

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#239927
Topic
Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239927/action/topic#239927
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I quickly needed a trilogy cover for a single-sized triple-case, and some labels, so I threw something together in a matter of hours. The cover-artwork itself borrows from Falle's trilogy-box-cover (sorry for that ) while the "design" of the back is based on a cover by Rikter.

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/5861/swtrilprevtd9.jpg
Full size (300 dpi)

For the labels I had to rearrange the posters of TESB and ROTJ to fit around the hole in the label, which took the most time.

http://img272.imageshack.us/img272/1164/labelanhprevbv1.jpghttp://img166.imageshack.us/img166/4097/labeltesbprevgl0.jpghttp://img306.imageshack.us/img306/7114/labelrotjprevtn3.jpg

Full size labels (300 dpi):
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
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#239925
Topic
Making our own 35mm preservation--my crazy proposal
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239925/action/topic#239925
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Originally posted by: mcfly89
I did a very rough test with an old 8mm projector, just to see the frame-blurring, and it is prominent. There may be a work-around, but I don't have access to a 35mm projector and won't be able to do a serious test unless I find someone who does.

When looking into the cost of buying a 35mm projector (several thousand $), it occured to me that it would be cheaper to pay for a true telecine. I found a quote through google for about $1,000 for 120 minutes, and that includes cleaning. Not bad, assuming we can find a print and the teleciners are willing to transfer copyrighted material.



And I guess this forum has enough users to chip in a buck or two to pay for the whole thing... I'd be in.
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#239770
Topic
<strong>The Moth3r PAL DVD Set Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239770/action/topic#239770
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Quick question:

Is there a general interest in more audio-tracks for Moth3r's transfers? Since I've made myself three dual-layer discs for the trilogy using Moth3r's transfers, combining some stuff like the Laserdisc supplementals, "The Making of Star Wars", "SPFX", "Classic Creatures" and the animated menus of the 2004 DVDs (changed to fit my new content) I have also added some more audio options:

ANH
1. English 2.0 Surround (from Moth3r)
2. German 2.0 Stereo (done by me)
3. English Mono (1977 mix)
4. Isolated score (sped up and pitch-corrected from the EditDroid set)
5. Interview commentary track (taken from the ANH Classic Edition)

TESB
1. English 2.0 Surround (from Moth3r)
2. German 2.0 Stereo
3. Isolated score (sped up and pitch-corrected from the EditDroid set)

ROTJ
1. English 2.0 Surround (from Moth3r)
2. German 2.0 Stereo (done by me)
3. Isolated score (sped up and pitch-corrected from the EditDroid set)

Anybody interested in this? I was thinking about sharing my self-made set, but torrenting 22 GB is a little too much, and I think German audio (which is actually the biggest difference) isn't THAT requested.
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#239482
Topic
Making our own 35mm preservation--my crazy proposal
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239482/action/topic#239482
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Originally posted by: mcfly89Cheaper version:
If you can't do uncompressed, you can record in HDV mode (25 Mb/s MPEG2 in HD) and it'll only take up less than 30 GB and still look great.


The problem when filming projected film off of a screen is to synchronize the frame-change of the projector with the camera... otherwise you might catch a frame "in between" two projected frames, resulting in a blur. Alternatively you could play the film back at 1/4th of the speed, so that you'll most probably end up with at least one perfect shot of each frame. To increase resolution you could shoot the movie in sections... top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right, and stitch it together in post. Problem: Lens distortion... the edges of the frame might distort a bit, depending on the lens used, resulting in difficulties comping together the four sections.

Generally filming off of a screen isn't the best way, since you lose a lot of light, color and general quality.

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#238665
Topic
Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238665/action/topic#238665
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That's quite an elaborate set, great work! If only you would've used classic poster and concept art for the fronts... i really hate front artworks consisting of photos, especially with movies like "Star Wars", since they're so many great posters out there. Ah well, either way you did a great job, and I assume many shelves will carry those covers very soon.
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#238663
Topic
So, this is how the DVDs are going to look...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238663/action/topic#238663
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Originally posted by: Vigo
And, as I thought, they screwed up.... The OOT release of the German Version should be the 1978 "KRIEG DER STERNE" textcrawl! Now we most probably get "STAR WARS" with a German textcrawl, which is nowhere but "original"....

