Hand of God re-edit/special edition is online

[David Kerin]

For the bittorrent file go to:

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/431875/6225935/

or if that doesn't work then www.demonoid.com and search torrents for "battlestar" and you should find it.

Is the last of the re-edits, at least until I complete Saga of a Starworld.

Some scene reworking, additional fx, and a little addition to the ending.

Hope you like.

Dave

[Aussie Warrior]

Downloading now, it is going to be great to watch

[kingfish]

It doesn't seem to work.

[KJ]

Liked it! :)

Hmmm without spoiling anything, looks like with touch ups you could add a certain "warping sequence" to your saga fan edit after all if you so choose to. Other than that, i'm glad you removed most of the shock footage and not all of the dogfight battle is full of repeat shots anymore. The new stuff is great.

I want to ask what kind of programs you've used for the editing and CGI graphic effects added to your fan edits now David Kerin. Seems almost like that footage we've seen of the Richard Donner cut of Superman 2 online. That you haven't gone overboard on modern day CGI effects and have given the fan edits of the BG episodes a touch up without making them look too jazy for older episodes to feel all filled up with all new crazy out of this world effects.

Congrats well done.

Although i'm hoping "Saga" is more grand and alot more shots are filled up with more hi-res CGI in places, all i can say is continue your style of fan edits for Battlestar Galactica. You've made some wise choices and i'm guessing if you had more tools to do even more you most certainly would. Fret not, they're good enough as they are.

Although to be honest the ending with the "waggling wings" scene was altered too much though, that should be turned to its former state however? The hologram bit was also a nice touch and idea to add to a military briefing to the Viper pilots. But it was rather flat, it should've been "cubed" and 3D somewhat for a hologram? If it wasn't easy to do fair enough then, understood. Everything else was o.k. though.

KJ

[Aussie Warrior]

I liked the combat between the Galactica and the basestar...........it was fantastic to watch with the Vipers and Cylons flying around the Basestar while Galactica was having the shoot out with the Basestar, made it more realistic

I also liked the hologram of the battle tactic Adama was talking about...........what made it great was that i noticed several characters were looking at the spot where you placed the hologram so it looks like they are studying it

[David Kerin]

Didn't think about it cubed... would have been interesting. The idea was a flas 2d presentation, but something a little more 3d would have given a little extra.

As for the waggling, I've always been dissappointed that the original shot was just a quick stock move that didn't show them actually waggling the wings, which is why I switched it. It is interesting to hear the different aspects that people do and/or do not like. Trust me, I don't take any criticism in a bad way, cause I know you could never make something that pleases absolutely everybody. With the Experiment in Terra re-edit I took out the planet shield at the end because I never felt it fit and frankly hated it from the first time I saw it. However I've had comments about people liking the shield.

For the re-edits, I've used 3d Studio MAX for the 3d, After Effects for compositing and additional effects, and Premiere for the actual editing. With these you can always go deeper and more detailed, all depends how crazy and how much time you want to put into it. As these are still for enjoyment I have not gone too deep with it. If I start nit-picking every detail as I do it I can drive myself crazy. Thus wouldn't be fun anymore. Lord know though every time I look at these I am picking tons of things I'd tweak.

As for the next one, been working on additional planetary destruction. Basestars firing from orbit, lots of explosions, and trying to find other stock footage of explosions and people that I can work in to show more of the impact. I'll keep you all updated as the progress continues.

Thanks for commenting on the edit(s), it is much appreciated.

Dave

[KJ]

Well if i may say so Mr Kerin! Your stuff is excellent, truly i've always kinda wonder what Galactica would look like if it 'done up' and upgraded and your cuts show that in a warm heart felt way.

I can tell you now, i'm not easy to please or won over easily. But i do whole heartly respect artists in their field illustrations, CGI, graphic design, model makers, modeler's and especially cartoonists etc and i can see that you're fan edits are just a fun way of exploring that "what if" area we've often wondered about for so long. Trust me when i say besides the goofy comments and banter that goes on here, my suggestions to you for the past few days have been totally honest, and i hope along with anyone else it truly helps your editorial process making any and all other fan-cuts of BG (especially SOATW? ;) ).

