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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby Castor Troy » Thu May 03, 2012 6:49 pm

Looks like you can't watch The Avengers till your videos are finished. :awesome: :ying: :twisted:
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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby Rider4Z » Thu May 03, 2012 6:51 pm

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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby Castor Troy » Thu May 03, 2012 6:55 pm

Ryvannis wrote:
Chiikaboom wrote:Hope I can't make it on time ;;


Fixed. :dino:


You seem afraid of something. :?:

Worry about me first. :twisted: :shark:
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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby Sephiroth » Thu May 03, 2012 7:26 pm

Got 5 vids done for this contest (1 was DQed so i had to make another). Hope you guys get yours done soon.
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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby machina21 » Thu May 03, 2012 8:20 pm

Looks like an all nighter may be necessary |:>
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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby XStylus » Thu May 03, 2012 8:29 pm

Sephiroth wrote:Got 5 vids done for this contest (1 was DQed so i had to make another). Hope you guys get yours done soon.


You have four vids in the competition, not five. A one-time substitution of your invalid vid was permitted through a broad interpretation of rule five, and also because you had submitted way early.
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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby blaku92 » Thu May 03, 2012 8:59 pm

Castor Troy wrote:Looks like you can't watch The Avengers till your videos are finished. :awesome: :ying: :twisted:
I've been thinking about this exact problem all week... Dammit. BUT, it doesn't matter because I'm having trouble finding a theater that plays the Avengers in glorious 2D anyway. :down:

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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby Sephiroth » Thu May 03, 2012 10:06 pm

That's what I just said.

xstylus wrote:You have four vids in the competition, not five. A one-time substitution of your invalid vid was permitted through a broad interpretation of rule five, and also because you had submitted way early.
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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby Hagaren Viper » Thu May 03, 2012 10:59 pm

Chiikaboom wrote:Hope I can make it on time ;;

I've been wondering if you were going to enter again, awesome |:>

I officially finished my entry last night, so going to send them out tomorrow. I'm not sure what is worse, waiting for confirmation that my vid has been received or waiting for the finalist list :uhoh:
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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby Sephiroth » Thu May 03, 2012 11:55 pm

To quote Spike. "Whatever happens happens."

Send em out, Sit back, and smoke em if you got em

Hagaren Viper wrote:I officially finished my entry last night, so going to send them out tomorrow. I'm not sure what is worse, waiting for confirmation that my vid has been received or waiting for the finalist list :uhoh:
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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby Melichan923 » Fri May 04, 2012 2:00 am

Lots of stress tonight. Got in some last minute very minor changes to my video that I've been wanting to make and encoding is still a problem but I will manage to send them properly synced if it kills me! ^_^ I almost forgot just how many artifacts and banding and all that good stuff is present within XviD encodes. It can kind of make Blu-Ray footage look like a bad upscale. Considering all the issues I am having, I am starting to panic. I must find an option that is HQ, synced, and a low file size that is not an MP4 in about 24 hours. Uh... oh. :lol: Apparently back in 2009 I sent a HuffYUV file... I wonder how big that was. :sweat:

Re-reading what xstylus wrote a few pages back, I saw that 200MB is the limit for online submissions so I may even need to suck it up and actually send my first evar mail-in entry. =O I'm kind of nervous about sending even my entry form through the mail...even though it's "guaranteed" to arrive in 3 days... New Hampshire to California by the 11th? D: What is the actual likelihood of that happening?

If I don't send my submission in the mail I have 3 options:

XviD: Have mediocre quality with banding.
MPEG-2: Might have to face different artifacts. Sometimes with MPEG-2 I tend to see a mosquito-noise like effect during the transitions. This is usually in low bitrates, but I'm not sure how high I can go with bitrates and keep it at 1080p while staying under 200mg.
MPEG-4: Pretty good quality, might be able to keep at 1080p and stay under 200MB with minimal artifacts but risk it not playing in sync (especially if I can't figure out how to do the lossless audio thing). I only have one computer to test the sync on right now.

If I send it in the mail I can probably manage to fit a Lagarith on there if I downscale it. I do not have DL disks, just SL.

Everything on my computer is updated... my muxers, encoders, video players, FFDshow and all that. I'm still testing out all the said methods here. The MP4 box GUI has a nifty delay button. I have a feeling that this will help me with my audio in the future! *Crosses fingers* I didn't realize that MP4 had an Audio Lossless Coding option, in fact I thought I had looked that up a few months ago because I wanted to try out PCM audio to find out it's not supported. It was mentioned somewhere in this thread and that might help with this sync too. I have yet to figure out how that's done. I have a lot of reading ahead of me I think.

It's almost 3:00am, so I need a bit of sleep... but I shouldn't. x.x

Also, good luck Chiikaboom! You can do it. :up: Monster drinks, coffee, and some Red Bull may help. XD I think I need one of those in a while too too.


Note To Self: Write in AMV Deadlines on calendar a month before the deadline in the future because converting properly takes me forever.

Extra note to self after looking at how long this was: USE JOURNAL MORE! :lol:
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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby Ryvannis » Fri May 04, 2012 2:31 am

I really can't tell if you guys are trolling me now because the visual art is extremely accurate. In terms of implying them towards me. :|

@melichan MPEG-4 compression for me required my video to at least be over 300mb to avoid visual artifacts at 720p. 1080p and under 200mb is almost impossible to achieve if you do not have a short video.
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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby Ryvannis » Fri May 04, 2012 2:38 am

Castor Troy wrote:
Ryvannis wrote:
Chiikaboom wrote:Hope I can't make it on time ;;


Fixed. :dino:


You seem afraid of something. :?:

Worry about me first. :twisted: :shark:


I'll only worry about you, if I win. :awesome:

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That's if I even get in. <.<
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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby Melichan923 » Fri May 04, 2012 2:52 am

Ryvannis wrote:@melichan MPEG-4 compression for me required my video to at least be over 300mb to avoid visual artifacts at 720p. 1080p and under 200mb is almost impossible to achieve if you do not have a short video.


Yes, my video is over 4 minutes long so it would probably be impossible. Did you send through mail or a file sharing site?
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Re: Anime Expo 2012 AMV Contest - (EZ Rules) DEADLINE: MAY 5

Postby kireblue » Fri May 04, 2012 4:16 am

Melichan923 wrote:
Ryvannis wrote:@melichan MPEG-4 compression for me required my video to at least be over 300mb to avoid visual artifacts at 720p. 1080p and under 200mb is almost impossible to achieve if you do not have a short video.


Yes, my video is over 4 minutes long so it would probably be impossible. Did you send through mail or a file sharing site?

my 3 minute 720p H.264 mp4 was 67 MB 8-)

Anyway, the last couple pages of this thread is a reminder that I really don't know anything about codecs, compression, or encoding. I always just throw my Lagarith AVI into Zarx264 and be done with it. And even though I run a bunch of AMV events, the fact that they are done via a computer (and not a DVD player) means that I don't even have to learn any of this stuff. I guess that I probably should though :book:
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