My First AMV

Gundam_Muse · Post by **Gundam_Muse** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:38 pm

Well, it has been up for a little while but I thought I might mention it here in the forums in case anyone is interrested in taking a look.

This is a "Newsreel" style video that tells the backstory of the Original Gundam series. I worked up my own newspaper and magazine pages to give it a "historical" feel and tried to use the very best animation I could find from some of the Playstation Games, since, as much as I love it, Mobile Suit Gundam looks pretty tired animation-wise. Hopefully it will give folks a glimpse of what makes the Gundam Universe so compelling to me.

It is a bit of an experiment, in style and content, and has had mixed reactions. Gundam fans seemed to really love it, but others seemed to be pretty luke warm about it. It did make this year's Animazement AMV contest, despite all it had going against it, which I am rather proud of.

I would be interrested to hear what folks think, even if it is "the file is too big" or "it is better to post it in such and such a way." I'm very interrested in learning the ropes here...

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:35 am

meh... I'll take a look... oh and 275mb wtf?
*edits*
needs widescreen.
sync needs work.
nice idea

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 1:38 am

Holy crap. PM me immidiatly on how to compress your video.

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:55 am

I highly suggest this guide:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtechbeta/

It tells you and gives you everything you need for the technical site of amvs.

Gundam_Muse · Post by **Gundam_Muse** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:15 pm

Right... so the size is definitely an issue. Sorry, this was the original file used for contest entries. I will go ahead and compress it for web. I was afriad it might be too big for most to download, but I kept it large due to all the text. I wasn't sure how readable that stuff would be if it were compressed too much.

Compressing now.

And thanks to those of you that did make that long download...

Edit:

The new file is uploaded and should be available soon. It is aound 40mb in size, so hopefully that will be much much more convenient for you all ^_^

Falconone · Post by **Falconone** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:49 am

You made a divx file?
That is not very good, best thing is avi or mp4

With which player i can watch divx? VLC?

Seska1973 · Post by **Seska1973** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:45 am

Falconone wrote:You made a divx file?
That is not very good, best thing is avi or mp4

With which player i can watch divx? VLC?

There is an Divx codec out there... With almost all, you can watch it. Even if you take WMP for it.

Gundam_Muse · Post by **Gundam_Muse** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:41 pm

Seska1973 wrote:
Falconone wrote:You made a divx file?
That is not very good, best thing is avi or mp4

With which player i can watch divx? VLC?
There is an Divx codec out there... With almost all, you can watch it. Even if you take WMP for it.

Yes, I found a number of codec packs that support Divx. I had hoped that this would not be a problem for viewing, as it seemed to be somewhat common, and turned out to be a great compression format for making the file much smaller while keeping the text largely readable.

I am obviously not very practiced in publishing files to the web. Is Divx a no-no for amv's in this type fo venue, as a rule?

lynit · Post by **lynit** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:47 pm

I am obviously not very practiced in publishing files to the web. Is Divx a no-no for amv's in this type fo venue, as a rule?

Yeah, kinda. Way easier to encode as either avi or mp4.
And if you're gonna encode to avi, at least use XviD.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:12 pm

Gundam_Muse wrote:
Seska1973 wrote:
Falconone wrote:You made a divx file?
That is not very good, best thing is avi or mp4

With which player i can watch divx? VLC?
There is an Divx codec out there... With almost all, you can watch it. Even if you take WMP for it.
Yes, I found a number of codec packs that support Divx. I had hoped that this would not be a problem for viewing, as it seemed to be somewhat common, and turned out to be a great compression format for making the file much smaller while keeping the text largely readable.

And as far as the codec goes, you're right (though I'm sure XviD is still better). The problem is the container format you chose; if you'd taken the same DivX video stream and put it in an AVI file instead of a .DIVX file, nobody would have complained.

With the possible exception of Minion, who wants nothing less than x264 in MP4, but I think he's currently banned, so.