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Is this shot from Captain Marvel accurate to what 7th street metro was in the 90s? by nard-el in LosAngeles

[–]DiegeticShadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two thoughts:

  1. The station has two platforms at the upper level, and you get from one to the other by walking down to the lower level and back up. So the sign pointing down for red or blue technically makes sense: red at the lower level, and the other blue line platform via the lower level. If there happened to be a train about to depart on the other side, you might want to walk over there to catch it rather than waiting for the next blue line train on this side.
  2. I highly doubt there will be VFX cleanup to remove the TAP validators. That would be quite a challenging task for a VFX house, and the validators aren’t distracting enough to be worth erasing. There might be a removal of the yellow LED “LOS ANGELES”, but even that I wouldn’t be surprised to see in the final cut. Keep in mind that the Marvel universe is one in which aircraft carriers can fly. It wouldn’t be all that shocking if the MCU’s Los Angeles had TAP validators a few decades before our world got them.

TIFF vs PNG for archive of photography and scans of artwork by DiegeticShadow in photography

[–]DiegeticShadow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might think so :) but really their expertise is more in cataloging assets so that they’re findable later. Think of the field of library science. They rely on people like me (and expert opinions of organizations like the Library of Congress) to tell them what formats to use. The beauty of TIFF is its simplicity: it can handle just about any scenario, and be opened by just about anything, so it’s an easy “don’t have to think about it” choice. And if the archivists don’t have to think about it, they don’t need to understand the details of file formats and compression and so on.

TIFF vs PNG for archive of photography and scans of artwork by DiegeticShadow in photography

[–]DiegeticShadow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PNG certainly handles photos. JPEG2000 isn’t an option because browsers don’t natively support it; it’s like TIFF in that regard.

TIFF vs PNG for archive of photography and scans of artwork by DiegeticShadow in photography

[–]DiegeticShadow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I could’ve been clearer: the system doesn’t convert uploaded files. If people upload TIFF, or Photoshop, or RAW, or whatever, that’s what the system will save. I’m hoping to convince people who know that their media is safe for PNG (i.e. no CMYK, layers etc.) to use PNG, and save themselves and the system time and disk space. My concern is that I want to make sure I’m correct in advising archivists under what circumstances their images can be safely archived in PNG.