Indeed, that’s what I eventually realized. It’s not a problem now since I have corrected for it, but it certainly was a hassle.
Yet another iteration of the crawl:
Luke Skywalker, last of the
mystic guardians of peace
in the galaxy, has vanished.
In his absence, the sinister
First Order has risen from
the ashes of the Empire.
His sister, General Leia
Organa, has failed to
convince the Republic of
this new threat, even as
the First Order hastens
to complete a secret weapon
that will strike at the
Republic’s very heart.
Desperate for her brother’s
help, Leia mobilizes a
covert RESISTANCE and sends
her bravest pilot on a mission
to Jakku, where a clue has been
discovered to the whereabouts
of the last Jedi. . . .
Thanks, it’s my first real attempt at this wholesale sound replacement.
And yeah, those implosion effects are better. I wonder if they can be isolated…
Yeah, I think that you would need to mention the SKB in the final paragraph or not at all to make sense of Leia’s knowledge of the situation.
In somewhat related news, I’ve made a version of the music only SKB destruction that isn’t music only!
https://vimeo.com/201158969
Password: sound
Most of the sound is recreated, and I went ahead and took out the crowd cheer at the end.
I think a SKB mention in the crawl is warranted, for the reasons that DominicCobb stated above.
Check this shit out … LMAO!!!
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/01/trump-freezes-obamas-221000000-parting-gift-to-the-palestinians
If websites are to be judged by the quality of their comments, then I would trust Jihad Watch about as much as Kellyanne Conway’s ‘Alternate Facts’.
Granted, the OT off topic section is not a sterling example itself.
On that note, what do we think the color of the Episode IX title will be? It looks like JJ and Rian took the most obvious ones, so it will probably be green or blue. White would be an interesting choice though.
I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
In my travels across the cosmos, I studied humans for a time. I observed that there were innumerable pathways in the human brain dedicated to sexual desire, and only some of these synapses fired in response to indications of a specific sex. Most were concerned only with general arousal, indicating to me that humans are overwhelmingly homo(meaning human)-sexual. In other words, they are attracted to other humans, and this attraction is only then filtered through gender specific channels.
See: Cinderella (2015), The Jungle Book (2016), Pete’s Dragon (2016), Beauty and the Beast (2017), and Mulan (2018) for further examples.
It is a shame, as I doubt this scene could work in any other edit. There simply isn’t a place for it unless the Hosnian destruction is moved to the end, so I feel like it should go in - if for nothing else than as a proof of concept.
So the blu-rays were encoded RGB Full, rather than RGB limited?
As I understand it, TVs use a video range from 16-235. It considers levels below 16 to be black, and information above 235 is white. A calibrated TV will never display anything below 16 as anything other than black. Most will also treat everything over 235 as white since it should not exist in video content.
PCs are different and use a range from 0-255. There is no data below 0 or above 255 with an 8-bit video signal as there are only 256 possible values. In short, this is much simpler to understand as the TV concepts of Blacker-than-Black and Whiter-than-White do not exist.
Therefore to make the conversion between RGB Full (“PC Mode”) and RGB Limited (“TV Mode”) all you need is the following levels adjustment in AVISynth
// PC to TV ; scales a [0,255] clip to [16,235]:
Levels(0, 1, 255, 16, 235, coring=false)Not exactly 😃,the encoded materials use a video range of 16-235 for luma and 16-240 for chroma.
If the input is yuv limited range every tv before the yuv-rgb conversion does a levels expansion from 16-235 to 0-255 for luma and 16-240 to 0-255 for chroma,so the tv can display true white and true black.
From what i understand the blurays were encoded in non-standard yuv limited range,so instead of 16-235 we have for example 16-242.The good is that the highlights aren’t really clipped.
This makes sense. If it is some strange non-standard format, it would follow that Adobe encoders don’t know how to handle the video.
