ChainsawAsh

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Post: #291175
Topic: Ripping DVDs on a Mac
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/291175/action/topic#291175
Time: 24-Jun-2007 9:50 PM

Thanks very much - I love Mac, but it does take some getting used to. Thanks for all the help.

Post: #291130
Topic: .: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/291130/action/topic#291130
Time: 24-Jun-2007 11:15 AM

You guys apparently don't really understand the work that has gone, and still has to go, into this project. It's too bad you're too damn impatient to let these guys do what they've been doing. They don't *have* to get it done when you *want* them to get it done, and if you donated money, that's something you should have realized before you donated, and no, they don't "owe" the people who donated anything. Does the Red Cross owe you something if you donate money to them? No, and neither do the X0 guys. I know, the two aren't the same thing, but the word "donating" does have a certain connotation to it, don't you think?

In other words, lay off, they don't have to be doing this, and they're not doing this "just for you."

--edit: I started posting this before your post, dark_jedi - it was directed toward ronlaw and fffff more than anything.

Post: #291103
Topic: Ripping DVDs on a Mac
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/291103/action/topic#291103
Time: 24-Jun-2007 2:06 AM

Got it to work - it was something quite stupid, but it's working fine now.

Any suggestions on setting up MPEG StreamClip with a m2v file as input and a DV-AVI as output? I tried and it didn't seem to work (said the AVI was corrupt or something like that).

Post: #290959
Topic: Ripping DVDs on a Mac
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/290959/action/topic#290959
Time: 21-Jun-2007 7:56 PM

Okay - I tried to rip Episode III to edit it, and my MacBook Pro didn't even recognize the disc as being there. That's the first thing I've tried to rip, and I haven't tried to rip anything else. Suggestions?

Post: #290902
Topic: .AVI to DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/290902/action/topic#290902
Time: 21-Jun-2007 1:16 AM

If you downloaded the AVIs, they're probably ~700MB DivX or Xvid files, correct? If so they'll probably look like crap burned to DVD on any TV.

But if you want to convert them, there are several programs - I used DVD Santa on Windows cause it was easy, and I was able to find it free (there's a trial version, but you don't want that). There are others around, but I can't vouch for anything else 'cause I didn't use any of them.

Poke around VideoHelp.com - a lot of useful information there.

Post: #290901
Topic: Ripping DVDs on a Mac
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/290901/action/topic#290901
Time: 21-Jun-2007 1:14 AM

I just tried out Bits On Wheels and it works fine for me.

The only problem is I got quite spoiled on Windows and was used to being able to select the files I wanted to download, which would make getting the mono Rubber Soul a lot easier as the only place I can find it right now is buried in a huge torrent of all Dr. Ebbetts' Beatles releases (at least it claims to be such - it really isn't). I'd rather not download 8 gb of crap for the 300-500 mb I'll need.

I now have Toast 8.0.1, MacTheRipper 2.66, and MPEG Streamclip now as well. Thanks for your suggestions - it all works great. I'll have to get SheerVideo later at some point (at least the Intel version is cheaper than the UB version) - I'm getting FCS some time this week, much much cheaper than retail at my college's Apple store ($395 I believe).

Post: #290811
Topic: Ripping DVDs on a Mac
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/290811/action/topic#290811
Time: 20-Jun-2007 12:51 AM

Fantastic - thanks for the information!

A few other things, though:

What's new in MacTheRipper 3 that's not in 2.66 that would merit me looking for it instead of just getting 2.66?

Also, is there a BitLord-esque BitTorrent app for Mac? I've tried several that haven't worked, such as Azureus - it won't work due to ports being closed or something, an issue I had on Windows as well, and I still can't figure out how to fix it, but BitLord always worked fine without me having to fiddle with any such thing. My only other request for a torrent client is the ability to selectively download, but I can live without that if I find a client that just works.

Thanks again, and I'll look further myself.

