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EDIT: You may ask "How can anti-aliasing affect text justification?", and the answer would be "sub-pixel kerning and micro-justification". Kerning is the horizontal position adjustment of letters to place them closer together depending on the relative shape of the two adjacent letters, and some display technology allows you to adjust this to fractions of a pixel. Sub-pixel kerning depends on anti-aliasing to determine the sub-pixel boundaries. And micro-justification is used to justify columns of text on both the left and right boundaries, to eliminate visually unappealing "ragged-right" text, such as you see in these posts. To spread a line of text to the right boundary, you need to distribute the extra white space evenly throughout the line, preferrably on sub-pixel positions. The reason for providing these details (which may be very interesting for some people, while annoying others) is to show that fixing the little "glitch" mentioned in previous posts could interact with other text-formatting in unexpected and undesirable ways. Or, it MIGHT be just a simple adjustment. You won't know until you try it. Trying to estimate the time required to perform this task is itself a waste of time. Even for a simple change, significant regression testing is required. Last edited by geekmaster; 08-24-2012 at 08:58 AM. |
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From an outside perspective it could have been possible that the space before would have been "handset" to something like a or another space character which the amazon procedure does not take into account when calculating the "spaces" diameter. Now that an easy fix seems of the table, count on us going back to happy and blissfull JBPatch users..
Its just that you cant "unsee" what you've been made to see, when it comes to imperfection... Last edited by notimp; 08-24-2012 at 08:55 AM. |
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Have you ever wondered about those action shots from the inside as the good guys break down the door into the bad guys place? Why didn't they just use the same entrance the cameraman did? Once you get your eye to recognize the things the editor in charge of continuity missed, your media watching will never be the same. Start off easy - look for the "Magic Rearview Mirror" Shots of the characters taken from inside a vehicle show the rearview mirror, shots in the same sequence taken as a view through the windshield - oops no mirror, sometimes not even a left-over spot of stick'm where it was glued on. Last edited by knc1; 08-24-2012 at 09:17 AM. |
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Regarding seeing the "unseen":
I was in a projection booth at a movie theater, talking to the projectionist, when he pointed out the "cigarette burn" in the upper right corner five seconds before the end of reel, when he needed to switch projectors to seemlessly start the next reel. This burn mark was originally done with a real cigarette on the film, to notify the projectionist when it was time to flip the switch between projectors, to start showing the next film reel. Since I was made aware of that, I started seeing it even on TV showings of old movies. Sometimes it is stretched to an oval when projected through an anamorphic lens. You will see after the burn mark up to five seconds of trivial content with no dialog, during which you can switch to the next scene on the next reel at any time, and the next reel can start with up to five seconds of trivial content. You cut between "reel boundary" scenes at any time during those five seconds. And now that I told you, you will see them too (on old films). Modern projectors may use very large reels (perhaps on platters) and do not need reel switching. And the latest projectors are all digital. But old movies often still have burn marks. Watch for them. Sadly, they may be cropped off when converting widescreen films to pan&scan ("fullscreen") for TV. Last edited by geekmaster; 08-24-2012 at 09:21 AM. |
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And while looking for things the gafferscript supervisor missed, look for things like the position of a tie, or even alternating shots with and without a jacket. Films are often not filmed in sequence, which can lead to these technical "gaffs". After you are aware of them, they are indeed annoying. Sometimes gaffs are intentionally place in films as "inside jokes" and there are websites devoted to them. Once you see them, you cannot "unsee them". One of these is where to find the tennis shoe and the potato in the asteroid field in the "Star Wars - Return of the Jedi" movie: http://scifi.stackexchange.com/quest...rn-of-the-jedi Pixar films often have such "easter eggs" in them as well. Once seen, you cannot unsee them. Last edited by geekmaster; 08-24-2012 at 11:22 AM. |
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There, between the two of us, we have probably ruined the enjoyment of any recorded media (print or picture) of every reader for the rest of their lives.
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The gaffer does not keep track of continuity, and the name has nothing to do with "gaffs" meaning mistakes. The gaffer (my boss) is the chief set electrician. The term, it is believed, comes from an old sailor's term for "old man."
And in defense of all the poor script supervisors out there (who ARE the ones watching for continuity...and for some reason are often cute young women....) stuff like the "magic rear view mirror" are NOT continuity errors. They are necessary filmmaker's choices so you can, in this case for example, see the actors faces while they are in the car. Storytelling trumps continuity every time. ApK Last edited by ApK; 08-24-2012 at 10:03 AM. Reason: Various stuff, including the meaning of "gaffer" :-) |
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Gaffers tape, as you know, is the stuff we use on set to hold down cables, hold up various materials and fix just about everything. Good gaffer's tape is the stuff of gods. It makes duct tape look like Scotch tape. Awesome stuff. Stupidly expensive. Last edited by ApK; 08-24-2012 at 10:01 AM. |
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I only started a new paragraph with a single whitespace break after the end of the prior (subject) paragraph. Perhaps if I had used a triple horizontal rule between the topic of continuity and topic of "magic mirror" - - - The "missing mirror" is often just an artifact of not having any glass in place for the "through the windshield" shots. Doing the shots without glass simplifies the lighting, sound and photography. Last edited by knc1; 08-24-2012 at 10:31 AM. |
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