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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:So uh I have no clue what console this is on but somehow I doubt that it outputs at 471x324 or anything close to that. How are you capturing your images? It's Turbografx. I ran an emulator, stuck the FRAPS video recorder to it, went back to the video, and lifted screenshots at certain points. I could try switching to screenshot mode, but the most I can do is 1 screencap per second and I'd miss a lot of stuff that way.
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You could batch resize them with Irfanview. I use it myself to grab screens from footage, and edit them afterwards. Edit: A quick 640x480 test. Looks fine too me. Tin Tim fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jul 1, 2012 |
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Tin Tim posted:"What the gently caress is a Pipboy? All i got is this Id card." Let's play: The Fall- Last days of Gaia Mechanics look fairly d20, might just be the attributes though. Deceitful Penguin fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Jul 2, 2012 |
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Tin Tim posted:You could batch resize them with Irfanview. I use it myself to grab screens from footage, and edit them afterwards. Okay, thanks! I'll be sure to download Irfanview and give it a try. EDIT: I realized that the first time I screencapped, I cut some dead space off of the left and right sides of the battle sequences. Does this 560x480 one look okay? Polybius91 fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Jul 2, 2012 |
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So The Room, what springs to mind when the phrase is uttered? Well there's that movie that I'm sure everyone has seen because it's utterly lovely but what about the game? The fourth entry into the Silent Hill series, and the last one handled by the original Silent Hill team, is definitely a bit frowned upon. But will that stop me from showing it off and trying to have some fun with it? Of course not; so without further ado here it what will be the first two updates. Hopefully it will show off the two main aspects of the game (the apartment and the individual worlds); and any thoughts or comments would be appreciated. Also it may look a bit washed out but that's the default gamma settings, though I can certainly turn it down a bit. The game just isn't as dark as the other Silent Hill games. Apartment portion Otherworld portion Also I do apologize to you Germans, but for some reason Sony doesn't want you listening to the soundtrack and thus has blocked the videos there. Polybius91 posted:Military Madness
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 03:24 |
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Niggurath posted:
Solid as always. Good to go whenever.
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 03:57 |
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Polybius91 posted:Okay, thanks! I'll be sure to download Irfanview and give it a try. You appear to be doing some sort of filtered and non-integer resize, both of which will blur your image. Change to filter to use nearest neighbor and make sure you're scaling to exactly 2x of source. For comparison (edit: I should say that the source is from the internet somewhere so it might be off. Turbografx games are generally 256×239 native res so I'm fairly sure it's accurate, though): Note that the pixel edges are sharp everywhere and that the text doesn't shift color near edges. Xerophyte fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Jul 2, 2012 |
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Niggurath posted:Silent Hill 4 Didn't know you were getting to this so soon. Looks good to go.
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 04:22 |
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So my friend and I have been in talks of attempting a Mega Man X6 LP when Zarah finished doing X1-5. Now that he has, I'm looking to start recording footage. Thing is, the only thing I've ever used my capture device for so far was my multiplayer video of Half-Minute Hero and for anyone who wasn't directly involved, cobbling that thing together was an absolute nightmare for me (I am the worst video editor ever). Before I start banging out gameplay footage and talking over it and writing OPs for it, I really just want to get a general sense if there's anything I should do with what I've got. I recorded a short test video of the intro stage, deinterlaced (I think I did it right anyway), cropped, resized, and now I'm showing it here. Mega Man X6 Test Video How's the quality seem to you guys?
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Kaubocks posted:So my friend and I have been in talks of attempting a Mega Man X6 LP when Zarah finished doing X1-5. Now that he has, I'm looking to start recording footage. Thing is, the only thing I've ever used my capture device for so far was my multiplayer video of Half-Minute Hero and for anyone who wasn't directly involved, cobbling that thing together was an absolute nightmare for me (I am the worst video editor ever). It seems a bit blurry to me, although I have no idea what might have caused that.
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 09:06 |
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Kaubocks posted:Mega Man X6 Test Video Seems fine to me. A bit blurry and maybe some frame blending but nothing that would seriously hurt an LP. I would suggest dumping it in the Tech Support Fort and seeing if a better trained eye could spot any issues and give you some advice.
