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Guys, is here somebody who has either BLAK0002 and BLAK0003 or at least the laserdiscs AND hardware for capturing them ?

Congratulations to your baby Ed :-)

Is the software "clean" ? AVG claims there is a virus in the exe file and I downloaded it both from VideoHelp and from rapidshare (link on official web)

And will it allow me to keep the original menus ? It doesn't look like that from the tutorials on the website

Thanks, I'll try it

Well the screenshots look great :)

I am VERY glad you like it and VERY grateful for your sources, without them it would be impossible to do !

The "guys who created the menus" was actually the famous Van Ling and his team :-) Here is a short description about how they did the menus : http://www.eias3d.com/featured-artists/van-ling-star-wars-trilogy-dvds/

Baronlando said:

That was this: (it's pretty awesome)

http://vimeo.com/5494280

EXCELLENT video !

I apologize if somebody asked this before, but I wasn't able to find something similar.

I have bought the remastered Star Trek BluRays. The problem is that they don't have the Czech dub. I have the Czech audio recorded from the TV broadcast and I have synchronized them correctly to the video.

I want to take the official BDs, remove the German audio track, replace them with the new Czech audio track, and make a new BluRay disc which will have the same menus, same bonus features, but it will play the new Czech audio instead of the German audio .

I know how to do it with DVDs, I know how to do it with mkv files, but I have absolutely no idea how to do it with BluRay discs. Any tips ?

I want to do the same thing with the Clone Wars BluRays, but I want to add subtitles there, is it a different case ?

Thanks for any help

msycamore said:

That's what I tried to explain, those scenes should be darker and was originally, and later brightened for video.

Thanks ! My English is definitely not as good as I once thought :-)

msycamore said:

The scene with R2-D2 in the canyon where he is captured by Jawas was one of those sequences shot-day-for-night, they turned up the brightness for those scenes in the early days of home video, the '93 DC LD was the first time they didn't. You can even see when it occur as it's done step by step in the wipes.

Other such scenes are the shot of the Sandcrawler just before "Look, sir. Droids.", in Empire you have the scenes with Luke seeing the apparition of Obi-Wan on Hoth, Luke's arrival on Dagobah and his later encounter with Yoda. These were often presented in broad daylight in the old video releases.

But do you know how did these scenes look like in 1977/1980 ? Were these scenes dark in the original theatrical releases, later brightened for the home releases and in 1993 darkened again ? Or were they originally bright on both the theatrical release AND the home video releases ?

Thanks, I hope I will find the theatrical bootlegs "somewhere" :) I think I've seen the TB DVDs on myspleen

BTW I am sure the Episode 2 VHS has the theatrical version - I checked the ending a few minutes ago and it has the original hand of Anakin

I'll add the new covers to the torrent

Oh .... Yes, looks familiar, sorry :)

doubleofive said:

 

aalenfae said:

It's the "most" that concerns me. It's what started Star Wars down the path to destruction. 

Thankfully the people behind Trek know better, for the most part.

 

Thanks to Mike Okuda, God knows how would the Star Trek BluRays end without him

http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=929191

Akwat Kbrana said:

I would submit that the HD TV broadcasts of the '04 versions constitute better sources than the official DVDs, for obvious reasons.

Thanks for the tip, I added the HDTV broadcast to each film of the original trilogy

The final disc of season 1 will be up either tonight or tomorrow

I have a very complicated question for all of you Star Wars fans and COLLECTORS 😃

We all know that George Lucas is NEVER satisfied and keeps messing with his (and other peoples) movies from the Star Wars universe. That’s the reason why there are many different versions of each of the movies. Before 1997 the changes were done only in changing the color palette or doing a slightly different sound mix, or a different frame cropping, but after 1997 he went completely crazy and keeps even changing the lenght of the movies and the visual effects.
 

That leads me to 2 questions :

1. How many versions of each movie are there ?

2. What is the currently best available source for each version ? That including both the bootlegs AND the official releases

I’ll try to “summarize” what I remember from the time when I was a frequent reader of this forum, PLEASE CORRECT MY MISTAKES AND FILL ALL THE MISSING INFORMATION, Thanks !

Star Wars Episode 1 : The Phantom Menace< :

Version 1 : shown in some theatres, Darth Maul falls in 1 piece

Best source : ???

Version 2 : the “common” theatrical version, Darth Maul falls split in 2 halves

Best source : ??? (I know it was released on VHS, I have it, but it’s 4:3)
 

DVD version : extended pod race, + a few deleted scenes added

Best source : official DVD, HDTV version
 

BluRay version : see this for list of changes http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=123195

Best source : official 2011 BluRay
 

Star Wars Episode 2 : Attack of the Clones :

Version 1 : the original theatrical version

Best source : ??? (again, the official VHS is 4:3)

DVD version : a couple of visual changes, especially Anakin’s hand at the end

Best source : official DVD, HDTV version
 

BluRay version : list of changes http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=929191

Best source : official BluRay
 

Star Wars Episode 3 : Revenge of the Sith :

Theatrical version : almost identical to the DVD version except one shot

Best source : official BluRay for video ??? and what about audio ?

