Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20151224121621/@comment-3547390-20160325213820

Wait, so we are discriminating against little girls that want to see me ramble about punching Barons?

I am fine as long as said action doesn't involve repetition. The more interesting to me, the more I can be devoted to it without caring about anything else.

You know me and third party unofficial stuff. I should have fun with it :P

Hahaha, I hope I can avoid that for a bit more time. I need a break after so much reading.

I didn't say it wouldn't work out fine, I just was saying how long it takes to get there. This tends to happen a lot with these videos, at least something coming up that requires you to end up uploading again. I don't have patience, but I tolerate it since I know I want to get the stuff on Youtube. The first part is done and the second is currently uploading, meaning it should hopefully be done soon. This will consist of the entirety of Episode 3, meaning I can start working on Thy Flesh Consumed being uploaded after this. We still got about 4 hours to upload, which should be about 2-3 more videos.

EDIT: Saw your post on Youtube and talked about some things I have done to improve the quality. We only have one problem. The video is still foggy for some reason when it is touched by Vegas!

At this point, I am at a loss with what to do. As you can see, the final conversion isn't the problem, even if it does decrease the quality slightly (as seen by the coloration of the gore and other details, this stuff probably wouldn't be noticeable if we didn't have a side-by-side comparison). There is a drastic drop in quality just from importing a video, not even editing it! Disabling smart resample does nothing to change the quality of the video, while color fixes tend to make it look unnatural from the original quality (which I shouldn't have to change to begin with).

Researching it a bit, apparently video editors displace the color (something about being at a base of 16 instead of 0, which messes up all colors) but then restore it in the final output, which definitely is not happening for me. I am a bit at a loss why this is happening, why it only seems to happen with Doom (I have done tests of Stronghold as well, they function perfectly on every stage), and how to fix the problem without manually going in and changing the saturation around (which I shouldn't have to do with a video that started out at great quality).

In other news, Seth has advised me to add annotations that will allow people to skip over my ramblings since I seem to have a tendency to talk for so long. How does this look to you? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA3aJQwDsTs&list=PLQ070a1s3-me8ftLExgsfg9MkyFKASGAJ&index=1

EDIT: I might have solved the problem. See Trial 4 image. I am going to keep the MP4 settings, but can probably upload this series without having to rely on creating a whole new version. Still... I debate if I should keep going with this version. As stated it has anomalies, plus it is quite the pain to load up in Sony Vegas, means that it isn't exactly the best quality. I also am not exactly happy with the sound settings in the recording, I didn't realize that the music was way too soft and could be louder than the game sounds without distorting my voice. In fact, I didn't realize that my microphone was actually set to be softer, a thing I did because of my high quality microphone but which turned out to be quite taxing during this playthrough where I need it to be louder to be heard.

With so many minor issues building up, it becomes tempting to almost remake it in a proper way. What do you think about it? While it would stink it lose my progress, it could be seen as a practice round and I would be willing to retry to fix it up. Should I bother with uploading the old series? Should I bother remaking it (since it is a normal playthrough and not really a blind playthrough, this option does exist) now that it appears quality would be much better?