ChainsawAsh

Alright, now this is just getting out of hand...

I was ready for a rational discussion about the merits of the prequel trilogy, and look what I find...

I'm laughing too hard to have any sort of discussion right now, rational or not.

Nah, I wouldn't.  I'd get killed way too quickly in the Star Wars universe.

I would, however, agree to go to Mars for the rest of my life to set up a colony with a bunch of people I've never met, leaving everyone I knew behind.  So, there's that.

I finished watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel a few weeks ago, and I've since read Angel/Spike: After the Fall, the rest of IDW's post-ATF Angel/Spike/Illyria run, and Buffy: Season Eight.

I have to say, while I enjoyed Season 7 of Buffy (second-weakest of the series, mind you, but still good), "Season 8" started strong, got really good with the Fray storyline, then just devolved into WTF-ness very quickly.  Just waiting for #40 to come out so I can finish it, and decide if I should bother with Season 9.

Angel: After the Fall was absolutely fantastic, and I want a big-budget movie made out of it right now.  The rest of the series, post-ATF, was interesting at best, ridiculous at worst.  I'm looking forward to the final arc, though, and I'm excited for the new Spike series.

All in all, I'd have to say that Angel's series finale ("Not Fade Away") was much better than Buffy's series finale ("Chosen"), but that the season 5 finale of Buffy ("The Gift," which was constructed as a possible series finale) was better than either of them.  And "Smile Time" = amazing.

And that should be the last I have to say on Buffy/Angel.

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On another note, I started re-watching Fringe - I watched the first 5 or 6 episodes when they first aired, and dismissed it as an X Files ripoff.

Now apparently it's gotten pretty sweet, with Leonard Nimoy and alternate universes, so I decided to give it another shot.  I'm about 10 episodes in, I like it better than I did the first time (so far).

I, too, just finished watching Ady's ESB 1980 theatrical version on a 1080p projector with a nice surround system about three hours ago.  Loved every second of it.  Odd that we both watched it on the same night with pretty much the same setup...your name's not Kyle or Grant, is it?!

Googled "How to use jdownloader" - this is the second result.

That's all anyone can do to help you if you don't say exactly what the program is or isn't doing for you.  It's like going to the doctor, saying "it hurts," then getting offended at the doctor when he asks you where.

No one in this thread was being rude in any way, until you stubbornly decided that you didn't want our help anymore because you didn't like the responses you were getting (which were entirely reasonable from the get go).

Also, I never said what you were trying to do in the other thread was impossible - far from it.  You could do it, all I was saying was that on your system it could be a bit cumbersome and frustrating.

And seriously, dude, stop with this "nevermind, I give up" attitude when things don't go exactly your way.  You'll never get anywhere in life with it.

The way I look at it, the Death Star's superlaser only works on rocky worlds, not gas giants.  The laser dissipates when traveling through the dense atmosphere.

Hence, they can't blow up or shoot through Yavin - they have to go around it.

No, it's definitely both.  On the boat/gondola/whatever, when they're looking at the microfilm.  There's a nasty, hard jump cut, because the BBFC required them to cut the line "What a performance."  You can both see it and hear it - it's not subtle at all.

I love 2010.

Part of what I love about it is that it didn't feel the need to try to recapture whatever it was that made 2001 great - it is its own film.

Damn it, now I want to watch 2010 again...

I guess we'll always have to live with the jump cut at the end of From Russia with Love...

Dark_Jedi used G-Force's AviSynth script to make his versions.

I'd suggest waiting for DJ to release V3 of his set, but I'm not sure how much longer that's going to be.

Yes.  At least, I know it does on Mac, I'm pretty sure it does on Windows.

So...do you want me to make the guide, or not?  I was gonna do it tomorrow, but if you're not going to use it, I won't bother.

Also, Dark_Jedi's GOUT is fantastic, though V1 and V2 (currently available) went a bit far with the cleanup.  V3 is on the way soon, though, and it looks to be the definiteve GOUT restoration.

msycamore said:

I don't want to sound like an asshole, cause what Adywan did was really superbly done, but to say that he managed to restore the entire original film is to make some people dissapointed when they finally see it, it's a very well made reconstruction. Most of the subtle SE changes are still there, but as a stubborn purist I still highly recommend it.

This is true.  Pretty much anything that was recomposited (as in, not completely replaced by a new CG shot) has been left in.  Also, the "fix" to Han's shirt in the "I love you" sequence has been left in (the only thing that actually bothered me about Ady's restoration).

But for all intents and purposes, it feels like you're watching a high-quality version of the 1980 cut.

HandBrake is a great tool that I'm a big fan of.

Again.  That's storage space, not RAM.

All my friends hated that movie.  I thought it was dry, boring and poorly acted, but I loved the core idea.  Don't know if I could ever watch it again, either.

For working with the video.  Editing video costs a lot more RAM than most things you do with a computer.  Especially doing split-screen effects.

h.264 video in an .mkv container is my format of choice.  It's not as widely compatible as an h.264 MP4 would be, but it lets you keep selectable subtitles and AC3/DTS tracks, and I've found it to generally yield better video quality than .mp4's (why this would be the case, I honestly can't say, it doesn't make much sense to me since the codec is the same).

CS3 shouldn't be that different than CS4.  I don't think.  I'll let you know when I whip that guide up.

And I wasn't talking about your hard drive storage space (246GB should be plenty, as long as you're not using uncompressed video), I was talking about your computer's memory (RAM).  1GB almost certainly isn't enough.

I second the recommendation for Adywan's 1980 ESB restoration.  It's far superior to OCPMovie's "Classic Editions."

That's not what I said...?

I have Premiere.  Premiere would work.  I just rarely use it because I use more professional software (Avid).  I don't recommend it to you because it's really hard to pirate, and prohibitively expensive to anyone who isn't a student.  That and it has a very steep learning curve.

Premiere will work just fine.  I'm just asking which version you have, because it's possible that between whatever version you have and the one I do (CS4), they changed how one would go about doing a split-screen effect.

In fact, if you didn't know what to work with, I'd have suggested Premiere, as it's fairly powerful, but relatively easy to work with.

So, like I said, what version of Premiere do you have?

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Aaand I just noticed you said you only have 1GB of RAM.  I'd highly recommend at least 2GB, ideally a bit more (I have 4GB), for video editing.  That's probably why your system keeps crashing while using Premiere.

Maybe the video log shots could just be shrunk to fit in the 2.39:1 frame?  As in, black bars on the sides (which, I suppose, would mean windowboxing them, as it'd be black bars all around)?  I don't think it'd be distracting, and it'd make the video log shots feel different than the rest of the film, which they currently don't.

kenkraly2007 said:

I agree with that LFL has the money to make a new DI they just don't want to because to them it's expensive. But the puzzling thing is other studios can restore the classics and great films but why not Lucas with the OT? I support LFL and GL but me this is  puzzling.

Because he doesn't want to.  That's it.  He doesn't want people to watch the original versions, he only wants people to watch the new ones.  Which is why he released the GOUT in such appalling quality, and why he never released the 1997 SE on DVD.

Same goes for THX 1138 and American Graffiti.  He doesn't want people to see the studio-tampered theatrical cuts of those, just the restored cuts he got to release in 1977 after Star Wars became big.  Now, with THX, he doesn't even want people to watch that version - only the CG-ized "Director's Cut" he released on DVD in 2004.  He even CG'ed the opening shot of Graffiti for DVD, and I'll guarantee you he never lets the original version of said shot be seen again.

Sorry, that turned into a bit of a rant.  My bad.