Finally! my sophomore(ic) effort
 

So, what's the Bass been up to all this time? Jeez! He only got one more short done in a year's time? No! I've had other things going on, just not my stuff--works for hire. Anyway, no one cares, so here's the link. This is powerful stuff, people. Beware.

Thank the great and powerful Paul Sedillo for hosting this on his website.

http://bass.piranha-club.com/

Don't know how long it'll take to download--it's compressed to MPEG-1, and is 37 megs. Guess some people will be waiting awhile :-(.

Oh well, once you do wait, you won't be there long, cause it's only 3:43!

The footage is really dark. I'd brighten it up just a bit.
Other than that, funny!

Interesting--I find it looks different everywhere I view it. On computer (in Vegas 4's preview window): foggy, as though I pushed the black level up (I didn't). On my computer (through the quicktime player): perfect. On my NTSC monitor: perfect. On my dad's TV: foggy. On my mom's TV: perfect (or foggy, depending on whether the TV's set to movie or normal mode). On my girlfriend's TV: somewhat dark. Projected digitally on a 20' square screen: beautiful except for some highlights blowing out on a few shots. Who knows?

I agree with Dylan. DV footage invariably needs to be brightened (actually, gamma-adjusted) prior to web publication.

Nice final credit.

Any DV footage? Or just mine? Probably any, indicated by the word "invariably."

Can you link directly to the video file? The page keeps crashing my IE for whatever reason.

Well, it's not on my computer--my buddy AND FELLOW DVINFO.NET MEMBER PAUL SEDILLO is hosting it. I think it does link directly to the file--when you type that URL in (or click it), it starts loading/playing when the page comes up. I'm sure I don't know what I'm talking about however.

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHHAHAHA. That was hallarious. Good work.

Direct download link (right-click etc.)

You keep doing weird stuff eh! Excellent short though. At first
I thought not another one of those, but the revelation and the
final tears did it! I really liked the alley (lighting) look as well!

why did you choose mpeg 1 to stream ??

Uh. . .I compressed it to MPEG 1 because it was easy to fit on a CD-R, and Paul Sedillo, or "God," did the rest. What should I have done instead? MPEG-2? Does it really look that different when playing on your computer? That's not a hostile question; I''m genuinely interested. My computer monitor (and the processor) is getting progressively more low-tech compared to what's out there now.

Yes, you'll get a much better compression ratio with a less ancient codec. Consider MPEG 2, or MPEG 4 or the Windows Media Video codec. I would recommend DivX except its new licensing terms and bugged player are more hassle than they're worth anymore.

MPEG 1 is good for CD distribution because even the oldest Windows systems are guaranteed to have the codec installed; but one can assume that anyone downloading content over the internet will have (or easily be able to obtain) newer codecs.

The name of the game is to shrink your file size to allow people to see your film sooner, and ease up on your own bandwidth.

Alright. I'll try it, of course it's up to Paul Sedillo to see if he'll put up with me invading his home again.


Out of MPEG-2 or -4, which is recommended?

Mpeg 4

You could try the mpeg 4 codec that comes with Quicktime, it seems to play in newer versions of Windows media player too...

oh ya, I enjoyed your short movie. It must have been difficult to keep a straight face while shooting that. :)

Alright, perhaps I shall. In the meantime, suffer!











j/k.

How do I render in MPEG-4 from Vegas 4?

You need to select QuickTime and then choose the MPEG4 codec
on the property screen. Or if you output to AVI you must have
the DiVX codec installed (or XviD or...)

Ok, so I tried encoding MPEG-4, and it looked like crap. The audio was okay, at a sample rate of 32000, but the video was crappy. I did it 320 by 240, at "Good" quality. . .anyone have recommendations on how to keep the file size down but have it look okay? At this crappiness, it was 4.8 Megs. I probably don't want it to much higher, right?

4.8 and 37 is quite a difference, wouldn't you say? Don't expect
the quality to stay the same. I'd up the bitrate a bit to get a movie
of 10 - 15 MB, see what that gets you.

Oh, well, in that case, I got it looking pretty decent at 12 MB.

Okay this is weird--on this on section some of the audio doesn't play. I've tried it three times, rebooted the computer, don't understand. Audio from the same track plays on other parts, but when I render this particular section, nothing.

lol, good work!

Thanks.


Disregard earlier post about funky audio. . .worked okay later. Who knows.

OKay, so it's only 12 Megs when it decides not to render portions of the audio, otherwise it's 18 megs or so. Soooooooo. . .can anyone give me bitrate suggestions? Tips?

Alright, got it to 19.6 megs, in MPEG-4 format, looks okay, the sound's kind of metallic. . .worth uploading again?

-Tyler Durden