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#205691
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NHL
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/205691/action/topic#205691
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I'm still sick that my wings CHOKED last night. 4 goals in the 3rd? Are you kidding me?! Legace's as good as gone. I hate that this is most likely how Stevie Y is going out. Gotta go with my favorite ex-wing Darren McCarty and the Flames now. Let's see that battle of Alberta!
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#204502
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The computer dilemma
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/204502/action/topic#204502
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Switching to an intel mac will be the best thing you ever do, computer wise. Now that you can reliably boot directly to windows when you want, it's a no-brainer slam dunk. There are also rumors that apple is going to incorporate the ability to run windows apps natively in OS X in Leopard, the next generation release in Jan 07. Maybe, probably not, we'll see. It would be very interesting. iMovie and iDVD are GREAT for home movies and simple editing jobs. If you want to do any serious editing, you'll need to pony up for Final Cut Studio or Pro and DVD Studio Pro. But, you have to do the same on windows so there's not any difference there.

It's a very good time to be a mactel user.... come on in, the water's fine....
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#200615
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.:. MoveAlong's - The Story of Star Wars .:. Complete!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/200615/action/topic#200615
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Current Progress

The editing is now completed. Thanks to Rebel11_38, there is now a beautiful title crawl to make it FEEL like SW. How could it be SW without a crawl? The color correction is as good as I can make it. Until you've really had to study the 2004 dvd, it's hard to truly understand how botched (no, butchered) the color correction (no, destruction) is on the official disc. There is no continuity at all throughout the movie even from scene to scene with color values or brightness, except that for the most part it's incredibly dark and blue. I could have easily gone down the slippery slope of trying to fix every shot for consistency, but I don't have the time or skills, really, to do that. I have for the most part brightened the whole thing (darker scenes much more) and have attempted to adjust the blue cast to something warmer and reminiscent of the real movies. It's hard to bring out detail when it's not there to begin with. It's interesting that the movie clips in the menus of the official disc have really good brightness and color. Van Ling did these himself independent of Lowery. Compare Van Ling's menu cantina clip to Lowery's. GL should have had Van Ling do the whole damn trilogy. Anyway, I digress...

Things To Be Completed

Subtitles: Never done this, but seems real straightforward. I would be interested in supplying my subtitle file for translation to other languages. I would love to have Spanish and French. I know we have some Scandinavian members here. That would be cool, too. Let me know.

Authoring: I'm going to work on some nice menus for this, maybe even multiple random menus like the official disc. Does anyone have any suggestions for easter eggs? Please PM me if you do. We'll try to keep it secret

Cover and Disc Artwork: I'm planning on doing this myself. However, I am open to collaborating with some of our great graphic artists here.

getting closer...
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#199926
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.:. MoveAlong's - The Story of Star Wars .:. Complete!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199926/action/topic#199926
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Originally posted by: The Starkiller
This sounds like a great project. I have been toying with the idea of a similar project myself, but I could not come up with a way for it not to be boring. There aren't enough images in the "Story Of" books to make a decent slide show.


You're absolutely right. And it doesn't help that there are several scenes featured in the booklet that aren't even on the album...
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#199654
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.:. MoveAlong's - The Story of Star Wars .:. Complete!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199654/action/topic#199654
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Originally posted by: Jambe Davdar
I'm really looking forward to this MoveAlong. Have fun making it!

And as I'm sure you can imagine, I'm drooling at the prospect of the Empire one!

JD


I, too, am really wanting to get to Empire. It is my favorite of the trilogy (duh!). I did SW first because the LP was a part of my childhood. I never had the Empire or Jedi LP's as a kid. I do now thanks to ebay. Doing a project like this, you learn a lot, and I definitely have. This will make the workflow for Empire more streamlined and hopefully I'll be able to get it done quicker than SW has gone up to this point. It's amazing how long something like this takes when life gets in the way...
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#198299
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.:. MoveAlong's - The Story of Star Wars .:. Complete!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/198299/action/topic#198299
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Originally posted by: SKot
I love this project, particularly because The Story Of Star Wars _was_ my movie, and I played it uncountable times. I was 7 when SW came out, and was the biggest SW fan in my school (no exaggeration), but I never got to see the actual film until high school after it came out on video. So I can't wait to see the final product here.

--SKot


This comment, in a nutshell, is why I'm doing this. Talk about a target demographic...

Not that our younger members won't enjoy this, but if you're older and loved this album as a kid you're not going to be disappointed.
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#197287
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.:. MoveAlong's - The Story of Star Wars .:. Complete!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/197287/action/topic#197287
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Help Needed!

Well, I've just about got everything done on the editing side. One final element eludes me before I start authoring this thing...

I'm in desperate need of a custom logo/crawl to start this thing off right.

I tried it within FCP and the results weren't satisfactory. Could one of the video masters here help out? It should be very simple for someone in AfterEffects or something else similar to knock out. The receding logo/custom crawl needs to be simply black logo/text on a light blue background. No starfield, just black over blue. If you have the LP, you know where I'm coming from on this. Whoever can do this, I'll get you the timing and color info. Post here or PM me.

