Instrumental Anime Project

ooshna · Post by **ooshna** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 6:30 am

OK I uploaded ver.2 which was pretty much the same thing as my first one only it used an avs file. But then 8 hours later I uploaded ver.3 Which is the first three minutes of my video. Nothing in it is final I'm probably gonna fix alot of the timimg in the parts with the riots what I want to know is if I got the timing right from about 1:50 - 2:03 and from 2:52 - 3:01 Thanks.

rose4emily · Post by **rose4emily** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:31 am

Anubsx - so the theme of the week is that IE sucks. In all fairness to Microsoft, however, I'm on Mozilla Firebird for Linux, and the images don't show up until I right click on them and specifically dictate "Show Images" - so these pages might have something to do with it. Having seen the images, however, I am curious as to how uncompressed (or rather un-more-compressed) DVD footage could have those artifacts. Yours looks like a bad JPEG or a funny variation of DivX rather than super-high-bitrate MPEG2. Smoothing would reduce the blocking/banding artifacts' visibility, but they would return when you compress the final for distribution, and you'd be removing yet more detail. Similarly, any increase in contrast would emphasise the non-continuity of the background gradient unless you also kicked up the brightness a lot - and by "a lot" I mean like the first half of my video, which still had all those artifacts in the non-pure white regions (until I painted them out, which is incredibly time-consuming), but which is so damn bright that you can't really see them. Dark video brings out stuff like that because the eye's (or rather, the mind's) perception of differences in brightness is not linear, but rather as a ratio of sorts to the brightness of the region being looked at.

AznRAVEr - "In a Gadda Da Vida...", nevermind. Really, though, if the effect you're going for is a picture frame, why not use something more 'picture-framy' than a black border. I don't necessarily mean some big patterned Baroque-looking thing, just something that looks like it has a form rather than being mistakable for a lack of cropping. The video is great, but I think it looks a little awkward with the thick, flat, black edges. Of course, those APs are bitch, so you might want to hold off on the editing stuff for a while. SATs - not bad, just long. APs - I'm glad I don't have to take them again.

Ooshna - I've never tried this "bait and switch" bit, but it sounds like it might work. It'll be interesting to see the results.

Is it just me, or is there only one person in this entire thread who has been on the .org for less time than I have?

ooshna · Post by **ooshna** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:42 am

Who cares how long you've been on? Your active and thats what counts.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:38 am

Yea, indeed. I could be here for a long time, and I still wouldn't be able to manage a project like this - mainly due to the lack of FTP space (I could try to set up a server like that, but generally speaking, my ISP would probably cut me off once I went too far over monthly bandwith limits which I exceed almost twice anyways). So, as long as you're active... it's good. Apparently, my time spent here gives me no advantage...

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Getting 'A Boy I Knew' as we speak, and waiting for ooshna's betas to get out-boxed...

ooshna · Post by **ooshna** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:55 am

Damn three betas in one day I feel Like a taint you can delete all of my betas I'm in alpha now.

ooshna · Post by **ooshna** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:57 am

rose can you do me a favor and delete all of my betas but the latest one sorry for all the betas.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:58 am

(own video storyboarding rant)

Meanwhile, while I still need to see Bebop again, I did do some mental storyboarding and structuring. Essentially, what I'm looking at is 4 large sections, perhaps with an intro and an outro.

The first section would basically be the set-up - that's the one where Pen-Pen doesn't like the melody

What I suppose would be good there is landscapes, the Bebop itself, and perhaps character portraits. Essentially, just introducing the setting and the crew into the video (since we've already established that I look at videos as short movies, in a sense).
Then I'm looking at the second section, with the sax solo, and this sounds like a good place for a mix of action and humor, which would come out of the series just fine.
Then I have the 'Groovy Section', which I do have some weird plans for (which should mix the real story of the music piece's creation, a bunch of effects as seen presently, and some more general funky and somewhat humor-oriented stuff)...
Then there's the later section which should probably go into the more serious aspects of Bebop. And I'll certainly have to try hard to think of something other than Spike falling out the window for that descending guitar finale

Anyone who's seen Bebop - if you have suggested scenes or ideas for this structure - feel free to throw em in

ooshna · Post by **ooshna** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:04 am

Can someone help me with a name for my video? I canonly think of one. I was thinking about Simplicity because I have only changed the speed of clips and used rubberbands making it a simple video.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:05 am

Well, as did I in my previous vid (unless you count the titles

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I'll have to see it first, and I'm waiting for the betas to get moved - let me check it out, and I'll see if I come up with anything.

What music are you using again?

ooshna · Post by **ooshna** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:07 am

Schism by tool but instrumental with strings.