Leonardo

Wololoh.... wololoh

Iyehoyoeh... iyehoyoeh

Wololoh....

RicOlie_2 said:

u used good gramar fink! ur asposed to use bad gramar plus bad selling to lol

I'm starting to think I may have used the email and name myself and then some spam thingy picked it up... but I don't remember ever using that name, I usually put other fake names... so it couldn't be me..

best ignore it, unless it happens again.

So, little update: even though my hard drive is still kaput, I managed to capture the opening sequences from the 3 vhs tapes with a laptop and a usb stick. At least I know I won't have to do that later. I captured them in uncompressed Yuv2 and they look fine.

What prompted me to do it, was an idea that popped into my head the other day.

You're familiar with how a flatbed scanner works, right?

Well, I applied the same concept to the Star Wars crawl. It's already moving, so if we just sample one row of pixels, and add them all up, we'll have "scanned" the whole image, right?

So, I opened my crawl in Virtualdub. First thing, since it's PAL, 25fps interlaced, I used the bob filter to double up the frames, this way it's no longer interlaced. I have to do it because otherwise the next steps will retain scanline artifacts, I've tried it.

By the way, if you're using NTSC I'd recommend an inverse telecine, but keep in mind I haven't tried that.

Now, let's add the "null transform" filter so we can crop the picture. In my case, the original video was 720*576. [Methinks I should add screenshots to better illustrate the whole process]

Crop the picture close to the bottom, so you'll get the most resolution out of it. Set the crop boundaries so that the slit will be at a point in the crawl where the text won't be cut at the sides. Now the frame should be your horizontal resolution*1, in my case it's 720*1.

Cut everything else from the timeline, so you'll only have the crawl.

Export as an image sequence. I used pngs'.

You should now have a folder full of thousands of 720*1 pngs', and most of them look like black and yellow barcodes. Open Gimp, and open the image sequence as layers. Invert the layer order, because we want the first frame on top.

Now, the last step involves a 3rd party script you have to download. Basically, it was designed to make animations for Minecraft textures, and what it does, is it takes all the levels and stacks them on top of one another.

So, this is the end result:

Pretty nifty, huh?

Just be sure and avoid pan and scan tapes, my Return Of The Jedi was pretty bad in that regard:

Yes, it really is that cropped!

I'm not accusing anyone from around here, mind you. And the couple of people who do have it would never do that to anyone, I'm sure of it. I just mentioned it because it's really odd.

Something screwy's going on... Some clever individual is signing my email up for random stuff. Yesterday I received an email from H&R. This morning "Activate Your VIP Voice Membership" came in, and when I went to unregister, it said the name was "luke skywalker".

Hmmmm....

on the off chance you're reading this page... knock it off!!

It's not exactly the same thing as you wrote above, but it's still talking to one's self:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmKM1clRzE4

the first scene from Laurel & Hardy's "Helpmates". It's from 1932, let's see if we can find earlier examples.

it's working now, thanks.

I can't get it either, it says don't have permission.

ditto.

don't see it. is it hidden to new users? maybe there's a time thing, or after 10 posts...?

for some reason I can't see that area. is it just me?

I would add several punches and plenty kicks in the groin, but that's just me.

Wow, Warbler having never heard of a Venn's diagram IS weird. I learned about those in elementary school.

...I thought I had managed to get away from Noseybonk. But he always finds a way.

I smiled. Nice one, Bingo. :)

Thanks, man.

I'm a complete and total fuckup. Even if I seem to do well, there's something that pops up, that ruins the picture and reminds me what a fucking failure I am. I don't even know what to do with myself anymore.

I've repaired a couple of things in the past, a Samsung cellphone and an Ipad 3. So my sister thought she'd ask me if I wanted to fix her boyfriend's cousin's Ipad Mini and Iphone 5. Without even thinking I said yes. Well here's your mistake for the day, dumbass !

I should've checked every tutorial online beforehand. I probably would've declined had I known what I know now. The Iphone needs UV glue. The Ipad mini needs soldering to a tiny connector...... which I've fried. So now I've got the glue in the mail, and tomorrow I'll have a talk with sis to decide whether we should buy a new piece for the Ipad (preassembled, please) and who's gonna pay for it. Probably me. It oughta be me, cause I'm an idiot.

I'm so fucking frustrated these days. I can't stand it any longer. Almost every day, here I am, of course, forever attached to this glowing screen. Venting my frustration in a FPS. Doing things to myself. And I can't get no satisfaction. In every sense of the word.

Thanks. I didn't feel like sleeping well anyway.

oh man :(

that's too bad, I like Devo too.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/feb/17/sochi-vladimir-luxuria-gay-rights-banner

Fuck Putin and his anti-gay stance.

Exactly.

I just like the noises, I don't need an explanation. The only thing I'm interested in, is that TIE fighters go rrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhrrrrrrrrooooooooaaaaaahhhh, and I don't care why.

meanwhile, please accept this as your temp avatar, in the hope that it gives you a chuckle.

"why, Private Perkins over there has been strangled over 30 times! Haven't you Perkins? Good boy!"

I still haven't seen Inception.

Take care man.