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#268624
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/268624/action/topic#268624
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Sky, great to see a cover from you for the project. If you see my WIP pics somewhere around here I was using the more common Jabba's Palace/C-3P0/R2-D2 pic. I was also going to use that cast shot on the back at one point but changed my mind. The reason I say the above is: could you maybe send me those two images in full-res? My cover'll be different but I'd like to have those shots for my collection of images.
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#267718
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Dawn Of The Dead Ultimate Edition Volume 2-UPDATE Discs 1-4 (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267718/action/topic#267718
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Meedermow, may I suggest that if discs 3 and 4 are the fan-centric ones and if disc 2 is more 'official', then we use the same front image as disc 1's cover for disc 2 and then discs 3 & 4 can use the fanmade black/red machete head image? Or do you have a better way of going about it? I've also made some time today to sort through my discs and get back to you, so hopefully I can email again soon.
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#267551
Topic
//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267551/action/topic#267551
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Jambe, hope some able people are offering to lessen the load of requests. Don't take everyone's sudden urge to get this as a sign of disrespect for your long period of working on this project. I'm sure once everyone gets their copy and sits down to watch it that they'll post in here about how great it is and thank you profusely.

I'm not here to make a request (will get mine from somebody else once the initial flood of requests has died down), but to ask a simple question: What was the final runtime for the project? I just want to know to be able to slap it on my cover. Thanks. Hope you're catching up with your estranged family.

EDIT:
I've just remembered to ask: could you also post an updated screenshot of the FCP timeline of the finished project, please? If it's too much trouble, I understand. Again, this is only for my cover. I also read (probably in this thread) that you didn't have a logo but you tend to use "JD Productions" as text? Do you have an idea in mind for what a logo might look like? I might take a crack at one... again for the cover. Lol.
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#267548
Topic
Need help on this custom cover for ROTE...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267548/action/topic#267548
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Skot, I don't want to disrespect ocp's work at all. He's done some fine DVDs and this and Deleted Magic were among the first few discs I got from this community.

I think the problem with the logo before, was mainly that it was too big. I've had another go at having the OCP logo on the spine. I moved the Hyperspace logo to the back and shortened the text bit down there. Instead of having the: "genre of the disc / runtime / year" business, it's now just the runtime and the year one on top of the other. This left more space than I needed but I figured since I was doing similar on my RTJ cover that I'd use that space wisely. Now, the bottom logo section is (* = space between logos):

Apect Ratio * Sound (usually DD) * PAL or NTSC * Region (usually ALL) * DVD Video * SL or DL * Runtime & Year * Other Logo

I'm thinking that the last logo can be a 'source' logo. For ROTE one of the sources was the Hyperspace clip, for LD transfers I can put the LD symbol, etc. The "Single Layer" logo is one I created to complement the "Dual Layer" one I've used which is used on Village Roadshow distributed DVDs here in Australia. It's nice and simple without looking tacky. Anyway, I also fixed that minor wording issue. Please tell me what you think of this final version:

http://www.users.on.net/~paulgaliazzo/rote_revision5.jpg

I'm going to upload it in a zip/rar or whatever, with a high quality version of Sluggo's original cover (I recreated it exactly in the standard 3240x2175 template). I think the only other ROTE cover is Ell The Ewok's. I'll try and grab that one to chuck in too. That way, all the ROTE covers will be available in the one download.

Ell, if you've been following this thread could you send me your cover please?
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#267120
Topic
Need help on this custom cover for ROTE...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267120/action/topic#267120
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I did try "of the" in two lines with "of" on top of "the"... but I like this way better. The other way always looked a little odd.

Thanks for the input SweHanzon and thanks for all your suggestions so far guys.

Really do think I'm done now. I've tweaked the logo so that the letters are closer together.

Revision #4

However, I now have to transmogrify this into a RTJ cover for Jambe's almost-released disc. Text
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#266986
Topic
Need help on this custom cover for ROTE...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266986/action/topic#266986
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Jonno, I tried your idea out, which I had been thinking of doing, and it works well.

SweHanzon, I know Trajan Pro is more ... um, 'epic' and Star Wars-y, but I've kept the TNR font because the logo is meant to look like the Return of the Jedi one. In place of the old OCHV logo I've put a spine image at the top. I tried some movie/type logos on there and they just didn't work. Instead I'm opting for a unique spine image for each cover I do. As for the front production still.... I can't remember where I found it. It was a hi-res resource site of some description, just can't remember which/where.

Johnny Ringo, there's a ton of ideas I've tried and scrapped and a few I've yet to try, but I'm getting happier with my version as I go. I think it's almost done. You can of course take a crack at your own cover. After all; it's not my disc, I don't own the copyright to Star Wars either. I started doing my cover because I wanted a standard SW DVD cover template. I started with ROTE because apart from Ell & Sluggo's covers I hadn't seen any so far. The more covers there are for this great disc the better.

And now... here is my latest update to the cover. I think I'm pretty much done. I know it isn't the greatest but I'm happy with it:

Revision #3
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#266982
Topic
//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266982/action/topic#266982
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Jambe; congratulations on finishing this. Looking forward to it.

