Erik Pancakes

jedimasterobiwan said:

clarity isn't the issue he has with it. it's that some of the colors are wrong, contrast is wrong it's much better  but not 100% on the 4k mastered ghostbusters 1 but not ghostbusters 2. plus there's black crush on ghostbusters 1.

 I wasn't talking about clarity, I was talking about color.

I don't know, the 2014 Blu-Rays feel more theatrically accurate to me. The old DVDs are the ones that look off to my eye.

Yeah, I'd use Burn, make it a data disc, put the BDMV (and, I guess, CERTIFICATE) folder in there, and burn it to disc using the UDF 2.50 file system. Hopefully that should work.

I've also seen some reports that AVCHD compatibility with PS3's is better if you don't include the CERTIFICATE folder (which doesn't have anything in it anyway). Not sure how true that is, though.

Maybe try using Burn? It's free and seems to allow for UDF file systems...

I think AVCHD discs are supposed to be in UDF 2.5, but I'm not positive.

You definitely don't want HFS+, that's Mac-only. I'd go with UDF+ISO9660 myself, but ISO9660+Joliet might work too...

Just looked into it - you definitely need to burn in UDF 2.50 for it to work on a PS3. UDF+ISO9660 won't work.

Finally got around to watching Fargo.

Holy crap. I didn't think a TV-show remake of the movie would be worth watching at all, but it got so much positive buzz (and, you know, Emmys and such) that I had to give it a shot.

To my pleasant surprise, not only was it not a remake of the movie - it's actually (sort of) a sequel to it! (In that it takes place in the same fictional universe, but almost two decades later.)

Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton both delivered incredible performances, and the story had just the right mix of offbeat/quirky and darkness that made the movie so much fun to watch.

I wasn't sold on Key and Peele when they first showed up, but by the third or fourth time the show went back to them I found myself enjoying their scenes more than I expected.

Wasn't too keen on how Lester's brother was just sort of forgotten about in the last few episodes, and the fish thing was a little weird, but other than that, it was quite excellent. Looking forward to the second season!

9/10 bloody hammers

I may one of these days. I don't actually hate Premiere, I've never had any deal-breaking issues with it. FCP just came with such a good suite of applications that worked very well together.

The only reason I haven't really tried Vegas is that, to my knowledge, it doesn't work with YUV color, while Premiere has no issue with it. I prefer to keep the colorspace the same through the entire workflow.

Of course, this is a topic for another thread, so I'll leave it at that.

Just watched both of those deleted scenes. Definitely glad you're bringing both of them in, especially the Windu/Yoda/Obi-Wan scene! Can't wait for v3!

Good to hear!

Man, I miss Compressor. And Final Cut 7 overall, really. And a fully-functioning MPEG Streamclip. And Color...

...why did I switch from Mac to PC again? Fucking Premiere...

Not that I'm trying to criticize anyone's attempts here, but I'm surprised at the number of people who don't seem to want to wait until the EE of BotFA comes out. To me, that's the one that's clearly missing large chunks of important stuff in its theatrical form.

I've always been planning to do a 3-in-1 edit for myself and my relatives/friends (which I will, of course, share online as well), but I decided as soon as the credits started rolling on BotFA that I wouldn't touch it until I had the EE Blu-Ray in hand. There's just too much that's clearly missing that I feel is necessary to build a proper conclusion, especially when I plan on cutting the final battle to complete and utter shreds in my version.

Of course, if the EE comes and nothing substantial is added, I'm gonna be pretty pissed...

If I do, I'll most likely wait until I have the entire series done. That way if I need to go back and move some stuff around between movies, or add some stuff I'd cut the first go-round, I won't have to release updated versions.

Hal 9000 said:

And before anyone asks, it'll be done when I have time to finish it. Be patient, and it'll be here before you know it.

 Quoting, underlining and bolding this before you-know-who shows up.

But on a serious note, what new deleted scenes are you adding this time? The added Rebellion subplot was something that really made the edit for me in v2, and I've never actually sat and watched any deleted scenes from ROTS, so I honestly have no idea what else there is.

I'd suggest the same, but for some people that isn't feasible for other, non-cost-related reasons. For instance, my uncle doesn't own an HDTV, so he has no need for a BR player, and as most (all?) BR players are HDMI-only now, he wouldn't be able to use one anyway, so I gave him DVD-5 copies.

But anyway, glad I was able to help you, Bobby D! Enjoy!

We wouldn't if all his questions didn't boil down to "Next month? But I want it NOOOOWWWW!!!"

I think it's due in February 2016, if I'm not mistaken.

To my knowledge, there's no dual-layer, standard DVD version. The only DVD release is the DVD5 (single-layer).

Off the top of my head, from the extended editions of 1 and 2, I'd definitely include:

An Unexpected Journey

• The small "feels like magic" exchange between Bilbo and Gandalf
• Bilbo seeing the Shards of Narsil and talking to Elrond about staying in Rivendell
• Bilbo and Thorin overhearing Gandalf and Elrond talking about the "strain of madness" in Thorin's bloodline

The Desolation of Smaug

• Most of the added Beorn stuff, especially if he's featured more in the EE of Five Armies - of course, since I'd probably cut Dol Guldur and most (or all) of the White Council, I'd cut the Necromancer and Dol Guldur talk from these scenes
• All of the extended Mirkwood scenes, including Gandalf's mention of a "dark enchantment" in the river
• Bilbo vouching for Thorin in Laketown
• The short bit of Bilbo, Balin and Thorin talking about the woods and birds that used to be on the hills by the Mountain

Other than that, I agree that most of the EE additions don't do much to help the film(s), but all of these seem very worthwhile to me, even for a single-film edit. (Plus, Bilbo is in all of these scenes, and is the focus of all except the Beorn and Mirkwood scenes, which, coupled with cutting out a bunch of extraneous crap, helps keep the focus on ... well ... the titular Hobbit.)

So basically, Marvel is pulling their own Crisis on Infinite Earths? Huh...

The hairy_hen 5.1 doesn't have problems syncing to this? I assumed there would be too many frame differences throughout, especially around the reel changes.

To be absolutely crystal clear:

The 2003-2005 Clone Wars "micro-series" is entirely non-canon in the current Disney/LFL universe. And yes, that includes the way Anakin is Knighted and the way Threepio gets his gold plating.

Both of those things obviously happened, but there is currently no canon story that describes either event.

I was wary about Lando's appearance, but it worked out very well. They definitely nailed his character.

But I have to say that, again, I really hate the animation on this show. Why does everyone move like they're either made of rubber or are underwater? Everyone's so bouncy and unnatural and it really irks me...guess it's good that I'm watching this one week-to-week instead of binging it all at once like I did with The Clone Wars. I can almost handle this shitty animation when it's spaced out.

He was mistaken about what "GOUT" means (while he got the acronym right, he seems to think it means the original version of the films, not the 2006 DVD in particular), but otherwise it was a very well-researched and interesting essay. Definitely worth the read.

It seems pretty clear to me from Simon's blog that they're handling the 16:9 conversion of The Wire with great care. I would, of course, prefer they stick to 4:3 as much as anyone, but it doesn't seem like they're doing the hack job that Buffy seasons 1-3 are enduring.

I'm kind of hoping that the broadcast version of The Wire HD will be 16:9 while the Blu-Ray will keep the original 4:3, but that's kind of a pipe dream, it seems.

Fair enough.