What you've done is something i kind of wanted Titon to do with his (as always) magnificent unfinished "Battlestar Millenia" project! Only you've gone on to show us the possible additions the Galactica episodes could've had! Neat for fans of the series no doubt really. Galactica bias aside, i think i still would've enjoy this project of yours from a simple "regular joe's" science fiction fan's point of view to be frank, and would applaude the efforts seen openly anyhow.

Whats next afterwards besides SOATW anyways. Could you attempt your own CGI styled project BG based or unique new concept?

For the re-edits, I've used 3d Studio MAX for the 3d, After Effects for compositing and additional effects, and Premiere for the actual editing

Yes figured as much! :)

I'm told and more or less figured out for myself that "Premiere" was a powerful editing tool. Its on my list for future reference when i get into video editing and fully learn the basics (maybe i'll use it REAL soon?). I've got a version of 'Avid Express Pro' for PC users, but its unused thus yet, is it any good as an editing tool?

Saw it being described in the classic "Cinescape" issue #74 with Hellboy on the cover, that had Vincent Guastini's Very PRO-Battlestar Galactica Singer/DeSanto revival interview! (pages 64 to 67). Issue also talked about Batman Dead End too so how cool is that.

Anyways once again nice talking to ya Mr Kerin. As always keep us posted cos we definitely want to hear more about your stuff!

KJ

[jjrakman]

Whats next afterwards besides SOATW anyways. Could you attempt your own CGI styled project BG based or unique new concept?

How about this challenge/puzzle?

Take all the cut scenes from all the episodes, maybe some extra scenes from the telemovies and UK broadcasts, add in some new FX, and create a brand new episode. Could something like that even be possible?

[David Kerin]

Avid is pretty much a standard in the editing field. I've found Premiere is a great tool, and that is what I use at home, and helped me learn other editing systems we have where I work. At work we have a Media 100 and 2 Avid systems. The Avid is a bit less user friendly, but once you learn its ins and outs, you actually really like it.

And trust me, I appreciate the comments with all honesty. Please don't take anything I ever write as taking some offense. Too often people don't want to share their true thoughts because they worry it may offend, but hearing all the thoughts may bring something to light you would not have thought of.

Although it is possible to tick me off, and I found out what it is. Call me your personal Ron Moore, and that can do it. Anything beyond that, I'm pretty cool with it.

As for the new episode idea, that would be an interesting puzzle. Did a little with that on the Return of Starbuck re-edit, but would be a challenge to get it to play smoothly, and find that story within. One problem is we BSG fans know all the clips so well that we'd be figuring out where each clip was from rather than watching. But not worrying about it now... a challenge for a later time.

LKJ, I have to go through and get your ideas into one list so I can have them organized as I work through the Saga edit. And again I really appreciate the ideas. And anyone else, please let me know.

Thanks,

Dave

[z28barry]

A silly question if you don't mind.
I'm new to the torrent thing and actually loaded a client and downloaded the file.
When I try to play the file all I get is audio and no video display.
Do I need a certain media player to watch the 303 Mb file?

Thanks, Barry.

Sorry guys, I've got it working.
Downloaded the correct codec.

[z28barry]

I watched it and I really enjoyed it.
I love how you added vipers and raiders into the scenes between the Galactica and the Base stars when they were fighting it out.
The added scenes made it much more enjoyable.
Some scenes didn’t jell together as seamlessly as they could have.
I am more then sure that with more practice and other software, you will get it as seamless as possible with very little differences between original and enhanced scenes.

Later, Barry.

[David Kerin]

Thanks Barry, and glad you got it working.

I think patience is the big thing with me. Sometimes I start something and want to see it completed too quickly. Which then makes me decide something is good enough when I know I could have tweaked it a little more to get it mesh better with the original. I've worked on projects with people in the past who have made me go back to something that I thought was fine and done, and it pushed me to take it to that extra level. This project is more by myself, so I have to be the one to tell me to do more with it. We'll see how that goes with Saga.

[BST]

Can't seem to get it to work. It appears that I was able to download / save the file but, got an error message when trying to open it. (Did not recognize the file type.)

[David Kerin]

Make sure you have the latest xvid codec installed. Search for xvid and/or divx for the latest codecs and hopefully that should fix it. Although if you had any of the others I've done play, then this should too. I think Kingfish said he had trouble too, but I know others have had it work fine on theirs.

Hope that helps.

This site may help.

http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/

The divx codec is also good to have.