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 09:19 |
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Materant posted:It seems a bit blurry to me, although I have no idea what might have caused that. Blend Fields method of deinterlacing, if I had to guess.
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 09:30 |
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Screenshots Look fine, commentary bearable, game seems interesting, ready for the presses. Yeah, I also see some DnD in the system, and mentioned it in my improved update. .
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 11:04 |
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Kaubocks posted:Mega Man X6 Test Video Yeah, this is blurry. I remember being rather perplexed at your 1024x768 source capture back when we did the multiplayer video, so could you perhaps describe your whole workflow in detail?
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 12:51 |
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Polybius91 posted:The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress - Let's Play Military Madness Wrong. Good luck doing a better LP that this one! Edit: (That last sentence was sarcasm. The "LP" only has one 30 minute video where the commentators barely even talk about the game. Still a very entertaining video, but not really an LP of the game!) Meis fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Jul 2, 2012 |
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Meis posted:Wrong. Good luck doing a better LP that this one! Yo, not trying to sound harsh here, but can you not do that? I've went to LP something one time and prepared everything for it, then found out someone's already done it, and better, and it kinda makes you feel like crap for putting in the effort.
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 13:47 |
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Jewel posted:Yo, not trying to sound harsh here, but can you not do that? It's critiquing dude. Funnily enough this is the thread exactly for that.
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 14:03 |
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Brainamp posted:It's critiquing dude. Funnily enough this is the thread exactly for that. Except there was no critiquing other than "Here's some dudes that already did that, good luck trying to be better than them"? There's simply pointing out the other LP and then there's pointing it out and going "welp good luck"
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 14:07 |
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Pretty sure it was a joke guys. Those happen sometimes.
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 14:14 |
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Yeah, especially since the Freelance Astronauts version, even though it's pretty funny does literally nothing to show off the game since Maxwell Adams is the only one who cares. Also, Pork Lift, I like your new mod avatar it is very well deserved for your tireless efforts in the Friendzone.
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 14:49 |
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Jewel posted:Yo, not trying to sound harsh here, but can you not do that? It was a joke! If you see the video, it's not really a serious LP of the game. More a 30 minute gameplay video while people make sexual innuendos regarding pizza. Sorry the joke fell flat. Well, Pork Lift got it. Must be a case of subtle british humour or something? But yes, sorry
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 15:01 |
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Meis posted:It was a joke! If you see the video, it's not really a serious LP of the game. More a 30 minute gameplay video while people make sexual innuendos regarding pizza. Sorry the joke fell flat. Well, Pork Lift got it. Must be a case of subtle british humour or something? But yes, sorry Oh, it's fine! It's late here and I kinda just assumed you were serious because some people tend to find "the popular LP'ers" "better" than the other ones Of course, this is mostly the mentality of the other communities like Youtube, SA seems pretty nice about not doing that.
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Nah, it was probably my fault. I mean a joke that you have to explain is not a good joke at all, is it?
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 15:06 |
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Meis posted:Nah, it was probably my fault. I mean a joke that you have to explain is not a good joke at all, is it? Take it Lovedump guys.
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 15:26 |
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MeccaPrime posted:Take it Lovedump guys. I loving love lovedump. It gives me the fuzzies
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:Yeah, this is blurry. I remember being rather perplexed at your 1024x768 source capture back when we did the multiplayer video, so could you perhaps describe your whole workflow in detail? It's an SD recorder so I can't exactly capture high quality stuff with it. It's recorded as a .avi at 640x480 (I remember looking over our chats to see what size I should record at and this was the closest setting-- the next step up was 1024x576) and at 29.97 FPS. With the file, I made my usual AVS for it. code:
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Zarah posted:Obligatory Refrigerator Comment - Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb Digging this up from the previous page to see if there's any other comments anyone wants to make before I go whole-hog with it.
