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#110668
Topic
Preserving The "Other" Lucasfilm Projects...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/110668/action/topic#110668
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Actually, there was a thread a while back where someone mentioned they were going to do that. (Unfortunately, the LD is full frame only, IIRC.) I'd do it myself, if someone would send me the LD.

"This begs the question though - is there a widescreen version of the original THX-1138 anywhere?"

I found a decent anamorphic, 5.1 transfer at Best Buy. Go figure.

Here it is. It also comes in a 2-pack with "The Matrix". The new DVD release is at the bottom.
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#110401
Topic
ROTS: What REALLY Pisses Me Off
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/110401/action/topic#110401
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"it's safe to say that Bail Organa could have become a King by then."

It's even safer to say that this particular character description is completely unnecessary to the plot one way or another.

That being said, he did appear to look rather "regal" in ROTS, and his standing in the Senate would really have no bearing on his political state on his homeworld. Why couldn't the king - or one of the kings - of Alderaan also be a galactic senator? Perhaps someone was just too darned angry to bother contemplating such a concept...
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#110385
Topic
New Ranking Ideas?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/110385/action/topic#110385
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"I think I like Bossk's idea better. But instead of "Not Quite So Chosen As The Chosen One" for the people who get to 25k second, how about "A Chosen One" or "Another Chosen One"?"

"One of the Chosen Ones".

Otherwise, I think only the top poster should have the moniker "The Chosen One".

Here's another one: "A vergence in the Force."
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#110381
Topic
ROTS: What REALLY Pisses Me Off
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/110381/action/topic#110381
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"You are applying Earth (actually, they sound more like American) standards to that of the rest of the "galaxy". Nothing in Star Wars says that every world must comply with our political standards."

Agreed. This is a non-issue.

"Kings are cool, politicians are gay.
That is the reason this pisses me off."

Am I to guess that you believe Lucas knows this about you, and so made these choices on purpose?

"also, i JUST now realized the Reagan thing. Now im even more pissed off.
He mocks the dead. Damn him."

Uhm, Gunray was introduced in TPM.....IN 1999
Ronald Reagon died............................IN 2004.

He was mocking the living, not the dead. Hate the films, hate the man, but stop pulling these BS reasons out of your butt, as it merely points out your complete disregard for the facts. The only one pissing you off is yourself.

Next, you'll be saying Jackson named his film "The Two Towers" to capitalize on 9/11. :roll eyes:
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#110193
Topic
Thought on de-SE'ing the DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/110193/action/topic#110193
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"It's a nice idea... but personally I don't think it's worth the effort. I still can't hear any problem with the music (though perhaps a "correct" mix would sound better), and it wouldn't be as simple as dropping in the rear channels from another country's DVDs - the echoes in the Death Star (is that what you meant by the chasm, ADM?) would still have to come from the English soundtrack, for example. I know there's a lot of leakage of dialogue from the center to the fronts, but I'm not sure about the rears, generally."

I was under the impression that the foreign soundtracks were correct - pointing to an obvious flaw in the "creative decision" reasoning. Perhaps Neil could verify this?

And since nothing I know of edits AC3 files, my scenario would be to transpose them to wavs, load the surrounds into a sound editor, replace any french dialogue with english (leaving as much of the French musical soundtrack as possible), and then re-encode with the english fronts into a new AC3.

I could actually do this quite easily, if someone could get the foreign soundtracks to me. I know that re-encoding AC3 tracks after converting the original AC3 to WAV isn't the greatest scenario, but I think the final product would sound pretty good to all but the most sensitive of ears.

"The interesting thing I've discovered from doing the DVDs is that the audio on all DVDs seems to be ~80ms (two frames) in advance of the video, so don't try and sync it up externally and expect it to stay in sync once you've made the DVD. True DVD players play back in sync, but DVD player software on PCs seems to keep them out of sync."

Some DVD mastering programs, like DVDLab-Pro, allow you to add or subtract the necessary milliseconds to sync up the audio and video, if necessary. That being said, I've always edited my audio and video to be in sync in Vegas (with soundtracks, commentaries, and mixes), so this was never necessary for me to do. Other programs may be different.