towne32

Tantive3+1 said:

After four years, I decided to watch Doctor Who again for the Christmas special just to see the regeneration at the end letting the whole “breaking the 12 regeneration limit rule” slide and giving it a chance to see if the show had gotten better seeing the First Doctor would be in it and had considered watching Peter Capaldi’s run as the Doctor now that it was over.

It only reaffirmed my belief that Stephen Moffat had ruined the show and that a majority of it, including Jodie Whittaker’s casting (I’m sincerely not trying to come off as misogynist), was done by the BBC for their own selfish agenda’s.

Well, you could probably try even harder. It’s not an unreasonable casting decision.

Anyway, they dealt with the regeneration limit last time. They decided to count Tennant’s fakeout regeneration. The suspected reason for that is that Moffat did not plan on staying through all of Capaldi’s run. His creation of the War Doctor would therefore throw his successor into needing to deal with the limit very early in their tenure. Potentially unfair to them and only because Moffat invented an incarnation. So he got it out of the way.

DVD-BOY said:

BuckNaked said:

I don’t know what kind of discs they are using other than their claim to be dual layered 50GB discs with a special water and scratch resistant coating. For me $20 per disc doesn’t seem egregious, but as I said, if a member here would like to spread some holiday cheer my way, my PM is open. 😉

What, you mean something like these from Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/PlexDisc-Resistant-Printable-Blu-ray-Spindle/dp/B016LTAX7I/ - $26 for 10?

All blurays are scratch resistant. And these guys are buying bigger bulk than a spindle on amazon. And it’s even cheaper for those getting discs pressed.

In bulk, costs are probably virtually nothing. These guys are making an insane amount of profit and it’s sad to see anyone defend them.

Warbler said:

towne32 said:

series 10

Ok, I have always wondered this and I have to ask, why do you UKers refer to a season as a series? In America, each year of series is a season, and all of the seasons put together are called a series. Just do you guys use to refer to the whole thing, if you are using series for year?

I don’t know the answer, as I’m from the US.

For many shows I use the terms interchangeably. For Who, they called the old show Seasons and the new one Series. So being consistent/accurate removes ambiguity as to whether you’re talking about Pertwee’s first year or Smith’s third, for example.

Not to mention that these people are lifting the menus as well, not making their own.

The markup ($80-130 price tag) obliterates any convenience or cost of materials argument. If it was $10, it would still be problematic because Disney would see it as a threat, and it is associated with us. But at least people wouldn’t be making such huge profits. These guys are printing $100 bills, effectively.

I’ve loved the Capaldi era, especially Moffat’s stories. As ever, there are some episodes that don’t work as well. No era has ever been flawless. But I also pretty much always walk away from a new episode having enjoyed it. And that’s true for most of the classic series, barring a few from the late 70s and 80s.

I was nervous about series 10, because the final Sherlock series was a train wreck, suggesting that Moffat really was out of steam. but he pulled S10 off brilliantly, IMO.

This was probably the first time I was left thinking, “wow, I really wish they did something aside from this. anything, really.” This is what I expected from Sherlock S4 Moffat. Oh well. It had a few moments, and I loved it from the return to WW1 through to the cliffhanger. Gattis had a rare wonderful contribution to the show. That hasn’t happened since Series 1 or, arguably, Nightshade. And the brief glimpse we’ve had of the next era has me excited for the show to move on.

I had a harder time hearing 12’s last words. 13’s first were clear (and well delivered) for me.

Agreed about them getting the First Doctor all wrong.

‘So why did you leave Gallifrey, Doctor?’

Well, you see my dear, really I’ve been Roger fucking Sterling the whole time. I left to drink Brandy and chase broads, of course!

That said, even the first Doctor had a few okay moments.

Everything with Mark Gatiss and the war was great. Enjoyed that it was a slower piece. Capaldi was great, and his lines well written (from someone that doesn’t buy into the ‘they don’t write well for Capaldi’ notion). Jodie’s first scene was a tease that left me definitely looking forward to her performance. Capaldi’s last moments were nice. He clearly contributed to that himself. The thing about children is from his own head canon for the Doctor’s name. that was a nice touch.

But something was lacking in general. Bringing Rusty back didn’t make much sense. His whole realm was not very interesting. Partly, perhaps, because all of the sets seemed uninspired. Rachel is easily one of, if not the, best director the show has ever had. And this was easily her weakest contribution.

I did search for Theatrical. Strange. Anyway, reported. These shitty Dropbox sales are the most infuriating of all. Baffling that eBay allows anything of the sort and that the MPAA and RIAA, etc, aren’t pressuring them not to.

Probably best to just wait for (and donate to) Poita’s scan.

Someone posted on a spleen comment, I think, that decent HDTV captures of the non DNR sequels are on PassThePopcorn. Can anyone confirm if that’s true?

eBay is free of Despecialized as far as I can tell!

Try updating the plugins/program.

ChainsawAsh said:

Did anyone ever get v2.0 to burn to a BD50 and work in a player? I wasn’t able to, either with the PCM audio or the AC3. Granted, I only tried it on a PS4, but I have no problems with my Despecialized discs which were burned using the same method…

I believe some of Hal’s prequel edits needed a couple of boxes checked in Tsmuxer in order to work on a PS4 (I don’t have it in front of me to check, but it’s been posted about a bunch on the forums). Without that, the video came out scrambled looking. I don’t recall if the audio worked.

TavorX said:

Whenever Luke’s going to say, “Everything you just said was wrong”, cut to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCU36pkH7c

Hah. Looping Luke moving his mouth for a very, very long time, I think it would be great to have him just say that to Rey.

I’m not sure that doing it again, with Kylo, works. But I didn’t think the 57th “now there are two of them” would work, and it did. Probably.

