"Dolby 5.1" cannot be encoded in an analog stereo signal; the.1 implies you're referring to Dolby Digital 5.1, which is a 6-track discrete compression system using digitally encoded audio. Dolby Pro-Logic, which is what I think you're referring to, is matrix-encoded in analogue stereo audio. It is a four channel system, where audio that's in-phase across the left and right signals is routed to the center, and audio that's near 180 out of phase is routed to the (mono) surround channel.
After some research, it seems that the IMAX screens in the US do indeed have simple polarisation-based proejction as well - wchich makes this more interesting. Perhaps the difference is in RealD's fancy silver screen, then?
As the poster below you suggests, it is not the false focusing distance that is the issue, it is inter-eye flickering. The IMAX glasses must strobe at at least 48Hz, maybe even higher, but the issue is that the strobe alternates between eyes, which cannot be comfortable for some people. Personally I haven't had a problem but everyone I hear complaining about polarised 3D mentions flickering or strobing, which the RealD system does not have. Let me be clear: from the lightbulb in the projectors to the screen to your eyes, there are no shutters of any kind in the RealD system.
RealD differs from, say, IMAX 3D in that instead of sequentially projecting the left and right images and requiring a shutter system in the glasses, they simultaneously project the two images and through some material-design magic each eye only sees one. So, I don't really see how it could cause migraines any more than looking through polarised sunglasses could.
ABC is now 720p; Nine and Ten's HD channels are at 1080i but very little programming is delivered that hasn't been upscaled at the broadcast end - generally all the primetime American dramas are 1080i, and there's a few morning shows that are as well. The problem is that up until the start of this year there just weren't enough broadcast-grade 1080i cameras in the country to produce the content. Big Brother 2006 changed that - it was produced entirely in 1080i - and then relayed and broadcast at 576i. Sigh.
This is why you don't use boundless capturing; it's why Final Cut Pro limits 'Capture Now' to 30 minutes by default and strongly recommends you do not turn off the limit. It's much smarter to use bounded capturing (i.e. Capture Clip) where the system knows the size of the file you're capturing before it starts so it can preallocate the space.
"God" and "damn" are uncouth words? This is news to me. The only mindset that places any special meaning behind these words is one with a heavily religious background. If I'm in "polite company" and say "I was going to work the other day and my god, you wouldn't believe the traffic" nobody will bat an eyelid. I could construct similar sentences with "damn" and "goddamn". Now, maybe this is a function of me living in Australia, but I certainly don't recall being publicly shunned in California when I occasioned to use these words.
I can absolutely see your point for words that are genuinely offensive to most English-speaking people. But there is definitely a subset of 'offensive words' that is words which are offensive only to people who take religious language completely seriously, such as "god", "damn", "hell", and I'm sure many more. It is these words that I argue should not be considered offensive for the purposes of classification, as they only have an offensive connotation to the especially religious. I take issue with the grandparent's distaste for the overuse of what most would consider very mild profanity in a film rated PG-13.
Who said anything about intent? My kids love the movie "Twister", but I wish it had a few less "goddamns". Am I really "religious frek" and a "moron" because I'd prefer not to hear gratuitous bad language?
Well, you did use a lowercase 'g' in "goddamn", which would put you squarely in the non-religious-freak camp, except that you somehow find it offensive enough to want to hear it less in a movie. What is so offensive about the word (I would argue two-word phrase) "goddamn"? Is it the "god" or the "damn", or as American TV censorship clearly demonstrates, the combination of the two that makes for a profanity? If it's the "god", then you would appear to be a 'religious freak'. If it's the "damn" then I wonder just how many words you consider offensive. And if it's the combination, like the TV stations seem to think, then you're definitely being affected by religious bias.
They're all words. Just words, and the only power they have is what you give them. To an atheist, "goddamn" is just a way of emphasising something, e.g. "Those goddamn censors are at it again". The word holds absolutely no special meaning. To someone who holds particular issue with the commandment regarding 'taking the lord's name in vain', it has an entirely different connotative meaning - it inspires disgust with the utterer. I guess what I'm trying to say is that whilst I wouldn't call you a religious freak, I would call you a bit of a moron, because if you can't understand that "gratuitous bad language" should probably refer to words that are a little more universally reviled (viz: Carlin's Seven Dirty Words), then you need a little perspective.
I am also a trombone player. An out-of-practice one, sure; and I'm well aware that bugle mouthpieces are far smaller than many brass instruments' - but that's not the point. It isn't the fact that bugling is harder than trumpeting that's causing these shortages; it's that there's that much ceremony (as you have illuminated to me) - if you've got to have a trained serviceman bugling then no wonder there's a problem.
A bugle is exactly the same as a trumpet, it just has less notes it can play. When a trumpeter needs to play much higher or much lower notes, they make a subtle adjustment with their mouth to shift the register they're playing in. The notes accessible to a bugle are all fundamentals or harmonics of the size of the bugle; which is why all bugle songs have the same notes in them. Any brass instrument player could easily play a bugle, ignoring the smaller mouthpiece.
You could conceivably replace the entire film gate with a DLP panel, although you would have to alter the orientation of the lamp housing... If LCD was at the required resolution yet this would be easier...
They are possibly using chaptered feeds, which is great if you need to jump around to a specific spot, but it seems that it may be a problem for those such as yourself.
Problem is, many new Macs, like mine, are using the OEM Matsushita drives, which have such well-implemented RPC2 that not even VLC can get past it. I'm not particularly happy about it. Nobody seems to be able to write a patched firmware, either.
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Myth busted.
"Dolby 5.1" cannot be encoded in an analog stereo signal; the .1 implies you're referring to Dolby Digital 5.1, which is a 6-track discrete compression system using digitally encoded audio. Dolby Pro-Logic, which is what I think you're referring to, is matrix-encoded in analogue stereo audio. It is a four channel system, where audio that's in-phase across the left and right signals is routed to the center, and audio that's near 180 out of phase is routed to the (mono) surround channel.
