Gravitation: The Acceptance Speech (short, goofy, pointless)

jasper-isis · Post by **jasper-isis** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:10 pm

Wow, cuteness.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:13 pm

Thanks, all!

Disappearing!
I've always kept making AMVs; I just have no patience and get bitchy if I stick around the forums too much, that's all.

Compression!
This version is compressed with XviD. But I had planned on having a direct link eventually anyway, so as I said before I may as well make that version with a different codec.

And this stuff:

Scintilla wrote:The mouth movements seemed to be a few frames behind the audio for the first verse or so, but nothing serious.

I noticed that, but let it slide for this one. I think I know what I'm doing wrong now, though. Next time. :p

One question, though... any particular reason you left the audio uncompressed? (Of course, with such a short video, it doesn't hurt the filesize that much, but just wondering.)

I did? I don't really know what you mean. Maybe I can learn something. Heh. All I know about audio encoding is - are - isare - WAV and MP3, and back when I encoded the sound in my AMVs with MP3 (LAME, I think), it got me disqualified from a con.

They couldn't play it because it was encoded like that. Because of that I've used 22050 Hz WAV since then. If that's what you mean.

And yeah, 12MB isn't too bad for an encode of mine. It's within that 10-MB-per-minute window, anyway.

I should read up on encoding again; that's always been my problem.

Anywho, non-encoding-problem related:

Yes, although they probably don't want to get their butts sued, Avenue Q, the musical this comes from, bears a resemblance to a certain kids' show involving puppets living in the city.

I'm fairly sure the guys in this song, Rod and Nicky, are supposed to be reminiscent of Bert and Ernie.

So yeah, this was fun to make, and I'm glad some of ya were entertained. Thanks!

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:59 pm

SarahtheBoring wrote:
One question, though... any particular reason you left the audio uncompressed? (Of course, with such a short video, it doesn't hurt the filesize that much, but just wondering.)
I did? I don't really know what you mean. Maybe I can learn something. Heh. All I know about audio encoding is - are - isare - WAV and MP3, and back when I encoded the sound in my AMVs with MP3 (LAME, I think), it got me disqualified from a con. They couldn't play it because it was encoded like that. Because of that I've used 22050 Hz WAV since then. If that's what you mean.

Yup, that is what I was referring to. Cons generally don't like MP3 audio (I think it has something to do with MP3 audio in an MPEG-2 file, but I could very well be wrong about that), but for distribution, it's basically perfectly safe to go the LAME MP3 route (because everyone and their mother has an MP3 codec on their comp, and the AVI container is fine with it).

But I'm not really complaining -- as I said, the file's small enough that it doesn't really matter, and because it's uncompressed, it sounds pretty much perfect (at least to me) (even at 22KHz).

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:09 pm

Sorry, one more little nitpicky thing:

Everyone associates "WAV" with "uncompressed audio", because that's usually what it signifies. However, .WAV is really a container that can also hold compressed formats like IMA ADPCM, MS ADPCM, or even MP3 audio (as I discovered when direct-stream-copying audio from an AVI in VirtualDubMod and selecting "Save as .WAV").

Technically, the proper term to refer to uncompressed audio (in the usual format, at least) is PCM (Pulse Code Modulation).

Concerning cons (just in case):
If you're submitting an .AVI, best to leave the audio uncompressed (PCM).
If you're submitting an MPEG, use MPEG-1 Layer II audio and set the bitrate as high as you can (384kbps?).

Hope this helps.

(I also hope I'm not being rude...)

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:10 pm

Oh, no problem. I am a complete idiot when it comes to encoding, and you're quite polite. Thank you.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:11 pm

Hey, I incidentally got to see it today (thanks Moonlight Soldier), and I found it absolutely loveable

The song is quite something in itself; yea, there was a few lip-sync inconsistencies; but it's hilarious/cute, and surprisingly, the humor picks up as the video goes on, instead of fading once the unexpectedness of the song dissolves.

In other words, a job well done. I'll get it for myself when I have the chance

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 11:50 pm

That was great...it sounded like Kermit the Frog...which just made it more hilarious.