I have already contacted him about getting the videoo, and he is willing to do it for a fee. I'll pay it if no other source comes up, but i want to make sure i can abtain the HBO airing first.
Good news all around. Here's hoping the video looks good.
Maybe that user could shed some light on how to cap NF in HD.
I would ask, but my CG account got cleaned out, and registration is always full.
Hell yeah. I always thought something was off, but couldn't quite place it. Would be interesting to hear.
mrbenja0618 said:
MrInsaneA said:
TV's Frink said:
I'm guessing you could do something with the tracks in Audacity.
Thanks a ton Frink. I'll certainly look into it.
Also, just one more quick question, I'm kind of on the fence about whether or not I'm going to end up dubbing the Nemoidian's voices. Any thoughts regarding that?
I think all Gungans and Neimodians should be completely redubbed, They were that awful to me.
Concur. Backwards foreign language sounds like backwards foreign language.
Claims of a 2.54% speedup:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBtPDAbAkPE
And from http://www.cedmagic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2390&sid=d603c06c11095db46d9cc38e0c227b6c
Stars Wars was issued on CED as 24543-11309 ( NTSC) and 24543-38381 ( PAL ). The entire movie is on one Videodisc and the running time listed on the caddy cover is 118 mins.
The first trail mastering for this title was a 2 disc set. This was 24534-07005. The running time on disc one was S1, 41 mins and S2, 53 mins and for the second disc S3, 28 mins. This is a total of 122 mins.
From http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/star-wars.html
...the CED is slightly time compressed causing the CED player and LaserDisc player to rapidly fall out of sync. Time compression was used on the CED to fit the movie and end credits into the 120 minute limit of a single CED disc (this limit was increased to 126 minutes in 1984).
msycamore said:
SilverWook said:
How does the pan and scan process actually work? I can't recall reading anything that went into the nuts and bolts of the process. Are shots panned and scanned during the transfer process or after?
I have no idea how it really worked, sometimes the operator was even forced to make new cuts in the middle of a scene instead of panning back and forth between the important sections of the action, IIRC it happens several times in the SW transfers.
reave said:
Fingers crossed that your tape looks decent, but even if it doesn't, I would still like to make a preservation disc of it.
If the version aired on HBO really is the one used on the LD's and CED, you could maybe take use of those if you want better quality for the main feature. Like russs15 described, time-compressed meant it was just sped up by 4% just like PAL-speedup, so I think a simple conversion should do the trick.
While using the CED/LD version might technically be the same, and would work in a pinch if the true HBO airing couldn't be obtained, I would much prefer to find the original. The time compression used for the CED/LD is likely different than the PAL speedup, as its intended purpose was to fit the running time to the formats limitations, not a framerate issue. It would also be missing the HBO watermarks.
I'm sure a reasonable facsmile could be approximated, but it wouldn't have quite the same feeling.
Fingers crossed that your tape looks decent, but even if it doesn't, I would still like to make a preservation disc of it.
Star Wars: Clone Wars.
G1 Transformers or Beast Wars?
SilverWook said:
Wish I still had a copy of this. Would make for a great cover?
That would make a great cover. If a high res can't be found, it wouldn't be too hard to replicate.
Need a preservation to wrap it around first though :)
Now The Wonder Years is on Netflix streaming. Got to find a way to cap all this rare stuff.
silverwook, i have a way oof getting the full intro in dvd quality. It will cost a little money, but I'm willing to pay it if you think you can get me a copy of your betamax version.
One would think, but I honestly have no clue.
Growing up a huge Star Wars fan, I was of course beside myself when HBO started airing Star Wars. I would basically leave HBO on all the time, and the second I heard the Fox fanfare, I would run into the living room, hoping and praying I would see “A LUCASFILM LIMITED Production”. More often than not, I was disappointed, as it wasn’t Star Wars playing, but when it was, anything I was doing or had planned to do that day came to a screeching halt, and I would again be absorbed into the adventures of Luke Skywalker.
Then we got a VCR, and everything changed. I made a copy of Star Wars, and to this day I have no idea how it survived the amount of times it was played. Later on,
When the LaserDiscs Came out, I promptly bought those and my SW tapes were filed away.
Recently, having been assaulted with the shiny, new and “improved” Star Wars, I have been craving a way to watch Star Wars that truly takes me back to the “good old days”.
So long story short, I’m trying to find a copy of the original HBO airing of Star Wars, as seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESg_adb6sJE
I’ve already asked the uploader if still has a copy, but he informed me that his copy has been tossed, minus a copy he made of the intro.
I ran across my VHS tapes recently, but unfortunately I had taped my LaserDiscs over the original taping.
Does anyone have a copy of this?
If I can’t find a real copy of this, i’m considering making a recreation of it, with a copy of the intro, and a time appropriate version of SW, adding some old VHS effects.
Does anyone know which version might have played on HBO? I would assume that it would have been one of the same prints that made its way onto a VHS or LD version.
Awesome. I've seen a couple episodes, but I've always wanted to see the whole series. Definitely interested in seeing a preservation of this.
8K Scan of Slightly Faded 70mm print of Star Wars with 4 track sound
Thundarr the Barbarian
or
The Herculoids?
Better than touring endlessly on stale material. I lost interest after automatic for the people.
That's the spirit. :)
The best anyone can do is clean up their side of the street and move on.
Part of the point of this is to move past whatever issues people may (or may not) have had in the past, not to dig up the old.
We love OT, and that is all. :)
One of them being me. You helped me a ton on my first fanedit, and I've always appreciated that.
i have netfliz. i tried that guide, but nothing seems to happen. i'll tinker with it some more later.
netflix streams to pc, xbox,360, ps3 and some mobile devices.
