The end is near!
THE END IS NEAR!
Instrumental Anime Project
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OtakuForLife
- Joined: Wed Sep 25, 2002 3:37 pm
- Status: In relationship
- Location: Endsvill (North Providence, RI , USA)
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jasper-isis
- P. Y. T.
- Joined: Tue Aug 13, 2002 11:02 am
- Status: catching all the lights
Nope, not yet. Wait until this September, then you may proclaim the end of original ideas.OtakuForLife wrote:maybe it's just the end of original video ideas. Nevermind alot of those died years ago
But seriously, excessively high expectations will definitely hinder the enjoyment of any new video. I remember when I saw Spirited Away after weeks of hearing other people rave about it. My first impression of the movie itself was just... blah...
So yeah, just... try not to get too too too excited about this, if you know what I mean.
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rose4emily
- Joined: Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:36 am
- Location: Rochester, NY
- Contact:
So far I've gotten a few important things done:
- Finished consolodating and organizing all of the files/info/scripts I had scattered on a variety of backup media over the past few months.
- Rendered the video segment for the 13'37" narrative.
- Performed a successful test join of the Fullscreen section that my Windows PC seems to be able to play without audio problems. I still have a few nitpicks in the remaster of the 13'37" video with orphaned frames and a couple of moments that are just slightly mis-timed (Cinelerra sucks when it comes to real-time preview on anything other than top-of-the-line hardware) - but I at least now know that the technical hurdle that tripped us up last time is no longer a problem.
- Discovered that recent versions of AVIDemux are capable of encoding to DVD-complient MPEG2 without jumping through any tricky hurdles. Now I can generate the DVD footage without much trouble. I'll still probably forgo the process of making the menus and actual disk layout, but it's a big plus to know that I can send final MPEG2 encodings to Bakadeshi instead of having to transmit much larger HuffYUV files.
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I've just gotten word back from my office, and am going back to work next Monday (this summer's assignment seems pretty exciting too, which is always a plus). Until then I only have this and a bit of landscaping to worry about, so I really should be able to keep up a decent sprint toward the finish from here forward.
The next item on the list of things that need to be done before submission is the widescreen narrative video. I still need to composite about half of the images from which the video will be composed, so that's probably going to be the extent of tomorrow's progress. Then I can generate and run the scripts for those segments over Thursday and possibly Friday (since there's some manual editing involved, as well). That leaves the end credits for the weekend.
The 3D-rendered version of the end credits proved to be too unweildy for me to put together with the limited tools and experience I have at my disposal. The computer rendering time alone would take several days with the grossly unoptimized rendering engine I was using, making any kind of iterative process completely impractical. Instead, I'm going back to the earlier 2D concept which is much less of a unknown in terms of scheduling and technology. Images and dissolving text - a little less exciting, but I think the biggest priority now is to simply finish before I completely exhaust everyone's patience for this project's release date.
- Finished consolodating and organizing all of the files/info/scripts I had scattered on a variety of backup media over the past few months.
- Rendered the video segment for the 13'37" narrative.
- Performed a successful test join of the Fullscreen section that my Windows PC seems to be able to play without audio problems. I still have a few nitpicks in the remaster of the 13'37" video with orphaned frames and a couple of moments that are just slightly mis-timed (Cinelerra sucks when it comes to real-time preview on anything other than top-of-the-line hardware) - but I at least now know that the technical hurdle that tripped us up last time is no longer a problem.
- Discovered that recent versions of AVIDemux are capable of encoding to DVD-complient MPEG2 without jumping through any tricky hurdles. Now I can generate the DVD footage without much trouble. I'll still probably forgo the process of making the menus and actual disk layout, but it's a big plus to know that I can send final MPEG2 encodings to Bakadeshi instead of having to transmit much larger HuffYUV files.
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I've just gotten word back from my office, and am going back to work next Monday (this summer's assignment seems pretty exciting too, which is always a plus). Until then I only have this and a bit of landscaping to worry about, so I really should be able to keep up a decent sprint toward the finish from here forward.
The next item on the list of things that need to be done before submission is the widescreen narrative video. I still need to composite about half of the images from which the video will be composed, so that's probably going to be the extent of tomorrow's progress. Then I can generate and run the scripts for those segments over Thursday and possibly Friday (since there's some manual editing involved, as well). That leaves the end credits for the weekend.
