Possessed

I heard it was more of an idea...  a belief that keeps us all going when things seem tough.

You're right, rules only apply to other people, what was I thinking.  :P

(joking, I know you don't really think that)

^^ Hilarious.  I laughed out loud when the kid dove head first into the wood chipper by accident.

My favorite is the ion canon.

Guess you don't have to send it then

We went off topic for a while, then were asked to get back on topic, made 2 or 3 on topic posts, then went off again.  Same ole, same ole.

Depending on how long you've been gone there might be some photos of the degobah set you haven't seen yet.

My grandfather passed this morning.

Send them:
"Hey fuckwad, get your tits out of your ass and transfer that shit from 35 mm film, or else you can just sniff my scrotum."

That should do it, it's a nice balance between knowing what you want and being rude.

But then other socks would have to be allowed too and that would just be a nightmare.

So is Alice Cooper still in the mix?  I wholeheartedly support that.

Definitely be kinder and softer.  The poor guy's just doing his job, and look at it from his perspective, going to 35 mm film to transfer "The Magic Schoolbus" wouldn't exactly be the best business move.  Plus the way you word it all sounds a bit challenging, which will get you nowhere.

Oh ohhhh mmmmm mmmmmmmhmmm ohhhhhhh

I wouldn't send it, and I definitely wouldn't mention that script to him if you did.  I showed you that script so that you could possibly use it yourself.  lol

Surely he knew that already.  I figured he just thought it was a pornsite using meatwad to seem clever.  lol

Can anybody provide any input at all as to what might be the best available sound mix for ROTJ?  Is it the theatrical?  The 93 laserdisc?  The 97 mix?  The 2004 mix (just kidding we all know it isn't that).  The BD mix?  Any help would be appreciated.  These are the mixes I have.

Yeah I know, I think that's just the guy's username on forums he goes to.

And I'm pretty sure that disclaimer is just a legal thing, like something he has to say or else he might possibly ruffle some feathers.

Frink, in fact, IS Cthulhu.

No, that was a lie.

       SPOCK

Fascinating. 

I don't think it actually retraces it now that I'm looking at it, it just sortof implies that it does.  It doesn't really work to restore deteriorated cartoons of poor quality.  It's more aimed at modern/well preserved cartoons where the SD versions are still high quality, like straight from a DVD, and just makes it look good in HD.  You can give it a try though.

http://www.l33tmeatwad.com/anime-upscale

I tried it with my Inuyasha DVD's, looked fantastic, but they were digitally drawn to begin with so the only artifacts present were merely DVD/MPG artifacts from the encode.

The impression I got from the email from the scholastic guy was that he finds it too costly to actually transfer from the 35 mm film again, and is just going to upconvert SD footage like people did with sections to try and make hd preservations of the OOT.

Since it's animated, it actually could look decent.  I have a really good script (by have I mean have, not creator of) for upscaling cartoons to HD that really gives good quality and looks a lot better than simply "blowing up" 480P to 1080P.  It partially retraces things automatically, fills in solid colors (removing artifacts) and other things, and just basically makes it look like an hd cartoon that just wasn't insanely detailed.  I looked for a screenshot example but I don't have any.

Danfun128 said:

"'reassembling' hd versions from the film" is what Star Trek: The Next Generation did with its blu-ray release, and it looks all the better for it.

Actually, I was under the impression that the next generation blu rays really were hd transfers from film, and then reassembled.  That's what the information prior to release hyping it up said anyway.

Sounds like the raw animations were done to 35 mm film, but were "assembled" (editing, timing, syncing with audio etc) to video, meaning the 35 film has the animations only, completely unedited with probably no titles or anything like that.

Also sounds like he mulled around the idea of "reassembling" hd versions from the film, but decided it would be better to just upconvert the video from SD.

Ryan McAvoy made a mistake.

Thankskilling!