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More preparations
2005-07-19 15:22:03
Today I've tried to make my first changes with the GIMP. It turned out harder than I thought. After a working day there's not enough concentration to do this. So I did some more preparations, made notes which frames I have to edit and which I can simply copy. While doing this I encountered an interlaced frame. I thought I'd forgot to inverse telecine. So I made the clip again. But the interlaced frame still was there. I'v tried several settings, but the interlacing got only worse. So I wonder if there is a mistake in the process or in the footage.
One thing I should note for the future: If I want to draw, it's probably better to do the drawing in full resolution and to resize after. - First conversion done 2005-07-18 16:47:35 It isn't much of a job, but I have converted the clips I want to edit with a graphics program into image sequences. Surprised I figured out, that I will need less effort than I thought. In the sequenzes are moments where nothing moves so that I simply can copy already drawn clips or simply can import the stills into MovieXone. For other clips I can use stills too and "animate" them with the help of filters. So I think I can start much earlier editing than I thought.
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Milestone reached
2005-07-17 15:21:11
Today I've reached a milestone in my project - I've made all the clips. But 'til now it was only fun, even if I had to change the settings for nearly every clip. The probably hardest part of the whole project is in front of me now. Some of the clips I have to edit frame by frame. This will for sure need a lot of time.
That for my first two test clips the German version was 24% longer than the US version was a weird coincidence. It differs, depending on the scene. Sometimes they have the same length, sometimes the German version is longer, sometimes the US version. In the end the episodes have the same length. So the Germans changed the length of the scenes to make them fit the dub. I wonder if the Americans did the same and scenes from the original Japanese DVD's would give a different length too. -
Wondering and confused
2005-07-15 13:06:02
If I thought I had found the right way to deinterlace my DVD's I was wrong. A thread about PAL-NTSC conversion gave me the right hint. I had simply to do inverse telecine. That didn't take it in account is because the PAL DVD was interlaced. If the source is 24fps full progressive, they normally speed up to 25fps, without adding interlacing. I'm really happy about that, because now I have only to change around 24 frames per second of video with the GIMP instead of 30 for all the scenes I want to change.
I played around with VDubMod to find the best settings and reproduced 2 scenes which I had done with the PAL sources before. I was surprised to find a remarkable difference in the file sizes, much more than the difference in framerates would explain. I checked the file properties to see if there are different compressions. And what I found surprised and confused me: The duration of the scenes from the german PAL DVD's was 24% longer than from the US NTSC DVD's. WTF? So I can enjoy Noir 24% longer if I watch the german version? That stretching would of course explain why the german DVD's have interlacing and field blending. - Not much... 2005-07-14 13:12:25 ...but the progress is going on. Yesterday it was probably too late. Today I managed to edit the music in a short time. By looking through my stills I found some misspellings. I had some difficulties with the GIMP, since it was a time ago that I used the text tool. In addition I had removed the GIMP lately and installed a new version. Now it missed the help files, which I had to download and install. So it are only small steps at the moment, since I don't have that much time on my hands. But writing this journal keeps me continuing.
JOURNAL: Keeper of Hellfire
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