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Post: #243509
Topic: 2006 OT DVD: Well today's the day...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243509/action/topic#243509
Time: 12-Sep-2006 11:31 PM

We just hit the asteroid field...
So far its looked much better since we got off of Hoth.
I don't like that planet anymore... lol

Post: #243506
Topic: 2006 OT DVD: Well today's the day...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243506/action/topic#243506
Time: 12-Sep-2006 11:24 PM

It looks like they caringly stored the print in the bottom of a septic tank for the past decade.

Okay, I'm exaggerating a little, but yeah, the transfer is not liking Hoth at all. Grain city.
Star Wars looked much prettier.

Post: #243503
Topic: 2006 OT DVD: Well today's the day...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243503/action/topic#243503
Time: 12-Sep-2006 11:14 PM

Why does Empire look like it was shot 20 years before Star Wars?
Maybe its just all the shots on white, but eesh... I see what people meant about the grain being worse on ESB.

Post: #243497
Topic: 2006 OT DVD: Well today's the day...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243497/action/topic#243497
Time: 12-Sep-2006 10:54 PM

Yeah...
A lot of people bitch about the photoshop job on the new covers, but I think they look pretty nice, too.
And that tin from Best Buy pretty good lookin', as well.

Post: #243487
Topic: 2006 OT DVD: Well today's the day...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243487/action/topic#243487
Time: 12-Sep-2006 10:45 PM

It wouldn't be easy.
It would take like an X0 level of attention to the shots doing color correction... but its a few shots and not the whole film, so I'm sure its doable.

Post: #243483
Topic: 2006 OT DVD: Well today's the day...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243483/action/topic#243483
Time: 12-Sep-2006 10:41 PM

That's why I said I would consider taking the 04 footage and downgrading it.
Desaturate it and add grain to match it up to the best footage of the OUT disc.
I wouldn't just go dropping it in there if I were to do it.
You'd have to resize it down or animorph up the whole film at the same time to match up the aspect ratios.

Post: #243476
Topic: 2006 OT DVD: Well today's the day...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243476/action/topic#243476
Time: 12-Sep-2006 10:31 PM

I don't know what causes the quality variances, but it really looks like Star Wars was hodgepoged from multiple sources.

Since a lot of the offensive shots weren't molested in the SE, it might be worth downgrading the quality of the 04 disc for those shots and splicing them into this version.

Post: #243458
Topic: 2006 OT DVD: Well today's the day...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243458/action/topic#243458
Time: 12-Sep-2006 10:09 PM

Watching Star Wars right now...
The quality has its ups and down. For the most part, these look better than most of the bootlegs I've seen, then every once in a while there will be a shot that just looks like ass that takes away from it. Still, right now the thrill of seeing an official release of the old school OT is outweighing any quality issues.
I went with the Best Buy set.
I put my HD rip German 97 SEs in the place of the 04 discs in this set, then put the 04 discs in the case of my old 04 set. I'm just going to give away my extra set of 04 discs.
I was going to pick up the lego game while we were there, but the girl I was with was giving me a ration of sh*t teasing me about being a f*ckin' nerd, so I just grabbed my Seven Samurai, SW tin, and made an exit before drawing too much attention.

Post: #242819
Topic: MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242819/action/topic#242819
Time: 11-Sep-2006 12:38 AM

Oh and the Grievous stuff is pretty minimal.
He has no larger part than that one droid did initially.
A couple lines. A few shots. Not a major player. Just a glimpse of him for a frame of reference.
It's just essentially a new design for the leader of the droids in Episode I.

Post: #242818
Topic: MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242818/action/topic#242818
Time: 11-Sep-2006 12:35 AM

From everything I was able to observe, every alien race in Kotor spoke like 7 interchangable lines all at pretty set emotional inflections.
It didn't seen to have nearly the type of material that would be needed to make something that would come off halfway decent, especially over 3 films.
If someone has some archive of that material for me to look over again, I'll take a look, but from what I saw in the game, it seemed like it would have been a pretty hard sell to make work.

