Zion

Thanks! I actually spent a long while trying to come up with something unique that wasn't too cheesy. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I probably should have color corrected the transition (since it came from the 2004 DVD) and added a second or two of slug at the end, but other than that I'm pretty happy with it.

I have no idea what their sales are like, but the Holiday Special is one of their highest-rated riffs according to their site, so I have to assume it's a good seller. I'm sure all their riffs of the Star Wars/Star Trek/Harry Potter/LOTR franchises are big sellers. I purchased all the Star Wars riffs even though I still have yet to watch TPM or ROTJ.  Having never seen Transformers 2 previously, I bought that riff and watched it that way for the first time, which was awesome. I may do one of the Twilight movies next. :p

My nfo points out that anyone intending to listen to the RiffTrax version should make a donation to RiffTrax.com and includes a link. That doesn't make it OK that I included it on the DVD, but I pay for all my RiffTrax stuff and I would hope that everyone else would do the same.

Woah, the French audio is hilarious.

Nice. Is the full DVD still floating around anywhere?

Any idea who the source was for those commercials balsho?

Nice updates SKot! Very interesting to read about the original story ideas. Sounds like they might have made some of the changes due to budget constraints.

It's 1 hour, and a very good doc by the way. Lots of Star Wars.

It's a Dish Network DVR and I know that they're encrypted so you can't swap the drive out and put it in your PC. With my previous Dish DVR, I was able to run a SATA cable from the drive to a USB adapter on my PC after the drive had already spun up inside the DVR, and that allowed me to use a special program for copying things over. It didn't really work for HD content though as it couldn't read anything that was MPEG4, which I'm pretty sure all Dish's HD is now.  I might give it a try though just to see if it's possible.

Mine's actually been finished for several months. I just never got around to posting it. I was supposed to give SKot a copy at Celebration V but we couldn't manage to hook up. When I realized that today was Life Day, I had to upload it.

Looking forward to seeing yours. :)

Well, if you're using those high quality versions of the commercials, you've already got an edge over mine. I didn't even notice those were posted on Usenet until I started uploading this.

I have it preserved on my DVR in HD. Not sure how to get it off though as it's not a TIVO.

Hi guys. Might want to check out a.b.starwars today. ;)

Happy Life Day!

none managed to track me down on Thursday, but I only had one copy of the DVD at the time since I hadn't had time to make more and couldn't give him one. All three of us had made plans to meet up later at the con, but it didn't happen for multiple reasons.

However, I did play my HS DVD at a party on Saturday night, for a group of people who were grumbling when I put it in. 10 minutes later they were all laughing their heads off at the RiffTrax.

So definitely follow 005's advice and donate a few bucks to the RiffTrax guys if you manage to get a copy of one of their riffs without paying.

If you are and you happen to find me, I'll be giving away copies of my never-before-seen Star Wars Holiday Special DVD to anyone who asks.  This is a beta version of a cleaned up and color-corrected version of the Holiday Special complete with RiffTrax commentary.

The best place to find me is at the FanForce/Jedi Council Forums booth in the Expo hall. I'll be the guy with the red hair answering to "Ben" or "that JC head admin guy". If I'm not there, you can ask them to text me.

I'd love to talk preservations or fan edits or just OT.com in general, so hit me up!

I believe that would be the newest KCCI version that Rikter released.

Love the screens Moth3r. It'll be interesting to see how the next version compares. I should probably note that my comment above about the RiffTrax version was in comparison to an earlier Angrysun release - not the KCCI like I had thought.

And yes, definitely donate a few bucks to the RiffTrax guys if you've happened upon a DVD with one of their commentaries. Those guys are awesome and they make some of these DVDs (especially this one) a bit more enjoyable.

I think that's the exact same monitor I have at work.

CDDB or freedb.org.

APE apparently has better compression, but FLAC is definitely more widely used and better supported. You probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference in sound quality, since they're both lossless formats.

Not that I've seen, though I've never really looked at third-party CC plugins for FCP. Why wouldn't you want to use Color?

Bingowings said:

Discussion forums are for reading and small text compressed into the centre of the screen doesn't necessarily lead to a better reading experience.

On the contrary, would you enjoy reading a book that was 3 feet wide and had small text?

Most people find it easier to read text that is contained in a smaller area than text that is spread out across a wide space because it's easier for your eyes to follow down to the next line.

sean wookie said:

Yeah, I think we should unban AWK because I miss the old forum drama.

My wrist is still sore from manually deleting all 5 gazillion of his spam threads, so hell no.

Just take a look at the recommended ones and pick the shot with the least amount of motion. That's what I usually do.

Orinoco_Womble said:

Damn that's interesting.

Are there any updates to this or any new discoveries that you can share please Zion?

I never got much farther with this, seeing as my experiment with the multiple captures returned less than stellar results.

I'd still really like to figure out a way to use Photoshop filters in After Effects though. That could open up some very nice possibilities I think.

If nothing else, the process I've outlined here could be great for creating high quality still frames from analog captures.

vbangle said:

Zion said:

That aside, it'd be a shame if the X0 captures never saw the light of day. I definitely want to release something, we'll have to decide in the near future exactly what.

Not to sound incredulous but have the past 3 months been enough time to decide? Zion you still with us?

 

Not sure if anyone here noticed, but I'm the head admin on the TFN forums now. I don't get over here as much as I'd like to anymore.

That's the gist of it I guess.

I haven't heard from Laserman in a couple years now (hope he's OK wherever he is), but I'd say the two shots he sent me that were cleaned up with the Black Magic workstation are probably the only ones that'll ever get done. Unless a similar workflow can be found using Matlab, I suppose.

From the ones I've seen, the current one circulating with the RiffTrax audio is the best quality.

Duuude. This is one of the most bizarre things I've ever watched. At the same time, I can't stop watching. Excellent work none!

One problem I noticed: when I mount the image file and try to play it in PowerDVD 9, it doesn't play the DVD correctly. It basically just plays the titles one by one. I haven't tried burning it and playing it in a real DVD player yet, but I just thought I'd point that out.