Kill Excel, comedy finalist, Otakon 2005

Paganknights · Post by **Paganknights** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:57 pm

Amusing, I especially liked the randomness of it.

rogueintellectproductions wrote:
JCD wrote:Please.... compress.... audio >_<
OK, I've gotten this before. Please explain, because I'm still fairly new at this - does not compressing the audio affect playback? I've never compressed it because my video editing program gives me two options when I encode - uncompressed or MP3, and it's my understanding that MP3 is undesirable (based off of most contest rules, anyway).

Thanks!
CPFuller

Yes, compressed audio is of a decidedly lower grade than full CD quality (most MP3s are at 128 Kbps, whereas CD quality audio is 1411 kbps), but for internet usage it's alright; Most people's computer speakers are designed for relatively small volume outputs, so if you compress the audio it won't sound any worse than a song bought off of the iTunes store. Now, a 128 Kbps MP3 played through a high wattage PA system in an auditorium-sized convention hall will sound god-awful. Thus the reason most contests request uncompressed audio.

MomochiZabuza · Post by **MomochiZabuza** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 8:35 pm

Zarxrax wrote:Blah, swap out "uncompressed audio" with "mp3".

Yeah, I read your first post and was like... "what?"

Anyway I thought it was pretty funny, good stuff...good stuff...

MomochiZabuza · Post by **MomochiZabuza** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 8:47 pm

Hey, wait a minute...
I only counted 56 deaths...

O_O

Maybe I should watch it in slow motion...

rogueintellectproductions · Post by **rogueintellectproductions** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:54 am

Paganknights wrote:Amusing, I especially liked the randomness of it.

rogueintellectproductions wrote:
JCD wrote:Please.... compress.... audio >_<
OK, I've gotten this before. Please explain, because I'm still fairly new at this - does not compressing the audio affect playback? I've never compressed it because my video editing program gives me two options when I encode - uncompressed or MP3, and it's my understanding that MP3 is undesirable (based off of most contest rules, anyway).

Thanks!
CPFuller
Yes, compressed audio is of a decidedly lower grade than full CD quality (most MP3s are at 128 Kbps, whereas CD quality audio is 1411 kbps), but for internet usage it's alright; Most people's computer speakers are designed for relatively small volume outputs, so if you compress the audio it won't sound any worse than a song bought off of the iTunes store. Now, a 128 Kbps MP3 played through a high wattage PA system in an auditorium-sized convention hall will sound god-awful. Thus the reason most contests request uncompressed audio.

Thanks, and thank you for clearing up the audio compression thing for me. I'll compress in the future, I swear!

MomochiZabuza wrote:Hey, wait a minute...
I only counted 56 deaths...

Well, I cheated once - in one part of the Tetris sequence, there's two Excels falling. This came from the bonus footage on the timing differences between two versions of the opening. I counted it as two deaths. I'll have to go back and count the deaths, maybe list them on the video profile.

But wow, thanks for taking the time to count!

CPFuller