To HD or not to HD?

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Postby JediNight » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:56 am

jasper-isis wrote:Yay True Tears!


The eyes in True Tears are smex~ ^^
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Postby Kristyrat » Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:15 pm

True Tears is broadcast in 720p, so yeah, I'd second going for that instead of using the 1080s, unless you decide to do some killer cleaning to compensate for the upscale. The problem with going HD, is that depending on how you encode it for release, it's going to be significantly larger than your typical AMV, and it might not playback in real time for some people. I was working on a TT vid myself a while back (it died, of course) and I planned to release two versions, one in 720p (well, 720-30p, since it was 29.97 fps) and one at a lower resolution, such as 480p.

Good luck working with it though :up:

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Postby post-it » Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:04 pm

.. working in HD or SD actually has no limitation -- if your computer is New Enough T_T

. mine is an AMD 9600 ( launched my Gateway GT-5432 into the River -- too slow )
and editing is not the problem; I'm guessing that its the CODEC that makes playing it back
impossible on my 2.4gig computer!

. for some reason, everyone keeps forgetting one flaw that can make or break
even a poorly made AMV ... "can it be played-back on LapTop Computers"?
.. think about it .. 94% of those who watch AMV's are still using 2gig Processors
to play these things ( the other 4% are using Vista with 9gig Processors ) which
makes Making AMV's a "true test" to the creators.

. Anyone can Play to an audiance, so can your audiance Play Your AMV being Presented?

-- just a thought
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Postby LivingFlame » Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:58 pm

post-it wrote:.. working in HD or SD actually has no limitation -- if your computer is New Enough T_T

. mine is an AMD 9600 ( launched my Gateway GT-5432 into the River -- too slow )
and editing is not the problem; I'm guessing that its the CODEC that makes playing it back
impossible on my 2.4gig computer!

. for some reason, everyone keeps forgetting one flaw that can make or break
even a poorly made AMV ... "can it be played-back on LapTop Computers"?
.. think about it .. 94% of those who watch AMV's are still using 2gig Processors
to play these things ( the other 4% are using Vista with 9gig Processors ) which
makes Making AMV's a "true test" to the creators.


You just described me perfectly. My computer still chokes on 720p playback. ;_;
... yea ...
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Postby JediNight » Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:21 pm

You'd have to have a system that was 5+ years old to start falling into the realm of playback issues. I have a 3 year old PC and 1920x1080 H264 video files play back with ~40% CPU load, sometimes spiking to around 60-70% in really really high action scenes.

Use CoreAVC for H264 playback, and if you still have issues on only 720p, then I guess those are the breaks for having really out-dated computer parts >.> Or re-encode it to 480p for yourself ;)
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Postby outlawed » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:01 am

As for playback issues. You're forgetting the myriad issues of:
OS, graphics card/drivers, memory, and media playback program which will all greatly affect the ability to play back high res video files (codec not withstanding). There is more to it than just raw CPU load.

As far as the editor effort aspect....HD isn't worth it unless you are working from Bluray source. But if you have a turnkey system and can easily convert from a 720p transport stream to our editing bay then by all means feel free =p
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