Guest Onideus Mad Hatter Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:47:49 +0100, Hans van Eynsbergen <strangeways@FSCKSPAMplanet.nl> wrote: >On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:50:35 -0500, jm who thought that every major problem >could be solved just with potatoes, wrote: > >> Hans van Eynsbergen Wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:27:59 -0800, PerfectReign who thought that every >>> major problem could be solved just with potatoes, wrote: >>> >>>> Don't forget Santa being tracked by NORAD. >>>> >>>> http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html >>>> >>>> According to my eight-year-old, he's in China right now. >>> >>> Happy Christmas to everyone ! >>> >>> Now go and kill a few turkey's... >>> >>> -- >>> Hans >>> >>> I'm tired of the old shit >>> Let the new shit begin >> >> Christmas goose Hans, that's what the shotgun at the back door is for. > >Damn ! >And there I was, always thinking that ye olde 12 ga., short barreled side >by side, was strictly meant for home defense.... > >But for hunting goose I don't need a shotgun, I just grab them off the >street...damn animals are so bloody tame, they will probably follow you >home... > >http://gelkinghe.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/2008/06/01/ganzen_nemen_de_zebra_als_ze_overst.jpg I'll take ham thank you, not much for bird. Tis Keeristmas here as well. I'm finishing up a couple presents right now. My mom has been sorting through all the boxes of my late grandmothers belonging and she uncovered a bunch of media, old video reels and audio tapes and the liak. So for one of her presents I'm converting it all to DVD format. It's slow and tedious work, but it looks real cool when its finished. Speaking of media conversion be ~very~ careful about who hire to do it for you and you should never do it yourself unless you absolutely know what you're doing...or at least don't get rid of the originals. I've done a variety of conversion jobs, a lot of times it's VHS to DVD and in several instances it was actual Super8 to VHS, but they didn't keep the original Super8 film. At which point I have to let them know that the conversion process from Super8 to VHS effectively destroyed half the quality of the video footage. In some cases you get lucky and they had the initial conversion done in the 90s and by someone who knew what they were doing and they used SVHS...anything converted in the 80s though, not so much. That form of conversion though, even with SVHS isn't even remotely as good as the modern scanning methods of today. Basically every single frame is scanned, capturing ALL of the available quality and then all the frames are sequentially pasted together into a video file. If possible you want to do the scanning in a clean room where you won't be introducing any new artifacts during the scan (hairs, dust particles, etc). You also have to clean the film to make sure you won't be introducing any new artifacts that may be on the film. That's one mistake people often make when scanning photos, they don't bother to actually clean the photographs and so when they scan them they're not just scanning the photo, but all the dust, hair and debris that's on them as well. Anywho, hope everyone has a good Keeristmas. Try not to eat too much though. `, P he says whilst stuffing his face with pumpkin roll and egg nog I hope somebody got me socks...I love new socks, they're the best thing in the whole world...next to Mt. Dew. My mom and dad actually went a little spend happy this year going by all the presents I've got under teh tree. We've tried to explain to them that we're not little kids any moar and they don't need to go out and buy us tons of presents, but they always do it anyway. It makes things kinda complicated though if your parents are divorced, this morning I'm having Keeristmas with my mom and then this afternoon I'm having Keeristmas with my dad and then at some point in between I'm going to go over to my brothers place...heh...busy, busy, busy... -- Onideus Mad Hatter mhm ? x ? http://www.backwater-productions.net http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog Hatter Quotes ------------- "When I listen to people I don't really listen to what it is they're saying, so much as what they're saying it for." "Don't ever fuck with someone who has more creativity than you do." "You're only one of the best if you're striving to become one of the best." "I didn't make reality, Sunshine, I just verbally bitch slapped you with it." "I'm not a professional, I'm an artist." "Usenet Filters - Learn to shut yourself the fuck up!" "Drugs killed Jesus you know...oh wait, no, that was the Jews, my bad." "The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols." 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Guest Hans van Eynsbergen Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:54:57 -0800, Onideus Mad Hatter who thought that every major problem could be solved just with potatoes, wrote: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:47:49 +0100, Hans van Eynsbergen > <strangeways@FSCKSPAMplanet.nl> wrote: > >>On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:50:35 -0500, jm who thought that every major problem >>could be solved just with potatoes, wrote: >> >>> Hans van Eynsbergen Wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:27:59 -0800, PerfectReign who thought that every >>>> major problem could be solved just with potatoes, wrote: >>>> >>>>> Don't forget Santa being tracked by NORAD. >>>>> >>>>> http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html >>>>> >>>>> According to my eight-year-old, he's in China right now. >>>> >>>> Happy Christmas to everyone ! >>>> >>>> Now go and kill a few turkey's... >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Hans >>>> >>>> I'm tired of the old shit >>>> Let the new shit begin >>> >>> Christmas goose Hans, that's what the shotgun at the back door is for. >> >>Damn ! >>And there I was, always thinking that ye olde 12 ga., short barreled side >>by side, was strictly meant for home defense.... >> >>But for hunting goose I don't need a shotgun, I just grab them off the >>street...damn animals are so bloody tame, they will probably follow you >>home... >> >>http://gelkinghe.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/2008/06/01/ganzen_nemen_de_zebra_als_ze_overst.jpg > > I'll take ham thank you, not much for bird. Tis Keeristmas here as > well. I'm finishing up a couple presents right now. My mom has been > sorting through all the boxes of my late grandmothers belonging and > she uncovered a bunch of media, old video reels and audio tapes and > the liak. So for one of her presents I'm converting it all to DVD > format. It's slow and tedious work, but it looks real cool when its > finished. > > Speaking of media conversion be ~very~ careful about who hire to do it > for you and you should never do it yourself unless you absolutely know > what you're doing...or at least don't get rid of the originals. I've > done a variety of conversion jobs, a lot of times it's VHS to DVD and > in several instances it was actual Super8 to VHS, but they didn't keep > the original Super8 film. At which point I have to let them know that > the conversion process from Super8 to VHS effectively destroyed half > the quality of the video footage. > > In some cases you get lucky and they had the initial conversion done > in the 90s and by someone who knew what they were doing and they used > SVHS...anything converted in the 80s though, not so much. That form > of conversion though, even with SVHS isn't even remotely as good as > the modern scanning methods of today. Basically every single frame is > scanned, capturing ALL of the available quality and then all the > frames are sequentially pasted together into a video file. If > possible you want to do the scanning in a clean room where you won't > be introducing any new artifacts during the scan (hairs, dust > particles, etc). You also have to clean the film to make sure you > won't be introducing any new artifacts that may be on the film. > > That's one mistake people often make when scanning photos, they don't > bother to actually clean the photographs and so when they scan them > they're not just scanning the photo, but all the dust, hair and debris > that's on them as well. > > Anywho, hope everyone has a good Keeristmas. Try not to eat too much > though. `, P > > he says whilst stuffing his face with pumpkin roll and egg nog > > I hope somebody got me socks...I love new socks, they're the best > thing in the whole world...next to Mt. Dew. My mom and dad actually > went a little spend happy this year going by all the presents I've got > under teh tree. We've tried to explain to them that we're not little > kids any moar and they don't need to go out and buy us tons of > presents, but they always do it anyway. It makes things kinda > complicated though if your parents are divorced, this morning I'm > having Keeristmas with my mom and then this afternoon I'm having > Keeristmas with my dad and then at some point in between I'm going to > go over to my brothers place...heh...busy, busy, busy... > Enjoy the last few days of 2008 and be careful with them firecrackers ! -- Hans "Forty-two!" "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years of work?" "I checked it very thoroughly", said the computer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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