EP. VII: a new phantom menace
EP VIII: The empire strikes back again with more clones
EP IX: Return of the jedi: with a vengeance
Well if the production values were good and there was a solid plot I can imagine it would go down not too bad at all. If somebody is abusing children and sacrificing humans I think most people would agree that they are bad regardless of their self-proclaimed affiliations.
The food was nasty and disgusting because the crops had all died after the Thuggee took the stones from the village. It didn't seem to me that the idea was to look down upon them because of the color of their skin. I always thought of it as a plot mechanism used to reinforce Indy's decision to help the people.
I've always loved Kipling's stories. It always felt like I was entering some grand adventure when I cracked open one of his books.
I don't really get offended about stories that glorify the decay of western civilization as long as in the context of the story it is justified. Likewise, I don't get offended when the bad guys are of an ethnical origin as long as the individuals being portrayed are really the bad guy.
I'll concede that some of the effects were a bit dated but it was only maybe 2 or 3 scenes in the whole movie. That airplane crash looked fake even as a kid. I'm still standing by TOD as being the 2nd best of the 4 movies though lol.
EDIT: I didn't think about the food at the palace. I can say my reaction as a kid was "I'll bet monkey brains taste pretty good" lol.
Any religion that regularly involves rituals of ripping people's hearts from their living body and then being dropped into lava can go the way of the dodo bird imo.
It's been a good many years since I've watched TOD actually but I seem to remember that he was only concerned with destroying the thuggee cult. The villagers that revered the stones as being holy were regarded as simpletons but Indy actually helped them recover their holy stones. He was pretty knowledgeable and respectful of the people and their beliefs, I think.
greenpenguino said:
althor1138 said:
I don't even know why I come to this place anymore. The last 10 or so posts are pretty much illegible and/or off-topic.
To be honest, I did it to take the piss out of Hoth-Nudist's habit of replacing the 's' at the end of 'lucas' wiith a $. It was to show how ridiculous and stupid it looked.
I have to admit the further I read the more of a mess the text was becoming and I was thinking why am I wasting my time with this? It reminded me of that awful thread with the picture of the huge building and bunny at the bottom lol. Anyways, I am over it now and have remembered that I'm here to hopefully some day see a release of the OT.
With that being said....George raised 3(?) kids that aren't his. That must make him a saint by all standards.
I don't even know why I come to this place anymore. The last 10 or so posts are pretty much illegible and/or off-topic.
TV's Frink said:
That's over six months old.
Yes. I know.
LOL. George is pretty awesome in almost all regards other than his refusal to release the original star wars trilogy.
I remember Carrie starting her diet and saying she wasn't sure if she would but she'd like to be able to wear the bikini again. Kinda makes me think they have thought of bringing back cast members and this has been under wraps and moving forward for longer than we think. Besides I've seen more of Mark Hamill this past year than I have since the last time the OT was released in theaters.
I guess it doesn't hurt to try. Here is one I set up. I'm not so good at this kind of thing but I think I expressed the fans reasoning for wanting them.
where is it?
2015 is right around the corner. There must be some kind of script already? Also does this mean that the original trilogy will receive some kind of justice in a return to home video releases?
10 minutes @ 350fps sounds pretty fast to me. It might help if you told everybody what exactly it is you are trying to calculate.
Run Video Analysis Pass isn't do any encoding I'm pretty sure so it sounds like it is already doing what you want it to do lol.
If you have several captures you could try interpolating the frames with MflowFPS to remove dropouts etc. Since each frame is identical except for the fact that it is from another capture it should only average out noise.
Well I think that adding yellow to the red is a bad idea. After a little bit of research it seems that it should be something like this:
RED-Add cyan
Green-Add magenta
Blue-Add yellow
source=avisource()
rgb= source.ConvertToRGB()
red=rgb.showred().overlay(source.blankclip(color=$00FFFF),mask=rgb.showred(),mode="chroma",opacity=.5)
green=rgb.showgreen().overlay(source.blankclip(color=$FF00FF),mask=rgb.showgreen(),mode="chroma",opacity=.9)
blue=rgb.showblue().overlay(source.blankclip(color=$FFFF00),mask=rgb.showblue(),mode="chroma",opacity=.1)
newrgb=mergergb(red,green,blue)
mix=source.overlay(newrgb,mode="chroma",opacity=1.0)return(mix)
This seems to work a lot better imo. The opacity for each channel has to be tweaked scene by scene still. Is anybody still pursuing this?
