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Author Topic: Sneak Preview Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-15-2003 04:41 PM                        The $30 purchase price of Quicktime only allows you to author your own Quicktimes. The player is free.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 03-15-2003 05:33 PM                     The free Quicktime program gives just as good of results are the Pro version. The files are extremely compressed so that as many internet people as possible can view them. If I was to make a high resolution file of those, it would be ten times over the file size to download and would clog up the lines. The same file size does tend to look better in QT than on generic MPEG, which is why they are provided in that format. (Plus it makes Scott use a Windows computer, which is always fun. )  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-15-2003 07:20 PM                        Now I just need to find a way to make Brad use vi!  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-15-2003 09:54 PM                        Nonsense, you can play Quicktime video on Linux with CodeWeavers CrossOver.  |  IP: Logged Joe Beres Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 606 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-16-2003 10:12 AM                     The attitude... the velvety voice.. the smooth style... and the unquenchable thirst for martinis. I really think that Bob Maar is the lost member of the Rat Pack.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 03-16-2003 10:38 AM                    Since you're talking about Quicktime software, is there a simple freeware editor I can use to perform some basic pruning of the little 5 fps QT videos my still camera shoots? I have Premiere but it's not currently happy on my machine and plus I seem to always end up bloating everything (different rez and frame rate). Just want something primitive for simple cutting. Obligatory Sho-Nuff content: What's heavier: Titanic in 5-perf 70mm or Ian? Show your work for full credit.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-16-2003 10:56 AM                        Ian weighs more. According to John P., 70mm film weighs about 10 pounds per 1000 feet (not sure if this is mag or DTS). Titanic runs for 194 minutes at 112.5 fpm, for a total of 21825 feet (plus a few more feet for leader and tail and maybe trailers, too). Thus, Titanic weighs about 218 pounds in 5/70. Ian weighs 300 pounds. 218 < 300. Thus, Ian weighs more. Q.E.D. Further comparisons are left as an exercise for the interested student.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-16-2003 02:50 PM                     Ah, but Ian produces more pressure -- force per unit area. The weight of the film is distributed throughout the entire platter. But of course, it's all irrelevent. No one measured how true the platter was before Ian stepped on it, nor after, so there's no way to know what really happened. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-23-2003 09:45 AM                        Oh wow, that crazy THX! They are so fun and playful making people do the "Broadway Tone" into the camera. Makes me love THX and want to buy THX certified speakers for my car or maybe my computer (THX is no longer about cinema). They so funny!! OK that was a very smart-ass post. But the video showed some kid, Dwayne (gettin' old there fella!), some guy with no facial expressions, and Ian doing the "tone". Only Ian could produce the bass of the original Broadway trailer. Loved the edit at the end with Ian and the www.film-tech.com logo.  |  IP: Logged Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-23-2003 11:22 AM                        Just for those further comparisons: Is Ian digital or analog ? Per student  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-23-2003 05:31 PM                        quote: Ah, but Ian produces more pressure -- force per unit area. The weight of the film is distributed throughout the entire platter. That really becomes a non-issue when the arm starts to fail before the deck itself starts to bend.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 03-27-2003 02:50 AM                     The ShoWest 2003 videos are not over just yet, I just haven't had the spare time these last few days to squeeze in some more of that awesome "slap it together" editing and Quicktime compression. They will return in a few days. In the meantime, the recent daily update tradition will continue. Today's film calculator program was written by Stewart Anderson. It is a Windows program where you can tell it frames per second and frames per foot, then you can convert frames to hours/minutes/second/frames or feet/frames or vice versa, etc. Also you may add or subtract between any format. When you want to just convert numbers, just input the film's length in the upper field and leave the lower field blank. This way when you add or subtract you will get the same film length you entered, only in all 3 formats. Thanks to Stewart for sending it in.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-27-2003 08:58 AM                        The Kodak website also has an on-line Javascript film length/run-time calculator for all formats and framerates: http://www.kodak.com/country/US/en/motion/support/index.shtml or http://www.kodak.com/country/US/en/motion/products/index.shtml Go to "Film Calculator"  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-27-2003 11:16 AM                        But John, it only calculates to the nearest second. What if a film is 2 hours, 12 minutes and 12.2 seconds long? Or what if someone cut the tail on the print diagonally with a pair of scissors? It does not compensate for that. Kodak should shut down completely until this is fixed.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-27-2003 03:38 PM                        I'll talk to our webmaster.  |  IP: Logged

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