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#150020
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Need help with DVD ripping on mac platform
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thanks


trooperman, I do have my original edit but only on vhs with a few scenes missing. the master was stolen. However the reason I needed this info was to recreate that edit on dvd, and there will be some additional edits from my original edl

most noteably. Dooku is no longer a former jedi, he is just a mysterious count who turns out to be a sith

Once I get it done, which should not be that long, I should be able to share it. I'm flattered that you think so highly of it. I always think its a bit weird that I seem to be the first to have done an AOTC re-edit, even if its not widely available, by EDL has been posted on several forums.

Weird.

anyways I'll keep you posted. I think I have all the technical issues resolved, so I'm ready to start editing
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#149654
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THE FAN EDIT CONTEST HAS A WINNER !!! REVIEWS IN OFF TOPIC FORUM
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I'm definitely interested in the contest. Prepping fan edits of ROTS, matrix sequels to be cut into one good sequel, and the LOTR trilogy, as well as revising my AOTC re-edit from 2002.

What are you guys using to capture the dvd footage? I just have a canopus analog convertor running from my dvd player, but is there a way to rip the footage directly?

I'm using a mac G5 and finalcut 4.5
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#52208
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Troy
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Air force one was a lot worse the eithe NES or TPS


I haven't seen TROY yet. Its one of those movies I was really hyped for and then it came out and I just stopped being excited for it. I'm not sure if I'll see it or not, the consesus seems to be that its pretty so-so, not bad, but not great either.

I agree about Kruger, they should of got Monica Belluci or Scarlet Johansson or someone truely breathtaking.

I think instead of watching TROY I'm just going to rent the dvd of the made for TV Helen of Troy. The girl who plays Helen in that is much hotter, and while it lacks any big name stars it features the underappreciated Rufus Sewel.
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#52207
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Beautiful Women
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Cougar (n.): an unmarried, middle aged woman with a penchant for picking up younger men in bars for casual flings; not unattractive, and has a penchant for ordering White Zinfandel a.k.a. "Cougar juice."


I guess it's a Canadian university thing.




totally.
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#52206
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Catwoman
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Etenral sunshine was a great film.

Fincher also did Nike ads for a long time, he worked closely with Michael Bay and Simon west. All those guys have a commercial/music video company together called propaganda films. Spike Jonze is from there as well I believe.

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#52205
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Harry Potter 3
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Originally posted by: jimbo
The books progressively get more mature so a kid can grow up with the stories. The fifth book would probably have to be PG-13 to keep all of its spirit.


The fifth film is going to be a challenge to condense into a movie, because there is no main plot, just a lot of subplots. Every character from the first 4 books comes back at some point and the book is just enormous. I heard Cuaron is in talks to come back for film5, and that Christopher Columbus will probably do film7 which would be a nice touch. I'm not worried about 4 being adapted properly, when I read the book I felt like JK Rowling was aware that the movies were in the works and wrote that one accordingly, it feels more like a movie then the other books, especially the first chapter. It is longer but its mostly just taking a longer time to explain things, in terms of content book 4 is only 5-10% longer then book3 in my opinion, she just used more words to explain it (which made it a less enjoyable read)

But book5 is jammed packed, its going to be a real challenge to turn that into any sort of a workable movie. Does anyone else think Judi Dench should play professor Umbridge?

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#52203
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Harry Potter 3
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/52203/action/topic#52203
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I agree, but I think we will be in the minority on that. Again to draw a comparion to TTT, as movies go for people who haven't read the books, they like it the most, because its the most hollywoodish. It focuses on Aragorn instead of the hobbits, and ends with a big battle and a mostly happy ending.

In the book the battle is in the middle like all the other LOTR books. This is not particularly logical in narative sense, but thats par for course with LOTR, the horrible pacing is part of the charm of the novels.

I agree that a lot important stuff was missing from HP3. Most importantly they didn't even explain who the four makers of the maruaders map were at the end, I think that is pretty important.

My wife summed it up well, she's an even bigger Potter fan then I am. She said as its own movie, POA is good. But when you watch the first film, about 1minute into it, when you first see the scar on Harry's forehead and the title appears, the music swells, you get this feeling in your gut, the Harry potter feeling and its there throughout the whole movie. You pop chamber of secrets in the dvd player afterwards (as we did the other night) and there's that feeling again, right away you feel like your still in the first movie, and as soon as Harry jumps in the car with Ron to escape the Dursely's its back in full force and even stronger then in the first film.

