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#534622
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General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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"as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced"

I wonder if I'm the first to notice this, or if my ears are playing tricks on me or what... In Star Wars, when the Death Star blows up Alderaan, pay attention to the sound just before the explosion. Doesn't it sound like a scream, cut off in mid just as the planet explodes?

I first noticed it when listening to the mono mix, and I'm pretty sure it's in all the others, too.

Is this real or is it just me? Has anyone pointed it out before?

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#533480
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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After seeing all the positive comments about your work, I couldn't resist any longer, freed some space on my hard drive and dl'd your DeEd. And it truly is fantastic, Harmy, excellent job!

Laserschwert said:

Hey Harmy,

I really love your Despecializations! Since I'm German I want to create versions with the German crawls and German subs for Greedo and Jabba. Are there HDTV-versions of the subtitled scenes, but without the subs? Or did the subtitles look like that in the HD broadcasts? I'd like to re-create the German subs as they look in the US version, but I'd need clean versions of those scenes for that...

The next hurdle will be multi-angle / seamless branching or some other trick to allow choosing between the English and the German crawls and subs (and Adobe Encore, which I'm using, doesn't support either feature). Well, at least the subs COULD be realized through actual Blu-ray subtitles... but for that, again, I need clean versions of those scenes.

Otherwise the new Blu-rays might provide the solutions...

I'm doing something similar, I'm trying to recreate the italian crawl in HD, episode-less, and then I'd need the Greedo scene without hard-subs, to make my own. But then, how to incorporate them in the movie, without having to re-encode? I'm pretty much clueless about HD and blu-rays and whatnot...

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#532962
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Congratulations/condolences to our new moderator, Anchorhead
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Jaitea said:

Congratulations Anchorhead.....are you a Mod or a Rocker?

J

He's a mocker.

(good thing nobody answered it before me, I've been wanting to do that for years! :p)

 

Congratulations, Anchorhead, I'm sure you'll bee a great moderator! If there's a disagreement, you just release the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they'll bark they'll shoot bees at us.

(ok I'm done, I'll get my hat)

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#529304
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Different Names for Things (Was: Brand Names Used in Place of Generic Descriptions)
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TK-949 said:

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Every chocolate spread is called "Nutella".
...

mmmmm... Nutella... *drools*

oh thanks a lot TK-949, now I've got another one of my trademark cravings!

seriously, I can't wait til the temperature here drops down enough that I can buy a bar of chocolate without having it melt in my hands in 3 seconds...

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#528261
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Episode I: The Ridiculous Menace (FULL MOVIE IS AVAILABLE TO STREAM, SEE FIRST POST)
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So, I recently found this little thing I did ages ago that I thought was lost forever, but turns out it wasn't. And I thought about your edit, Frink. Could you possibly be interested in an "a cappella" rendition of the 20th Century Fox Fanfare? Does this sound ridiculous enough to you?


Alternatively I could modify it into having Ric Olié singing the Cinemascope Extension ("Look over theeeeere, look over theeeeere, look over theeeeeeere!!")

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#527506
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Quotes Thread
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careful, I might turn this thread into a Homer Simpson quote thread

(although the OP hasn't been around since 2006, apparently, so we can't change thread title. oh well, that might be material for the new thread thread)

 

"Mmmmm... forbidden donut..."

 

"he he he.. look at this country: U-R-GAY!!"

 

"Stealing!!! How could you?? Haven't you learned anything from that guy who gives those sermons at church? Captain What's-his-name? We live in a society of laws! Why do you think I took you to all those "Police Academy" movies? For fun??? Well I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you?? Except at that guy who made sound effects... wrrroom! swsshhhh swssshhh! honk honk! powwwwwwww..........

he he heee...

Where was I?..... Oh yeah, stay out of my booze!"

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#527458
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Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
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none said:

If this was the case, think of how different this place would be.  We'd be debating which public scanning crew had the best print but maybe not the greatest scanning facility, should they be scanning the IBA print or the 70mm print, or the recently unearthed print which never got screened.  We'd be learning about the real world audio visual aspects of converting these films instead of relying on third hand opinions tainted by creator exhuberance.  We'd actually be able to compare and contrast original and SE prints, instead of abstract suppositions, and crappy bootlegs and recreations tainted by technological and memory lapses.  Another side would be pointing out how LFL needs some support or the deleted material would never see the light.  The fan edit crews would be lobbying for position from the public scanning crews.  Maybe even LFL would be contacting fan editors to give them advanced blu-ray copies so their versions would come out shortly after the official release.  Fan Film makers would be stepping up pointing out "hey we can offer you new stories!"

Yeah, and try and paint such a picture to George or any copyright holder, and this would pretty much be their reaction: