Finalists for Anime Expo Anime Music Video Contest 2008

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Fri May 30, 2008 11:16 pm

The Wired Knight wrote:Ah ok, so it might still be in the cards it just needs more tweaking.

Till then I guess I am still the proud owner of an award for a catagory that doesn't technically exist

Oh yeah, now I remember what I wanted to ask you, did I ever give you a VG4 dvd?

MisterFurious · Post by **MisterFurious** » Sat May 31, 2008 1:16 am

DigitalPanther wrote:Brad's "Right Now" video was a direct parody of the original Van Halen Video of the same name.

Sorry for taking so long to do this, but let's leave credit where credit is due. I did NOTdo "Right Now." Like so many videos, I wish I had done that video. That was Tim Park, aka Doki Doki Productions.

I'm not even Canadian...

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Sat May 31, 2008 1:21 am

MisterFurious wrote: I'm not even Canadian...

So you think

YouTube · Post by **XStylus** » Sat May 31, 2008 1:42 am

s0matic wrote:
Sephiroth wrote:I just wish that pixel aspect ratio would actually get written to my files, just realized that didn't get through on my vid export. TO which i have to say whoever is responsible for PAR not reading over in an export when set please die in a fire.
To be fair, what file container did you use? MP4 and MKV can do this just fine. However, if you submitted an .avi file like I did, I just manually did the resizing myself just in case, as IIRC, .avi files don't natively support PAR/DAR in the file header.

I know there's several container formats that will support anamorphic mode, but at some point the file will need to be rendered out of that container and into MPEG2 format for DVD.

My recommendation is to basically edit your video like normal, and when you're done, shove it into VirtualDub and resize the video to 720x406 with letterboxing added to make it full 720x480. Then export your video to HuffYUV or MainConcept DV format and we'll take it from there.

MisterFurious · Post by **MisterFurious** » Sat May 31, 2008 1:46 am

The Wired Knight wrote:So you think

But I know I'm not Tim Park....

DigitalPanther · Post by **DigitalPanther** » Sat May 31, 2008 2:30 am

Scintilla wrote:
DigitalPanther wrote:<b>Tim's</b> "Right Now" video was a direct parody of the original Van Halen Video of the same name. Right down to style and re-purposing some of the original text (Science building a better tomato comes to mind)
Fixed.

Tims? DOH!!!
I apologize. I thought it was one of Brad's. My deep apologies.
I fixed it.
-DP

MisterFurious · Post by **MisterFurious** » Sat May 31, 2008 2:33 am

DigitalPanther wrote:I thought it was one of Brad's.

That is one of the finest compliments ever paid to me...

DigitalPanther · Post by **DigitalPanther** » Sat May 31, 2008 2:34 am

xstylus wrote:
s0matic wrote:
Sephiroth wrote:I just wish that pixel aspect ratio would actually get written to my files, just realized that didn't get through on my vid export. TO which i have to say whoever is responsible for PAR not reading over in an export when set please die in a fire.
To be fair, what file container did you use? MP4 and MKV can do this just fine. However, if you submitted an .avi file like I did, I just manually did the resizing myself just in case, as IIRC, .avi files don't natively support PAR/DAR in the file header.
I know there's several container formats that will support anamorphic mode, but at some point the file will need to be rendered out of that container and into MPEG2 format for DVD.

My recommendation is to basically edit your video like normal, and when you're done, shove it into VirtualDub and resize the video to 720x406 with letterboxing added to make it full 720x480. Then export your video to HuffYUV or MainConcept DV format and we'll take it from there.

Alot of programs also have the option to "maintain aspect ratio" (that is what it was called in Premiere) which I use religiously. This automatically applied appropriate letter boxing in the timeline.

-DP

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Sat May 31, 2008 3:22 am

MisterFurious wrote:
The Wired Knight wrote:So you think
But I know I'm not Tim Park....

Your right.. and I think he's even younger then you

Vlad

Sephiroth · Post by **Sephiroth** » Sat May 31, 2008 4:21 am

DigitalPanther wrote:
Alot of programs also have the option to "maintain aspect ratio" (that is what it was called in Premiere) which I use religiously. This automatically applied appropriate letter boxing in the timeline.

-DP

i know, hence the i feel silly. Its a very simple thing to overlook which i did.