I’m creating a separate thread for this project just to make it easier to index and reference. The original info on this project comes from the Theater Performance Preservation thread (http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Theater-Performance-Preservations/topic/12161/) “originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Theater-Performance-Preservations/topic/12161/)”)
Image:
720x576 PAL format.
Bitrate: 4.56 Mbps (Average), 2-pass encoding
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 (Dual Mono) 48000 Hz, 128 kbit/s
_When members of the OT forum contacted me regarding a similar tape I have of The Empire Strikes Back, I offered to make a DVD duplicate of Return of the Jedi as well.
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_The Betamax tape that was used for this transfer is a dub of a tape doing the rounds in Qatar in 1983. At the time, there was no pre-recorded video industry in the country, so duplicates were traded openly.
The tape is a camcorded copy from a UK screening. While the a/v quality is abysmal, it can serve as reference for subtitle placement for fan reconstructions of the original, theatrical presentation. Note that there are several instances of scenes being truncated. These parts were missing from this recording. (Forum member None found an NTSC bootleg from the exact same source, which had the missing shots, but was missing the first parts of the scroll which ARE present on my version.)
The transfer from Beta to MPEG2 was done with a Betamax machine hooked up to a commercial DVD/HD recorder. From there, the raw capture was trimmed using VideoReDo.
I have made no attempt to clean up the picture. All I’ve done is crop out the noise on the edges and centered the image. Instead of resizing I opted to leave the image slightly windowboxed.
DVD-ROM folder includes cover art, disc art and images of the original tape.
Menu, cover and disc art in Photoshop.
Cover image from the Marvel Comics Adaption.
Pre-credit scroll made in Windows Movie Maker.
DVD authored using TMPEGEnc DVD Author.
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