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WHAT’S A BAD MIRACLE? by MPC Film
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Mewtwo ✧ Detective Pikachu #12
Illustrated by MPC Film
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MPC Appoints ludovic iochem and sal umerji as heads of studio for montreal and london
Award-winning global VFX company MPC, adds to its new leadership team hiring Ludovic Iochem and Sal Umerji as Heads of Studio for Montreal and London respectively.
With over 20 years of experience in the VFX industry and extensive expertise in production operations, Iochem started his career in visual effects in Paris, where he worked for numerous French film studios as a VFX artist before…
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13.11.23
#Mira-Marathon | Harry Potter
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Name: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011);
Production Studios: Warner Bros., MPC, Heyday Films;
Director by: David Yates;
Screenwriter: Steve Kloves;
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter;
Genres: Fantasy, Adventure, Family, Detective;
Running Time: 2 hours 10 minutes;
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2" is an exciting film of 2011, which describes the events when Harry Potter and his friends gather at Hogwarts to put an end to Voldemort. The film completes the film series and has an exciting plot, vivid visuals and strong characters.
My rating: 9/10
#mira marathon#film#fantasy#adventure#family#warner bros#harry potter#2011#harry potter and the deathly hallows – part 2#mpc#heyday films#david yates#steve kloves#daniel radcliffe#rupert grint#emma watson#ralph fiennes#helena bonham carter#detective#2 hours#9/10
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“The Visual Effects Crisis”
I found this interesting video clip on YouTube about the visual effects crisis and VFX artists:
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Lifestyles and taste of the young and crazy
#nike sneakers#nike sb#sneakers#airmax#lifestyle#35mm film#contaxt2#vans off the wall#akai mpc#madvillain
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4k video is so unwieldy for porn. If you don't raise the bit rate then it literally ends up being lower quality than 1080p video and if you do raise it then the file sizes get out of hand (sites like ManyVids have file size limits).
And to what end!? Nobody wants to see human skin in that level of detail when they're masturbating! Plus I don't even own a 4k monitor! MPC HC and VLC don't seem to scale videos down very gracefully, so it introduces a ton of aliasing when I watch 4k video on my 1080p monitor (this is obviously not an issue with other video players though and could possibly even be corrected with settings changes)! And people are watching fake 4k Hollywood movies (with 1080p digital intermediates) and thinking they look great! What's the point!?
So even tho I film basically everything in 4k I release most of it in 1080p (which feels like a decision I'll regret in five or ten years when hardware and standards have improved, but oh well). And most recently I've been doing this with an effect applied that does NOTHING just to force Premiere Pro to use software video scaling (because somehow the hardware video scaling introduces a weird image sharpening style of aliasing on certain high contrast edges that nobody else seems to notice or care about).
Only lately (meaning I've rendered out a few videos this way, but haven't released them, so I have time to flip flop on the decision) I've been editing videos in actual 4k and just applying blur to em. Enough blur to make it actually SLIGHTLY perceivable even when played back at half scale on a 1080p monitor.
This has the upsides of the actual resolution being in 4k (so if/when things get uploaded to streaming sites that reencode everything then it'll give people the option of watching in 4k just for the higher bitrate) while cutting down on most of the downsides. Fewer compression artifacts (since there's less detail). Less video player aliasing (since there's less detail). And I think the final image looks pretty much fine (barely any softer than the scaling to 1080p approach).
I feel like this is obviously a weirdo choice to make tho. Just outright blurring everything (which is distinctly different from skin blurring). I feel like I need to talk myself out of it.
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Sam decided to participate at HYROX on Sarah's birthday! Is that not suspicious? Talked/thought about her on that day and decided to be there on the place them met for the first time a year ago! An anniversary and a special place.
Then of all bags she has, MPC bag on her birthday, and on HYROX!
It was his voice at the end of the video, but saw that people think there are also his hands-not his!
AND, Saturday those videos Sarah reposted on her IG where her friends filmed her, those friends ALL of them had started to follow Sam that day!!! So he was with her friends cheering her. So she introduced him the them not just as a friend!!!
No it is not suspicious to me that he signed up for Hyrox on any day. You do not even know if that was the day he signed up! He's been training for Hyrox already all these months, so why would he wait until her birthday, you really think some sort of birthday gift... geesh..
