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- Matt Vayda
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- Zarban
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That's very, very cool. It's very handy having the show notes embedded in the file. And actually seeing pictures of some outside thing you're talking about it very helpful. If it's not much additional work, I'm certainly in favor of it.
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It works fine on my classic ipod and I liked it a lot. More pics please, they were a little sparse towards the end. And maybe leave them on screen a little longer. Looking forward to next week.
A friendly suggestion: Maybe you could ask for donations like Filmspotting. I get the impression they're swimming in cash. Yes i know they have more listeners.
- Teague
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Not sure what we'd do with the cash. Pay us in word of mouth. 
- Holden
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It's awfully hard to get sexual favors from 3000 miles away.
Just sayin'.
- Matt Vayda
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- Teague
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You can do batch operations in Photoshop, or for a slightly more intuitive and fuck-withable setup, a new Action would do wonders.
Load the Actions window, then click the "new" button at the bottom. It'll start "recording." Then image -> resize to 300 pixels wide, constrain proportions. Then change canvas size to 300 pixels tall, do not constrain proportions. Now click the stop button on the actions window. This will leave you with an image that's perfectly 300 pixels square, but you'll have the ability to slide the image up or down in that square to "crop" it the way you want.
Then save as usual.
Next time you open an image, just click that action and press the play button. The process will repeat.
- Invid
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Nobody has commented on the actual episode, so I'll be the first to say it was your usual quality job. Not your best, but I may just think that because I was listening to it having been up for 22 hours I was also bummed to find out the first part of my old letterboxed Empire tape was a bit wonky.
As for the enhanced episode, I'm downloading it now and will probably love it. Hopefully you'll get them into the regular podcast feed, or maybe set up a second one if there's still a need for mp3's by some people. Heck, if someone has nothing better to do older episodes could be "remastered" with this...
- Teague
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Can anyone think of a reason someone would *need* MP3s as opposed to M4Vs?
- Zarban
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Don't a lot of audio players not play M4A (or M4V or whatever)? Regardless, not providing the standard format would significantly limit your audience's options, and that will inevitably reduce your audience's size. For example, I prefer listening to commentaries with WMP, where I can change the playback speed, for example, but it can't play M4A, at least not without some third party codec.
Also, I sometimes import a commentary into Audacity and process it to get rid of noise or to balance the volume or whatever. I don't need to do that with DIF commentaries but when others use M4A and don't produce perfect audio (and DIF audio really is top notch—congratulations, man) it's frustrating.
- Matt Vayda
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- Invid
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ACC is in general smaller, and to be honest even without the enhancement I wouldn't mind a conversion of older stuff to save room given I tend to keep all the episodes. I'd been thinking of combining and compressing some of them as audiobooks as it is. Some of the episodes are unusually large, with 300 at 121 MB while Titanic is only 69 MB. Naturally the enhancements will eat up most of those savings though
- Gregory Harbin
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I love Enhanced Podcasts, people have been doing this for a while. But usually, they give up after a few months because it's so much work. I hope you keep it up!
- Matt Vayda
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For those who are making with the google, "AAC" will give you better results than "ACC."
I think there's probably virtue to keeping an obsolete, least-common-denominator format around for people who don't have computers or audio devices made in the past decade or so. But at some point, I imagine the question is gonna be one of whether it's still worth it to do a whole separate encode and delivery just for those three guys (or whatever).
- BigDamnArtist
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- Gregory Harbin
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I enjoyed this commentary a lot. Can't wait for ROTJ.
It actually convinced me to go back and watch the original 1980 ESB. I haven't seen it since probably 96 (THX VHS FTW), and, well…I kinda missed the changes made in the SE, and especially the DVD. Cloud City is SO opened up. I don't think the extra wampa stuff was necessary, but I like the rest of it. Can't wait to see what Lucas does with the Blurrys.
Blurries?
- Teague
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Let me ask you non-iPod guys this: how do you get the show every week? Website download or iTunes?
25 2010-09-08 09:10:19 (edited by Hansen 2010-09-08 09:10:35)
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From the website.
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