Thanks guys!
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#197284
Topic
.:. MoveAlong's - The Story of Star Wars .:. Complete!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/197284/action/topic#197284
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Current Progress

First attempt at color correction completed. I'll burn a disc and test it on my CRT television just to make sure. But one thing is for sure. It's a big improvement already. I've definitely leaned toward warming it up. Some before and after examples using the 2004 dvd as the source (yes, the Biggs shot really is from the 2004 dvd)

Before/After
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5165/ben1before6ki.jpg
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/3681/ben1after3cl.jpg

Before/After
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/1289/biggs1before8te.jpg
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/2071/biggs1after1br.jpg

Before/After
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7016/lukethreepio1before7eh.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3915/lukethreepio1after9zs.jpg

Before/After
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4320/tarkin1before6zp.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/6893/tarkin1after6uk.jpg

Before/After
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/3792/vaderleia1before1fp.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1595/vaderleia1after9ny.jpg

Before/After
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3907/vaderleia2before6uz.jpg
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/6655/vaderleia2after3np.jpg
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#196612
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.:. MoveAlong's - The Story of Star Wars .:. Complete!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196612/action/topic#196612
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A few questions have been asked, so...

Yes, I am doing Empire and Jedi. I will "release" each one as they're completed.

I have also replaced 99% of the SE elements primarily using Citizen's ANH NTSC DL. I think it is the best NTSC version out right now. That being said, I have left a few SE things in that don't scream out "Hey, look at me! I'm horrible CG destroying this film!". Little things like Ben and Luke's view of Mos Eisley, Vader's restored saber glow when Luke's shooting at him. It's not 100% SE free, but the intent and feel is. Darth Editous fixes Luke's green saber on the Falcon and GKAR puts the English back on the tractor beam meter. With a little color correction, it will feel like the ot.

I will be posting this on alt.binaries.starwars. I would love for someone with myspleen upload privileges (..cough, Rikter, Metallaxis, cough..) to torrent them. I will also be sending out copies myself. So, everyone should have an easy time getting this.
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#196433
Topic
.:. MoveAlong's - The Story of Star Wars .:. Complete!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196433/action/topic#196433
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Current Progress

The syncing and editing in FCP is now complete and I have burned a test disc which plays great. I am now tackling the issue of trying to fix the crystal clear yet butchered color and gamma of the official dvd footage. Using my preferences and taking some nice cues from starwarslegacy.com, I think it will be much better. Here's a screenshot that shows my first couple of scenes of fixed color and gamma balance.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/3383/screenshot4sk.jpg

Once the color correction is done, then it's authoring time. Hopefully this disc will be "released" by May or so. I welcome any comments...
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#196430
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.:. MoveAlong's - The Story of Star Wars .:. Complete!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196430/action/topic#196430
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What:

This project uses "The Story of Star Wars" vinyl LP audio synced up to a variety of video sources to create a unique preservation/fan-edit dvd. It is a 51 minute version of SW that is very enjoyable to watch.

Why:

I have immense admiration and respect for the community here. I've wanted to contribute something back since I discovered this place and got the original TR47 set. However, I don't own a LD player and there are enough really good LD transfers out there already. So, I was going through my old vinyl one day and came across my original copy of "The Story of Star Wars" LP, the one my dad bought me when I was 7 in 1977. Coincidentally, later that week a very high quality audio transfer of this was posted on alt.binaries.starwars. Listening to it got me thinking it would be cool to have this audio synced up to video pans and zooms using scans from the picture booklet included with the album. In essence, it would be like listening to the album and "reading" along with the booklet. I'm not a complete hack with Final Cut Pro, so I thought I'd give it a try. The initial results were very pleasing. However, when I got around 7 minutes of the film edited, it was obvious that this idea was a one-trick pony and there was no way I could watch 50 minutes of pans and zooms. I told a few members here about my project and each one of them said they thought a sync to footage would be ideal. I agreed. First idea scrapped. So, this project now syncs with video from different sources for the majority of the album and uses pans and zooms sparingly at times when there is only narration or when editing requires. It is much better this way. As far as I know, nobody's done anything like this project yet. This is for anyone that listened to this record on their parents' hi-fi over and over and over again as a kid. It will truly take you back.

Sources/Specs/Tech:

AUDIO - The true star of this project is the audio, no question. I used the mp3's made by ScottyBalls that were posted to a.b.sw. Great vinyl transfer! The mix is so unique with music, dialogue, alternate voices, takes and narration that this project needed to be done so people would be more likely to hear it.

VIDEO - A list of the video sources used
-2004 NTSC: majority of footage - color corrected
-Citizen NTSC DL: replaces the most offensive SE elements
-Darth Editous NTSC: fixes Luke's green saber on the falcon
-GKAR PAL: tractor beam meter now reads in english

This next one will upset some, but I have cropped the 2.35:1 aspect ratio to 1.78:1 to completely fill a 16x9 screen anamorphic. This was not my original intent but working with pans and zooms made this necessary. And believe me, I'm an aspect ratio snob. I would have had to add black bars to my anamorphic pan/zoom files. There was just not enough usable visual area to make this feasible. That being said, the whole project has been cropped on a scene to scene basis, sometimes shot to shot. It's not perfect, but it works. I didn't just center the crop for the whole movie and go. Really, the album itself is "cropped" so it's not all that bad.

DVD Features - Project completed/updated 6-17-06

-16x9 anamorphic main feature and motion menus
-Dolby Digital 2.0 audio - 2 streams: '77/'04 hybrid or pure '77
-English subtitles
-JACKET_P
-DVD-ROM including:
Cover and disc artwork (including slim version)
5G iPod version of main feature
The original Scotty Balls mp3's
The Star Wars Original Radio Drama mp3's
Scans of album packaging and other images

-Easter egg

Thanks go out to Scotty Balls, Rebel11_38, Citizen, Darth Editous, ocpmovie, russs15, Zion, and SKot for their direct or indirect help with this project.

Available on a.b.sw, myspleen, and rapidshare.