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Title: Surfacing
Post by: Subdream on April 28, 2014, 07:50:29 PM
Hello,

we released a new animation recently. Hope you like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U63d4V0tdgA


Title: Re: Surfacing
Post by: cKleinhuis on April 28, 2014, 11:59:56 PM
dude, nice hearing again from ya, awesome video!
and we produce hopefully a demo for the evoke this year, hope meeting ya again,
be sure to read weavers "special" review
http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?topic=8740.msg73393#msg73393


Title: Re: Surfacing
Post by: cKleinhuis on April 29, 2014, 12:02:12 AM
what place did you receive ?! and why not compete in this years compo !??!? ???


Title: Re: Surfacing
Post by: Subdream on May 01, 2014, 12:02:32 AM
Quote from: cKleinhuis
dude, nice hearing again from ya, awesome video!

Thank you. Yes, its been a while...

But I have to say, without K-OZ this animation would not exist. He kept me going. And did those awesome visual effects. It was a really great collaboration. (Though I don't want to diminish Strongground's contribution - His model is really nice).

Quote from: cKleinhuis
and we produce hopefully a demo for the evoke this year, hope meeting ya again,

Yay, looking forward to it. We plan to be at Evoke again, though I will not release anything major - at least not on my own. There might be some music though. =)

Quote from: cKleinhuis
be sure to read weavers "special" review

Oh yes, I did. And it is special, I really feel honoured. Thank you, weavers!
   
Quote from: cKleinhuis
what place did you receive ?!

2nd in the anim/video compo. Looks like this is becoming a habit. =D

Quote from: cKleinhuis
and why not compete in this years compo !??!? huh?

I'm afraid for the usual reasons when an animation is finished. We started end of January, when the first version of the soundtrack was ready - which took just two evenings until is was virtually finished. Followed by 2,5 months of intense work, which ate up a lange share of our available free time. Thus I will probably stay clear from fractal programs for some time if I can help it. =)



Title: Re: Surfacing
Post by: Dinkydau on May 01, 2014, 07:32:13 PM
Fantastic video! Very good composition of various fractals with the music
I wish it could be downloaded to watch without lag. This video is worth watching in a proper way.


Title: Re: Surfacing
Post by: Subdream on May 01, 2014, 10:29:27 PM
Thank you Dinkydau, please try this (https://www.scene.org/file.php?file=%2Fparties%2F2014%2Frevision14%2Fanimation_video%2Fsubground4-surfacing.mp4&fileinfo).

Fun thing we observed while checking Youtube and Vimeo: The choppiness seems to relate to the videoplayer inside the browser. We experienced choppy playback in Firefox, so I downloaded the video from Youtube (jdownloader does a nice job there). The resulting mp4 file, while compressed to mush, is perfectly smooth. Likewise with Vimeo.

What Vimeo did to the audio is a different story:

Original-AAC 44100Hz stereo 256kbps
Youtube-AAC 44100Hz stereo 253kbps -Looks like it was unnecessarily recompressed, but at about the same bitrate, so it should not sound much worse.
Vimeo-AAC 48000Hz stereo 147kbps-Resampled and only little more than half the bitrate. Bad news for sound quality.


Title: Re: Surfacing
Post by: Dinkydau on May 02, 2014, 10:46:12 PM
YouTube has very good audio indeed. They increased the bitrate not a long time ago.
Usually vimeo allows the videos to be downloaded, but this time there was no download button. Also I used to have an extension to download from youtube, but it stopped working a while ago. My computer also plays downloaded videos well. It's just the unefficient browser players that lag all the time.