- Status report 2006-04-24 16:19:28 With project "FallenAngel" I have reached 1:17. It's 1/4 of the entire song, but 1/3 of the part that I plan to edit. Though the AMV will have not much effects, I think it was the easier part. Now the character of the music changes and needs more attention. But I hope it doesn't slow down my editing too much, otherwise I'll be in trouble wizh my segement for the MEP.
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Celebrations
2006-04-18 05:10:08
It's a while ago that my journal crossed the 1000 hits mark, but at that time I had no idea how to celebrate it. So here is the delayed gift for my journal readers: My AviSynth scripts for the ADV release of "Noir". The first one can be used for both, 24 fps editing and (with slight modifications) for 29.97fps. It uses AviSynth 2.56, DGIndex 1.4.5 and TIVTC 1.0RC3.
LoadPlugin("C:ProgrammeAMVAppDGIndexDGDecode.dll")
mpeg2source("H:Noirep01ep01_1.d2v")
tfm(d2v="H:Noirep01ep01_1.d2v", chroma=true)
tdecimate(mode=1) #don't use for 29.97 fps editing
Convolution3d (preset="animeLQ")
FastLineDarken()
ConvertToRGB()
AssumeFPS(24) #don't use for 29.97 fps editing
The "chroma=true" in the tfm(...) command slows it down a little bit and isn't necessary for the most episodes/scenes, but I have found some scenes which remained interlaced without it.
The second is for 24 fps editing only and perfomes a simple 3:2 pulldown removal. It is remarkably faster, but doesn't work for all episodes. You have to play with the SelectEvery(...) command, it isn't the same for all episodes. Make sure that from the numbers 0...9 an odd and an even are dropped. The difference between them has to be 5(in the example it are 4 and 9). Look at more than one scene to judge if it works. But don't look at the OP/ED, they will look interlaced with this method.
LoadPlugin("C:ProgrammeAMVAppDGIndexDGDecode.dll")
mpeg2source("H:Noirep01ep01_1.d2v")
SeparateFields()
SelectEvery(10,0,1,2,3,5,6,7,8)
Weave()
Convolution3d (preset="animeLQ")
FastLineDarken()
ConvertToRGB()
AssumeFPS(24)
I have started project "Fallen Angel". This time I have a simple storyboard. It connects lines of the song to scenes, without detailed planning of the times. I made all the clips. As I wanted to start the project in MP7 I had again the problem that the window with storyboard, preview and worksheet didn't show. I decided to delete the partition and to make a complete new installation, including Win2K. This costed a lot of time. Can you imagine the disappointment as I opened the "floating" workspace (necessary to work with 2 monitors) and that window still wasn't there? Finally I've found a workaround. I open MP 7 with the standard workspace and make the windows floating one by one. After figuring this out I was able to edit the first 10 seconds. -
MEP started!
2006-04-11 14:40:14
I've done it! I can't believe it, I have started a MEP. If all join who showed interest in the interest gauge I think it'll become quite good. And I hope during time will join some more. Of course it means that I have to do my own segment within the given deadlines. Maybe I need some pressure to work continously at an AMV. XD One thing is for sure: I have to change the contract for my internet connection. With my actual conditions I'll get poor while coordinating a MEP.
Meanwhil I have an idea for an new project. I'll keep it simple, without lavish effects. And it's so clear in my head that it probably can be done in a short time. My only concern is that I don't have enough footage to make it not boring. I'll call it "Fallen Angel". Some of my journal readers already know that it is a nick that I use at other (especially Noir-) boards. Of course it isn't about me, it's about the character that inspired me to that nick. ;) A little problem is the song. I have it in a quality that allows me editing, but not the final distribution. The song is from 1981/2. Despite that it's so old I have found a remastered CD from 2004. But it's quite expensive. Amazon.de wants 40€ (that's nearly $50!) for it. :shock: The cheapest offer I found was from Japan (it's a Japanese release), around 17€ + S&H. That's still expensive. I didn't even buy the German release of the Noir OST I because it costed 17€ without S&H. And that was a CD which I wanted for all songs. From this one I want only one song! So the release date may be much later than the day when I finish it. -
Bike Season (and other stuff)
2006-04-06 16:34:19
Project "Secret" had a setback this week. I wanted to improve a self created transition, but MoviePack crashed. After opening it again it restored the project from the backup file, but it didn't restore itself. I missed the story board, the preview window and the working sheet. The only way to restore it was to use a previous safety copy. That way I lost all the edits from the weekend. Meanwhile I have redone all the edits. It wasn't that much time consuming. One reason is that if one does something twice it's always faster. The second reason you can read in the title, so it wasn't that much lost.
This weekend was the first which was warm and (partly) sunny. So I took my bike out of its winter quarter. On both days I had probably a preemption of the comming season - it rained on my way home. The last years I had often rain at least at one tour if I went to a party. Riding the bike is so relaxing to me that I get fresh ideas for project "Secret". So a one hour ride after work isn't wasted time, it helps me getting forward with my AMV's.
I will probably start a MEP if is enough interest. I have this in mind since around half a year, but had discarded it after I got the CD with the music that I wanted to use. I found that some parts are too difficult (if not impossible) to edit. FYI it's the "Flash Gordon" OST from Queen. After reading some MEP threads today I got an idea for the music during a ride on my bike XD. -
Weird things.
2006-03-27 15:56:46
Project secret develops weird. I move some clips to get a better lyrics match, After that I get the impression that now other parts don't match any longer. Maybe I'm trying to hard to match the lyrics.
I could improve the quality of Queen Millenia. The jagginess is completly gone, and I could improve the sharpness. But I have still to improve it. If I sharpen so strong as it would be necessary to make it look like an anime should do, I loose much details. I must try different sharpening methods.
Since today I have a 2nd monitor. It's a 17" LCD, and it looks very fragile beside the 19" CRT monster. I could have got it saturday, but my door bell did'n work since a while, and so the postman didn't reach me. In the afternoon I heard a single "ding" from the door bell - for an unknown reason it decided to start working again. Why didn't it start working in the morning, as the postman were ringing? The 2 display operation seems to be a little bit buggy. It seems as if Windows doesn't store the settings, so that I have to adjust the settings after every boot. And even if I do, it doesn't always work like I want.
Thanks to Bulmafox' post in the recommendation section "Noir-episode#25" now also has more than 100 DL's, and it got another QC. While it's the vid with the worst hit/DL ratio and the one with the lowest star score, it's the only one that has received QC's so far. And all are positive.
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