Post: #290720
Topic: Ripping DVDs on a Mac
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/290720/action/topic#290720
Time: 19-Jun-2007 3:17 AM

I just recently got a MacBook Pro with money I received for graduation. The main reason I bought it was for video editing (which is what I'm going to college for). Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a decent way to rip a DVD on a Mac. What I'd like is a DVD-Shrink-like program to rip the VIDEO_TS folder onto the hard drive, and then something to convert the VIDEO_TS files to HuffYUV AVI files for editing in Final Cut. I don't yet have Final Cut Studio 2, which I'll be getting shortly, so if that has something of the sort with it, I'll just wait for that.

I'd also like to find a Nero-equivalent for burning .FLAC audio files and VIDEO_TS folders to DVDs, if anyone knows of anything. I figured it'd be faster and I'd get more reliable suggestions here than if I tried to search Google for hours and hours, weeding through a bunch of shit that doesn't work or works poorly.

Thanks.

Post: #289990
Topic: The Sopranos Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/289990/action/topic#289990
Time: 11-Jun-2007 4:36 PM

It doesn't end. Life goes on as usual - just because we can't watch it anymore doesn't mean it's over. All the major story arcs have been resolved, and so what if it's not a neat and tidy ending? Life doesn't have neat and tidy endings, and since when has The Sopranos?

I thought it was quite good and fitting. That is, after letting it soak in for 24 hours. At the time I was royally pissed.

Post: #288860
Topic: Graduation Day
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288860/action/topic#288860
Time: 2-Jun-2007 7:22 PM

Meh, shit happens.

Post: #288859
Topic: Was ricarlette a racist?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288859/action/topic#288859
Time: 2-Jun-2007 7:21 PM

Originally posted by: Arnie.d
And we thought ChainsawAsh was fucking terrible at assuming things

(no offence ChainsawAsh)

None taken - I am in real life, too.

Post: #288706
Topic: Graduation Day
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288706/action/topic#288706
Time: 31-May-2007 10:23 PM

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Since this is rob, I have a feeling he's talking about an entirely different kind of experimentation.

In that case ... no. Not in the slightest.

Dunno why that didn't cross my mind the first time - it *is* Rob ...

Post: #288616
Topic: Graduation Day
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288616/action/topic#288616
Time: 31-May-2007 12:35 AM

Originally posted by: Rob
Have you considered doing a little bit of experimenting in college? I would recommend a college on the west coast.

If you're talking about experimenting in the way I assume you are, I've already tried LSD, and decided I'm largely done with that sort of thing (not because it was a negative experience by any means - it was overwhelmingly positive, and it made me aware of a lot about myself I didn't know before - one such thing being that I don't find it necessary to fill your body with chemicals in order to feel good. You should feel good already.)

But I doubt that'll stick. And I'm going to a liberal arts college where several of my "experimental" friends are going as well, so if I choose to return to those ways, I'll have little trouble even if I am in the Midwest.

Post: #288225
Topic: Graduation Day
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288225/action/topic#288225
Time: 27-May-2007 8:31 PM

I graduate June 10th. Then I go to our last day of school on the 11th, where I'll get my diploma. Irritating.

But after that, in August I'm going to Columbia College Chicago to study film editing - hopefully I'll get enough $$ from graduation to get a decent computer before then.

Post: #286301
Topic: Hi Definition adopters food for thought
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286301/action/topic#286301
Time: 12-May-2007 12:56 AM

To clarify, I'm not siding with Darth Solo - I think the idea of "ultra HD" replacing - or even being considered to replace - 1080 HD in home theater setups is ridiculous, but I thought it would be interesting to show the vast difference in detail.

Given that more and more movies each year are shot in 1080p24 (Superman Returns, Sin City, Revenge of the Sith ... ), they wouldn't benefit from any higher resolution than 1080 anyway - what you see on your HDTV is the best it'll get. 1080 is a very high resolution, and perfect for home theater viewing - and I think 4K would be great for digital theater. UHDV is almost too much - people that have seen it in action have suffered motion sickness due to the extremely realistic level of detail.

In other words ...

With the rate technology is currently advancing i ask if its really worth being at the cutting edge of technology at this given time?

Yes. It is.

Post: #286147
Topic: Hi Definition adopters food for thought
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286147/action/topic#286147
Time: 11-May-2007 12:17 AM

I don't think that's an actual frame from the film, so it may not be the best comparison.