DVD version : video almost identical to the theatrical version, what about audio ?

Best source : official DVD, HDTV version
 

BluRay version : video “should” be identical to theatrical version, audio should be different

Best source : official BD
 

Star Wars (NO Episode IV) :

70mm 4.2 version : video identical to all versions, audio is a unique 4.2 remix

Best source : for audio - the hairyHen re-creation ?

35mm 2.0 version : video identical to all versions, audio is the common theatrical stereo mix

Best source : well - DJ V3 ???

35mm 1.0 version : featuring the wonderful mono mix

Best source : DJ V3 ???
 

A BIG QUESTION : In SOME early versions of the movie a different colour palette was used - e.g. the binary sunset scene was more orange/red (later versions had it blue/red), the R2 capture scene was bright etc. I always thought that these are the ORIGINAL colours - am I correct ?

Star Wars Episode IV : A New Hope :

1981 version : new title crawl, new starfield in the opening scene, new colours in the binary sunset and R2 capturing scenes (???)

Best source : ???
 

1985 version : Ben Burrt created a new sound mix, but was the video the same ?

Best source : ???

1993 version : new sound mix again, desaturated video with DNVR

Best source : GOUT ?
 

1997 version - “Special Edition” : new scenes, new visual effects, new sound mix

Best source : ??? Again, I have a VHS but it’s 4:3
 

2004 fucked up DVD version : the bad Star Wars parody with fucked up colours, fucked up sound, fucked up continuity …

Best source : the official DVD, the HDTV broadcast
 

2011 fucked up BluRay version : the bad Star Wars parody with fucked up colours, fucked up sound, fucked up continuity … which suddenly makes the 1997 edition look brilliant

Best source : the official BD

Star Wars Episode 5 : The Empire Strikes Back :

70mm theatrical edition : unique 6 channel mix, unique ending shot …

Best source : ???

35mm theatrical edition : reshot ending, stereo sound mix

Best source: ???

1985 edition : was this even different from the theatrical 35mm edition ?

Best source : ???
 

1993 edition :</span> was this even different from the theatrical 35mm edition ?

Best source ???
 

1997 Special Edition : many visual and audio changes

Best source : ???
 

2004 DVD edition : many audio/video changes

Best source : official DVD, the HDTV broadcast
 

2011 BD edition : many audio /video changes

Best source : official BD

Star Wars Episode VI : Return of the Jedi :

70mm theatrical edition : 6 channel mix, but video should be the same

Best source : DJ V3 ?
 

35mm theatrical edition : was the video different ? There was a stereo mix

Best source : DJ V3 ?
 

1985 version : was it ANY different ?

Best source : ???
 

1993 version : was it ANY different ?

Best source : GOUT DVD ?
 

1997 Special Edition : tons of changes

Best source : ???
 

2004 DVD version : tons of changes

Best source : the official DVD, the HDTV broadcast
 

2011 BD edition : tons of changes

Best source : the official BD

Any changes / corrections / additions ? Thanks a lot

JonesyDaves said:

I hate to be "that guy", but is there any way this can be uploaded to a public tracker? I'm very interested in this whole project, but unfortunately have no access to myspleen.

Check this thread : http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Once-upon-a-time-on-MySpleen-NEW-Star-Wars-Category/topic/12652/ - walkingdork used to send invites to everybody who asked him

After I finish my Ewoks project I plan to do something similar, but I don't want to do whole "extended versions" of  movies, but only to collect ALL scenes from all releases and include a proper beginning and ending to each scene

grummel2005 said:

AvP said:

Corrected the covers :)

Where do we get them?

 

thx a lot!!!!!

Good question :)

Thanks for the link. A BluRay release would be awesome

After reading the title of this thread I thought Warwick died or something

Last night I have seen Empire of Dreams after a long, long time (maybe even the first time since 2004). I have immediately noticed a few things about the movie clips :

Star Wars

•  original crawl, no "Episode 4 A New Hope"
• orange/blue binary sunset scene
• blue lightsaber during the training sequence
• correct colors of the final shot

Empire

• correct lightsabre colors
• orange tint in the corridors of the cloud city

Jedi

• correct lightsabre colors
• original "burnt-in" Jabba subtitles
• "correct" Darth Vader ending

The shots were desaturated, but their colors look just like the screenshots

from the theatrical bootlegs. Was there any official explanation, where do these shots come from ? Or any "good sounding" theory ? :)