Instrumental Anime Project

AznRAVEr1022 · Post by **AznRAVEr1022** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:06 pm

Hey I saw the LQ preview and Rose if you want, I can cut out those credits I have at the end of my piece if you want. The one that's like, "This video was made by a guy named chris." It's kinda cheesy considering my video is the only that has that junk.

I'll try to upload my huffversion (That's unless you already made a master copy) tonight.

ooshna · Post by **ooshna** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:54 pm

If it is cool with everyone I will make a crapload of copies of the cd and take them up to the mall to the place that sells all the anime dvd's and ask them to give them out.

rose4emily · Post by **rose4emily** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 6:37 pm

I can remove the end bumper from "A Boy I Knew" myself by specifying an endframe for the transcode just before it begins. I just didn't for the preview because it was a "quick" preview of the lineup and technical test for joining the videos together.

I've tried a few more things in hopes of bumping up the quality, but it looks like what you see is the upper limit - at least with what I have to work with. I've also tried making MPEG2 versions, but I can't make them in .m2v files, so you'd have to re-encode them to put them on a DVD. That, and I don't think most Windows computers can actually play an MPEG2 file that isn't packaged in a VOB on a DVD.

The fundamental problem is that the files were produced by a large number of different tools, using different codecs and different implementations of the same codecs, at different resolutions. Only about half of the files I have are lossless, and that's even discounting the fact that DVDs themselves use a lossy storage format. A couple of them (mine included) had some rather hairy video quality at points before even going through re-encoding. This is why I say I'm glad to at least be at a point where the output version appears to be of quality very near the original encoding for most of the videos.

I can throw up another version of each without any pre-filtering so you can compare them and determine for yourselves whether the softening or the edge artifacts are more detrimental to the picture. I personally prefer the softening, but you might have other ideas. Expect that toward the end of this weekend, along with a second attempt at producing a worthy narrative track. I've come across another mic, which is still pretty high on the "el-cheapo" scale, but might be better than the one I have. I'll also try recording in a different location to see if EM band interference coming off of my lights or monitor was contributing to the static. There was a part of the static that sounded more like a hum, so it's a likely theory.

I've read ErMaC and AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guide once more to look for other ideas, but it pretty much looks like I've done everything I can other than hand-repaint every frame to remove the existing artifacts (which already took far too much time for mine, and is hard to do for anything but flat-shaded areas anyhow).

All of the bumpers have been created to fade in and out from black before each video, with a period of about three seconds for the entire cycle. I'll be encoding those and attaching them to the second-attempt narratives as soon as the audio is recorded.

If anyone else is going to try recording the narrives, now would be a really good time to try, as the narrative audio is pretty much the bottleneck at this point.

I still can't figure out what's going on with my FTP. It works from every machine I've tried to use to connect to it, so any problem anyone is having with signing into is probably either a matter of broken client software or some restriction on connections to computers outside the RIT network. I suspect the former, but cannot disprove the latter until one of you connects to my FTP.

My disk space is really low, though, at the moment (with all of these project files sitting around), so the huge transfer of Pen-Pen's video will have to wait until the fullscreen segment has been completed and all of the source videos archived.

rose4emily · Post by **rose4emily** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 6:38 pm

I don't know what's up with the links to FTP. They don't go anywhere, and appear to be a textbook example of "smart" software being stupid.

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 7:55 pm

i'm able to connect to the ftp. but i haven't yet watched the compressed merges yet.

rose4emily: i was able to remove most of the background noise without your voice sounding metallic this time. the difference was i reduced the strength of the noise remover, so it was just able to remove the background noise without removing as many overtones from your voice. so you might not need to get a new mic if the noise remover works for all the monologues. i uploaded a noise-removed ogg to your ftp inbox.

ooshna, i don't have a problem with you giving out cds.

Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] · Post by **Bakadeshi [AuN Studios]** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:50 pm

rose4emily wrote:I don't know what's up with the links to FTP. They don't go anywhere, and appear to be a textbook example of "smart" software being stupid.

I think its because of the dot. Ftp by itself doesn;t seem to auto link, only the ftp. same as www. www by itself doesn't link.

Its the case of the "smart" software not beeing smart enough ;p

Anyway back on topic, do you have examples of what the narative sections are going to look like available yet? I'm curious.

ooshna · Post by **ooshna** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:40 pm

When the project is finally done who will be hosting it? If possible I think we should have a few servers hosting it. I know I can but I need script to limit the amount of times it can be downloaded (something like 40gb). My server is fast something like 400kbs. I just think it will make it easier and faster to download it using multiple servers.

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:17 pm

just found the credits folder
looks nice, just a few notes:
-Schism is spelled with a 's' not Schizm (03.png)
-using "aka" looks a bit weird. partly because it seems odd to use an abbreviation with fancy script. I think using parenthesis or brackets to delimit our org handles would look a bit better.
-The text is a little hard to read on the background. Maybe lighten the background or apply glow to the text?

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:50 pm

Is the address ftp.thewired.com? I'm getting a welcome message that says welcome to pureFTPd.

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 9:54 pm

ftp://thewired.info

it works in ws_ftp for me, but not in explorer for some reason