ChainsawAsh

Ghostbusters said:

I'm just waiting for Adywan's input on all this now. Hurry up Adywan, I'm getting impatient and it better be good.

Here's what I'm reading from this:

"Once Adywan gets here and proves that I'm right, you'll be sorry!"

Really?  It's a matter of opinion.  It doesn't matter how many people agree with you, or how many people agree with me.  Neither of us is right or wrong when it comes to Apple vs. Microsoft.

Besides, a lot of the things you've said in this thread to "back up" your opinion happens to be outdated, or simply incorrect.  Adywan could easily do all of the Revisited saga on a Mac, he just chooses not to, for his own reasons.

When I say that OS X can do all this stuff, I'm not claiming that Windows can't.  I'm just saying your belief that OS X can't is inaccurate.  That doesn't mean you have to like OS X or Apple.

But that also doesn't give you a license to go on this crusade to prove Apple users are stupid, or whatever it is you're trying to prove here.

I see a little bit of a blue tint to the stars, but it's not nearly as much as the Jedi GOUT.

Also, most stars aren't really white, anyway.

Frink has posted 3x more in six months than I have in five years.

Wow.

Open-matte films tend to get released into theaters still open-matte, meaning it's the projectionist's job to frame it properly.

I've seen an open-matte film in a theater framed so badly that subtitles were cut off on the bottom, and boom mikes dipped into frame on top of the screen all the damn time.  I complained to the manager, and they said "that's the way the studio gave it to us," and refused to fix it or refund it.

I saw the same movie - at the same theater - a few days later with some friends, and it was framed properly.

I stand by what I said - I'm fairly certain this was never meant to be watched without the 1.85:1 matte.

Holy balls, those Yavin shots look awesome...

And I agree, the cantina isn't too dark, it looks great that way.

Seeing as how xhonzi sold his for $75, I'd say you can definitely get more than $13 for it.

Wow, Frink, I can't believe how quickly I forgot that you were a newbie here less than a year ago!

I've never seen the short version.  What was cut?

I think your tweaks look fantastic, DJ, and I'd venture a guess that it's the the best it can look without going scene-by-scene.  I wouldn't expect you to be willing to do that.

I do have to say that I'd be quite disappointed if you decide not to use your tweaks in the final V3, too.  I still think I'm going to do a scene-by-scene coloring for my own use sometime down the road, but if the screencaps are any indication, your tweaks will please the vast majority on here.

I know that I didn't find this site until (not long) after the 2004 DVDs were announced, so it's quite possible that the "mission statement" changed when the DVDs were announced.

Not intentionally, no.

Yeah, that's the way I remember it - the petition was made in response to the news that the 2004 DVDs would only have the SE's.

(I know that my profile says I joined mid-2004, but I was a lurker with no account for quite a long time before then - I don't remember if I found the site when it first started, but it was close.)

Warbler said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Out of curiosity, why are you quoting religious scripture in a thread about computers?

it was joke.  You seem to be wanting people to take a bite of the apple, just like the serpent.

Aaaah, gotcha.  Not sure how I missed that one.

To be fair, I'm not trying to convert Windows people to OS X - I'm just trying to set the record straight when it comes to "Macs can't do _____" type issues.

My roommate ran in here asking what was wrong, 'cause my laugh apparently was so loud it sounded like I was in pain.  Thanks for that, Bings!

(Yes, that's right, I'm calling you Bings now.  Get used to it.)

I'd say you've got a winner here, DJ!

Yeah, I maintain that a single film-wide color correction in AviSynth will never yield results as good as scene-by-scene work in Avid, FCP, or Color (or any other NLE that has a color-correction function).

Damn, those look pretty great!  There might be a tad too much red in the highlights (looking at the Tantive IV walls and stormtrooper armor), but it's barely noticeable.

Also, gotta say, I still love those subtitles!

About to go down to the fantastic Mexican place a block away and get a couple of Super Tacos (yes, they're called Super Tacos on the menu).  Fuck yeah.

Out of curiosity, why are you quoting religious scripture in a thread about computers?

To be fair, I haven't used iTunes 10 on Windows yet.  Maybe they've fixed things.

Warbler said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Also, I will state here that iTunes on Windows blows giant monkey chunks.  It wasn't designed for Windows, and it works like shit on it.

hmm, I use iTunes on Windows and have no problem with it. 

Every time I use iTunes on Windows, I click on the icon to open it up.  Then I wait ... and wait ... and wait ... and after maybe a minute, iTunes finally shows up!  Yay!  I can listen to my music!

Click ... wait ... nothing's happening ... okay ... click ... click ... click ... NOTHING'S HAPPENING!!!

Wait ... the four clicks I made just occurred all at the same time, and now I'm listening to something really fucking weird that I had no intention of ever listening to!  Okay, press spacebar to stop ... music continues for five more seconds ... ah, there, it stopped!

Okay, click on "The Who" ... wait ... wait ... wait ... there we go, iTunes has now opened "The Who!"

Double-click on "Overture" from "Tommy" ... wait ... wait ... wait ... there we go!

Time to quit iTunes?  File > Exit ... wait ... wait ... wait ... wait ...

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ctrl+alt+del ... "Force Quit" iTunes ... wait ... wait ... wait ...

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And that's why I hate iTunes on Windows.

Why is white no longer white in those color-corrected shots?

I got into a big argument once with someone who insisted that The Professional, Léon: The Professional, and Léon were a trilogy of three distinctly different movies.  They simply would not believe that they were three different titles for the same movie.

PCs have a lot more compatibility with add-ons that he uses for Adobe After Effects

Probably.  More people use Windows, so there will be more add-ons made for the Windows version of After Effects.

The thing is, After Effects add-ons are there to make complex tasks simpler.  If you already know how to do the complex task, you don't need the add-on.

they are not powerful enough to handle what he does

Wait, what?  That's bullshit.  I don't believe Adywan said that.

That's a hardware issue.  It has nothing to do with whether you're running Windows or OS X - if you don't have enough RAM, or a good enough video card, then yeah, it won't be able to handle high-quality video work.  The same thing is true on Windows.

Also, for Adywan to work on a Mac, he'd need to spend a lot more money on his equipment, since - as I've conceded in this thread - Apple products are overpriced.  So naturally he'd stick with the less-expensive hardware.

he can expand storage/memory/videocards on the fly

You can do that with a Mac Pro insanely easily.  Apple laptops and iMacs, yeah, probably not very easy, but Mac Pros are more easily customizable hardware-wise than any Windows machine I've ever worked with.

I hope Adywan sees this and adds his opinion to all this because he's going to own you.

Haha, I really don't think Adywan gives a flying fuck about Mac vs. PC.  He uses a PC because he's used to it, he taught himself PC-centric workflows for what he does, and it's cheaper than working with Macs.  You could very easily do everything Adywan does on a Mac, and I don't think he'd contest that fact.

Besides, "He's going to own you"?  What the hell?  Are you twelve?  There isn't a right or wrong here - Microsoft and Apple both have their pros and cons.  Which one you choose is a personal decision - I'm not wrong for choosing Apple, and you're not wrong for choosing Microsoft.

The main reason I'm responding to all your complaints is that you seem to have a very distorted, incorrect view of what Macs are, so I'm trying to correct your inaccuracies.  That's all.  I'm not trying to get into a pissing contest with you here.

I'd be really annoyed if it turns out to be bookended by Elijah-Frodo reading the story from Bilbo's book...