LittleAtari wrote:The only thing about the editing that I'm not sure if the film effect was the right way to take, but it did suit the mood. My problem with it was when I looked at the parts with the film effect, I thought that I was looking at memories, rather than what was happening presently in the video.
Yeah, I wasn't too sure about the film effect, but I screwed up my deadline (for some reason I thought it was a Tuesday, not Sunday... WTF kind of deadline is on a Tuesday? >.>), so I was trying to finish off the video in about 4 hours. I really disliked the ending, but as I was using mostly the final episode of a very short series and I didn't plan it particularly well, I ended up running out of clips

Yeah, bit of a fail there. I wasn't sure what else to do for that, though.
LittleAtari wrote:One thing to really improve on is your quality. A lot of the stuff was pretty blurry and I could see jagged outlines on a lot of the characters. The blurry quality could be from working with low quality footage and improper compression. Next time, use the DVDs to get good quality. The jagged outlines could be from improper de-interlacing, for that I recommend using AVIsynth.
For compression: The file size is pretty big. A video that length and resolution could be a little over 30MB if you were to compress it to an h.264 MP4 using
Zarxgui. If you get lost using it,
here's a guide to help you.
If you can actually help me with this, it would be so very much appreciated! I've been having huge issues compressing for the org - I'm currently using MPEG Stream Clip, and I would definitely prefer something else, but it's the best I've been able to find for Mac OSX.
As far as quality goes, my footage is actually decently high quality. I'm getting so very frustrated with Premiere CS4, because no matter what I do to the export settings, it always screws with the AR and makes it fullscreen! So I have to convert the AR back using MPEG Stream Clip, which absolutely decimates the quality. I know that's more of a question for the Adobe/technical editing forums, but if anyone has any suggestions, that would be great.