Speghetti western and Sata

skibumm101 wrote on 9/9/2004, 8:11 AM
2 questions,

1 anybody have anyexperiance with external sata drives? I would love the 1.5 gbs transfer rate.

2. Speghetti wester opening credits. I have a independent film producer who is requesting "speghitti western" opening credits. He has now left to go do a shot in africa, and i wont be able to get a hold of him for the next 2 weeks, so i have no idea what he means. I googled for "speghetti western" titles and credits, but didnt realy get anything, besides me going out and buing a bunch of speghetti western dvd's, Does anybody now what a "spaghetti western" opening credits should look like?

thanks

Comments

Laurence wrote on 9/9/2004, 8:18 AM
The first thing that comes to my mind is the old westerns where the 16:9 framing is stretched rather than cropped to fit the TV screen during opening and closing credits so that none of the titles get lost. All those old shows have really long tall cowboys in them during the credits. This must be what he means. If this is what he's talking about, just letterbox your video, add titles, then stretch it to 4:3 aspect ratio. This has to be what he's talking about.
skibumm101 wrote on 9/9/2004, 8:20 AM
what i am looking for is the animation/credits
John_Cline wrote on 9/9/2004, 8:39 AM
Perhaps what he wants is something from the "Man With No Name" series of Italian westerns starring the then relatively unknown, Clint Eastwood. There was "Fistful of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." I'm sure you can rent them somewhere.

John
rextilleon wrote on 9/9/2004, 9:12 AM
Yes, the director to look for Sergio Leone--he invented the spaghetti western.
DVDeviations wrote on 9/9/2004, 10:00 AM
I don't know if the credits of this movie are "Spagetti Western Style", but the movie "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" (a Robert Rodriguez film) was an homage to Italian director Sergio Leone's style of spagetti western film making.
busterkeaton wrote on 9/9/2004, 4:44 PM
Off the top of my head, when I think of the credits for Sergio Leone movies, I remember black silhouettes of gunfighters on a red background with perhaps some cacti about. I remember gunshots and I think the title text getting bullet holes in it.


Or you can go here and check out several spaghetti western tiles.
ReneH wrote on 9/9/2004, 5:38 PM
I hope Hollywood reconsiders the wester, specifically, spaghetti westerns. I hope the western makes a comeback, I used to really dig the classics.
FuTz wrote on 9/9/2004, 7:39 PM
buster, this site is great!!!

As for these credits, I'd say the same as Laurence. Stretched picture.
DVDeviations wrote on 9/10/2004, 12:32 PM
skibumm101,

Looks like you are getting lots of response to #2, the Speghetti Western question, but not the external SATA drive question.

Last weekend, I just built a computer with internal SATA drives, not external. I also have a third IDE drive for the operating system. The two SATA drives are configured for hardware RAID 0 via the motherboard, so that Windows XP sees them as one drive, which I use for my Vegas data files. AND IT ROCKS!! OK, you gotta realize that up until now I was using a laptop and extending hard drive space via two USB hard drives. That was too slow.

So anyway, to answer your question, I think if you bought external SATA drives, the speed benefits may be compromised by the USB, firewire or SCSI connections.

**RAID 0 configuration may not not suit your needs, as it is not fault tolerant.

Colleen
skibumm101 wrote on 9/10/2004, 12:59 PM
I was going to purchase a Sata pcmcia card for my laptop, and a external Sata enclosure. Has anybody done this. From the specs i have gathered, it apperes that i wouldnt lose any data transfer speed?
Thanks for all the replies
FuTz wrote on 9/11/2004, 6:33 AM

Better go with Firewire than USB for external drives.
I don't think you would lose speed. At least, not that much.
It's been discussed several times on this forum. : )