digitalfreaknyc

Has anyone heard from Marcia Lucas? Has she been interviewed since everything went to hell?

(sorry if this thread is a repeat. search is a pain on this site)

zombie84 said:

Well, technically I am not supposed to be posting this right now. There may be some modifications in the days to come. This isn't meant to be public, so keep it under your hats for now, but I thought people might appreciate some good news for once.

http://www.savestarwars.com/loc.html

I always capture it with the highest settings with the Hauppauge. I have no idea how many gigs it's going to be for the total thing. I'm going to assume around 20-30. That's going to take forever to torrent. I don't know WHAT I'm going to do with it, once I have it.

I'm capping it. :)

I also capped the opening from Godfather 3 which was COMPLETELY different. It's a 15 minute flashback montage of the first two films, intercut with "older Michael" from the very end of 2.

I just saw the commercial for the Godfather Saga on AMC, which will start airing tomorrow. The commercial did indeed say it was completely restored and showed them in HD. If they went through and remastered the whole thing then that CERTAINLY is news. They would have had to remaster the deleted scenes as well and that's never been done. The Blu-ray set only had them edited from the Saga/Trilogy.

It's interesting that the Saga was always just the first two. Now they're showing all three.

I can't imagine they would have gone through this trouble only for AMC. I could see this getting a blu release.

Additionally, TOTALLY different intro to Godfather 3. It's got a newly produced montage of the first 2 films, intercut with outtakes of Michael sitting on the lawn from the end of 2. This proves they went back to the masters with the new footage. REALLY excited for a new release with more restored deleted scenes!!

Moth3r said:

Is it a semi-transparent logo? I developed an AviSynth script for the Rad source that was fairly successful:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Rad-Helltrack-Edition-Now-Available/post/425964/#TopicPost425964

Solid logos are more difficult, but if you have a logo-less DVD, and it matches up frame-for-frame with the HD source, then you should be able to upscale that portion and overlay it over the logo.

Jambe,

Are you planning on making a disc of the complementing footage? I'd love to make a disc with the documentaries afterwards! :)

I also have a few things that I was putting on my Jaws discs as well. I'll go through what I have and let you know.

Good luck!

Anyone have any good advice on removing a "bug" from the corner of a broadcast?

I have a documentary that was released on DVD but never in HD. I have the TV broadcast with a bug (in HD) and I'd love to replace that bug with the information from the DVD. Is it worth it? Possible? Too much work?

Thoughts?

Darth Hade said:

Great update at CapedWonder.com

http://www.capedwonder.com/superman-the-movie-restored-international-cut/

Sounds great.

I'm honestly completely floored...and very, very sad, to be honest.

I used to look forward to the possibility of showing my niece the movies...but my love is dying, something I *NEVER* thought would happen. It's becoming a huge joke that only George is in on. And it's insulting.

What a dick. :( He's spitting on everyone who has ever been a fan of these films.

TServo2049 said:

NTSC has 3:2 pulldown and the whole thing of not being a whole number of frames per second.

It's easy to take a PAL video source and convert it to 24fps - the frames just play back 4% slower, no pulldown or interpolation necessary.

It really doesn't matter, because the final 24fps version is going to be synched to the existing soundtrack preservations.

TServo2049 said:

digitalfreaknyc said:


Why is it 25fps???
Sounds horrible.

and you've gotten aliasing artifacts as well.

 

Harmy does his work at PAL framerate. The actual release will be at the correct speed.

Don't know what's up with the aliasing, either...

Harmy said:

Yeah, it's a whole matte painting, which was completely changed in the SE, not just the soldiers in the foreground but also the walls, the window and about half of the soldiers in the room.

I am now encoding WP3 reel one. Here's a little promo from it :-)

https://rapidshare.com/files/3593965985/WP3_reel_one_promo.mp4

I just popped in the documentary extras disc.

Man...mpeg 2? 192kbps sound? Could they have screwed up those older documentaries any MORE? :(

Are you creating DVD's?

God, do I love Jambe's projects.
God, do I hate PAL speed-up. :(

One of my Jaws discs had all of the JTR "deleted scenes" cropped from the AMC airing.
I remember trying to crop it to 2.35 and something turning up improperly. The framing seemed far too tight.
Also, every HD airing (in the US, anyway) has been cropped to 1.85 for all 4 films, including the pay services.

If nothing else, I would try and track down the people who are shown in those credits. It's entirely possible that one of them would have a copy of the special.

Darth Id said:

generalfrevious said:

SW; it's no longer a movie, it's a drug.

 No, drugs actually make people feel good.

SW is more like..church.

SilverWook said:

That Hollywood themed Disney park in Florida has a desert skiff, a Rebel Snowspeeder, and the Falcon's chess table, but who knows if they're the real deal or not?

none said:

Does it sounds like a press event for tv or radio where they could replace the audio of the questions with a local newscaster.  Or a full event where in the background maybe you can hear the press.  (..having now read the ebay listing) Does the recording seem to be the large press event or part of the local one on one interviews, or a bit of both?

AMAZINGLY perfect.

I only listened to the first disc (it's a full hour) and it contains the audio from the full press conference with Kirsch, Kurtz, Harrison, Carrie, Mark, Anthony and David Prowse.
The 2nd part of the first disc is the 1 on 1 with Harrison.
Haven't listened to the 2nd.

It's all direct from the soundboard.

Mike O said:

digitalfreaknyc said:

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I believe any of those will do. Definitely DVD2/DVD4

Maybe, and those are great deals, but I'm looking to be able to put any damn thing in the player and run it. So far my Phillips does that for DVD and VCD, but obviously not BR.

Is this something newly found? Just picked the 2CD set up from Ebay and am listening to it now.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/330631840142?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olstemplatemapper.jsp?id=pcat17080&type=page&qp=cabcat0100000%23%230%23%23wv~~cabcat0102000%23%230%23%2322~~q466173746c696d69747067735f3936~~nf398%7C%7C496e7369676e696126233135333b&list=y&nrp=15&sc=TVVideoSP&sp=%2Bbrand+skuid&usc=abcat0100000

I believe any of those will do. Definitely DVD2/DVD4