Rikter

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Post: #54545
Topic: Info: OT Bootleg DVDs
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54545/action/topic#54545
Time: 10-Jul-2004 3:49 AM

Originally posted by: The Dean of Don Mills
This question/request goes out to anyone working on new transfers of the OT for upcoming dual layer DVDs. Would it be possible to restore C-3PO's bit of dialogue from Star Wars: "The tractor beam is coupled to the main reactor in seven locations. A power loss at one of the terminals will allow the ship to leave."? It is available on an earlier laserdisc edition which has been mentioned often in this forum. And would be a most welcome addition to the Definitive Collection transfer.

I'm on this this weekend!

So we'll see how that turns out...................

Post: #54546
Topic: Have the 'one last time' 1995 Laser Discs been converted to DVD?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54546/action/topic#54546
Time: 9-Jul-2004 9:59 PM

Count me in on that one....

Post: #54544
Topic: A Cover for the 7 DVD Set?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54544/action/topic#54544
Time: 9-Jul-2004 9:43 PM

Soon young Padawan.........

Post: #54499
Topic: Info: OT Bootleg DVDs
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54499/action/topic#54499
Time: 9-Jul-2004 10:07 AM

Originally posted by: PoisonDan
And now for something completely different...

Does anybody of you know if there are any Dutch subtitles available for these DVDs? (TR47 or anamorphic pre-SE set)

Or has anybody of you already created subtitles for them?

I don't really need them myself, but I'd like to share the movies with friends and family, and some of them will need Dutch subtitles.

Any pointers or tips would be appreciated (you can PM me if you don't want to post about it on the forum).

Hey bud - Check out this site - IF you do this let me know, I would try it for you but I don't speak Dutch

Post: #54496
Topic: Info: OT Bootleg DVDs
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54496/action/topic#54496
Time: 9-Jul-2004 3:01 AM

Originally posted by: RowMan
Rik,

From what I can see, there is no welding footage missing from the TR47 ESB. There is just a 3 second black space right before it due to the side change of the laserdisc. Wouldn't it be easier to just edit the VOB of the TR47 disc to exclude the black space?

MAN I'm so sorry I really ment this scene

This laserdisc edition does contain C-3PO's dialogue in the Death Star control room ("The tractor beam is coupled to the main reactor in seven locations. A power loss at one of the terminals will allow the ship to leave.").

I could just add it to the TR47 set - but my brother just got some heavy duty HTPC video capture going on now with some 4:4:4 hoobie doobie stuff that's all Huttese to me

, He's amped to try - so we'll see what transpires.

RiK

Post: #54469
Topic: Have the 'one last time' 1995 Laser Discs been converted to DVD?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54469/action/topic#54469
Time: 8-Jul-2004 3:37 PM

The Faces set and the Definitive Collection use the exact same master for the both of the sets - you can get this info from - here and here also

THE WIDESCREEN EDITION details -

• RELEASE DATE: 1989
• STUDIO: CBS/FOX
• RELEASE FORMAT: Laserdisc
• COMMENTS: The first domestic letterboxed (2.35:1) edition
• OTHER COMMENTS: This laserdisc edition does contain C-3PO's dialogue in the Death Star control room ("The tractor beam is coupled to the main reactor in seven locations. A power loss at one of the terminals will allow the ship to leave."). The film is spread over 3 sides of 2 Extended-Play CLV discs and is housed in a gatefold jacket

THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION details -

• RELEASE DATE: 1993
• STUDIO: Fox Video
• RELEASE FORMAT: THX Certified Laserdisc
• COMMENTS: Mammoth 9-CAV disc (SRP $250) remastered Trilogy "Definitive Collection" with tons and tons of extras, audio commentaries, trailers, interviews, storyboards, The Creative Impulse hardcover book and more!
• TECHNICAL COMMENTS: New THX digital picture and sound remasters; letterbox (2.35:1)
• OTHER COMMENTS: The new sound mix created for this edition (supervised by Ben Burtt) is once again missing C3PO's "tractor beam" dialogue

THE FACES SET details -

• RELEASE DATE: 1995
• STUDIO: Fox Video
• RELEASE FORMAT: THX Certified Laserdisc
• COMMENTS: New previews; interview with Leonard Maltin and George Lucas; "The last chance to own the original version of Star Wars"
• TECHNICAL COMMENTS: New THX digital picture and sound remasters; letterbox (2.35:1)
• OTHER COMMENTS: Uses the same letterbox transfer as the CAV Definitive Collection, only presented on 2 CLV discs (gatefold jacket)

I hope this helps!