I sincerely hope that the crawls WILL be the German ones... and not digitally redone, but used from the old masters (though I don't know if there are any german "master" existing). Nevertheless, it will be hard to convince me buying these... or I'll wait until they're on the bargain table, since I don't believe this "only available until 12/31"-crap.

Originally posted by: Mentasm
Ah right, sorry. Didn't really look that closely at the URL or menus. Dunno why I thought it was German...

Yeah, both Switzerland and Germany are German speaking countries... and we don't get separate DVD-releases because of this. The URL would've been the only "clue", because of the .CH domain, but only to people who mind
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#238604
Topic
So, this is how the DVDs are going to look...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238604/action/topic#238604
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Originally posted by: Mentasm
I'm a bit pissed off that the German site has copies when Fox UK wouldn't give us (DVDActive) any. The R1 releases are being bought for me, and I should have them early if the retailer's track record is anything to go by, but I'd have liked the chance to do a very early review. One thing I will say about the caps is that they look better than I expected, but resizing screen caps generally hides a lot of imperfections that would otherwise be visible. I'll reserve judgement until I see a full size cap or get the discs myself.


By the way, Outnow.ch is a site from Switzerland, not Germany. Though the discs will of course be the same here.
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#238476
Topic
So, this is how the DVDs are going to look...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238476/action/topic#238476
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
No, Randy has a point - take a look at the lego menu screen, which presumably will be crystal clear and perfect on the DVD. Well, the screenshot looks crappy and compressed. I don't think we can trust these images as a true representation of what the films will look like.

I'm sorry, but NO, Randy doesn't have a point, since dpi-count has NO relation to what we're talking about.

Compression on the other hand, as you say, is in fact a factor that comes into play here. But still, the sharpness of the screenshots isn't exactly stunning, and that's not a compression issue.

Originally posted by: Moth3r
PAL native resolution is 720 x 576. To convert to natural aspect ratio, resize vertically to 720 x 540.


Actually they should've scaled it to 768x576, since that is actual native PAL-res, but after all the footage was upscaled from NTSC, so that scaling it down again doesn't really make it any worse.
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#238431
Topic
So, this is how the DVDs are going to look...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/238431/action/topic#238431
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Originally posted by: Number20
Are these real? I mean, in the gallerys in the links provided, they had shots like this:
Han&Chewie promo photo
SE Jabba
So, are these shots at the bottom supposed to be generic Star Wars shots, or 'screen shots'? Some of these shots are promo shots, that aren't in the movie, or SE shots.


The stuff at the bottom is just general promo-stuff regarding all the releases of the movies. The DVD-shots are from the upcoming DVDs, since there's also a review for all three of them (in German, and not very in-depth).
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#236894
Topic
Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236894/action/topic#236894
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I am glad that this wasn't taken the wrong way... after all I just can repeat myself, Coov, your designs are really great. And the design part is the most crucial part of creating stuff like this. It's just that I am always trying to be a perfectionist... working as a designer myself it pains me just to see a great design being somewhat "flawed" by simple technical problems. But now that you've explained that these covers are more of a "by-product" of your work, it makes absolute sense.
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#236514
Topic
Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236514/action/topic#236514
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@Coov:

First of all, don't get this the wrong way, your covers are pretty damn nice, at least design-wise. But on the technical side I've got some major criticism on most of your covers:

First of all, the resolution of most of your background textures is way to low to be simply upscaled to the size of a DVD-cover. I know, most people don't mind about this, but there's nothing better than a nice, pristine texture at full resolution. The standard Mayang.com-"brushed metal" texture on your latest covers, and especially the leather texture on one of your earlier designs just don't cut it anymore at that size. But getting textures isn't as hard as it might seem. Scanning or photographing stuff you've got lying around - old paper, book covers, cloth, whatever... - can be layered on top of each other (even on top of a Mayang-photo) to create new, and way more detailed textures. The pattern-generator in Photoshop CS (and above) is a pretty nice tool for stuff like this as well, though it only works with rather random textures.

The second point of criticism is the detail on laying out your design elements. If you compare the six "brushed metal" covers, you see that neither text nor logos are in the same place on each cover. This is something that bothers me with a lot of retail DVD-covers... when the spine-logos of several DVDs are positioned differently on each and every cover. Even the "Star Wars"-discs from the same box have this problem, and I guess fan created covers should have this fixed.

OK, hope this doesn't come off too bad. Keep up the great work, and I hope this criticism was rather constructive.