But you never have that feeling in this one, or very rarely. Its fine that its dark, I like dark, but ti seems to have lost a lot of the heart along the way. The Lupin/Harry scenes were great, but the rest of the movie just left me so empty, and when the last shot froze the way it did and I heard Harry's voice over I half expected some cheeze ball rap song to come up. I scanned the credits to see who did the music for film3 think John Williams had either not been brought back or had chosen not to return, his wonderful theme from the first two films (his best work since Indiana Jones and the classic trilogy starwars) plays once during the Warner Brothers logo at the beginning and then is absent for the entire film. This was such an odd choice to make, that music is such a huge part of the Harry Potter movie success formula IMHO. I always listen to the soundtracks when I read the books now.

Hopefully I'll like the movie more on DVD, it would be sad to think the best book produced the poorest movie. But then that happened with LOTR IMHO so it is possible.
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#52188
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Harry Potter 3
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I saw it last night.

It was good, but I dunno, it left me kind of empty. Maybe its because I read the book there were no real surprises, but then that didn't affect my enjoyment of the first two.

It was a good movie, thought he last frame is awful..

I think my main complaint was that it felt too different then the other movies. The harry potter theme music was for the most part absent, the geography of Hogwarts has been completely changed so that Hagrids hut, the womping willow and the entrance to Griffindor tower are all in different places then in the previous film. There was no nearly headless nick and instead some weird horse ghosts, and for some reason Crabbe (Malfoy's lackey) disappears half way through the movie to be replaced by a new henchman with a girly voice. What was that all about?

I could of done without all the silent era style fade ins and fade outs bookending every scene.

David Thewlis' Lupin was really well realized, and while Gary Oldman was good the limited screentime for his character didn't allow me to really connect with the character. While I'm a big Michael Gambon fan, I think Cuaron's take on Dumbledore is a bit too distinct for me to really connect him as the same character that Richard Harris played. My general rule of thumb is that if you're going to swap actors on the audience, you can't change anything else about the character, at least until the next sequel when their settled in and firmly established.

All in all the movie looked and played out as I imagined it in the book, the shreeking shack scene at the end especially was pretty spot on.

Buckbeek looked great.

I'm not really sure how to rate this movie, it was good for the most part, but i found myself bored for most of it. Maybe the problem is me and not the movie, I'm not sure. But I think for the time being I'm going to have to rate this one my least favorite.

Its basically how I felt about the Two Towers, I just rarely connected with it. When I watch FOTR and TROTK I feel like I'm watching a LOTR movie, I feel like I'm reading the book. But excluding the first 40 minutes and the last 5 minutes, I never felt that during TTT. LIkewise this just didn't feel like a Harry Potter movie to me.
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#45793
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Kill Bill on DVD
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I agree the multiple dvds are troubling, I loved kill bill1 and I liked kill bill2.

To me it didn't feel like one long movie though, more like 2 seperate movies with some of the same characters, but the tone is completely different in 2 then it is in 1.

For the two disc set I think he's re-editing it into one movie, but not just by joining them at the middle. I think there is actual reorganizing of scenes all over the place.

for example you never see Bill in Vol1, though you do hear his voice from time to time. But he's all over Vol2.

I think in SE they should evenly distribute him across the 4 hours. That kind of stuff
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#45792
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Changes in 2004 DVDs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/45792/action/topic#45792
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On one hand I believe Lucas did bow to pressure by minimizing Jarjar's screentime in AOTC (in ep3 he has even less) but I think he made sure to put him in there so it wouldn't look like he was bowing to pressure.

And I think he's adamant about not killing Jarjar just out of spite. He knows a lot of people want to see it (not me, but a lot of people) and so he won't give them the satisfaction.
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#45610
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Changes in 2004 DVDs
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Here would be my guess

New emperor: definite
Anakin ghost: definite
New Jabba: most likely
Naboo in ROTJ end montage: most likely
some new music: most likely
better lightsabers: most likely
Cameo for Bail and Jar jar: possibly

Han shooting first: 50/50

Aparently Bill Hunt from DB was in the IGN forum and said the Han/Greedo scene is under discussion at the Ranch.