RiK

Post: #54424
Topic: Info: OT Bootleg DVDs
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54424/action/topic#54424
Time: 8-Jul-2004 5:04 AM

Originally posted by: Patrick R.

Originally posted by: RATLSNAKE
That would be awesome dude, if you uploaded the missing footage in AVI. Although based on my video editing knowledge, if were were to uncompress the relevant VOB file, add-in the missing footage, then re-export it as an AVI, and then re-encode as a VOB, wouldn't that cause that entire VOB to be "more comnpressed" and hence less video quality thatn before. I may be wrong so that's why I am asking.

I don't suppose you could create a tutorial for the entire process. I'm pretty good at video editing, but I've never done anything as far as encoding to burn as a DVD-Video, or encoding Dolby Digital sound tracks.

RATLSNAKE

I'm not sure about being more compressed. I've never done this before, so there is a good chance that it could be. The best thing to happen would be for the person who created the original torrents to take the footage and add it in to their raw captured AVI files and reencode ESB. I have no way of contacting them, but I am hoping that they can do that or that someone with more knowledge than me could accomplish the edit properly and repost the corrected torrent.

I wish I could create a guide, but I have never done this before. I do know that something like DVtoAVI or whatever it is called would need to be used to convert the VOB back to an AVI. I just don't know about the commentary track. I'm still trying to figure out exactly how they added that and synced it up to the video. I didn't have any problem with mine because I only did the regular PCM track. I guess they had to capture each movie twice and save the wav file from each audio track. Beyond that, I'm not sure what they did unless there is some way you can have two audio tracks in Virtual Dub.

Patrick

I just got the WIDESCREEN EDITION Laserdisc with the leia footage - I'm planning in capturing it this weekend as a DV then I'll be re-encoding the video. It will be done as a REPLACEMENT to the TR47 Disc (at least in my set!)

About video - YOU can edit the raw VOB or the extracted MPEG2 file with the right software. I will be editing mine to cut ALL the side changes I will be capturing each side as a individual capture then edit out and dead spots before I merge the MPEG2. GIVE me about week and I will have a new STAR WARS: a new hope. (ALSO I will be capturing both with S-VIDEO and Composite video to see which one has less "red dot crawl" < right?

Anyway BEST of luck!

As for torrents you need to have a announce url (the host of the torrent) before you can upload the torrent

Post: #54399
Topic: STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54399/action/topic#54399
Time: 7-Jul-2004 9:06 PM

I will be hosting the Magnoliafan Edits as torrents within the next month -

I won't be able to post them for at least a month or so - I'm working on a project with my brother (he's a DJ) in CO (I help produce his music + we have some joint projects) so we're working on a CD now and we pass files back and forth over the net

WORD!

Post: #54397
Topic: Star Wars - The Edits and DVDr releases thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54397/action/topic#54397
Time: 7-Jul-2004 8:56 PM

MagnoliaFan - WOW, That's SO cool that you joined the forum!!

Any chance we can get this DVD of the PRE-A New Hope??

RiK

Post: #54396
Topic: Holiday Special
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54396/action/topic#54396
Time: 7-Jul-2004 2:53 PM

IF you have my Holiday Special - You'd want to have my cover as it matches the actual content of the DVD

PM me and we can talk + IF you did donwload the Holiday Special OR got it from one of us here - the DVD should have a DVD-rom folder with the correct cover

RiK

Post: #54298
Topic: Star Wars DVD Covers
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54298/action/topic#54298
Time: 6-Jul-2004 3:15 AM

Originally posted by: TR47
Try www.thefreesite.com
They have many good, free webspace providers listed.

TR47 is on it! - I would also suggest that link

I use my personal site for it - IF your email allows large transfers 5mb+ I will host them until you find another host

PM me

AND..........
Can I add them to my Covers collection? - I'm gonna get a stack of CD's soon and offer up free CD's for everyone of the covers and such

Post: #54290
Topic: Star Wars - The Edits and DVDr releases thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54290/action/topic#54290
Time: 5-Jul-2004 11:10 PM

Originally posted by: ricarleite
Cool, quite tempting... Unfortunally it would cost me a fortune to ship these things to where I live, and I'm a little bit unsure when buying DVDr, not sure it would work on my DVD set (works fine on my computer, but I want to watch it on my TV).

ricarleite,

Where are you located? - I will send you a DVDr free of any charges (via airmail) to see if you can play them on you DVD player

Email me your info!

sweyland -

Thanks for the awesome reviews!!

