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Qix77
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Re: Jody's Video Game Reviews.

on Monday, May, 04, 2009 2:29 PM
Jademz Wrote:That was a cool review Qixx, that game looks fun! What year did that come out? I would have played that when I was a kid if I had it.


Ok, making a HD vid- make your recording at 25 fps or less for youtube.
I recommend you reencode it to HD AVC or at the same framerate. (I use high quality settings- 2 pass level 2-4 deblocking ect. check off all the tools and) I recommend reading a little bit on this stuff -
I don't have this yet, but I highly recommend using Soundforge to do audio work.
I use these settings also:
128 kbits/s sample rate 44.1 or 44 kHz
compress it 2:1 to reduce the crackled audio (that takes alot of tweaking using pinnacle in my case)
Also I deinterlace the video in pinnacle.
I reencode it to HD AVC - HD .mp4 is fine so is .wmv.
If you need anything more specific I may be familiar with what you're using to create videos, I'm currently using pinnacle studio 12 ultimate and Nero 7's nero recode to make my music vids.
Mine are at 30 fps, so I use dailymotion's creative content which allows HD 30fps. Vimeo and Youtube throw out my frames (jittery looking) so I have to start from scratch to make my HD videos for those sites..

Cool review, can't wait to see more.

See.. I want to keep my 29 to 30 framerate and still make a 10 min video (if I need to) under a gig and keep it HD for youtube (1280x720).

I've been having codec problems lately (my computer hates me) but I'll see if I can use your advice.

I do own Dvix software.... What are your thoughts on Dvix?

Thanks for checking it out. I had a lot of fun making it..



 
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Re: Jody's Video Game Reviews.

on Monday, May, 04, 2009 4:36 PM
Qix77 Wrote:See.. I want to keep my 29 to 30 framerate and still make a 10 min video (if I need to) under a gig and keep it HD for youtube (1280x720).

Ok for starters, I haven't tried dvix's movie maker, so what you need to do is the following:
Look in the settings for making HD. If you see the acronym AVC that is the compression you want for your mp4.

Youtube states that all HD videos will be played at 25 fps. Until they have better service, we have to work around that.

So you have two options, use HD AVC if Dvix has that setting - but record the original video at 25 fps like I said.

Always crank up the tools for quality, ect. You should look at youtube for the HD sizes they like, but from what I read nobody downsizes.

If you are using a downsizer manually...(file size issue) it may be a bit more complicated. (for instance quantizer should be at min. 16/max. 32 is what I've tried) you can turn down the data rate down to 3000 - 3400. but deinterlace maybe even using two methods(one at a time) for a final result - the vplayer blows up to fullscreen and looks nearly flawless. (thus - the term lossless comression in the industry)
Sorry if it's a little confusing but that should help you with the technique..

That should be the final result. HD AVC full size 25fps, and no problems.

If you use another encoder, or it's a complex one,(I know I'm not exact w/ the tekkie infos) you need to read a little bit on wikipedia, cross reference HD with the exact tool in google, and try it until it looks good to you.

Or you can record it in 30 fps to whatever - make it a .mp4 - AVC, you could try leaving it HD but then see if you can manually enter the size (reduce the size) of the video: 4:3 320 x 240 the requirements by youtube for 30 fps video content. They upsize it too, that's why you want to make the original then compress it doing the manual method, if you don't see the settings for this procedure.

Some of the new video creation software has a youtube preset in making the videos, dunno if it works tho hehe.

But in downsizing you won't have jittery looking videos and they play normal but at 30 fps. The important thing is the compression method, I use AVC because I don't like the .h264 converters I've tried so far - mplayer, and every other one so far. I will say this, Mplayer is the most awesome looking video player I've seen to date. Videos just pop out of the screen to me w/ that.


Maybe Youtube will get with it and allow 30 fps HD, but don't count on it.

So what I use is dailymotion. create an account, then when you upload your HD - AVC 30 fps vids, check the "motionmaker" box off, and they will review your video to see if you're not infringing on copyright. in a few days you will be hosting the content you wanted to in the first place.

Vimeo states they are going to add this soon(months ago). so maybe my videos won't look so bad on there heh..



Qix77 Wrote:I've been having codec problems lately (my computer hates me) but I'll see if I can use your advice.

My advice is to uninstall them, whatever you have for players/codecs/encoders ect. Then reinstall them, check to see if the problem goes away with one, if so keep doing that. It should be back to normal.. I've had the same problems, it's crazy. It seems like something doesn't get fully installed and windows is like "FUHDERDER I can't play videos anymore."


I do own Dvix software.... What are your thoughts on Dvix?


I used it for encoding video but I wasn't nearly as educated as I've gotten with video then. My best answer is that I know some people really like the compression and quality. But it seems like another language until you find someone who knows how to directly type/speak to you about it in english. Maybe the purchased version has a simple GUI, I hope so. (time consuming)

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Re: Jody's Video Game Reviews.

on Monday, May, 04, 2009 4:46 PM
Wow, you got a comment from ScrewAttack's European channel. Nice.

Awesome review, loved the ending.


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Re: Jody's Video Game Reviews.

on Monday, May, 04, 2009 10:48 PM
Right on, Qix.

SPOILER... Mouse Over To Read:
I think I beat the dragon before! Forgot about that thing. Also, the machine gun thing at the end was funny. That wasn't in the actual game was it (as a cheat or something?)

As for joysticks and the Amiga 500 (I saw the comment on your video page)... I'm 99% sure it had slots for 2 joysticks. Either that, or there was an adapter we used that would split one port into two. Yeah, I seem to remember playing two players for some sports games, maybe for like Omniplay Basketball (awesome game, btw) and TV Sports Football, etc. I can't imagine it only had just a single joystick capability, for all the games a friend and I used to play.

Oh yeah, I just figured out the game I liked way back when that I mentioned before I think was co-op. It's in this video at about 7:13. It was called Hired Guns. Enjoyed it. Found a gameplay video here, showing only one person moving the players around, but I remember playing two, simultaneously. Maybe it wasn't co-op -- not sure -- but I enjoyed the multi-player aspect anyways

Did you ever play Super Hang On motorcycle racing game (at 7:51 in this vid)? I always liked that one. It would tour to different cities, so there would be new city backdrops, and I think they'd get closer as you rode farther. The Seattle race had gray skies, if I remember correctly, and would do thunder/lightning. Loved it.

And Stunt Car Racing (7:20 in vid)? There's just something super gratifying about driving a race 100 feet up in the air with no walls or rails, and flying off of big jumps. I've longed for a game like this but with updated graphics for soooo long ever since.

I don't think anyone really understands without being there... but at the time, the Amiga 500 ruled. I would love if a new Commodore company emerged and rocked the Xbox and Sony console world. Seems like it'd be pretty hard to do nowadays, though, with how awesome graphics are for everything.

Sorry to keep asking you, "Did you ever play... Did you ever play..." but I love this video game reminiscing stuff. Did you ever play Moebius? for the C64 Hard to get into it, but once I was in I got addicted.

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