Death Note With Attitude

purplepolecat · Post by **purplepolecat** » Sun May 13, 2007 11:24 pm

OK, if you are sick of the constant stream of substandard jokey Death Note AMVs on the 'tube, then chill, because this is from the old school.

Death Note With Attitude
Anime : Death Note
Music : NWA : Fuck Tha Police

It's NSFW, in case you did not know.

Kitsuner · Post by **Kitsuner** » Sun May 13, 2007 11:47 pm

Learn to edit.

The aspect ratio was wrong, the sync was poor, the facial expressions didn't fit, and the lip sync failed hard.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Sun May 13, 2007 11:54 pm

I don't agree with Kit, even though there are some very sharp technical flaws to be sure.

Oh god, this video is pure lulz - all 6 minutes of it

I thought the length would work against it, and for some it will, but it honestly got funnier as it went on. I thought the timing wasn't impressive per se, but the slapstick was thrown in strategically enough.

On the downside... the quality is understandable given what I think is your source (and you could do far better in getting that). But the horrendous aspect ratio is unforgivably bad - fix it! Fix it!

High points on the, dare I say, fucked up idea and good use of slapstick and innuendoes!

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:02 am

Plenty of little stuff to nitpick, as mentioned before, but really, it's all about the lulz. About time someone made a video with this song.

purplepolecat · Post by **purplepolecat** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:11 am

OK good, some people lol'ed.
Now, could someone please educate this noob about aspect ratio ? I was under the impression that 640/480 was the correct rez for 4:3 source material. Don't say READFAGS, I already did. Tutorial or GTFO.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:17 am

Well Death Note is certainly not 4:3 and I wouldn't treat it as that!

I stuck my Death Note footage into a 640x480 video by getting my source out this way...

lanczosresize(640,360)
crop(0,4,0,-4)
addborders(0,64,0,64)

Else you could just resize it to plain old 640x360 - not 480!

meleechampion · Post by **meleechampion** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:27 am

Wut? I thought this was a Rage Against the Machine song...

Anyway, not SO bad if you can get past the "horrendous aspect ratio", Misa's verse was the best.

purplepolecat · Post by **purplepolecat** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:37 am

Otohiko thx for the tips. I am remastering as we speak. DN is indeed a 16:9 show.

EDIT : And behold, on the 17th day of May a glorious 16:9 version of the AMV appeared

shaister · Post by **shaister** » Mon May 14, 2007 2:45 am

That was pretty awesome. The lip sync had its highs and lows but was never bad enough to be distracting.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon May 14, 2007 6:17 am

Otohiko wrote:Else you could just resize it to plain old 640x<b>352</b> - not 480!

Fixed.