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#168272
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Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
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Coov's already done three variations of the official cover for Jedi. My choices is on red and combines the "Revenge" red poster with the characters from the familiar poster. I'll post it with text soon.

I don't know what you mean by a common design style - there IS a common design style, but not based in the posters you're thinking of, which are all alternates.

The red Vader cover is not my chosen cover for Empire. It's an interesting alternate, certainly, but it's not the basis of my design style. It's a great poster and I'm glad it got used on something. Go Coov!

I don't know what you mean by the first Star Wars Classic Edition cover "I" did either. I never did a cover for Star Wars Classic.

My official poster for SW is the "wood" style one by Coov.

http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-nonocp/classicwood-coov.jpg

My official Empire poster is the Japanese/Australian inspired version, either on snow and metal or on black.

http://orangecow.org/starwars/swcovers-ocp/empireclassicnewweb.jpg

My work on Coov's template. Coov would pick his "style A" cover over this one I think - but I didn't want to use the Style A, as it's the "common" poster and I'd chosen style D for Star Wars, I wanted a more obscure yet good poster. This proved a huge headache, as I don't have a good scan of the Australian poster anywhere. Still don't! The Japanese poster was altered to get the current version, and it took foreverrrrrrrrr.
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#167965
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC & PAL DVD
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>>>I know there's lots of material of models being made, effects being designed etc, but I am looking for more of the behind the camera/alternate angles stuff along with different takes and bloopers etc. You'll see what I mean when you get your copy of 'Building Empire'.

You kind of need to roll with what's available, and create a different style for this project. The making of material for Jedi is so legendary that you need to base your style on that.

>> I would be interested to see what resources you compiled / what ideas you had for the ill fated "Deleted Magic: ROTJ".

You can get a pretty good idea from the trailer on Deleted Magic, and the "Making of Lapti Nek/Lapti Nek" feature, as well as the "Creatures Go to England" bit on Return of the Ewok.

The deleted scenes from Empire and Jedi would have been covered with script readings .... the extended Obi-Wan scene and the sandstorm being my big choices from Jedi ... but in the DM clips you can see that I was working to combine Classic Creatures and From Star Wars to Jedi into a coherent whole --- since they share the same footage and ideas behind them. I took pains to combine sections of, say, the English language Lapti Nek ("Fancy Man") heard in bits in both specials (there's also a nice snippet in Return of the Ewok, but I hadn't seen that when I made Deleted Magic). So you hear Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and probably in the final version Billy Dee Williams trading off on narration, and it's synced to the real extended music video.

Making of footage for that short snippet was chosen by how funny it was.

In "The Creatures Go to England," I again edited the two specials together to get a longer more coherent whole.

The trailer of course comes from the VH1 special, the outtakes reel, and Empire of Dreams ... as with Empire.
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#167730
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Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167730/action/topic#167730
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Okay, this is a shoutout for help.


It's occurred to me that a good way to add some extra value to the dual layer version, without screwing up the single layer version, is to add DVD-ROM extras. These will simply be deleted from single layer copies, but add extra enjoyment to the dual layer, without changing the encode in any way. (The Story of Return of the Jedi album will be on there, I know that.)

What would really be nice would be to include the specials related to Return of the Jedi.


I'm talking AVI or MOV encodes of Return of the Ewok, Classic Creatures, From Star Wars to Jedi, maybe even the Horizon ILM special ... and Jedi-related toy ads from the era.

That kind of thing.

I have about 1 GB to spare ... so encodes between 100 and 400 megs, you know the drill.

I don't have the time to spend encoding these properly myself ... but if anyone has encodes, or can encode them, I'd be very grateful.

And I can guarantee one thing - if anyone gets me a nice quality encode of Return of the Ewok, I will include a version on this disc with Warwick Davis' commentary, which I didn't put on the DVD!
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#167707
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Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167707/action/topic#167707
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There is one main menu, and two different versions of the "options" menu. I liked the emperor one too much to not use it somewhere.

The "emperor" menu is almost an easter egg, actually - it doesn't appear when the disc first loads, but replaces the carbonite menu soon after.


I've just put on some pretty extensive easter eggs. =D About 9min worth of extra video.

I could have gone even crazier with them, but I don't want to stuff the dual layer up too full, as I'd like it to still be shrinkable to single layer size without ruining it - most people will be watching it that way.

Also, some of the easter eggs I wanted I couldn't get to rip right for some reason.
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#167636
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Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167636/action/topic#167636
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Chapter selections match and are from the 2004 DVDs.

The isolated score is courtesy of Editdroid. I don't hear the sail barge music in it (I expected something sourced from one of the Making Of specials), but there is an instrumental version of Lapti Nek which took me by surprise. Don't know source on that.



Almost ready. A lot of people have already asked me for this disc, and I'll be fulfilling that soon.

The sound, which was in sync when I used the Cowclops audio, magically went all out of sync again when I used the 2004, so I'll have to redo it from scratch as I did Empire.
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#167450
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Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/167450/action/topic#167450
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Here at long last are the menus.

http://orangecow.org/starwars/rojclassicmenu1.jpg

The style is exactly the same as Empire Classic. And fits well with Star Wars Classic as well. As with the previous two, Van Ling's great menus were modified to fit this version (which is my comment on how the official DVDs have been modified to fit this version).

http://orangecow.org/starwars/rojclassicmenu2.jpg

Music: "Ewok Celebration!"

http://orangecow.org/starwars/rojclassicmenu4.jpg

Music: "Lapti Nek!"

http://orangecow.org/starwars/rojclassicmenu3.jpg

Music: "Emperor's Theme."
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#166917
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STAR WARS: the alt.binaries.starwars thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/166917/action/topic#166917
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Answering quick questions -

Yes, there is an auditions disc from OCP (me). It's sourced from a bootleg VHS bought at Comic Con one year.

Nothing fancy, but it's different from Rikter's (slightly better I think) and contains really high quality versions of The Saga Begins and the Richard Pryor Cantina, sourced from official DVDs in both cases.

Some people have it. It's known as OCP's audition remix.


>> Movealong, are there also DL Versions of Episode IV and V from OCP?

No, Star Wars and Empire were created specifically for the single layer format and a dual layer was not attempted.

Actually, a slightly dual layer version of Empire does exist. It's about 5 gigs I think and it's never been released. It might come out when Jedi does. But the extra data is SO slight that there is no visible quality difference whatsoever from the single layer. Which explains why it was never released!
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#166638
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Classic Edition: Return of the Jedi by Ocpmovie (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/166638/action/topic#166638
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>> I don't understand why this is a problem? The PAL and NTSC versions contain exactly the same frames of film, it's only the speed on playback that's different.


I edit in 24 FPS mode, and Final Cut Pro had real trouble reading all the frames in the 25 FPS version. It would always ignore the 25th frame no matter what I did. Hm. I'll probably fix this before burning the final problem in some fashion, but it was definitely an annoyance.