The_Mad_Hatter wrote:
It's a nice lil clip, I'm mainly interested in what people think of the lil spot of lip synch. Does it look too perfect? Should I do what that other guy suggested and make it less than perfect? The rest of the clip doesn't matter since I've already changed it around. Like I didn't like how Sakura's outfit didn't match what she was wearing in the other clips...so I changed it.
OK, I've had a chance to go through and pick through the clip. I converted it over into a MJPEG .avi so I could look at it in premiere (since Premiere won't do mpegs frame-accurate). I also blew it up to twice its original size to get a better look at the mouth flaps. Hopefully that didn't cause any of the problems I see.
First off, without getting nitpicky, and possible attitude problems
aside, the clip does look quite good. It has potential, and I'd probably say if you had presented it in a less abrasive manner people just might be complimenting you on it. I realize this was not what you wanted- but I do have to say that I think if you asked people (politely) to rip something to shreds and tell you exactly what is wrong with or that they don't like about something, they'll probably oblige you. But, to each their own.
Getting down to picking nits. I have to agree with 'Z (I believe it was him) in that I think the blink in the section of sitting on the grass didn't look right. It just doesn't look like it belongs- very much like it was added in.
I like the 'spinning background crossfade', for lack of a better term. I assume (hopefully correctly) that the change in background was something you put it in (not the face to, I'm assuming, having not seen the series, her mother). If I'm right- it does look quite nice. If that's straight out of the series, it's a neat scene. Anyway- the edge around Sakura when the other character in the background seems, well, too well defined. (of course, if this was all straight, unedited footage, I'm obviously being -way- too critical
)
The lip-syncing. I'm not an expert at it, by any stretch- I've been pacing myself, and my first (real) attempt at lipsync will be after I'm done with the NES and MI project vids- but it looks (and sounds) just a little bit off to me. The mouth movements looked just a little bit behind the audio. So I played around a bit, and at least to my ears and eyes, it looks and sounds better with the audio shifted to be 1/15 of a second later. I remember reading somewhere around here that our eyes and ears don't sync up perfectly, and a cut or motion that falls exactly on the sound will appear to be late by a split second, and you need to 'lead' the video by a very slight bit to make it be perceived as being in sync. That would appear to be the problem here. As for the lip-flaps being perfect, they look good enough to me (timing aside). As best as I can figure looking at my own lips (reflected in a CD-RW, my wife doesn't feel like finding her hand-mirror for me), it's pretty good.
As for the thumb-sucking (all puns and innuendo aside), it is neat- but again, does look just a bit off. First off, her shoulder should be moving as well- assuming there isn't a 'telescoping arm' Clow card
. Also, the thumb and area around it and the line on the sleeve where it looks like you extended the arm frame-by-frame are noticeably fuzzier and less defined than the rest of the outlines on her.
I'd say unintentional ones too. Like I didn't even notice it up until a couple hours ago but the in the first clip, with the birds flying, the change in music right as the last bird stops gliding and starts flapping it's wings. I didn't even mean to do that. ^_^
I'm not seeing that, sorry :/ My current best example of what I'm talking about is in
More Than Toast's "A Thousand Miles" (this time I checked, you should be able to download it. In addition to the very obvious (and IMO, very cool) piano effect, there is a very very cool but totally un-noticeable effect at almost the very end of the video that anyone who's not seen WotH probably won't even realize is an effect.
I'm sorry I didn't realize AD didn't have the ArimaShinjikun video up for download anymore- though I can't say I'm totally surprised- I'd bet his bandwidth bills for that video alone are staggering. Search around the P2Ps for it- it's worth the disc space. I'd offer to send it to you, but I know my upsteam transfer rate sucks hard.
o_O
No that wasn't CCS, that was CC. I feel sorry for you...I mean you actually sat through a whole episode of Cardcaptors? *shudder* If it was possible to rip a soul out of somebody...what Nelvana did to the Cardcaptor Sakura anime would be a good comparison.
I was curious, and I've not watched any more of it. I figured it was better to give it a chance than to dismiss it completely off the bat.
Still needs a bit of tweaking. *SNIP* Using that information it'd be able to do a near perfect job of covering it without making any mistakes....haven't quite got it that far yet. Programming isn't exactly my forte.
By the sound of it, you're better at it than I am. It sounds like (the font reverse-matching aside) it works much like the logo-removal filter for VirtualDub.
Actually upon closer inspection they're actually 544x400. Anime-Galaxy DVD to MPEG4 rips.
Weird. I thought that all DVDs were encoded to 720x480. Given the clip you put up is 352x240, I would think that it did start out that way. But, you would know what you're working in better than I...
Nah, I've found the format doesn't matter, if it's bigger than 352x240 it'll start frame skipping...
Actually, I was thinking more in terms of how fast you could convert/encode the video- what you said was taking lots and lots of time. If the MJPEG compression took less time, it might be better for you...
