The Doomsday Machine - scifieric Edition

[Four Mad Men]

Hadn't thought of that. To the bat-burner! <--- works best if you imagine the music in your head.

[scifieric]

LOL! Great, and now I've got that Batman transition trumpet music in my head. Get it out!

[Four Mad Men]

My job is done

[Nevets]

Nice effects. The only problem I see is the aspect ratio. Star Trek is 4:3 not 3:2. I've notice this a lot with fan productions who seem to follow the DVD size forgetting the aspect ratio.

Perhaps a QuickTime version.

[scifieric]

Thanks Nevets. That's what the Prof said as well. The Real Media and Windows Media versions are at the 4:3 ratio but I think I'll have to actually re-render since it looks compressed this way.

You're right about why, I did it to maintain what I got off the DVD.

[Professor Moriarty]

Originally Posted by Nevets

Nice effects. The only problem I see is the aspect ratio. Star Trek is 4:3 not 3:2. I've notice this a lot with fan productions who seem to follow the DVD size forgetting the aspect ratio.

Perhaps a QuickTime version.

Errrr, not exactly. Yes, Star Trek was shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio, but encoding the source material with QuickTime alone won't make any difference... you'll still wind up with a 720 x 480 QT movie because the source material on the DVD from which the live action footage was ripped was encoded at 720 x 480.

But 720 x 480 is an aspect ratio of 3:2, not 4:3 you say. Ah, but remember: the NTSC video format (the format for all DVDs sold in the United States) uses rectangular pixels with an aspect ratio of 9:8 (or 1.125:1). And what happens when you divide 720 by 1.125? That's right--you get 640... and therefore a resolution of 640 x 480 with a square pixel aspect ratio of 4:3.

Since computer monitors--and therefore any computer video format such as AVI and QT--use square pixels, at some point during the AVI or QT encoding process you must horizontally squeeze footage ripped from a DVD by 11.11%. You must also remember when rendering new CGI footage for a project like Eric's to render it at 720 x 480 with rectangular pixels, so that your new CGI footage meshes seamlessly with the original live action footage. At first this will take some getting used to--the raw CGI output will look horizontally stretched--but when you encode a new DVD or perform the horizontal compression for AVI or QT (or WMV or MP4 or... etc.) everything will look hunky-dory.

[Tallguy]

Originally Posted by Professor Moriarty

Errrr, not exactly. Yes, Star Trek was shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio, but encoding the source material with QuickTime alone won't make any difference... you'll still wind up with a 720 x 480 QT movie because the source material on the DVD from which the live action footage was ripped was encoded at 720 x 480.

But 720 x 480 is an aspect ratio of 3:2, not 4:3 you say. Ah, but remember: the NTSC video format (the format for all DVDs sold in the United States) uses rectangular pixels with an aspect ratio of 9:8 (or 1.125:1). And what happens when you divide 720 by 1.125? That's right--you get 640... and therefore a resolution of 640 x 480 with a square pixel aspect ratio of 4:3.

Since computer monitors--and therefore any computer video format such as AVI and QT--use square pixels, at some point during the AVI or QT encoding process you must horizontally squeeze footage ripped from a DVD by 11.11%. You must also remember when rendering new CGI footage for a project like Eric's to render it at 720 x 480 with rectangular pixels, so that your new CGI footage meshes seamlessly with the original live action footage. At first this will take some getting used to--the raw CGI output will look horizontally stretched--but when you encode a new DVD or perform the horizontal compression for AVI or QT (or WMV or MP4 or... etc.) everything will look hunky-dory.

Boy, is this making my head spin. So are you saying that if I render something for the computer screen, if I then transfer it to DVD it will look wrong?

[Oovebei]

Originally Posted by Tallguy

Boy, is this making my head spin. So are you saying that if I render something for the computer screen, if I then transfer it to DVD it will look wrong?

As I understand it that is a yes (I hope)

[STnut35]

no...... please dont set it up in QT format,I hate QT format....Oh The Horror!!!!!!!

[Tallguy]

QT rules.

Really nice job on this, btw. Maybe add one or two rougher 'roids, but the far background is sci-firiffic.