After some research, it seems that the IMAX screens in the US do indeed have simple polarisation-based proejction as well - wchich makes this more interesting. Perhaps the difference is in RealD's fancy silver screen, then?
As the poster below you suggests, it is not the false focusing distance that is the issue, it is inter-eye flickering. The IMAX glasses must strobe at at least 48Hz, maybe even higher, but the issue is that the strobe alternates between eyes, which cannot be comfortable for some people. Personally I haven't had a problem but everyone I hear complaining about polarised 3D mentions flickering or strobing, which the RealD system does not have. Let me be clear: from the lightbulb in the projectors to the screen to your eyes, there are no shutters of any kind in the RealD system.
RealD differs from, say, IMAX 3D in that instead of sequentially projecting the left and right images and requiring a shutter system in the glasses, they simultaneously project the two images and through some material-design magic each eye only sees one. So, I don't really see how it could cause migraines any more than looking through polarised sunglasses could.
It's a shame that nobody outside America can enjoy this game.
ABC is now 720p; Nine and Ten's HD channels are at 1080i but very little programming is delivered that hasn't been upscaled at the broadcast end - generally all the primetime American dramas are 1080i, and there's a few morning shows that are as well. The problem is that up until the start of this year there just weren't enough broadcast-grade 1080i cameras in the country to produce the content. Big Brother 2006 changed that - it was produced entirely in 1080i - and then relayed and broadcast at 576i. Sigh.
This is why you don't use boundless capturing; it's why Final Cut Pro limits 'Capture Now' to 30 minutes by default and strongly recommends you do not turn off the limit. It's much smarter to use bounded capturing (i.e. Capture Clip) where the system knows the size of the file you're capturing before it starts so it can preallocate the space.
"God" and "damn" are uncouth words? This is news to me. The only mindset that places any special meaning behind these words is one with a heavily religious background. If I'm in "polite company" and say "I was going to work the other day and my god, you wouldn't believe the traffic" nobody will bat an eyelid. I could construct similar sentences with "damn" and "goddamn". Now, maybe this is a function of me living in Australia, but I certainly don't recall being publicly shunned in California when I occasioned to use these words.
I can absolutely see your point for words that are genuinely offensive to most English-speaking people. But there is definitely a subset of 'offensive words' that is words which are offensive only to people who take religious language completely seriously, such as "god", "damn", "hell", and I'm sure many more. It is these words that I argue should not be considered offensive for the purposes of classification, as they only have an offensive connotation to the especially religious. I take issue with the grandparent's distaste for the overuse of what most would consider very mild profanity in a film rated PG-13.
Well, you did use a lowercase 'g' in "goddamn", which would put you squarely in the non-religious-freak camp, except that you somehow find it offensive enough to want to hear it less in a movie. What is so offensive about the word (I would argue two-word phrase) "goddamn"? Is it the "god" or the "damn", or as American TV censorship clearly demonstrates, the combination of the two that makes for a profanity? If it's the "god", then you would appear to be a 'religious freak'. If it's the "damn" then I wonder just how many words you consider offensive. And if it's the combination, like the TV stations seem to think, then you're definitely being affected by religious bias.
They're all words. Just words, and the only power they have is what you give them. To an atheist, "goddamn" is just a way of emphasising something, e.g. "Those goddamn censors are at it again". The word holds absolutely no special meaning. To someone who holds particular issue with the commandment regarding 'taking the lord's name in vain', it has an entirely different connotative meaning - it inspires disgust with the utterer. I guess what I'm trying to say is that whilst I wouldn't call you a religious freak, I would call you a bit of a moron, because if you can't understand that "gratuitous bad language" should probably refer to words that are a little more universally reviled (viz: Carlin's Seven Dirty Words), then you need a little perspective.
Which is why I balked at you comparing Apple to them, because Apple products are actually worth the money you pay for them, on the whole.
I am also a trombone player. An out-of-practice one, sure; and I'm well aware that bugle mouthpieces are far smaller than many brass instruments' - but that's not the point. It isn't the fact that bugling is harder than trumpeting that's causing these shortages; it's that there's that much ceremony (as you have illuminated to me) - if you've got to have a trained serviceman bugling then no wonder there's a problem.
A bugle is exactly the same as a trumpet, it just has less notes it can play. When a trumpeter needs to play much higher or much lower notes, they make a subtle adjustment with their mouth to shift the register they're playing in. The notes accessible to a bugle are all fundamentals or harmonics of the size of the bugle; which is why all bugle songs have the same notes in them. Any brass instrument player could easily play a bugle, ignoring the smaller mouthpiece.
You could conceivably replace the entire film gate with a DLP panel, although you would have to alter the orientation of the lamp housing... If LCD was at the required resolution yet this would be easier...
They are possibly using chaptered feeds, which is great if you need to jump around to a specific spot, but it seems that it may be a problem for those such as yourself.
You are correct, sir, but that doesn't make the GP correct.
Except that the product name is OS X, not OSX.
Unfortunately, until March, we won't know because FCP and its ilk simply do not run under Rosetta.
When you mean Windows, say Windows. OS X is a major platform, too.
Easy in a Powermac, hard in an iMac or Mac Mini or any laptop.
Problem is, many new Macs, like mine, are using the OEM Matsushita drives, which have such well-implemented RPC2 that not even VLC can get past it. I'm not particularly happy about it. Nobody seems to be able to write a patched firmware, either.
He's from New Zealand, or at least his website is...
Other way round. The Bad Plus is a jazz group.
35mm is nominally around 33 megapixels... That's quite a DSLR you have there...