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Zarah posted:Digging this up from the previous page to see if there's any other comments anyone wants to make before I go whole-hog with it. I have a meeting to run off to, so I could only watch the first 5 minutes. All in all, I'm happy with it. As far as critique, you guys reference Mega Man X6 a lot... I guess that's a previous LP you did that I missed? So I was kinda lost. It's not worth redoing the video just for that or anything, maybe something to keep in mind for future ones. You guys can talk over each other once or twice, like you talk right over the other guy's "I get my tea from there!" joke, so maybe pause for those one-offs or something (but admittedly, that's hard to do). I liked it. I'm an Indy fan, so if you started the thread, I'd give it a watch. I say go for it.
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Zarah posted:Digging this up from the previous page to see if there's any other comments anyone wants to make before I go whole-hog with it. Is there a reason why this is only 480p? Or is there still no widescreen hack/config edit for Emperor's Tomb? Because back when this was released, it was apparently a planned feature or something, for some patch.
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 18:18 |
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Hymirvetr posted:Is there a reason why this is only 480p?
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# ? Jul 2, 2012 18:27 |
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Niggurath posted:I'm pretty sure he's playing this on an original X-Box, so he might only be using an SD capture card. Oh yeah, I'm just stupid and missed the Xbox Button prompts. Nevermind, then. The rest looks and sounds good. I will follow this, loved this game even though the plot is a bit sub par for Indy. At least it's no Crystal Skull.
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Zarah posted:Digging this up from the previous page to see if there's any other comments anyone wants to make before I go whole-hog with it. I'm not sure if it's the game audio or the commentary track, but there is a pretty noticeable stream of white noise going on throughout the entire video. You might want to put the sound through Audacity's Noise Removal function to see if you can get it out of there.
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Kaubocks posted:It's an SD recorder so I can't exactly capture high quality stuff with it. It's recorded as a .avi at 640x480 (I remember looking over our chats to see what size I should record at and this was the closest setting-- the next step up was 1024x576) and at 29.97 FPS. With the file, I made my usual AVS for it. 640x480 should be good, but the 29.97 FPS sound off. Either it's deinterlacing on the fly while recording, which might explain the blurryness, (this is quite likely actually!) or it's dropping half the frames and thus an entire set of fields. What recording software do you use, and does it have an option for recording at 59.94 FPS, or for which filter it uses to scale the incoming 720x480 signal to 640x480? Also, I've never quite trusted MeGUI to do sensible settings automatically, so I'd recommend you to check "No Target Size (use profile settings)" and configure x264 in one of these ways: Adjust CRF or Bitrate as appropriate. (experiment a bit with a short sample and see how they turn out)
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# ? Jul 3, 2012 00:55 |
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Took another shot at Military Madness. Here's a battle screenshot with the black border cropped out: I found that a bit large, so here's the same screenshot at 75% size: Thoughts? Also, I'm relieved the existing LP wasn't really an LP.
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# ? Jul 3, 2012 01:05 |
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:640x480 should be good, but the 29.97 FPS sound off. Either it's deinterlacing on the fly while recording, which might explain the blurryness, (this is quite likely actually!) or it's dropping half the frames and thus an entire set of fields. What recording software do you use, and does it have an option for recording at 59.94 FPS, or for which filter it uses to scale the incoming 720x480 signal to 640x480? Any capture card will combine two interlaced fields into a single frame which may or may not be properly combed, at 29.97 FPS for NTSC. Then you run a deinterlacer. This is how it's supposed to work.
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Ah, yeah, you might be right about that. Sorry, I usually don't work with SD capture cards or interlaced signals.
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# ? Jul 3, 2012 01:53 |
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Alright, let's try this again. How's this lookin'? Mega Man X6 Test Video 2
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Kaubocks posted:Alright, let's try this again. How's this lookin'? Looks acceptable. Granted, I don't know what X6's standard quality is.
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This was going to be my bonus video for the Let's Play as Art thread but then we didn't end up doing bonus videos and the thread died and I completely forgot about it and now there's nowhere else to post it SO hopefully this is kosher if not I will put it away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crsis3BW8ns
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Polybius91 posted:Took another shot at Military Madness. I'd actually say the second's a bit small. The first is a good size and much crisper. Go with that.
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