Dark Side of Wonders

Lu Tze · Post by **Lu Tze** » Sun May 27, 2007 1:10 pm

My first AMV.
It is a fast paced action video without much of a story.

Since the video codec is x264 in a MKV-container and the resolution is 1024x576, you may not be able to play the high quality version; if that is the case, try the low quality DIVX-version, which is more or less garuanteed to work.

Well... enjoy!

Funky-kun · Post by **Funky-kun** » Sun May 27, 2007 1:20 pm

hmm.. big resolution... looks interesting... now dling

EDIT: pretty nice job for a first video. The sync was pretty good and the quality was great! There was a difference in visual quality though - some of the sources were better than the others. Main problem with the video - the animes are with different resolutions(eg Mai Hime). For your future works scale all down to the size of the smallest, because watching the amv in a box in the middle of the screen is not cool :/

but except for the last thing - great first video. Keep improving and create some neat stuff

4/5

Orzmella · Post by **Orzmella** » Sun May 27, 2007 3:10 pm

/gets

Edit:
Good points:
DvD footage

Bad points:
Long and boring ( aka there was totally no story )
Total loss of music sync after 1minute
And the worst part unresized footage
( http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/830/ ... 041cm6.png
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/9830 ... 237of8.jpg )

Keep improving

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sun May 27, 2007 3:31 pm

the only thing i would say is that it would be nicer if it were all either widescreen or full screen...

really clean image though and pretty good sync

Lu Tze · Post by **Lu Tze** » Tue May 29, 2007 1:53 pm

Ok!

Yes, I guess I have to do something to get rid of the black bars next time I use footage with various aspect ratios.

@Orzmella
Loss of sync sounds like a playback problem... also, how do you mean "unresized footage"? As far as I know, this Elfenlied-version is 16:9, so it looks ok to me.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Tue May 29, 2007 2:10 pm

i think hes talking about the same thing i said...

i usually just crop one ar to fit the other...

if i want all my video widescreen i will crop the full screen footage (top and bottom)
if i want it all to be full i crop the widescreen footage (left and right)

its easier to do this before editing, that way when you edit all your source will be the same aspect ratio

Lu Tze · Post by **Lu Tze** » Tue May 29, 2007 5:53 pm

Yes.
It's just that the image he linked is a scene from Elfenlied; without black bars.
Apparently the region 1 version of Elfenlied has an aspect ratio of 4:3, whereas the region 2 version has 16:9... or something like that. I was also surprised to find out that Elfenlied is actually 30 fps progressive! Quite unusual really.

But, yeah... I wanted to have maximum image quality and therefore decided to include the 4:3 parts unaltered and uncropped, but I will do it differently next time, since I can imagine that my choice of having black bars left and right is somewhat annoying on non-Widescreen-displays.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:49 pm

no he was just compairing the two...
its widescreen in america