[z28barry]

Can't seem to get it to work. It appears that I was able to download / save the file but, got an error message when trying to open it. (Did not recognize the file type.)

File name should be"bsg-hog.avi".
Explanation of why audio or video problems occur with viewing AVI files.
http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jake/20051025_video_but_no_audio_on_playback.html
Xvid codec for windows found here.
http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/

hope that helps.

[SilentBob]

I get this when I try to download it.........

"Can't send torrent

Non-registered visitors are limited to 3 torrent downloads per week.
To download the torrent you must register.

Registration to this website is absolutely free.

Click here to go to the registration page
or
Click here to go back"

I went to register and they are not accepting any new registrations.

[kingfish]

I have had similar problems. Fortunately some of the vids are at YouTube.com and work.

[David Kerin]

Recently my computer crashed while I was away, so that would have prevented it from being sent. It is back online now.

It would also be a huge help if those who downloaded it leave it on to seed for others. For example, 142 people downloaded the file, but currently only 3 people are listed as seeding (sharing) the file... and I am one of those three.

The Return of Starbuck ep (Judgement Day) was downloaded 184 times and no one seeding. Living legend 109 and 2 seedeers. Experiment in Terra 64 and no seeders.

So in doing these to share with the fans, it would be a huge help for the others who want to download if those who did already download keep it on to seed.

I do realize that not everyone wants to leave their computers running for such extended periods, but anyone who can help it would be appreciated.

Another note to add, as I am working on the Saga of a Starworld re-edit, which is coming along nicely, I am probably going to post it as a DVD disk image (iso) so it will be larger in size. However it can be burned to a DVD and played in a tv DVD player. With menus and possibly extras. When I put this online, I am going to likely remove the others from my sharing list, so whoever out there has them, it is either up to them to share, or they will simply filter away from being online.

[Aussie Warrior]

I changed the files to my second drive after a week but i usually shared about 60% each file and i got no idea how to put them back up, looked around this afternoon but no luck so far

About the numbers of fighters in Saga of a Star World if 25 Vipers from Galactica landed out of 67 that landed on both Alpha and Beta decks then that is something like 37% if i calculated correctly so i theorise that the other Battlestar commanders managed to follow Adama and put their Vipers into combat

[SilentBob]

Recently my computer crashed while I was away, so that would have prevented it from being sent. It is back online now.

It would also be a huge help if those who downloaded it leave it on to seed for others. For example, 142 people downloaded the file, but currently only 3 people are listed as seeding (sharing) the file... and I am one of those three.

The Return of Starbuck ep (Judgement Day) was downloaded 184 times and no one seeding. Living legend 109 and 2 seedeers. Experiment in Terra 64 and no seeders.

So in doing these to share with the fans, it would be a huge help for the others who want to download if those who did already download keep it on to seed.

I do realize that not everyone wants to leave their computers running for such extended periods, but anyone who can help it would be appreciated.

Another note to add, as I am working on the Saga of a Starworld re-edit, which is coming along nicely, I am probably going to post it as a DVD disk image (iso) so it will be larger in size. However it can be burned to a DVD and played in a tv DVD player. With menus and possibly extras. When I put this online, I am going to likely remove the others from my sharing list, so whoever out there has them, it is either up to them to share, or they will simply filter away from being online.

Demonoid still won't let me get it. Is it possible to post the torrent on an alternate site?

[David Kerin]

Demonoid still won't let me get it. Is it possible to post the torrent on an alternate site?


I'll look into that tonight. I think isohunt might be a good one.

I'll let you know as soon as I can.

[SilentBob]

TY, sir.

[KJ]

I want to ask David, if and when he chooses to do another Return Of Starbuck fan re-edit, if whether or not you could add in other restylised Vipers since you've added in the beautiful 'Tom DeSanto' Viper to your fan edit?

Perhaps the Scarlet Viper from the Hatch BG novels and BG: The Second Coming trailer! I've wondered what a Squadron of different kinds of Vipers would look like is all?! Considering fandom's had several attempts of a revival, even if i have to ask an obvious question. What made you pick the DeSanto Viper over say the "Scarlet" one by Steve Paraday or the Mike McAdam's Viper designs (Vipers with five lasers and blue markings etc). You could've put a 'tip of the hat' reference in there to their versions of a re-stylised Battlestar Galactica Viper.

