Garylisk's Next MEP - Ideas and interest bearing

doughboy · Post by **doughboy** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:40 am

I'd gladly get behind AMV Heaven. Not the others though, too generic.

Garylisk · Post by **Garylisk** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:17 am

Ruan wrote:Lets see here... Ideas I could do for AMV Heaven...

One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.

Ehhh... is there going to be a limit?

I don't think there would be.

And as far as a timelimit per track, it's really gonna have to be decided from track to track.

Hitori · Post by **Hitori** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:00 am

Garylisk wrote:
[b][u][i]Scintilla[/i][/u][/b] wrote: I think it goes without saying that "Freckles (Sobakasu)" just has to be done with Rurouni Kenshin... ^_^

And especially considering it's the last track, whoever gets "Candy★" should count him/herself lucky.

Fixed!

Garylisk · Post by **Garylisk** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:41 pm

Hitori wrote:
Garylisk wrote:
[b][u][i]Scintilla[/i][/u][/b] wrote: I think it goes without saying that "Freckles (Sobakasu)" just has to be done with Rurouni Kenshin... ^_^

And especially considering it's the last track, whoever gets "Candy★" should count him/herself lucky.
Fixed!

Ah hell, that's what I get for manually typing out quotes while suffering from insomnia.

bloodyfang · Post by **bloodyfang** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:14 am

i might go for the NIN project and amv heaven.

Garylisk · Post by **Garylisk** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:59 am

So far I have:

6 people interested in AMV Heaven

2 people interested in NIN Project

8 people interested in DDR MAX Project

Also, this thread has over 200 views, I know there's a lot of people out there not making their voices heard. Comment, people! Remember, you're not committing to edit by expressing interest! You could just be expressing an interest to watch the finished product.

Kitsuner · Post by **Kitsuner** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:01 am

I could probably go for some AMV Heaven or DDR, I suppose...

Garylisk · Post by **Garylisk** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:24 am

Here's a question...

If you were going to edit in the DDR Project, do you think that you'd be able to edit OK if the provided audio source was 22KHz mono wav files (To cut down on the amount of space they take up, and the amount of time to transfer them)?

Example: Track 1, with a 5 second buffer on either side, is 2:36. It cut from the timeline at 44KHz 16 bit stereo as a file that is 27MB. The same audio, done at 22KHz 16 bit mono was only 6.7MB. That's a big difference, and the quality loss is not so terrible that it's uneditable.

UPDATE: QUality loss is unacceptable on some tracks when done like this. Looks like the best way to go is to dump them as big 44KHz wavs, and then encode them to mp3 or zip them. I will try both and get back to you on filesize numbers and quality degradation...

Let me know what you think.

Also, I have a high quality MP3 of the megamix, but if anyone out there actually has the CD and is willing to donate audio for the project, message me here, on AIM, or on IRC. The MP3 sounds good, and would probably work just fine as the distro audio source, so this is not essential... but would be nice, again.

Garylisk · Post by **Garylisk** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:48 am

OK, using track 2 (Nori, Nori, Nori), here's the results...

22KHz, 16 Bit, Mono - 4MB - This is totally unacceptable
22KHz, 16 bit, Stereo - 8MB - This isn't so bad, actually
44KHz, 16 bit, Mono - 8MB - This is pretty bad sounding
44KHz, 16 bit, Stereo - 16MB - This is great

OK, so it seems like making it mono is the quality killer for the most part.

Now, let's see what happens if we compress the 44KHz stereo clip. Remember, this CAME from an mp3, so making it an mp3 again COULD make it sound pretty bad...

OK well, despite the fact that it's come from an mp3, and been turned into an mp3 again, it doesn't sound too bad! It's better than the 22KHz wav, and at 128kbps CBR, it's only 1.48MB!

And on the compressed container front, the rar was 13MB, the zip was 15MB, both were set to Best compression.. so that's definitely not as nice as the mp3. (I didn't think it would be

)

So, yeah.. looks like I would be able to distribute the tracks as CBR mp3's pretty easily. (Editors would be responsible to convert to wav for editing, though.)

teknoboy · Post by **teknoboy** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:53 am

Garylisk wrote:So, yeah.. looks like I would be able to distribute the tracks as CBR mp3's pretty easily. (Editors would be responsible to convert to wav for editing, though.)

I think this is best ^_^.

also you could put me down for NiN too ^_^