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CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:27 pm

mirkosp's idea wins. Voting over.

Send me your finals in native resolution. I'll letterbox/crop them myself according to the number of entries and which AR and resolution wins out. This will happen for each round of the competition from now on.

mirkosp · Post by **mirkosp** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:36 pm

Code wrote:mirkosp's idea wins. Voting over.

Send me your finals in native resolution. I'll letterbox/crop them myself according to the number of entries and which AR and resolution wins out. This will happen for each round of the competition from now on.

Sweet. :3
Oh, and you mis-typed http as hhttp when updating the first post link to the rule, might want to fix that.

blabbler · Post by **blabbler** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:41 pm

fight! fight! fight!

mirko almost has a good point, except i assume most people will be using 720,480 ntsc source for deinterlacing goodness.

/looks at widescreen monitors...

i'm right (:

if you want a half assed compromise, put up two compilations, one in 848x480 for the best quality, one in 640,360 for pas and his dial-up cronies. if widescreen editors deliver their vids in 848,480 and the 4:3 antiquarians deliver in 640x480, this would be no problem for whoever encodes the compilation.

unless everybody is using pal sources

of course, i must humbly defer to the erstwhile mr. chrono since it's his project.

mirkosp · Post by **mirkosp** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:03 pm

Besides people in PAL countries, you have to take into account people that use downloaded footage that was downscaled and/or people that are using blue ray disc rips with a heigth of 720 or 1080 lines.

Also, there are people that prefer to resize to a resultion that works with a 1.0 PAR, rather than editing 720x480 or 720x576 with flagged PAR.

Besides, I do watch my vids on a 22" 16:10 screen, so I know what you mean... it would be better.

Anyways...what would be the point of making a 848x480 if everyone besides you would be sending over 4:3 vids? Pointless. Upscaling and cropping everyone's track but yours? I think that the best quality in such case would be making it 640x480 and letterboxing or cropping the sides to yours. Like I said, you have to take in account that you have no way to know what resolution most vids will be in.
And yeah, about the 768x432 vs 848x480 in case of more widescreen sources... I guess it's a matter of preferences. The area difference between 768x432 and 848x480 isn't that big anyway... I guess that if most people would be sending 720x480 vids with 16:9 flag, than the smartest thing to do would be making the vid a 720x480 with 16:9 flag.

Or if most sources were to be 720p, the HD release would be win. So yeah, the actual resolution is still a thing that needs to be decided every round, imho.

blabbler · Post by **blabbler** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:17 pm

heh, indeed. i do suspect more people will edit with widescreen sd sources than hd though (:

I think you're right, if everyone submits in native resolution (or adjusted for par

), codechrono can sort it all out.

ntsc xxx,480 source is by far the most common format for the source we use though.

/pouts

The Origonal Head Hunter · Post by **The Origonal Head Hunter** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:11 pm

This thread is seriously beginning to amuse me.

/amused Hunter is amused

Nya-chan Production · Post by **Nya-chan Production** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:21 pm

I am using 720*480 => 640*480, 29,97fps NTSC.

Disclaimer: If you say I have to redo it completely, I'll kill someone. I am already past the half of actual final length.

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:33 pm

Nya, I'll fix anything that needs to be fixed.

No worries about AR or resolution.

What happens happens. That's all I'm going to say. We're not arguing about size anymore. So get back to work. *cracks whip*

Nya-chan Production · Post by **Nya-chan Production** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:58 pm

Can you fix the whole video from the decode over editing to the encode?

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:00 pm

No. I'll edit your huffy/lagarith version. :O Nothing will be changed. I'm just going to crop/resize it so it fits the new resolution (if we get a different resolution)