"Club Penton" - Ask questions to Hollywood insider "Penton-Man"

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by denonci

that's not right!

+1000

[MerrickG]

Originally Posted by DenonCI

That's not right!

Penton, didn't you get griped out for posting your pictures online.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by 4K2K

Why does he select 50i when the Sony 1500 cameras he has can use 10080p50?

The magic “Sony Box”, (which in this case, is being used for a live 3D event broadcast all over the world) supports the following HD video signals…

1080/59.94i
1080/50i
1080/23.98psF

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by sharkshark

Well, I got the "3" for Neth correct, and that last minute goal screwed me...

Here's hoping I get the rest right!

That first strike by Von Bronckhurst is the best goal of the World Cup that I have seen so far.
It was truly a laser shot from down town.

[Penton-Man]

Hey, JimSD, between bringing home the bacon and watching the Tour de France and the World Cup in the evenings, yesterday was quite chaotic.

Guess who is perched in the top five of the standings so far after the cobblestone section yesterday where people were crashing and dropping like flies?

Ans.- Two former mountain bike champions namely, Cadel E. (from Austrailia) and Ryder H. ( From Oh, Canada)

[Penton-Man]

Shark, speaking of Oh, Canada, even the visiting Queen got into the 3D thing at your local studio …
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...D-glasses.html

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Hey, JimSD, between bringing home the bacon and watching the Tour de France and the World Cup in the evenings, yesterday was quite chaotic.

Guess who is perched in the top five of the standings so far after the cobblestone section yesterday where people were crashing and dropping like flies?

Ans.- Two former mountain bike champions namely, Cadel E. (from Austrailia) and Ryder H. ( From Oh, Canada)

Who does Penton-Man think is going to win the Final? Holland or Germany?

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by tvine2000

Thanks PENTON real nice demo. Ah the internet ,you can find anything any time.

Well, not quite.

Yes to the YouTube clip which I posted for you folks.
But in regards to the detailed schedule of the afternoon session of the event, of which KubrickFan couldn’t find on the internet (and was specifically interested in the report on the New Reconstruction of Metropolis)…well, that my friend was not on the internet at the time, which is why KubrickFan asked for my assistance in the first place.

Ergo, I copied a scan of the printed program I had as an attachment on my computer onto Blu-ray.com so he and other parties interested in film restoration/preservation could get details of the event in Amsterdam and plan their attendance accordingly.

Call it one of those “Grand Poobah” moments.

[JimSD]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Hey, JimSD, between bringing home the bacon and watching the Tour de France and the World Cup in the evenings, yesterday was quite chaotic.

Chaotic for the riders yesterday too. Most of them don't seem to like the cobbles much, but it made it interesting for the fans. If I remember right Ryder H. rode for the Gary Fisher MTB team. Glad to see Andy Schleck back in it after a terrible prologue and the crashes the previous day. If healthy, he's one guy that could do something special in the mountains to challenge AC. Looks like this weekend are the first fun mountain stages.

[sharkshark]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

You realize that I’m not singling you out personally, don’t you?

I know of no such thing - if it's on the internet, I take it all personally. Especially Youtube comments.

Meanwhile, Torres is on the bench (yay!), boding very well for me boys.

Oliver, I wish your team well.... in four years.

[JimSD]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Guess who is perched in the top five of the standings so far after the cobblestone section yesterday where people were crashing and dropping like flies?

Ans.- Two former mountain bike champions namely, Cadel E. (from Austrailia) and Ryder H. ( From Oh, Canada)

The Colorado State MTB Champion had some bad luck though...

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Stormcrow

Who does Penton-Man think is going to win the Final? Holland or Germany?

I'll just be glad when it's over.

At least the event gave us the Shakira song, probably the best song taken from a Fozzie Bear catchphrase EVER.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by merrick97

Penton, didn't you get griped out for posting your pictures online.

Yeah, that’s me alright. You can’t put anything over a Ph.D candidate like you…..dem’s smart suckers.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by PeterTHX

I'll just be glad when it's over.

At least the event gave us the Shakira song, probably the best song taken from a Fozzie Bear catchphrase EVER.

