Star Wars: Revelations Available Online

Lemming Mark writes "Panic Struck Productions have just released their first Star Wars movie, 'Revelations.' The movie has been produced on a not-for profit basis by a team of volunteers and is available for free download. Despite its humble origins, the production appears extraordinarily professional. The film is over 40 minutes long, complete with space battles and lightsaber fights -- need I say more? See more details at the official site, or jump straight to the download mirrors." (As promised last month.)

Subtitles?

[jaxdahl]

Are there any subtitles for this, or is anyone willing to make them for a deaf person like me? Subtitle Workshop [urusoft.net]

Re:Subtitles?

[NanoGator]

"Are there any subtitles for this, or is anyone willing to make them for a deaf person like me? Subtitle Workshop"

Is there a such thing as an .AVI (well any playback medium, really...) with subtitles?

The directors cuts of the Star Trek movies have a subtitle commentary from Michael Okuda, an artist for the various versions of the franchise, who talked about some of the interesting little things that went into the making of the movie. I'd like to see Revelations with a commentary describing how they did some of the stuff.

So why do I want movie playback with the ability to select captions? Well, thing is, I think the poster I'm replying to has a bigger need for the subtitles than I do. Since with an AVI, to the best of my knowledge, you'd need to make the captions part of the footage, it would mean making several different versions of the video. But if there was a playback mechanism that supported multiple tracks like DVDs do, then we'd both be happy.

Come to think of it, it'd be pretty darned handy for indie film developers to have a DVD-esque playback package. Anything like that today?

Professional? Pshaw!

[Anonymous Coward]

Who needs to watch something professional anything when you can have the story of two Pizza Delivery Jedi [archive.org] and a fonzie-looking Yoda?

Re:I dunno

[cgenman]

Last I heard he was being given a cameo in Episode 3.

Of course, we'll have to see if Episode 3 is a step up for him...

Re:Why not post the contents of the .torrent file?

[Rupan]

There is a reason why hex dumps are not used to transmit binary data as ASCII. For starters, there is no integrity check -- how can you be sure that the file you copied is the same file posted? Second, this method does not provide compression or a way of making the encoded file smaller. Third ... this method will also succomb to the Slashcode effect -- corruption is almost a certainty. There are many more reason... I'll leave the rest up to your imagination.

Bittorrent

[I kan Spl]

It's interesting to see bittorrent working on such a large scale type of thing. Notice that the webserver hosting the .torrent files have gone down, and as of now 1338 (darn it I'm # 1338) people are downloading it sucessfully. While it is true that it is going to take me 2 hours to get it all, I remember the days of old 56k modems when a 200mb download would take 2 days, so this is fast enough for me.

For those of you going slower then about 30K down, make sure you have holes [btfaq.com] poked in your firewalls.

Also, for the rest of us, leave the thing running for a while after you finish getting it please, it 's sad to see the number of seeders drop as quickly as they are....

Re:what about acting??

[Durandal64]

The special effects were good, that's for sure. But honestly, this production needs light as badly as Doom 3. I actually used QuickTime's brightness and contrast controls on it.

And another thing. What's with people and using Sorenson 3? This is the fucking year 2005. Use XviD, 3ivx or at the very least DivX for crying out loud. All are viable options on QuickTime. And whose brilliant idea was it to encode with the black bars?

Re:Agreed, Extraordinarily professional...

[General Alcazar]

Yes, actually. Consumer grade fluorescents are extremely variable in color temperature, thus making them useless for filmmaking. When using fluorescents, you must purchase expensive fluorescents designed for photography which have a very consistent color temperature. I know a DP who did a shoot in a supermarket, and they had to replace ALL of the fluorescents in the store with expensive pro stuff. Now we know why filmmaking budgets are so astronomical!