For this, I started with differently-shaded gray boxes, each at their correct ratio (720x480, 1920x1080, 4096x2160, and 7680x4320), then cropped them for 2.35:1, keeping the original width. Each was layered on top of the other, then the whole thing resized to 1080HD size. Then I brought in the Blade Runner film frame, which was in HD 1080, so the largest one, here representing UHDV, is really HD 1080, and the others are scaled to represent what each would be in comparison to UHDV. Unfortunately, I had to resize it for Photobucket after that, but the idea is brought across IMO.

I had 2K on there too, but it was so close to 1080 HD you couldn't see any of it, so I cut it out.

I think this gives a better representation of what Darth Solo's talking about, since it's an actual film frame, not a promo image (although, again, I could be wrong about that).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/chainsawash/Comparisons.jpg

Post: #286085
Topic: The "Stereo Mono Mix" / XP Series - comments and ramblings / suggestions welcome
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286085/action/topic#286085
Time: 10-May-2007 4:46 PM

I don't know either, but the second one looks better.

Post: #285985
Topic: Notebook or desktop ... ?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285985/action/topic#285985
Time: 9-May-2007 11:35 PM

I'm graduating from high school in a month. For fall semester, I've been accepted to Columbia College Chicago with a major in Film & Video, concentration on Film Editing.

With my graduation money, I'm going to buy a computer for school. A Mac is my only choice, to run Avid Xpress Pro with the possibility of also running Final Cut Studio, among other uses. So here's my question: A Mac Pro desktop, or a MacBook Pro laptop?

Here's the hardware configurations I've narrowed it down to:

MacBook Pro
17-inch widescreen display (1680 x 1050)
2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
3GB RAM
200GB hard drive
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 (256MB)
8x "SuperDrive" dual-layer DVD burner
Three USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 400 port, one FireWire 800 port, one ExpressCard/34 slot
Total: $3,255 (with student discount)

Mac Pro
23-inch widescreen HD display (1920 x 1200)
Two 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" dual-core processors
4GB RAM
750GB hard drive
ATI Radeon X1900 XT (512MB)
Two 16x "SuperDrive" dual-layer DVD burners
Five USB 2.0 ports, two USB 1.1 ports on keyboard, two FireWire 800 ports, two FireWire 400 ports
Total: $5,148 (with discount)

I am on the fence as to which I should chose. I'm looking for any and all suggestions, advice, etc. ... anybody have any ideas?

Post: #285975
Topic: Little Shop of Horrors
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285975/action/topic#285975
Time: 9-May-2007 11:02 PM

Originally posted by: Nanner Split
I'm actually planning a stage show of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" to perform at my school next year (even though I'm graduating this year). It'd be sort of a combination rock show/ stage show, and I've already talked to my friends/bandmates about it as well as my drama teacher, and they're all for it. I'm just trying to get all the copyright stuff out of the way first before I go talk to the school admins about it.

You might run into legal trouble with that, as Waters is preparing a Broadway production of it if memory serves. Last year I was actually kicking that around, and I realized that if you're going for a linear story in it, it can be done a la Tommy, but it works best if you insert "Have A Cigar" (from "Wish You Were Here") after "Goodbye Blue Sky" to show Pink's rising to rock-star status, slipping in visual references to his getting married within those two songs before you get to "Empty Spaces" (or "What Shall We Do Now?") and "Young Lust."

Post: #285840
Topic: Little Shop of Horrors
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285840/action/topic#285840
Time: 9-May-2007 12:22 AM

I was just joking - Marquette made it when they did their production a few years back and we stole it.

I've never been to into musicals as I can't dance and I can't sing like one would need to in a musical, but I've always wanted to - and I'm sure I could - do The Who's Tommy. I've tried to convince my school to do it to no avail, and one of our community theatres did it when I was too young to know I was interested in The Who or theatre, but still recently enough that they don't want to do it again.

