Final Fantasy: Unlimited video

Pyle · Post by **Pyle** » Sun May 30, 2004 2:57 pm

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=39758

The story of Makenshi, done to Brother My Brother by Blessed Union of Souls.

Sounds exciting, no?

Unfound · Post by **Unfound** » Sun May 30, 2004 5:32 pm

Not too much timing, mediocre video quality (You ripped the DVDs but saved the final export at too low settings), constant sound problems (Popping and stuttering mainly) although the idea's original it wasn't pulled off that well. 4/10 (There was some timing and the mood did work at some parts)

Pyle · Post by **Pyle** » Sun May 30, 2004 9:13 pm

There was ok timing, it was DVD quality footage, there was background story, and the sounds was great.

Perhaps your media player isn't working correctly?

You like giving bad scores don't you.

Voices_Of_Ryan · Post by **Voices_Of_Ryan** » Sun May 30, 2004 9:22 pm

Pyle wrote:There was ok timing, it was DVD quality footage, there was background story, and the sounds was great. Perhaps your media player isn't working correctly?

You like giving bad scores don't you.

Opionions are opinions yes?

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sun May 30, 2004 9:50 pm

A 10.6MB 395kbps WMV file that is 3:43 long and has a resolution of 320 by 240 does not equal DVD quality...

And yes there and crackles in the audio they just aren't as blatent as some videos.

Pyle · Post by **Pyle** » Sun May 30, 2004 11:59 pm

Corran Productions wrote:A 10.6MB 395kbps WMV file that is 3:43 long and has a resolution of 320 by 240 does not equal DVD quality...

And yes there and crackles in the audio they just aren't as blatent as some videos.

Damn, I thought it was fine.

I thought DVD quality = Not blurry, no pixels, etc.
But DVD quality actually = huge size with no pixels
My bad.
Well I could have mde it 64 Megabytes into an Mpeg file if you'd like

Will you point out where the cracks and pops are?

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Mon May 31, 2004 9:24 am

DVD Quality:

--Original DVD resolution (NTSC is 720x480. Near dvd quality at a square pixel aspect ratio for 4:3 source would be 640x480)

--Not Grainy (You mention "no pixels". I imagine you mean grainy or noise as pixels are 'picture elements', the individual dots of color that make up an image on you monitor.) Your video is noisy.
Examples:
-Many codecs have problems with a dark, high motion scene such as this but in a low bitrate WMV file it gets painfully obvious.
-Another high motion scene. Look at the purple areas and you will see that they are blocky and grainy.

--Not Blurry. This video is anything but. WMV smooths the hell out of you video in order to use such a low bitrate.
Examples:
-Not much motion here but look at the blurriness that exists even so.

Other stuff:
-Look at the edges of the hair.
-Look at the red guy's arms at notice the specks in his hair and cape.

I would recommend against making a 60MB 640x480 mpeg file as that won't be close at all to DVD quality either.

If you want to learn how to make a near DVD quality render of your video for distrobution I highly recommend reading the guides and how to encode HQ files with Xvid or Divx.

As for the audio clicks, they can be heard all throughout the video. Unfortunately I can't show them to you like I did the screenshots with the video. To hear them I suggest turning up the volume and listening for them on your best speakers.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Mon May 31, 2004 9:33 am

Scratch that... I can show you the audio problems.

Here is an image of the waveform

Whenever the values go above 1 or below -1 in the photo there is a click. This is caused by quantization errors.

LightningCountX · Post by **LightningCountX** » Mon May 31, 2004 12:06 pm

Pyle, i suppose your still using WMM right?

If you want the video to be dvd quality, just export your video from WMM with the avi format it has.

go to www.doom9.org and download the latest version of virtual dub, and gordian knot 1.6.

Install both, and open virtual dub. Open the avi you exported in vdub and click video > compression. Set the compressor to xvid, and set the bitrate around 2000 or higher(depends on video length). When you finish that, you can save the video, it will be high quality, and a lower filesize.

If you want to compress audio, search the internet for lame mp3 compressor, install it. After compressing the video in vdub, click audio > full processing, then click compression. Select Lame Mp3 on the list, and set it to 128 kbps 16 bit Stereo. That will almost slash your filesize in half. If you want some better compression techniques, you will have to ask Corran the xvid god

My way is quite simple, but his is alittle more complicated, but gives you a better filesize.

Pyle · Post by **Pyle** » Mon May 31, 2004 12:31 pm

LightningCountX wrote:Pyle, i suppose your still using WMM right?

If you want the video to be dvd quality, just export your video from WMM with the avi format it has.

go to www.doom9.org and download the latest version of virtual dub, and gordian knot 1.6.

Install both, and open virtual dub. Open the avi you exported in vdub and click video > compression. Set the compressor to xvid, and set the bitrate around 2000 or higher(depends on video length). When you finish that, you can save the video, it will be high quality, and a lower filesize.

If you want to compress audio, search the internet for lame mp3 compressor, install it. After compressing the video in vdub, click audio > full processing, then click compression. Select Lame Mp3 on the list, and set it to 128 kbps 16 bit Stereo. That will almost slash your filesize in half. If you want some better compression techniques, you will have to ask Corran the xvid god

My way is quite simple, but his is alittle more complicated, but gives you a better filesize.

@_@. When you ask a question, you get a hell of an answer.

I actually have Doom9 installed, and several other unusable codecs as well. I left WMM behind after Meant To Live, and I use RoxioVideo7 now

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As for the screencaps, they won't display but I believe you if your going to that much trouble 8) . I used the Xvid codec first, but the file turned out way, way larger then I anticipated. I stuck it back into WMV, because I'm a 28k friendly guy

Roxio's come's with something like 40 different AVI and MPEG codec, btw. WMV is down at the bottom of the list, but it has the least MB usage.

The audio was in mp3 format, taken right off the disc. I should sue Millenium Records for giving me a crappy song to rip ^_^