Well, I know some gringos may not like the song but, fans in South Africa apparently did …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NMkV...eature=channel
as well as in other parts of the world …
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/conte...2113958dc953e4

and, if you can’t get *interested* in viewing her in 3D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PploPgx2inQ

then, I recommend a visit to your local Urologist and ask him for a prescription of 'Vitamin V' to increase blood flow to dem vessels.

P.S.
And no snide comments from Shakira haters in Toronto! either, or I'll post a personal *Gerber* baby YouTube link.

Shakira gives me fever.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by JimSD

Chaotic for the riders yesterday too. Most of them don't seem to like the cobbles much, but it made it interesting for the fans. If I remember right Ryder H. rode for the Gary Fisher MTB team.

Yes , he used to train with Roland Green (the best Canadian mountain biker ever, as far as I'm concerned) on Victoria Island B.C.

Andy S. has a BIG lead for so early in the tour.

[JimSD]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Andy S. has a BIG lead for so early in the tour.

Schleck needs a lot more time than he has to be able to even come close to Contador in the TT. I would guess that he'd need a 2-3 minute lead in the final TT; otherwise AC would beat him. Maybe the power of the maillot jaune would help him enough.

[sharkshark]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

P.S.
And no snide comments from Shakira haters in Toronto! either, or I'll post a personal *Gerber* baby YouTube link.

Shakira gives me fever.

are you trying to "out" me? Really? Wacky...

Anyhoo, meant to do this several hours ago, as it now turns Midnight ETA, I can shout:

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (take breath....)OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, Oliver et. al., but it just wasn't meant to be...

[Oliver K]

Originally Posted by sharkshark

Sorry, Oliver et. al., but it just wasn't meant to be...

No it clearly wasn't - Germany was not as good as in the last matches and Spain was very much improved which I expected. Of course to beat Spain when they are at the top of their game Germany would have to have a very good day, not what they showed yesterday. Despite all the talk of being about as good as Spain it seemed as if they did not believe in their capabilities themselves.

I wonder if Muller would have made a difference - no thanks to the referees for making him miss that match.

[Oliver K]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Well, I see that Vincent already enlightened you in regards to comparing it to Dirty Harry.

Nevertheless, the Blu-ray 1st version vs. 2nd version issues aside, which have by now, probably been beaten well into the ground with nobody convincing anyone else of their point of view, come two weeks or so, I’ll be meeting with someone intimately involved in the production of Predator (no, I’m not a Fox executive) regarding an entirely different matter, who may be able to provide more technical specificity to that vagueness.

In the pursuit of learning more about real world filmmaking, I’ll let you know the result of our discussion.

Would really like to hear about it, especially if they got back to the original elements for this. And if they did - do they still have a backup of the scan with the grain structure intact. Somebody involved with Patton told me that this was not the case for Patton - the original 4k files had not been preserved and so another scan would be needed for a re-release.

And of course we would like to know if it was intended to get rid of pretty much all resemblance of film texture in this or if it was more of a mistake as it allegedly was with Patton.

[Oliver K]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Hey, you’re preaching to the choir here but, you’re oh so right.

And I am happy that Sony practices what I preach if I may say so

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

But alas, many 'review Gods" never picked up on the digital manipulation anyway.

I admit that halos in textured images are less obvious and maybe there is the mindset of not putting down an otherwise fine release but I still would like for them to be pointed out in order to not make overzealous sharpening an accepted practice. Even the smilebox version of HTWWW was noticably sharpened when compared to the flat one but I cannot remember to have read about anybody mentioning it.

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Another example is dust busting. Best to do a monitored automatic pass with conservative settings and then go back a second time, manually, to clean up what the software missed which, if memory serves, I think is shown here in this Austrian demo/tutorial (are you able to view this? Oliver), if one doesn't fall asleep half-way through while listening to the hypnotic monotone voice…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPGeo...eature=related

I could see and I did not fall asleep - that is something already. Very interesting to see how this works and how easy it is to handle that particular program.
One shudders to imagine how for Zulu most of the grain was eliminated with a dust buster tool - the settings must have been crazy high!