Curiosity - Widescreen in AMVs?

Chise · Post by **Chise** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 3:46 pm

I'm curious to know how bad it is to have widescreen in AMV's. I made two music videos earlier last year with video files on my system. The thing is they have subtitles. I finally was able to rip my dvds but the dvds I have, only have it in widescreen.

Therefore, I am curious as to what everyone thinks of widescreen in music videos.

Thanks!

dbzrkyyh · Post by **dbzrkyyh** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 3:56 pm

i like wide screen better

JCD · Post by **JCD** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:01 pm

I personally don't care, I like both. But if your DVDs are in widescreen, so do the AMV in widescreen.
It's really annoying me that so much videos are floating around where the image was just left anamorphic with all faces stretched and all circles being ellipses

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:16 pm

i think wide screen looks better, but others think widescreen sucks. it's all preference. if your footage is in wide sceen, keep it that way, it looks much better that way then if you changed it to 4:3. if your using multiple animes and one or more is wide screen, you have to go with your instinct. for my video mitternacht, i had both blood and VHD:B in widescreen but hellsing wasn't i changed that aspect ratio of hellsing to be 16:9 which was bad, i should've cropped it. so if you have to make footage widesceen, always crop it, don't just resize it, it'll work out much better.

Pwolf

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:13 pm

I started making my videos in 448x256 res. I like that better

bum · Post by **bum** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:05 pm

as long as the thing works then i couldnt realy give a damn

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:42 pm

For most purposes, I don't care either, although sometimes switching back and forth between full and wide screen can be annoying. I mean, if the footage is widescreen and you put in VCD, SVCD, or DVD format, when it's played back on the DVD player, it won't show up as much as it does on a computer.

trigunvash · Post by **trigunvash** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:08 pm

It doesn't really matter all to much, but take in mind that most if not all AMV contest's will broadcoast the videos on a 4:3 screen. So if you do export digitally keep a 4:3 tag so it doesn't get resized and look stretched when projected.

Bote · Post by **Bote** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 4:59 pm

I dunno. It's probably better when it's wide-screen, but from some reason when a video has black clipping it draws my attention to the middle of the picture. When I watch wide-screen videos first time I miss some smaller things that are very important to the video.

Maybe it's 'cause of a "19 monitor but still it effects me that way.