Sorry to dredge up this old thread..
I've had pretty good results with 720x405 for most NTSC letterboxed content but I just can't seem to get anything to work for the 1.66:1 ratio. When properly anamorphic, 1.66 will appear essentially pictureboxed and almost fill the entire screen. Any ideas?
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This new album is really surprising. Not great, but it's just all around good. Not to mention 17 tracks long.
I think someone on the SE team just felt that the camera mounted in the front of the cockpit mockup looked too fake. Zooming in makes the frame more immediate and modern and cluttered. I agree this should not have been done.
Ahh. That seems to be it. BTW it didn't make it larger-my eyes were deceiving me. I shouldn't have trusted them.
Shadow always seems a bit too small town-ish to me.
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Yep. He can't even afford a scan of his personal three strip technicolor print he had the 97's based on.
Would love a PM Harmy.
If it has anything to do with the 04 debacle (which it probably will) then there is no hope for this set. Best case scenario if the OOT is not released is to do a new scan of the 97SE and simply release that. It will have proper restored colors, a highly detailed image (added scenes were done in 2K), good sound mix, and none of the awful 04 edits. And it wouldn't cost anything except for a new scan.
You know, I really get the feeling that a couple of young guys at Lucasfilm started dropping in leftover stuff from the prequels into the 1080 scan of the OT and George saw it one day...god this transfer just gets worse every day. Surprised it's not interlaced as a "creative choice".
Next time: Reenact a scene from the Shakespearean classic Theatre of Blood?
I was just coming here to talk about TSWLM..I've been doing a LD preservation on and off for a while. The budget wasn't that much above SW (12-14 million as compared to slightly over 10) and was a return to the big scale of previous Bond adventures. It is extremely 70's (right down to the disco score, film stock, and amount of brown in the image) but this adds to it's charm in this day and age. And yes, I love raised eyebrows. And Lotus. And bad Russian accents. ;)
New question: when I make my 16:9 cropped lossless mov in MPEG Streamclip it default checks Interlaced Scaling. What exactly does this do? I compared a file with and without this option and all it seemed to do was make the frame size a bit larger.
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Ride to Atlantis-Marvin Hamlisch
and the rest of The Spy Who Loved Me score.
Undertow-R.E.M.
I thought dejarrik was the game of choice.
Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I-R.E.M.
oooookay....and I thought I had some weird LPs....;)
Just found this. It's going on my immediate wishlist. A new 180 gram vinyl pressing of GET CARTER . Seems as if some of the vinyl reissue companies are pressing soundtracks!
ChainsawAsh said:
Get Carter (1971) - Great movie. Love me some Michael Caine.
I adore this movie. This seriously deserves a blu! The current DVD is only single layer and pales next to the 35mm original I saw last year!
Jack Carter is the definition of badass. Cool, sophisticated, driven, remorseless, bored-Harry Palmer on steroids. And that score... :)
yay! THX! :)
No, no problem at all! This is all really helpful for me-your projects spurred me to do some work of my own on a Mac and no one else I know of really knows anything about Mac conversions etc. with Streamclip and other software.
So...using NTSC standards of 720x480 for instance I would need to crop about 37.5 pixels off the top and bottom if I didn't crop any off the left and right of the frame. Thus about 720x405. Does this sound at all right or am I totally off base?
So you run through Streamclip on the 16:9 setting and then run the resulting file through Compressor set at 16:9, right?
Thanks for the help!
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington for the hundred thousandth time. This should be mandatory viewing. As time passes, it becomes more and more true.
Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
I paid for college by working clubs as a jazz drummer. Biggest influences: Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, etc. I quit about 10 years ago and haven't played a gig since. I'm so rusty now that I doubt I could.
Most awesome in college job ever!
I would like to learn the drums, but don't have access to a kit or anything. Have played way too much Rock Band though...;)