This project is purely educational and experimental. The final results of this project will not be available for purchase, trade or donation. DO NOT ASK FOR A COPY. The content of the final disc is still available commercially. GO AND BUY IT at http://www.highbridgeaudio.com/comstarwarli.html
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The purpose of this thread is to be a tutorial in how to produce an audio (with possibly a small amount of video, read below) DVD of the Star Wars Radio Dramas.
OK, with that out of the way let me explain what I would like to do. Many years ago, at great expense, I purchased the collectors edition of the Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back Radio Drama box set and The Star Wars Trilogy Radio Drama box set. I found them in storage the other day and decided to archive the CD’s onto a hard drive to PRESERVE them. Then I thought to myself ‘wouldn’t it be great to have the complete set on 1 disc’. Now the .wav files for the complete set total over 9GB so until we get HD-DVD/Blu-ray/Hybrid that could prove slightly difficult. So, I thought how about producing a multimedia DVD, playable in your set top box, including everything on the two box sets, plus, magazine articles, photos, video footage, publicity material etc.
The final spec will hopefully look like this:
Menu driven DVD
All 13 Episodes of Star Wars The Radio Drama
All 10 Episodes of The Empire Strikes Back The Radio Drama
All 6 Episodes of Return Of The Jedi
Alternate openings and endings for Star Wars The Radio Drama
Original Director’s Cut from Episode Five, In Ben’s House
Original Director’s Cut from Episode Two, Leia’s Return to Alderaan
The Making Of Star Wars The Radio Drama
Speederbike chase, complete
Speederbike chase, dialogue only
Comments from the cast
Promotional radio spots
A tribute to Brian Daley
A Suite of Additional Music Recorded for Star Wars The Radio Drama
Image gallery
Press articles
Any video material in existence
The DVD will be 16x9 and in NTSC format.
All audio will be encoded in ac3 format at 256k.
This is where you guys come in. I have a fair bit of material associated with the Radio Dramas but I don’t think I have it all. What I’m really after are any good scans of photos of the making of the shows, ANY video material and anything else that could be included. Please PM me if you think you have anything to offer.
Please remember this project is purely archival for myself. I will not be offering this set for sale or trading. I will however reward any contributors with a complimentary copy IF they own original copies of the CD’s. I know this sounds a little unfair but this material is still commercially available. It’s a fantastic piece of work, so if you want it, GO AND BUY IT. I’ll even give you a handy little link: Buy it here or here
As always, comments warmly received.
And just to warn you, I have a LOT of projects on the go at the moment. If this DVD takes a long time, don’t get upset with me. You may even want to have a go at producing one yourself!
Regards,
babyhum
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