Sorry you found that distracting.zoltan wrote:I tried this out tonight but noticed that the video looked stretched out. Upon further study, it looks like instead of overlaying the beatmeater on top of the source footage, the footage is instead vertically compressed to make room at the bottom for the beatmeter. This has the effect of making everything look too "fat" and unnatural. I've seen Cock Hero videos where an occasional scene had a screwy aspect, but this is the first time I've ever seen an entire video rendered this way. It was very distracting for me.
It's a shame because the editing looks good and this might be the best beatmeter I've ever seen. I'd love to see a version rendered in the correct aspect ratio.
Did none of the beta testers comment on this?
EDIT: Discovered that it can be worked around in VLC by going to Video -> Aspect Ratio -> 16:10. It's probably not exactly correct, but it's close enough that I can play it without losing my mind. I'll post a proper review after I play some more.
I started out with 1280x720 clips and at first I had the beat meter at 80 pixels. The beta testers mentioned A) that the beat meter was too tall - so I went with 50 px instead, and B) it covered up some stuff at the bottom of the clips I was using, and they thought THAT was distracting.
What I did: I used ffmpeg to scale the video to 1280x672 ( multiple of 8) and put that at the top, and put the 50 px beat meter at the bottom. So only 2 pixels are being covered by the beat meter.
Now is the way I did this wrong from a technical aspect? It probably is.
You are the first person to notice it/not like it, that I am aware of - which is fine, you've got a better eye for that sort of thing than me (and maybe even most people?).
Once again, sorry you didn't like that ... I'm just explaining what I did & how I did it.
Thanks for the compliment on the beat meter too. It turned out well.


