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#304610
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Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/304610/action/topic#304610
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Don't worry about sending out a rough cut to people. That wouldn't be a good idea. The best way to keep interest in a project is to do like Adywan, little video surprises every now and then. This keeps up appearances that work is being done on the project, even though the actual work you should be doing is getting delayed (this actually reflects my situation, dunno about ady). In my Vintage Edit thread, I posted that clip of the color pass filter work after about ten seconds of fiddling with it, looks crappy compared to the polished shots I got going, but it was a great way to show I was actually still working and not letting the project drift into "vaporware" territory (looking at you, X0). I also posted screen-shots of my attempt at creating the original crawl using the GOUT, and explained the method. I might suggest a new trailer or something. These usually take maybe a few hours or so and give a great preview of how things are going.

All this talk of film and high school futures makes me want to start applying to USC again. You know the final freshman deadline is January 10th, God help you if you wanted to apply to the film school, that was December 10th. I can see the passion for film and music. I knew a guy who got his foot in the door, then came back because LA is so crappy. When you move down there to try and get in to the 'biz, don't let the crappiness of the people let you down. That's kinda what's been turning me off to a job in film lately... Anyway I hope you stick around the forums for a long time, just in case you make the big leagues and can hook us all up with some phatty connections. Anyone else up for an unlicensed complete Star Wars prequels remake? An OT.com production, mang!

Oh yeah, and remember to tie in your work on Attack of the Clones with your college essay or personal statements. I know I will, throw some nerdy obscure video editing terms their way, then just keep bringing it back to the same punch-line: "I gotta quit being such a nerd"
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#304573
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Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/304573/action/topic#304573
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http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g40/DledRhapsody/starwarspriv.jpg

Aight the drawing style on the covers of the "Empire" series look exactly right, just the right amount of detail, but I can't find a lot of screen-shots pertinent to ANH. Here's the one that's looking good, still looking a I suppose. Also followed the GTA 'stories' series cover and it is definitely looking way better than the GTA3 squareness.

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g40/DledRhapsody/empirestrikesback_priv.jpg

And of course here's where Empire is going The text on the back is all the same, just a different color, because I haven't dug out my old VHS to get the old school 80s plot synopsis for Empire yet.
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#304192
Topic
Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/304192/action/topic#304192
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Oooo. Good idea using the comic book adaptations for the front. Did Dark Horse do stuff for the OT? I was actually modeling the cover after the GTA III front, which is a bit more strict with the boxes than other versions like Liberty City Stories, Vice City, etc. Looking again at the cover, the boxes do have a little more uneven quality than I first thought. Probably better to keep with the later, uneven designs anyway. Will keep posted on it.
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#304132
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Star Wars - The Vintage Edit (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/304132/action/topic#304132
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I thought I just drop in some shots of the recreated crawl I'm working on. It was proven by the most scrupulous of nerds that the GOUT original crawl is, in fact, the original 1977 crawl and not a digital recreation. Given that, I took a screen of the blank HD star-field from the broadcast source, put the GOUT crawl over the starfield, luma-keyed out the black space on the GOUT, chroma-keyed out the white stars, and boosted the red and green on the remaining matte to give that yellow/golden color we're all used to. The Star Wars logo you see receding in the back is from the Spanish language angle on the 2004 DVD, which does recede at the correct speed. The results I'm getting are pretty good, though in motion stair-casing develops as the matte starts to recede into the back, and I should probably try to bring out more stars in the back, but overall good progress.

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g40/DledRhapsody/Crawl1.jpg

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g40/DledRhapsody/Crawl2.jpg

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g40/DledRhapsody/Crawl3.jpg

Well most of the shots are done before and after the Death Star sequence. Battle of Yavin is done, Tatooine, Tantive, Mos Eisley, and most all the other sequences are done. I've even done some cool things with the Alderaan/Death Star explosions, luma-keying and chroma keying out the space from the GOUT, leaving just a matte of the explosion that I put on the HD star-fields which hopefully will look rather nice. I need to carefully run through and manually color correct this thing still (getting better and better at this).

Right now I'm just wondering how many sound-mix projects have been synced to the GOUT. I edited my project to sync frame by frame to the GOUT, so I'm looking for every audio mix I can shove onto the disc. Does anyone know a comprehensive list? I know the wonderful restored mono mix syncs to the GOUT, and the several projects that have come from both Belbucus and Molly (though where these may be obtainethed is a mystery ). If anyone knows/has, it'd be a great help.
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#304131
Topic
Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/304131/action/topic#304131
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Work in progress (excuse the two typos on the back):

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g40/DledRhapsody/starwarspreview.jpg

After the...controversy over at fanedit.org in the November 2007 Fanedit Cover Contest thread, I for some reason felt that Star Wars would make a good GTA cover. I reworked my design, took some helpful (yet agreeably spiteful ) advice and put together a much better GTA style template. I was wondering if anyone wanted to suggest some screen-shots for the front and back. I had some ideas, but I felt a collaboration would be much more effective. Because the design mimics the GTA III cover style, the screens on the front will be tinted certain shades, and run through some filters to try and get a cartoon-like appearance. The main things I'm thinking of are:

-Characters in bad-ass poses (Han Solo before he shoots Greedo, Boba Fett in Empire standing outside the Slave I (of course saved for the Empire cover), etc.)
-Action shots (people holding guns up and shooting them, explosions, things firing; like ion cannons or ship lasers, etc)
-Cars (the only thing I can think of here is the low-rider-looking hovercraft that passes in front of the camera in the shot after the group enters Mos Eisley, OT version of course)

I don't know, if anyone is inspired and wants to help fill the blank space, I'd love to hear some suggestions.
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#302847
Topic
Star Wars: Classic Edition 2.0 NEW from Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/302847/action/topic#302847
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Originally posted by: JediTemple70mmOkay where can I buy one of these versions from?