Post: #54275
Topic: Star Wars - The Edits and DVDr releases thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54275/action/topic#54275
Time: 5-Jul-2004 7:54 PM

The rumor started back in 1999 with the FIRST PHANTOM Edit 1.1 - My friend and I both saw a post on some newsgroup when the Edit first surfaced - One of the sources of the KS rumor, another source, more and yet again more and NOT related to Kevin Smith AT ALL - the Phantom Editor even put up his own site I found the link here back in 2001

- there was later some talk on the old Phantom Menace Yahoo and AOL Chats that someone was gonna edit the new DVD of the Phantom Edit - THIS is where I heard about the MagnoliaFan87 Edits then a few days later I found the Phantom Edit Forum and more talk about this Magnoliafan - Episode I: Balance of the Force - Edit - BACK to the AOL chats some said it was Kevin Smith (again) that did it.

SO it seems it's just "Internet" hype/rumors - but who really knows BESIDES all the real Editors themselves, respectively.

Dude I'm such a geek

- Word

Post: #54237
Topic: Star Wars - The Edits and DVDr releases thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54237/action/topic#54237
Time: 5-Jul-2004 4:03 AM

Thanks for the pic!

Mine is NOT the same DVD9 to DVD5 - I think that they are LOOK DVD's - as they came with the same style DVD cover, start with the same dolby digital trailer and have the same subtitles - this set has been around almost as long as the Second LOOK (no burned in subs) set also.

Here's a picture of the menu -

http://home.comcast.net/~newmexicoufo/menu_SE.jpg

Post: #54236
Topic: Printing Star Wars DVD covers
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54236/action/topic#54236
Time: 4-Jul-2004 9:36 PM

I would just burn the JPG's to a CD - At the shop let them know that you would like the print size to be - width 10.8 X height 7.293 @300 dpi.
AND Yes when printed on a bad-a$$ laser printer (like the Fiery XJ) the DVD cover look G-R-E-A-T! VERY real and VERY Professional!

Here is the specs on the cover sizes

All keepcases use the same size cover for the front and back 'the face' (1535 x 2188 pixels), the only thing that changes is the spine width.

COVER SIZES + SPINE SIZE

single: 3240 x 2188 pixels (spine: 170 pixels)

double: 3305 x 2188 pixels (spine: 235 pixels)

triple (slim): 3384 x 2188 pixels (spine 314 pixels)

4/5 disc: 3508 x 2188 pixels (spine: 438 pixels)

6/7 disc: 3661 x 2188 pixels (spine: 591 pixels)

ThinPak single: 3150 x 2188 pixels (spine: 80 pixels)

ThinPak double: 3172 x 2188 pixels (spine: 122 pixels)

CENTER MARKS

full size = 1535 x 2188 pixels
Vertical quarter mark = 547 pixels
Vertical center mark = 767.5 pixels
Vertical 3 quarter mark = 1641 pixels
horizontal center mark = 1094 pixels

Post: #54198
Topic: Star Wars - The Edits and DVDr releases thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54198/action/topic#54198
Time: 4-Jul-2004 6:41 AM

Originally posted by: RowMan
My TR47 Jedi does not repeat the scene, but I know that Empire always had the few seconds of black before the Leia/ Han scene in the Falcon. It's during the laserdisc side change.

Rowman - could I get a copy of your Jedi disc?

PM me please

Also..........

Does anyone here have the 5-Star Set + IF so can I get a screen capture of the menus so I can compare my SE set with them.

ME THINKS my set may be a DVD9 to DVD5 conversion.....

Post: #54197
Topic: Star Wars DVD Covers
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54197/action/topic#54197
Time: 4-Jul-2004 4:03 AM

Originally posted by: The Dean of Don Mills
Rikter,

I really like your stuff! I was wondering if you'd be able to post the full size source file of "sparkly Vader". I'd very much like to incorporate it into the set of covers I'm currently working on. And thanks for posting the "Revenge" pic as well. I'll make my set available as soon as they're done. Probably next week.

Cheers,
The Dean

Done buddy

Here it is - I will pull it down soon so grab it

Originally posted by: Zutroy
Can you re-post your Photoshop .psd template file? There was a link in another post, but it doesn't work.

And a donner oneer for yoosa......
Blaksvn DVD cover Template 300DPI

Ner ner na nah nert nert........

Post: #54175
Topic: Star Wars - The Edits and DVDr releases thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54175/action/topic#54175
Time: 3-Jul-2004 5:17 PM

Originally posted by: dx3
The initial list that started this thread doesn't include the 5-star SE DVDr's, or the 7 DVDr version of the "Definitive Collection" LDs.

PLEASE feel free to write reviews for them and I will post them in the next update!!

