Comments on: The cast of Mad Men "sing" Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up"

By: NelC

NelC — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:23:00 +0000

Also: Never going to say “good spy”? :s

By: Carlos Sismeiro

Carlos Sismeiro — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:30:00 +0000

Never gonna give it up, I will never desert dessert.

By: Petzl

Petzl — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:02:00 +0000

dessert?

By: Cefeida

Cefeida — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:12:00 +0000

Exact same thought.

By: Noctilucent Studios

Noctilucent Studios — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:05:00 +0000

Wonder if William Burroughs is sitting smiling somewhere watching this? Dude had mad prophecy skills.

By: Tom Rombouts

Tom Rombouts — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:20:00 +0000

Hi – Just to give credit where credit is due, I wonder if they were inspired by the old Dr. Demento favorite “Spliceway to Heaven” I think this is it online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abGlV58-dyM

By: Jeff Greenberg

Jeff Greenberg — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:12:00 +0000

This show is edited with Avid Media Composer. There’s a feature called Phrasefind. It’s not as easy as “control F” but almost. http://www.avid.com/US/products/PhraseFind

By: mikedt

mikedt — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:07:00 +0000

This is either way easier to do than I think it is, or this person has some serious spare time on his hands.

By: akbar56

akbar56 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:28:00 +0000

As someone who makes these kinds of supercuts, this is exactly what we do. One would go mad trying to compile something like this without a script/subtitle file to search through.

By: GersonOnTheT

GersonOnTheT — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:16:00 +0000

Very impressive–and it’s hard work no matter how you do this! However, I’ll bet they used a phonetic search tool like Boris Soundbite. You load however many hours of footage you have into a project file and Soundbite (and similar tools) will index it all. Not by words, but by sounds. Very, very cool software. I would guess (without having any inside information) that The Daily Show and Colbert Report staff must use phonetic searching to make those amazing cuts of many, many TV news personalities and politicians repeating the same talking points over and over.

By: NelC

NelC — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:05:00 +0000

I’m surprised by the number of instances of the word “dessert” they found. Makes me wonder if that’s what started this off.

By: oscar

oscar — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:58:00 +0000

I’m sure this person used the subtitles to find the words as opposed to sitting through every episode. That said, this is awesome.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:50:00 +0000

Yeah, and some videos have closed captioning subtitles that give, more or less the exact timestamp of the quote in question.

By: Rob Duncan

Rob Duncan — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:46:00 +0000

I’m sure the people who do these videos have the scripts and sit and ctrl f for the word they’re looking for, rather than watching hours and hours of footage. Doesn’t make it any less cool, just using common sense.

By: Tavie

Tavie — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:41:00 +0000

This is what the internet is for.