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Collipso

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#1170325
Topic
Star Wars Episode I: Cloak Of Deception (Released)
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ChiefWamsutta said:

Is there any place that we could find the newest versions of “Cloak Of Deception”, “The Approaching Storm”, and “Labyrinth Of Evil”? The newest version is V5, right?

V5 is not out yet, the newest versions are 4.2. You can check a Reddit post by Hal in r/fanedits and you’ll find what you’re looking for. Or pm him 😄

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#1170304
Topic
Return of the Jedi: A Gentle Pruning (* unfinished project *)
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darth_ender said:

OutboundFlight said:

May I suggest you cut all of the Emperor’s scenes before the confrontation? Neither of the scenes add anything besides the Enperor bossing Vader around (which sort of diminishes his character). With constant allusions to the Emperor (Moff being scared, Yoda’s warning) there would be a lot more tension when Luke meets him if we haven’t either. It would let the audience build him up throughout the movie.

That is an interesting idea. My only question is how to get him on board the Death Star without revealing him. Perhaps wipe to new scene while he descends the ramp of his shuttle so we only get a brief glimpse of him with his face obscured.

You have the Mon Mothma line saying that he’s overseeing the completion of the Death Star himself and that he’s there, so I don’t think that’d be a problem.

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#1170210
Topic
The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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chyron8472 said:

I saw a Youtube video that posited that Holdo calculated to hit the ships at the moment before the ship entered hyperspace, when the ship was travelling at relativistic speeds, and applies physics to it to explain why it makes sense (and yet sort of doesn’t).

Nerdist: The Physics Behind The Last Jedi’s Coolest Scene! (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1M95njhovw

With regard to how it doesn’t makes sense, he says that if the math works out, her ship hitting the fleet at relativistic speeds should have atomized the entire fleet rather than merely breaking the ships in half.

I guess that the scene established that the GFFA doesn’t obey this specific law of physics, and at the same time it does. I mean, it obeys it, but the result is only a fraction of what the actual result IRL would be. I guess that also means that the power of the impact any Rebel cruiser could create on the Death Star wouldn’t be enough to destroy it?

Anyway, I remember leaving the theater and overhearing a considerable amount of people (even the people who I went to watch it with) asking “why didn’t she simply lightspeed herself into the FO before? Or why have they never done that before? It’s so useful and overpowered…” So even if I don’t have a problem with that I totally understand why some people would.

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#1170101
Topic
Random Thoughts
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Thanks guys, maybe I’m crazy.

Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:

Collipso said:

What’s Pulp Fiction’s original aspect ratio? I rented it on TV to watch it 2 days ago and it was 2.35:1, but I seem to remember watching it a couple of years ago and I think the aspect ratio was 16:9. Am I crazy, or was there a release with a different aspect ratio, or has it always been 2.35:1?

I had it on VHS in the 90’s and the aspect ratio was 2.35:1

I remember because at the time all I had was a 14" TV and the movie looked tiny!

Hahaha yeah, we used to have a pretty small TV back home too, and some movies were barely even watchable! Some very fond memories of that TV.

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#1170045
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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It’s insane to overlook how affected Poland was by the holocaust in negative ways. However, it’s just as insane to overlook the sins that the Polish committed during the holocaust, commanded by nazi Germans or not. Heck, even though I haven’t watched Schindler’s List in a while, I’m pretty sure there’s even a scene with Polish people saying “goodbye jews! Get out” and stuff like that when the Jews were being relocated. Not the best source for credibility either, but still.

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#1170029
Topic
Star Wars Episode II: The Approaching Storm (Released)
Time

Is it too late to suggest an alteration in the opening crawl? A minor thing, just the way the first paragraph is structured.

Instead of “In the decade following the Invasion of Naboo, dissidence has fragmented the galaxy. Over a thousand solar systems have revolted against the Republic.” Make it “Dissidence has fragmented the galaxy. In the decade following the invasion of Naboo, over a thousand solar systems have revolted against the Republic.”

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#1170022
Topic
How to add black bars to video
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This should be relatively easy since I’m under the impression that most people here are technical geniuses, but I have no clue how to do this.

Let’s take Adywan’s ESB:R, for example. It’s 1280x544 (2.35:1), and that’s not as good as it can be to me for 2 reasons:

  • I want to burn it into a Blu-Ray disc.
  • Subtitles overlap with the video and sometimes are hard to read.

So how do I add black bars to the top and bottom WITHOUT losing quality but still making the video a 1280x720 16:9?

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#1170015
Topic
The Force Awakens: Starlight (V1.1 Released!)
Time

Dr. Krogshöj said:

Episode VII
THE FORCE AWAKENS

The last of the Jedi Knights has
vanished. In his absence, the
NEW REPUBLIC is blind to the
menacing threat emerging from
the remote fringes of the galaxy.

A mysterious leader has unified
the remnants of the fallen
Empire under the banner of the
FIRST ORDER and resolved to
build the deadliest weapon the
galaxy has ever seen.

The only force standing in their
way is a brave RESISTANCE led
by the war hero Leia Organa.
Desperate for allies, the vigilant
general has dispatched her best
pilot to find traces of last Jedi…

I quite like it. Even though I know you followed most of this, here’s a very good and interesting guideline:

SparkySywer said:

Something I wanna include though is my pet peeves on the language of the crawl. ANH and ESB follow all these rules, and RotJ follows most of them. The prequels and the sequels break a lot of them, but since they’re prequels and sequels, they’re not really good examples of what Star Wars is.

Rules:
-There are three paragraphs.
-The first paragraph has one short sentence, and one long sentence. (Broken by RotJ)
-The other two paragraphs are one long sentence each.
-The last paragraph ends in an ellipsis.
-This ellipsis is 4 dotted. (Broken by RotJ)
-The first paragraph gives a general description of the state of the galaxy, the second paragraph gives a more relevant description of the state of the galaxy, and the third paragraph describes the opening scene. (Broken by RotJ, but it doesn’t stray too far)
-Maximum one capitalized phrase in the crawl.
-This capitalized phrase covers important, new information central to the more specific plot of the movie (Broken by RotJ, but again it doesn’t stray too far)

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#1170009
Topic
The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
Time

yotsuya said:

chyron8472 said:

I saw a Youtube video that posited that Holdo calculated to hit the ships at the moment before the ship entered hyperspace, when the ship was travelling at relativistic speeds, and applies physics to it to explain why it makes sense (and yet sort of doesn’t).

Nerdist: The Physics Behind The Last Jedi’s Coolest Scene! (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1M95njhovw

With regard to how it doesn’t makes sense, he says that if the math works out, her ship hitting the fleet at relativistic speeds should have atomized the entire fleet rather than merely breaking the ships in half.

Hyperspace is another dimension. I think we can safely say that no living physicist can calculate what entry into another dimension would entail. Likely it wasn’t completely annihilated because the ship was only partly in this dimension so the power was reduced. Applying physics to science fiction and FTL is problematic.

I don’t think it’s another dimension. It’s never established as so.