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Serenity Trailer In High Definition

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UPDATED: Monday, May 9, 2005 05:18
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Friday, April 29, 2005 9:42 AM

PENGUINRTR


If you have checked apple.com/trailers lately they just added a High Definition version of the "Serenity" trailer. It is about 136 MB. It is available for download.

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Friday, April 29, 2005 10:21 AM

HARDY


where???

didn't find it...


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Friday, April 29, 2005 10:29 AM

MINDSEYE

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Friday, April 29, 2005 10:32 AM

TRASK43


Downloading now.

www.summer-glau.com

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Friday, April 29, 2005 10:34 AM

MINDSEYE


It requires Quicktime ver. 7 and that is only available for Mac right now, so I don't know if it is playable on PC's. :(

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Friday, April 29, 2005 10:35 AM

HARDY


thanks ;)


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Friday, April 29, 2005 10:48 AM

TRASK43


Its not working on my comp either does anyone know if theres any beta versions of quicktime 7 available.

www.summer-glau.com

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Friday, April 29, 2005 11:33 AM

ISROUSRO


Is QT7 in the new OS 10.4 (tiger)?

passionately indifferent

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Friday, April 29, 2005 12:39 PM

DROCCULARI


Quote:

Originally posted by isrousro:
Is QT7 in the new OS 10.4 (tiger)?

passionately indifferent



Yes it is. I just finished installing Tiger, and am now downloading the HD trailer to test it.

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Friday, April 29, 2005 1:02 PM

TRASK43


Would anyone be kind enough to make some screencaps.

www.summer-glau.com

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Friday, April 29, 2005 4:40 PM

DROCCULARI


Quote:

Originally posted by trask43:
Would anyone be kind enough to make some screencaps.

www.summer-glau.com



I just uploaded four HD screen caps to the Blue Sun Room. Sorry about leaving the Quicktime frames on, but the GIMP won't load after updating to Tiger so I couldn't crop them. Warning: They're big.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=3608
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=3609
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=3610
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=3611

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Friday, April 29, 2005 10:03 PM

LIGHTNINBUG


WOW!!!!!

That's amazing!
1280 x 550 pixels and only 108 MB!

The downloadable version must be even better... 129 MB.
It's 1920 x 816 video! 30 or 24 fps, I'm not sure.

Both are found here:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/serenity.html

I guess QuickTime 7 and HD is a bigger deal than I knew. This is .H264 video, same as featured on next-generation DVDs (no matter what format they go with).

Slower machines (G5 processor recommended) won't play at full framerate but the detail's amazing.

You do NOT need Mac OS 10.4 Tiger for this--you can use 10.3 Panther (updated to 10.3.9) as well. A Windows version of QuickTime 7 is due "very soon."

If you don't have Tiger, downlaod QT7 here:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download
(QT Pro is optional... among other things it lets you play borderless.)

And fireflymovie.com posted a really high quality frameless screen grab:
http://www.fireflymovie.com/news.html
(Look for "screen shot" on that page.)

And here's a link to the biggest NON-QuickTime 7 version for everyone else - downloadable without needing QT Pro:
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity/serenity_ifs2.mov

(But that one's not High Definition.)

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Saturday, April 30, 2005 1:42 AM

WHOISRIVER


I will be putting a HDTV DIVX trailer of Serenity online this afternoon.

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Saturday, April 30, 2005 2:02 AM

TRASK43


Quote:

Originally posted by WhoIsRiver:
I will be putting a HDTV DIVX trailer of Serenity online this afternoon.



Shiny, any recommendations of plugins or the like that I should download to run it.

www.summer-glau.com

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Saturday, April 30, 2005 11:02 AM

LMARO


I can only guess who encoded it, but the 1280x544 Xvid is here:
http://blogtorrent.com/demo/

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Saturday, April 30, 2005 12:26 PM

SHINY


Thanks for the torrent link lmaro! Looks amazing in hi-res!

Jayne, your mouth is talkin. Might want to look into that.

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Saturday, April 30, 2005 1:01 PM

ZAPHODB


The audio seems to be sort of out of sync on that version.

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Saturday, April 30, 2005 1:33 PM

WHOISRIVER


80mb very high quality Xvid version (will play on Windows) here:

http://www.WhoIsRiver.com/trailer

You need "Xvid" (go google) to play.

If you have a slow PC, it will jerk and the sound will go out of sync I'm afraid. It's just over DVD quality - old PCs won't cope with it.

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Wednesday, May 4, 2005 12:09 PM

ROCKYTT


If you've got a fast enough PC-here's a link to the steps needed to play the 1080p version of the trailer:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=5561487&highli
ght=mkvtoolnix#post5561487

Takes about 5 minutes (max) to do the steps, not really a big deal-trailer looks awesome in 1080p!!

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Wednesday, May 4, 2005 12:28 PM

PULASKI


I noticed a similar issue with the 1080 HD trailer, it seems "choppy" where as the streamed 720 version looks smooth... hmmm... maybe it's just my Mac MINI doesn't have enough horsepower?

/s Pulaski

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Sunday, May 8, 2005 4:49 PM

KRYPTICIDE


So is there no direct download link for the HD trailer in DivX format?

