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Post: #320008
Topic: What was that cool website with all the rare photos?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/320008/action/topic#320008
Time: 6-Jun-2008 12:50 AM

Make sure Flash is up to date.

If that still doesn't work and you're on Firefox, try IE. There were certain parts I couldn't get to with FF that IE got into fine.

Post: #319939
Topic: Info Wanted: Your favorite DVD-based Fan Edit of Episode I?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319939/action/topic#319939
Time: 5-Jun-2008 11:14 AM

Got a list/links to each one? Maybe not everyone has seen all of them.

Post: #319777
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319777/action/topic#319777
Time: 3-Jun-2008 10:48 AM

Page 233, doubleofive's post

Post: #319729
Topic: An interview with Spielberg and Lucas, from a few weeks ago.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319729/action/topic#319729
Time: 2-Jun-2008 7:14 PM — Edited 2-Jun-2008 7:15 PM

zombie84 said:

I liked how Lucas says "people will hate the film because they just will, because that happened on the prequels" and then Spielberg says "George speak for yourself"--apparently, Lucas still doens't get that the prequels were criticised because they fucking sucked.

But that's Lucas' point - are the prequels really as bad as people say they are, or do people THINK they're bad because of all the build-up to what fans were expecting over the years?

With each series - SW or Indy - you've got 20 years of familiarity and maturity in between there. No matter how hard you try, you're not looking at the new film thru the same eyes or with the same attitude as you did the originals, so naturally you're going to be more critical of it.

I'm not saying the PT or Crystal Skull are flawless - sure they have their rough spots, But are those the fault of the film making process or is the audience just better at finding the faults than they were 20 years ago?

Post: #319705
Topic: STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319705/action/topic#319705
Time: 2-Jun-2008 1:04 PM — Edited 2-Jun-2008 1:05 PM

Maybe their monitors had a different contrast ratio so as far as they could tell, it was fixed, but when it got released and people turned the brightness up, the truth was revealed.

Post: #319600
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319600/action/topic#319600
Time: 1-Jun-2008 1:53 PM — Edited 1-Jun-2008 1:53 PM

That was Microsoft's shortsightedness and greediness. If they had made the HD drive the standard drive that came with the unit instead of making people pay extra for it, the HD format war might have gone the other way.

Post: #319512
Topic: STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319512/action/topic#319512
Time: 30-May-2008 6:56 PM

I posted this over in another thread in the Off Topic forum, but it seems to apply here too...

Something I've noticed over the years, with each release and re-release on VHS, LaserDisc, DVD, problems that were fixed on one release were broken on the next, or at best had a different fix applied. It's like every release started from scratch instead of building on the previous version.

The suspicious part of me says that this was on purpose. It manufactures a reason for the obsessive people to keep buying it over and over hoping to finally get the "perfect" version that never really arrives.

Post: #319501
Topic: Robert Harris Godfather Restoration WHY cannot lucas restore the oot ?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319501/action/topic#319501
Time: 30-May-2008 3:37 PM

Jay said:

Restoration usually implies that great care is taken during the process to ensure that the final product is of high quality. Instead, we got poor color timing, screwed up soundtracks, and a host of other problems due to a rush job.

Something I've noticed over the years, with each release and re-release on VHS, LaserDisc, DVD, problems that were fixed on one release were broken on the next, or at best had a different fix applied. It's like every release started from scratch instead of building on the previous version.

The suspicious part of me says that this was on purpose. It manufactures a reason for the obsessive people to keep buying it over and over hoping to finally get the "perfect" version that never really arrives.

Post: #319500
Topic: Goodbye, Gormaanda... Harvey Korman has died!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319500/action/topic#319500
Time: 30-May-2008 2:39 PM — Edited 30-May-2008 2:40 PM

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harvey+korman

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harvey+korman+star+wars

On The Carol Burnett Show, they had a constant running bet of not if Harvey would crack up during the skit but when he would crack up.

Post: #319381
Topic: Crystall Skull has GL's fingerprints all over it
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319381/action/topic#319381
Time: 29-May-2008 2:17 PM

zombie84 said:

Not only do you have to pay the huge electric bill to keep those millions of hard drives spinning, you have to have a guy checking and maintaining them, and because hard drives only have a lifespan of about 2 or 3 years, that means all 40 000 000 GB has to be back up almost bi-annually. Thats an enormous effort, not to mention a huge cost

No, hard drives only have to be powered up when they're being accessed. I don't leave my computer on 24/7 and all the data is still on my hard drive when I go back to it the next day. ;-)

Likewise, lifespan is relative to how much use the drive is getting. These things won't be live 100% of the time. It's an archive, not a "video on demand" system.

