logo Sign In

timdiggerm

User Group
Members
Join date
23-Jul-2010
Last activity
13-Sep-2025
Posts
3,424
Web Site
https://macrobinoculars.wordpress.com/

Post History

Post
#600836
Topic
General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
Time

Tyrphanax said:

"The programmers of www.StarWars.com put up a temporary webpage with mocking the "Godzilla" campaign with a poster lettered with the green glow reading "Plot Does Matter - May 1999", in reference to Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace."

This made me laugh out loud.

In all fairness, TPM has a deeper plot than a monster movie. It's true.

Post
#600130
Topic
The Unofficial Complete REVISITED SAGA Ideas and Random Discussion Thread
Time

muddyknees2000 said:

Actually, before the PT existed I always assumed (and very much enjoyed the thought) that they'd preserve the father reveal when they DID get around to making them.

Interestingly, growing up, I never thought this. I always figured that the surprise would be ruined, but that was okay - It'd still be a great movie.

Post
#598970
Topic
Info: General Terminator 1 &amp; 2 Discussions.
Time

Darth Balls said:

There is a new remaster of this just coming out on bluray in the UK and Europe but unfortunately without the mono soundtrack.

Would be cool if someone put the mono soundtrack over this new video

Comparison between the Lowry remaster (2012 UK Blu-ray) and U.S. Blu-ray:

http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/147851
http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/147849
http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/147847
http://www.screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/147840

That 2nd shot. The bluuuuue. :(

Post
#598157
Topic
Free &quot;farewell&quot; Screening of 1977 Star Wars collector's print (British I.B. Technicolor)
Time

jero32 said:

" I saw on another forum today where someone is claiming to have the print copy we screened and they are claiming to be scanning it."

...I wonder if this is the "news" negative1 said we'd find out in a couple of years.

No, this is definitely a reference to MVerta, who has access to a different Technicolor print.

Post
#597621
Topic
Info Wanted: Star Wars - The Temp Track...
Time

Just remember to put a password on it. And tell us the password.

 

Pucini's Manon Lescaut's "Intermezzo"  synced with the Binary Sunset scene, more or less: https://vimeo.com/49986231

I used a sync on youtube of the scene with the "Binary Sunset (alternate)" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvt5LLrqLYU) as a template, as that's what Williams would have written first in response to the temp track. After rendering, I realized that my drums are in a different spot... but it still seems to work, so I dunno. Such is the way of doing things with Windows Movie Maker.

Post
#597562
Topic
Info Wanted: Star Wars - The Temp Track...
Time

Two more attempts!

Holst's "Mars" from The Planets, with the 2nd half of the Death Star battle: https://vimeo.com/49983321

This was entirely based on the really, really, really obvious quoting of the ending when the battlestation blows up. I have no idea if the whole battle was done like that, although it has its moments.

And the Throne Room, with the 4th movement from Dvorak's New World Symphonyhttps://vimeo.com/49984156

Both of them have a few points where you wonder if a different recording, slightly different in tempo or timing or whatever, would synchronize better. It's probably impossible to figure out which version they threw in there originally though, and frankly I'm surprised that certain moments match as well as they do. So I'll live with that.

Later, I should have the Pucini's Manon Lescaut's "Intermezzo" / Binary Sunset up.

Oh, and, as always, the password is OT. We're so secure.

Post
#597514
Topic
Info Wanted: Star Wars - The Temp Track...
Time

Leonardo said:

timdiggerm said:

Or perhaps you'd like to see them synced. https://vimeo.com/49975294

This is already great as it is, but I'd love to see it overlayed on this,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxXormkENVI

with voices and effects intact. The black and white really adds to it :)

Tried that, and the sync wasn't nearly as good IMHO. I don't think it was the right length, etc. Given that that's from an early cut of the film and Williams would have been given the final cut, such a sync probably never even happened.

Post
#597482
Topic
Info Wanted: Star Wars - The Temp Track...
Time

Or perhaps you'd like to see them synced. https://vimeo.com/49975294

There are other versions of Benny Goodman playing Diga Diga Doo, but the timing on this one seems good to me.

And here's the opening crawl with the Ivanhoe opening: https://vimeo.com/49976347

I think I should have done the timing a little differently, but I'm not sure there's really a good way to get the crawl to appear when the music sounds like it should and still have it all start together.

And of course the password is OT