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LV426 - On Lemmy no one can hear you scream

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Here is my very first, completely custom effort

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[–] Reverendender 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

This clip was unfortunately not as GIF friendly as I had hoped.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I can't help but hear this in the Terran drop ship voice 😅

[–] Reverendender 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I have many ideas, but I am very open to requests. And I am on staycation, so turnaround time will be fast!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Did IQs drop sharply while I was away?"

[–] Reverendender 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My hero. Saving every one of these.

How are you getting that quality?!

[–] Reverendender 1 points 3 weeks ago

I am starting with a good rip of the 4K release. (Not a lossless rip, because I suspect the file sizes would be bonkers). I used handbrake to convert it to mP4. I edit it in iMovie and add the titles there (it's challenging, because you are really limited in how much you can customize the titles. I export the clip as an Mp4, then I convert it in Gifski, where I set it to output something in the range of a 3-5 MB file.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Private Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?

Private Vasquez: No. Have you?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Multiple DRADIS contacts

“Mr Gaeta, how long before we can jump?”

1 minute sir.

“Deploy the vipers”

[–] Reverendender 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

OH SHIT. BSG. SHIT IS ONNN. LETS FRACKIN GOOOOOOOO!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

20 minutes on a phone… best I can do

[–] Reverendender 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you can find me episode numbers and timestamps that would make my life infinitely easier. As much as I love a good rewatch of Battlestar Galactica, that’s an imperial fuckton of content to sift through to try to find specific lines of dialogue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have to find the episode:timestamp but this snippet is basically what I had in mind when I saw the radar

https://youtu.be/bNuhcOZww4Y?

[–] Reverendender 2 points 3 weeks ago

I need to make some text tones from those sound effects is what I really need to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nice one, saved! As a request: "mostly"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Can't have Aliens without "Game over man"

[–] Reverendender 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The visuals don’t work in this scene. Hudson is actually in the background for almost that entire exchange. I could cheat a little and just use something that looks like it is where it should be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Reverendender 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Atta boy! Be the change you want to see!

[–] Reverendender 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not certain if this was your intention, but this comes across to me as condescending. It's very hard to tell these days though, with everything being text based communications.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nothing but good feels - thanks for creating something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

This is high quality.

It should last at least a few rounds of compression!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Awesome work. How did I not think about "nuke the site from orbit" ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

YES!!! I really wanted a "Let's rock!" gif but the only thing really visible at that moment is right after when Drake yells "yeeaahhh!!!" and the automatic gunfire goes off for about one second before cutting away. It could still work but not as gif-friendly as I'd hoped.

Hudson's last stand is probably the superior choice. He's super visible from this part here when yelling: "Come on! Come on, you bastard! Come on, you too! Oh, you want some of this?! Fuck you!" This gif would have great use!

Edit: Fixed video clip link

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ooh, good work so far. Love the kinetic text (is that the right term?). Whatcha using? Handbrake?

[–] Reverendender 2 points 3 weeks ago

I did have to use handbrake to convert the 4K Blu-ray rip that I’m using because I’m using also iMovie, which won’t accept MKV files. I was getting fed up with the controls in iMovie because I have not used iMovie in probably 10 years and they’ve completely changed how everything works, and now it works extremely stupidly. So I may or may not have torrented a copy of Final Cut, which also I have not used in probably 10 years but with any luck is less enshittified, and more like what I’m familiar with. So we’ll see how that works out once I motivate to break that out.