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#276647
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Idea & Info Wanted: Is there a way to save Bakshi's Lord of the Rings?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/276647/action/topic#276647
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Most people confuse "rotoscoping" with the high-contrast live action stuff in the film. Rotoscoping is simply tracing live action into cartoon.

Closest you could get would be something like a "poor man's" Scanner Darkly effect. Here's a tutorial on how to do it:

Creative Cow "Creating a Cartoon from Video with After Effects and Illustrator CS2"
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#275248
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Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/275248/action/topic#275248
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OK, I've started the project officially. I'm 8 minutes into it. It's a bit of a challenge since they are actually almost two different movies. Different takes with different lengths. I'm actually surprised that Moroder has bits of scenes that aren't in the restored version. A few frames here and there. I've had to adapt rather than do frame to frame exact work. It helps that the synching doesn't need to be precise since it's silent and only needs to match some cues. It kind of sucks having to cut material, including my favorite shots in the garden with the nudes. Perhaps I can include them in a longer cut later. Also disappointing is that the CD soundtrack has completely different mixes of the songs. I wanted to use them for the longer version. The soundtrack album is more dance music.

Anyway, here's a sneak preview divx of the original version and the new version of a scene. It's a zip file about 45 MB.

Metropolis
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#274821
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/274821/action/topic#274821
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I almost hate to offer it up, since it makes it easier on the bootleggers, but I have completed the Dual Layer NTSC version of RTJ. It's actually Boon's disc but I converted the feature myself at about the same bitrate as Jambe's PAL version with sound at NTSC speed and pitch corrected for most of the commentaries. And best of all, there's no bugs in it . Is there enough interest for me to torrent it, or perhaps mail it to someone who can torrent?

Jambe, I'm going to mail you a hard copy. You get first dibs, always.
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#273794
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What the fuck??? : George is definitely gone "bye bye"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273794/action/topic#273794
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Is it still up for question whether or not this was meant seriously? He was at an awards luncheon giving an award to his in-house publicist in front of an audience of fellow publicists. If, perhaps, he'd said this in a one-on-one interview, that would be one thing. The context is he was trying to get a laugh out of an audience that has experience in trying to sell "dogs." He was being ironic to an audience that would find that specific irony (an award for a guy whose biggest "score" was selling what is generally the consensus "best" of one of the most successful series of all time) funny. If that's not obvious "ball breaking", I don't know what is.
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#273687
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Info: The LID Project: Laserdisc is dead.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273687/action/topic#273687
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Laserdisc video is analog but the audio is digital (tracks 1 and 2) and analog (tracks 3 and 4). The digital PCM soundtrack is stored the same as CD audio and comes out as analog through the red/white RCA cables or digital through the optical cable, same as a CD player. AC3 is stored differently as analog FM signal needing an AC3 RF output and a standalone demodulator, but I'm pretty sure once it gets through the demodulator, it's the same as DVD Dolby Digital (384 bitrate). DTS took the digital tracks' place and passes through optical and can be decoded by a DTS receiver same as DVD.
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#273657
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273657/action/topic#273657
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I've been considering offering up a dual layer version of this in NTSC using the same methods I used for Building Empire to fix the PAL speedup. It might make it compatible with more players. I've actually already done the movie itself and am trying to learn the same program that Boon used for authoring because I really like how Boon's turned out (he did a great job). Oddly, I had none of the issues I had for Building Empire. The video conversion went perfectly (which I expected, since I used the technique that worked for BE) and the sound synched up perfectly first try. I've already scrubbed through the soundtrack and recorrected the slowed commentaries for those that were improperly slowed down in the conversion, but the movie soundtrack sounds perfect. This program is cool as heck, but still a challenge to author my first disc with it. I was again doing this just for myself, but if there's any interest it can go up in another torrent. A two and a half hour feature and DVD rom extras has to be encoded really low to fit on a single layer.
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#273624
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What the fuck??? : George is definitely gone "bye bye"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273624/action/topic#273624
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Read the Annotated Screenplays. They came up with the stories of Empire and Jedi in story conferences with many participants brainstorming story ideas, just the same as any TV show or other group project. Don't be fooled by the idea that Lucas came up with the concept and then the others fleshed it out. It's right there in black and white and published by the participants.
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#273000
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***//BUILDING EMPIRE\\: PAL & NTSC DVD - NEW EDITION NOW ONLINE! ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/273000/action/topic#273000
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It's actually up on Demonoid right now. I'm the only seeder and it's being downloaded by about 30 people. In a day or so, there will be a bunch of seeders. I'm getting about 60kb upload, but that gets divided by about 8 leechers at a time. Unfortunately, I can't tell it to upload to the same eight leechers, so that it can get up faster. Right now there's plenty of peers with 50-60% to spread out what's been uploaded so far, though. In another day, there will be tons of seeders. I'm excited that it's almost out there.
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#272677
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***//BUILDING EMPIRE\\: PAL & NTSC DVD - NEW EDITION NOW ONLINE! ***
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/272677/action/topic#272677
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Originally posted by: Jambe Davdar
Hey caligulathegod, I received the NTSC version of 'BE' today. I have had a look through it and am pleased with the results and am totally happy for someone to upload this to torrent sites etc.

Some of the audio sounds a little slow to me. However, I am not sure if this is because I've used NTSC audio and it has been further slowed down during your standards conversion or whether I am just so used to hearing PAL sped up voices. Either way, all of the content is there in a presentable format. Good work!

JD


I'd say it's a little of both. Some of the commentaries are definitely slow. I only re-corrected Mark and Carrie. We might need a third pair of ears for the movie, itself. I've listened to it dozens of times and it sounds right to me, but I've gotten used to it, too. But if you've listened to PAL versions forever, that's what you'd be used to.

Anyway, DigitalfreakNYC said he'd help distribute, so DF, give me a PM.

Glad you liked it. Thank you. I was proud to have contributed.