Oh and why would she not have an MPC bag? Is that some wedding band with his name on it? He can not gift it to her, or she can not purchase it from the MPC website? If at all there was something to it, she most certainly wouldn't take it to Hyrox with her.
Lol at the hands, did you see the wedding band on that hand? Not his indeed, and not his voice as well. But even if it would be, is that a big deal... btw. try to compare with the voice we heard in the GC video...
lol again at ALL those friends of them started to follow Sam. I did take a look and you know what I saw? I saw people following Sarah and not Sam. Not even the ones that took a fan pic with him and with Sarah have been following Sam and didn't start to. Did you notice they didn't even tag him.
Sorry, you're falling in a trap that so many fell in before, over and over again making some narrative up by all kind of 'evidence' which isn't evidence to begin with. Your confirmation bias makes you see the things you want to see and not what is really there.
Btw. Where was she during Xmas, during NYE. Was she with him and Marina watching telly, or over the day with him and Marina and other friends of Marina and Sam like Wendy and her husband at the Stravaingin in Glasgow? No she wasn't.
Did any of Sam's friends who tagged him started to follow Sarah? None of them.
But hey, believe what you want. I'm not following that book of fairytales anymore and know better. I rather don't like to post you, the only reason I do is to show I'm open to discussions, but you gotta show some reasoning that makes sense and your message doesn't. It's not better than any receipts we see on a daily base of some believing in another fairytale as well.
All you do is making a fool of yourself, you will see in everything some sort of hidden message, because you want to see it. Not because it is true. And in some months another name comes along and we start the book of narratives all over again... just another name
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Hello! Blaming anon here. In your post showing Sam's post in Kitzbuhel there is a comment by @chinacupsstuff accusing Sam of being a pre pubescent twat and that he needs to grow up and stop the manipulative crap. You answered her and asked will The Boy ever learn. I was responding to that. He did post for MPC that's correct and then because he's not allowed out of the house, Mordor went on a fishing expedition to try to prove something. My view as @cb4tb always says is to wait long enough and the truth will reveal itself.
Dear (returning) Blaming Anon,
Thank you for your answer - usually, people don't react to my reactions and I think it deserves to be noted and thoughtfully addressed. And have no fear, I know exactly what you responded to. No worries, I got you from the start.
As always, the fishing expedition was not very fruitful. And yes, I agree with @cb4tb, I always did and completely so. Will the plot continue on the same trend? Very likely, with the occasional twist thrown in at critical junctures, for as long as OL will be filming/promoting.
I take this as us being on the same page?
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Anon(s)
What do you think? In Brazil, people would say that S "deu um perdido no fandom" 😜🤣
He refollowed accounts of people who were at the Cannes Film Festival, he was signed up for a Hyrox Rotterdam and didn't show up (I still haven't seen pics and videos... Waiting ⏳️) And with that, two well known blogs "entertained" this fandom over the weekend. What he probably wanted, no?! Curious, isn't it?! 🤔😜🤣
Think about it... When was the last (fan)pic of him on the TCND set before last weekend? Where has he been since then?
No friends to drop hints this time? No video showing him in the background? No fan pics? C'mon... Sam never goes incognito, does he?! 😜
And he resurfaces yesterday with those rosy cheeks...
Not the Miami sun this time... 😝
I suggest you ask Cait where Sam has been to earn that sunburned face 🤭🤫 ...
And what about that, Anon(s)? What do you think?
Bcastuff posted the video with Sam in the background, at Jack's Wife Freda, where you can see Kith's bag, and according to whoever made the video it's from May 6th. But... What if the fan pic and the video were Latergram? Maybe to fool the fandom?! 🤔🤯
Many of us know that Sam was in NY before Miami. The pilot confirmed in the MPC private group. P and others posted about it.
Tell me Anon(s)... What are the chances that Sam bought these shorts and shirt on different days? Or do you think he liked the shorts so much that he thought "I need to have the shirt too"?!? 😜🤣 It could be... But...
