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ChainsawAsh

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#1155947
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

The more I think about it, the more I hate TLJ. Sorry, but I do. It is just my opinion.

I think in my head cannon, the OOT happens in the main universe and the PT, SE, and ST happen in an alternate universe.

canon*.

And I thought we had this argument where you were intransigent that I couldn’t do that with Star Trek Discovery, and you couldn’t do that with the Star Trek Kelvin Universe, because the show/movies didn’t straight up say we could.

Oh yay, this fight again.

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#1154682
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Need an objective eye. Having trouble with this MKV file
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No, you’re missing the point. The file itself isn’t Blu-Ray or AVCHD compatible at all. Doesn’t matter how you burn it, unless you convert the file to add the extra lines of resolution to get it to 1280x720 exactly (black letterboxing bars on top and bottom), it won’t play.

Same goes for a DVD - it’s an HD file, so already it’s not DVD-compliant, but even if it wasn’t HD, it’s missing the required letterboxing to fill out the 720x480 frame an NTSC DVD requires.

You should, however, be able to put the file as is on a USB flash drive and plug it into your Blu-Ray player (or even your TV), and the file should play just fine.

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#1154661
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Need an objective eye. Having trouble with this MKV file
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It’s not a Blu-Ray compliant file. The black bars on top and bottom are cropped out, so it isn’t full 1280x720 pixels, which is a requirement for a Blu-Ray. You’ll need to reencode the video to add black bars, which will (at least slightly) affect video quality.

Not sure what the best program to do this would be, someone else will have to chime in on that.

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#1153669
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How do you sort your movies?
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Physical:

DVDs, Blu-Rays, and the two UHD Blu-Rays I have are all mixed together. Video games are separate, and those are further separated by console (PS3 vs PS4 - if the PS4 was backwards compatible I’d mix them the way my movies are).

Alphabetical by title, including TV shows. Series are grouped together, alphabetized based on the “series title” (that is, the Bond movies are under “J” for “James Bond,” the Hobbit and LOTR movies are under “M” for “Middle-Earth,” and then you have your “standard” ones like the Bourne movies under “B”).

Digital:

I rip all my movies and put them on KDLinks HD720 media player (with a 6TB HDD inside). Movies and TV shows are in separate folders.

Movies in a series are labeled like this:

Marvel (01) (Iron Man)

Or:

Star Wars (04) (A New Hope)

That way the series all stay together. Remakes have the year in parentheses, and anything that isn’t the original theatrical cut has that in parentheses as well - so, “Blade Runner” is now “Blade Runner (01) (Blade Runner) (Final Cut)”.

TV shows are broken down into season folders within the series folder, with the year of each season being in front. Movies that are part of a TV show’s continuity are in the show’s folder within its own folder. So X-Files, for instance, goes:

1997-98 - Season 5
1998 - Fight the Future
1998-99 - Season 6

And so on.

I use numbers instead of years for the season folders if necessary (like my Clone Wars folder, which is in chronological order rather than broadcast order).

I think that’s about it…

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#1152966
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Return of the Jedi: A Gentle Pruning (* unfinished project *)
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Hal 9000 said:

Trying to bring the knife to ROTJ, which I had previously resolved not to do, while learning an aggravating new NLE with a baby on the way in a month… probably wasn’t a great idea. And posting a thread for it right away might have been even worse.

I feel your pain there. There are more than a couple old project threads floating around the forum I started years and years ago that I never finished. I’ve got a few things I’m working on now that I won’t announce/make threads for until I know completion is in sight.

Sorry to hear you’re putting this on hold, but I certainly understand your reasons.

Sucks that FCPX is so different than FCP7. I remember when X was announced during my last year of college, a lot of the other guys in my post-production program had nothing but awful things to say about it. A couple swore off Final Cut altogether in favor of either Avid or Premiere because of it.