bward wrote:you seem to think all we did...
"we"?
Sabrblade wrote:Thank you, Mr Ward, for...
"Mr. Ward"?
bward wrote:you seem to think all we did...
Sabrblade wrote:Thank you, Mr Ward, for...
RiddlerJ wrote:Each one will come with an autographed picture of Michael Bay sitting on top of a huge pile of money.
cotss2012 wrote:bward wrote:you seem to think all we did...
"we"?Sabrblade wrote:Thank you, Mr Ward, for...
"Mr. Ward"?
bward wrote:I find it particularly amusing that you seem to think all we did was bump the episodes together. Unless you have unedited and unmixed audio stems and original shots without the commercial fades to black, you can't reproduce what was created for the feature-length version of Transformers: Prime - Darkness Rising. Oh, you can create an inferior knockoff, but that's exactly what it is.
RiddlerJ wrote:Each one will come with an autographed picture of Michael Bay sitting on top of a huge pile of money.
bward wrote:Secondly, some of what you're talking about depends on three things: 1.) your player 2.) your TV and 3.) your connection. Some TVs have a hard time processing pure blacks, period, but even more so if they're connected to your DVD/Blu-ray player via a cable inferior to HDMI (i.e. RCAs, S-Video, etc.).
bward wrote:The average video bitrate for the DVDs will between 5.8 and 6.9 Mbps... depending on the number of episodes on each disc.
bward wrote:2 pass VBR... These episodes are 23.98, so there are no interlaced frames.
bward wrote:As far as quantazation matrices of MPEG2 are concerned, the limitations of MPEG 2 are just that, limitations. Macroblocking is a neccessary evil of MPEG 2 compression, but our compression software is top notch and these issues should be very few and very far between.
bward wrote:The chapter breaks will be at all commercial breaks, including right after the opening titles.
RiddlerJ wrote:Each one will come with an autographed picture of Michael Bay sitting on top of a huge pile of money.
So only 4-5 episodes per disc? My Beast Machines DVDs mock you, sir (even if it makes more business sense to use 6 single-layer discs than 4 dual-layer discs...)
So the opening titles and the preceding minute or two of actual Transformery goodness will be a single chapter? Darn.
bward wrote:Bottom line is that these are going to look and sound phenomenal.
That's generally the domain of people who know even more about this stuff than I do, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if you guys didn't fiddle around with it.
-Kanrabat- wrote:YEah, too many Transformers are in a serious need of a good rim job.
Blast Cannon wrote:This thread is brilliant. Duragrip you are a gloriously weird sexual deviant and I love it.
bward wrote:Per the press release at the head of this thread, both the DVD and Blu-ray collections are 4-disc sets and there are 26 episodes in the first season, so I'm not sure how that boils down to 4-5 episodes each.
bward wrote:Outside of a simple desire to skip anything but the opening titles, I can't really see why you'd want the opening as its own chapter. Presumably, you'd watch the teaser and--at most--skip the opening titles.
bward wrote:A bit condescending; don't you think? How do you know I'm not one of those people?
RiddlerJ wrote:Each one will come with an autographed picture of Michael Bay sitting on top of a huge pile of money.
There is one. He's a Decepticon Seeker.cotss2012 wrote:On a completely unrelated note, "Bitstream" would make an awesome name for a Transformer.
Me too. Just bought it as well (though, I scratched the slipcase a bit trying to get the stickers off ). Now I will wait for the season 1 relase in March (though, I 'm not sure if I want the Blu-Ray or DVD since, while Blu-Ray is better, its price is outrageous).LOST Cybertronian wrote:I bought the Darkness Rising movie and will purchase the blu-ray complete series in March. I will get my $10 worth between now and March. It's a great movie.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:There is one. He's a Decepticon Seeker.cotss2012 wrote:On a completely unrelated note, "Bitstream" would make an awesome name for a Transformer.
RiddlerJ wrote:Each one will come with an autographed picture of Michael Bay sitting on top of a huge pile of money.
What are you talking about?cotss2012 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:There is one. He's a Decepticon Seeker.cotss2012 wrote:On a completely unrelated note, "Bitstream" would make an awesome name for a Transformer.
Licensed fanfictions (which is basically what written continuities amount to) don't count.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
RiddlerJ wrote:Each one will come with an autographed picture of Michael Bay sitting on top of a huge pile of money.
cotss2012 wrote:I'm talking about the fact that any Joe Dumbass can write a Transformers book with little or no oversight from Hasbro as long as they get the license, so they might as well be fanfics, whereas the "screen" continuities are much more collaborative, "professional", and planned out with more involvement from Hasbro.
RiddlerJ wrote:Each one will come with an autographed picture of Michael Bay sitting on top of a huge pile of money.
cotss2012 wrote:Exodus isn't a comic, dude.
Wow. Just, wow.cotss2012 wrote:I'm talking about the fact that any Joe Dumbass can write a Transformers book with little or no oversight from Hasbro as long as they get the license, so they might as well be fanfics, whereas the "screen" continuities are much more collaborative, "professional", and planned out with more involvement from Hasbro.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Do you have any idea what went into producing Exodus?
Sabrblade wrote:Do you have any idea how thoroughly involved Hasbro was in crafting its story for the author to write?
Sabrblade wrote:For your information, Exodus and Exiles (thus far) form the cemented backbone of the whole Aligned Continuity, being derived directly from the Binder of Revelation itself. War for Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron, and Prime are merely the icing on the cake.
Sabrblade wrote:It was Hasbro (specifically Aaron Archer and Rik Alvarez) who created this story, and it was Hasbro who commissioned Alex Irvine to write the story they wanted to tell.
