Angst and cats; it's gotta be Sakaki. (AzuDaioh profile vid)

Alucard_FoN · Post by **Alucard_FoN** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 2:09 am

I liked it! Easily my favorite Azumanga video to date.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 2:36 am

I really have only one criticism to make, and as usual, it's technical in nature... <^^;

You used a resolution of 360x240, which I suppose makes things easier on the resizer because it had to shrink the image by exactly half in each dimension; but for playback on a computer monitor, it's not the right aspect ratio. For AVIs, you want to use 4:3 resolutions like 320x240.

(You can get away with resolutions like 352x240 and 720x480 when making MPEGs, because you can set the 4:3 aspect ratio flag... but as far as I know, AVI doesn't have a similar feature, or if it does, the common codecs don't implement it.)

Other than that, nice job! I particularly liked how the crossfade sequence came back for the instrumental bridge near the end, to parallel the one at the beginning.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:30 pm

Scintilla wrote:I really have only one criticism to make, and as usual, it's technical in nature... <^^;

You used a resolution of 360x240, which I suppose makes things easier on the resizer because it had to shrink the image by exactly half in each dimension; but for playback on a computer monitor, it's not the right aspect ratio. For AVIs, you want to use 4:3 resolutions like 320x240.

Yeah - I'm pretty stupid (I guess) and just did a "reduce by half" filter in VDub. O_o

(You can get away with resolutions like 352x240 and 720x480 when making MPEGs, because you can set the 4:3 aspect ratio flag... but as far as I know, AVI doesn't have a similar feature, or if it does, the common codecs don't implement it.)

OK, I'll try to get this right next time. Thanks.

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:14 am

Nicely done, Sarah. I really never thought I'd see the day where someone could pull off a serious Azumanga Daioh video. I'm impressed.

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 4:39 am

Once I saw the song, I was like 'no way' is this song going to work in Azumanga. Moody stuff that all the goth kids used to listen to when I was in school, and one of the more lighthearted anime out there?

Well, proved me wrong and I'm glad for it.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:55 pm

madbunny wrote:Once I saw the song, I was like 'no way' is this song going to work in Azumanga. Moody stuff that all the goth kids used to listen to when I was in school, and one of the more lighthearted anime out there?

Well, proved me wrong and I'm glad for it.

*does the happy dance* That's just what I was going for.

Yeah, I think the fit is uneasy at times, but that's what I wanted to try, to see if it would go.

So thanks, guys.

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:00 pm

And you thought it couldn't be done

I'd say that turned out rather splendidly.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:05 pm

Moonlight Soldier wrote:And you thought it couldn't be done

I'd say that turned out rather splendidly.

I'm still surprised that it did. Heh. Thanks.

ibanix · Post by **ibanix** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 2:22 am

The rapid crossfades and the drum flashes were just enough to grab the eye without overwhelming the feel of the entire video. Nice job.