Assuming the 4k and 1080p discs have the exact same sync (they certainly should), you can always edit the 1080p version and hang on to your project file. Premiere makes it very easy to simply replace a source. So, someday you can come back and upgrade it, tweak the project settings, upscale a few deleted scenes and render.

That will also save you from needing to scrub through the 4k version in the editing process.

Of course, those of you guys doing extensive work in after effects will have a bit more manual work to do. Might be worth starting those kinds of shots at as high a resolution as possible if 4k would ever happen down the road.

Took a look at Ebay to see how bad the Despecialized selling is at the moment, and was quite surprised. Only one item (an AVCHD with the nfo shamelessly copied from the forum. You’re famous, Catbus!) https://www.ebay.com/itm/star-wars-despecialized-edition-Trilogy/122871793458 (feel free to report)

I don’t see anything else, and no blu-rays. Are we doing a good job of reporting them, or is Disney stepping in now that they’ve bought Fox?

ThiefCobbler4ever said:

The shot of Luke I was referring to was during the line “I copy Gold Leader”, I was just giving a visual so you can find the error on the Y-Wing prior to that.

And yes, I probably was watching the 1.0 version.

Nope, you were right. I was talking about a different shot.

Damn. Must have been something they fixed in 97 that slipped in.

Edit: Hmm. I swear I knew about this change, but I don’t think I see it in either Harmy’s Despecialized Gallery or doubleofive’s change gallery. That explains how it missed my spot checking at the end, but I could have sworn it was, at one point, in such a gallery.

Hal 9000 said:

That sounds like a good problem to have. Like SW Legacy but don’t want the films split up? Commission a team to get ESB and ROTJ done as well.

I interpreted it as the previous issue where Fox’s rights to two of the three expired, and Disney not wanting to commit to anything where it’s split in an unfavorable way for them.

Assuming the buy out is allowed to proceed, they’re now in the position to simply give a thumbs up, if they want.

Just to follow up on this, the error occurs after, “Red leader this is gold leader, we’re starting our attack run”, and before “I copy gold leader” (a shot back on the base), right? The error is present as it should be in 2.7. Are you perhaps watching v1.0 of Harmy’s or something? I’m also not sure what you mean about the shot of Luke, as I’m pretty sure that doesn’t occur at that point.

Thanks, though!

I don’t have experience with DTSHD encoding, because the suite never did anything but freeze up when I tried to use it.

But I do have experience with Premiere exporting things with massive gain reduction for whatever reason. The issue, as far as I could tell, seemed to always be with what it was importing. Even though they were perfectly fine wav/mp3/ac3 files, its import function seems to be bugged. I fixed it by simply taking whatever source I was using, importing it into audacity, exporting again as wav, and then bringing into Premiere. I could then compare it directly to the previous, bugged import and see directly that the peaks were higher. And that carried over into what I exported from Premiere, now correct.

I don’t know if this is the same problem that you’re having with DTSHD. I assume that you know how to export the lossless audio from it and not just the lossy core (I’m not sure that I know how to do that). You say ‘demux’, but I don’t know if that means losslessly re-encode in this context. In any case, you could try re-encoding the wav audio and importing that into Premiere. Perhaps you will luck out.

Edit: Reading over in the other thread, it seems even less likely that this is the same problem, as you don’t actually notice the drop when looking at the directly exported Premiere audio. It only shows up after the next step.

The flag difference was between an early/preview render of the scene vs. the final scene, rather than theatrical vs. home video (assuming no one later found some sort of more subtle difference).

chyron8472 said:

I suppose where I’m at with it is this: People saying things need to be mature and sensitive of others; and people hearing things need to be mature and not overreact.

The arguments people make about offensive conversation seem to gravitate toward one side or the other, when I think both are exactly equally important. On the one side people accuse the offended as “snowflakes”, and on the other side people accuse the offensive as racist, whatever-negative-stereotype.

I think the important thing is to be mature about things, whether speaking or listening in equal measure. And that doesn’t mean people have to watch everything they say, but that they can also diffuse a tense moment quickly and easily when it happens by being civil and mature.

A: "[unknowningly offensive word]"
B: "Please don’t use that word. It’s offensive to me."
A: “Oh. Okay, I’m sorry.”

I’m guilty of over-reacting here as well. And, for me at least, it’s because for a long time, it was nearly impossible to get the moderation to do anything unless a post was really over the top vile (like the guy who posted 100 anime dicks). So things naturally escalated, and we would all just basically act like bigger and bigger (anime) dicks toward each other. Walking away was probably the right thing to do. But with little moderation in place, walking away might have felt more like just handing over the thread to people who are in the wrong. Frink may have felt that way at times, and I certainly think people have thought it when they’ve stood up to Frink at times when he hijacked threads.

We have moderation now. And Jason seems to be quite responsive. We should be able to deal with inflammatory posters in a reasonable way like many other forums do, now. Maybe I’m wrong, and Frink’s behavior doesn’t stem from this. I just think that a lot of the tension and escalation that happens here is due to it, previously, being a bit ‘wild west’ and people defending themselves instead of being able to rely on moderation.

In any case, it would probably be best not to advertise that fact. As far as the DMCA is concerned (obviously not everyone is under that), there is a big difference between a torrented movie and a self made rip. Though I agree that the point is somewhat moot when the end product just gets torrented anyway.

You’re always a cheap drive away from a full rip, though. Unless you’re downloading a full BD ISO, you would be getting a (very, probably) compressed version that you’re going to re encode from. If you’re going to spend time on edits, it makes sense to do it from decent quality sources.

Editdroid, for a nasty quote, allegedly from his friend.

I forget if you can see Rey’s palm clearly in her cave reflection, but…

“Not Penny’s Boat”

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