Project Ayu-MIX: D A Y B R E A K (Official Thread)

Niotex · Post by **Niotex** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:34 pm

Looks good so far i can tell i still think my track is a bit fuzzy compared to the rest but other then that good and yeah like JCD said you got a broken frame i guese...

JCD stop snorting all that crack messes up your nose and dont give me that i got a cold crap

turboneko · Post by **turboneko** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:09 pm

Also, it looks like that you used my previous beta for the transition between our tracks: the final one has the interlacing on Lumiere fixed, and I added an extra effect in the entering motion

The project looks totally awesome!

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:26 am

turboneko wrote:Also, it looks like that you used my previous beta for the transition between our tracks: the final one has the interlacing on Lumiere fixed, and I added an extra effect in the entering motion

The project looks totally awesome!

O_o I thought I changed that.....
I will need to check my join project file again.

Also I realized I will have to filter each segment seperately and reexport, since each segment requires different levels of filtering to clean up and increase compressability without damaging the track too much. This will ofcourse increase export times (since I have to reexport each part of the final again with filtering applied) and then join it all back together in the xvid. I think I have figured out reasonable settings for everyones tracks now, I am in the process of exporting to check it all out joined together now.

Release probably won't happen today though, since I have to go to work now (while its exporting) and I'd like to get an optimal and cleanest file possible for online release, so I'm willing to sacrifice a few more days to do it if needed.

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:10 am

alright guys, final versions... or maybe I should say semi-final versions are up, these are the files I want to release with fitlereing and all. Ofcourse thats if you alla re happy with the filtering and such. Theres 2 versions, the lower res 512x388 one and the higher res 640x480 one. There will also be an mp4 of the 640x480 one that I am working on now.

My question is which do you guys prefer to be the localy hosted one? the LQ avi, HQ avi or the mp4? all 3 will also be hosted via direct link on the projectayumix.com website regardless to wich is chosen for local.

Warheart · Post by **Warheart** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:58 am

I'd prefer to see the mp4 version on local so people will get used to it

. And it won't take as much space as the xvid will.

lilgumba · Post by **lilgumba** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:37 am

I'd say at least the HQ avi. I'm still not sure of the mp4 since I'm not up to par on lingo yet. It would be good to have something of great quality but acessible to a lot of people.

Niotex · Post by **Niotex** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:37 am

downloading now =) I'd recomend HQ Xvid for local and Mp4 for direct/indirect seeing as most people are compadeble with Xvid and have yet to learn what Mp4 is we could also puch Mp4 forward with releasing the first only Mp4 mep but that is just a suggestion ^^

JCD · Post by **JCD** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:36 pm

Bakadeshi wrote: 512x388

Do it 512x384 for the final release. 388 is no multiple of 16 and will make it harder to compress the file for the codec.

I also request to take out the filters on my track. I absolutely don't like how it looks now, a good amount of detail got washed out and the whole thing looks flat, especially in the beginning section. I think I filtered the input source well enough, all other material is self animated so it shouldn't need any

I would say go for Xvid on local and mp4 on direct. Even if I only got one single complaint for my own video as x264/mp4 on local, this project has propably a much larger audience

Other than that you are ready to go

lilgumba · Post by **lilgumba** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:47 pm

It's cool with me. Let it be freeeeeeee!

Bakadeshi · Post by **Bakadeshi** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:22 pm

JCD wrote: I also request to take out the filters on my track. I absolutely don't like how it looks now, a good amount of detail got washed out and the whole thing looks flat, especially in the beginning section. I think I filtered the input source well enough, all other material is self animated so it shouldn't need any

Ok i think I made a mistake there ;p I had tried the vaguedenoiser filter on your track since deen wasn;t handling the gradients well, and decided to take it back out because of the reasons you just stated. only somehow I found it was still there ;p I probably saved to the wrong place or something. Anyway I'll recode it without it. Visually your track is filtered well enough, I was only trying it to increase compressabilty.

BTW the mp4 looks amazing, at only 153 MB it looks better than the 230 MB HQ xvid.... Just wished it didn;t take a freakin 4 hours to do a 3pass encode on this project, and I have to do it again now ;p