Kastles of Sand

Taruto! · Post by **Taruto!** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:14 pm

Scintilla > because the entire video was quite bad quality and awfully big, I'm recompressing everything all over again, including the sound.. the current versions will be available until I've recompressed and hopefully then I'll have better results at a lower filesize.
But thanks for the tip on using an MP3. I'll keep that in mind

DropOuter > er thanks

I guess

Anjira > I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks!

Taruto! · Post by **Taruto!** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:16 pm

I'm uploading a better quality, higher res, smaller filesize video encoded with XviD. Finally figured out that 2-pass encoding malarky, huzzah!

[edit] ..and it's up - the direct link, anyway! More links tomorrow hopefully, including a subless version, but I'm off to bed now..

kikai_saigono · Post by **kikai_saigono** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:57 pm

Okay, well I finally am replying:

I do like the song, it was a cute song, but I didn't like the subtitles, although they were intentional. I can always look at translations of the song, but i don't want to see them while I'm watching the video.

I also wasn't real thrilled with about 3:09 -- 3:20. It was a little too spaztic for me, although the music was fast paced. You told a lot of story in that little short time, but it was still too quick.

Other wise, I enjoyed the rest of the video. It was cute, okay quality (though it was smaller res then i had hoped for...), good anime and song choice.

4/5

Taruto! · Post by **Taruto!** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:23 pm

kikai_saigono wrote:Okay, well I finally am replying

Thanks for your comments, much appreciated! Now to get back on those points..

Song > When I heard the song I knew it was something I wanted to make an AMV of my own to, I'm glad it's gone down well. It's one of the songs that's instantly likeable I think - it certainly was for me, and it was quite easy to edit to.

Subtitles > The subtitles.. I've had a few comments on the subtitles, so I'm currently encoding a version without any subs so there's a choice. I like it with the subtitles personally, but I guess it's not everyone's taste. I'm hoping to compress the subless version once it's converted and have it up tonight so subs are optional for anyone who downloads it in the future.

3:09-3:20 > Both instrumentals in the video were very hard to time, pace and plan. I didn't want to go overboard but I guess I did.. sorry about that ^^;

Quality > I'm guessing you watched the 640x360 3viX version - thankfully the quality problem's also been resolved with a 848x480 XviD version, which is a lot better than the crummy 3viX version I had to squeeze into <100mb.

Thanks again for your feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed it

Falconone · Post by **Falconone** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:17 pm

It was really not bad, good job

JCD · Post by **JCD** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:00 pm

I really liked this video, despite the so-so cover version of an old classic. Definetely a keeper.

I vote for an anamorphic softsubbed version. Since I didn't need the subs at all :O (duh). On that note, I need to compliment for accurate and good lyricsynch.

Taruto! · Post by **Taruto!** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:53 am

Falconone wrote:It was really not bad, good job

Thank you! And thanks for your opinion too

JCD wrote:I really liked this video, despite the so-so cover version of an old classic. Definetely a keeper.

I vote for an anamorphic softsubbed version. Since I didn't need the subs at all :O (duh). On that note, I need to compliment for accurate and good lyricsynch.

Thank you very much! Especially with the lyric sync, I was aiming to make it as accurate as I could possibly get with the footage in the series, so I'm glad someone enjoyed it.
Musically, the original version is really good, but this one had more workability AMV-wise, I think

Also, for anyone interested, I've got a subless version up now for anyone who doesn't like/need the subtitles. Softsubs may come later but for now there's a choice until I figure them out.

Fizziks · Post by **Fizziks** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:12 am

In spite of this video's lack of giant robots, I enjoyed it!

Good work!

KillerTV · Post by **KillerTV** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:14 am

I loved it, especially the music. I thought the subtitles did detract a little, but still, I thought it was great

Taruto! · Post by **Taruto!** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:17 pm

Thank you both!

Fizziks > The giant robots are awesome, but totally inappropriate for this video.. as far as I'm aware, I only used 2 scenes with giant robots (both very early in the video), and considering the amount of robots there are in key scenes seeing if I could make a video with as few as possible was a fun challenge