Just some more food for thought chief! :thumbsup:

Keep up the good work. :cool:

KJ

[David Kerin]

I chose the DeSanto Viper for a few reasons. One I knew that DeSanto was going to include that one episode in his continuation as "cannon" to the story. Also it is there as a tip of the hat to Tom DeSanto and his efforts, maybe a nice little tribute to him and his efforts.

Another reason is seeing the re-edit as somewhat down the line from the last aired episode (in the nonexistent second season), that it was a good time to introduce a fleet made Viper model. And I thought the DeSanto had a little more of a home-made feel to it. But it still looked like a good off-shoot from the original.

Lastly, it was a model I already had made and had access to, and did not want to spend the time going and modeling a new Viper. Although if given the choice, I'd still go with DeSanto's because in the (true) Galactica realm, his was the closest to getting something made that respected and honored the original.

Don't know if I'll work in Viper variations to the Saga re-edit. Maybe... if they fit. Almost through with the main visual additions/alterations to the opening destruction of Saga. Still have to add all the sound effects. The middle part of the movie has fewer alterations as it is mainly the story exposition on the condition of the fleet. More character and less visual. Then comes the Carillon section. Was debating whether or not to add visible laser beams from the blasters during the fight/chase with the Cylons. I like the fact that we don't see them, but thinking for this one, maybe I'll add them for the pure visual element.

I want to get a new preview of some of the "special edition" pieces as they are coming together online. Have to get sound effects in though or they just seem flat. There was one shot I did that I wasn't sure would work, but I really like it. It is an overhead shot of Starbuck's viper as it slides across the landing bay during his emergency landing.

As for the other torrent site, had some things come up to keep me away from the computer, so no news yet. Hopefully I can get it online soon.

OR... if anyone out there who already has the files would like to host them on a different torrent site, that would be a huge help as well. I would love to keep these out there for the fans to have access to, but I cannot keep all these files running from my computer forever. So if possible, please share.

[Aussie Warrior]

I'll see if i can get one up in the next week maybe sooner if possible, trying to match up torrents to files so i can help out

[Aussie Warrior]

I uploaded Living Legend to Torrentbox.com so look up Battlestar Galactica and you should find it at the bottom of the list

[David Kerin]

Thanks Aussie, that is a huge help.. Have no checked out torrentbox yet so going to take a look now.


Dave

[SilentBob]

I uploaded Living Legend to Torrentbox.com so look up Battlestar Galactica and you should find it at the bottom of the list

No seeds at the moment, it went to 12.76 mb and then stopped and hasn't moved all night.

[Aussie Warrior]

Living Legend
http://www.torrentbox.com/torrent_details?returnto=%2Faccount-cp.php&id=65115

Hand of God
http://www.torrentbox.com/torrent_details?returnto=%2Faccount-cp.php&id=65112

Return of Starbuck (Judgement Day)
http://www.torrentbox.com/torrent_details?id=65316&uploaded=1

It's working now, got it down for 6kb a second will increase over time (at edge of my download limit)

[David Kerin]

Aussie Warrior, I cannot thank you enough. You are a life saver.

Between work, family (son entering 1st grade, and my daughter going into Jr. High... and I fear that word "date" is edging ever closer) I have not had the time to upload onto anything else. In my free time I have been working on the Saga of a Starworld edit, which I must say I am really happy with . In fact as I type this, the Imperious Leader Chamber scenes are rendering with images/schematics on his walls. So he is not just staring blindly at a blank wall. Even as a kid I always thought there should have (and could have) been images projected on those walls. I thought about a 3d hologram effect, but those big walls were just meant for images. Just cause you're in the future and can to 3d holograms, do you have to do 3d holograms? A question I ask myself every night before bed.

And for those downloading from torrentbox, or demonoid... trust me, being the seeder/host of the torrent may run into some troubles. Please be patient, download, and seed. Not meaning to sound cheesy, but these are really for the TOS fans, and I hope the TOS fans could help keep these out there for some time. Also, I am planning the Saga re-edit to be uploaded as a DVD disc image (iso file) so it will be quite larger in size, but much better in quality. We're talking menus and all. And maybe various extras. So we will need all the seeders and help we can get to make and keep this accessible to the TOS fans.

So to Aussie, and all those who can help, enormous thanks!