One more oddity to add to the mix: Premiere misinterprets the TS video of the Blu-ray, so I have to apply a LUT to correct that error. Interestingly, the error (and solution) are both applied at the render stage, so presumably there’s no loss of quality. I found a description of a similar problem online, this time with Fraps: https://encodingtalk.com/threads/encoding-fraps-videos-solving-colorspace-issues-wrong-color-faded-etc.1537/
Almost every render setting incorrectly interprets the video, giving it a purple cast and stronger greens, except for SD DVD output and untouched Lagarith codec AVI. If I later use different encoder on this correct Lagarith AVI, it incorrectly interprets the video anyway. So most video comparisons (for example, on Vimeo and Youtube) suffer from the added purple cast of this incorrectly interpreted video stream.
^Interesting. This is a laserdisc source, but do you think a similar script would work for the Blu-ray stream? I tried several Avisynth scripts to reduce the highlights before converting to RGB, but none of them worked.
OK, Spicer just said that 14% of the votes in 2008 were illegal. FOURTEEN PERCENT.
Neat, I didn’t know that.
The one thing I never noticed was that the dish bisected the equatorial trench in the plans. I wonder if that is something Ady will fix for his new Star Wars Revisited project.
I’m sure nobody wants to hear more about the weaknesses of TFA, so I’ll just leave it at agree to disagree.
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Jesus Christ, get a new joke already.
I’ll admit that the joke was coarse and rough and it is everywhere, but can’t it can’t get even one good-natured ribbing from me?
One?
I can see there’s no fooling you, Frink. Yes, I did make a similar observation over a month ago, and certainly more before that, but my memory was damaged and I’m stranded here until Rian can repair this ship.
I don’t envy the task Rian has undertaken. My friends and I often write pass-around stories among the 5 or 6 of us (I have been told that normal people engage in other activities), and it feels like being handed an entry that the previous author didn’t establish well or know how to end. You kind of stumble around re-establishing the scene while also trying to do your own thing, and it doesn’t often end well. I bet Rian does a good job of it regardless.
I would probably start the film after a crawl explaining the state of the galaxy with a pan down to a planet which has now been bestowed with the honor of being the new Republic capital. There’s an address from some low-level bureaucrat who is now acting chancellor, then Leia bursts in all solemn business. Who knows. As has been suggested, I wouldn’t return to Luke and Rey until the second scene at earliest.
^That would certainly be a first for a Star Wars movie, but according to the already available video, it looks like we’re going to get a flashback scene.
The comparison video is good, overall the correction is an improvement 😃 One suggestion - C-3PO looks a bit too green in your version, I think somewhere between that and the grindhouse would be ideal. I remember having to specifically increase the saturation of the yellows in my original LUT in addition to shifting the hue in order to get the golden droid back to being golden.
I’ve spent a long time figuring out exactly what’s wrong with the Blu-ray, which has clipped highlights among other issues. One of the most interesting discoveries is that the highlight data isn’t gone, it just isn’t displayed due to a a blu-ray encoding error. Any attempt to re-encode the movie before editing it will erase this data, so I import the raw stream into Premiere and rescue the highlights with a curves adjustment, which only works because it uses the native YUV stream instead of converting it to RGB like most effects.
TL;DR: Dre’s has clipped highlights, mine does not.
Jesus Christ, get a new joke already.
I’ll admit that the joke was coarse and rough and it is everywhere, but can’t it get even one good-natured ribbing from me?
SA(N)D!
It is a dark time for the
Resistance. Although the
Starkiller has been destroyed,
First Order troops have driven the
Resistance forces from their hidden
base and pursued them across
the galaxy.
Evading the dreaded First Order
Starfleet, a group of freedom
fighters led by Leia Organa
has established a new secret
base on the remote lava world
of Hot.
The evil lord Kylo Ren,
obsessed with finding young
Rey Skywalker, has dispatched
thousands of remote probes into
the far reaches of space. . . .