Star Wars: Deleted Magic Revisited

An unofficial, not for profit DVD. Support the official releases by Lucasfilm ..... especially if they ever release any of this material in DVD quality. Deleted scenes. Alternate footage. Editing secrets of the Star Wars trilogy. In March 2005, I created a DVD called Deleted Magic and released it for free, on a non-profit basis, on the internet. It was very popular. I'm told that Clive Young's book Homemade Hollywood called it "The best documentary ever made on the making of Star Wars." In 2009, I decided to revisit the major deleted scenes of Star Wars . Most of these scenes had only been released in low quality, 12 frames per second, on CD-ROMs in the late 90s. I used the program Twixtor to generate new frames and restore these scenes to 24 frames per second - not a perfect solution during fast motion, but jaw-droppingly successful during dialogue scenes, and an improvement that is like night and day. I combined a multitude of new sources within the same frame to restore the Jabba the Hutt scene. I animated a shot of Luke and a Treadwell droid, and a shot of Ben attacking with his lightsaber during the Cantina sequence. I have restored these scenes to a quality never seen before, and placed them on this disc for you, edited into the original, unchanged Deleted Magic feature documentary from 2005. Enjoy. -Garrett Gilchrist, June 23rd, 2009 With many thanks to: Mark Johnson Brad Cook Peter Lopez Jambe Davdar (Jabba the Hutt scene) A note that the special features also appear in slightly better quality than on the original Deleted Magic ... ripped directly from other fine fan DVDs. The 1977 crawl does not appear this time round due to disc space (I had intended to use the version from my own Star Wars Classic Edition 2.0). Slightly different menu music this time round. You might find subtle references to two of my other fan DVD projects. The object of Deleted Magic Revisited was to recreate my original Deleted Magic DVD from 2005, but with new versions of five major deleted scenes. I had edited these scenes in 16x9 aspect ratio to preserve their quality. However, the original Deleted Magic was edited in a 4x3 aspect ratio, due to the many different sources used in the film, and the onscreen captions. So, it was impossible to place the new material into the film seamlessly. Instead, there's an ugly jump as to another track as your DVD player switches ratios. I tried to place these switches in inconspicuous places, reediting some material from the original Deleted Magic in 16x9 to make the transitions easier. Not a perfect solution - in fact it shows the slightly ropey quality of the original Deleted Magic! Murky black levels etc. The new material looks a bit shinier/better. I've recreated the functionality of the original Deleted Magic DVD, not an easy task, as it's a very complex DVD full of subtitles, photo galleries, many chapters and tracks, "stories", alternate audio, different versions of things ... I retyped the extra subtitles, recreated the image galleries, etc. Enjoy this new version!

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tygerbug (2009-06-24)

At the Youtube account ocpmovie2, you can see previews of this new material. There is also more information about the new edits at the message board at Orangecow.org.

tygerbug (2009-06-24)

If you ONLY want to download the new stuff to watch, or want to download the new stuff FIRST ..... the new stuff is in the following files, in the VIDEO_TS folder:
VTS_03_1.VOB - Treadwell
VTS_05_1.VOB - Biggs 1
VTS_07_1.VOB - Biggs 2
VTS_09_1.VOB - Cantina
VTS_11_1.VOB - Jabba

ElArqui (2011-01-21)

Amazing, thank you !

RaKinstack (2013-04-23)

Fantastic compilation! Thanks so much!! Will be checking out your other projects..