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Star Wars II (Attack of the clones) Trailer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the jumping-through-hoops dept.

tjansen writes "The Episode II Trailer is available. You need be a starwars.com member to watch it and must have installed the Quicktime plugin though." I guess thats 2 strikes against me. Glad I saw it in front of Monsters Inc.

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  1. no membership required... go here by AtaruMoroboshi · · Score: 5, Informative


    http://www.apple.com/trailers/

  2. In truth, a teaser by Chairboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is actually what the movie industry calls a 'teaser'. In todays movie industry, a trailer is the Cliff Notes version of the movie.

    This teaser, on the other hand, is a series of snapshots of different scenes where some fx has been completed. It requires no music, editing, and is basically the cheapest, fastest thing Lucasfilm can put out at this point.

    1. Re:In truth, a teaser by cvd6262 · · Score: 5, Informative

      This is actually what the movie industry calls a 'teaser'.

      Agreed.

      The video file is 1:07 long, but after I cut out the Fox and Lucasfilm titles, and the end Star Wars logo, and then removed all of the blank screen, I was left with (I kid you not) 25 seconds of video.

      Here are the files:

      The whole 640 trailer

      The one I edited

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  3. Dark Horizons has links to .mpg versions by iainl · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those either on Linux and unable to, or just hate Quicktime for some reason, Dark Horizons has links to these four mirror sites in .mpg format. Note that these seem pretty hosed as well though...

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  4. Actually the Correct URL by BrookHarty · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/breathing/media/pro/ ep2_breathing_m640.mov
    Is the large version that requires Quicktime pro.

    Quicktime will use your default proxy (on windows) all you have to do, is parse the proxy log for the 2nd .mov that it downloads.

    GET /ep2/breathing/media/pro/ep2_breathing_m640.mov HTTP/1.1
    Connection: keep-alive
    Host: starwars.apple.com
    Range: bytes=0-
    Accept: */*
    User-Agent: QuickTime (qtver=5.0.2;os=Windows NT 5.1)

  5. Doh, Correct URL., messup post. by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Informative


    http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/breathing/media/pr o/ ep2_breathing_m640.mov
    Is the large version that requires Quicktime pro.

    Quicktime will use your default proxy (on windows) all you have to do, is parse the proxy log for the 2nd .mov that it downloads.

    GET /ep2/breathing/media/pro/ep2_breathing_m640.mov HTTP/1.1
    Connection: keep-alive
    Host: starwars.apple.com
    Range: bytes=0-
    Accept: */*
    User-Agent: QuickTime (qtver=5.0.2;os=Windows NT 5.1)

    1. Re:Doh, Correct URL., messup post. by pjl5602 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Or for the technically challenged Linux user type:

      wget -U "QuickTime (qtver=5.0.2;os=Windows NT 5.1)" http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/breathing/media/pro/ ep2_breathing_m640.mov

  6. Resolution won't likely go up. by tgd · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most DLP projectors in theaters are 1920x1080, progressive scan (progressive scan 24fps version of HD's 1080i).

    Most film editing systems run using 2k scans (2048 pixels across), so there's not any extra resolution available in the output from the production of the film.

    Some effects houses use 4k scans for input to heavy effects scenes, but as a general rule thats beyond the capability of the film stock to hold. (A 35mm film frame is less than 1/2 the area of a 35mm print frame on your normal film camera, and those barely get any benefit from a 4k scan).