I watched Kill Bill: Vol. 1 on DVD the other day. And I tell you, you know you’re old when the first tought in your head after The Bride killed O-Ren and sits down on the garden bench was: “Carefully girl, you might get cystitis.” I know it’s silly, what hero get cystitis — in a Quentin Tarantino movie.
Phew, people really master the art of overreacting to things! And I’m truly sorry if I hurt anybodys feeling by posting this. What I previously meant was that the material (dailies) looked quite good, and I had set my expectations to high, but the movie turned out to be slightly different.
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The opening of Camp Slaughter was somewhat of a dissapointment. I’ve still not recovered from the alcohol induced weekend, so I can’t get my act together and write any longer review yet. I can understand that it flopped with the reviewers, and I will tell you why after I get some sleep. That’s right, constructive criticism.
Tought it might be worth mention it here as well, better late than never. Next saturday Camp Slaughter will have its grand opening 7 PM at Draken in Stockholm, with a great party afterward. It is possible to get tickets to the opening in Stockholm at PUB Megastore. Camp Slaughter will open with a limited release in Kiruna, Gällivare, Arvidsjaur, Skelleftehamn, Sandviken, Degerfors, Smedjebacken, and Karlstad as well.
I’m a Gaffer. And when people ask me about lighting I usually ramble on for hours, I love lighting and I love talking about it, often slipping into the area of different camera responses to lighting and D log E curves. But here I’ve tried to contain myself to a list of practical lessons about lighting learned over the last couple of years, especially from the low-budget shoot of Camp Slaughter.
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December 31, 2003 – 17:55
Oh, boy! It looks like this post is quite a popular one. Just keep in mind that I penned it in December 2003. But if you have any suggestions, modifications or updates, please, do leave a comment.
Traditionally, DVD authoring has been an expensive affair. Full-featured professional applications or hardware costs big sums of money, while low-budget products often come with severe limitations in features.
However, it’s now possible to author professional DVDs on Linux thanks to a group of open-source packages. Even if they do not yet support all features of the DVD specification new features are being added with each release.
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December 31, 2003 – 17:45
I successfully authored my first DVD on Linux today, with the mjpegtool and dvdauthor suites of commandline tools. Not that my creation is very content rich, it’s just some menus and slideshows with audio. I’ve started to compile all infomation I have into a long and detailed note regarding how to use the various tools to author a DVD. A work in progress copy can be found here of my DVD Primer.
MPEG-2 coded stereo soundtrack can be encoded with the exelent tooLAME tool, and a multi-channel 5.1 soundtrack can be created using the companion mctooLAME tool. It also looks possible to encode audio as AC-3 tracks using the Transcode utility, at least stereo, while waiting for the AC3 Project to produce some usable software.
A very well written general overview of multi-channel surround sound and its history can be found at ExtremeTech.