Yeah, that would be great... in their original shooting locations... Let's see, Metropolis was filmed in Berlin, The Killing Fields, in Thailand, Apocalypse Now in the Philippines...
I've been wanting to track down the Repo Man shooting locations for a while. Seems like this tour would be a good opportunity, since they're showing the film as one of the stops.
er, that was "double-sided" (now I'm imagining some breakthrough documentary about a guy who goes to Kinko's every day and says "double-side me", and the health implications thereof.)
Except when you click that button that labels a track part of a compilation in which case all of the related tracks end up in/music/Compilations/Cool Movie Soundtrack/
How is that a nightmare? My iTunes library is only managing 16,000+ tracks, (small, compared to some collections, I know) and it's automatically keeping them in 1047 artist folders under "iTunes Music" (each of those containing album folders as well).
It's a breeze. Any track I want to find, I type a couple of characters in the search field in iTunes to narrow it down to the track I want, click the song in question, type cmd-R and the file is instantly revealed. I never have to drill down through those folders to get to the data by hand.
Haven't upgraded to Tiger yet, but if Spotlight groks ID3 tags, I understand that the Spotlight search capability will be available in Open and Save dialogs so that even using programs other than iTunes (say, I wanted to send a track to a buddy via iChat), I could find it just as easily.
So the safari guy writes code that passes the acid2 test last week and now this post. Makes you wonder if someone at Microsoft heard that and said, "Anybody here working on this thing?"
You don't think shortening the ~6 hour drive between Minneapolis and Chicago might be useful? Currently Amtrak's train service between the two is 8 hours and costs $60. A flight is 1.5 hours, but costs $200. I'm thinking a high-speed train could probably make the trip in ~3 hours and if you were running it often enough, could even be cheaper than the slower Amtrak.
My argument (which is moot now that this has been signed into law) is that the edit list could not exist without the original film and is inherently a derivative work in and of itself.
No. But if you published a paper saying "At 0:23:48 fast-forward for 10 seconds. Then at 0:32:56 hit the next-chapter button" etc, then you ARE creating a derivative work and you are violating copyright by the nature of distributing the paper that you wrote to other parties.
A third party is creating a derivative work without the consent of the author and profiting by doing so -- a clear copyright violation by any interpretation of the law. Until today.
Not possible, because both the director cut and the theatrical cut each had exactly one layer break (at the same place). You can only have one real layer break on a dual layer disc. It had to be branched...
I don't know the specifics for certain, but I would imagine that an angle would have to keep the same run-time, whereas a branched video could be a different length, which is definitely the case with the directors cuts of the Aliens films. Also, if it were really making use of the angle functions, why would they author it with a different title number? (Not saying you're wrong, but also somewhat ignorant of authoring limitations, myself.)
You'd be surprised, actually. The branching on the Alien Quadrilogy and The Incredibles was flawless. What's that, you say? No branching on The Incredbiles you say? Try watching it in another language and check out the opening sequence (or just about any scene that had text in-picture). You'll see a different title number listed, but you can bet they didn't encode the full movie twice on the same disc. Same goes for any of the Alien movies for Director vs Theatrical.
The other big Altsys program being Fontographer, which hasn't been updated in years. It would be interesting to see Adobe, who may or may not still be a font giant depending on who you ask, releasing and updated font making application.
Since moving to LA I've enjoyed many films at the Chinese Theater. In my opinion, it's still the best screen and auditorium in town. It seems like at the Chinese you're more likely to have a good crowd that's really into the film and having a good time. (The room holds close to 1500 people and the energy levels can be contagious... I always get a smile on my face when people start cheering the THX trailer before the film even starts...)
The one downside is, sometimes they book utter crap onto their main screen. A showing at the Chinese should be about spectacle. It's not where you want to see a small, intimate romantic comedy. It's where you go when you want to see things get blown up and have the speakers blast you out of your seat. As much as the Arclight tries, it really doesn't have the same impact as the Chinese, IMHO.
If Paramount is indeed a co-owner of Mann's, as the article mentions, that might explain some of their poor booking choices. No, I'm not in line, but I kind of agree with the guy interviewed. If it's not going to show at the Chinese, why bother seeing it on the big screen at all? Any other theater would pale in comparison and not be as enjoyable a movie-going experience.
Any of the old TinyCWRU crew around on slashdot? I'm guessing Crocker. Any others? I'm sorry to see that tinymush.org seems to be gone. It was a blast to login to TinyCWRU as recently as a couple of years back and still be able to use characters created ~1990... Anyone know if somebody has inherited the database?
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Yeah, that would be great... in their original shooting locations... Let's see, Metropolis was filmed in Berlin, The Killing Fields, in Thailand, Apocalypse Now in the Philippines...
Talk about a road show!
I've been wanting to track down the Repo Man shooting locations for a while. Seems like this tour would be a good opportunity, since they're showing the film as one of the stops.
They'd have to save that for an East Coast trip...
Nah, we have to give them to people who Lucas has produced for... My vote's for Mel Smith and Ron Howard.
heh.