But I love straight plays - I was Paravicini in The Mousetrap my sophomore year, Charlie in Amateurs my junior year (my favorite part to play ever), Aide Warren in Dunes Summer Theatre's production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (the only person under maybe 20-25 in the play and I played an adult), and Peter in Footlight community theatre's production of The Diary of Anne Frank the next year (playing someone two years younger than I), with the lady that played Nurse Ratched in Cuckoo's Nest and the director of Cuckoo's Nest (who happen to be married) as my mother and father, which was fun, even if the play was very wrenching to do, especially 3 weeks in a row.

And not to get this thread even more off track than I already have, but does anyone know anything about Fuddy Meers? I wanted to audition for it but unfortunately missed the date, but I was told by my friends that I would have easily made it in.

Post: #285734
Topic: DVD Shrink Error
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285734/action/topic#285734
Time: 8-May-2007 12:45 AM

I'm not trying to shrink it, I'm trying to rip it.

And I didn't think about DVD Decrypter ... I never reinstalled it after reformatting my hard drive ... I'll try it.

Post: #285648
Topic: Little Shop of Horrors
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285648/action/topic#285648
Time: 7-May-2007 12:42 AM

Originally posted by: Darth Richard
I was just in Little Shop of Horrors as well!!!!
Our plant looked cooler

, and no one can beat our Seymour and Audrey

PS: Don't Feed the Plants!

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a349/moonwalker723/IMG_0896-1.jpg

That looks just like the plant we used in our production of Little Shop two years ago ... you didn't happen to go to Marquette High School, did you? Cause we stole ours from them ...

Post: #285632
Topic: The Now-Released Spider-Man 3 Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285632/action/topic#285632
Time: 6-May-2007 8:53 PM

I was disappointed in the campiness of "evil" Peter, as well - it reminded me too much of Superman III. Then Venom, who is my absolute favorite Spidey villain ...

--SPOILERS--

... gets 2 scenes, 50% of each with Topher Grace's face plastered over the REAL one, and then he BLOWS UP. I was furious.

Other than that, fairly good - Harry's arc was fantastic.

But it really should have been Harry, Venom and The Lizard, if they needed a third villain at all, but I think Harry and Venom with a SUBSTANTIALLY larger role should have been it.

Post: #285121
Topic: DVD Shrink Error
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285121/action/topic#285121
Time: 1-May-2007 5:12 PM

This is the third topic I've posted in this section in a week, and this is the first week I've ever even gone into this section ... wow ...

Well, anyway, I'm trying to rip my DVDs of TAKEN onto my computer to attempt a ridiculously complicated edit that will probably never get done. But the problem is, although Disc 1, 2, 4, and 5 all ripped fine, disc 3 keeps giving me this error when it gets to 50% on the initial analysis:

DVD Shrink encountered an error and cannot continue.

Failed to read file "E:\"

Data error (cyclic reduncancy check).

That's if I try to do a full disc backup. If I use the Re-Author feature, I get this error when I try to put Title 1 in there:

DVD Shrink encountered an error and cannot continue.

Failed to read file "E:\"

Copy Protection Error - The read failed because the sector is encrypted.

Burning with NERO is disabled, analysis is not running in low-priority mode, all previews are disabled, and "enable overlapped I/O" is enabled (I tried changing that the first time it didn't work, and it didn't make a difference, so I left it).

Any help with this?

Post: #284995
Topic: Limewire Help
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284995/action/topic#284995
Time: 30-Apr-2007 10:21 PM

I use BitLord, and I only download torrents that are in lossless .FLAC, .APE, or .WV format (i would include .WMA lossless, but I dont trust those cause .WMA could also be lossy and they claim it's not). Then I burn them to a CD for a hard-copy, and I rip them to my computer as 320 kb mp3.

NOW - I know you're probably thinking why I'd do that, but this is a shared computer and I don't want to eat up the hard drive, which is why I burn the lossless CD's. I'm getting a MacBook Pro this summer, and then I'll rip everything onto that in ALAC (Apple lossless) for myself.

By the way, anyone know where I can find the Dr. Ebbetts Beatles UK Singles and UK EP collections in lossless? I found the singles in OGG Vorbis, but not lossless ...

Oh, right - yeah, I don't know about your Limewire issue. Sorry.