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2D, 24p. I don't have the option to view it in HFR here, but 3D is an option, which I'll be opting out of. I don't like 3D unless it's animated films.
Granted, the only live action films I've watched in 3D are Pirates 4 and HP7-2, which weren't shot in 3D, but still. I enjoyed it in How to train your dragon and Tintin, though the latter kind of lost the whole "WHOA IT'S 3D!" effect rather quickly. It was just there and not in-your-face at all.
whoa, this is actually still happening!?
Yeaaaah, that's not an iMac. It's a great piece of machinery, though!
Die Another Day, and The World is Not Enough are crapsticular. Tomorrow Never Dies is fair enough, and GoldenEye is king.
It is. From left to right spiders.
Honestly, I think we'd all fit better at a coffee shop in Amsterdam.
None of you have heard of Bleach? It's apparently pretty huge. Even has some decent fighting games on consoles, too.
I love this place. I wish it were a cafe we'd all hang out at.
'xept it'd be weird showing people trailers, cool photos, random creations, and pimping our youtube stuff all the time.
..no, wait, it'd be COOL!
oh, herro.
Do we get to make cool profiles about ourselves, too? Or other members, of course.
Oh, of course not. Having an i7, a quadro card and some 16GB+ of high-speed RAM sure speeds things up, if you're not running some sick $4000+ editing supercomputer.
No, but opening video editing apps will. And indexing the database/bin.
My PC had an SSD mounted in it after awhile, and Premiere went from 14-ish seconds to load, to a mere 3.
I'm plowing through heartgold For the the second time now. Still fun.
Nope. But it isn't on the entry-level new iMac either.
*cough*
I opted for a different setup. There's an iMac 27" previous-gen being sold for appr. $1049 which has way better specs than the new one, which means I won't be getting the newer generation.
Pros related to the 27":
3,1GHz CPU(vs 2.5GHz on the new 21,5")
12GB RAM (vs 8 on the new one)
An optical drive (I might actually need one at one point)
27 inches. (this one's pretty self-explanatory)
User-accesible RAM.
Cons:
No USB 3. I don't know if I'll ever need one, but it'd be nice to have.
It's not as thin. (kidding, guys, I don't care about that)
You agree, right? I'm getting the top-of-the-line previous-gen 27" iMac for LESS than a new 21,5" entry-level iMac.
And checking the prices for a new one, I'm saving shitloads, and getting a better computer.
Aye, that's usually the issue. It'll work faster than a mac, if configured correctly, but I would NEVER use one for my main workstation.
Zarban wrote:Okay, having grown up in the 1970s, I was too old for whole Power Rangers thing. So my question is this: are you people serious?
*shifts through roommate's crap*
....
*shakes generic Swiffer broom*
GET OFF MY CHAISE LONGUE!
Fixed.
Switch: RAM as the first rule of video editing is an old thing. The more RAM you have, the more video/footage you can cache for instant playback, but it won't to the job faster. RAM is an acronym for Random Access Memory. It stores data in it for instant use.
What's more relevant these days, is actually the harddrive, the CPU and the graphics card. The harddrive is the place you store the footage, and a faster harddrive means you can load/store footage/proxies faster. A faster CPU with more threads means that background rendering will go a helluva lot faster, and more cores and threads means it can assign, say, 4 threads to the editor itself, and 4 for background rendering. Lastly, the graphics card works for real time rendering. With Nvidia sporting CUDA in the later generations, it's been a major leap in performance, if the application allows it.
Premiere, for instance, will use the mercury engine in hardware accelerated mode with CUDA cores, meaning that there's no preview rendering(without the use of proxies, in this case), which means you can playback 1080p or even 4K footage instantly, without having to pre-render it.
Finally, the iMac isn't really meant for all these things. The stock models wield i5 5400rpm harddrives, i5 CPU's, and your model most likely runs an ATi graphics card, which means no CUDA cores.
Get a new one with a fusion drive, an i7 and a GTX 680M, and you'll find it'll be extremely faster.
Okay, nobody knows how to feel about this; here's a subjective weigh in at pros and cons.
