Higher Quality Tekkon Kinkurito Trailer!

nice. cant capture or save to QT though... boo hoo!

nice. cant capture or save to QT though... boo hoo!

I'm doing cartwheels now. I read the manga last year and it was heartbreaking and beautiful. Studio 4C is the PERFECT choice for this! There is NO film I'm looking forward to more than this one... Too bad I won't be in Japan to see it.

Todd, this is lookin' real good : )

It can be saved to Quicktime - it's just a little tricky.

First, get a copy of VLC Media Player from www.videolan.org. It's free and there are versions for all operating systems - Windows, Mac, Linux, and beyond. If you have an Intel-based Mac (or an appetite for life on the edge), you'll need to go to nightlies.videolan.org and get the most recent build from there. Once you've got it installed, open it and select "Open Network" from the file menu. Paste the URL for the trailer in the "Media Resource Locator" box at the top. Then check the "Streaming/Saving" box at the bottom, and click the "Settings" button. Choose "MPEG4" from the "Encapsulation Method" selector. Choosing "Quicktime" might work too, but I have had better luck with "MPEG4" in the past, so that's how I do it. Now click the "Browse" button and choose your save location and filename. Under "Transcoding options", check the boxes for "Video" and "Audio". Choose your audio and video codecs - for video choose either "h264"(more processor intensive, higher quality/lower bitrate) or "MPEG4" (easier on the CPU, but a higher bitrate is needed for the same video quality level), for audio use "mp4a". Set your video bitrate to something decent - I used 768, encoding with h264, which is probably excessive, but whatever. Set "Scale" to 1 - this just tells VLC not to resize the clip. Set your audio bitrate to 96, and audio channels to 2. Click "OK" Click "OK" again. There won't be any picture or sound, but the progress bar will move from left to right as if it was playing the video. On my computer, when it gets to the right, it will just sit there until I press stop. I imagine this is because Windows Media streams are crap. That should do it. You now have a Quicktime-compatible copy of the trailer. The first second will look digitally chewed up (again, Windows Media is crap that doesn't play nicely with other software), but after that it is fine.

And yes, this film looks amazing. Nice to see someone doing scope-ratio anime - MINDGAME used the widescreen format to brilliant effect, and this looks to do the same.

Oops, a correction. The video codec choices are "h264 or mp4v", not "h264 or mpeg4". MPEG4 is the encapsulation format that should be used.

rythm-x : i have videolan to save streams, was finding it a little tricky : thanks for the guide, appreciated. also, have QT pro which usually does it, didnt this time...