Re: CGI Capt.Scarlet; Betamax videos; damaged zipfi

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Rob writes:
>I've seen a few brief clips of this - it's looking good.

Have you? Those clips on the web look *nothing* like the
real thing, which is *extremely* impressive.

--
Marc Martin, [hidden email]

>Rob writes:
> >I've seen a few brief clips of this - it's looking good.
>
>Have you? Those clips on the web look *nothing* like the
>real thing, which is *extremely* impressive.
>--
>Marc Martin, [hidden email]
>

I agree. I was really surprised by the Capt. Scarlet CGI and watched it
with my mouth open. I have all the Capt. Scarlet videos, but I couldn't say
I get excited when watching them; I look at them from a "historical" point
of view, as UFO's ancestors. It makes me wonder how great UFO could be if
revamped today.

By the way, Ed's voice sounded much more natural in the CGI and similar to
what you hear when talking to him. Sometimes the higher pitch you hear in
UFO videos is annoying.

PB

--- In [hidden email], Paolo Brandimarte <brandimarte@p...> wrote:

> I agree. I was really surprised by the Capt. Scarlet CGI and
>watched it with my mouth open. I have all the Capt. Scarlet videos,
>but I couldn't say I get excited when watching them

> By the way, Ed's voice sounded much more natural in the CGI and
>similar to what you hear when talking to him. Sometimes the higher
>pitch you hear in UFO videos is annoying.
>
> PB

Yes, but it still sounded like a 69 year old man, when it was
supposed to be coming out of the mouth of a 32 year old man!

By the way, I hated the CGI Scarlet. I thought that the CGI
characters did not move as well as the puppets move. It was not as
good as the CGI clip on the web nor as good as 'Starship Troopers'.
It looked like one of the early computer games.

Cheers

Katie
[hidden email]

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Paolo Brandimarte <[hidden email]> wrote:-
> By the way, Ed's voice sounded much more natural in the CGI and similar to
> what you hear when talking to him. Sometimes the higher pitch you hear in
> UFO videos is annoying.

Does this mean the 25/24 (= about 0.7 of a semitone) rise in pitch caused by
playing 24 frames/second movie film at 25 frames/second TV speed? If so,
perhaps that is why Straker's voice is a BIT higher pitched than Ed Bishop's
current voice; but I treated that as a natural part of Straker's voice. I have
never seen UFO as a cinema film, only as TV or video, so I don't know exactly
what Straker sounds like when played at 24 frames/second.

I don't know how far off topic this is, but since in the early X-
Files stories Scully and Mulder were trying to investigate a somewhat
SHADO-like, or SHADOwy, organization that handled and kept secret
alien events (and thus some fans have written crossover stories where
Scully and Mulder investigate SHADO), I am tempted to remark that I
sometimes fit these words to the X-Files introductory tune:-

I wish that I could meet the aliens from beyond,
who travel very far, and ride within their craft,
and learn t' make craft like theirs, and go to other stars,
oh when??

Someone once mentioned SHEDO, as a joke, as an alien equivalent of
SHADO :: the E stands fot "earthman". There are possibilities for
more jokes and skit-type stories here set in that scenario. Anyone
got any ideas?

Katie wrote
> By the way, I hated the CGI Scarlet. I thought that the CGI
> characters did not move as well as the puppets move. It was not as
> good as the CGI clip on the web nor as good as 'Starship Troopers'.
> It looked like one of the early computer games.

Heh maybe they should have used Cosgrove Hall people afterall!

Sheila

Still UFO Crazy crazy crazy crrraaazzzzy!

> I agree. I was really surprised by the Capt. Scarlet CGI and watched it
> with my mouth open. I have all the Capt. Scarlet videos, but I couldn't
say
> I get excited when watching them; I look at them from a "historical" point
> of view, as UFO's ancestors. It makes me wonder how great UFO could be if
> revamped today.
>
> By the way, Ed's voice sounded much more natural in the CGI and similar to
> what you hear when talking to him. Sometimes the higher pitch you hear in
> UFO videos is annoying.
>
> PB

If you were watching UFO in PAL format that would explain the higher pitch
in Ed's voice due to it being played 4% faster. When I heard Ed speak at the
1996 Fanderson con, the pitch of his voice sounded the same as heard on NTSC
broadcasts of UFO.



Ron