Too confused, apart from just sick of editing this video.
I don't think I'm gonna be able to make another version, but what would you have made different? It's not merely a remaster, so I'm taking all the chances I get to improve on the original.
640x480 seems to be the very best for computerviewing, but 720x480 is the only one that lets me keep all of the picture (and the quality), so isn't that preferable in pretty much every other way?
Stretching is not even an option to me, so what I've done is I've cropped the EoE footage just a tiny bit to make the transition less obvious, but it doesn't bother me at all that they're not entirely the same size. I even edited some non-EoE footage to fit the AR of that part of the video.
Seems to me that all I could do to improve on this version is just cropping it to 716x480 to get rid of some black at the edges of the Platinum-footage.
A width of 640 means stretching or cropping, which just isn't worth it to me. Of course I wanted this one to be optimal in every way, it's just that I thought that was what I presented here.
Or maybe I'm just missing something. Looking at screenshots of regular viewing (I suppose), it seems to me like I might be able to squeeze my footage a liiiittle more. Thusly; I end up with a 640x480-version, with 30 pixels cropped out of the X-axis of the whole shebang.
You think this would be preferable then? The EoE-interlude would still be left slightly thinner than the rest, as the only way to resize my footage without the destroying it would include a new output at 320x240.
Trying this out (I'm experimenting while writing) end up with the EoE-footage feeling way too close to the camera. Kinda like in "Enter the Dragon", where you pretty much just see Bruce Lee punching people, without actually seeing the punches land. It's because I had to crop off 65 on the Y-axis, and a whooping 130 of the X-axis. I'm also losing out on much of the slick "feature length motion picture"-luxury feel that the thinner footage gives off.
Original 720x240. This was downloaded and is actually already a bit cropped to smooth it out
320x240 and cropped
In summation; what I
can do is crop out some black of the edges, then stretch it a leettle, then print.
Another example here, all in smaller size for easier viewing
720x480, the one up for download
640x480 the one I'm tinkering with
Kevin Caldwell's original in 320x240
This was originally all gonna be a PM to Kinon, but I might as well make it a public one
Knowname: That's what I did, most of the time. Had to reuse a lot of mouths in places where the backgrounds had shifted, or in an entirely new scene, and that required some edited frames. Had to alter them a bit too, so there's maybe 5 mouths tops that are
unique here.
And, of course, a total of 240+ photoshops.
But than I'm just a really lazy mofo... but c'mon?? put with like a color key who'd know?? And it'd probly saved you ALOT of time.... that is... if you didn't do this in the first place. Just saying... it's what I'da' done ;p.