the Fiddler
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It seems that the new DVD releases, which will finally give us "all" the original episodes, probably won't have the true original episodes. They'll have the new edited up ones without old Indy or whatever. At least that's what I'm getting by reading between the lines and looking at LucasFilm's past record. I just don't see them doing all that work to create these new "movies" and then going back and giving us the original Chronicles on DVD.
So here's the idea I've been rolling around for a while: Make our own set from the best sources available. There are several sets of the original Star Wars trilogy on DVD available through bittorrent. The torrents can be found at the www.originaltrilogy.com forums. I been thinking of doing something similar with Young Indy. We could start with the LaserDisc set sold here on ebay. Transfer these 15 episodes to DVD (plus the behind the scenes feature), then start looking for other sources (maybe somebody has some beta recordings of them, or if not then VHS), to finish the set. I would color correct and do what I could to make them the best transfers possible within reason. Then they could be made available to true Indyfans through bittorrent. Maybe in two forms: a made to burn to DVD set, and a DivX set for download to computer only.
I'm doing a side business, to put myself through college, of converting people's old videos to DVD and various video editing and conversion stuff like that. So I'm going to get or already have certain equipment needed to make this happen, such as the Canopus TwinPact100 which will clean up analogue video as is converts it to digital. This I can justify buying on my own, as an expense that will pay itself off. However, I don't have the same justification when it comes to $350 for Young Indy LaserDiscs and a LaserDisc player (remember I'm just a college student, and live from check-to-check that I get from my video projects). I don't have the money to do it on my own. And wouldn't want to do it for just myself anyway. If I'm going to do all that work, I might as well make it available to everyone or at least all true Indyfans.
So I'm wondering if anyone has any great ideas on how people might be able to contribute to some sort of fund or something, so I could get this stuff and start making these DVD's for everyone? The problem is, I don't want to just say, hey donate to this non-profit paypal account that's in my name. You guys don't know me and I don't expect you to just say "sure, we'll throw some money at you," with no way to know if I'm for real. But I haven't thought of any other ways to make something like this work. In fact, mostly what I'm needing is just the money to purchase the LaserDiscs. I may be able to borrow a LaserDisc player from a friend of a friend, in return for converting some of his LaserDiscs to DVD. So really the only expense I'm not covered on is the LaserDiscs. Any ideas on how best to raise the $350? Assuming some of you are interested.
In fact we could get everyone involved, and have people make disc lables and DVD clamshell covers, and perhaps even menus (depending on how many go on a disc) and all that. As well as contributing their original tapings of the shows from when they originally aired and such. This way, everyone who really cares and would like to have their own set of the original Chronicles, could have just that.
What do you all think?
So here's the idea I've been rolling around for a while: Make our own set from the best sources available. There are several sets of the original Star Wars trilogy on DVD available through bittorrent. The torrents can be found at the www.originaltrilogy.com forums. I been thinking of doing something similar with Young Indy. We could start with the LaserDisc set sold here on ebay. Transfer these 15 episodes to DVD (plus the behind the scenes feature), then start looking for other sources (maybe somebody has some beta recordings of them, or if not then VHS), to finish the set. I would color correct and do what I could to make them the best transfers possible within reason. Then they could be made available to true Indyfans through bittorrent. Maybe in two forms: a made to burn to DVD set, and a DivX set for download to computer only.
I'm doing a side business, to put myself through college, of converting people's old videos to DVD and various video editing and conversion stuff like that. So I'm going to get or already have certain equipment needed to make this happen, such as the Canopus TwinPact100 which will clean up analogue video as is converts it to digital. This I can justify buying on my own, as an expense that will pay itself off. However, I don't have the same justification when it comes to $350 for Young Indy LaserDiscs and a LaserDisc player (remember I'm just a college student, and live from check-to-check that I get from my video projects). I don't have the money to do it on my own. And wouldn't want to do it for just myself anyway. If I'm going to do all that work, I might as well make it available to everyone or at least all true Indyfans.
So I'm wondering if anyone has any great ideas on how people might be able to contribute to some sort of fund or something, so I could get this stuff and start making these DVD's for everyone? The problem is, I don't want to just say, hey donate to this non-profit paypal account that's in my name. You guys don't know me and I don't expect you to just say "sure, we'll throw some money at you," with no way to know if I'm for real. But I haven't thought of any other ways to make something like this work. In fact, mostly what I'm needing is just the money to purchase the LaserDiscs. I may be able to borrow a LaserDisc player from a friend of a friend, in return for converting some of his LaserDiscs to DVD. So really the only expense I'm not covered on is the LaserDiscs. Any ideas on how best to raise the $350? Assuming some of you are interested.
In fact we could get everyone involved, and have people make disc lables and DVD clamshell covers, and perhaps even menus (depending on how many go on a disc) and all that. As well as contributing their original tapings of the shows from when they originally aired and such. This way, everyone who really cares and would like to have their own set of the original Chronicles, could have just that.
What do you all think?