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#214556
Topic
Kubrick: Vinyl Trilogy (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/214556/action/topic#214556
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Welllll, lyrically you have a few sporatic connections between the two--as with most non-Oz syncs you need to get creative with your interpretation:
-"Isn't it good to be lost in the wood?"--Danny is leaving away from Jack which is good--soon to be in the hedge maze...made of plants...which have wood
-"Isn't it bad so quiet there?"--Okay she isn't exactly being "quiet"--she's screaming, but how cool is it we get a shot of her just as he says that?--like he's telling her that.
-"Please leave us here"--well you know
-The key switches when the axe first hits the door.

Anyway, random updates, I'm getting held behind a bit because of an edit of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest I'm doing for English class. I'm using some dialogue from Chief Bromden to make him seem more like the narrator of the story like he is in the book. I'm also shoving in some Grateful Dead and Santana because Ken Kesey (the author) really had a thing for them.

I'm doing a weekend-long odd-job to make some more money for a bigger harddrive so I can work on more projects at once, plus supplies and CDs and all that. Devilman has proposed we form an alliance--swapping ideas and cross-checking for quality, which will be a great help. I also had an idea for an easter egg I'm going to bring up in my next PM with...the board...Haha!
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#213980
Topic
Kubrick: Vinyl Trilogy (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213980/action/topic#213980
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Allright, I got some time to think while my head was in my oven and I came to a few conclusions and updates:

1. I own an electric oven

2. In regards to Devilman's project, I'd like to know how he syncs WYWH up with 2001 so maybe I could steal the idea, ahh just kidding, i'll stick with Ummagumma and atom heart mother; but I fully acknowledge his project's right to exist and only hope both our projects might prove to be a bit of competition for each other in terms of quality and interest (so far, in terms of interest, he's winning).

3. I will be reencoding all of the audio from the three original films into stereo. For 2001 this would recreate the experience in theaters. For A Clockwork Orange and The Shining, since their 5.1 remixes have been described as just "real clean mono," this will not offer much of a difference besides not hearing much sound in the back. This also might give my project a bit of legal protection since--as Devilman put it--the films have not been altered at all, and I'm offering the original version on a fan DVD. Uh oh! If there is enough adversity to reencoding the audio, just let me know and I'll offer the option between 5.1 and stereo on two different versions of the DVD set.

4. The Shining will have about 38 pixels cropped off both the top and the bottom to recreate the 16:9 aspect it was originally in--funnily enough you can still see that helicopter shadow in the beginning after it's cropped. I had to do some math to get the right amount of pixels to cut, but if anyone knows if cropping 38 pixels isn't correct to create 16:9 just let me know.

5. I have Syd Barret's "Opel," Wendy Carlos "Discovering Lost Scenes" vol 1, Pink Floyd's "Obscured by Clouds." All from meedermow, I still need Alex North's original score, The complete Original Wendy Carlos ACO score, some other appropiate work by Wendy Carlos to fill out some dialogue driven spots in ACO, and possibly the original score of ACO for the Grammaphone recordings if I finally decide to make an orchestral score to ACO or not--which will also require some help to get the very best orchestral recordings of Wendy Carlos' tracks for ACO.

6. Oh yeah! I need help with the avisynth exporter plugin for Premiere. I can't seem to find one that will match version 2.56--at least I think it's the version that's running me into problems. If anyone can help that'd be great. Thanks
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#213159
Topic
2001: The Monolith Set (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/213159/action/topic#213159
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Well where the hell did you come from???

Lol, seriously though, this'll have to make me rethink what is so far my life's magnum opus. I'm glad I caught this in time.

