AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (next stop - Nekocon)

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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby Gaelstrom » Thu May 06, 2010 4:29 am

I'll work on the finals and send them using some kind of online file transfer system to you. Be sure to monitor your e-mail. They'll unfortunately have to be DV like last year, sorry. It's still the only way I've found to get the best quality and also avoid that stupid AfterEffects audio shift bug. I still plan to go ahead and work on another couple clips, and with your permission I'll move ahead on the longer one. I'm finding my free time diminishing for the next week and a half, so I have to finalize which ones I want. I'm gonna shoot for the longer one.

Once I figure out how to deinterlace the footage from this stupid ripped DVD, the second musical one will be done very fast as well.

I'll get those to you soon, but be aware I'm gonna be trying to make clips until we're down to the wire.

I'll get the 6 completed clips I have thus far to you tomorrow, hopefully at the latest by Friday.

Edit: (Actually make that 7 clips currently, I really quickly made a higher res version of that other clip I mentioned a while ago that I requested permission for us to use. I can't take credit for it at all of course, but I felt it was just too good not to have ^^ I'll be sending that as well.)
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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby Gaelstrom » Sat May 08, 2010 2:35 am

Deuce, I got the finals to you RARed up and transferred through transferbigfiles.com. I just want to confirm you got them and they work all right.
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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby Deuce Loosely » Sat May 08, 2010 2:55 am

Gaelstrom wrote:Deuce, I got the finals to you RARed up and transferred through transferbigfiles.com. I just want to confirm you got them and they work all right.

Yup yup...got 'em earlier. If it comes to this, I could fix the sync on the Birdman clip like I did with Attel last time. I'm getting a lot of LOLz out of the short clips, though.

I'll have a rough beta for you all to start with sometime next week, then we can tweak and change things from there...
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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby Gaelstrom » Sat May 08, 2010 4:29 am

Damn, is it shifting for you too when you put it in your editing software? I was afraid of that. We'll just have to see how it seems with the beta when you have it ready, we'll tweak it as need be once I see how it aligns. I really wish I knew why that happened, it's annoying on all ends :x All I can really suggest is to have the DV versions I sent opened while you edit the master and if they're obviously off to use the DVs as the source to shoot for and break apart the audio and video layers or however the program you're using does it. For most lipsyncs I aligned it nearly down to the frame, and some scenes I allowed a bit more leeway, so it won't be definite all the way through, but it's a difference of only 1 or 2 frames.

I'm getting in contact with the creator of that other clip to find out exactly how he wants to appear in the credits as well. I spent the 5 minutes to upres the footage, but I sure as hell don't deserve credit for it :D
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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby krvabo » Sat May 08, 2010 5:14 pm

I've made some improvements to my second submission, it still isn't perfect, but a lot better than it was.
The color changing between scenes was something in the anime, and I've tried to make it better, but it's very hard to do so.

Anyway, I've sent in another clip, which I think is pretty nice. It has a pretty high amount of violence and blood.. well let's say 100%.. But maybe it passes the PG13 standard :P
Let me know if you don't want it :)
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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby Deuce Loosely » Sun May 09, 2010 6:03 pm

Still waiting on KojiroShinkara to resend the fixed "Doctor Firefly." :sweat:

Moonie: please check your clip labeled "surethiswillwinanoscar" and see if you left the render to be interlaced. Maybe it's my media player reacting but I see interlacing lines. Much appreciated.

Otherwise, I'm going to replace the "defective" clips with the ones you all sent which work better. I'll also re-watch the stream of clips to sort for flow. Then I need to find watermarks for Comedy Central, Fox, Food Network, HBO, NBC, PBS, and MTV. The "channel switch" transitions will be placed, the end credits created, and the production tags / other stuff placed within. It shall be awesome but I know the post-tweak will make it even better.
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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby Gaelstrom » Sun May 09, 2010 11:54 pm

Please don't do the watermarks, Deuce. Please understand, it will only draw peoples' attention away from the clips themselves. The logos and such draw the eye away from the actual thing happening on the screen. If they were meant to be there as part of the parody, we would put them in ourselves. That is why many TV stations make it only happen coming from and/or going to commercials, because all it does is cause the cuts in their shows to become annoying. Plus they ruin color composition, remove the illusion of camera cuts clearing the mind of one shot for the next, and generally just don't do anything good to the whole illusion of watching something. There's no need to try to unify the clips besides a running gag amidst them, so please don't put in logos. It will not provide any benefit whatsoever to the project by doing that. I have asked several of my friends who have assisted me and all of them have agreed that it will only provide an unnecessary distraction, so please realize that it will harm the project and just let the funny clips speak for themselves.
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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby Deuce Loosely » Mon May 10, 2010 12:32 am

...point taken. Okay, no watermarks. Gives me one less thing to do. :P
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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby kireblue » Tue May 11, 2010 12:46 pm

I finally got After effects to cooperate with me and just finished my video. All I need to do now is the add some "write on" text to make it funny. (Although getting the "write on" effect to work is proving to be difficult as well.) I expect to have everything finished by tomorrow though.
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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby Deuce Loosely » Tue May 11, 2010 12:57 pm

I have a few more clips incoming so the beta release may be delayed until the weekend. I want everyone to have their work represented and included.

Just a few days left until I have to cut off submissions entirely...
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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby Gaelstrom » Tue May 11, 2010 4:10 pm

I'm making good time on that one major clip. I'm hoping all major shots will be done today, but as a last minute thing since you said it could be at the beginning potentially, I... conscripted a couple friends to prepare a little surprise with it :D It should be done on time, but the thing we agreed on for the end credits may take an extra day unfortunately. I hope it won't, I have everything planned out that it should land on your lap on Friday, but the credits piece has a chance not to be ready by Friday. It's not a major thing, so if we don't have it nothing's really lost, but just a heads up on my status. Off to work until midnight on this.
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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby kireblue » Wed May 12, 2010 7:28 pm

I just sent you my video. If there are any problems with it, please let me know. Since this was my first time making a video in After Effects, I wouldn't be surprised if I overlooked something. But overall, I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out.
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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby Gaelstrom » Thu May 13, 2010 2:01 am

Deuce, quick question. If I were to give you finished versions of my videos with all the key elements, but needed a few more days tweaking one special section, as long as you have the full vids would you allow me to swap out this rough scene out after the beta? The special thing I mentioned above may take a bit more time, but I can have a placeholder in time for Friday. The full video itself is going to be complete tonight, but the special addition my friends are working on will take a bit more time. You'll see what I mean when I send it though. I assume once we see the beta we'll have a week or something to make minor changes to it, so hopefully a swap-out won't cause an issue. My friends hit a snag and won't be able to finish in time probably.
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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby Deuce Loosely » Thu May 13, 2010 2:20 am

Gaelstrom
The beta is not the final version so, if there's anything to be switched out or replaced, post-beta would be the time to do it. ;)
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Re: AMV Salad 4: TV Dinner (FINAL WEEK!!!)

Postby Gaelstrom » Thu May 13, 2010 3:16 am

Gotchya, thanks, that makes this a lot less stressful. I'll get you the mostly done version for the beta with a rough of the 'special' thing and we'll swap it out next week.

Done with the video on my end, so I'll work on that credit video tomorrow. ...and perhaps another quick one if I have time on friday ^^ Friggan addiction.
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