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It took me forever to figure out how and what to do to do this as well as keep the multi-angle feature (selectable crawls) and the menu in place, but I finally accomplished it! I don’t know how to or have a program that allows me to make multi-angles. What I finally ended up doing is using Musclesoft DVTool to cut the angled portion off of the original vob. Very cool that there is no dialouge in this part so no subtiling needed here. I demuxed the audio (only one angle), video and original Greedo EditDroid subtitles.

Then I used the isomix fixed subtitles I downloaded (after watching, well mostly listening, actually to the movie many times and adding, changing lines so that they made a perfect match to what was being said) added back in the Greedo subs to the main subs. I also redid Greedo-only subs in a font to match the ISOMIX subs for Empire and Jedi. (I would have just gotten the ISOMIX ANH, but I wanted selectable crawls and I like EditDroid’s menus and special features better.)

Then I used SpruceUp to create one chapter point at the exact point where I cut the original VOB. I created the project (though SpruceUp doesn’t allow multiple audio or any subtitles so I wasn’t done yet) so I could get a cell time for the cut. I used pgcdemux to rip only the celltimes.txt. Then I used muxman with the complete one angle video, 2 audios, and 2 subtitles, along with my celltimes.txt with the one chapter point. When that was done I again used PGC to strip it, this time stripping only the second cell. I used DVDsubedit to reposition and check the subtitles.

Then I remuxed everything (again!) and renamed the resulting vobs VTS_01_1.VOB thru VTS_01_5.VOB to VTS_01_2.VOB thru VTS_01_6.VOB. I pasted them and my 133mb VTS_01_1.VOB (the multi-angle crawls) into the folder with the original menus. I also replaced the trailer (which I already have on the official DVD) with rowman’s post-Academy Awards trailer. I used the same ifo file from the original so that the angles would work properly. I used ifoedit to fix the VTS sectors and add in values for the new subtitles. I was finally done!

The end result is the EditDroid ANH, but now with added features:

Alternate trailer (menu still refers to just trailer).
Non-removable Greedo subtitles in white AlternateGothic2 font (removable only if you select the other subtitles).
Full subtitles in white Arial Narrow font (Greedo in yellow) (selectable only with subtitle button on remote).
all of the original menus and features still work:
scene selection
optional isolated score
Ralph McQuarrie gallery
DVD-Rom features (mine also has the Blak019 Holiday Special wallpapers folder and PDF script as they wouldn’t fit on my modifed Holiday Special disc, with it’s added Conan O’Brien clip and more)
Jacket_p pictures

To complete this set I am simply going to make the ISOMIX Empire and Jedi with subs fit into the EditDroid menus, with Jacket_p and DVD-Rom features for both. All of the subtitles in this new set will now only be able to be selected via “subtitle” button. I just thought that if ever choose to watch the films with the isolated scores, it would be better if I could at least read what was going on.

Oh yeah- all of the subtitles appear in the black bar at the bottom, off of the picture. There are some subtitles in the full ANH subs that have three lines. For these only, the first line appears over the video.

I only have a 2X burner, but if anyone wants this set, which for me will be Disc 2’s to go with my 2004 DVDs, I can send one person a copy and they can distribute. I don’t have enough HD space to do the torrent thing either. It was really hard doing this project, after every step I had to delete the previous files.

Did anyone convert babyhum’s (or any other version) of this from PAL to NTSC? I could probably find a way to play it, but I would just rather have an NTSC version. I suppose I could do it myself, but seeing as how I haven’t get downloaded this (these) special(s), if someone has already converted it, I would rather get that version instead. So thanks everyone.

I made a new version of the KCCI Holiday Special where I added some extra clips, such as the Conan O’Brien clip and a “Wasting Electricity” deleted scene, among a few others, as well as scene selection. I had to leave off some of the DVD-rom content like the music, wallpapers and pdf script so it still fits on a DVD-r. I could send out a copy if anyone’s interested, perhaps as a trade for the NTSC H&V. The extra scences aren’t the best quality, but I think Rikter is working on something better.

Can anyone get the audio playing in this thing? Windows Media Player 10 tries to download a cedec and can’t, so it only plays the video. Most other players I’ve tried won’t play anything. I’ve downloaded various codecs, but nothing works.

I just realized that the Wal-Mart “Story of Star Wars” DVD was based on this collection from the VideoNow kids DVD player thingie:

The Story of Star Wars personal video disc

Now it seems discs one and two, “The Story of Anakin Skywalker” and “The Story of Luke Skywalker” are what the walmart bonus Sith DVD is comprised of. But what about disc 3- “Behind the Scenes of Star Wars”? Does anyone know exactly what this is or even have a VideoNow player or have kids that have a videonow player? I wonder if it’s the same as the content on one of the official DVDs? I am almost tempted to buy a VideoNow player just to find out. And yes, I did purchase Episode II on VHS just to get the “Star Wars Connections” bonus feature, which is similar to the Story of Star Warsm which I unfortunatly didn’t buy Ep3 at WalMart so I missed out on.