Screencaps for The Ultimate Foe are now up. Some images 1680 x 1050 instead of 1920 x 1080.
Raw caps: 198
Finished caps: 52
Screencaps for The Ultimate Foe
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Setback
So I discovered not long ago that the last two sets of screencaps, The Ultimate Foe and the second time around for The Almost People, were both afflicted by a likely side effect of stop-and-go capping. A sizable portion of random images in the sets somehow got capped at 1680 x 1050 instead of 1920 x 1080. Probably due to frequent stopping and unplugging the netbook from the big monitor to go do various things, and then the resolution failing to revert properly upon being plugged back in.
Huge sigh. I don’t really feel like going slowly through The Almost People a third time, and it’ll be awhile before I have the 4th disk of Trial of a Time Lord again. So what’s likely is that I’ll re-queue the former for the next pass around, and weed the latter to post anyway in a spirit of some-is-better-than-none.
The larger problem is that I don’t have a good space for capping. My living space has … challenges. Back wrenching painful ones. And several variations on hiding out at work are meeting with much less success than desired. More sigh.
But I’ve Been Dieting!
Unlike Donna, I haven’t been living in virtual reality. As far as I know. But I have been dieting, and I’ve been using SparkPeople to manage my intake and fitness. This is my third attempt, so this time I’m using the community features as well as the trackers. This means teams and message boards and blogs.
What do you know, I found two Doctor Who themed SparkPeople teams! One focuses on Doctor Who since 2005 and the other is about Doctor Who and Torchwood in general. This is fun! I signed up for one of the team goals as well as my own.
One of the Fast Break goals I chose was to collect one motivational picture per day. This is yet another way I use screencaps. My motivational pictures so far:
I didn’t have access to my caps when I posted this one, so I used a standard BBC desktop:
Screencaps – The Parting of the Ways
Screencaps for The Parting of the Ways are up. Considering how low the definition is on the entire first series, it’s a bit amazing that I wound up with 145 final caps.
Tomorrow is Trock Tuesday! I expect the next nine-ish months to be fairly fertile for the trock (Time Lord rock) sub-sub-sub-genre. The music type was born during the big dryness right after series four, where there were just a few specials for 2009 and fans had a lot of time on their hands. With Harry Potter inspired wrock (wizard rock) as a template, it sprang out all over. By now many of those links are dead, but people are still producing. As I find them, I’ll be bringing them to you.
Lots of Screencaps Posted
Just posted:
Screencaps for The Christmas Invasion
Screencaps for The Rebel Flesh
I didn’t overlook The Parting of the Ways, but the folder of images didn’t get weeded right away, so it should be ready next.
Screencaps for The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe
Screencaps for The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe are posted. Review will have to be posted another time, I’m afraid. I did love it, though!
Raw Caps: 628
Finished Caps: 193
No capping notes this time, but by way of notes on posting images, I am pretty unhappy with Piwigo. A recent update wrecked my template and also switched off the default setting for “keep high definition” in the upload process. This meant I had to upload all over again, as the high definition is the point of the whole website. Piwigo keeps overwriting my favicon.ico every time it updates as well. Additionally, since two updates ago, not every upload failure throws an error message, so at the end of the whole operation, if the total number of images isn’t right, I have to manually inventory them. Sometimes that’s thousands of images. I may try adding to the gallery via FTP to see if this gets around the problem.
Listen to the Blogtor Who Commentary for The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe.
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The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe
The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe [HD]
Screencaps and Review for The Doctor’s Wife
Screencaps Update
I have not given up screencapping! Heaven forfend! In fact I have screencapped the crisp HD versions of The Doctor’s Wife and The Rebel Flesh. However, Thanksgiving and a major crisis at work have severely curtailed my time lately so the raw caps are sitting around, waiting to be weeded. I can’t wait to post them! They look so amazing compared to the fuzzy, blurry, compressed versions.
Also, this go-around marks the start of syncing up with Blogtor Who Commentaries. I have my handy-dandy rented copy of Boom Town right here and here’s the just-released Blogtor Who Commentary for that episode, which I will be enjoying tonight as well.
Yay!
Screencaps and Review for The Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids
Screencaps for Terror of the Vervoids are posted. Review is below the jump. It’s a really grouchy review, so you may want to skip if that sort of thing is likely to spoil your good mood.
Why Redo Episodes
In some cases, it’s obvious why an episode needs to be capped again. Take The Fires of Pompeii for example. There are four (4) images total. Or blatant image quality problems. Any of the images in Space and Time will tell you that.
Sometimes, though, it’s about more minor differences in image quality. You might have to click for the bigger versions of these images to see what I mean. These are from the recently re-capped The Curse of the Black Spot, which I first capped just this past spring. In each pair, the first is the new and the second is the old. I don’t know how obvious it is through the webpage, but when one of those old images pops up in the desktop or screen saver, it makes me want new spectacles.
The more visually dark an episode is, the worse the effect, so as you may expect, The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People really suffer badly with this, as does The Doctor’s Wife. The brighter eps are mostly okay and so are not immediately slated for re-capping, although I would like to anyway.