HDTV Anime Music Videos

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 3:08 pm

So in this modern era of coffee makers that do your taxes and small robots that vacume up your living room, anime has begun being released in HDTV. I've found myself with some 720p material on my computer and thinking 'Ya know... Maybe I should do an HDTV AMV'. I began thinking of the difficulties involved in this and... It's god me scared.

My normal tactic for doing an AMV is to transcode short bits from the Mpeg-2 or other souce to HufYUV so I can edit VERY easily in Premiere. Of course, the idea of 1280x720 HuffYUV makes be wet my pants in fear of both file size and the access times to stream threw such video in premiere. My two 80GB 7200rpm drives and one 80GB 5400rpm drive have wet their pants as well.

Another issue would bth the vast ammount of RAM likely necessary for working on this, I knew I should have gotten more than 512mb. I could upgrade in a couple of months to 1gb total, right now I'm spending my money on collecting all of the Greenwood manga and some cosplay stuff. >.>

How about playback? I have the feeling that for users to playback 720p AMV's they'd require about 1ghz in CPU power, maybe more like 1.4ghz for 1080p.

Anyway, I was thinking this would be a good place to get discussion rolling on ideas on how to tackle HDTV AMV's. Comments?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 3:27 pm

I think that, for the moment, HDTV videos don't really have much point. Are you really getting a better picture quality than the DVD? Most the the HDTV captures I have seen don't look nearly as good as the dvd material. Rather, they are plagued by the standard things that make TV captures crap: rainbows, dot crawl, chroma shifting, poor color fidelity, etc.

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:35 pm

Zarx is right, the resolution is higher, but the quality isn't

As for editing, bait and switch if you can't handle it.

Playback? 1.0 GHz seems conservative to me, my old Duron 750 could only just pull off 640x480 when it was overclocked to 900MHz, try 1.8 and 2.4GHz. A lot depends on the codec.

I've got an Athlon64 3400+ with a Radeon 9800 Pro, and it can't play back 1080i AVC in real time.

If you want to try something gimmicky edit 2 amvs to 2 different songs, but it must still remain as an amv when you substitute the other audio track, then mux it some container that can handle multi audio and video; hey presto mix and match amv.

Though not practical it would require a fuck load of planning and effort, oh well.

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:45 pm

Playback? 1.0 GHz seems conservative to me, my old Duron 750 could only just pull off 640x480 when it was overclocked to 900MHz, try 1.8 and 2.4GHz. A lot depends on the codec.

my Celeron M 1.3ghz laptop, with 512mb DDR and 32mb Mobility Radeon 9000 can playback 1080p WMV:HD at 95% processer usage, it played back an HD DivX trailer, 720p with only 50% processer usage.

However, I think the ammount of ram available would be a factor in this case too.

MousePotato · Post by **MousePotato** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:44 pm

Besides keep in mind that conventions usually conform to NTSC standards and good luck creating a downloadable version for the internet....

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:25 pm

Well, I still think I'll take a stab at it in a couple of months, after I get another 512mb of ram for my OCed Athlon box, if only so I can say "ZOMG HDTV AMV!" And release it online as a 720p DivX AVI.

The CPU power needed could be a problem for the more low end users I imagine.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/ ... esktop.jpg

Stats as my Laptop plays back an episode of Kamichu in HD. Ironicly, it's 1024x768 panel display is actually at lower resolution than the video itself. o.O

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:17 pm

Yes, the Kamichu HDTV captures do look very nice and they could look even better with some avisynth processing. I was comtemplating doing something like this myself but I have too many ideas and not enough motivation as it is try bother starting a new video just to make it HDTV

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:08 pm

Corran wrote:Yes, the Kamichu HDTV captures do look very nice and they could look even better with some avisynth processing.

I was worried at first. I was like "340mb for an HDTV episode...? This is going to look like crap." I have to admit, I was surprised.