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starladysource: Contact (1997)
audio: Dar Williams, "Are You Out There?"
length: 3:08
stream: on Critical Commons
download: 135MB mp4 on mediafire
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It's been a year of space exploration movies for me, and about seven months ago I found myself on a deep dive in the Vividcon database and other places, looking for vids of the same. When I found the entry for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thatfangirl's 2003 Contact vid Are You Out There?, and tracked down a copy, I immediately wanted to remaster the vid so that more people could see it, because it's pretty great. With thatfangirl's kind permission, I've at long last done my part of just that--the viewing is now up to you. With many thanks to eruthros for providing my copy of the original vid and to ![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
mrquadcopter for beta watching my original draft, and above all to thatfangirl, for making the vid and for letting me remaster it!
notes on the remaster
As will be obvious from the inset comparison, I made a few changes to the remastered version compared to the original. This is actually obvious right from the get-go, as I switched the credits from the beginning to the end of the vid; the song's cold open is so strong that I wanted to jump right into it. Switching the credit placement also allowed me to fade into the credits from the white flash at the end.
Technically, I have to say that the jump to Blu-Ray quality didn't look quite as good as I was hoping, despite my vidding with lossless clips; it's just not a very good Blu-Ray transfer (I remain convinced that the sky at 1:54 was blue in the original film print, for example). There were also a few clips where I couldn't quite replicate Rachel's editing even when I used similar speeding up or slowing down factors; the changes around 0:18 and 1:31 are mostly due to that.
In terms of technique, I ripped the original Real Media™ file (remember Real Media™?) to mp4 so Premiere could handle it, then dropped it into my project file as video track 2 and more or less cut the clips in unison as I identified and added them to track 1.
I added the intercuts at 1:59 to increase parallelism across the vid, and mirrored the clip at 0:45 to make a long sequence slightly more dynamic. There are also a few places where I cut a frame or two earlier, mostly around 0:55.
View the inset comparison of the original and the remaster on Sendvid.
audio: Dar Williams, "Are You Out There?"
length: 3:08
stream: on Critical Commons
download: 135MB mp4 on mediafire
tumblr post | AO3 page
It's been a year of space exploration movies for me, and about seven months ago I found myself on a deep dive in the Vividcon database and other places, looking for vids of the same. When I found the entry for
thatfangirl's 2003 Contact vid Are You Out There?, and tracked down a copy, I immediately wanted to remaster the vid so that more people could see it, because it's pretty great. With thatfangirl's kind permission, I've at long last done my part of just that--the viewing is now up to you. With many thanks to eruthros for providing my copy of the original vid and to thatfangirl, for making the vid and for letting me remaster it!notes on the remaster
As will be obvious from the inset comparison, I made a few changes to the remastered version compared to the original. This is actually obvious right from the get-go, as I switched the credits from the beginning to the end of the vid; the song's cold open is so strong that I wanted to jump right into it. Switching the credit placement also allowed me to fade into the credits from the white flash at the end.
Technically, I have to say that the jump to Blu-Ray quality didn't look quite as good as I was hoping, despite my vidding with lossless clips; it's just not a very good Blu-Ray transfer (I remain convinced that the sky at 1:54 was blue in the original film print, for example). There were also a few clips where I couldn't quite replicate Rachel's editing even when I used similar speeding up or slowing down factors; the changes around 0:18 and 1:31 are mostly due to that.
In terms of technique, I ripped the original Real Media™ file (remember Real Media™?) to mp4 so Premiere could handle it, then dropped it into my project file as video track 2 and more or less cut the clips in unison as I identified and added them to track 1.
I added the intercuts at 1:59 to increase parallelism across the vid, and mirrored the clip at 0:45 to make a long sequence slightly more dynamic. There are also a few places where I cut a frame or two earlier, mostly around 0:55.
View the inset comparison of the original and the remaster on Sendvid.
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Date: 2022-01-03 14:51 (UTC)