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#285477
Topic
The Now-Released Spider-Man 3 Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285477/action/topic#285477
Time
I didn't like a single thing about the flick until halfway through it, when it started to be funny enough that I liked it. I liked the effects a lot, I liked Topher Grace and Thomas Hayden Church, I liked the ridiculous Peter-Parker-playboy sequence. I didn't like the god-awful fucking dialogue that ran for the whole movie. And I didn't like that this was at least two movies crammed into the space of one.
Post
#285203
Topic
Heroes
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285203/action/topic#285203
Time
Yeah, this week's episode was really great. They seemed originally to be promoting it as a "What If?" episode, which woulda sucked and slowed down the season a lot, but the way they twisted that concept to actually work for the show instead of just throwing in random things like "Hey, look, it's Peter with a giant scar" was really impressive.

One of my favorite lines in TV history is now "No! Future Me! Is good guy!"
Post
#285022
Topic
Should I compress sound?
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285022/action/topic#285022
Time
Actually, you know, I just remembered the trick that I use. I knew that I replied to this thread because I had some sort of knowledge on the topic, but I somehow forgot to impart it.

If stuff is coming out clipped, try exporting just the audio to a separate WAV file (Export -> Audio) and use that audio track to author your eventual DVD with. If you name the video file and that audio file the same thing (i.e. Edit.avi and Edit.wav), you can use Media Player Classic to play back the video with the other audio track.

I don't know why exporting the audio as a file separate of the video works, it just has for me. So try that.
Post
#284090
Topic
Return of the Jedi Remixer Boss Edition (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284090/action/topic#284090
Time
Originally posted by: Erikstormtrooper

I believe RemixerBoss is saying he IS TR-47. I'm guessing his edit was his way of holding up a mirror to us so that we can all see how rediculous we look. I hope that gave him some deep satisfaction.

It sure sounds like that, but I doubt he is. TR-47 is/was a smart dude, just one of ill-motivation. I remember when TR-47 was on the board, and their posting styles are totally different. TR-47 wrote his posts well. I think RemixerBoss is just kind of an idiot who's trying to get all the attention he can, and now that he can't anymore because he's proven himself an idiot, he's trying to claim to be someone who he knows has had lots of attention focused on him.

Post
#283960
Topic
Return of the Jedi Remixer Boss Edition (* unfinished project *)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/283960/action/topic#283960
Time
So after that much boasting about what you're going to do to the movie and this and that, the first thing you turn out as part of "reinventing" of this film is a crawl generated with that little application that was posted about here a little while back. Can't really tell if that's progress or not.

And someone who isn't me, please tackle the wording in the crawl itself. I'm too tired and there's too much wrong with it.
Post
#283648
Topic
How to get different aspect ratios on the same disc...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/283648/action/topic#283648
Time
No, but it's the same basic principle. If the majority of your content is 16:9 (I assume it is), then it'll mostly be set up like above, except draw a link from the First Play button in the Connections window to the VTS bridge, to the 4:3 clip, then to another VTS bridge, then to your main menu. So...

First Play --> 16:9 VTS to 4:3 clip VTS Bridge --> 4:3 clip --> 4:3 clip to 16:9 menu VTS bridge --> Main Menu
Post
#283598
Topic
How to get different aspect ratios on the same disc...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/283598/action/topic#283598
Time
Are you using DVD-lab Pro? The videos have to be in separate VTS domains.

I wrote up this guide a little bit ago for dark_jedi, but it didn't work for him for some reason. I have no idea why, though, because this is exactly how you do it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/reverendbeastly/Clipboard01.jpg

Okay, so as you see here, you've got your 16:9 clip in one VTS, and your 4:3 clip in the other. Click over to Connections. You'll have all your material floating around up there, maybe looking a bit like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/reverendbeastly/Clipboard02.jpg

Now, create two VTS bridge links (there is a button that creates them in the lower toolbar on the Connections screen), resulting in something like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/reverendbeastly/Clipboard03.jpg

Click on the "Draw links" tool...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/reverendbeastly/Clipboard04.jpg

...and draw links from the "16:9 menu to 4:3 clip" to "4:3 clip", then to "4:3 clip to 16:9 menu" and to "16:9 menu". The arrows and suchlike wind up looking a bit like this (I moved things around to make it look a bit cleaner):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/reverendbeastly/Clipboard05.jpg

Now, on the menu, link the text area for "4:3 clip" to the "16:9 menu to 4:3 clip" VTS bridge, like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/reverendbeastly/Clipboard06.jpg

And you should be set to go.
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#282622
Topic
'Backstroke of the West' with retail DVD quality : FINISHED & RELEASED
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282622/action/topic#282622
Time
Originally posted by: lordjedi

It actually looks like they used Babelfish to do the translation. Maybe someone can do the other 5 movies so we can have a full set. Do the subtitles come out similarly when they're put through the fish? Might be an interesting experiment to try.

They probably used something like it, but it's a bit more complicated. The subtitles were generated in a ridiculous way: the English dialogue was transcribed (probably by someone whose native language is not English), then translated to Mandarin Chinese, then translated back to English. There's a lot of room for more crackpot human error in there than just a translation through Babelfish, which I think is why it's so amusing.