by rose4emily » Fri Apr 23, 2004 10:50 am
Er, the brightness and greyscale in the first portion of Third Stone is intentional, as is the two-tone look of the scene right before Canti's ascention. The flashing frames are an exporting quirk that became irritatingly noticable with the super-white video. I repeat - the flashing frames are not intentional. Portions of scenes are supposed to be obscured, though I am working now in CinePaint to clean out the reverse 'flash-frames' and help bring up the contrast of some of the forms in the really white parts, as well as adding a few splashes of color to certain objects on screen.
BTW - the timing on the downloadable "Third Stone" is also off for much of the video in a cyclical manner, as in most of the things that appear to sync really do in the project, but a lot of things that are supposed to sync don't. I'm working in a set of PNG frames now instead of trying to mess with DivX source, so the timing now matches the waveforms and frame-by-frame view of the film on playback, but I still have to jump that hurdle when I re-encode to XviD.
Things like the 'dark grey where there should be black' issues are being resolved with CinePaint, but it takes a long time as I'm now working on frame-by-frame image editing for about a third of the frames in the video.
The FTP is back up - I had to give a presentation on using Cinelerra last night, and was then in Anime Club until about 11pm, so my machine was out of my room for most of the night last night.
Framerates - I think everyone should try for 23.97, and if you can't get 23.97 it can be converted. Aside from single-frame strobes it shouldn't cause too many issues, so maybe the answer is to avoid single-frame strobes if you can't edit in 23.97. (Why is it that frame rates and lumber dimensions both are commonly described in numbers that differ from what they really are? Anyone?) You can play a 29 fps as a 24 fps without changing the number of frames, but that's like playing a 72RPM record as a 45 - you'd just be putting the video in slow-motion, in which case it would fall out of sync with the audio, which (unless you have it on vinyl) will pick up its own artifacts if you try to speed it up or slow it down, or at the very least change pitch by a bit, depending on the technique you use - making that approach something of a big mess.
Multiple submissions are fine. If you can and want to make two or three good videos, go ahead and do so.
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