Just for fun, if you want to let me know where I can start WYWH to see for myself how it looks as a sync that'd be great. I was gonna use a bunch of their old music from Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother


And how do u plan to leave in the cast dialogue with the alex north music? is it because there's virtually no dialogue ever spoken or sound effects ever used with the music?
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#212887
Topic
The legendary "Starkiller Ranch" Thread
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212887/action/topic#212887
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Originally posted by: Darth Richard
Originally posted by: Brimley
Originally posted by: shanep
What about the original concept for ROTJ where Luke traveled to Had Abbadon?

You could have the DS2 being built, but instead right above Coruscant and have Vader at the opening travel on his shuttle to Coruscant instead of DS2.

You could take elements of nighttime Coruscant views from the PT, of which there are several, and comp them into scenes outside The Emperor's throne room windows.


That is a really interesting idea...but how do you explain why the DS2 is suddenly at Endor? It may be a neat exercise, though.


It could move , but it should still definately be tried. Or make it so that the emperor throne room is not on the DSII and have it be in Coruscant.


Would that mean making it so Vadar takes Luke to Couruscant in RotJ instead of DSII?
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#210743
Topic
.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/210743/action/topic#210743
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Originally posted by: Patrick R.
Well, it looks like the X0 Project just might be better than the official release which will be non 16x9. I definitely know what I am not buying in September unless there is a major change.


WTF? Where did you hear this? I think we need an official thread for original DVD news pinned somewhere.
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#210703
Topic
Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/210703/action/topic#210703
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Originally posted by: darkhelmet
Also, having the Emperor's lightning appear off-screen was aesthetically unappealing but necessary since I didn't have a shot to introduce it that didn't have undesirable dialogue (Emperor with ridiculously over-animated expression: "No, NO! You will die!"; never mind the fact that Mace's dialogue didn't even support such a retort). Not sure what I can do about that if anything.

It would be great to see him launch the bolts, though.


You could get a sound of the lightening isolated from another source, you'd just need the initial ignition. Maybe you could dub it over his left-over dialogue (doesn't it start in the middle of "die"?).
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#210683
Topic
The legendary "Starkiller Ranch" Thread
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/210683/action/topic#210683
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Did you guys talk at all about changing the sea of green and blue sabers across the PT (with one purple one, that I hear you'll be getting rid of) to give the Jedi a little variety and less of a formulaic feel to the PT (ie: bad guys have red sabers, good guys choose green or blue)?

Cause some of the backstory stuff (books and video games) features all kinds of colors--KOTOR for example.
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#210410
Topic
Kubrick: Vinyl Trilogy (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/210410/action/topic#210410
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Encoding is 25% or so complete for 2001, it's been 1 minute of encoding time to 1 second of video so far.

Hey maybe it's a bad idea, but what would anyone think of presenting the three films in their theatrical aspect ratios?--the Shining getting cropped from the top and bottom. Is that evil since Kubrick intended The Shining to be in 4:3? If I did this what would I have to do to A Clockwork Orange? I heard the aspect ratio changes on the DVD in a couple of spots, though that wouldn't matter if it's evil, what do you all (one other person so far) think?
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#209404
Topic
Kubrick: Vinyl Trilogy (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209404/action/topic#209404
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Allright–so i was messing around with some first-time projects and I got this idea. It’s called the Vinyl Trilogy because it is meant to be an audiophile’s wet dream–featuring alternate audio tracks for each disc. I wanted to save this until it was finally completed so it would be a nice surprise, but I need some help. There are a number of CDs that I don’t have that I need to finish the project, and if anyone has them or is willing to buy them and donate them to the project, that’d be great.

It’s a three disc release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and The Shining.

