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caligulathegod

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#290639
Topic
Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/290639/action/topic#290639
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I had taken a month or so break to work on my Spring movie marathon (I program about 12 hours worth of movies and inbetween trailers and shorts) and refresh myself but I've started up again. I'm probably between a third and half way through. It's literally frame by frame that I'm doing, so it's very time-consuming. It's moving along quicker now that I've rejoined it. When I'm done with the editing I'm going back through and doing the special effects. I also want to do a fancy menu for it. It will fill a full dual layer disc. I'll do a divx/xvid movie only for those who just want the movie. I've been obsessed by this movie for years, so I want to do it up right.
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#287249
Topic
Creating an authentic looking crawl
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/287249/action/topic#287249
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Originally posted by: SweHanzon
You can format the text pretty much as you want it in AE as well, but I think I had to search a little to find all the settings and such. I just love the simplicity of seeing the change immediately.


Anytime I ever tried it the justify button was grayed out and unusable. All of the tutorials I've ever seen that used AE directly just ignored it and the text was "ragged right".
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#286518
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The Secret History of Star Wars
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286518/action/topic#286518
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Now that I've finished the Making of Star Wars book, I've been reading your Secret History of Star Wars and I am very much enjoying it. It's pretty much says what I've been saying for years but with actual references to back things up. As much as I've read about Star Wars over the years, it's not so easy to remember the sources of all the information. This is quite a handy and entertaining read.

When I finish, I hope to have some more comments on the content. So far, though, I agree with what I've read and haven't come across anything I believe to be errors, except one common one which I'll mention in the next paragraph. Nitpick-wise, It could probably use a scrub to rid it of the misuses of "loose" when it should be "lose" (probably my biggest internet pet peeve, ever- "If your shoelace is loose, you might lose your shoe.").

(It's ironic that this always bugs me, since I am not religious in the least, but...) The error is that Anakin was not born by "Immaculate Conception" in imitation of Jesus. The phrase "Immaculate Conception" actually refers to the Virgin Mary, not to Jesus. It is the Roman Catholic dogma that states that Mary was born free of Original Sin and in a state of Grace making her "worthy" of giving birth to Jesus. Jesus' conception is referred to as the Incarnation and then the Virgin Birth. In short, Mary was the result of the "Immaculate Conception", not Jesus. Immaculate Conception has nothing to do with Virgin Birth. As I said, it is a common error, but one that should be fixed in the next edition.

Anyway, keep up the good work. I can't wait to finish it.
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#286113
Topic
.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/286113/action/topic#286113
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I'm actually looking forward to the website update more than anything. It's been almost a year since any new content has been posted and what's there has been very educational (crossing fingers for color correction part 3). I'm weird in that I sometimes love reading about something even more than the thing itself.
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#285435
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Making of Star Wars (New Book) Discussion
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285435/action/topic#285435
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Pro or con, I don't care. I just had been under the impression that "midi-chlorians" as a specific word and concept was developed explicitly for the PT, setting aside vague hints that Force-sensitivity was inheritable. Lucas has always revisited his battered notebook for names, planets, ideas. For some reason, he conflates this all the disparate elements in his notes into the idea that he had the whole saga planned out in advance. I have enough experience with the story and development thereof to usually call him on his bullshit. The specific mention of midi-chlorians (using his August 1977 spelling), however, was the biggest surprise in the whole book. Second biggest was the mention of Luke and the Princess being twins at one point in the development. Now obviously, it's not a direct line concept to Return of the Jedi's revelation. It's just another developmental element that was in his notebooks that reappeared when he needed a story point. There's plenty of cites in the book that he never actually planned them to be siblings in the final concept as he originally wanted Luke and Leia to end up together and Han to go away. It just never worked in the eventual storyline of Luke becoming a Jedi so Han got the girl.

This has been a very interesting book and I really hope that they do them on the sequels. His next project appears to be Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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#282798
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Rocky Horror How-to help!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282798/action/topic#282798
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After Effects will also help with some of the specific stuff you want to do, like traveling mattes for the stage actors crossing over into the screen. There's video tutorials over at creativecow.net and videocopilot.net that are pretty good. Also there are forums dedicated to this kind of work. They might not be as "fanedit" friendly as we are here, perhaps, but I think they will help with specific advice.

Creativecow is kind of a nuisance to navigate, but here's some tutorials for After Effects.
Creative Cow AE tutorials

Videocopilot.net

Although, in my opinion, it would be a crime to make Rocky Horror completely in Black and White. I thought the original idea was to make it black and white until Frank shows up. His lips aren't that saturated to really make the gimmick work very well.

Here's one that has some rotoscoping in it.
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