Post: #240742
Topic: MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240742/action/topic#240742
Time: 2-Sep-2006 7:57 PM

Well, that's actually a prtty "meh" still.
It's an old photoshop mock up. I'm pretty sure I showed you some shots that look a tad better.
It was just the first thing I found laying around to post.

Post: #240715
Topic: MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240715/action/topic#240715
Time: 2-Sep-2006 5:27 PM

The crawls are redone already, (courtesy of MBJ).
The alien language dialogue is remixed to remove any forward spanish words.

The Special Edition (waiting for CG Yoda release of TPM) will have a few varying alien tracks.
I'm still on the fence about dubbing in new voice actors for the alien audio because although the lip synch could be improved, I've yet to see a fan redub of a character that was really spot on. There's usually just a sense of, some guy recorded this at home and spliced it in. If I recieved some type of voice over auditions from people where I just went "Wow, that's perfect", I would consider it.
Other things for the Special Edition of Balance include a little onscreen of discussion of just what the Sith are, between Qui-Gon and Anakin, in the place of the midichlorian discussion and of course:

http://homepage.mac.com/magnoliafan78/.Public/Grievous1.jpg

An early mock up from one of several scenes...

Post: #240636
Topic: MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240636/action/topic#240636
Time: 2-Sep-2006 3:25 AM

PM Rikter about the originals... He usually hooks people up.

I'm working with ADYWAN and had some help from MeBeJedi on the Special Editions...

I guess the question I pose right now is, in the meantime, is there interest in a higher quality DVD release of the "Original (almost) Unaltered Versions" of Balance of the Force and The Clone War.

Post: #237819
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237819/action/topic#237819
Time: 23-Aug-2006 4:28 PM

Well, the only way I could see the rain shot working would be this:
You'd have to find a rain element shot against a black screen...most likely from a behind-the-scenes on a DVD. Could be a pain to find one.
I also found this website: http://www.vce.com/ImageLibrary/wrs.html
If you could get larger resolution of a few of these, it just might work! Looks like you'd have to buy it from their store...hmmm

It'd probably be easier to create the element in Motion and comp it in using Final Cut or Shake.

Post: #237432
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/237432/action/topic#237432
Time: 22-Aug-2006 5:52 AM

You may want to tweak the colors on Jimmy Smits to gray his hair or something.
He doesn't seem to have aged much over 20 years.
The shot does look good though.

Post: #236684
Topic: .: Revenge of the Jedi 0.83 MS Edition :. (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236684/action/topic#236684
Time: 18-Aug-2006 8:46 PM

lol

Yeah, you're right. I copied and pasted from earlier in the thread and just kind of touched it up. I hadn't really looked it over much. I wasn't even really paying attention to their grammar before. This should be a little better:

STAR
WARS

Episode III
Revenge of the Jedi

The rebellion is doomed. The
Galactic Empire is nearing
completion of a new armored
battle station, even more powerful
then the first dreaded DEATH
STAR.

While the scattered remnants
of the Alliance are regrouping,
Luke Skywalker has returned
to his home planet of Tatooine
to rescue his friend Han Solo
from the clutches of the vile
gangster Jabba the Hutt.

It is a perilous time for the
small band of rebels struggling
to restore peace and freedom
throughout the galaxy....

Post: #236656
Topic: .: Revenge of the Jedi 0.83 MS Edition :. (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236656/action/topic#236656
Time: 18-Aug-2006 5:48 PM

Here's something I threw together pretty quick.
Just a tightened up version of your crawl, incorporating a few more elements of the original film's crawl.
Probably something along the lines of the crawl I'll use on Jedi.

The rebellion is doomed. The
Galactic Empire is nearing
completion of a new armored
battle station, even more powerful
then the first dreaded DEATH
STAR.

While the scattered remnants
of the Alliance are regrouping,
Luke Skywalker, has returned
to his home planet of Tatooine
to rescue his friend Han Solo
from the clutches of the vile
gangster Jabba the Hutt.

