Other Bonus Material...

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UPDATED: Thursday, December 2, 2004 19:29
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PHLEBOTININ

Thursday, January 8, 2004 4:08 AM

Cool! Thanks a lot, Saint Jayne. Maybe I'll have to ask Ben Edlund to write a song for you, too. (Yeah, in my pathetic dreams.) Haven't tried out your suggestions yet but you can bet I will -- soon. Wish me luck...I'm kind of a computer wussie, but learning more and more each day.

BLINKER

Thursday, January 8, 2004 8:08 PM

More bonus material:

I was just about to ask if anyone had seen clips of FOX's ads floating around when I stumbled onto a page with almost every last variation of every promo (and a sweet layout to boot). Browncoats rock.

http://www.have-dog.com/firefly/

Highlights include FOX billing Inara as a "cosmic hooker," the tagline "prepare for warp speed" (?!?) and footage of Reaver ships used to stand in for the Alliance chasing Serenity. Most of the ads also bowdlerize out as much of the Western flavour as possible in favour of action, briefly glimpsed nudity and Smash Mouth announcing their plans to buy the world a toke.

(I much prefer the previews Canada's Global ran last year. They'd start out with only Western scenes of gunfights and cow herds with a narration about life in frontier times, followed by Serenity buzzing the camera for a perfect WTF moment. Only then do they proceed to blow your mind with the special effects)

As for the missing War Stories trailer, there's one here, although I could only get audio out of it and couldn't save it to disk at all:

http://www.fanscape.net/firefly/trailer.html

SHINY

Thursday, January 8, 2004 10:19 PM

Thanks for the link, Blinker...but I have to say, I find that narrator's voice EXTREMELY ANNOYING!!! (and in general, those promos and 'next week' clips just don't seem to stay true to the flavor of Firefly...)

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

LEEH

Friday, January 9, 2004 4:52 AM

Oh thanks so much for providing the directory of files for download. I've been wanting to get my hands on these for awhile; you've made this so wonderfully easy.

My offer to other browncoats is still out there--for those will insanely slow download speeds, I will burn this onto CD ROM for anyone who wants it (once I get them all downloaded, that is) and send copies. Just ask me via email at lee@leeheller.net

This assumes I'm not inundated with requests. . . .

LEEH

Friday, January 9, 2004 6:17 AM

You can also do the same thing with Netscape--go into Edit/Preferences, then in Navigator go to Helper Applications, then either find the MOV application (Quicktime) and change it to "Save to disk" or create the application: MIME type--Quicktime; extension--MOV and select "Save to disk"

Wish I'd known this before I also forked out $29 for QT Pro. . . .

BLINKER

Friday, January 9, 2004 7:14 PM

Quote:
Thanks for the link, Blinker...but I have to say, I find that narrator's voice EXTREMELY ANNOYING!!! (and in general, those promos and 'next week' clips just don't seem to stay true to the flavor of Firefly...)

No arguments here... but (a) they're fun fodder for FOX-bashing, and (b) I'm a completist.

PHLEBOTININ

Friday, January 9, 2004 9:20 PM

Thanks a million, Bleeker.

Leeh, forgive my insane computer incompetence, but I'm trying to do what you suggested for changing Netscape to be able to download Quicktime files to disk. (I also paid $29 for Quicktime Pro, darnit).

My problem is that when I go into Helper Applications, I can type in extension (mov) and MIME type (Quicktime) but there's no choice that I can see to be able to "select to save to disk." However, I'm supposed to type in something for "handled by."

Would you mind helping me out here? I'm such a computer dummy, but I'm trying. The thing is, if you're trying to learn but don't have quite the knowledge yet, then if you try to do google searches for advice you end up with stuff that is just a tad too technical.

Thanks for any help you can give.

GEEZER

Saturday, January 10, 2004 3:10 AM

Thanks one and all for the links. (and a veritable orgy of ripping and burning occurs) Ai ya! Sounds like a reaver raid. Praise God for hi-speed cable.

LEEH

Saturday, January 10, 2004 6:54 AM

Well, it may depend on what version of Netscape you have. I'm working with 7.1, the latest. So for that version, here's what to do:

Select the Edit menu, then select Preferences, then Navigator, then Helper Applications, then select "New Type" if Quicktime isn't already listed there, or highlight Quicktime if it is. If it is, once you highlight it, select "Edit" and the choices should pop up for whether to open or save to disk. If Quicktime isn't there, and you choose "New Type" then you should have the option of naming the MIME type as Quicktime and the file extension as MOV, as well as whether to open or save to disk.

IF these directions don't help, then I wonder if you have an older version. The way to find out what version you have is to select the Help menu, then "About" and it will tell what version you have. You can upgrade for free if you go the Netscape web site--I just did about 2 weeks ago.

Good luck. I'm not much of a computer geek (just a wannabe) so if I can do it, you can!

BLINKER

Monday, February 9, 2004 7:58 PM

One more bonus I couldn't find linked above or mirrored on FFF.net: the website promo for Out of Gas...

http://www.fox-tv.com/firefly/message/viral.swf

I assume this is what they're referring to at the end of the War Stories commentary, although Nathan doesn't look all that beaten up.

The original page was http://www.fox-tv.com/firefly/message, but Fox replaced the distress signal with a clip from Ariel after OoG aired.

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