If you do, then piracy is afoot. You can contact OCP and pay him 10 bucks for it, reason for him getting kicked off the forums I believe. Or I suppose someone here can send you a copy. I know I'd just ask for a self addressed and stamped envelope and burn you a copy for free.
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#300624
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It's going to take a LONG time for Womble to re-encode WookieGroomer's HD Transfers, isn't it? [Plus a GOUT Question]
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300624/action/topic#300624
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Check the screen-shot comparison thread

Don't use the first screen-shot as a reference for the 06's quality over any other transfers, as that was clearly sourced from some original film stock. But check out other shots and see how you feel. I think you'll see what Moth3r means about the quality kinda varying in different aspects. But overall I'd say go with 06. Unless you want to get each and every transfer there to reap the benefits each different one can offer shot to shot.

If you computer crashes this week you're fucked. Just stop encoding now and save some time. If you want to go check out the avisynth frameserver program, that'd be a great way to make a very small file that just sources the video from your HD source. I'm pretty sure Womble takes avisynth files too. In fact I can think of the script now.
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#299750
Topic
Steven Colbert Running for President!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299750/action/topic#299750
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Originally posted by: Tiptup
I don't know. Maybe it's because I don't like O'Reilly, but I find Colbert's routine rather funny myself. O'Reilly's a jackass. And then he tried to title himself our cultural warrior. Uhg.


Is their even a culture war?


GOD DAMMIT SEAN WOOKIE!!! Sorry but it's the same word I had to say something again!
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#299525
Topic
Star Wars - The Vintage Edit (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299525/action/topic#299525
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You're right, it's about time for an update.

Well just to get it out of the way, I need more ram. I'm not asking for contributions (with my history of vapor-ware projects how dare I?), I can afford it just fine--I just need to do some shopping at newegg. I'm going to toss another two gigs into my computer. A dual core processor with three gigs of ram should handle 1080i playback in Premiere Pro just fine. It's awfully disheartening now to wait the whole of about three to four seconds to find out this is not the exact frame I wanted to look at, you know?

The big update. I sort of started over on a completely new time-line. I decided that if the final product was going to be 480p, then I'm really just wasting time working with a slow 1080i file, so I've decided the first and foremost release is a 720p mp4 compressed to DVD-9 size (don't worry it'll look great), and then an approximately two to three gig sized 720p mp4 optimized for playback on the Xbox 360. The h.264 codec is just too pretty to pass up this kind of opportunity to see the original Star Wars in HD. I'll probably also put out a 480p, mpeg2 encoded DVD. But the thing to watch out for is the 720p file.

Other update, I've made sure this time that this edit will be in complete sync with the GOUT. This means that any audio mix that has been or can be synced to the GOUT, can be synced to this edit (with the mp4, you can use media player classic to do the dubbing and watch whatever GOUT synced mix you want in high definition). I ran a test file, and until the video started blinking for no apparent reason, I was having the time of my life watching the original Star Wars color corrected, in high def, with the restored mono mix

Has anyone who's done any fanediting ever run into that problem where you encode a file, only to find an extra frame from a cut shot appear out of nowhere, flashing on screen after the cut you've made? Usually I would just cut back the shot by a couple more frames than the actual end of the shot, but these edits have to be frame accurate, since I'm syncing to the GOUT. Well I'm just trying to find a solution . I'm sure I can do a lot more experimenting when my comp is running a little faster.

Alright that's the size of things right now. For anybody disheartened at all by the slow-mo of this project, there is another member of the forums who recently announced a preservation attempt, one of which he has put more than a year's work into, and evidently is almost done (would be rude to name names). So with my focus shifting to an HD release, I'm hoping he'll come forward more publicly soon with a great 480p preservation.
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#299501
Topic
Steven Colbert Running for President!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299501/action/topic#299501
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Originally posted by: ferris209
Originally posted by: sean wookie
Originally posted by: ferris209
Anyone who faces evil in the eye and or loses a loved one to these sickos, knows the death penalty is necessary and essential.


But what if their innocent (question mark) my fucking keyboard is screwed up.


If they are innocent then they would not be put to death. Simple.


musn't....go...off...topic logical fallacy...is so egregiously assumed...but either way...can't stand....fact that...ferris...should have spelled it..."they're" ...

He is self described as being a democrat, and he describes the conservative right as...aww I can't remember, but he basically was saying there's some good people there, and some real bad people too. The thing I'd like about him is that he isn't a political idealogue. Nobody is stupid enough (scratch that)--Most people understand his comedy and wouldn't be surprised if democratic policies started coming out of his mouth. But when we elect Colbert, we elect the man, but we also elect his character. So when he talks about national health care for all citizens or something, he has to find a way to make it happen and be begrudgingly defeated over it.
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#299296
Topic
Steven Colbert Running for President!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/299296/action/topic#299296
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He's definitely my president. I think there are more pros than there are cons to his actually winning the election. If things go too far and he ends up getting into office on accident, a strong cabinet and vice president at his side could do the country a great favor at this stage. I mean a president's main job to lead the people, and Colbert definitely has the ear of a lot of people (the people with a sense of humor at least). His charisma could help rebuild our relationship with the rest of the world, his inaugural speeches would be funny as hell, and the man himself obviously has his own well-informed opinions assembled from years of being on a political themed fake news program and from his time interviewing a variety of political themed guests on his talk show.

At least we can finally get a break from the psychos running for the republican primary and the ass-kissing chicken feast the democratic debates have become.