New vid for Utena fans

[purplepolecat]

Need Utena Tonight!

Anime : Revolutionary Girl Utena (the series)
Music : INXS - Need You Tonight

Includes many clips of Touga and Utena being awesome ! I made this with Utena fans in mind, rather than technical perfection. I'm pretty pleased with the way this turned out though, especially the lip sync.

[JaddziaDax]

i enjoied it

[phntmphnx]

I have seen a few with Utena and can honestly say i didnt like them, but this one was awesome.

Truly one of my favorites now.

[*inverse*]

Loved it

[Kionon]

Two new utena vids in as many days?

YAY! *gets*

[Kionon]

Fun stuff.

I disapprove heavily of the interlacing, the pixelation, and the wrong ASPECT RATIO. 640x480 plzkthx.

I approve of everything else. This is a great Utena music video, and with better video quality, it would be EPIC.

[Stolen Soul]

kionon, dont give them such a hard time, utena is freakishly low quality, pretty nifty video, i liked it =P

[Kionon]

kionon, dont give them such a hard time, utena is freakishly low quality, pretty nifty VAHDIO, i liked it =P

I was not being remotely harsh. Utena is crappy for a DVD release, but that fact is entirely independent of the issues I mention. Utena isn't badly encoded as much as the original cel work is just plain awful (burnt frames, burnt frames!). Interlacing was made during encode, and is easily done away with. The macro-blocking is not inherent in the original source and so was clearly produced during production of the vih-dee-oh, and as for aspect ratio... Just read my sig.

[purplepolecat]

I disapprove heavily of the interlacing, the pixelation, and the wrong ASPECT RATIO. 640x480 plzkthx.

Thanks for the tip about the aspect ratio, I hadn't really thought about it but of course 640x480 makes more sense for a 4:3 anime.
I'm pretty sure I got rid of all the interlacing (I used telecide/decimate as per the Guide). The noisy footage might have confused the pattern matching algorithm. At what timecode did you see this interlacing ?
By pixelation, you're talking about compression artifacts right ? I suppose I could have used some more smoothing post production filters to make it more compressable, but I wanted to keep it sharp-looking and a reasonable size.
But thanks for the advice, I didn't find it "harsh", and I learned something. Glad the content was to your liking. "Harsh" would have been "OMG I couldn't believe how bad the quality was" ( I actually got something like this in an Op once )

Yeah, I love Utena the series but the quality of the DVD footage is terrible, it looks like it was animated in someone's basement. The cell backgrounds jitter about which makes lip sync hard, there are HAIRS in the frame, and on every scene cut the frame jerks up and down so you can see the lovely dirty edges.

[Kionon]

Yeah, I love Utena the series but the quality of the DVD footage is terrible, it looks like it was animated in someone's basement. The cell backgrounds jitter about which makes lip sync hard, there are HAIRS in the frame, and on every scene cut the frame jerks up and down so you can see the lovely dirty edges.

Those "dirty edges" you mention are the burnt frames, I mention. They even kept reel holes that you can sometimes manage to catch. It's obvious that the DVD was produced from 35MM film, which itself was produced from Cel work that was way beyond subpar.

It equivalent of ripping source in DiVX and then encoding it in Cinepak. -_-;;;

And interlacing was an issue throughout.