Question

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Thursday 05 May 2005 05:28 pm, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> > I enjoyed Jack-Jack Attack, but the best value on the DVD IMHO was
> > Boundin'  (The Song of the Jackalope).  When I saw it in the theatre I
> > was floored.
>
> I preferred the bird short that came with M<eye>.  Boundin' was
> technically good, but I found it boring.

I was simply shocked.  It was not at all related in any way to the movie we 
went to see.  Now I'm a fan and my daughters adore it.  :)  

> > Really?  I keep them under 1.5GB so they fit on two CD's, but the
> > quality is still good.  Many of the movies I've done have too many
> > artifacts at 700mb.  Actually, I vary the quality rating between 900kps
> > and 1200kps for video.
>
> But, do you use *.avi encoding?  There are differences.

Yes.  I rip and encode them to avi because I seldom turn them into actual 
SVCD's.  I'll typically just store them for use with MythTV or archive them 
off still xvid encoded wrapped in the avi format.

> The standard for movies is 24 fps.  The standard for NTSC (Never The
> Same Color) is 30 fps drop frame, which works out to about 29.5 fps  (I
> forget the exact...)  The problems arise when the DVD circuit must
> provide the NTSC signal and the movie is less.  It also depends on how
> honest the DVD maker is about preserving the original movie.  (I like to
> see them in the 5:4 ratio of 70 mm film.  The idiots like to release
> pan-n-scan or HDTV, which lops off about 30% of what the director had in
> the shot.  Grrrr!)  Some also play games with frame rate.

Yeah, I know.  Talk about your religious wars.  
"You need to make it available for our TV's at 29.970fps."
"screw you, the camera runs at 24fps.  You're getting it in 24fps!"
"Ok, try 23.976024fps.  Comply or we'll make you spell Inverse-Telecine!"
"morons.  We'll show you, try this!  We'll give you letterbox!  That'll screw 
you, and the customers, out of half the movie!"
"Let's agree that the other is wrong and just make more money..."
"done"

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