Also look at the physical space they take up. A stack of film reels is about the size of a large pressure cooker pot. A hard drive - regardless of capacity, is about the size of a pair of DVD boxes.

Backups - that can be automated. You don't have to have someone literally sitting at a computer running backup programs 24/7.

It's do-able, there's just a lot of logistics to work out. As for cost, remember this is Hollywood we're talking about. The only other places with more disposable income are the US gov't and the oil companies.

Post: #319367
Topic: DOOM: knee deep in the edit. (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319367/action/topic#319367
Time: 29-May-2008 11:42 AM

There's another Doom edit - the original one that the one you found is based on - by someone called Scaperat. It's not accessible at the moment though because of their server move.

Post: #319334
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319334/action/topic#319334
Time: 29-May-2008 12:36 AM

I noticed on the DVD-9, you took out your first credit at the end because the text commentary says "Whoohoo! That's me! under Harrison Ford's name.

Post: #319272
Topic: Crystall Skull has GL's fingerprints all over it
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319272/action/topic#319272
Time: 28-May-2008 2:58 PM

I have an assortment of "behind the scenes" specials of all different films, and one of them had a quote from some FX guy...don't remember who...

"With a model, a light can hit it a certain way or you can find a new camera angle and have that 'happy accident', but with CG, you have to plan for that accident."

To me, that's the problem with CG in a nutshell. All the optics and physics that we take for granted and happen naturally in the real world have to be consciously and purposely accounted for, calculated, adjusted and balanced in the computer. There's just too much of that, and too much interaction between them, for CG to come off as fully 100% indistinguishable from reality, at least under current limitations of programming. Even if you can't figure out WHY, you can usually sense when something is CG and when it isn't.

Post: #319129
Topic: The Mono Mix Restoration Project (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319129/action/topic#319129
Time: 27-May-2008 1:50 PM

No, Luke says "Blast it, Wedge, where are you?" in Ady's SWR mix, but he did add Luke's "Biggs! Biggs!" over the comm from the Radio Drama when Biggs gets blasted.

Post: #319090
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319090/action/topic#319090
Time: 26-May-2008 10:06 PM

I decided to pay for RapidShare to get the DVD9 version. The 48 hour subscription worked out to about $7 US. The 1 month works out to about $11.

On a cable modem, doing 4 files at a time, I got the whole thing in about 6 hours. When I got the DVD5 version, I did it for free (one file at a time, 2 hour downtime between them) and it took me a full week of after work periods and almost whole weekend days morning to night.

Post: #319087
Topic: Batman Forever - Dark Knight Edition (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319087/action/topic#319087
Time: 26-May-2008 9:30 PM

There's this over at fanedit.org, don't know if it's the same one this thread talks about though.

Post: #319077
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319077/action/topic#319077
Time: 26-May-2008 7:55 PM

Ok, I got the Purist version downloaded and burned (the right way, now that I learned what I was doing wrong...sorry for the confusion, Ady) and not only does it not have the menus but it's only 48 chapters instead of 54 for the full Revisited version. Do you or someone else have a Purist chapter listing? I'm curious to see what the differences are.

Post: #319075
Topic: Star Wars Prequels/Original Trilogy: The Complete Scores (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/319075/action/topic#319075
Time: 26-May-2008 7:10 PM

I'm guessing that he's pressed for server space so he keeps them in rotation. The only ones I could get were AOTC and ANH.

Post: #318990
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/318990/action/topic#318990
Time: 26-May-2008 12:44 AM

Well, ya learn something new every day. I've read the term "burn the ISO image to a disc" before but never really understood what it meant.

Until I poked around in Nero.

I tried to create this one the same way I did the DVD-5 - unpack the ISO with WinRAR to the hard drive, then use "Burn DVD Video files" in Nero to burn the disc. I tried selecting the ISO file in that process, but Nero wouldn't recognize it.

Tonight, I poked around in Nero and found "Burn Image to disc". THAT recognized the ISO file. I burned that to a disc thru that option in Nero - without the Imgburn fix applied - and the disc works flawlessly!

Sorry for all the confusion.

Post: #318981
Topic: STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/318981/action/topic#318981
Time: 25-May-2008 11:08 PM

I just posted that for reference. Don't like my "halfway" version?

Post: #318972
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/318972/action/topic#318972
Time: 25-May-2008 10:28 PM

I used WinRAR, just like I did for the DVD-5. Should I start over with the RAR files? Create a new ISO and unpack it with PcgEdit instead?

Post: #318971
Topic: STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/318971/action/topic#318971
Time: 25-May-2008 10:24 PM — Edited 25-May-2008 10:24 PM

I just watched that scene again, and while it would be nice to restore the original dialogue, maybe this is another "meet it halfway" thing...