EDIT: Forgot to add tweak to the last variable so you might wanna do that and tweak it up really high. Somewhere between 3 and 5.
I guess you could always use Virtualdub to capture the screen and save it with a lossless codec. Kind of a hack but it works. I sometimes have problems capturing the video and audio at the same time though so I do a 2 pass. Sadly it captures in real time so that'd be about 4 hours minimum for a 2 hour movie :(.
Have you tried Jdownloader? Sometimes you can throw it a link and it'll download the file in a couple of minutes. I know it works with vimeo and youtube etc.
There should be a place for OT'ers to hang out and chat realtime. Is there one already?
EDIT: can somebody point me to a good(free) irc program? Apparently MIRC costs money now.
I'd be willing to meet up and chat about it. I haven't used IRC in like 10 years though so I'd have to brush up on it. Where would you want to meet?
Great job. I'd say it's definitely an improvement.
Here's your latest method with a couple extra steps for the other 2 channels. The saturation is over the top just to give a better idea of what's happening.
EDIT: Just to be clear the first image is unsaturated. The bottom 2 contain the same saturation tweak.
source=avisource()
rgb= source.Tweak(cont=1.1, sat=1.1).ConvertToRGB24(matrix="Rec601")
fixr=source.Overlay(rgb.BlankClip(color=$FFFF00 ), mask=rgb.ShowRed(), opacity=0.1, mode="lighten")
fixg=fixr.overlay(rgb.blankclip(color=$00ffff),mask=rgb.showgreen(),opacity=0.15,mode="chroma")
fixb=fixg.overlay(rgb.blankclip(color=$ff00ff),mask=rgb.showblue(),opacity=0.15,mode="chroma")
test=source.tweak(sat=2)
comp=stackhorizontal(source.subtitle("original",x=-1),fixb.tweak(sat=2).subtitle("adjusted",x=-1),test.subtitle("original (saturated)",x=-1))
comp
Well I've tried my hand at it based upon the page you linked to in your first script. I'm not sure if I've come up with something good or wasted a bunch of my time lol. It seems to not work well at all with scenes that have been color corrected beforehand. I'm going to post it here just so maybe somebody can perhaps improve it or point out anything wrong with it. I tested it on a few home videos and the results seemed pretty good imo.
It assumes you are feeding it a clip with YUV colorspace.
Function Technicolor(clip source, float "colorsat", bool "autowhites",bool "showdif")
{
#Set Defaults
colorsat=Default(colorsat,1.6)
autowhites=Default(autowhites,true)
showdif=Default(showdif,false)
srgb=source.converttorgb()
global red=srgb.showred("YV12")#.tweak(bright=25)
global green=srgb.showgreen("YV12")#.tweak(bright=25)
global blue=srgb.showblue("YV12")#.tweak(bright=25)
cyan=source.tweakcolor(starthue=321,endhue=259,sat=0,bright=-255).tweak(sat=1.3).converttorgb().greyscale().converttoyv12()
magenta=source.tweakcolor(starthue=81,endhue=19,sat=0,bright=-255).tweak(sat=1.3).converttorgb().greyscale().converttoyv12()
yellow=source.tweakcolor(starthue=201,endhue=139,sat=0,bright=-255).tweak(sat=1.3).converttorgb().greyscale().converttoyv12()
yellowmask=yellow.levels(0,1,1,0,255).converttorgb()
global magyel=overlay(magenta,yellow,mask=yellowmask,mode="luma",opacity=1)
global cyayel=overlay(cyan,yellow,mask=yellowmask,mode="luma",opacity=1)
magmask=magenta.levels(0,1,1,0,255).converttorgb()
global cyamag=overlay(cyan,magenta,mask=magmask,mode="luma",opacity=1)
newred=scriptclip(red,"coloryuv(off_y=(averageluma(red)/2-averageluma(magyel)*1.5))")
newgreen=scriptclip(green,"coloryuv(off_y=(averageluma(green)/2-averageluma(cyayel)*1.5))")
newblue=scriptclip(blue,"coloryuv(off_y=(averageluma(blue)/2-averageluma(cyamag)*1.5))")
tc=mergergb(newred,newgreen,newblue)
mix=overlay(source,tc,mode="chroma",opacity=1).tweak(sat=colorsat).coloryuv(autowhite=autowhites)
comp=stackhorizontal(source.subtitle("ORIGINAL",x=-1,y=400),mix.subtitle("TECHNICOLOR ?",x=-1,y=400))
return((showdif) ? comp : mix)
}
Could somebody post the pseudotechnicolor function here? Doom9 has been down all day for me. Not sure if it's just me but I've flushed my DNS and am now using another DNS server than my isp and it still won't load. I don't see anything about it on the web though so maybe they just blocked me? lol
EDIT: NM it came back up a couple minutes ago.
