DJ_Izumi wrote:A 16:9 submission wasn't what I was thinking...
I mean, some animes are 4:3, some are 16:9, and a select frew are 2.11:1... I was thinking more like, adding the wide screen black bars to those that are not 4:3, so it all fits in the end.
But I do not necessarily know when it has to be resized or not.
DJ_Izumi wrote:
I know the aspect ratio can be a minor pain to calculate evenly, but it's just a little bit of math and everything looks clean and professional. Seeing anime stretched out so the tall and skinny characters look even taller and skinnier is one of the first things that makes you think 'Ugh... Noobish'.
I think you don't really imagine the work it takes to compile all this stuff, especially when you have to coordinate something with other coordinators.
I'm a bit angry here, and I answered to you with some anger in my previous post, so I'll explain a little bit why :
In order to compile Animix 3, I've had to take a car and drive 600km, with my hard drive. I spent 7 hours in front of a computer on a saturday evening, at the house of a very good friend I hadn't seen in months...and I'd say I've seen him an hour in the whole evening.
During these 7 hours, many things have been corrected, interlaced footage, wrong fps, bad quality videos, black holes between two videos, videos that where twice the duration they should have been, etc...
And guess what ? I also have a work, so this means I had to drive back on sunday to my house...
I also had to get all this stuff back on my Hard drive, compile it several times in order to get the best quality possible, testing many combinations of the XVid codec (it took more than a total of 100 hours for parts 1+2+3 and part3).
You can add to this all the weeks that every creator spent working on their tracks, and us coordinating all this with emails, many of us living at thousand kilometers from each others...
The word "Noob" is exactly what you can't say about such a video. A collaborative video requires far more professionalism, at least in organisation, that a video you make yourself, alone, in front of your computer...
I hope that those who manage such projects agree with me here...
(emm, sorry to seem angry, I just like this video and have difficulties to accept criticism about it... we'll pay attention to these aspect ratio problems for next part, and we might be able to fix the wrong ones in part 3
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