Sakura-Con Fallout

NME · Post by **NME** » Mon May 03, 2004 12:56 am

That's why he should never be allowed to run a contest again. Not that most people there had any idea the sync was off (being in a room of 300 people who scream when a certain character comes onscreen really puts intelligence levels in perspective).

The fact of the matter is that he (Arnesen, or fuckwad as I call him) either
saw all these problems and let them slide, honestly didn't know that there was a problem (wtf kind of person doesn't do a dry run on the equipment before showtime. Soundcheck? HELLO?) or just plain didn't care enough to do it correctly (I get this feeling from some of the emails I've gotten from him, he was nearly expressing anger that he isn't getting paid for this). All of this stems from the fact that he obviously has no idea what he is doing (Authoring the contest on a DVD in the first place) and that he doesn't enjoy what he does (he would take it seriously if he did, and not let such greivances occur).

Maybe I'm overly bitter that the videos I entered didn't make it in, but some of my friend's videos did. They were off sync. That in itself is bad enough to ban him from heading another contest again. Without sync videos are nothing but disjointed images with sound.

Seijin_Dinger · Post by **Seijin_Dinger** » Mon May 03, 2004 1:01 pm

if you wish to voice your concern in a constructive way NME please direct it to the Assault and Flattery Forum on the Sakura-Con Message Board
the key word is Constructive.

otherwise SHUT THE FUCK UP

Seijin_Dinger · Post by **Seijin_Dinger** » Mon May 03, 2004 1:38 pm

Furthermore I believe that the audio problems were inherant with the Compression used by the entrants

the Video I entered didnt lose synch or have any audio glitches. I used the Avid Quicktime Codec, and burned to DVD from that. but the ones I knew were encoded in DivX or XVid were ther ones I saw suffering the most. Honestly if you guys are gonna use a Hacked MPeg4 Codec which DivX is, dont whine when its quality isnt up to par.

Seijin_Dinger · Post by **Seijin_Dinger** » Mon May 03, 2004 1:47 pm

oh yeah, and if you do decide to post on the Sakura-Con Message Board your concerns about Chris, read these first

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AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Mon May 03, 2004 3:21 pm

seijin_dinger wrote:Furthermore I believe that the audio problems were inherant with the Compression used by the entrants

the Video I entered didnt lose synch or have any audio glitches. I used the Avid Quicktime Codec, and burned to DVD from that. but the ones I knew were encoded in DivX or XVid were ther ones I saw suffering the most. Honestly if you guys are gonna use a Hacked MPeg4 Codec which DivX is, dont whine when its quality isnt up to par.

This post is full of so much bullshit I don't know where to start.

NME · Post by **NME** » Mon May 03, 2004 6:16 pm

AD, I was going to put up a post about that when I got home. You've saved me the time. Thank you.

NME · Post by **NME** » Mon May 03, 2004 7:03 pm

What do you know! I'm capable of stringing together words into paragraphs!

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Mon May 03, 2004 8:22 pm

seijin_dinger wrote:Furthermore I believe that the audio problems were inherant with the Compression used by the entrants

the Video I entered didnt lose synch or have any audio glitches. I used the Avid Quicktime Codec, and burned to DVD from that. but the ones I knew were encoded in DivX or XVid were ther ones I saw suffering the most. Honestly if you guys are gonna use a Hacked MPeg4 Codec which DivX is, dont whine when its quality isnt up to par.

This is like the AMV guy (NOT the head room guy who was a great guy) in the wired telling me the reason there was so much bass in M:I was that MP3 boosts the bass by 30%. The bass problem I found out an hour later when the head room guy came back? A subwoofer to fader knob that required all of a 1/4 inch turn to correct the audio problems we were arguing with this tool about for the last 2 hours.

The AMV room? Sometimes I hate the otaku/fanpeople subculture. Not for being otaku, as I could never hate people for watching and enjoying anime, but for consistantly proving themselves to be as stupid as Maddox makes them out to be. I must have just known smart, well adjusted, but still nerdy anime fans prior to coming to cons. Goddamn was I in for a shock, cause this con was a little worse than most.

NME · Post by **NME** » Tue May 18, 2004 7:36 pm

Maybe I should submit all my videos in ADPCM.

He'd still think it's Mp3.

AVI = MP3 OMG I AM TEH WIN!