Open your mind to all possibilities and think about... 🤔🤷🏻♀️
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House of the Dragon
House of the Dragon
House of the Dragon is an upcoming American fantasy drama television series created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan J. Condal for HBO. It is a prequel to the television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019) and is based on Martin’s 2018 novel Fire & Blood. Set two hundred years before the events of Game of Thrones, the series chronicles the beginning of the end of House Targaryen, the events leading…
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HOW TO: MAKE HIGH-QUALITY GIFS WITHOUT STRAINING YOUR STORAGE
i recently had a problem with one of my drives where i kept all my material and lost all my series and films i kept there - it was on my laptop itself and i’m selling this laptop soon anyway, so i didn’t think it was worth it to redownload over 100GB of gif material.
however, modern problems require modern solutions, so today i’m going to show you my new method for making gifs that means you do not have to download large files to your hard disk. tutorial under the cut!
i should preface this by saying it’s obviously better to download stuff you’re gonna gif frequently onto your hard disk so it’s easier for you, but if you simply don’t have the space or don’t want to get an external, this is a useful way to gif!
to start off, you’ll need:
a shared drive on google drive. (best practice is to make this shared drive on a throwaway account, too). you can generate one here. shared drives can hold a lot more than the 15GB free limit on your personal drive, but keep in mind that google can nuke these drives at any time, so you might want to keep backups.
google drive for desktop. available for both pc and mac.
a video player that can show thumbnail previews when seeking (like youtube). i use mpc-be on windows, but i don’t know which mac video players have this feature. you CAN get mpv to do this but it requires scripting knowledge and i simply cannot get it to work so i prefer using mpc-be.
handbrake to clip out parts of the video. mpc-be is a fantastic player but it can’t take sequential screencaps effortlessly like mpv, so we’re going to use handbrake.
photoshop to make the actual gif.
with all of that, let’s start!
PART I: GETTING VIDEOS AND OPENING THEM
when you’ve made your shared drive on your google account, you’re going to need to store your video files on there. i’ve joined a bunch of telegram p*racy groups for this and, if you’re in any gifmaker servers on discord, you can probably get links to stuff on google drive from others. if you’re having trouble, feel free to dm me (@shangs) and i can send you a link to a helpful server.
to copy stuff to your shared drive just press ctrl+c (or the mac equivalent) to copy the videos and ctrl+v to paste it into your drive. for tv shows, you can’t copy folders, so open up the folder and select all the episodes and paste them over in a new folder on your drive - that should work fine!
once you have stuff in your shared drive, we’re going to use google drive for desktop to be able to open it. download the app and log in and you should see your google drive showing up as a separate disk on your computer - “Google Drive (G:).”
open up the “Shared Drives” folder and your shared drive and you should be able to see your video files!
in MPC-BE, you have to manually check the setting to use thumbnail previews. in preferences, go to Player > Interface and check “Use the preview in the search.”
[caption: an image of the mpc-be preferences with the needed setting circled.]
this is important because we don’t have these files downloaded, so seeking is going to take just a bit longer than if you had the file all downloaded on your actual hard disk. the google drive app is constantly syncing your progress, so it’s way easier to navigate with the thumbnails than it is just fast-forwarding and haphazardly moving through an episode the way you would on a player like MPV.
PART 2: COLLECTING YOUR FOOTAGE TO GIF
i’ve started using handbrake for this part because i’d rather just get a video encoded than a bunch of screencaps if i’m not using my player to screencap. if you prefer you can always choose to screencap in mpv with the timestamp of your scene as well.
find the timestamp of your scene’s starting and ending (i generally just do 3-4 seconds after the start) and open up the video in handbrake.
at the top of the screen you’ll see some options that say Range: and then it goes by Chapters. change this to Seconds and put in your start and end timestamps.
if it’s 1080p, i select the “HQ 1080p30 Surround” Preset and change the framerate to “Same as Source” in the Video tab. i also make the content quality lossless at 0.
[caption: a picture of the settings described in handbrake.]
if you’re giffing something 4k, you will have to go into Filters and modify the colorspace at the very end, but i’m giffing 1080p here, so there’s no need. i have my settings saved as my own custom preset for both 1080p and 4k.
make sure, on the Summary tab, your video is being saved as an MP4. (it will export as an M4V, but this is the same thing.) photoshop won’t read MKVs.
set the destination to export and hit Start Encode - your video should appear in the destination folder when it’s done!
