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01-19-07, 03:07 PM
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I know nothing about this German short film. It's cheap though at $21.95. here's the description from Xploited:
"The two main characters are on a journey in the folds of a giant Machine, exploring the twisted and dark complex of wires, gears and cogs. Until one moment a conflict arises that throws out all their assumptions. This movie short couples lively fun with passionate characters in an epic story line.
The ambition of Ton Roosendaal and his movie production team, who created the animated film with limited funds, was transferred to the developers of the HD DVD. Numerous bonus contents complement the first-rate Elephants Dream HD DVD video stored in full high definition resolution (1080p). In addition to several audio commentaries, subtitles and "Making of" documentaries, a "script-to-scene" feature is also included. However, along with a picture-in-picture Making of documentary that is synchronised with the movie and can be freely positioned on the screen, the highlights of the disc are the various encoding variants. For example, the main film is stored on the disc as both a VC-1 and MPEG-2 video, which allows the user to compare the quality of the formats.
For several weeks already, the computer-generated short film, which was primarily created with free, open source software, has been attracting great interest worldwide and is enjoying a steadily growing fan community. Proog (Tygo Gernandt) takes young Emo (Cas Jansen) on a trip into the depths of a surreal machine world. The unlikely pair makes their way through to the seemingly safest place in the entire machine, only to find out that it also has some surprises in store for them.
The Elephants Dream HD DVD impressively demonstrates just how big the difference between full resolution high definition video and conventional SD video really is. As a bonus feature, the Imagion AG developer team has therefore included an option that allows segments of the movie to be compared in HD and SD resolution. Moreover, as an interactive feature, the user can seamlessly switch back and forth between HD and SD video or select a horizontal or vertical split screen display.
DVD FEATURES
1080p High Definition 16x9 (1.78:1)
English Dolby Digital 5.1 and German Dolby Digital 5.1
Optional English, German, French, Italian, Spanish & Japanese subtitles
Advanced content HD DVD (iHD)
On the fly menus during feature playback
Interactive HD- / SD-video comparison
Different video encoding formats (VC-1 and MPEG 2)
Script-to-scene feature
Picture-in-picture HD DVD Making Of
Making of the movie (30 min.)
4 different directors commentaries"
http://xploitedcinema.com/catalog/elephants-dream-german-release-p-11016.html
Anyone know anything about this? Interesting that you can compare the MPEG2 version to the VC-1 version.
I wish Tony gave us a running time on this. I'd be ticked if it was like 10-15 minutes.
I know nothing about this German short film. It's cheap though at $21.95. here's the description from Xploited:
"The two main characters are on a journey in the folds of a giant Machine, exploring the twisted and dark complex of wires, gears and cogs. Until one moment a conflict arises that throws out all their assumptions. This movie short couples lively fun with passionate characters in an epic story line.
The ambition of Ton Roosendaal and his movie production team, who created the animated film with limited funds, was transferred to the developers of the HD DVD. Numerous bonus contents complement the first-rate Elephants Dream HD DVD video stored in full high definition resolution (1080p). In addition to several audio commentaries, subtitles and "Making of" documentaries, a "script-to-scene" feature is also included. However, along with a picture-in-picture Making of documentary that is synchronised with the movie and can be freely positioned on the screen, the highlights of the disc are the various encoding variants. For example, the main film is stored on the disc as both a VC-1 and MPEG-2 video, which allows the user to compare the quality of the formats.
For several weeks already, the computer-generated short film, which was primarily created with free, open source software, has been attracting great interest worldwide and is enjoying a steadily growing fan community. Proog (Tygo Gernandt) takes young Emo (Cas Jansen) on a trip into the depths of a surreal machine world. The unlikely pair makes their way through to the seemingly safest place in the entire machine, only to find out that it also has some surprises in store for them.
The Elephants Dream HD DVD impressively demonstrates just how big the difference between full resolution high definition video and conventional SD video really is. As a bonus feature, the Imagion AG developer team has therefore included an option that allows segments of the movie to be compared in HD and SD resolution. Moreover, as an interactive feature, the user can seamlessly switch back and forth between HD and SD video or select a horizontal or vertical split screen display.
DVD FEATURES
1080p High Definition 16x9 (1.78:1)
English Dolby Digital 5.1 and German Dolby Digital 5.1
Optional English, German, French, Italian, Spanish & Japanese subtitles
Advanced content HD DVD (iHD)
On the fly menus during feature playback
Interactive HD- / SD-video comparison
Different video encoding formats (VC-1 and MPEG 2)
Script-to-scene feature
Picture-in-picture HD DVD Making Of
Making of the movie (30 min.)
4 different directors commentaries"
http://xploitedcinema.com/catalog/elephants-dream-german-release-p-11016.html
Anyone know anything about this? Interesting that you can compare the MPEG2 version to the VC-1 version.
I wish Tony gave us a running time on this. I'd be ticked if it was like 10-15 minutes.