Pennsylvania Jones

I liked the idea of Martin with a slingshot in Timmy to the Rescue.

AAAAAAARGH!!!!!!  I DID IT AGAIN!!!!!!  >:(

Harmy said:

No!!! Nobody takes my empire from me!!!

;-D

Oh, Sorry! :o  I was unaware that you had an empire.  I thought Lucas was the only one with one of those. ;)

Ziggy Stardust said:

I bet that place doesn't have many members....

;-)

214, but it doesn't matter.  It's a NIMH Forum where I can post my NIMH stuff.  Unless you'd rather me keep posting about NIMH here. ;)  If you can find 213 other obsessed NIMH fans on this forum, I'll stop posting my NIMH stuff to the Thorn Valley Forum.

doubleofive said:

 

JasonN said:

Bingowings said:

I take back everything I said about this new digi-Yoda.

In motion it's even crappier than the original puppet.

It really looks like CGI had moved backwards since 1999 in those sequences.

The shape is more Yodaish but it moves like they aren't paying the animator enough.

That first shot of that video seemed odd to me for some reason, like there was something a little "off" with Yoda in contrast to his later scenes of the video, so I went back and checked my dvd copy of TPM for reference.... and I was right:

They did not alter the original CG Yoda model in that first shot to match the new CG Yoda model of the later scenes. Lucas, you lazy fu........
-__-

Sure enough. I agree, while the digital model is certainly better than the strange puppet, the animation, lighting, texturing, they all seem to be a bit off. It looks like they didn't have a budget for these new changes, so they did them as fast as possible just to get it done. They honestly look like the effects done for a direct to DVD or TV release, which I guess these technically are...

 

That's my opinion exactly! ;)

EyeShotFirst said:

TheBoost said:

For years I thought the GOUT was OK. I grew up watching 2nd generation VHS tapes, so I wasn't too picky about the less than stellar image.

Then the Blu Ray debacle lately just got me fed up with Star Wars releases, and all the poo that George Lucas makes us go through.

So I DLed this edit, and Star Wars DeSpecialized.

OH MY GOD!!!!! Thank you SO much for your effort Harmy. They absolutely ROCK!!!!!!!!!! WoooHoooo!!!!!!!!!!

Suffice to say, I enjoyed them.

I didn't think I would ever be able to enjoy Star Wars again after the past month, but Harmy's ESB brought my love back.

FIXED

Well...  I'm finally on a Secret of NIMH Forum!  Just for you guys, I'll keep my NIMH stuff on there.  However, in my signature there, I put a link to the petition here.  I will, at first, at least, appear to be a Star Wars Nerd like I appear to be a NIMH Nerd here.  I'm really a nerd of both, the nerdiness of the opposite side just gets filtered out through the fact that you guys know what I'm talking about in the context of Star Wars, but not NIMH.  The opposite will be true on the NIMH forum.

Star Wars/Other

Star Wars/NIMH

PJ's a NIMH nerd on the Star Wars Forum.

        Other/NIMH

Star Wars/NIMH

PJ's a Star Wars nerd on the NIMH Forum.

This gets me to thinking...  Vulcans would make great Jedi in the PT universe.  They're masters at suppressing their emotions.  In fact, have you seen Yoda's pointy ears?  He's probably a Vulcan, too.

George allowed us the Laserdisc master of the Unaltered Trilogy.  It's the best source so far to base our preservations off of.

twooffour said:

doubleKO said:

IAMPSYCHODAYVSCANCER said:

darth_ender said:

Yeah, I think that is pretty juvenile.  I think I will have to use my ignore feature a second time, and after only two posts.  I am grateful for more freedom in our ability to post because I think good discussion can come from it, but this is seriously just some moron taking advantage of his newfound freedom.

 

TOO BAD YOUR BUTTHURT ABOUT ME SCAMMING EVERYONE OF THEIR MONEY AND NOT PROVIDING PROOF OF DAYVS CANCER, RIGHT?

Someone else I know likes this word...

Like, the whole internet?

TheNilvarg comes to my mind.

Secret of NIMH

For this forum, in particular, that is...

Davnes007 said:

What will you be in December?

He'll be a Wookiee in December.

Congrats, KO!  You've reached 50 Star Wars Puns! :-* :-* :-*

What do you give a Wookiee for Christmas when he already owns a comb?

Love and Understanding?

Nope, you go into his house, break his first comb, and give him another one!

TV's Frink said:

Moth3r said:

There.

Happy now?

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO!!!  NOT ON THE COUCH!!!! >:(  NO!  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

greenpenguino said:

TV's Frink said:

Pennsylvania Jones said:

ferris209 said:

Somebody's got to have pneumonia, with all that coughing we've had around here lately!

Timmy does.

 

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Anchorhead, your first official task is to ban Secret of NIMH from the forum. ;-)

Hooray!

;)

Well, I am trying, Master.

ferris209 said:

Somebody's got to have pneumonia, with all that coughing we've had around here lately!

Timmy does.

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

SamS said:

I had more time this weekend to watch the three Dark_Jedi v3 DVDs.  I'm still impressed by the quality, and enjoyed them very much.

The only other piece of constructive criticism I have revolves around gamma/black levels.  Actually, I think black levels are fine, but gamma is off.  This makes the picture appear too dark in the 10-40IRE range.

