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MerkFlare
- Joined: Sat Mar 20, 2004 6:43 pm
- Location: CANADA
Finished oping xervantes. So far finished =
-xervantes - 1 vid.
-genestarwind21122 - 2 vids.
keep 'em comin! I also got to say that If you haven't oped my vid by now...good! cause I want this one oped instead...
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=35959
and
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=35960
THEY ARE NOT 2 SEPARATE VIDS...IT IS JUST TO BIG A FILE FOR THIS SITE SO JUST OP THE FIRST VID!!!!!!!
-xervantes - 1 vid.
-genestarwind21122 - 2 vids.
keep 'em comin! I also got to say that If you haven't oped my vid by now...good! cause I want this one oped instead...
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=35959
and
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=35960
THEY ARE NOT 2 SEPARATE VIDS...IT IS JUST TO BIG A FILE FOR THIS SITE SO JUST OP THE FIRST VID!!!!!!!
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rose4emily
- Joined: Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:36 am
- Location: Rochester, NY
- Contact:
Er, this isn't exactly an op, but:
You can get more than 15 minutes into 100 megs. the first video i did was 23 minutes long (to the Pink Floyd song "Echoes" off of Meddle), and I got it to fit. You just have to do some trial and error with the encoding until you find the right set of parameters to squeeze out the best quality possible. In the case of the Echoes vid I managed to get it to the point where it hadn't noticably lost any quality from what it looked like in its fansub sources (the anime used for most of it has still yet to be distributed in America, or anywhere else, with either English subs and/or dubs). If you're working with a series like DBZ that has DVDs (and I assume you used DVD footage for at least a large part of the one you linked to at the top of this thread) you are in an even better position because the DVD footage has a higher level or initial quality and the artifacts indroduces in compression themselves add to the complexity of the picture needing to be compressed => 1600kbps > 800kbps > 600kbps had a lower degree of potential video quality than could be obtained in a single compression pass, i.e. 1600kbps > 600 kbps.
For some really good information of video codecs and how they work you can go to ErMaC and AbsoluteDestiny's guides. Their descriptions a a bit on the heavy technical side, but once you understand all of them you'll definately be able to maximize your quality-to-bitrate ratio.
BTW - I'm not saying any of this as a criticizm so much as a suggestion for how, should you make another one that long, you can get it into one piece instead of making people download it in two segments and watch it with a mood-ruining break in the middle. It's really for the sake of reproducing the original as faithfully as possible, concerning which I think a couple of macroblocks would be prefereable to an arbitrary interruption in what is meant to be a continuous piece of music.
You can get more than 15 minutes into 100 megs. the first video i did was 23 minutes long (to the Pink Floyd song "Echoes" off of Meddle), and I got it to fit. You just have to do some trial and error with the encoding until you find the right set of parameters to squeeze out the best quality possible. In the case of the Echoes vid I managed to get it to the point where it hadn't noticably lost any quality from what it looked like in its fansub sources (the anime used for most of it has still yet to be distributed in America, or anywhere else, with either English subs and/or dubs). If you're working with a series like DBZ that has DVDs (and I assume you used DVD footage for at least a large part of the one you linked to at the top of this thread) you are in an even better position because the DVD footage has a higher level or initial quality and the artifacts indroduces in compression themselves add to the complexity of the picture needing to be compressed => 1600kbps > 800kbps > 600kbps had a lower degree of potential video quality than could be obtained in a single compression pass, i.e. 1600kbps > 600 kbps.
For some really good information of video codecs and how they work you can go to ErMaC and AbsoluteDestiny's guides. Their descriptions a a bit on the heavy technical side, but once you understand all of them you'll definately be able to maximize your quality-to-bitrate ratio.
BTW - I'm not saying any of this as a criticizm so much as a suggestion for how, should you make another one that long, you can get it into one piece instead of making people download it in two segments and watch it with a mood-ruining break in the middle. It's really for the sake of reproducing the original as faithfully as possible, concerning which I think a couple of macroblocks would be prefereable to an arbitrary interruption in what is meant to be a continuous piece of music.
may seeds of dreams fall from my hands -
and by yours be pressed into the ground.
and by yours be pressed into the ground.