It is a perilous time for the
small band of rebels struggling
to restore peace and freedom
throughout the galaxy...

Post: #236636
Topic: .: Revenge of the Jedi 0.83 MS Edition :. (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236636/action/topic#236636
Time: 18-Aug-2006 4:41 PM

My one suggestion would be scrap the crawl and do a new one. Jedi's was always weak.

IV
It is a period of civil war...

V
It is a dark time for the rebellion...

VI
Luke Skywalker has returned home...

Bring back elements of an earlier crawl draft or something. "The rebellion is doomed." etc.

Post: #236628
Topic: .: Revenge of the Jedi 0.83 MS Edition :. (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236628/action/topic#236628
Time: 18-Aug-2006 4:09 PM

I really think it's your call on the Episode III thing.
Remember that you're doing this for yourself first and everyone else, second.
Tough sh^t if some people get bent out of shape about some change you make.
Someone, somewhere, always will. The best thing to do is just make it the way you want to watch it.

Post: #236128
Topic: Was there an ESB arcade game?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/236128/action/topic#236128
Time: 17-Aug-2006 4:21 AM

Enjoy

http://www.klov.com/images/E/mEmpire_Strikes_Back,_The.jpg

http://www.klov.com/images/E/cEmpire_Strikes_Back,_The.jpg

http://www.klov.com/screens/E/vEmpire_Strikes_Back,_The.png

http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/screens/E/yEmpire_Strikes_Back,_The.png

http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/screens/E/xEmpire_Strikes_Back,_The.png

http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/screens/E/wEmpire_Strikes_Back,_The.png

Post: #235890
Topic: So Who Killed Palpatine, Anyway? (This thread is made from 100% post-poster recycled bandwidth)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235890/action/topic#235890
Time: 16-Aug-2006 7:39 PM

I admit it.
I killed Palpatine.
It was me all along.

Post: #235222
Topic: POLL: WORST ACTOR OR ACTRESS IN THE PT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235222/action/topic#235222
Time: 14-Aug-2006 9:49 PM

If you've seen on set, behind the scenes, yes, there was bad direction given.
He would literally tell them to slow their words and ennunciate everything (which no one in real life does to that degree).
Plus, giving some actors their lines the day they arrive on set, with no context, and sometimes, not even the costar to play off of, like the famous Terrance Stamp story, "I gave Natalie the day off." Holds up a stick with her face on it. "Just talk to the stick." "What's my character like?" "Umm... You're Bill Clinton... Action!"
Stamp attributes it to the worst, most degrading experience he's ever had working on a film.

Post: #235160
Topic: POLL: WORST ACTOR OR ACTRESS IN THE PT?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235160/action/topic#235160
Time: 14-Aug-2006 6:33 PM

I blame the directorial and editorial choices for the performances.
How many directors get a bad performance from Samuel L Jackson, or Natalie Portman? Just one.
For a long time I had deemed Hayden, "Woodenhead" and my friends still refer to him as that, but after seeing some of his other work, and more importantly, alternate takes and screen tests from the prequels, its just not his fault.
He can act, he was just given direction like, "Now I want you to look away from her, talk a little slower, and ennuciate a lot more."
I think I feel sorriest for him of the prequel bunch, because he gets the most shit as an actor over the prequels, when the direction was really poor.

Post: #234547
Topic: Audience reaction to the reveal?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/234547/action/topic#234547
Time: 12-Aug-2006 11:15 PM

A lot of people argued that it was BS, a lie or a trick by Vader.

And FYI, you won't hear any audience reaction in the Pre ANH bootleg. It was done in an empty theatre.

Post: #231027
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode V DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a work in progress
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/231027/action/topic#231027
Time: 31-Jul-2006 7:25 PM

I've got the banquet hall scene with SE effects completed in all but one or two shots.
I think we talked about that a long time ago.

Oh, and the easiest fix for the Emperor scene is to have him say "We have a new enemy... The offspring of Anakin Skywalker" or maybe combine McDiarmid saying an L sound with "Dook" from "Count Dooku"