Mecha-Mania - Mechanical Monstrosities

EvaFan · Post by **EvaFan** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:22 pm

My advice to this MEP is to start over and ask people if they still want their tracks in... To be honest i dont even like my old track that i did 2 years ago *cough*, I'd like to do a new one now that im SLIGHTLY more experienced >_>... I'd probably use burst angel this time for realz... Just need to find some jpop song since u dont seem to like anything else.

OropherZero · Post by **OropherZero** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:47 pm

Eva-Fan wrote:Just need to find some jpop song since u dont seem to like anything else.

its not that i dont like anything else, the problem with the entire MEP after watching all the finals is audio consistency ~_~

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:11 pm

OropherZero wrote:
Eva-Fan wrote:Just need to find some jpop song since u dont seem to like anything else.
its not that i dont like anything else, the problem with the entire MEP after watching all the finals is audio consistency ~_~

I had the same problem with the xmas mep, it made me understand why AMV hell had transition segments and didn't run just 1 piece to another.
But, all you need to do is group the segments into audio that will flow from 1 song to another and overlap/transition them.. sounds so easy when I write it >.>
Easiest way is to make an audio timeline and just swap segments around till it sounds right and then that's your playlist order. At the end you wont be 100% happy with it but you just have to bite the bullet. You could try a transition trick like a film reel (in AE of course) or a monitor/coridoor moving from 1 segment to another... probably needs some camera work in ae... or one of theose large matices with heaps of different clips all laid out... err also another ae thang *shrugs* just some ideas

Considering how many final segments you have (a novelty for a MEP) this shoulda been finished ages ago WAlien

I was almost gonna say "gimme the damn segments and i'll arrange them, but i know how slow our aussie interwebs is and it would take forever to upload.

And yeah I made my first segment ages ago too and I'm much better at editing now but I'll keep it in (XD maybe you should put the year/month finished in the credits for a laugh)

and on that note new beta since I'm litterally stuck from progressing on about 7 other projects I whipped that up in 3 hours last night (I'll be finished later this week) that's just a first export from premiere so there's some timing issues and about 20 seconds of mecha fighting missing off the end that i haven't done yet, but nee way it gives you the idea.

git cracking viney *whips you*

Niwa · Post by **Niwa** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:19 pm

Beta sent O:

I'l try finishing it tommorow since I'm going for Japan already this Thursday :/
(I should send my final for Gateway aswell before leaving >.>)

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:37 pm

uploading final

Flame-X · Post by **Flame-X** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:46 pm

i'm assuming this is dropped due to the lack of updates.

OropherZero · Post by **OropherZero** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:40 am

UPDATE:

Okay I have just rendered out the first beta of the entire thing. It is just over 13mins long, and this is excluding my Gurren Lagaan track, the starting and ending credit and Niwa's track... I'm not sure whether Niwa actually had a link to his final before he went off to Japan, at least I can't seem to find an msn log of it. NIWA SINCE YOU WON'T ANSWER MY MSN, I'LL ASK HERE *DID YOU SEND ME A LINK TO YOUR FINAL?* I may have been out of quota at the time and didn't download your final so just checking.

Okay I was going to re-open this MEP, since I could have had editors like ScorpionP in since this MEP is practically made up of half of Walkure studio but I figured with the final length looking at 15-16mins it would be a good idea to stop it as it is. I do plan to do another Mecha MEP at some stage and do it properly this time - creating a jrock mix and splitting it up and getting people to choose which audio they want, as there are some awesome mecha stuff lately - Trans-Am in Gundam 00, Macross Frontier, Code Geass R2 mech upgrades... err I think Dragonnaut is a mecha anime? In any case, the next one should be done right and if someone else wants to coordinate it in my stead then feel free XD

Okay when it finishes uploading onto my fileserver I'll be pming everyone with a link to the beta. I will need input in case someone can think up of creative transitions, else I'll just cross fade everything. Also if people are happy with the final arrangement of the tracks and audio transitioning, else tell me what you think would be better arranged, like switch which tracks around.

...Also tell me ASAP if you think I left a track out. There were a couple of finals which weren't in my MM MEP project folder so I hope I didn't leave anything out @_@

Cheers.

edit: okay it didn't export properly, it skipped the first half of the video and the last half of the audio and combined the second half of the video with the first half of the audio,
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*head on desk*

edit2: couldn't export out in lossless but MJPEG worked. enjoy crappy quality beta =)

Autraya · Post by **Autraya** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:04 pm

linku?

btw try uncompressed export? and beta as an xvid/mp4?
lol you could always steal my amv live video (which sucketh) if you "need " gundam 00?

OropherZero · Post by **OropherZero** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:23 am

beta link sent to everyone. Let me know if you didn't get it. The next beta I send will have a smaller filesize thanks to Autraya teaching me xvid compression, I started uploading this one earlier today so not much point stopping it mid-way to do another encode ~_~

Fizziks · Post by **Fizziks** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:22 am

OropherZero wrote:beta link sent to everyone. Let me know if you didn't get it. The next beta I send will have a smaller filesize thanks to Autraya teaching me xvid compression, I started uploading this one earlier today so not much point stopping it mid-way to do another encode ~_~

You must be a mind reader, because I was just thinking about what was going on with this MEP, and then I see a beta link in my inbox