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by rose4emily » Sat Jun 05, 2004 9:57 pm
No, no deadline on Saturday. I actually think I might push back the video deadline to mid-to-late July to make up for the desruption concerning my inability to keep the FTP up full time. Right now the connection has been down for most of the past three days between my needing my computer at work (and I definately can't run a server from behind their firewall, from either a technical or a policy standpoint) and my sister and father needing the connection at home for homework and Websphere app testing, respectively. The only thing I was hoping to collect soon was people's description bits, written up in the manner you would like for your video to be spoken about in the connecting segments between the actual AMVs. No deadline on that, per se, I'd just like to a get a few of them soon to give me something to work with as the rest trickle in.
The final project is being encoded at a resolution of 512x384 for the 4:3 section, and 512x288 for the 16:9 section. Your final submissions should, if it is at all possible, match one of those two figures. Those dimensions have tbeen chosen because most people have their monitors set to 1024x768 these days and an integer-scaled video tends to look better and run faster than an arbitrarily-scaled video on many computer systems (especially those without hardware vidoe acceleration). It is also smaller the standard DV size that a lot of people seem to like, allowing for smaller files with fewer compression artifacts at the expense of having each pixel in the video showing up as 2x2 rather than 1x1 on a 1024x768 in fullscreen mode. The final frame rate will be 23 FPS. I now know how to cleanly convert frame rates on my machine without loosing sync, though, so don't worry too much if you can't get a 23 FPS file. Speaking of that, I have to convert my own to 23 FPS from 29.97003 FPS.
I've chosen a machine to use as a server, and will be purchasing it when my first check comes in for the summer (I hate paperwork, so I'm not getting into financing anything to avoid a two-week delay in buying it). In about two weeks the FTP will be full-time again, the server will double as a router so everyone else in the house can still use the Internet when the server is up, and I'll get to mess with server-side Java programming for on-the-fly HTML generation. In the mean time I'll have mine up when I can, and I believe Pen-Pen and Ooshna both have their own now that you can use to get something to someone else if it's urgent and you can't sign on to mine. I'll still be keeping the central repository, though, so anything you do share should still go into my Inbox so it will be there when mine is up and when I get the dedicated machine to let this project once again run smoothly.
I suppose those anime DVD purchases I've been putting off will have to wait an extra pay cycle. At least I'll have a nice web server, which I'll be needing soon anyhow to test some application code I've been putting together on and off for the past few months anyhow.
If you are worried about trying to write an awesome dialog, don't sweat it. Just write down what you think is important to understanding or appreciating your video and a bit about how the idea behind it came together. If you'd like, you can make a note that you don't want to write the actual dialog, and I or someone else (if anyone else is interested - I think Otohiko's a Linguistics major, so he's probably even better qualified than me for the writing tasks) will write one for you. Nothing will go in, of course, until you sign off on it and agree that it says what you would want it to say about your video. If you want to write your own, that's also cool. It might have to be altered a bit to work with the video order or tweak its 'feel' to mach that of the others - but, once again, nothing goes in without approval by both me (I'm pretty lenient) and the creator (who can be whatever sort of judge he/she likes
The monologue sections, I believe, will be spoken. If I can't get the spoken monologues to work, I'll fall back on text, but spoken is what I'm going for at the moment.
If you want to submit a monologue and it's one of the nine in ten hours you can't get the FTP, you can always e-mail it to me. Those are small enough to fit. The videos, on the other hand, are a bit big for that and some of us might have to settle for alternative distribution methods for the moment.
may seeds of dreams fall from my hands -
and by yours be pressed into the ground.
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