yukichigai
Mar 2005
Video Tech Geek
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Wait... there's video?
Wow. Just... wow. I mean it's great and all that you guys got a release out so damn quick, but that's... erm... not really what I'd call watchable.
Video - 3: You can see things when people hold still, but that's about the only time you can see anything. It's dark, which is not surprising for a cam; however, the encoding of the source video was, well, odd, leaving these weird pixel blocks of darker and lighter regions of the screen, which change about randomly. Mix the already dark video and you have something that's just plain impossible to watch during motion, even without the blurry picture and questionable framerate. At this point I can't really tell if it was recorded on something with a low framerate like a cameraphone or low-budget digicam, or if it was just recorded on an NTSC camera (23.976 fps) and the jerkiness is simply due to a crappy 23.976fps -> 25fps framerate conversion job. (e.g. by using TMPGEnc's built in conversion method, which does nothing more than duplicate frames) The bottom line is that for a movie like this where the action is important this release doesn't even do an adequate job of giving us something watchable. Wait for someone else to release it.
Audio - 7: Standard cam audio, not much better or worse than other cams out there. No annoying hums, pops, clicks or other weird noises you hear on some other releases. Conversations are understandable, but still somewhat distorted. Audio isn't too hollow or anything. Probably the best one can reasonably expect from a cam.
Movie - ?: I literally couldn't understand what the hell was going on because the video was so hard to interpret. I stopped it about 30 seconds into the first fight sequence.
Bottom line: Wait for a better release. Don't even try to watch this one, unless you're blind and only really need to hear movies.
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03-18-2006 10:54 PM
