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Dream...
2008-10-20 13:36:19
I had a dream that i was at my old high school... somehow i ended up in the nurses office. (IN MY DREAM) I fell asleep on the chair and while i was asleep i was getting stuck with needles in my left arm by a bunch of nurses drawing blood. And I couldn't move cause I was asleep but somehow I could see them and feel the needles. The nurses were laughing just poking random places on my arm with the needles. (I have a fear of needles mind you.)
Then I woke up and my left arm was hanging off the bed with circulation cutt off. It was stinging and completely numb.
I <3 dreams. It was like my own personal horror story :D! I like horror stories.
I dont remember everything about the highschool part of the dream. I remember walking around for a while and not finding anyone. Passing by the stairs of the basement floor there was nothing but darkness. I don't remember much from this part of the dream cause it was the earliest part of it. I hate how you forget stuff from a dream even though you just had it.
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HALP ME PLEAZ!
2008-10-09 15:12:43
Consider it a poll if you want but i really am using the information for something so if you could take a few moments out of your time to just halp me that would be great:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=91051
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Editors block... or is it...?
2008-10-02 20:43:08
I cant edit anything, I just completely lack the motivation to do it all together.
Today I was listening to music and found the reason why. A few months ago I got one of those AMV ideas that you can actually picture in your head. I was listening to the song for that amv idea and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I felt like editing right then and there.
For the life of me I decided to order the anime and just edit the amv or else I might not be able to get out of this block. My writer instincts tell me to do it now before you completely forget it. My block was just a fail safe to make sure I didn't forget it.
I've got a one track mind apparently after getting important ideas.
It's a good feeling though, I haven't felt this way since my EOE tribute amv. Which to this day is still my most favorite amv of my own for the same reason. It was an Idea I carved from inside my mind not just in the editing program.
Regardless. I'm gonna have to hold off on editing everything else till that ones completed or I just wont feel like I'm at 100%. At least the idea is relatively small and not time consuming this time. Shouldn't obstruct any MEP's.
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continued...
2008-08-22 23:35:48
2pass = total fail...
Result: http://www.valkyriestudios.org/evafan/1080p%2045second%20Cut%20TEST.mp4
The Math:
45 second cut of a total length of 240 seconds. I got the 45 second cut down to the highest acceptable size (around 17mb). 240/45 = 5.3repeating. If you multiply 5.3repeating by 17mb you get close to 90MB which is about as far as you can go without crossing the 100mb file limit on the org (remember if you click the properties of the file it shows the "Size on disk" which is always a bit larger then the shown file size when you hover your mouse cursor over the file).
The quality:
If you watch it with the ffdshow decoder on a video player like windows media player classic it plays smoothly and remains in sync but it's riddled with macroblocks. Seriously it looks like a wall of lego blocks at times.
I tried it on VLC player but it just locks up as the part of Haseo in flames starts, means my comp aint good enough + lately I've found that VLCplayer requires a lot more CPU power / memory to run then other programs which is dumb. I don’t even use VLC player anymore really.
My personal favorite player being SMplayer on the other hand plays the video without locking up but the audio runs out of sync to the video. My CPU isn’t processing the video feed fast enough I think, but I can't test this theory cause i don’t have a better computer to try it on. It just makes sense though cause ffdshow played it fine with media player classic.
Comp specs:
2.4ghz AMD processor <= (The problem)
2gigs ram
2x 512mb geforce go 7900 Sli'd
Overall... 1080p just doesn't seem to be worth it unless people have their own servers to upload onto for direct links. Even then most people wont be able to play the files without frame skipping, locking up, or just losing video/audio sync.
There is another option though. That would be to download a transcoder off the web that will take your AMV's final product and transcode it so that it can be played from a ps3, xbox360, or a dvdplayer that supports x264/AAC combo. This way you know what your viewers are going to get quality wise. Not to mention they get the pleasure of watching it from their HDTV and sound systems etc...
If people play your file on their computers there is too many issues of concern. Compatibility, playback quality, the programs they use etc... There's too many x-factors.
Conclusion: If your want to make an HD AMV stick to 720p... Most computers can run 720 without flaws assuming they are using the proper video players and/or codecs. CPU power isn’t as drastic, hell my crummy CPU can process it. 1080p might have to wait a few more years as people get newer computers etc... x264 is still in the development stage so yea...
Encoding program of choice:
ASXgui
(out of all the ones I tested... This one tops the cake speed wise and functionality wise)
Video Player of choice:
SMplayer
(Puts VLCplayer to shame)
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THE VID LOOKS LIKE LEGO BRICKS!
2008-08-22 07:40:24
1080p h264 is good shit...
However keeping it good with a 100mb file limit over a 4minute long amv is another story. Macroblocks from too much compression anyone?
I think 720p is as close to macroblock free the org is gonna get for now...
I really don't see 1080p being usable with a 100mb file limit. The necessary bitrate to remain "macroblock free" is too high. Even with advanced motion estimation algorithms etc...
Lets put it this way:
for the average 848x480 video the suggested bitrate is 300kb/second. If you go any lower you will start seeing macro blocks. A 4 minute AMV is 240 seconds, 240x300 = 72MB file.
Now...
848x480 isn’t even half the size of 1080p... So it technically speaking you would have to at least double the bitrate just to keep it looking good. Even then, there is no guarantee you won't end up with lego bricks in the video.
That's my research so far with 1 pass h264 encodes so far... Tomorrow we do 2 pass encoding to see if the codec can even it all out after analyzing the failure from the first pass. I still don’t think it will come close to being enough.
To be continued...
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