Actually, the Eo is listed under AT&T, but yeah, it needs more.
er, that was "double-sided" (now I'm imagining some breakthrough documentary about a guy who goes to Kinko's every day and says "double-side me", and the health implications thereof.)
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/help/learn_book.a spx does mass printing of PDF files, double-sized, bound. Sure, it costs a little bit, but probably less than trying to pull it off yourself.
Except when you click that button that labels a track part of a compilation in which case all of the related tracks end up in /music/Compilations/Cool Movie Soundtrack/
Seems like a reasonable compromise to me.
How is that a nightmare? My iTunes library is only managing 16,000+ tracks, (small, compared to some collections, I know) and it's automatically keeping them in 1047 artist folders under "iTunes Music" (each of those containing album folders as well).
It's a breeze. Any track I want to find, I type a couple of characters in the search field in iTunes to narrow it down to the track I want, click the song in question, type cmd-R and the file is instantly revealed. I never have to drill down through those folders to get to the data by hand.
Haven't upgraded to Tiger yet, but if Spotlight groks ID3 tags, I understand that the Spotlight search capability will be available in Open and Save dialogs so that even using programs other than iTunes (say, I wanted to send a track to a buddy via iChat), I could find it just as easily.
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So the safari guy writes code that passes the acid2 test last week and now this post. Makes you wonder if someone at Microsoft heard that and said, "Anybody here working on this thing?"
You don't think shortening the ~6 hour drive between Minneapolis and Chicago might be useful? Currently Amtrak's train service between the two is 8 hours and costs $60. A flight is 1.5 hours, but costs $200. I'm thinking a high-speed train could probably make the trip in ~3 hours and if you were running it often enough, could even be cheaper than the slower Amtrak.
QuickTime player, for one...
My argument (which is moot now that this has been signed into law) is that the edit list could not exist without the original film and is inherently a derivative work in and of itself.
Isn't a hard-coded edit-list, downloaded from ClearPlay a tangible medium?
No. But if you published a paper saying "At 0:23:48 fast-forward for 10 seconds. Then at 0:32:56 hit the next-chapter button" etc, then you ARE creating a derivative work and you are violating copyright by the nature of distributing the paper that you wrote to other parties.
A third party is creating a derivative work without the consent of the author and profiting by doing so -- a clear copyright violation by any interpretation of the law. Until today.
Come on, you can lead a gift horse to water, but you shouldn't drink out of its mouth.
Not possible, because both the director cut and the theatrical cut each had exactly one layer break (at the same place). You can only have one real layer break on a dual layer disc. It had to be branched...
I don't know the specifics for certain, but I would imagine that an angle would have to keep the same run-time, whereas a branched video could be a different length, which is definitely the case with the directors cuts of the Aliens films. Also, if it were really making use of the angle functions, why would they author it with a different title number? (Not saying you're wrong, but also somewhat ignorant of authoring limitations, myself.)
You'd be surprised, actually. The branching on the Alien Quadrilogy and The Incredibles was flawless. What's that, you say? No branching on The Incredbiles you say? Try watching it in another language and check out the opening sequence (or just about any scene that had text in-picture). You'll see a different title number listed, but you can bet they didn't encode the full movie twice on the same disc. Same goes for any of the Alien movies for Director vs Theatrical.
The other big Altsys program being Fontographer, which hasn't been updated in years. It would be interesting to see Adobe, who may or may not still be a font giant depending on who you ask, releasing and updated font making application.
Since moving to LA I've enjoyed many films at the Chinese Theater. In my opinion, it's still the best screen and auditorium in town. It seems like at the Chinese you're more likely to have a good crowd that's really into the film and having a good time. (The room holds close to 1500 people and the energy levels can be contagious... I always get a smile on my face when people start cheering the THX trailer before the film even starts...)
The one downside is, sometimes they book utter crap onto their main screen. A showing at the Chinese should be about spectacle. It's not where you want to see a small, intimate romantic comedy. It's where you go when you want to see things get blown up and have the speakers blast you out of your seat. As much as the Arclight tries, it really doesn't have the same impact as the Chinese, IMHO.
If Paramount is indeed a co-owner of Mann's, as the article mentions, that might explain some of their poor booking choices. No, I'm not in line, but I kind of agree with the guy interviewed. If it's not going to show at the Chinese, why bother seeing it on the big screen at all? Any other theater would pale in comparison and not be as enjoyable a movie-going experience.
Any of the old TinyCWRU crew around on slashdot? I'm guessing Crocker. Any others? I'm sorry to see that tinymush.org seems to be gone. It was a blast to login to TinyCWRU as recently as a couple of years back and still be able to use characters created ~1990... Anyone know if somebody has inherited the database?
- Open Adobe Photoshop CS
- Select "Keyboard Shortcuts" from the Edit menu
- Shut the fuck up about not being able to change keybindings
If you're still using Photoshop 5.5 on a Mac OS X box, no wonder you're not happy.