Cornwiggle wrote:I don't know why it had to be over 500 megs...since really the quality wasn't that great, ...
Size and quality - my gift, my curse...
I can say this: I used almost the best source there is - American progressive DVDs. And even they are "dirty"; correct contrast and colors but image has "noise" because of its age, probably (13 years?). More compression will only increase noise. I think the quality is very good for THIS anime. New anime has digital source - it can be perfect which saves bitrate... And I didn't want to buy new Japanese DVDs only to make this AMV.
These are my thoughts about technical part...

Very happy you watched it anyway! From start to finish.

The video is long - that's what I wanted (after it started to grow) - LOTS of my favorite non-japanese music somehow connected together. And I am happy about the way I managed to connect it - telling a nice anime story using some similarities with non-japanese movies since the music is also non-japanese.