Sabrblade wrote:Like, did you ever wonder what happened to Barricade right after Movie 1?
Sabrblade wrote:Or how about how everyone even got to Earth in the first place?
Sabrblade wrote:Or why Starscream has tattoos in ROTF when he didn't beforehand?
Sabrblade wrote:Or how Megatron came into the service of The Fallen?
RiddlerJ wrote:Each one will come with an autographed picture of Michael Bay sitting on top of a huge pile of money.
My point exactly.cotss2012 wrote:Not a clue
Because Hasbro gave both the game creators and the show creators enough leeway for each to tell their own stories without having to rely too much on what the other party was doing. Basically, they each come with an idea for their respective stories, and then consult with Hasbro on whether or not they can use it, and/or how they can fit it in with contradicting Hasbro's overall plans for this continuity.cotss2012 wrote:Okay... so... why do Megatron, Starscream, Bumblebee, Arcee, etc. look almost nothing alike between WfC and Prime? Why does Dark Energon have completely different properties between WfC and Prime? I assume there's some convoluted explanation, but it just doesn't seem as "aligned" as the name suggests.
We last see him driving down the highway with Bonecrusher and Brawl. He swerves off the side till he disappears off screen, and then we see Optimus and Bonecrusher tussle. What we don't see is what had become of Barricade: He tried to go after Bumblebee again, but Ironhide took him out instead, causing him to crash off the side of the road and go offline. Starscream later came by after the Mission City battle and reactivated Barricade to serve him. More events followed between this time and the time when we see him in DOTM.cotss2012 wrote:No. The general assumption at the time was that all of Evil Prowl's appearances after getting curb-stomped by Mumblebee were continuity errors, much like Skywarp and Thundercracker being present at Starscream's coronation in TFTM.
But we never see how the Decepticons got there first. Or Bumblebee. Plus, only Bumblebee and Megatron flew there by themselves. The rest of the Movie 1 cast came in the Ark (not the same one from DOTM) and the Nemesis (not the same one from ROTF). While we don't know what happened to the Ark, we know that Starscream parked the Nemesis on Mars while he took a squadron down to Earth to search for the AllSpark (the rest of the crew stayed with the ship).cotss2012 wrote:The movies made it clear that they tend to arrive in the form of flying turds.
Yeah.cotss2012 wrote:No. I was too confused by the continuity errors to worry about things that were unexplained but didn't really seem inconsistent with anything.
That all has to do with how Megatron came to serve The Fallen. The Fallen wanted the AllSpark's power and thus needed the Matrix to get it. But, he failed to take its power and so was imprisoned in his own sarcophagus by the other Primes. When his sarcophagus was discovered years later by the Autobots, it came into Megatron's possession. The Fallen went all Emperor Palpatine on Megatron, promising him power and filling him with delusions of grandeur. Now The Fallen's pupil, Megatron restarted the conflict over the AllSpark that his master had originally begun ages ago, naming his faction of followers after The Fallen's own group of followers: Decepticons.cotss2012 wrote:Sorry, too busy trying to reconcile "Megatron started the war because of teh cube" with "The Fallen started the war because of teh matrix".
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
RiddlerJ wrote:Each one will come with an autographed picture of Michael Bay sitting on top of a huge pile of money.
cotss2012 wrote:So in other words, freelancers had to concoct huge amounts of bullshit to fill in the gaps in some not-very-well-planned-out "continuities", and even then, a lot of stuff was left to fan speculation.
See, this is why I prefer to sidestep anything that isn't a toy or a toy commercial. Fewer continuities = fewer continuity errors.
not that this will stop me from buying a legit copy of WFC so I can play as Slipstream in multiplayer...
Once again, Cotss proves he doesn't know as much as he let's on. The writers of all Transformers fiction do it as part of their professional careers as writers of fiction, not as temp jobs. Comic writer Simon Furman, in fact, has probably more contributions to TF fiction that any other writer ever, as it was he who established many iconic stories and many iconic aspects such as the nature of the Matrix of Leadership, Unicron's true origin as a god, Primus in general, etc. Why, he even wrote the final Beast Wars episode "Nemesis, Part 2".Tidalwavex wrote:cotss2012 wrote:So in other words, freelancers had to concoct huge amounts of bullshit to fill in the gaps in some not-very-well-planned-out "continuities", and even then, a lot of stuff was left to fan speculation.
See, this is why I prefer to sidestep anything that isn't a toy or a toy commercial. Fewer continuities = fewer continuity errors.
not that this will stop me from buying a legit copy of WFC so I can play as Slipstream in multiplayer...
IMHO,Their not Freelancers. a freelancer is a person who gets a temporay hire to do a specific job.
IMHO,most of the writters that help create & flesh out stories from hasbro. have permanent based jobs.
IMHO,most of the writters that help create video game stories & flesh out the characters in the game are permanent wokers of the video game company.
IMHO,From what I've read on the internet,more design sketch artist do freelance work. most writters have permanet jobs & get asked to write cartoon episodes for the entire cartoon series their being asked to write story episodes for.
IMHO,since most video games are one huge movie that gamers play & solve. the writters of these video game stories are not considerd freelancers. as these video game writters help create the story from start to finish. most of these video game writters are permanent employees of the company,they work on new projects all the time when they complete the previous project.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:The writers of all Transformers fiction do it as part of their professional careers as writers of fiction, not as temp jobs.
Sabrblade wrote:Simon Furman... wrote the final Beast Wars episode "Nemesis, Part 2".
RiddlerJ wrote:Each one will come with an autographed picture of Michael Bay sitting on top of a huge pile of money.
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