The Otakon 2010 Thread (OK now panic)

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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby Castor Troy » Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:50 pm

137.

My girlfriend sucked 137 dicks!

In a row?
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby Neardawg » Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:35 pm

Castor Troy wrote:137.

My girlfriend sucked 137 dicks!

In a row?

As long as you weren't last...

I will go with 201. That's 200 plus mine. :wink:
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby Jefferys » Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:19 pm

Castor Troy wrote:137.

My girlfriend sucked 137 dicks!

In a row?


GET THEE TO A NUNNERY!
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby VicBond007 » Sat Jun 26, 2010 10:34 am

Updated first post like whut.
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby dwchang » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:50 am

Lawrence Studios eh? I liked one of their videos from 2008 or 2009 so it's sad that I won't be in attendance. Good luck to both contestants!
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby TheTsunami » Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:17 pm

Castor Troy wrote:137.

My girlfriend sucked 137 dicks!

In a row?

My favorite quote from Clerks. :up:
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby CodeZTM » Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:09 pm

VicBond007 wrote:Updated first post like whut.


Whoever did all that technical work deserves a friggin' medal! :sweat:


Can't wait to see the finalists list!
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby Castor Troy » Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:12 pm

Never mind.
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby Angelyco » Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:36 pm

I see a lot of aspect ratio changes to 16:9 but the rules say this:

Videos flagged as 16:9 will be screened improperly.


Maybe that's why you had to fix so many? Unless you received a bunch of widescreen videos that were squished to 720x480 instead of letterboxing?
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby Scintilla » Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:44 pm

Angelyco wrote:I see a lot of aspect ratio changes to 16:9 but the rules say this:

Videos flagged as 16:9 will be screened improperly.


Maybe that's why you had to fix so many? Unless you received a bunch of widescreen videos that were squished to 720x480 instead of letterboxing?

Well, you can't call it "squishing" if they're 720x480 right off the disks. It's quite possible the editors didn't realize they were supposed to resize them to be widescreen.
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby VicBond007 » Sat Jun 26, 2010 9:20 pm

Angelyco wrote:I see a lot of aspect ratio changes to 16:9 but the rules say this:

Videos flagged as 16:9 will be screened improperly.


Maybe that's why you had to fix so many? Unless you received a bunch of widescreen videos that were squished to 720x480 instead of letterboxing?


It was mostly because of people sending in 1:1 videos, like a resolution of 848x480, which is totally valid and actually demonstrated that the creator knew what they were doing. The ones that say something along the lines of "changed aspect ratio" were usually because the video was a 720x480 mpeg, either with a 4:3 flag, or worse, a 1:1 flag when the source was clearly 16:9. The flag is actually irrelevant for live presentation since we're using MCI to broadcast our videos and our source file is mapped 1:1 to the TV, regardless of the flag (meaning 1 PC pixel occupies the total space of 1 television pixel). Directshow supports aspect flags, but until I can convince everyone in the world to stop using tmpegenc/tmpeg xpress, moving to dshow isn't an option unless I recompress everything anyways >.> The other thing that happens is that people send in 720x480 avis to max out the quality, but avi is a container that does not support an aspect ratio flag (at the container-level at least). I then have to try all aspects to see which one looks right.

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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby dragontamer5788 » Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:33 am

VicBond007 wrote:It was mostly because of people sending in 1:1 videos, like a resolution of 848x480, which is totally valid and actually demonstrated that the creator knew what they were doing. The ones that say something along the lines of "changed aspect ratio" were usually because the video was a 720x480 mpeg, either with a 4:3 flag, or worse, a 1:1 flag when the source was clearly 16:9. The flag is actually irrelevant for live presentation since we're using MCI to broadcast our videos and our source file is mapped 1:1 to the TV, regardless of the flag (meaning 1 PC pixel occupies the total space of 1 television pixel). Directshow supports aspect flags, but until I can convince everyone in the world to stop using tmpegenc/tmpeg xpress, moving to dshow isn't an option unless I recompress everything anyways >.> The other thing that happens is that people send in 720x480 avis to max out the quality, but avi is a container that does not support an aspect ratio flag (at the container-level at least). I then have to try all aspects to see which one looks right.

Code, you owe me a medal now :awesome:


Ah, I guess I did it wrong then :? So all videos were re-encoded to 704:480? (and possibly re-letterboxed?).

And for your technical work... you deserve more than a medal... you deserve a cookie. But I don't have any, so here's some Pizza and Beer. :beer: :beer: :beer: :pizza: :pizza: :pizza:

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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby dji » Sun Jun 27, 2010 2:55 pm

OKAY the deadline has past and we've received over 100 entries to the contest. So know it's time to figure out what entries make the contest!

We're having the AMV screening at my place (King of Prussia, PA); Saturday July 3rd starting at 11am (until we're finished).

We will be screening all the entries and rating each video on 2 projection screens with surround sound!

Spots are limited, if you're interested in coming and know you can make it; PM me here.

I will not be looking at thread responses, please PM me.
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby Davis 51 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:38 am

Oh jeez. I'm leaving the country on July 4 at an ungodly early hour, and I won't have internet access until I return two weeks later.

The suspense is going to give me an aneurysm, I swear.
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Re: The Otakon 2010 Thread (Almost time to panic!)

Postby TheTsunami » Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:15 pm

Davis 51 wrote:Oh jeez. I'm leaving the country on July 4 at an ungodly early hour, and I won't have internet access until I return two weeks later.

The suspense is going to give me an aneurysm, I swear.

The finalists won't be announced much sooner than that anyway.
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