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Post by Alastor BDC » Tue May 15, 2007 2:12 am

Warheart wrote:Ok, first off (even before downloading): what the fuck is it that the h264 is bigger than the xvid, thats stupid and unnecessary. I mean I don't care much about the compression on most cases but this annoyed me. And moreover the h264 belongs on the donut and the xvid direct not the other way around. And I'd suggest to get another server for the h264 since megaupload has a download limit and it's fairly slow.

Videocomments will follow shortly (actually it'll take some time since the download is veeeeery slow).

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Well there were 1 good part being GfNs (which I beta'd) and 2 other viewable parts which were Flame-X's Higurashi part and the EoE part by Alastor (due to the fandom factor of including the video). The rest is the typical not so good MEP mash I expected.
Well the reason is because I ran several encodes and this seem the best one. I admit that the h.264 is a little big but its only for quality reasons. If you care about the size that much you can download the XviD, right? The reason I uploaded the XviD in the donut is because of the codec.., I thought XviD is a codec everyone knows instead of the h.264? The h.264 is in megaupload right now because I needed a server to host it while I get the real one out. I just wanted to show the h.264 to the people that helped me make it because they waited a looong time for it :wink:.
I'm glad you like my segments and other ones as well but not everyone can make a jaw droping segment. This is like a regular mep..., everyone had fun making it and I believe they enjoyed it. I due however respect your view on the mep.
Ingow wrote:overall I thought that the MEP wasn't very well composed, I always kinda get weirded out by the whole quality difference between the opening, the ending credits and the actual tracks/segments. There were several wrong aspect ratios, as well as interlacing. Yeah there was no lip flapping and it maybe even had the right amount of action objectively speaking but that doesn't count for everything IMO.

There's just too many MEPs that look like this lately, I think you guys should've generally put more effort into merging the segments and getting the whole composition, main mood and atmosphere right instead of only focusing on your own track.
Yea I kinda see it a little bit but live and learn :lol:
Streicher wrote:I don't like to post into announcement without watching beforehand.

But that h.264 encode can't really be meant serious?

You really want to tell me, you all worked for a year on the tracks to get everything right.
And then present it like that?

Didn't it ring a bell as it turned out even bigger then the xvid encode?
A shame for all the hard work to finish it up like that.

Oh, and it's called "Romaji" and "Spanish".
I took a year because a lot of people droped and some were late on their segments. It doesn't mean all of us worked on it for a year straight. Of course its not meant serious its for fun :)
Oh btw I did mess up on the spelling :lol:, it was to early in the morning ^_^.

The mep is mean't for fun. The people how made it happen to have a great time and I believe thats the reason for a mep right? Have fun while making a segment? I really don't want to run a person like a mule :lol:
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Post by -GfN- » Tue May 15, 2007 2:17 am

bah, I can't really approve...
anyway, my track got finished last year in june which should also clarify that I'm not that enthralled by this one at all.
so yeah, pretty damn low standard with a fucked up compression, I'd give it a 3.7/10

~Jannis

P.S.: thanks alex ;p

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Alastor BDC wrote:Well the reason is because I ran several encodes and this seem the best one. I admit that the h.264 is a little big but its only for quality reasons. If you care about the size that much you can download the XviD, right?
sorry, h264's most commonly known advantage is little filesize with better quality, so it's in almost every case smaller than an oversized xvid encode.
also, you don't need a high bitrate encode (alastor, srsly, learn h264 the right way before you do compression on a mep) |=

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Post by Warheart » Tue May 15, 2007 3:02 am

Scintilla wrote:
Warheart wrote:And moreover the h264 belongs on the donut and the xvid direct not the other way around.
I'm curious. Why?
Alastor BDC wrote:If you care about the size that much you can download the XviD, right? The reason I uploaded the XviD in the donut is because of the codec.., I thought XviD is a codec everyone knows instead of the h.264? The h.264 is in megaupload right now because I needed a server to host it while I get the real one out. I just wanted to show the h.264 to the people that helped me make it because they waited a looong time for it
I guess since h264 is the next standart and the more you have to actually get to know it the faster people will get used to it and normally it doesn't take up that much space and I sometimes feel a bit sad seeing so much oversized videos (or bad WMM videos) on the dount. But that's just me. Anyway let's stay ontopic ok ?

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Post by Alastor BDC » Tue May 15, 2007 3:29 am

Warheart wrote:
Scintilla wrote:
Warheart wrote:And moreover the h264 belongs on the donut and the xvid direct not the other way around.
I'm curious. Why?
Alastor BDC wrote:If you care about the size that much you can download the XviD, right? The reason I uploaded the XviD in the donut is because of the codec.., I thought XviD is a codec everyone knows instead of the h.264? The h.264 is in megaupload right now because I needed a server to host it while I get the real one out. I just wanted to show the h.264 to the people that helped me make it because they waited a looong time for it
I guess since h264 is the next standart and the more you have to actually get to know it the faster people will get used to it and normally it doesn't take up that much space and I sometimes feel a bit sad seeing so much oversized videos (or bad WMM videos) on the dount. But that's just me. Anyway let's stay ontopic ok ?
Well I appreciate your input, live and learn right :lol:
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Post by Niwa » Tue May 15, 2007 5:05 am

It's finally out O: /gets
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Post by Aneino_Kaijin » Tue May 15, 2007 8:02 am

Now me, technical issues aside, I Liked it. And I usually don't really like watching MEPs I'm part of (Or ones completely composed of one musical artist). It wasn't an artistic achievement, but really, MEPs aren't supposed to be. Most of the sections were fun to watch for me, and while some were definitely a lot higher than others quality-wise, there wasn't really that one or two abyssmal tracks that seem to show up in every MEP and just hurt to watch with the rest. I'll have to put together an op later. Thanks Alastor for getting this out. :)
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Post by Alastor BDC » Wed May 16, 2007 2:12 am

Aneino_Kaijin wrote:Now me, technical issues aside, I Liked it. And I usually don't really like watching MEPs I'm part of (Or ones completely composed of one musical artist). It wasn't an artistic achievement, but really, MEPs aren't supposed to be. Most of the sections were fun to watch for me, and while some were definitely a lot higher than others quality-wise, there wasn't really that one or two abyssmal tracks that seem to show up in every MEP and just hurt to watch with the rest. I'll have to put together an op later. Thanks Alastor for getting this out. :)
No problem, I'm glad you liked it :wink:
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Post by JaddziaDax » Thu May 17, 2007 12:59 pm

while most of the segments were well edited the whole project felt really really disjointed... and onegai clip at the beginning completely didnt fit at all

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Post by Bauzi » Thu May 17, 2007 1:33 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:while most of the segments were well edited the whole project felt really really disjointed... and onegai clip at the beginning completely didnt fit at all
Please more care about selected scenes and some segments were out of place like mine or Mac´s. I don´t think they´re bad, but the just didn´t fit at all.
Sry

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Post by JaddziaDax » Thu May 17, 2007 1:39 pm

it wasnt a matter of out of place (onegai aside... it just didnt fit at all it was all happy bouncy and bubbly and cute while the rest was dramatic - that was just a "mindfuck") it was just that the project didnt flow for me at all....

there were no real good transitions, instead of one flowing into the next its like stop heres the next stop heres the next... that only works in meps like amvhell or similar videos... to me the lack of flow and the more "slapping it together" made it less enjoyable because it was like i was being jolted into the next piece rather than being eased into it...

like i said the videos were good, and all were well edited they just didnt flow together very well... quite a few of them would make really interesting stand-alone pieces

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