It will be interesting to compare these to the upcoming official Blu-rays.  Although those will have faults of their own, they should be mastered with the appropriate levels and gamma curves.

Dark_Jedi, if you have any comments about the reference you used for setting the gamma, I would be interested in learning more.  Just to make sure everything was set up properly on my end, I spent 3 hours on Saturday (re)calibrating my plasma for grayscale and a 2.2 gamma curve.  The darkness I noticed in the DVDs did not change.  I actually didn't need any gamma recalibration, I was just verifying measurements via Chroma5 meter and CalMAN software.

Well, Dark_Jedi is retiring from creating new DVDs.  You're going to have to ask someone else.  I reread your post.  Sorry....

Cookie Monster said:

THIS ME NEW FAVORITE THREAD!

But there aren't any cookies in it... :-/

EDIT: NOW there are cookies in this thread. :D

A SLIGHTLY naughty word.  See?  I did what the OP wanted me to do!  Type "a SLIGHTLY naughty word"! :)

Ziggy Stardust said:

I'm one of those.

Yup.  A 37-year-old who's going to be 15 someday.  Wait a minute...  :-/

Just joking, sorry.  Seriously, how old are you?

Congrats, Anchorhead! :-* :-* :-*

(On Indylounge, that's how we give applause)

Ziggy Stardust said:

Pennsylvania Jones said:

Ziggy Stardust said:

Looking at your channel, YOU'RE ONLY 16! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

So young.

I assume you're talking about my use of the word "Productions?"  I can change it if you want.  Any suggestions?

No, I'm talking about the catagory that says "Age".

:p

Whoa.  I never even noticed it!  Ah, well.  Doesn't matter if I'm 16 or 60.  All that matters is that I'm a newer generation fan of the OOT.  The more of us around, the better. :)

Palpatiine said:

This is my first post here--as will become even more abundantly clear in just another couple of sentences or so--and I want to extend thanks in advance to anyone willing to help out a complete noob.

I came across Harmy's edits of the holy trilogy through a link from the Rebelscum forums and immediately ran out to buy some dual-layer DVD-R discs while RotJ downloaded. I got home, downloaded ImgBurn, then set out to burn a copy of the movie. About half an hour into the process, I got a bunch of error messages and wound up with a new frisbee.

Since then, I've been browsing through the forums here looking for instructions on how to burn the DVD, but I haven't found anything I can use (which is not to say that there isn't anything there; maybe I just haven't looked hard enough). If anyone could help me out with some instructions on what to do, I'd be deeply appreciative.

Here's what I'm working with:

I have a 15.8 GB folder on my external hard drive that contains all of the files that were downloaded through JDownloader from the link provided on tehparadox.com. In this folder, I have 42 files: 41 "ROTJ AVCHD.partxx.rar" files (where "xx" is the number on each file, 01-41), each 200MB, and one ROTJ AVCHD.ISO file, 7.9GB. I have a six-year-old Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop, running ImgBurn through a Windows shell on Ubuntu.

I had chosen "Write image file to disc" when starting ImgBurn, then selected the 7.9GB ISO file as the source. As far as I could tell from what I had read around here, that seemed the course of action most likely to yield success; but, then, you know...errors. Is it possible that my DVD burner can't burn to a dual-layer disc? Maybe I left something out in setting up ImgBurn? I know the instructions linked by Harmy in the ESB thread mention something about "CERTIFICATE" and "BDMV" folders (neither of which exist on my system), but that seemed to be aimed towards creating an ISO file, which I thought I already had.

Again, if anyone can provide any help (preferably phrased as if presented to your well-intentioned grandpa who's just learning to use a computer), it would be really, really great.

Sounds like you need to unpack the RARs.  Try the program below.  It's not that hard to use. ;)

http://download.cnet.com/Free-RAR-Extract-Frog/3000-2250_4-10804840.html

Ziggy Stardust said:

Looking at your channel, YOU'RE ONLY 16! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

So young.

I assume you're talking about my use of the word "Productions?"  I can change it if you want.  Any suggestions?

Here's my next Secret of NIMH Star Wars Video.  My earliest idea for this video was simply for Mrs. Brisby to be captured by Jabba the Hutt.  But over the editing period (I started this around the same time I started Size Matters Not, which was at least a month ago), it turned into this:

Secret of NIMH Star Wars - Cantina Shootout:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKfV6FHm4eU

Jeremy the Crow from Secret of NIMH bumps into Han Solo and C-3PO in the alley.

Jeremy: OOOF!!!  Excuse me, pardon me.

Han: Watch where you're going!

Jeremy: Sorry...  I'm Jeremy!

Han: Han Solo.  Captain of the Millennium Falcon.

C-3PO: And I am C-3PO, Human Cyborg Relations.

Jeremy (looks at 3PO): Oooh!  A Sparkly!

Han: Where?

Jeremy (to 3PO): You're wearing a Sparkly!  Can I hold it, oh please, can I?

Han: Over my dead body. (discreetly pulls out DL-44)

Jeremy: Oh, please, PLEEEEASE?  I've always wanted a Sparkly...  Of my very own.

Han: Yes, I'll bet you have.  (Shoots first)

Jeremy (Flying through the air in recoil): AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!

Mrs. Brisby: (Sees a screaming Jeremy fly through the air, rolls eyes)