_My Neighbor Totoro_ (Tonari no Totoro) Quicktime files DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS: Mac: Use Fetch to download and automagically unBinHex the files into Quicktime MooV files. PC: No experience with this, so no recommendations, other than unBinHex the thing with a Mac, then try to use a Quicktime player on it. Just strip the "nekobus." prefix from the filenames (unBinHexing the file will remove the ".hqx" extension, leaving you with 8.3 filenames). Unix/X: I tried to get 'xanim' to play these files back on an ULTRIX box outputting to an NCD X terminal display. No luck. Yes, I used Fetch to upload the .qt files as Raw Data, but 'xanim' chewed and chewed on the files, refusing to provide any output. If you find out what I did wrong, please tell me. Maybe it's the audio track. Captured / Submitted by: Michael S. Johnson (msj@u.washington.edu) Co-owner, Hayao Miyazaki mailing list (details: see .sig) Using: Power Macintosh 7100/66 running System 7.1.2 total memory 24MB NEC MultiSync 5FG (17" color display) Adobe Premiere 4.0 RadiusWare VideoVision extensions and connectors Input: Sony Hi-Fi SVHS (SLV-R5UC) Panasonic Color Video Monitor (CT-2010Y) _My Neighbor Totoro_ (Tonari no Totoro), written, directed, produced by Hayao Miyazaki; dubbed into English and shown in US movie theaters in May-June 1993, released by Fox Video in July 1994. Tested on: Power Macintosh 7100/66 running Adobe Premiere 4.0 running Simple Player 1.0a1 (a Quicktime playback program) Macintosh IIcx running Simple Player 1.0a1 Capture method: Resolution: 320x240 pixels Color: 16 bits ("thousands of colors") Frame rate: 30 fps Compressor: Animation, set at 5.0 (most quality) Audio: 11KHz, 8 bit mono Output: Quicktime movie format. Recompressed using Cinepak, set at 4.0 (75% quality). BinHexed by Fetch 2.1.2 during upload. size (bytes) & date filename duration sound sec:frames 1,448,284 Aug 23 14:52 nekobus.trees.qt.hqx 8:22 yes 668,339 Aug 23 14:52 nekobus.highwire.qt.hqx 3:29 yes 573,571 Aug 23 14:52 nekobus.homerun.qt.hqx 2:28 yes 3,456,119 Aug 23 14:53 nekobus.goodbye.qt.hqx 18:18 no Contents: All clips are taken from within 10 minutes of the end of the film. Clips are listed in the order they occur within the film. nekobus.trees.qt.hqx -- 8 seconds & 22 frames, audio Satsuki rides the Nekobus in search of Mei. The Nekobus runs through the forest, bending trees out of its path. "But how does he make it do that?" -- Satsuki. nekobus.highwire.qt.hqx -- 3 seconds & 29 frames, audio Satsuki rides the Nekobus in search of Mei. The Nekobus high-tension-wire act, running with four legs, holding the other eight outstretched for balance. Satsuki leans out of one window on the Nekobus' right. nekobus.homerun.qt.hqx -- 2 seconds & 27 frames, audio Mei and Satsuki return in the Nekobus. The Nekobus runs home with Mei and Satsuki; closeup of Nekobus head, passengers and destination sign. nekobus.goodbye.qt.hqx -- 18 seconds & 18 frames, no audio Mei and Satsuki sit in the back of the Nekobus, swaying back and forth with the stride, the tail swinging in counterpoint. Then we see the Nekobus loping along from the right cutting to the girls outside their home, with the Nekobus fading away with a Cheshire grin as Mei and Satsuki wave goodbye. This sequence begins the ending credits theme. Encoding the entire visual and audio sequence of the credits would have swollen the file size to at least 12 Meg. Acknowledgements: MIYAZAKI Hayao: with all the respect due a master storyteller and animator. Fox Video: in support of the risk they took releasing the video in the US, and their wonderful marketing campaign, I purchased the Fox Video dubbed release of _Totoro_ (admittedly to also get the chuu-Totoro plush toy ^_^). The person who uploaded the Maison Ikkoku OP/EN credit Quicktime files: for giving me valuable clue with regard to methods for capturing and compressing video. Adobe: for their wonderful (but frustratingly difficult to learn) product: Premiere 4.0. It took me over six hours of fiddling with the bewildering array of resolution, frame rate, compression, preview, output, work space and other settings before I got the method down pat. The construction window's user interface is not at all intuitive (manuals? We don' need no stinkin' manuals!) Venice:/pub/anime-manga maintenance staff: many thanks for accepting this submission! University of Washington - Computing Resource Center: without whose equipment this video capture would not have been possible. and anything BUT least... Steven Feldman, Miyazaki Mailing list Founder: for introducing me to anime with a bang: _Laputa - Castle in the Sky_, large as life with a video projection system, back in 1991. Enjoy! ^_- - Mikaeru, Legend of the A/V Fiend [ Michael S. Johnson CS - Univ. of Washington ] [ Officer - UW Anime Discovery Project ] [ Anime conference sysop - The Clinic BBS [1:343/189] (206) 259-3972 ] < Co-owner of the Hayao Miyazaki Discussion List > < "subscribe nausicaa YourEmailAddress YourFirstName YourLastName" > [ Japanese Animation (aka. Kimba) - the best that Disney plagiarized ] [ ADP Mosaic URL: file://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/anime/adp.html ] [ home page URL: file://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/anime/msj.html ]