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• Member: Ashton
• Studio: Original Skin Studios
• Title: The Wanderers Dance
• Premiered: 2002-09-01
• Categories:
  • Other
  • Fun
• Song:
  • Khachaturian Saber Dance
• Anime:
  • El Hazard: The Wanderers (TV Season 1)
• Participation:
  • **Martyr Productions Contest**, **Martyr Productions Contest** (2002-06-27)
  • Middle Tennessee Anime Convention, Middle Tennessee Anime Convention (2002-08-09)
  • Senpai Productions contest, Senpai Productions contest (2002-08-15)
  • AWA Exposition Contest, AWA Exposition Contest (2002-09-27)
  • AWA Professional Contest, AWA Professional Contest (2002-09-27)
• Comments: This is my second video. It's a nice little thing I did mostly to experiment with editing techniques. It's pretty good I guess, so check it out. It took me about 60-65 hours to complete, and it's probably the most difficult one of done of my first three. It's kind of goofy.
  I really had trouble with this vid for a number of reasons. First off, I was dealing with a very large series of anime. The Wanderers is 26 episodes long, and getting the VOB files to fit on my hard disk is a task in and of itself. I somehow complicated matters by deciding that it would be more space efficient if I simply encoded small tidbits that I liked into HuffYUV using Vdub. This ended up leaving tons of huge 10 second long AVI files on my disk that I eventually got sick of and erased. This left me unable to reproduce the vid into a new format/any kind of re-encode. This is the problem that causes the grainy look of the dissolves in the encode that I made available on the Internet.
  The second part of my difficulty came in that I extracted half of those little HuffYUV clips from the VOBs in half frame rate and was forced to go back and re-encode all of them. This turned out to be a total pain and a waist of time. It’s half the reason the video took me so long.
  A number of other complications came into play that I don’t even want to think about right now because it’s late at night and my brain is getting tired. I will say this however; this video is really hard up on contest category selection. It’s not really comedy, but it’s kind of a little bit silly. I guess it best fits in the “fun” category, if there is one, because it’s really not all the comical, it’s just crazy.
  
  Update: 10/20/02
  I just wanted to let you all know that I am adding an indirect link in the downloads section, but it's not actually a downloadable link. Instead, it will link you to a website where you can get information about a CD distrobution system that I know very little about other than to say that my video is availible throught this system.