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eddysnake wrote:tifosi77 wrote: not documentaries.
speaking of, has anyone watched "jiro dreams of sushi"? its streaming on netflix and amazon, what an interesting documentary.
eddysnake wrote:Letang Is The Truth wrote:whats the difference between sound mixing and sound editing
tifosi77 for $500
shafnutz05 wrote:I finally watched Gattaca for the first time. Wow...what a powerful, awesome movie. Loved absolutely everything about it.
shafnutz05 wrote:I finally watched Gattaca for the first time. Wow...what a powerful, awesome movie. Loved absolutely everything about it.
Letang Is The Truth wrote:how does one come up with that combination?
eddysnake wrote:shafnutz05 wrote:I finally watched Gattaca for the first time. Wow...what a powerful, awesome movie. Loved absolutely everything about it.
I forgot all about that movie, gonna add it to my queue, thanks
Letang Is The Truth wrote:how does one come up with that combination?
shafnutz05 wrote:I finally watched Gattaca for the first time. Wow...what a powerful, awesome movie. Loved absolutely everything about it.
pittsoccer33 wrote:we kind of take really great sound design for granted now, but its really only began to evolve to what we know now 30 or so years ago when Lucasfilm created the THX certification for how movie theaters should sound.
pittsoccer33 wrote:terminator 2 is another all time classic. to this day it is considered one of the greatest sound achievements.
tifosi77 wrote:Letang Is The Truth wrote:how does one come up with that combination?
It comes from the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.
Honestly, you'd be surprised what many of the best sound effects actually are.shafnutz05 wrote:I finally watched Gattaca for the first time. Wow...what a powerful, awesome movie. Loved absolutely everything about it.
I don't remember a single thing about that movie, but I remember have a visceral reaction to it. Hated it.pittsoccer33 wrote:we kind of take really great sound design for granted now, but its really only began to evolve to what we know now 30 or so years ago when Lucasfilm created the THX certification for how movie theaters should sound.
The whole idea was to replicate the acoustic environment of a dubbing/re-recording stage in a commercial cinema.
It has done wonders for cinematic (and home) presentations, but remember that THX represents a set of minimum standards. The two best theaters I've ever been in (both on studio lots) are not THX-certified.pittsoccer33 wrote:terminator 2 is another all time classic. to this day it is considered one of the greatest sound achievements.
And the crazy thing about that movie is that is was not even encoded in surround sound.
The way the original Dolby system works (or worked, I guess) was that the surround channel was a monophonic signal that would be recorded in the L-R stereo signal, but laid in 180 degrees out of phase with the actual L-R audio. The center channel was a sum of the audio info in the L-R signal that was of equal magnitude in each channel. The Dolby processor would then decode the stereo signal, send the common sounds to the center speaker and all info that was 180 out of phase to the mono surrounds. Well, with T2 they didn't actually encode any audio deliberately out of phase to create a surround signal. So any surround audio you hear on that soundtrack is what they call 'magic surround', audio that's just naturally out of phase.
So despite (or perhaps because of) being essentially a simple stereo film, T2 still remains one of the top sound films of all time.
If you're interested in sound design, I suggest renting any film in which Walter Murch worked in the audio department. (To this day, the opening reel of "Apocalypse Now" is probably the most impressive combination of sound and visual story telling I've ever seen. Er, heard.) Listen to a Robert Altman movie (like "The Player"), how he uses layers of dialog from multiple characters to create a mood. Get any film that Gary Rydstrom did sound for; he's known for big films like T2 and "Jurassic Park", but his work on the early Pixar shorts is especially noteworthy. Ben Burtt is sort of the godfather of modern sound design, thanks to his revolutionary effects editing work on "Star Wars".
Sound truly is 50% of the experience. And it's a part that 99% of moviegoers don't appreciate, or even care to understand. They don't realize that at no point in the scene in "The Godfather" when Michael kills Sollozzo and McCluskey at the restaurant do we see a subway or el train.... but we hear it on the soundtrack as the enter the restaurant..... and we don't consciously register the screeching of the wheels on the rails gaining in volume and intensity, dominating the audio as Michael grows more and more agitated in the moments before he pulls the trigger...... and we don't really take notice that the instant before Michael does pull the trigger, the screeching ceases leaving the shots to ring out of a moment of complete silence, creating a moment of surprise despite the audience knowing for nearly 8 minutes of screen time that this was going to happen. We don't notice these details. But they increase the power and impact of the scene in a way that's almost incalculable.
eddysnake wrote:shafnutz05 wrote:I finally watched Gattaca for the first time. Wow...what a powerful, awesome movie. Loved absolutely everything about it.
I forgot all about that movie, gonna add it to my queue, thanks
tifosi77 wrote:eddysnake wrote:tifosi77 wrote: not documentaries.
speaking of, has anyone watched "jiro dreams of sushi"? its streaming on netflix and amazon, what an interesting documentary.
Yes, Mrs Tif and I just watched it about two weeks ago. Fascinating stuff, especially how the son's restaurant is a mirror image of Sukiyabashi Jiro because his dad is left-handed and he's right-handed.
FWIW, Sukiyabashi Jiro is actually only about six blocks from my company's HQ in Tokyo and I walked by it when I was there. Probably the closest I'll ever get to eating there.![]()
tifosi77 wrote:The first films for the three original digital audio formats:
Digital Theater System, aka DTS: "Jurassic Park" (1993)
DTS is a little weird, in that the film audio was encoded onto a CD-ROM and synched up to the projection via a timecode embedded on the film print. That means there's a separate piece of kit that can possibly get damaged/lost/stolen that can render the film silent. The theatrical version of the system has a bit rate that is somewhat lower than a standard audio CD, but the home application is marginally higher. I know that Steven Spielberg was an early investor in the company, which is why JP was the first film - both theatrical and home release - to use the system. And when we lived out in the west Valley for a few months, I would commute past their HQ in Calabassas every day.
pittsoccer33 wrote:
I got into DVD early (player was on clearance at Montgomery Wards for $500...) anyways I liked to try buying the collectors editions of films (for some unknown reason). And then I saw this special edition series called Superbit. I never understood their premium pricing because they had zero extra features.
They were Sony/Columbia Pictures films and they were mastered to use the highest possible bitrates for audio and video that they could fit onto the disc. Kind of special editions for audio/videophiles with high end displays and sound systems.
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this would be cool for prints
Letang Is The Truth wrote:canaan wrote:http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/page/1
this would be cool for prints
i dont get it
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