How are you going to view the shorts?

How are you going to view the shorts?

  • I watch it at the file's native size (let's say 640x360)

    Votes: 16 50.0%

  • I double its size

    Votes: 1 3.1%

  • I put the player in Full Screen mode

    Votes: 13 40.6%

  • I project it on the side of my house

    Votes: 2 6.3%
  • Total voters
    32
Zak Forsman

Zak Forsman

Major Contributor
yes, i'm bored. bored to tears waiting for Compressor to spit out my lovefest entry. wanted to ask how people tend to view these things... let's say we're talking about a file that is 640x360... do you usually watch it at its native size no matter what? do you double the size? or blow it all the way up to full screen?
 
I tend to watch it at the size it was rendered out as. Don't particularly like to blow them up. I do it occasionally though, if someone has an itty bitty vid that I can barely see on my monitor. But, prefer to view it as it was rendered and uploaded and received.

later,
Jason
 
I'm going to get some wine, and light some candles and lie there in bed, and just let the love wash over me. I've been watching and re-watching Matty G's BTS clip like this, over and over and over, and the effect is quite...stimulating.
















Wait, was that outloud?
 
Probably will have a small DVXuser festival evening again, with a friend and two nice girls :D Projected blown up on a 6 feet screen.

Give your best! Last fest we had to pass a few entries, because of their crappy compression quality. It is possible to have good quality, there are always a few entries that proove it.
 
It is considered extremely rude and offensive to screen a DVXUSER fest entry at any size other than what the film maker created it at. Barry once wrote a scathing screed on this subject suggesting that anyone choosing to enlarge the frames may be scorned and shunned collectively. I believe he used "scurrilous", "calumniating", "censorious", and "contumelious" in his description of such behavior.

So, PLEASE PEOPLE, do not upset Barry further. He's on a short string the way it is already. Do NOT enlarge the fest entries when you watch them. (except for Mark Harris' entry - which you are allowed to enlarge 400% as a handicap to reduce the intoxicating effect of his mad cinematography).
 
Mark Johnson said:
It is considered extremely rude and offensive to screen a DVXUSER fest entry at any size other than what the film maker created it at. Barry once wrote a scathing screed on this subject suggesting that anyone choosing to enlarge the frames may be scorned and shunned collectively. I believe he used "scurrilous", "calumniating", "censorious", and "contumelious" in his description of such behavior.
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Well, I can live with that...beeing extremely rude and offensive sometimes isn't that bad. You should know that Mark :D

Also it normally is no problem. I think it were only one or two entries last time that suffered by watching it on the big screen.

Btw. really looking forward to Where the heart lies! I've got high expactations :)

Mark Johnson said:
Trade the friend for another girl and you have the start of a good evening.
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I would definately do that, but unfortunately it is my friends projector and screen :undecided
 
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Mark Johnson said:
(except for Mark Harris' entry - which you are allowed to enlarge 400% as a handicap to reduce the intoxicating effect of his mad cinematography).
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Are you kidding? I'm so afraid of your entry, I had your laptop boosted in hopes of handicapping you. Alas, you have learned the ways of the back-up...
 
Always full screen. Even if the pixels are giant due to the compression. It makes it more cinematic, and more fun to watch.
 
Simon Höfer said:
Probably will have a small DVXuser festival evening again, with a friend and two nice girls :D Projected blown up on a 6 feet screen.

Give your best! Last fest we had to pass a few entries, because of their crappy compression quality. It is possible to have good quality, there are always a few entries that proove it.
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I do something similar--I invite a few friends over, download to the laptop and screen uptstairs in the HT room on a 720p projector, to an image size of 12' no less. ; -)

To me, it just sucks watching films at tiny screen sizes. I don't care if it magnifies compression artifacts, I want to enhance the cinematic experience, and watching entries on a computer monitor just isn't as engrossing. It's possible to get decent compression down to a 640x360 screen size, which scales about as well as DVD's do on my projector.
 
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Elton said:
To me, it just sucks watching films at tiny screen sizes. I don't care if it magnifies compression artifacts, I want to enhance the cinematic experience, and watching entries on a computer monitor just isn't as engrossing. It's possible to get decent compression down to a 640x360 screen size, which scales about as well as DVD's do on my projector.
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Exactly! It is so much more fun to watch it on the big screen with friends instead of watching it alone on the small monitor. Get some nachos and popcorn and the feeling of a real film festival comes up. :thumbsup:

I really dig these fests!

Hey Zak,
is your file going to be 640x360? Besides being bored, there must be a reason you asked this question. Also really looking forward to your entry. Even the BTS you made for 6" 45RPM EP looked great.
 
thanks, simon. no i asked because i wanted to know if people tended to enlarge it on their own. because I had two choices. i could go 640x360 and get a great looking image, or I could export to a larger size and effectively do much of the blow-up myself -- because what i can do in compressor is better than what quicktime player or vlc can do on the fly.
 
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