Everyone else; I know we're all anxious to get our hands on this documentary... but come on. It hasn't been mailed to anyone yet, nor posted to newsgroups or uploaded to torrent sites. Give Jambe some time to relax. He'll make sure it gets out to us in one way or another. This is the official thread for the project and I'm sure he'll post info about torrent uploads and/or newsgroup posts right here in this very thread once they occur.
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#266412
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Need help on this custom cover for ROTE...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266412/action/topic#266412
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In response to Sluggo & Daveytod:
I was actually considering some way of showing which film the DVD relates to (in this case Return of the Jedi) and whether it's a fan-edit, a documentary/special or something else (in this case a short film). Perhaps some combo of logos? I don't know exactly. Will muck around with it. Will wait til I've heard some more opinions on what I've changed since the last revision. Then I'll do some more work and hopefully have the final version.
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#266394
Topic
Need help on this custom cover for ROTE...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266394/action/topic#266394
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Originally posted by: SweHanzon
Perhaps you could put something big and bright under the main logo. Btw, what's the font used in that? Another possibility is having top and bottom borders to give the text a clean background. Or you could put a black box in, going between the top and bottom borders of the logo. Anything to make the text stand out more. I tried brightening the area underneath the text as well as blurring it to make the text above it stand out more. I didn't like that. The title still got lost in the busy background. Then I tried the thing with black underneath the text. I'd thought of that but been hesitant to try. I reckon it looks fine. What do you guys think? By the way, the font is simply Times New Roman.
Originally posted by: SweHanzon
The OC logo would probably look better at the bottom. Tried that. No disrespect to ocpmovie but that orange cow logo is just to big and un-"Star Wars"-y to use. I've left the spine ID and the Hyperspace symbol on though and I'd really like a 'creator' logo to be on there. Any ideas?
Originally posted by: SweHanzon
If you could tweak the colour of the green on the backside to sort of match the colours of the leaves on the front side that would probably look good. I played around with a lot of different greens and found one that was easy on the eye. I agree that it should match the front but every time I tried to make it match the front I got a green that was too dark. In the end I found one that I think works. The darkness of it though meant that the red text above & below the menu shot was hard to read. The same thing applied to the "Bonus Material" list. So, I tried doing that list in black, white & a lighter green. They all looked funny. I wanted the list to stand out from the blurb so black was out of the question. I ended up making it red and not on the green box. Thoughts?
Originally posted by: SweHanzon
Change the unfocused image of Wicket to a focused one.
The image I believe you're referring to is the menu shot? I just capped the best shot of the motion menu. I can't get a 'focused' cap as Wicket goes by too quick. If you don't mean the menu shot, which shot do you mean?
Originally posted by: SweHanzon
Increase the contrast slightly on the screen cap where Wicket runs down the stairs, just a little though.
Done.
Originally posted by: SweHanzon
If you yourself altered the front image to make it darker (blacker), perhaps you could revert that just a little.
I went back to my source image and realised how badly I'd stuffed the colors. In my defense, they were a little funny on the original image anyway and I was just trying to fix 'em. I've had another go and think I've done much better this time on both the color adjustments and the contrast.
Originally posted by: SweHanzon
I like the overall look of the backside a lot. Keep up the good work =)
Thanks. That goes out to everyone who's posted in this thread. Thanks for the comments and suggestions. Please help me out again now to try and finalise this cover as I've got to get to work on the Building Empire & Returning to Jedi ones.

EDIT:
Oops! I forgot to post the newly revised cover preview. *Duh* Here ya go...

Revision #2
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#266189
Topic
Insert edit on a .VOB
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266189/action/topic#266189
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There is. In fact I think there's a few ways. One would of course be with womble and copying another black screen portion of the video and just copy and pasting that over the first few frames while making sure that the audio doesn't copy over into those frames too. However, there is another way that's much better. I just can't remember the name of the program. Wait for someone else to pop in here and I'm sure you'll get the answer you're looking for.
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#266060
Topic
Dawn Of The Dead Ultimate Edition Volume 2-UPDATE Discs 1-4 (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266060/action/topic#266060
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Meedermow, I got the email and I'm working on the cover at the moment... however, I was wondering if you wanted me to use the iconic DOTD head image... or the machete-head image? I know the last one I posted looked like Frankenfurter from RHPS... but as you can see below. I've made an improved version more in line with the original image:

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/9049/dotdcomparesa7.jpg

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#264791
Topic
Need help on this custom cover for ROTE...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/264791/action/topic#264791
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Arnie.D: Yeah, I know it seems kind of out-of-place but it was the only 'ocp' kind of logo that I could find. Plus, he used it on several of his on custom covers for his work. I guess I can take another look and see if I have anything better. If not, I guess I can make the cow a bit smaller.

Jambe: Yeah, turns out I had a blending option which I'd turned off and forgotten to turn back on before making the preview image. Below is a new revision with that layer effect (an outer glow that brightens up the underlaying image and a slightly bolder stroke) turned on. I've also recapped the screenshots, I was just using Sluggo's as placeholders. I chose to use the same shot of Wicket running from Darth Vader though; it's great.

Revision #1

I figure if the current layer effect doesn't make the title stand out enough... then I could use a white border/stroke instead of a black one. What do you guys think?