The 3D-rendered version of the end credits proved to be too unweildy for me to put together with the limited tools and experience I have at my disposal. The computer rendering time alone would take several days with the grossly unoptimized rendering engine I was using, making any kind of iterative process completely impractical. Instead, I'm going back to the earlier 2D concept which is much less of a unknown in terms of scheduling and technology. Images and dissolving text - a little less exciting, but I think the biggest priority now is to simply finish before I completely exhaust everyone's patience for this project's release date.
may seeds of dreams fall from my hands -
and by yours be pressed into the ground.
and by yours be pressed into the ground.
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pen-pen2002
- Joined: Sun Sep 02, 2001 3:39 pm
- Location: Grinnell, IA Procrastination Meter: Code Lemon-Lime
Good to see this is coming along. I still plan on sending a higher quality Mpeg for the DVD now than I'm home (I know I said that last time, but this time I don't have HW to worry about.
Any word on how we are going to distribute?
It's to bad we're all scatered around the country, this calls for a release party, Hollywood style.
Any word on how we are going to distribute?
It's to bad we're all scatered around the country, this calls for a release party, Hollywood style.
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Kalium
- Sir Bugsalot
- Joined: Fri Oct 03, 2003 11:17 pm
- Location: Plymouth, Michigan
Well, you could just put it on local.pen-pen2002 wrote:Any word on how we are going to distribute?
One solution: party in Ann Arbor!pen-pen2002 wrote:It's to bad we're all scatered around the country, this calls for a release party, Hollywood style.
Rose: my offer about a public showing still stands.
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Bakadeshi
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- Joined: Mon Sep 29, 2003 9:49 am
- Location: Atlanta, GA
- Contact:
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rose4emily
- Joined: Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:36 am
- Location: Rochester, NY
- Contact:
Okay, since my last post I've:
Taken care of about half o fthe remaining compositing for the widescreen narratives.
Produced DVD quality .vob files for each of the AMV segments. These, by the way, look great. I had to convert everything to 29.97 progressive in order to get the encoder to not convert them to PAL (which screwed up the audio sync), but I watched them all to check for any noticable "jittering" this may have caused, and saw none. Why it would take 29.97p, but not 23.976p is a mystery to me - especially where 29.97i seems to be the most commonly seen of the possible DVD frame rates and formats. I took care to make sure they are complient with DVD bitrate and GOP restrictions, so it should be possible to put these directly into the DVD without re-encoding them.
Anyhow, progress continues to be made.
Taken care of about half o fthe remaining compositing for the widescreen narratives.
Produced DVD quality .vob files for each of the AMV segments. These, by the way, look great. I had to convert everything to 29.97 progressive in order to get the encoder to not convert them to PAL (which screwed up the audio sync), but I watched them all to check for any noticable "jittering" this may have caused, and saw none. Why it would take 29.97p, but not 23.976p is a mystery to me - especially where 29.97i seems to be the most commonly seen of the possible DVD frame rates and formats. I took care to make sure they are complient with DVD bitrate and GOP restrictions, so it should be possible to put these directly into the DVD without re-encoding them.
Anyhow, progress continues to be made.
may seeds of dreams fall from my hands -
and by yours be pressed into the ground.
and by yours be pressed into the ground.
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jasper-isis
- P. Y. T.
- Joined: Tue Aug 13, 2002 11:02 am
- Status: catching all the lights
Okay guys... time for fun with banners. 
Here's one I made that anybody can use:
It's a bit inspired by Bakadeshi's original Animasia banner. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a good way to include something from each video like he did.
Here's the template for the center (in bmp format) for those who want to customize it with screenshots from their own videos:
If you've having troubles with it, send me your screenshots and I'll do it for ya. Otherwise, have fun!
Here's one I made that anybody can use:
It's a bit inspired by Bakadeshi's original Animasia banner.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find a good way to include something from each video like he did.Here's the template for the center (in bmp format) for those who want to customize it with screenshots from their own videos:
If you've having troubles with it, send me your screenshots and I'll do it for ya. Otherwise, have fun!