Pros: Disney has made some GREAT stuff. Even recently. Ish. Look at the pirates of the caribbean trilogy. Some people disagree with me about them, but for me, the two sequels are great. Number 4, on the other hand, is something else entirely, but I won't go there.
Disney also acquired Marvel, which means they're directly related to Avengers. Thor and Cap aren't, as far as I know, affected by it.
Wreck-it Ralph. While I obvioulsy can't really say much about it, it sure as hell looks cool, which is a proof that someone somewhere is doing something right.
But I digress.
Cons: Disney. It may affect fanfilms in a bad way. Lucas stayed out of it, Disney probably won't. Star Wars is, at least for me, a complete trilogy. The prequels didn't bring anything neccesary to the table, and I doubt sequels will either.
Sure, we now get the sequels some fans have been nagging about since they were rumoured in the first place, but does Disney really have anything to do with this? If Lucas REALLY wanted to do them, nobody's ever stopped him before. He has the money, I assume, to do it, so why Disney? Why now? And why announce it now? It sounds to me like all they have thus far is "STAR WARS 7", and 3 years to come up with anything remotely cool, and complete it, too.
I don't know. I'll be looking out for news, and if a possible trailer for it, somewhere down the line looks cool, I might even check it out. It's not like it cna be worse than the prequels, right?
..right?
vidina wrote:Now Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children, on the other hand...
..Was even worse. Goddamn it.
I was about to say...then you said it. While I enjoyed the film, it made absolutely no sense. Even after I read more on Final Fantasy, I still was confused.
So, um, cool story, I think?
If you ever played FF7, which this is a direct sequel to, you'd know the problem. Nothing makes any bit of sense whatsoever. It's really only nerdgasm eyecandy. I loved upon first viewing, because it had sephiroth, it looked good, it had insane 'stunts', etc.
Since then, I've grown very far away from even enjoying anime to the slightest(sorry, I have), so now I see the film for what it actually is. Horrific.
Oh, how I wished Morrisey was a potential incarnation. I absolutely loved him.
Upon reading up on the matter, it seems FCPX before the updates was a fancy-schmancy version of Final Cut Express.
With the added features, at least it's a viable option. For indie film makers, at least. I might be sticking to Premiere, but it's definitely worth checking out. For now.
As for the new iMac, I will be ordering one as soon as they are available, so I'll gladly do some review/test for you guys, if you're still on the fence.
Final Fantasy Spirits Within is a fascinating movie, if only because it's a Western-targeted film made by Japanese with all their sensibilities but intermixed with American movie cliches, so it comes with both an environmental message and a kick-ass band of marines cut from the Aliens cloth.
I heartily disagree. Spirits Within is a trainwreck.
See, when you slap the Final Fantasy sticker on a movie, you're making fans all over the world grow expectations. Spirits Within didn't deliver. At all.
It's a very well made movie, for its time, but it wasn't, and still isn't Final Fantasy. Did I want a J-pop-esque film with overly beautiful, yet emo characters that save the world while coping with their own problems?
...Kinda. But then Spirits Within came out, FF hadn't been stamped with the whole emo-thing. The latest game out, at the time, was FFIX, which was the prettiest game thus far, character-wise. And that game had Quina.
The games really defining the series at the time were 6 and 7. 6 didn't have the graphics to really make the beauty stamp, and had a compelling story, a great roster of characters, a friggin' 16-bit opera scene, and Kefka.
7, on the other hand, had existensial crisis, world peril, a rich world and Sephiroth.
These games really defined what Final Fantasy should be, and the film completely ruined it. It was set on earth, had only human characters, and a terrible roster. Aki Ross wasn't really interesting, Dr Cid wasn't either, and the badguy, whose name I can't even remember? Nah, gtfo dude.
Now Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children, on the other hand...
..Was even worse. Goddamn it.
I think that thing's on the SW Blu-Rays.
(No, I don't own said set of blu-rays. I borrowed it from a friend to get ahold of the bonus features. Which were very much dissapointing, I'm afraid)
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