VOD choppy

[Red Tape]

I downloaded the Burn to DVD version and I noticed the choppy video too. It seemed especially noticeable in the beginning of the movie in any scene with water.

I would prefer a cleaner version if possible, although I suppose its ok as is.

[torgosPizza]

Yeah it might not happen for a bit. Unfortunately the fields switch throughout the film, which means we'd have to cut it up and do it piece by piece. It's a lot of work to fix something that is source-related.

We'll try to get to it but for now, going to have to make due with what is there. Sorry!

[FBX]

I haven't noticed anything with the mp4 file on my iphone.

[Piobman]

I downloaded the Burn to DVD version and I noticed the choppy video too. It seemed especially noticeable in the beginning of the movie in any scene with water.

I would prefer a cleaner version if possible, although I suppose its ok as is.

It would be noticeable only in motion areas. In particular, slow movie motion from side to side.  Its a good thing most of the movie consists of still shots of mountains and rock... otherwise, it would have drove me insane. Course.. the still shots of rock and mountains had the same effect on me now that I think of it.

[MSTJedi]

I downloaded the Burn to DVD version and I noticed the choppy video too. It seemed especially noticeable in the beginning of the movie in any scene with water.

I would prefer a cleaner version if possible, although I suppose its ok as is.

It would be noticeable only in motion areas. In particular, slow movie motion from side to side.  Its a good thing most of the movie consists of still shots of mountains and rock... otherwise, it would have drove me insane. Course.. the still shots of rock and mountains had the same effect on me now that I think of it.

There is a lot of walking and resting in this movie. Lucky for us there wan't too much action . . . or . . . wait . . .

[torgosPizza]

Good news, everyone!

We're re-encoding and re-uploading the mpeg-2 and its DVD counterpart. Mpeg-2 will be up soonish, DVD probably won't be up til later tonight or tomorrow.

[Bairman]

Good news, everyone!

Thanks, Professor!   

[MSTJedi]

Sweet. Just let us know when the new version is up.

[Invisible NanoGhost]

Wow, thanks for going through the extra effort on this!

[RoninFox]

Makes me glad I haven't burned my dvd yet, thanks for this.  This riff is quickly becoming a favorite and it'll be great to have a better looking version.

[Red Tape]

Has the DVD image been updated yet? I redownloaded it this morning, but the date on the .iso is the same, so I was guessing that it hadn't been. Just want to be sure.

[torgosPizza]

You wasted our bandwidth and THEN asked?? 

Just kidding. No, it hasn't been updated yet. We got busy with other things. I'll ask right now and see if we can upload it yet.

(But see, if you'd asked first, you wouldn't have spent the time downloading it only to find out it was not updated... just food for thought.)

[Red Tape]

Well you said on the 29th that it would be uploaded within a day. How could I know that you didn't really mean it? 

I will ask in the future though.

Thank you for your efforts. Since I usually re-author, I know how much of a pain it can be having to redo it if it doesn't come out right.

[torgosPizza]

Heh yeah that time I was fibbing. Fibbing, I tell you!

The mpeg-2 is done, still have to finish the DVD, but we'll be uploading the mpg file today. Sorry this is taking so long.

[LucasM]

Hmm, weird. Did anyone notice this on the DVD burn too? I have seen parts of it and it seemed fine to me... but it's hard to say. Don't really want to have to redo it (this'll be the third time, if we do) but we need to get it right.

Sorry, this is likely way too late, but I just saw this thread (linked from today's "20 ?s".  I'd discussed this with Conor via e-mails early on after its release, before anyone else was reporting a problem with it.  (Since the conclusion at that time was that nothing would be done to change it, I ended up giving up on the Download to Burn and buying a cheap copy of the DVD and getting the MP3 to go with it.)

Here is how I'd describe it:  The sound is ever-so-slightly (but disturbingly) out of synch, like it was a dubbed film or something.  The main problem, however, is with the video.  It looks like the mastering was done in such a way that only every-other frame was copied (and every frame that was copied was doubled).   So that it looks like a very early silent film (with ~12-14 fps motion).  Pretty much every second through the film is jerky, and looks like bad stop-motion animation: water, trees, people, the spaceships, all look bad (heck, the dinosaurs look smooth in comparison).  It was so distracting I could barely listen to what was being said (probably because of my low-level seizure activity: 'agitated' visuals aren't good).  I tried the disc in at least three different brands of DVD player (my 300-disc Pioneer changer, the Lite-On drive [Dell-installed] in my computer, and my Toshiba DVR/DVD recorder) and it did the same thing in each.  [I tried reburning it just in case it was a bad burn (to an RW so I wouldn't waste a disc), but ended up with the same thing.]


Luckily from what was said in the Twenty Qs thread (for 'Voodoo Man'), since that was taken direct from film there shouldn't be that problem for that one.