2001:A Space Odyssey

-1st Track: Theatrical Presentation of the film
-2nd Track: Integrated throwaway Alex North Score that makes the film like just another cheesy sci fi flick
-3rd Track: Isolated blatently artifical Pink Floyd Sync with some of their early work
-Kickass DVD menu that does the film justice

A Clockwork Orange

-1st Track: Theatrical Presentation of the film
-2nd Track: Isolated complete original Wendy Carlos score (with some other Wendy Carlos works to fill in the dialogue scenes)
-3rd Track: Isolated Pink Floyd sync with Obscured by Clouds
-Kickass DVD menu that does the film justice
-(this is a maybe) Isolated orchestral track using the grammaphone recordings from the film and some orchestral replacements for the Wendy Carlos stuff

The Shining

-1st Track: Theatrical Presentation of the film
-2nd Track: (now this is cool!) Isolated throwaway Wendy Carlos cues that totally kick ass!. There’s more on volume 2!
-3rd Track: Isolated Syd Barret sync with Opel
-Kickass DVD menu that does the film justice

Okay so that’s the set, and it’s up for changes or additions, but I’m trying to keep it audiophile focused. There is the obvious problem with all of the DVD transfers for these films kinda sucking, but with the release of Kubrick films on HD-DVD coming in September, these are more or less of a holdover–or maybe I’ll wait until the dvds get released and use the HD as my video source. I’m not sure…Nah I can’t wait, I’ll do them now.

I have about 150 bucks coming my way in a couple days because I won a one minute film contest–I expected to win $5000 so I could buy everything I needed on my own. I guess films about eggs with faces like in Thumb Wars are better than THE MASKED GUITARIST–anyway I’ll be spending my 150 on a new harddrive and a dual layer disc burner, so I need help getting the following CDs:

Wendy Carlos - ACO Complete original score
Wendy Carlos - Rediscovering Lost Scenes vol1 <span class=“Bold”>received</span>
Wendy Carlos - Rediscovering Lost Scenes vol2 <span class=“Bold”>received</span>
Wendy Carlos - Tales of Heaven and Hell or Switched on Bach
ST - ACO soundtrack
Quality orchestral recordings of Wendy Carlos’ work in ACO
Alex North - 2001: A Space Odyssey original score (there’s an issue with the fact that there’s only music up to the intermission)
Syd Barret - Opel <span class=“Bold”>received</span>
Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds <span class=“Bold”>received</span>

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g40/DledRhapsody/2001display.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g40/DledRhapsody/acovinyldisplay.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g40/DledRhapsody/shiningvinyldisplay.jpg

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g40/DledRhapsody/3packdisplay.jpg

All audio will be encoded or reencoded according to its original form. 2001 and ACO will be converted from 5.1 to stereo, the Shining will be mono in two channels, The Shining will also be cropped to its original 16:9 theatrical exhibition. The DVD transfer for 2001 is God awful and if anyone who could volunteer to punch up the footage with some color correction and some sharpening want to help they are welcome to join the project.

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#209366
Topic
Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/209366/action/topic#209366
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I don't know if you've already gone too far for this, or if you've already decided to do this, but something always bothered me about episodes 2 and 3--the fact that lightsabers just slice through things like they were butter. Of course that's what a real lightsaber probably does, but in episode 1 (my favorite one of the PT now after going through them all objectively) when a lightsaber hits something, it's not so much of a slice as much as it is a smack! And it's very satisfying--check out the first few scenes when they're slicing up the battle droids to see what I mean. It makes it seem like it's harder to use a lightsaber rather than in the other two prequels where you can swing the thing around willy nilly and do just fine.

Anyway, just a thing I was gonna do if I ever reedited the films

Oh! btw--sweet Palpatine sequence, the idea that he was fried with his own lightening doesn't seem as gay a premise the way that's edited!
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#207157
Topic
.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/207157/action/topic#207157
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I was just messin around--I like your work on Empire and Jedi--and Classic Edition was good too, you got a little drunk or something is all and I decided to be an asshole too.

I just finished the SATs and was gonna come back with like: Isomix is to video noise as Classic Edition is to pixelated. Then I was gonna replace my "cup of shut the fuck up" picture with a still of the blue milk from the cantina to make it Star Wars themed.

