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Would have been nice to hear about the actual process. How is the screenplay disseminated afterwards? Printed out and retyped by an intern on a modern machine o

by tokai 5y ago

Would have been nice to hear about the actual process. How is the screenplay disseminated afterwards? Printed out and retyped by an intern on a modern machine or what? What is Movie Master, who made it, what are the features? Right now the article is nothing more that 'lol man used old software'.

qsort 5y ago
> he pulled up a DOS window in Windows XP
eddieroger 5y ago
On the video embedded in the page, he mentioned that he will print the pages for delivery, then the studio scans them in to digitize them back, and he works from there. The article was dry but the video was pretty neat to hear his point of view on story creation - admittedly, the tactical creation was a minimal part.
h0l0cube 5y ago
> I have to give them a hard copy. They have to scan it and then put it in their computers and then I have to work through their computer because you can’t even email mine or anything.
- cmrdporcupine 5y ago
  Surely someone can write this fellow a program to convert to ASCII and a USB floppy drive to move the files, or better yet, an SD card IDE drive for his old PC.
  - h0l0cube 5y ago
    He could probably have used a modern PC with internet connectivity too. I'm guessing convenience wasn't the point. (If it's a machine from the 90s, it might not even have USB.)
    - cmrdporcupine 5y ago
      Nah the USB drive is on the other end. To read his floppies.
      - h0l0cube 5y ago
        Oh right, never contemplated such a thing to exist.. but there it is in Google. I wonder if worries about electronic media becoming unreadable over time are overstated
        cmrdporcupine 5y ago
        Don't worry about your worries being wrong-worries, because your worries are real-worries. Those USB floppy drives have about a 1 in 3 chance of actually working. There's last I looked only one manufacturer left and no real quality control on them. I bought a $30ish at one point and it simply just doesn't read floppies. Not sure it even showed up in the USB device tree. And that's 3.5". I can't imagine how to solve this for 5 1/4" and 8" floppies. Or tape media from the 70s mainframe days, etc.
        h0l0cube 5y ago
        Yikes, my worries were understated. I suppose there's a bunch of special components that they don't even manufacture anymore. Tbf, $30 is a bit too low. If I was serious about archiving or accessing old documents and wanted a reliable floppy drive, it's something I'd pay ~$300 for.. depending on the value of what was being recovered, someone might even pay $3000 for a specialist to recover it.
happytoexplain 5y ago
>How is the screenplay disseminated afterwards? He says, "I have to give them a hard copy. They have to scan it and then put it in their computers...". >What is Movie Master, who made it, what are the features? This isn't a tech article (Edit: It isn't a tech publication - it is a "tech" section of a popular publication) - they may research such details, but I definitely wouldn't expect them to. Even then, they did give us one interesting piece of implementation: It has a 40-page in-memory limit. >'lol man used old software' I didn't get this mocking tone from the article in the slightest.

by tokai 5y ago

qsort 5y ago

> he pulled up a DOS window in Windows XP

eddieroger 5y ago

On the video embedded in the page, he mentioned that he will print the pages for delivery, then the studio scans them in to digitize them back, and he works from there. The article was dry but the video was pretty neat to hear his point of view on story creation - admittedly, the tactical creation was a minimal part.

h0l0cube 5y ago

> I have to give them a hard copy. They have to scan it and then put it in their computers and then I have to work through their computer because you can’t even email mine or anything.

cmrdporcupine 5y ago
Surely someone can write this fellow a program to convert to ASCII and a USB floppy drive to move the files, or better yet, an SD card IDE drive for his old PC.
- h0l0cube 5y ago
  He could probably have used a modern PC with internet connectivity too. I'm guessing convenience wasn't the point. (If it's a machine from the 90s, it might not even have USB.)
  - cmrdporcupine 5y ago
    Nah the USB drive is on the other end. To read his floppies.
    - h0l0cube 5y ago
      Oh right, never contemplated such a thing to exist.. but there it is in Google. I wonder if worries about electronic media becoming unreadable over time are overstated
      - cmrdporcupine 5y ago
        Don't worry about your worries being wrong-worries, because your worries are real-worries. Those USB floppy drives have about a 1 in 3 chance of actually working. There's last I looked only one manufacturer left and no real quality control on them. I bought a $30ish at one point and it simply just doesn't read floppies. Not sure it even showed up in the USB device tree. And that's 3.5". I can't imagine how to solve this for 5 1/4" and 8" floppies. Or tape media from the 70s mainframe days, etc.
        h0l0cube 5y ago
        Yikes, my worries were understated. I suppose there's a bunch of special components that they don't even manufacture anymore. Tbf, $30 is a bit too low. If I was serious about archiving or accessing old documents and wanted a reliable floppy drive, it's something I'd pay ~$300 for.. depending on the value of what was being recovered, someone might even pay $3000 for a specialist to recover it.

happytoexplain 5y ago

>How is the screenplay disseminated afterwards? He says, "I have to give them a hard copy. They have to scan it and then put it in their computers...". >What is Movie Master, who made it, what are the features? This isn't a tech article (Edit: It isn't a tech publication - it is a "tech" section of a popular publication) - they may research such details, but I definitely wouldn't expect them to. Even then, they did give us one interesting piece of implementation: It has a 40-page in-memory limit. >'lol man used old software' I didn't get this mocking tone from the article in the slightest.