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#277286
Topic
Media Requests - Desert Scenes, Landspeeder Noise, Star Wars Theatrical Program
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277286/action/topic#277286
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Hey Everyone,

I have several requests, so I thought I would lump them into one thread. If you can help me out with getting the following items, I would really appreciate it.

- I need some empty landscape scenes set in a desert, preferably if they were filmed in Tunisia or the Sahara. If possible, one needs to be bird's eye shot of an unidentifiable vehicle moving in the distance. It would be great if these happen to be anamorphic, with an aspect ratio of 2.35:1, but if they aren't, oh well.

- Has anyone ever isolated the sound of Luke's Landspeeder running? Are there any sound clips of a Landspeeder engine running from any of the video games? If so, if you can share it with me, I would appreciate it.

- Does anyone have a complete scan of the Star Wars Theatrical Program? I have it, but page 16 (Obi-Wan by the power generator) is corrupted.

Thanks in advance!
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#277233
Topic
How to extract BTM lost scenes?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/277233/action/topic#277233
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Originally posted by: Laserman
You are opening a dos window (Start/programs/accessories/command prompt) and then changing to the correct directory (e.g. cd\mystuff\unpacker or wherever you put grisc) and typing the commands in manually?

You're not just double clicking on grisc?


Okay Laserman - you can kill me now. Please forgive me - the most experience I've ever had working in DOS was loading Doom II.

I now have my extraction. Thanks for smacking me in the head.

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#276822
Topic
Star Wars: Classic Edition 2.0 NEW from Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276822/action/topic#276822
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Wow. What a disappointment. I feel like I just wasted a DL-DVD.

Let me preface my comments by saying that I love every project that OCP has made for this forum. I love the Classic Edition series. I loved Star Wars: Classic Edition (Version 1).

That having been said, Version 2 is a mess. I went into it expecting a vast improvement over Version 1. I was wrong.

I don't know whether it is from his color correction process, or from his encoding, but the video is terrible. Every slightly dark area of the screen is swimming with what looks like the Wonka Bar from Willy Wonka that is being transmitted via television waves. Bear in mind, I am watching this on a low-definition television. I am certain that if I had a higher-quality TV, I would notice even more noise in the lighter areas. It is just terrible, particularly in space scenes.

Along those same lines, the opening title crawl is also really bad - stars flicker as (what I assume to be) the box containing the 2006 OUT crawl shrinks in size to match the crawl as it vanishes in the distance. In the transition between the crawl and pan down, there is a terrible crunchy bright starfield. When we see Tatooine and its moons, they are surrounded by a tacky glowing halo because the picture has been brightened using an apparently-not-very-good brightening process. Then, each laser shot has a similar fuzzy gray halo around it. Terrible.

Later, during the Death Star Assault, during the iconic fly-by near the towers, OCP apparently used the OUT for the first part of the shot, then switched to the SE after the X-Wings had passed out of view. When this happens, the starfield behind the tower explodes, new stars appearing, and all of the stars glowing way too big and bright. Stylistically, this just seems like a bad choice - why not wait for the shot to end before transitioning to a new source? Who knows? End result = bad.

I need to rewatch Version 1, but I don't remember the video quality being as bad as it looks in this version. Version 2 was supposed to be an improvement, but if it was, I REALLY need to rewatch Version 1, and then have my eyes checked. And I am not even a very picky or particularly sharp-eyed viewer - there are several laserdisc transfers that look better (in my eyes) than OCP's final encode of SW:CE.

I went into this expecting it to be at least equal to, if not better than, the sum of its parts. I was mistaken. I would not recommend this to anyone, really, except for completionists.

If you really want to see a reconstruction of the theatrical Star Wars, I would suggest marrying this audio mix (which is great) to an anamorphic conversion of the 2006 release - at least the video quality would be consistent (and in many cases, better).

OCP - if you ever do a third version of this, please use a different system for applying your filters, or for your encoding. Whatever you are using now doesn't work.

With all of this in mind, to think that OCP was selling a "no-frills" DL version of this edit for 10 bucks a pop is just horrendous.
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#276745
Topic
OT.com Demographics Poll
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276745/action/topic#276745
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Honestly, I feel like you're kind of flaming a thread that I started, for no real reason.

I mean no hard feelings. I just think that someone who is culturally sensitive wouldn't flash pictures around like that, or find them humorous with no further investigation to the racist roots of imagery like that. And I'm not talking about the Chris Tucker picture. I'm talking specifically about the doctored one of a black man going bug-eyed over a bucket of chicken. How is that funny, outside of a racialized scope? It's not. And it's offensive enough to bother me, because you're posting something like that with complete disregard, like it's not a big deal.

You might have been here longer than me and posted more than me, but I don't think you know enough of the people who have posted in this thread well enough to make joking posts like this. And it started when I criticized Stinky-Dinkins for making similar comments and asked him not to do so. I constructively criticize you for it, so you call me a name. So how is that not flaming?

Sure, I said you're not open to intercultural understanding. Based on the fact that you're posting things that are culturally insensitive for anyone in the world to see, with no further commentary from you on the matter as to why it's funny or relevant other than "it's a humorous picture that happens to contain a black person," I would say that it is a fair jump to make.