[Aussie Warrior]

no problem, happy to help out the fan edit/fan production community wherever possible............i should have Experiment in Terra up very shortly

here we go, Experiment in Terra
http://www.torrentbox.com/torrent_details?id=65327&uploaded=1

[SilentBob]

Thanks Aussie, getting now. David Kerrin, with your permission, once I get them, I'd like to put them up on a newsgroup for better access.

[radama]

Thanks Aussie Warrior. Without your posting Living Legend on torrentbox,I didn't think I would get that at all.And to Mr. Kerin,keep up the good work.Better to update and upgrade a existing classic(Something similar is taking place with "Star Trek")than to remake(or "reimagine") it .

[David Kerin]

Sounds good SilentBob. Please share. And the help is really appreciated.

Thanks radama, I do like getting to embellish the existing episodes. Not out to reinvent, reimagine in any way, although I did a little of that with the Return of Starbuck ep. But that was to get rid of the G1980 aspects, so in my book that's okay.

I'm definately interested in seeing what they do with the original Trek. That series Starship Enterprise has always been one of my favorite ships, and I'd love to see it in some new SFX scenes.

[SilentBob]

Sounds good SilentBob. Please share. And the help is really appreciated.

Glad to help, that is if I ever get to finish one of them. After a week of running my BT client, here is the progress its made.........

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g11/omegasupremexxx/bsg-torrent-progress-1.jpg

Seeders needed please. :Nsalute:

[Aussie Warrior]

I'll help you out as best as possible SilentBob, i'm running all four videos at various times of the day to stretch my download limit..............might upload 100MB at a time but i have noticed my upload number every time i restart BitTorrent goes back to zero, not sure if that is affecting peoples ability to download from me or not

[David Kerin]

I've been leaving my system up, however there was one big thing that I was having download, and should be done soon. hopefully that will open up some speed a bit. I do know that my uploads max out at 40kb/s.

[BST]

I honestly don't know what I'm doing with these torrents...downloading? seeding? I haven't been able to watch anything from either demonoid or torrent.com .. I'll just wait until someone posts it to something like youtube.

:(

I did watch the Saga re-edit on youtube and that was very easy to access.

[SilentBob]

Progress after a week and a half........

Experiment In Terra.......80.5%
Hand Of God.......................0%
Judgement Day..............87.2%
The Living Legend.........56.5%

Please help seed. Thanks. :salute:

[SilentBob]

Still no seeds on Torrentbox. Please help, thanks.

[Aussie Warrior]

I got about 8% of my download limit remaining so i will give it a burst

[SilentBob]

Experiment in Terra and Judgement Day have now completed and I am seeding.. Living Legend has about 9 hours left on it. Hand of God is still at 0%. Thanks for the help. I'll be posting EIT and Judgement Day on newsgroups soon to assist. I'll post here again to let you know what newsgroups they're going to be on.

[Aussie Warrior]

I've found the hand of god problem, i think the tracker was typed in wrong so feel free to try at http://www.torrentbox.com/torrent_details?id=67212&uploaded=1 see how it goes

[David Kerin]

Out of curiosity, when you post on the newsgroups, is it still torrent files or is there some other method of access to the files. Being that I'm amazed I somewhat figured out torrents, wondering if there is some other method out there I don't know about.

Dave

[Aussie Warrior]

People should be spreading the downloads because i just finished two peoples downloads in the last few hours

[SilentBob]

Out of curiosity, when you post on the newsgroups, is it still torrent files or is there some other method of access to the files. Being that I'm amazed I somewhat figured out torrents, wondering if there is some other method out there I don't know about.

Dave

To answer your question, no, it's not the torrent file. The entire video file is uploaded to the newsserver in the form of rar files and par2 recovery files. Then those who can access the newsgroups can download those files and then get the video by unpacking the rar files with winrar. If one or more of the rar files becomes corrupt or is missing, the par2 recovery files can rebuild the missing file, provided you have a copy of Quickpar, which is free and available on the web. I'm pretty thorough when it comes to posting on newsgroups and know how to make sure files are complete. I subscribe to a premium server with a good amount of file retention, so they'll be there for a while.

I hope this answers your question. :salute:

[David Kerin]

Thanks Bob, that answers it really well.

I've never subscribed, or accessed newsgroups, so it is another of those intenet worlds that is new to me, just as torrents were completely foreign to me before starting these re-edits.

