Comments on: Video: Preproduction Week

By: плoxaя

плoxaя — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:23:44 +0000

Автор, посты , конечно, очень интересные. Но вы не подумывали сменить дизайн?

By: Lizard

Lizard — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:34:47 +0000

Thank you J.B. the Theora version means I could watch it
Now, it could be nice if subtitles would be in the movie for people who are not English native speakers, because there is a lot of talk
But I understand it is maybe a lot of work, so maybe not.

By: Nixon

Nixon — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:38:47 +0000

cool to see you guys in action!
I wonder if eating these strange sweets was part of the contracts and if they tasted like one would imagine.
Was kinda odd that noone actualy said he likes em:D
Great part with the aquarel painting of David.

Did you actually cut out Nathan hugging Brecht when he showed up or did he successfully avoid it?

Regards from Berlin
Nixon

By: Astroman Pete

Astroman Pete — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:01:36 +0000

@ Colin

Awesome! I’m glad you enjoyed it.

By: J.B. Nicholson-Owens

J.B. Nicholson-Owens — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:40:45 +0000

I found the problem — don’t use the “–sync” option on this video. The sync appears to be fine without using that option.

I believe all the videos play smoothly now (unless your computer isn’t fast enough to decode the video, of course). I’ve re-derived the video and replaced the previously mentioned Ogg Vorbis + Theora files. Please visit the following links and enjoy in freedom:

http://files.digitalcitizen.info/durian/best-quality-preproduction-week.ogv
http://files.digitalcitizen.info/durian/preproduction-week.ogv
http://files.digitalcitizen.info/durian/half-size-preproduction-week.ogv

To make the files I used ffmpeg2theora version 0.24+svn which I downloaded from
http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/

# best quality, full size (you probably want this)
ffmpeg2theora –optimize –videoquality 10 –output best-quality-preproduction-week.ogv input.mp4

# default quality, full size (reasonable compromise)
ffmpeg2theora –optimize –output preproduction-week.ogv input.mp4

# default quality, half size (should play well anywhere)
ffmpeg2theora –width 320 –optimize –output half-size-preproduction-week.ogv input.mp4

Each command is one line. The optimize, width, and videoquality options are prefixed with double hyphens (just in case your blog is set to turn those into some other character).

I offer this in the hope future videos can be shared in this free format in the future.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:01:57 +0000

@J.B. Nicholson-Owens: Sorry, but i’ve some issues with your Ogg encoded videos (looks like both Firefox and VLC skips frames and it looks bad, meanwhile mp4 version grabbed from Vimeo plays fine in VLC… sorry )

By: Colin Levy

Colin Levy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:24:21 +0000

@Astroman Pete – just read the Tower of the Elephant. Nice story! Great feeling of the world Howard creates.

By: Colin Levy

Colin Levy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:29:00 +0000

@J.B. Nicholson-Owens – Just approved the post from the spam filter. Thanks for taking the time to convert, upload and post ogg versions! I appreciate it.

By: J.B. Nicholson-Owens

J.B. Nicholson-Owens — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:17:13 +0000

I posted some links to Ogg Vorbis + Theora versions of this movie I made, but I suppose the blog filter either ate the post or that post waits for moderator approval.

By: foo

foo — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:57:57 +0000

Please upload somewhere where folks without access to flash can view it. Ogg Theora + Vorbis would be nice, or youtube works because it is possible to download .mp4/.flv files.