Kastles of Sand

Taruto! · Post by **Taruto!** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:29 pm

Finally able to post this! It's been done since the start of the month.

I made this for a friend's birthday, and my first video with my "studio".. my friend absolutely loved it.. I hope you like it too. It's definately my best (and most experimental) video so far.

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Programs used:
Adobe Premiere 6.5
Adobe After Effects 5.0 (very briefly)
Adobe Photoshop 7.0
VirtualDub

Enjoy!!

kikai_saigono · Post by **kikai_saigono** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:37 pm

Well, I like your editing style, Taruto Chan, and since it IS kannazuki no miko....

I'll check it out. :D

Dling...

Kevmaster · Post by **Kevmaster** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:51 pm

I am about to go to bed, but I will download this tomorrow for sure

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:19 pm

It's YURI which makes it my utmost first priority!

By the way, aren't you going to upload it to the Org?

Taruto! · Post by **Taruto!** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:23 pm

angelx03 wrote:By the way, aren't you going to upload it to the Org?

Uploading as we type..

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:10 pm

Few technical nitpicks.

The quality could have been better (at least using XviD would have suffice). Also for consistency sake, you could have subbed the whole video. In fact, I think this is one condition where you could have used soft-subtitles instead.

Overall, it's a pretty cool video.

Taruto! · Post by **Taruto!** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:22 pm

angelx03 wrote:Few technical nitpicks.

Thanks for your feedback!

>Quality
The quality's definately an issue, I know.. the actual video is over 170mb when compressed at 848x480, and I know I don't want to waste so much space downloading a video that big for 4 minutes.
To compress it to how it is now I had to convert it to MPEG and then into 3viX (don't ask, seriously, it died any other way), and compressing it into XviD pushed it over the 100mb with.. pretty much the same quality. It's a shame though, because the original quality was great, nice and clean..

>Subs
I wasn't too sure on the subs myself, sorry they annoyed you!
And I did consider softsubs, but I wouldn't have known where to start and I had a deadline to work to, so time wasn't really on my side. Plus with constant work deadlines I hardly had the time to edit, nevermind learn about softsubs.

But if I recieve enough comments on the subs I might release a subless version to save hassle, and probably some better quality versions if I can get the size down and quality up :/

angelx03 wrote:Overall, it's a pretty cool video.

Thank you!

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:30 pm

Taruto Chan wrote:
angelx03 wrote:Few technical nitpicks.
Thanks for your feedback!

>Quality
The quality's definately an issue, I know.. the actual video is over 170mb when compressed at 848x480, and I know I don't want to waste so much space downloading a video that big for 4 minutes.
To compress it to how it is now I had to convert it to MPEG and then into 3viX (don't ask, seriously, it died any other way), and compressing it into XviD pushed it over the 100mb with.. pretty much the same quality. It's a shame though, because the original quality was great, nice and clean..

Compressing the audio to something like MP3 would help with the filesize. It provides far superior compressibility to MS ADPCM.

DropOuter · Post by **DropOuter** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:25 pm

Mindless pap squeezed from the open wounds of a near dead beast by rotoscoped hands. Keenly lit, yet dark enough to not show obvious imperfection. Entered expecting slow motion scenes of doe-eyed lovers embracing each other, not pleased with results. German is not a pretty language. Rudimentary knowledge of pacing. Last minute falls apart in both concept and execution. Passable, for a fan creation.

5/10.

- Drop Out

Anjira · Post by **Anjira** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:32 pm

Being a fan of Kannaduki No Miko as well, I really enjoyed this amv, and I'm sure that the person it was created for will enjoy it immensely too. ^_^