Thank you for helping get these out there on the web, I hope people get some enjoyment from them.


Dave. (who's still pluggin' away on Saga of a Starworld)

[SilentBob]

Living Legend is now complete and is now seeding.

Hand of God still has not moved at all.

[SilentBob]

Judgement Day is now being posted on the following newsgroups....... alt.binaries.battlestar-galactica and alt.binaries.multimedia.scifi.

[Aussie Warrior]

I got it this time, Hand of God is here and somebody is uploading it right now but i have lost my broadband speed so it is down to 5kb per second
http://www.torrentbox.com/torrent_details?id=67333&uploaded=1

[SilentBob]

I got it this time, Hand of God is here and somebody is uploading it right now but i have lost my broadband speed so it is down to 5kb per second
http://www.torrentbox.com/torrent_details?id=67333&uploaded=1

Yes, it's moving now, thanks!!!

[Aussie Warrior]

It will be limping around at 5kb until October 1 but i will run my computer for a couple of days straight to get it seeded

[SilentBob]

Just wanted to share a comment by someone who grabbed Judgement Day from one of the newsgroups that I posted it on................

"This is a terrific gem! Finally, we get to see this episode as it
should have been made. The ending makes logical sense.

Thanks for sharing this."

[Aussie Warrior]

i got five people at 57% for Hand of God..............should be done within next 12 hours at best

[SilentBob]

i got five people at 57% for Hand of God..............should be done within next 12 hours at best

Mine's at 67.5%

[Aussie Warrior]

I think it is all done now, i got nobody uploading from me

[SilentBob]

At the risk of sounding like a redneck............

The "HOG" is in the pen and i'm seeding it. lol!!! :LOL:

Thanks for the ep.

[David Kerin]

That's alright... that's the kind of HOGs I like.

[jjrakman]

I finally figured out Bit Torrent and was able to watch this. Awesome stuff.

So can I burn this to DVD and watch it on a DVD player?

[Aussie Warrior]

I've given Hand of God another run as well as Living Legend and Experiment in Terra but so far no takers so i think we've done sharing but i'm leaving mine up for late comers

[jjrakman]

Where are they? I didn't grab Terra or Judgement day.

[Aussie Warrior]

they should be at www.torrentbox.com look for Battlestar Galactica

[David Kerin]

In all honesty I think I am going to remove the torrents I have posted very soon. Partially because I am going to be uploading the DVD iso of Saga some time soon, and secondly, aside from the help of people like Aussie and Bob, no one else seems to be keeping their's online to seed.

However the files are out there, and if someone else down the road wants to upload and seed the files then that would be fantastic. However I can no longer leave my computer on day and night being the only one hosting/seeding the files. I will try to leave my computer on and running through the weekend if anyone else wants to try and download the torrents, but after the weekend, they may be going away.

But as I said, the Saga of a Starworld will be coming online within the month (if all goes well) and I hope others will help seed this for some time as it is going to be a larger file. I rendered and built a rough DVD image and it comes to almost 3 gig. So the more people who keep the file up and seeding the easier and quicker it will be for others to download.

[jjrakman]

and secondly, aside from the help of people like Aussie and Bob, no one else seems to be keeping their's online to seed.


I'd be willing to do that, but I don't really know how.

[jjrakman]

they should be at www.torrentbox.com look for Battlestar Galactica

Tried to find them, can't see them anywhere. :(

[SilentBob]

I turned my client off for a while to allow for other downloads. Now that they're finished, I'll turn it back on.

[jjrakman]

I see 23 pages of Galactica, can I narrow the search somehow?

[Aussie Warrior]

Put in the episode name like Hand of God.....................or look for a seeder named "Galactica"

[Altivec]

Looks like I got here just in time, before all the files are gone. I'll try leaving my computer on for a couple of days to seed.

[jjrakman]

I guess I just don't know what I'm doing. I can't find any of them.

[jjrakman]

And no sooner do I say that than I find them:

http://www.torrentbox.com/account-details.php?id=385910

But it don't look like there's any seeders. The slow get none.

[David Kerin]

I have mine up on www.demonoid.com, and there are the newsgroups that silentbob posted them to.

It seems the best time to get the files are when they are first put online. People seem to at least keep them seeding for a few days to a week.

