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#196616
Topic
What You're Reading Now: Revisited
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196616/action/topic#196616
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"Wow. I'm surprised to hear you like the prequels. Seems like they were none too popular w/Dune fans, but I eventually will give them a try."

They certainly aren't of the same caliber, and I can definitely understand why staunch fans wouldn't like them, but I do find them interesting. The House series is pretty good, but the older series is kinda thin, and there are a lot of parts that are just kinda dropped in, rather than intricately woven into the story.

It's still better than that damned god-awful Jedi Academy trilogy......right, AWK?

"and I only got about half-way through the first "Rogue Squadron" book before I tossed it."

Wow, I LOVED that series. I was sad to see it end.

"How do you co-write a book anyway?"

Take turns writing every other word?

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#196424
Topic
Problem with slow motion in Vegas
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/196424/action/topic#196424
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What do you mean by "jumpy"? Do you mean there are jumps of movement between frames, or there is movement within the frame (interlacing artifacts.) When you turn off resampling, it does not interpolate the video (i.e. create new frames in between the existing frames, which is necessary to create the effect of slowing down video.)

Do you think you could send me some small snippets of your AVIs before and after you changed the settings? It would help if I could look at them.

BTW, I was doing some extreme slow motion for a recent project, and it looked really bad until I realized that some effects, like deinterlacing, won't show correctly unless you raise the render quality to GOOD or BEST. Up until I remembered this, it looked like Vegas wasn't deinterlacing at all. Deinterlacing the video helped when I rendered it out at full speed to a new AVI, and then slowed it down with Motion Perfect, which does a FAR better job of interpolating new frames to render slow motion video. (Vegas simply takes existing video information and offsets it slightly, resulting in ghosting or double images.) If you really want good slow motion, Motion Perfect is fantastic. The samples on their website will astonish you.
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#195819
Topic
Howard The Duck - special edition (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195819/action/topic#195819
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I soooo love this film.

"(I could kick myself now for passing on a 35mm print that was on ebay a couple years back! Like I had any way to run it!)"

I could kick you too for this!

"I just tripped over my VHS copy I made of this off of Showtime. I'll be Burning it DVD tonight. The print is a little dark though."

Is it widescreen?

I remember someone here had a widescreen version of "The Keep" on DVD, but I never heard from him again. I got the P&S LD off of Ebay, but I've not had a chance to watch it.