AnimeMusicVideos.org

Good to see it's up and running this year. Although the DragonCon site didn't have the link for the contest, it just said "coming soon." I hope we can get that bigger room this year. I just finished up my entry. I'll mail it tomorrow. I'm REALLY looking forward to it.

So did you all like the video?

Alright, I uploaded the video, you may find it here:

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... p?v=145215

Good point. I just wasn't sure people would want to download it and take up space on their computer, so I tried to offer them an alternative, but I'll definitely upload it tonight.

That's unfortunate, would you still like the URL to see it?

I used this guide when preparing my XVid compression. I followed these settings pretty exactly, and I ended up having to do two passes to get it under 100 Mb.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/xvid.html

For some reason it won't let me say Y*utube here. That's what I mean in my last post instead of whatever that other word is.

I completed the video to my satisfaction. I found something out as I was playing around with Premiere, I found that there is an option called "flicker removal" which cleared up a lot of the jagged edges I saw on the characters. This helped out a lot. Also yes, I did save as an XVid file because it s...

My aspect ratio is 0.9

I'm trying to enter the video into a contest and those were the settings they told us to use. I've cleaned up a lot of it so it looks much better now. I'd still love to know why virtualdub makes it look so good before exporting.