[jjrakman]

http://www.demonoid.com/files/?uid=1245187&seeded=2

These are the only ones I can find but the ones I'm trying to get don't seem to be seeded

[David Kerin]

hmmm... I have my system on, and they're listed there, yet nothing is uploading... (or it shows no-one downloading)

I did do a search on one of the newsgroups and found this..

http://www.binsearch.info/browse.php?bg=alt.binaries.battlestar-galactica

I see some of the files there, but proper ways on downloading from newsgroups, maybe SilentBob could give us a few pointers on that.

[jjrakman]

I don't think I've ever looked at a newsgroup before this thread. LOL

[Aussie Warrior]

mine are up at this present moment, no takers so you got a clear route

[jjrakman]

I must be doing something wrong. I have the torrents open but they're sitting on red and aren't loading up. I'm such a bloody novice.

Tracker announce still not complete? What does that mean?

[Aussie Warrior]

what ones are you getting?

[David Kerin]

I've had mine up and running all night, and only now do I see the Hand of God one actually uploading to someone. I'm still not 100 percent sure on all the inner workings of torrents.

[Aussie Warrior]

I've had mine running for several hours and no takers, i'll be keeping it up for some time to come while i finish downloading several Star Trek fan production episodes

[jjrakman]

Well, I got lucky last night and was able to get Judgment Day from Demonioid. Somehow a seeder became available.

Now all I need is Terra! :)

[Aussie Warrior]

Go to www.torrentbox.com and look for Experiment in Terra because i got mine available right now, make sure you hit Tbox search instead of global search when looking for it

[jjrakman]

I saw that and started it this morning. When I left, it was red like it was liast night. But maybe it will start magically like it did for me with Judgment Day.

[Aussie Warrior]

I cannot be certain but i think some magic might be happening for you, my EIT upload counter is moving so somebody is getting it from me

[jjrakman]

That would be really cool. I don't really understand how it works. It sits there with a big red bar for a long time, then all of a sudden a half hour or an hour down the road, starts downloading files. Wierd.

[Aussie Warrior]

It's a strange program to be honest, sometimes it rockets along and other times downloads drop to complete stop or a lazy 1kb per second.
BitTorrent is virtually a program of patience, sometimes it fires but others it doesn't

[jjrakman]

Well I just got home and it says I have 8.5 hours to go. But it does seem to be working.

[Aussie Warrior]

I can give you 5kb, other uploads are eating into it's allocation but i'll get your download complete

[jjrakman]

Oh, I wasn't complaining, just giving an update. I didn't realize you had any control over it, doesn't matter how long it takes. I'm just happy to get a shot at it. Thanks!

[Aussie Warrior]

you can set the bar at like 10kb but say if there is two torrents giving uploads it would somehow determine what the split is

it used to be 6kb-4kb but i think i just got it levelled at 5kb each, you should be around 6 hours from completion i reckon faster if anybody else offers too

[jjrakman]

Right now it says 4.5 hours. Thanks again!

[Aussie Warrior]

Alright, hopefully it be done soon.............based on rough guess it be another hour or two, still trying to balance my uploads

[jjrakman]

It's 3:37 AM Central Standard Time where I'm at. And it's telling me, 51:10 minutes left. So by the time I pass out it should be done. Awesome!

[Aussie Warrior]

51 minutes, i'll see if i can get you some more speed

lets see if it was running at 5kb, now increasing it to 12 to 15kb so that should cut it down to about half an hour

[jjrakman]

Hey! 4:00 am. download complete! Awesome! Thanks so much.

Now that I have all four, I'm more than willing to seed, as long as we all seed to the same place. But I'll need some Torrent for Dummies instructions on how to do so. Just let me know when and where if we need to help others to get them too. Heck maybe every Sept 17th?

Thanks again DK & Aussie, you guys rock!

[David Kerin]

If you downloaded from torrentbox, all you have to do is keep your file and torrent interface program online, it should seed.

I wouldn't seed on demonoid as I am going to be removing those in the next day or so. There has been little activity on them, and I'm going to be putting on the Saga re-edit hopefully within the next week or two.

[SilentBob]

If you downloaded from torrentbox, all you have to do is keep your file and torrent interface program online, it should seed.

I wouldn't seed on demonoid as I am going to be removing those in the next day or so. There has been little activity on them, and I'm going to be putting on the Saga re-edit hopefully within the next week or two.

Looking forward to the "Saga...." re-edit.