My final masterpiece before my editing hiatus. I wanted to combine an anime music video with amazing cosplay photos as a tribute to the many black cosplayers around the world cause there are tons of cosplay videos on youtube but majority of them feature very little if any cosplayers that are black. Special thanks to the many talented people featured in this video. Its recommended to watch this in 1080p and full screen if possible. Hopefully seeing this video can help people not feel nervous about cosplaying a character with a lighter complexion and worried that they might get negative responses from anime fans. Video was made using: Adobe Photoshop CS3 (For editing the outro pic and credit) Virtual Dub (For fine cutting scenes from the anime an game sources used) Collageit (Outro Pic) Picture Collage Maker Pro (For editing the photo slides) ProShow Gold (For slide motion and transitions) Adobe Premier (For editing footage and combining everything together) Any Video Converter (For converting scenes from some anime sources and game cutscenes) Lagarith lossless codec (used for converting the footage and slides for editing) Editing: Instead of just showing picture after picture, I decided to mix anime and game footage in the project to match the character that the person is cosplaying. I didnt do this with every photo in the video since It would make the video much longer or result in less photos being shown. I always edit with lossless footage so Im use to large file sizes, but Ive never dealt with a video this massive before! Each slide was 5 seconds rendered in 1080p at 30fps resulting in around 95GB with the lossless and compressed versions. All of the prepared photos were around 12GB. All of the anime, game footage and its backup was a little over 180GB. The video was done in 3 stages. Stage 1: Editing the lower resolution scenes and putting the lower resolution version of the slides as placeholders. Since all anime sources were HD, I used Avisynth and used the Anime Upscale filter to re-size them to 1080p and keep its quality. This took a little over 4 hours to do the whole video. Stage 2: Imported the new 1080p video and replace the lower resolution cosplay placeholders with the full quality versions. After that, I exported the full project resulting in a 32GB file. Stage 3: Combining the full video, intro/outro and converting it to an mp4 file, resulting in a little over 1GB. Still kinda big but much better than 32GB lol. I could have got it smaller but I wanted to get the best quality since youtube will already do heavy compression to it after uploading. https://youtube/watch?v=Y1u2WgGDDeQ
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 21:05:57 +0000