PART 3: MAKING YOUR GIF
there are multiple ways to make a gif in photoshop once you have your video from handbrake; you can go to File > Import Video Frames to Layers, or you can do Open > and just open up your video file. i prefer the second option since it opens up in timeline and will have the same framerate as the video so Ii can export directly from timeline as well with no need to go back to frames the way you’ll need to with screencaps.
with your video open, roll the playhead through until you’re at the frame where you want to start the gif, and then press the three dots at the corner of the timeline and click Work Area > Set Start at Playhead. go to the frame you want to end the gif and click Work Area > Set End at Playhead. this will set the boundaries of the gif even if there are extra frames.
that’s the basics of gifmaking covered. now just crop, sharpen, and color to your liking. i won’t go over them in this tutorial because it varies a lot by gifmaker and this tutorial is long enough already.
export by clicking File > Export > Save for Web or the keyboard shortcut Alt+Shift+Ctrl+S.
you should have a smooth looking gif like the one in the header above.
if you have any questions, please feel free to ask me on my personal blog @shangs or on usergif. happy giffing, and i hope this tutorial helped you out!
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We never had another surprise like Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, because of airplanes like the SR 71 in case, there was a surprise we were planning for it as Craig Linde explains.
PLANNING FOR WW III
Planning how to win World War III was a big part of SAC’s mission plan. They wanted to prepare for World War III and, more importantly, to win it. After the surprise attack during WW II at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii ( a territory of America), The USA was constantly on alert for yet another world war. The plan was to win.
SR- 71 crewmembers were instructed to go to Area 51 to fly around the world. They were to use the hidden fuel tanks that were placed all over the world., to report back about casualties. This was the plan when my Father was flying the SR-71.
Naturally, they needed somebody to process the film. A mobile processing center was necessary to do this job.
Craig Linde wrote about his experience as an Imagery specialist technician. I am old enough to remember drills at school, where they would say duck and roll under your desk as a kid. I thought that that would be enough protection from World War III.
Mobile processing center
The reason why we were sent to Kadena from SAC HQ in Omaha in 1972 was never given to us.
We assumed it was for the usual TDY manpower shortage. Looking back, I think the purpose of our TDY could have been to train us to work in the MPC. ( mobile processing center) We never knew it existed until our first day reporting for work there. Our group consisted of a photo lab tech, electronics repair tech, photo interpreter (me) and a couple of other guys. In retrospect, our real purpose could have been just to orient us to the MPC even though we were never told anything about it.
This training could have had something to do with the SIOP alert team that I technically was a member of. We had no real duties, but in the event of an international crisis that put SAC on full alert, our team was supposed to get on a C-5 that had the MPC already loaded on it and fly to an undisclosed foreign airbase and set it up. We then had to wait for WWIII to start. After the first nuclear exchange, the SR-71 would fly a mission from Northern Europe over the USSR and land at our mobile setup base. We would process the film and do post bomb damage assessment so the second wave of B-52s could be directed to anything still standing.
It was a very WWII-type scenario that luckily never happened. Written by Craig Linde
Posted by Linda Sheffield
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"With every acting project he’s doing, part of me hopes I will see what I really liked about him in the first 2 and a half seasons of OL, but it hasn’t happened yet."
I totally agree. I read the books about 2yrs before the show aired. When I learned about his casting I watched some of his older projects and wasn't terribly impressed, but very much hoped he could pull off Jamie. And he did! I was so blown away by much of his S1 performance. There were some moments he threw me out of the scenes, but overall he was much stronger than any of his previous roles. And I have no idea what's happened since those glory days in OL but everything that's come after that has missed the mark performance-wise. Has he grown to believe his own hype so that he doesn't feel he has to try? Does he do better with heavy handed direction and lots of rehearsal? Who knows, but I think his "moment" to launch into film and greater acting status has passed by.
It’s mind blowing when you think about it. I think it’s a combination of believing his own hype and needing more direction as you say, but also because he’s stretching himself too thin with all his side projects, travelling left and right. He’s like a bumblebee, going from project to project, but not long enough to do a really good job at any of them. Many seem half thought through, like MIK, that needed major rework, the marketing and distribution of his whisky that is still not available where I live, and even MPC often seems like an afterthought.
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