Gunslinger Confessions

[Kireblue]

Uh...the DVDs that I have of Gunslinger Girl are widescreen.

Mine to .... Nya has probably only downloaded the series?...

Oh hush, she might just have a different version.

On the back of my Viridian collection box, it says that the DVDs are NTSC 16:9, and they play widescreen when I watch them on my computer. But by the time I turn them into AVIs, and go to edit them, they're no longer widescreen.

[Nya-chan Production]

Fok, was going by my memory and upon a look on the DVDs....

Yes, 16:9 indeed.

Replace 640x480 with 848x480 in my post, then. This is done in AviSynth, if you have any problems with it, you should ask, there are a lot of people willing to help with learning it as well as many guides.

[EvaFan]

But by the time I turn them into AVIs, and go to edit them, they're no longer widescreen.

The raw video streams on your DVD are 720,480. IFO files contain playback information for the vob files so if your just ripping a video stream from the DVD's that information is being lost. You can resize the video stream to the correct AR using Avisynth, 848,480 isn't perfect 16/9 but its mod16 compliant which is good for compatibility all around and the difference is minimal, if you want perfect 16/9 just use any width divisible by 16 and any height divisible by 9.

You could also just set the pixel size in your editing program to the correct widescreen size. If you don't understand this stuff I'd just do the above cause it can get complicating.

Anyway technical flaws aside I enjoyed this a bit but it was kind of weird at times too. Could use some better scene choice and maybe a bit more sync here and there but it looks like you prefer working with emotions and story more then anything. Decent vid here, keep it up.

3/5

Pretty sure you commented on my wet thread so I figured I'd return the favor (even if you didn't it's cool). If you need technical help in the future then post in the avisynth section and someone will help you, or PM one of the regulars, I doubt they'd refuse.

[Eion]

Fake and gay



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[Kireblue]

Fok, was going by my memory and upon a look on the DVDs....

Yes, 16:9 indeed.

Replace 640x480 with 848x480 in my post, then. This is done in AviSynth, if you have any problems with it, you should ask, there are a lot of people willing to help with learning it as well as many guides.

But by the time I turn them into AVIs, and go to edit them, they're no longer widescreen.

The raw video streams on your DVD are 720,480. IFO files contain playback information for the vob files so if your just ripping a video stream from the DVD's that information is being lost. You can resize the video stream to the correct AR using Avisynth, 848,480 isn't perfect 16/9 but its mod16 compliant which is good for compatibility all around and the difference is minimal, if you want perfect 16/9 just use any width divisible by 16 and any height divisible by 9.

You could also just set the pixel size in your editing program to the correct widescreen size. If you don't understand this stuff I'd just do the above cause it can get complicating.

Thank you everyone. I really appreciate the help.

Anyway technical flaws aside I enjoyed this a bit but it was kind of weird at times too. Could use some better scene choice and maybe a bit more sync here and there but it looks like you prefer working with emotions and story more then anything. Decent vid here, keep it up.

3/5

Thanks. I consider myself to mostly be a Drama editor, so must of my AMVs use mood sync with just a little bit of beat sync. And in terms of scene selection, I really could have done more if I had used my season 2 DVDs. The problem is that the animation style and quality are so different between the two seasons that I decided early on that this AMV would only use footage from the first season. But unfortunately, all of Claes and Triella's character development happens in the second season.