Lost Video Island

Jaime · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 1:06 am Post subject: "This is War" how to fix it....

Got my rejection letter today(that was fast

) and it said the video has "potential". What should I do to fix it?

Hobbes · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:25 am Post subject:

thanks for picking up on that! We loved the overall story thing to it, it just needs a bit of tweaking in the technical department. I think you can find these out on other topics here, and since it's 2:30 AM here I really don't want to have to describe them all, but here goes:

-Aspect ratio was wacky
-the changes from one scene to another could really use transitions (basic ones, like fades) in order to fix it and make it easier on the eyes (green background -> black raining scene = eye pain and random feel)
-That, and a shorter song COULD be helpful, but that's just recommended.

Loved the angsty feel to it and the story with the song. Fix those things up and this thing could stand a chance of making it through. However, all that fixing is a lot of work, so don't worry about it if you don't want to.
Eyes... very sleepy.... forgive me... >.<

okay, so if you try and fix it up, just give it a try to fix all that, and if you can't figure it out, message back here again and I'll TRY and help you with them lol

Jaime · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 3:43 pm Post subject:

Question: Is there a way I can change the aspect ratio without having to download the clips from a place where it's the same size as the others?

Hobbes · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject:

uhhh, you could use Dr. Divx to crop the top and bottom black bars from the entire episode. This takes a long time of course, but it saves you a lot of trouble in the future. then in order to fix your video, you need to replace those old clips of the widescreen version with fullscreen ones manually...