It's not often I end up making any kind of music video. But in the end. I did.Because hey! It's ponies!
So I present Pinkie Pinke Zoot Zoot!
This took about 20 hours to make. It took this long because I ended up making it twice. I wanted it to be done before Comic-Con 2011. And I had about 90-95% completed already. But I had been struggling with compressing the video to something that looked remotely decent the entire time while making it.
Then when it was nearly done I started looking into compressions and what not. I had realized though, When I had taken the source video out of the mkv format into something that Adobe Premiere would accept, the Aspect Ratio had changed. I very quickly realized the only way out of that mess was to recompress the video again, in the correct aspect ratio.
Unfortunately, doing this meant that Premiere could not interpret the new file against the old one. This meant I couldn't simply just switch the sources and hope everything would be peachy. So with 90-95% done, I realized I had to start over from scratch.
One of the other problems I was having was that the codecs that premiere let me use, apparently sucked. Or at least refused to let me understand them in a way that would make my video look nice.To resolve this, I picked the brute force method: Exported the entire movie sequence as an uncompressed avi file (7gb I think) and then compressed it in virtual dub with xvid. That seemed to work out well.
Besides the video being much better quality the second time, I feel it also turned out better the second time around, due to the inherent editing process.
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