I am burning the Star Wars Trilogy to a VCD.

[Heyo]

I am too po' so far to get even the cheap DVD burner they have at Wal Mart.

But I managed to score 6 files from eMule that are the original trilogy from 1993 that came off the Laserdiscs. (2 files per movie)

I really wanted those because I think that is the last time the 3 original movies were released without any additional edits done by (egomaniac lunatic, despite his genius) George Lucas.

Each file is about 700 meg, and takes up about one full CD burned to VCD format, so it's 2 discs per movie.

I already got Empire Strikes Back burned to the 2 CD's. Most DVD players will play VCD and Super-VCD format, so I did this so I am able to watch the files in my DVD player, on regular CDR's, and you know the quality is pretty damn good. About as good as a VHS tape, only in the widescreen letterbox format.

I used NeroVision, which you can create a background, so I found a picture of the Empire Strikes Back poster on some site, and then loaded that pic into Photoshop, and moved it to to the left side, since it's tall and thin, so it's the poster on the left and the the right half of the screen is black, then I divided the file up into chapters, which NeroVision lets you do.

The for each chapter you can select a screen shot to go inside a little box representing that chapter, and can add text.

So I've got the poster on the left, and the boxes on the right with the chapters that you can navigate, which makes for a sweet ass looking background. I also found this mellow remix of the SW theme song with some percussion to use as background music for the menu.

Man, these things are coming out into nice little packages, for not having a DVD burner, I've been able to do alot with 700mb CD's.

I finished Empire and now have the first disc of the first movie encoding/burning right now.

I am not one of those Star Wars nuts, but I really have been yearning to watch the original movies lately, it's been so long, and I am not interested in Lucas' edits... I am just not. And now I can watch them, nice quality, right on my DVD player, with regular old CD-Rs. Life is good.

:bounce:

Heyo

[gmoney]

1. Smart move...

Lucas really pissed all over those movies with his little "additions" -- the South Park guys were right with their committee to save movies from their directors.

Maybe we can warm his heart with a cool island song...

[Heyo]

2. Um....

....are you sure we don't need to cool his heart with a hot island song?

:shrug:

I'm so confused..

:dunce:

Heyo