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Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by dangus » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

abdel_nasser wrote: post #10

so they can bring back reeves but not fishburne? fishburne says they never even called him. imagine being fishburne and not even getting a text message and the matrix 4 is filming.

Speculation, but maybe it’s a “William Shatner wants to be in the new Star Trek reboot” situation where his presence made no sense in the context of the proposed story.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by 2Gkashmiri » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

this is kinda nice. you see guys, there is no need to look at the correct time and go and use "AI" to generate the speech and text in real time using the latest and greatest in tech. you can just as simply pre record all time 1 to 59 and then join them. much easier and i dare say, much more elegant

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by leephillips » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

abdel_nasser wrote: post #10

so they can bring back reeves but not fishburne? fishburne says they never even called him. imagine being fishburne and not even getting a text message and the matrix 4 is filming.

I predict he’ll wind up expelling a sigh of relief.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by worldmerge » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

R/GA owns a company, Imposium[1], that does dynamic video. Wonder it they did this.

[1]- https://imposium.com/

Their previous work: https://www.rga.com/work/case-studies/dupont-a-better-now

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by TYPE_FASTER » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 6:08 PM UTC

Each segment of the trailer is a different MP4. They are all hosted on the AWS CloudFront CDN. My guess is, like somebody stated, they pre-rendered many videos, and use a lambda at the edge to decode a GUID in the URL into a S3 path.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by aidenn0 » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 6:09 PM UTC

abdel_nasser wrote: post #10

so they can bring back reeves but not fishburne? fishburne says they never even called him. imagine being fishburne and not even getting a text message and the matrix 4 is filming.

No Hugo Weaving either it looked like.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by yitchelle » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 6:10 PM UTC

aidenn0 wrote: post #26

abdel_nasser wrote: post #10

so they can bring back reeves but not fishburne? fishburne says they never even called him. imagine being fishburne and not even getting a text message and the matrix 4 is filming.

No Hugo Weaving either it looked like.

Hopefully, his character Agent Smith is still in?

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 6:12 PM UTC

yitchelle wrote: post #17

Who had the Matrix screen saver back in the day? I was in an open plan office at the time of about 30 desks. Every single one of the machines had this screen saver running.

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Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by bellyfullofbac » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 6:12 PM UTC

coding123 wrote: post #15

gubby wrote: post #7

1440*2 different pre-rendered videos I assume.

Probably recorded him saying 1 through 59 and o'clock and am or pm and then for looped it.

Well, 0 ("oh") to 13, the suffix "teen" and prefixes "twenty", "thirty", "forty", "fifty" are enough...

There's a story about the lady who recorded Siri's voice, the engineers figured out what noises she had to make to cover all syllables. Considering Siri also speaks several languages...

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by leephillips » Tue, Sep 07, 2021, 6:13 PM UTC

Why is this called Matrix 4 when there is only one Matrix movie?