Anime Central 2011 AMV Contest

[Koopiskeva]

And I would just like to add so we're not outdone by AX that best of show will receive a jar containing the tears of a thousand virgins.*

Unfortunately they're all male otaku.

*Approximate value $9.95.

[Kazemon15]

I have a small question. I submitted my AMV but it seems there were problems.

Video does not meet formatting requirements. For MP4 video we only accept AAC Stereo Audio. Please re-submit with a corrected version.

AAC audio? Is that during export or when I MP4 it? Thanks in advance.

[ngsilver]

Making AAC audio happens during the mp4 process normally. If you are unfamiliar with getting mp4 settings to meet our requirements I'd recommend mpeg2.

I usually use zarxgui to do everything anyway, so I don't really know beyond exporting 48khz for that one

[Kazemon15]

Making AAC audio happens during the mp4 process normally. If you are unfamiliar with getting mp4 settings to meet our requirements I'd recommend mpeg2.

I usually use zarxgui to do everything anyway, so I don't really know beyond exporting 48khz for that one

Hmm that's weird, cuz I use zarxgui too. And I always use the same exact setting for all my amvs and submitted before without problems... or maybe Im going crazy? ^^;

But thanks alot.

[SailorDeath]

Hmm that's weird, cuz I use zarxgui too. And I always use the same exact setting for all my amvs and submitted before without problems... or maybe Im going crazy? ^^;

But thanks alot.

Make sure you're running the most current version because Zarxrax has made many changes with each version (it can be found here:http://amvhell.com/stuff/zarx264gui/)

First, To set the audio in the latest version, look under the section labeled "Settings" in the Audio drop down menu and select "AAC (Bitrate)." Then in the drop down next to it select 160.

On an unrelated note, where it says Quantizer you should put that at around 15 or lower. The lower the value the better the picture quality.

[ngsilver]

I should say to keep in mind (I wasn't at home to test it out when I answered before) but if you put 44khz audio into zarxgui that's what you'll get out. So you have to convert your audio to 48khz before putting it into zarxgui. Mirko or someone else who knows more about the inner workings of getting an mp4 out might know what specific flags you can add to the code that zarxgui produces in order to get audio to convert to 48khz sample rate when encoding the AAC.

Me, I'd throw my audio stream into my favorite audio editing program (audacity) and use it to alter the sample rate for this. Though, generally I'd let tmpegenc do it for me when making an mpeg2.

[Kazemon15]

Okay.

I managed to download the new Zarx and make it MP4 with AAC audio, but the problem now is that the audio is slightly off sync. Is that normal when you use the new Zarx?

If I can't fix the audio sync, I'm considering making it Mpeg-2, but I never did that before, so I am not sure how to. Sorry for any trouble and thanks for all your help!

[SailorDeath]

Okay.

I managed to download the new Zarx and make it MP4 with AAC audio, but the problem now is that the audio is slightly off sync. Is that normal when you use the new Zarx?

If I can't fix the audio sync, I'm considering making it Mpeg-2, but I never did that before, so I am not sure how to. Sorry for any trouble and thanks for all your help!

Tis okay, what did you import it as? when you select an AVI file it will sometimes ask you if you want to open it as AVISource or DirectShowSource. If the file is in an AVI Container you will want to use AVISource. I used to have the same problem when exporting a huffyuv file and then importing it into zarx as directshowsource. The black bitmaps that I used at the beginning and end of each video were causing it to go out of sync. The problem went away when I imported it as an avisource file. (I don't know the specific but it has to do with the way directshow handles stills within a video (that is a single frame that doesn't change like the 1 second clip of black we ask people to put at the beginning and end of each video)

[BasharOfTheAges]

I know your rules say you support a 720p frame size, but what's the resolution / AR on your projector?

Situation: I have a 4:3 (960x720) video currently being pillar-boxed to 16:9 (1280x720) so I want to know if you'd be projecting in 720p or down-scaling and letter-boxing on top of my pillar boxed 16:9 making the result needlessly small.

[SailorDeath]

We will more than likely be at a resolution of 1024x768, we use a video switcher with a scaler in it. And the PC that is playing the videos will be at a 4:3 AR for the most part.