Original dialogue

Vader- What is thy biding my master?
Emperor- There is a great disturbance in the force.
Vader- I have felt it.
Emperor- We have a new enemy, Luke Skywalker
Vader- Yes my master
Emperor- He could destroy us
Vader- Hes just a boy, Obi wan can no longer help him
Emperor- The force is strong with him..The son of Skywalker must not become a Jedi
Vader- If he could be turned he would become a powerful ally
Emperor- Yes..Yes he would be a great asset. Can it be done?
Vader- He will join us or die Master

New dialogue

Vader- What is thy biding my master?
Emperor- There is a great disturbance in the force.
Vader- I have felt it
Emperor- We have a new enemy, the young rebel who destroyed the Death Star. I have no doubt this boy is the offspring of Anakin Skywalker
Vader- How is that possible?
Emperor- Search your feelings Lord Vader, you will know it to be true. He could destroy us
Vader- Hes just a boy, Obi wan can no longer help him.
Emperor- The force is strong with him, the son of Skywalker must no become a Jedi.
Vader- If he could be turned he would become a powerful ally.
Emperor- Yes he would be a great asset. Can it be done?
Vader- He will join us or die Master.

The "halfway" version

Vader- What is thy biding my master?
Emperor- There is a great disturbance in the force.
Vader- I have felt it.
Emperor- We have a new enemy, the young rebel who destroyed the Death Star...the son of Skywalker.
Vader- Yes my master
Emperor- He could destroy us
Vader- He's just a boy, Obi wan can no longer help him.
Emperor- The force is strong with him. Skywalker must not become a Jedi.
Vader- If he could be turned he would become a powerful ally.
Emperor- Yes..Yes he would be a great asset. Can it be done?
Vader- He will join us or die Master.

It's not the original word for word, but it solves the "Young/Luke" dialogue change problem. Aside from the obvious removal of the extra added dialogue, the only other change is moving "the son of" to a different point in the conversation. Much less work than trying to manufacture a word that doesn't exist.

Post: #318968
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/318968/action/topic#318968
Time: 25-May-2008 9:59 PM

Fanedit.org, RapidShare, 80 RAR files

I'm pressed for hard drive space, so I moved the actual ISO file to a DL DVD for storage. That disc has two files on it -

STAR_WARS_REVISITED_NTSC_DVD_9.ISO
and
star.wars.IV.revisited..NTSC.DVD-9. .NFO

Yes, the two dots betwen "revisited" and "NTSC" and the space between "9." and ".NFO" are correct, not a typo in my post...don't know if that makes a difference. My hard drive has the unpacked ISO (now with the fix applied) and the original RAR files.

The ISO file size is 8,166,532 KB and the NFO file is 5 KB.

Post: #318960
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/318960/action/topic#318960
Time: 25-May-2008 9:01 PM

Ok, as I said I'm totally new to this. This is the first encounter I've had with this Pgcedit. The only reason I found out about downloading DVD's at all is because someone on another forum posted about your original DVD5 version. That download/burn went fine, so I figured everything would happen the same with the DVD9. Yet, here we are.

I'm running Pgcedit as I type this. It's scanning VTS_51_5.VOB and tells me "Error loading NAV pack at sector 616 (in file):
Nav Pack identifier not valid.
The VOB file "may" be CSS encoded.
You cannot edit a CSS encoded disc!
Or the VOB doesn't match the IFOs
Try to do a mock strip with IfoEdit

Skip remaining "Bad Nav Pack' error message for the current domain?
[Yes to all] [Yes] [No]

If someone wants to fire up AIM and walk me thru this in real time, I'd appreciate it. PM me for my AIM name.

Post: #318954
Topic: STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 REVISITED ADYWAN *1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/318954/action/topic#318954
Time: 25-May-2008 8:13 PM — Edited 25-May-2008 8:14 PM

Nero 6.6.0.17

Ok, I'm still new to a lot of this, so I'm getting stuck somewhere along the way.

Downloaded RAR files and unpacked to create ISO. Opened ISO to create disc image. Burned that to a disc with Nero - no good.
Downloaded ISO fix RAR file. Unpacked separately, copied files to VIDEO_TS folder. Burned again, no good.

This Pgcedit part is where I'm getting stuck. I found it via Google search and installed it, but what do you mean by "let it do its scanning"? What do I tell it to scan...the VIDEO_TS folder? I'm guessing that after that, I'm supposed to use it to create a new ISO, right? Then I use Imgburn to open this new ISO directly to a disc, or do I open it to the hard drive first, then burn that new image to a disc?