Yay, more vidders! There's a serious lack of B5 vids out there. It is kind of a hard show to vid, but people vid House for cryin' out loud...anyway.
I know! I'm totally excited to download yours---I thought Signal to Noise was an awesome choice for a B5 vid, BTW---but since I've been uploading music all day I haven't been able to download it yet. *LOL* I'm looking forward to it, though. ^_^
I was hoping to get the other two vids I mentioned finished for this, but alas, time flies. *le sigh* ;P
I wasn't too sure about the song choice when I looked at it, but the remix was great.
I'm not a huge Depeche Mode fan myself, but I am a bit of a fan of Linkin Park...I like Mike Shinoda's mixes, and it's always fun when he remixes an older song. I was listening to this song a lot back in November and December when I got back into my B5 obsession (it cycles around every year or two for me, going right back into the 90's *LOL*), and this vid started to build itself in my head by itself (they tend to do that, I find). It seemed to work, so I did it. ^_~
I liked the long fades and overlays; they lend to the surreal, creepy feeling you get when Sheridan starts doing insane things like shouting at Delenn.
This is kind of a weakness in my vidding, I must admit---back when I was first learning to vid, the guy whose tutorials I followed was incredibly fond of overlays and cross dissolves, and so that was how I learned. I've since learned that it's good to be a bit more frugal with them and use more straight cuts, but old habits die hard. ^^; Sometimes it really does work best with the emotion of the music though...I'm glad it worked fairly well in this case. ^_^
If You're Not The One -- One day those two will kill me with their cute, I swear it. That was adorable.
Thank you. Their cuteness is indeed irresistible. ^_~
Your encodes are perfectly gorgeous, by the way, I'm jealous. Except of course for those scenes where the video quality on the DVD is crap. Is there a way to fix that?
Thank you...it was cleaning up the footage that took me the longest, but mostly because I'd never tried to do anything this high quality before. I've been making AMVs and VGMVs for a few years now, but at a far more amateur level even than these...I've only just started learning some of the tricks for making really high quality stuff, and it shows. ;P
Because I've only just started, my answer to your question is that I'm not sure. Someone with more experience than me would probably have a far better idea at how to fiddle around with settings in Avisynth to do a better job than I did...although I did play around for hours to get what I did, I'm sure if I'd taken the time to learn more about the process and the scripting language, I could've done more. ^_^ But for the scenes in the DVDs that are just really bad quality to start with...for example, a lot of the scenes in the first season that are really noticeably full of pops and clicks (so annoying -_-'...who transferred these episodes to DVD, anyway!?), even with some heavy denoise or deflicker filtering I can't see that there'd be a whole lot that could be done except for going in frame by frame and removing the artifacts. In other words, very tedious. *weeps*
Anyway, thanks so much for watching the vids...I'm so glad you liked them. I'll be getting back to you when I've watched yours!! ^_^
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Date: 2007-08-30 01:39 am (UTC)I know! I'm totally excited to download yours---I thought Signal to Noise was an awesome choice for a B5 vid, BTW---but since I've been uploading music all day I haven't been able to download it yet. *LOL* I'm looking forward to it, though. ^_^
I was hoping to get the other two vids I mentioned finished for this, but alas, time flies. *le sigh* ;P
I wasn't too sure about the song choice when I looked at it, but the remix was great.
I'm not a huge Depeche Mode fan myself, but I am a bit of a fan of Linkin Park...I like Mike Shinoda's mixes, and it's always fun when he remixes an older song. I was listening to this song a lot back in November and December when I got back into my B5 obsession (it cycles around every year or two for me, going right back into the 90's *LOL*), and this vid started to build itself in my head by itself (they tend to do that, I find). It seemed to work, so I did it. ^_~
I liked the long fades and overlays; they lend to the surreal, creepy feeling you get when Sheridan starts doing insane things like shouting at Delenn.
This is kind of a weakness in my vidding, I must admit---back when I was first learning to vid, the guy whose tutorials I followed was incredibly fond of overlays and cross dissolves, and so that was how I learned. I've since learned that it's good to be a bit more frugal with them and use more straight cuts, but old habits die hard. ^^; Sometimes it really does work best with the emotion of the music though...I'm glad it worked fairly well in this case. ^_^
If You're Not The One -- One day those two will kill me with their cute, I swear it. That was adorable.
Thank you. Their cuteness is indeed irresistible. ^_~
Your encodes are perfectly gorgeous, by the way, I'm jealous. Except of course for those scenes where the video quality on the DVD is crap. Is there a way to fix that?
Thank you...it was cleaning up the footage that took me the longest, but mostly because I'd never tried to do anything this high quality before. I've been making AMVs and VGMVs for a few years now, but at a far more amateur level even than these...I've only just started learning some of the tricks for making really high quality stuff, and it shows. ;P
Because I've only just started, my answer to your question is that I'm not sure. Someone with more experience than me would probably have a far better idea at how to fiddle around with settings in Avisynth to do a better job than I did...although I did play around for hours to get what I did, I'm sure if I'd taken the time to learn more about the process and the scripting language, I could've done more. ^_^ But for the scenes in the DVDs that are just really bad quality to start with...for example, a lot of the scenes in the first season that are really noticeably full of pops and clicks (so annoying -_-'...who transferred these episodes to DVD, anyway!?), even with some heavy denoise or deflicker filtering I can't see that there'd be a whole lot that could be done except for going in frame by frame and removing the artifacts. In other words, very tedious. *weeps*
Anyway, thanks so much for watching the vids...I'm so glad you liked them. I'll be getting back to you when I've watched yours!! ^_^