I guess we all just hope that the XO will be done before September so we have something to watch before we get our DVDs and all our wildest dreams come true and they give us like all our wildest dream options and wildest dream quality and suddenly reveal SuperPCM audio--a technology developed by Dave Bowman after he became the Star Child in 2001 and disappeard for five years.

Well anyway that's why I'm still supporting it--plus I wanted to maybe coax these guys in helping me with a project that would require a good laserdisc transfer--the movie I had in mind though is gonna get an HD from Warner Bros in September too.
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#206941
Topic
FAN EDIT REQUEST THREAD - Post your dream Fan Edits Here!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206941/action/topic#206941
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I heard from some reviewers online for the 2001: SpaceOdyssey DVD that the film-to-dvd transfer wasn't very well done, and they were more impressed with the Laserdisc transfer that came out before. I looked the DVD over again--the scenes at the space station seemed a little blurry--Some Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite star fields didn't show up as much as I thought they were meant to (can't be sure, haven't seen anything, but the DVD). In the pan up just before the star gate, the star field doesn't show at all, then suddenly grows in brightness--like we're supposed to appreciate it just before it disappears after the star gate begins to open.

I figured one day getting together a project to capture the laserdisc transfer and put that on DVD--(with the alternate Alex North score that was mentioned) and giving the film a more impressive DVD menu than what was released. Thing of it is I don't have a means of capturing it...XO guys wanna collaborate?
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#206181
Topic
FAN EDIT REQUEST THREAD - Post your dream Fan Edits Here!
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206181/action/topic#206181
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Originally posted by: FanFiltration
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:BD5jsfEQv6MqPM:http://www.totaldvd.net/features/discs/images/2001072001_3.jpg

In the "Isolated Score Tracks - Your Wishlists" thread, I was joking about someone making an isolated score track for "2001: A Space Odyssey". Yes, it would be pointless (that's the joke).

Now today I was thinking how kewl it would be if someone would make a new version of this film using the original Alex North score as recorded by Jerry Goldsmith as one of the audio tracks. There can be two audio tracks one with the original versions music and another with North's score.

Anyone?

FF




Hey that was my idea!
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#206158
Topic
ORIGINAL STAR WARS TRILOGY OUT 09/2006 BY LUCASFILM
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/206158/action/topic#206158
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You know we'll always have fan edits of the originals. We can put isolated scores into these things ourselves if Lucasfilm doesn't, we would just have a really kickass source material this time (Oh, but does that count as piracy now?). We can always have different versions; consider the debate (well it isn't really a debate, more of a structured discussion) about the sunset's colour over at the XO project.

I don't know, it finally feels like we won't lose the original trilogy. I mean everyone suspected that as soon as the money dried out that this would finally happen, but I really thought Lucas was seriously dedicated to his art--"his art" now being the 2004 DVDs. I might suspect him of being a greedy corporate hog like a lot of other people are, but considering the fact he's including both "his" version and the version the "people" want. Maybe he's compromising.
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#203536
Topic
STAR WARS - Enhanced HD &amp; O-OT HD Packs... some suggestions...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203536/action/topic#203536
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Nobody actually believes George "intended" the fight between Obiwan and Vader to be less "intense" than the other lightsaber duals do they? He is the absolute biggest bullshitter when it comes to some of these claims he makes about his artistic intentions!

"I intended for the colors to be oversaturated in the 04 dvd release because I wanted to give the film a gritty feeling" "I intended for Temura Morrison's voice-over to be suckier than the original Boba Fett's lines because I wanted to show the lack of passion he has because he is only driven by money" "I intended for the cinematography in the PT to be so lame and jump around like a flying cameraman had ants in his pants, but not in the originals because the originals are more subdued because things are in chaos" "I intended the orange blur under the speeder in mos eisley to be the force holding it up"

Okay, so I didn't actually remember any claims he made, but I remember thinking for all of them "You just didn't have money, you jerk!" or "It was the 80s, dude, you're not fooling anybody!"