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So I'm kind of disappointed that RiffTrax went with the colorized version (which may have something to do with public domain restrictions). I was going to try and make a version where I muxed the riff on to a black and white copy, but that version is significantly longer than the riff and I'm nowhere near a good enough editor to do that. Could someone with better skills than me take a crack at it?
The Last Man On Earth (Unriffed)
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It would be because they source a lot of these old films from Legend Films (which they used to be part of when Rifftrax first started up) and Legend colorizes movies as part of their business model. They're responsible for Rifftrax's versions of Carnival Of Souls, House On Haunted Hill, Little Shop Of Horrors, Missile To The Moon, Night Of The Living Dead, Plan 9, She, Jack The Giant Killer, Swing Parade, Beyond Christmas, Reefer Madness, the Sherlock Holmes films, and now this.
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While we're at it - Would someone be kind enough to share a HighTV copy? I kept waiting for it to drop, but it seems that only the HDmed version has been posted here. THANK YOU in advance!
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(Feb 26, 2021, 15:17 pm)Miss Martian Wrote: While we're at it - Would someone be kind enough to share a HighTV copy? I kept waiting for it to drop, but it seems that only the HDmed version has been posted here. THANK YOU in advance!
Why would you want a worse, lower-res copy that's the same file size as the HD Medium?
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BadFilms is right on both accounts (film sources and the HD Medium quality). For what it's worth regarding the B&W version, whenever RiffTrax uses a colorized version of the film, I just turn the color or saturation all the way down on whatever I'm using to watch it. I prefer the B&W versions and this is a simple way to avoid trying to find and edit a copy to match the riffed version.
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(Feb 27, 2021, 18:31 pm)Torgo Wrote: BadFilms is right on both accounts (film sources and the HD Medium quality). For what it's worth regarding the B&W version, whenever RiffTrax uses a colorized version of the film, I just turn the color or saturation all the way down on whatever I'm using to watch it. I prefer the B&W versions and this is a simple way to avoid trying to find and edit a copy to match the riffed version.
Oh yeah, good tip. Thanks.
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Feb 27, 2021, 22:21 pm
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Why would you want a worse, lower-res copy that's the same file size as the HD Medium?
Damnit you're right! I guess I got HDmed confused with med. Now I realize I've downloaded the last 30 or so releases in the wrong resolution. UGH! They don't do a great job of making it clear. You'd think they'd just say outright what the fricking resolution is.
Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!! But also THANK YOU!
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(Feb 27, 2021, 22:21 pm)Miss Martian Wrote: Why would you want a worse, lower-res copy that's the same file size as the HD Medium?
Damnit you're right! I guess I got HDmed confused with med. Now I realize I've downloaded the last 30 or so releases in the wrong resolution. UGH! They don't do a great job of making it clear. You'd think they'd just say outright what the fricking resolution is.
Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!! But also THANK YOU!
No problem. It's confusing, but I'm not sure how they could fix it without renaming everything since they added in HD sizes so late in the game. (And it's probably not confusing purchasers who are downloading it so much as it's confusing us.)
HD High (1080p) > HD Medium (720p) > HD Low (720p) / High (TV) (480p) > Medium > Low > Legacy Devices
I'm not even going to try to parse the early VOD mess that is "High Quality (MPEG-2) / DivX / Zune (wmv) / iPod (mp4)".
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I downloaded every quality file of the Night of the Living Dead Live VOD just to see how everything actually stacks up, the resolution and bitrates for each size are as follows -
(Length of 1:55:06)
Legacy (450MB) - 320x240 at a bitrate of 415kbps
Low (755MB) - 640x360 at a bitrate of 752kbps
Med (1.33GB)- 640x360 at a bitrate of 1501kbps
High TV (2.16GB) - 720x480 at a bitrate of 2502kbps
HD Low (1.36GB) - 1280x720 at a bitrate of 1501kbps
HD Med (2.16GB) - 1280x720 at a bitrate of 2496kbps
HD High (12.2GB) - 1920x1080 at a bitrate of 14995kbps
There's really no reason to download anything lower than HD Med unless you're going to be playing it back on a potato.
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(Feb 28, 2021, 11:24 am)LaGrrande Wrote: I downloaded every quality file of the Night of the Living Dead Live VOD just to see how everything actually stacks up, the resolution and bitrates for each size are as follows -
(Length of 1:55:06)
Legacy (450MB) - 320x240 at a bitrate of 415kbps
Low (755MB) - 640x360 at a bitrate of 752kbps
Med (1.33GB)- 640x360 at a bitrate of 1501kbps
High TV (2.16GB) - 720x480 at a bitrate of 2502kbps
HD Low (1.36GB) - 1280x720 at a bitrate of 1501kbps
HD Med (2.16GB) - 1280x720 at a bitrate of 2496kbps
HD High (12.2GB) - 1920x1080 at a bitrate of 14995kbps
There's really no reason to download anything lower than HD Med unless you're going to be playing it back on a potato.
I'd love to see their customer metrics on how many people actually download encodes lower than High TV. It's very weird but you'd assume there has to be some people doing it, otherwise it wouldn't exist, though that number has to have really dropped over the years since people would watch TV shows on their iPods.
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