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Sunday, May 8, 2005 8:33 PM

JARED


Quote:

Originally posted by krypticide:
So is there no direct download link for the HD trailer in DivX format?



somewhere, but if it's the same server as above there might be a problem.

anyway, get the qt version and mplayer for windows (along with the windows codecs if it doesnt work). a fast machine should play the 720p version ( http://images.apple.com/movies/us/hd_gallery/gl1800/serenity_m720p.mov ). the 1080p should be pretty useless for most, unless your display really has a resolution of 1920xX (or you just want to make some huge screenshots) AND you have a ridiculously fast machine (as in: i dont know if any current pc can play it smoothly at all).

on a slower machine you can still use mencoder (comes with mplayer) and either export to uncompressed avi (requires about 3.5gb) or recompress as xvid or whatever.

if you're on the universal board, there should be a couple links you can try (it finally got a search function *g*).

http://festini.device-zero.de

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Monday, May 9, 2005 12:17 AM

KRYPTICIDE


Quote:

Originally posted by Jared:
Quote:

Originally posted by krypticide:
So is there no direct download link for the HD trailer in DivX format?



somewhere, but if it's the same server as above there might be a problem.

anyway, get the qt version and mplayer for windows (along with the windows codecs if it doesnt work). a fast machine should play the 720p version ( http://images.apple.com/movies/us/hd_gallery/gl1800/serenity_m720p.mov ). the 1080p should be pretty useless for most, unless your display really has a resolution of 1920xX (or you just want to make some huge screenshots) AND you have a ridiculously fast machine (as in: i dont know if any current pc can play it smoothly at all).

on a slower machine you can still use mencoder (comes with mplayer) and either export to uncompressed avi (requires about 3.5gb) or recompress as xvid or whatever.

if you're on the universal board, there should be a couple links you can try (it finally got a search function *g*).

http://festini.device-zero.de



Am I missing something here? The MOV file requires Quicktime 7, and since I'm on Windows, I'm out of luck at the moment. It'd be nice if someone on the Mac could make this MOV into an AVI...

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Monday, May 9, 2005 12:23 AM

JARED


Quote:

Originally posted by krypticide:
Quote:

Am I missing something here? The MOV file requires Quicktime 7, and since I'm on Windows, I'm out of luck at the moment. It'd be nice if someone on the Mac could make this MOV into an AVI...


yep, youre missing that mplayer is available for windows and plays them just fine. stop believing what the companies want you to believe to make you buy their products ,-)

the only problem with other players is that they usually see "oh, mov file" and use the qt plugin that cant handle h264 in quicktime movies. mplayer can handle mov containers just fine on its own and hence has no problem with playing the h264 video and aac audio stream. if they would have place the same video in a standard mpeg or even avi container pretty much all players could play them.

still, you will need a fast machine to decode that monster in realtime.

http://festini.device-zero.de

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Monday, May 9, 2005 1:44 AM

KRYPTICIDE


Thanks for the help, I'm getting mplayer right now and I'll see if I can figure it all out...

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Monday, May 9, 2005 2:51 AM

WHOISRIVER


Quote:

Originally posted by krypticide:
So is there no direct download link for the HD trailer in DivX format?



There was a version of WhoIsRiver.com, but I've had to take it offline as it was using too much bandwidth (over 100gb a day).

Hopefully to return soon...

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Monday, May 9, 2005 3:00 AM

CALHOUN


Quote:

Jared wrote:
Monday, May 09, 2005 00:23

still, you will need a fast machine to decode that monster in realtime.



What sort of monster specs are we talking here?

How would my P4 2.66Ghz, 1GB ram, 128MB videocard go? or is my old girl a bit slow now?

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Monday, May 9, 2005 4:59 AM

JARED


Quote:

Originally posted by Calhoun:
What sort of monster specs are we talking here?

How would my P4 2.66Ghz, 1GB ram, 128MB videocard go? or is my old girl a bit slow now?



it might be ok for the 720p version. i got a xp2100+ and i either get skipped frames and ugly artifacts or it's getting completely out of synch, depending on whether i allow dropped frames or not. but mplayer/mencoder is perfect to convert it to xvid or anything you like.

i did a x264 version at about the same size that plays more or less fine. xvid should be much better in performance and with a bitrate of about 6000-6500 the quality is about as close to the original as it gets (reencoding is always making it a little worse). or as mentioned above, if you have a lot of space and just want to watch it, you can do this:

mencoder serenity_m720p.mov -voc raw -aoc raw

and you get a huge (3.5gb) uncompressed file which should at least run fast enough.

http://festini.device-zero.de

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Monday, May 9, 2005 5:18 AM

EVILTOBZ


Quote:

Originally posted by pulaski:
I noticed a similar issue with the 1080 HD trailer, it seems "choppy" where as the streamed 720 version looks smooth... hmmm... maybe it's just my Mac MINI doesn't have enough horsepower?

/s Pulaski


my imac g4 lacks the grunt to play the 1080 too and it is pretty similar to the spec of the mini.

just another reason compelling me to buy a dual g5 tower with a 23" monitor beast :)

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