Please include stuff like Audio,Subtitles and errors

Post: #54186
Topic: The Original Trilogy - Laser Disc Conversion Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54186/action/topic#54186
Time: 3-Jul-2004 2:44 PM

Quote
Originally posted by: Obi-Wan Spicoli
Like I said above, I would like to have a transfer from the '89 LD. I'm not yet equipped for capturing or I would do it myself. I do feel, however, that this would appeal to only a small group of Star Wars uber-geeks and historians like myself who revel in the slightest nuances in sound.

Scott

Who do you think reads and posts in this forum

Word
- the king geek, RiK

Post: #54185
Topic: Idea: Preserving the 1997 Special Editions of the Star Wars Original Trilogy on DVD-R
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54185/action/topic#54185
Time: 3-Jul-2004 2:40 PM

Quote
Originally posted by: Klingon_Jedi
I currently only have the 1992 PS set. I also taped ESB and ROTJ in widescreen off the Sci Fi channel. Mr. Coffee, I sypathize with you. I've long had a problem with digital things that I've only recently gotten over. Basically one to many asses rubbing the format into my face, coupled with having no problem with video outside of lack of widescreen. Also, tapes just survive better in my hand than easily-scratchable discs. I hated being forced into the formats, but widescreen and anime has made it a moot point.

As for preserving the SE, I've never liked it since ROTJ was in theatres. However, since the whole point of this site is preserving the version we love most, it seems natural to preserve the SE for those who, for some reason or another, prefer it.

I understand how you feel my Dad and Brother both have moved into the High Definition format including the D-VHS format - BTW he has captured my LD's with his JVC S-VHS Recorder DH30000 - THE D-VHS versions look almost like the actual laserdisc - better then either set (IF you want it to look just like the LD) as far as overall quality - BUT you need a D-VHS to play them and the blank tapes cost $20 EACH

SO yes a VHS (well a Digital-VHS

) can really look better than an CAPTURED, FILTER and ENCODED DVDr version

Post: #54176
Topic: The Original Trilogy - Laser Disc Conversion Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54176/action/topic#54176
Time: 3-Jul-2004 11:27 AM

Should I capture this laserdisc and add it to the collection?

STAR WARS: The Special Widescreen Edition
• RELEASE DATE: 1989
• STUDIO: CBS/FOX
• RELEASE FORMAT: Laserdisc
• COMMENTS: The first domestic letterboxed (2.35:1) edition
• OTHER COMMENTS: This laserdisc edition does contain C-3PO's dialogue in the Death Star control room ("The tractor beam is coupled to the main reactor in seven locations. A power loss at one of the terminals will allow the ship to leave."). The film is spread over 3 sides of 2 Extended-Play CLV discs and is housed in a gatefold jacket

LMK!

Post: #54148
Topic: Star Wars - The Edits and DVDr releases thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54148/action/topic#54148
Time: 3-Jul-2004 10:24 AM

NEW UPDATED TR47 set info

This disc MAY have some errors on it - I need to verify if it's the MASTER copy or my copy - Can anyone check their discs for me??

1 - On ESB: Is it meant to be 3 seconds of complete blackness before Leias welding scene [need time marker]
2 - On RotJ: The scene where Leia and Wickett meets for the first time and the stormtroopers shoots at them, the scene is repeated for a few seconds right when the first stormtrooper shoots from the forrest.[need time marker]

reported by - Christoffer edited for content

Post: #54147
Topic: Star Wars DVD Covers
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54147/action/topic#54147
Time: 3-Jul-2004 10:14 AM

NEW COVER UP!!!!

Post: #54146
Topic: Star Wars - The Edits and DVDr releases thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54146/action/topic#54146
Time: 3-Jul-2004 10:02 AM

It's a great transfer - it's sourced from the DVD - really good guality and yes it is Anamorphic widescreen if anyone what's a sceen capture LMK!

No man this thing is SMOOTH real nice cuts and Dolby Digital audio - NOT the best mix (turn down all the rear surrond channels as they are loud) but VERY good - real clean swips and I only noticed a few scene changes.

RiK

Post: #54140
Topic: Info: OT Bootleg DVDs
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54140/action/topic#54140
Time: 3-Jul-2004 6:49 AM

Hello everbody!

I just had a HUGE update to my STAR WARS: PRESERVATION The DVDr collection - if your interested in a new list (it's a word doc.) of my titles PLEASE email me at rikter_blaksvn@yahoo.com

I will give all the details via email -

Here's a sample of the new titles

- Star Wars: Episode I - Balance of the Force - A Phantom Edit
MagnoliaFan Edition

- Star Wars: Episode II - The Clone War - A Phantom Edit
MagnoliaFan Edition

- Star Wars: The Making of Star Wars - 1977

- Star Wars: Vintage Toy Commercials - 1977/1995

- Star Wars: SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back - 1983