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#625337
Topic
Disney Acquires LucasFilm for $4.05 billion, Episode 7 in 2015, 8 and 9 to Follow, New Film Every 2-3 Years
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Cobra Kai said:

Not if you talk to the younger fans who grew up with the SE's and have never seen the OT.  Some of them only know of the originals as being basically  "rough cuts" with "missing scenes".  And yes I have actually seen that exact quote recently on a message board. 

That's a tricky issue. If not for technical difficulties and/or lack of time/money, wouldn't a character called Jabba have been in "Star Wars"? Wouldn't there have been more Wampa action in ESB? And wouldn't there have been a sandstorm scene in ROTJ? or B-Wings?

So, the "artist" was limited by problems. I can see the rough cut perspective.

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#625297
Topic
LEC games: X-Wing, TIE Fighter...
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Yeah, keeping your wingmates focused on objectives is really crucial, because otherwise they really are dumb as bricks. I seem to remember obsessively commanding them to attack over and over as I approached the enemy for initial engagement, just to make sure they stayed on course, tight with me. There might even be a way to tell them to form up with you? Not sure what, but potentially ctrl+f.

You know, I bet we could find the keyboard reference sheet somewhere.

Anyway, I would then command them to attack any time I switched targets, so that our firepower was always combined. Hypothetically this wastes shots (If my shot destroys the enemy, and they fire after I fire, they've wasted energy), but I think effectively it turned out much better. Targets were destroyed faster overall, killing flights of targets piece by piece instead of all at once, which gradually decreases enemy shots fired over time (per flight) instead of all three gunboats or whatever ending at once and all having equal time to get off shots.

At least, that is my memory of years ago.

EDIT: Also, back then, I had to play with a mouse. I had a joystick briefly but it broke. Gosh flying with a mouse is a pain.

Later, I played most of XWA with a steering wheel and pedals.

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#625088
Topic
Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1
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Jenova said:

Hey, does anyone know if there is a ac3 file floating around anywhere that includes John Williams revised ending music "Victory Celebration" and matches up with the Despecialized Edition? I'm a film score buff and I think Williams Special Edition music ends the trilogy on a way more epic note. It is the only thing missing in these Despecialized versions that I feel keeps them from being perfect (although I understand that isn't necessarily the intent). Harmy, would you ever consider making one for the fans who actually like the new music that we could mux in ourselves?

Given that the 97/04 ending to ROTJ, which uses the Victory Celebration, is a different length than the 83 ending, this would not work without some editing of the music.

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#624844
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Idea: my first steps into a larger world
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Although I really like the idea, the way it works right now is a little problematic. One establishing shot of the Jedi's ship, and we abruptly cut to a room of characters we've never seen, who talk for a bit, and then right back to that spaceship. If you can move the Palpatine's office scene to a little later, perhaps introducing those characters better, that would help a lot. I do like the idea, though, other than losing Valorum.

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#623892
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What's the status of the Originals? (the theatrical cuts of the Original Trilogy)
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danny_boy said:

I actually have the priviledge of having watched them on a Sony 4K projector and it is brutal on optical composite effects shots/duplicate negative  material.This is not the fault of the projector---it is merely accentuating the limitations of the technology used during the making of these films.

Limitations that were obscured by the photochemical analogue dulpication processes of the late 70's("less is more") when the film was running in theaters(be it 35 or 70mm) and also by the low resolution displays when these same films hit VHS/Beta/V2000/laserdisc aswell as (8mm and 16mm home movies).

And that is why, despite what some on this forum hope, we'll never get the OT released in HD with the original compositing.