In my experience there were people from all walks of life in the military. I'm not a nationalist by any means. I guess I'm proud of some things America has done but then again we are all human and I'm pretty disgusted with some of the things it has done as well. Proud to be an American is a poor choice of words imo(Sorry Mr. Greenwood). I guess I am grateful to be an American. With that being said they would probably have to pry my citizenship from my cold dead hands lol.
As far as sports in the military go I'm not sure because the Physical Training program is different between the services but we mostly just did cardio and muscle failure in the morning(while in formation and if you are doing it wrong somebody will give you the proper motivation to try harder lol). Maybe some kind of sport once or twice a month. I have absolutely no interest in sports whatsoever but it wasn't that bad if you are doing it with some people that you know. Unless it's ping-pong. I turn into some kind of monster when I get a paddle in my hand.
I don't think the recruiter really gives a crap what you posted on some obscure website.
You are the first person I've ever really suggested at looking into a military career. I had such a love/hate relationship with it that it's hard to accurately portray with words. It just sounded to me that in your situation it could be advantageous.
FWIW, don't go down there and start thinking you are hardcore and then join the infantry or something. Air force or Navy is where it's at. It's more laid back and job-like and you'll get treated more like a human being the first couple years when you have lower rank. Those assholes will have you all pumped up and thinking you can be in the SEALS or the Rangers doing James Bond shit every day. I'm telling you it's bullshit. They are lying to you and it will destroy your body before you hit your mid-30's. Pick a job you like and if they don't give it to you flip them the bird on the way out the door.
You and many others might think this is a totally crazy idea but I'll lay it down in case you haven't contemplated it before. A person that is burnt out on life and their surroundings should at least consider it.
Join the military.
1. You will be able to leave Atlanta and go see the world.
2. You will be making money.
3. You will exercise every day. This helps against depression. A lot.
(I sometimes wonder why it's not prescribed at the doctor's office.)
4. You will be part of a group and you will develop friendships. You could not even want to and it will still happen in this environment.
5. You will not be able to see your family very often and will come to appreciate them more after a couple years of being away.
6. You need to stop talking about how you wish your mother would die and you wanting to mow people down with an Uzi you stuck-up selfish prick. If you want out of Atlanta, fucking pack a bag and walk/drive yourself to a happier place. You sound like you want somebody to fix your problems but the truth is that you are here just whining about shit that all of us have been through. We might empathize with you a bit but you are the only person that can enact change in your life. I wish you the best and I totally understand about living in a culture where your creed or culture is non-existent but harming others won't really get you anything. I hope that you find a way out of there to a place where you can find some happiness.
Reading through the last couple pages of this thread makes me think somebody should collect all of these ideas and make a rifftrax type of thing like mst3k which could be muxed into any of the newer releases. Maybe it's already been done?
My idea is to totally disregard that the prequels exist but use footage from them in the OT as a type of "highlander" flashback sequence that would somehow be relevant to the "present day" scene it corresponds with.
EDIT: Every time after Vader force chokes someone he says, "I'm what Willis was talking about."
negative1 said:
pay attention to the smoke particles,
they don't look like this to me in any
version i've seen:
The smoke really does stand out to me. It seems organic and real. It's little things like this that totally destroyed the special editions for me. Like when Vader boards the tantive there is no longer a cloud of smoke swirling in front of and past him. It's now like some kind of weird 2 dimensional layer of smoke clinging to his costume. Seems like a small thing but I see it every time and it instantly makes me angry. Instead of enjoying the scene I get angry about how the scene is Fubar. Thanks for posting these. I really enjoyed seeing a few scenes without the weird coloring or smearing.
As a kid I never really had a desire or need for friends. I was just as content to sit around and read a book or to go do an activity that I enjoyed even if nobody was with me. As I got older I was naturally a bit asocial because of this but it went away pretty quickly at about the age of 18 when I discovered alcohol. It's not something I ever made a habit out of but drinking a few beers at a party and just randomly talking to someone helped me get into the social scene.
EDIT: Why did you make so many threads for this topic?