Ugh

[gwyn]

Has anyone by any chance watched my vid for the VVC premieres show, There by Grey Eye Glances for BSG, on their con discs? I was just wondering if my disc set is bad... my vid is horrible, even though I didn't do anything different from previous vids -- all the right speeds, sizes, etc. But on my copy I was just watching, it looks wretched -- everything's jittering in the frames, only a couple of clips don't look bad, the dissolves are kind of snapping off rather than dissolving... I'm kind of sick about it but I don't know what it looks like to others, and I don't remember it looking like that at the Premieres show itself, but I couldn't see anything much at all, so I simply may not have noticed it.

Arg.

Comments

[feochadn.livejournal.com]

It looks fine to me. The avi source is a little soft, but all the dissolves show up smooth. The one in the forest (one of the longest, I think) looks really nice. I thought it played fine at the show (I could see very well), although the projector tended to wash out the colors a little.
But, overall, it looks great on my system.

[feochadn.livejournal.com]

Okay, I just watched it several times now, and no jittering, etc.
What I've seen of the disc looks fine.
Did other things on your disc look wrong?

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

No, so far it's just mine (lucky me!). I'll try it in some other players and see what happens.

Roland!!!

[lapillus]

Have you tried it in a different player (assuming you have one)? Sometimes players just loathe certain vids while playing others fine and while other players play the vid in question without problems. I know that the phillips we used for the vid show happily played the version on the show's disks (as opposed to the distribution disks).

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

I noticed last year, the few times I could bear to watch it, that the DVD player in my mac made my vid look really, really bad&wrong (22! Separate! Problems!) while my Sony DVD player made it look weird but with many fewer glitches (around 7).

I haven't watched any of the dvds on my own yet, but will report back when i do.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I haven't yet (a friend and I are going through the whole premieres sets before she has to leave), but I will see what happens in the others. It's really strange. Just my vid so far, though my own copies of the vid on my own discs look peachy.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Well, I tried it on a couple players -- one was halfway between the bad first play, and the other was only jittery at the beginning and then settles down. But it just... I can see some clips that have trouble where someone else wouldn't likely notice it. And it's very depressing, but I guess shit happens. I just wish it happened to someone else! (It's that old thing of knowing people probably think you're a major fuckup)

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

I got a little bit of jitteryness at very the beginning of There with the Sony dvd-r in the living room but it is gorgeous on my SMC. It looked fine at the show.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that seems to be my experience with the other players. I can see clips that are having problems just because I looked at that vid so damn many times. Wah. Not much I can do about it though; everyone will just think I'm an idiot who makes bad files, probably.

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. I only noticed the tremelo because you pointed out it was there. Otherwise, it would have blended in pretty seemlessly with the hand-held camera work.

[umbo.livejournal.com]

I don't have the dvd, but I just watched the downloaded version, and it ran just fine. It was also wonderfully done.