New Movies Dimensions!

[cbouchar]

Much of the new content is widescreen 16:9 format, that's great, but it introduces complications for your crew. For example, the movies, Ski Bitch, Spunk in the Trunk, Teenage Dreamin, Dirty Little Secrets etc.

The webmaster lounge has pre-made code to help use the provided thumbs. The thumbs are 16:9 but the code is made for 4:3, thus anyone using the code will have shitty looking thumbs. I don't use it myself, but I can understand others using it. I suggest modifying the code either have the dimensions adjusted for each thumb OR simply remove the width parameter. By removing the width parameter but keeping the height, it will maintain the aspect ratio of the images.
The sample clips! Some of the sample clips were made in 4:3 instead of 16:9 and the resulting clips are squished. Please have someone go through the content and correct the sample clips that are suppose to be 16:9 and remake them in the proper format. Not all the widescreen titles have this problem with their samples, but Ski Bitches does and others might also. In their current form, they are useless. Less attentive affiliates might miss this and might push that content - unfortunately this looks badly for Vixeo.I'm sure you will correct these issues whenever possible.

Thanks,
Cbouchar

[ABRob]

ya we seen this. not many movies are 16:9. looks like torrid/defiance is the only one (studio).

problem is if your using our gallery itll screw up the entire gallery if we reformat the images properly.

can you show me an example of what your using it on?

or do you mean your using clipserver is what u want to use along with the associated thumb?

our content guy will fix the samples to 16:9

i guess we will need a new flg in our system to associate movies to 16:9

we have alot of TODO right now so this will happen eventually

for now we will fix the samples

[ABRob]

hey cbouch

i just checked those sample clips and theyre all 16:9

our encoder does it automatic

am i missing something?

[cbouchar]

In the Vixeo Webmaster lounge, there is code provided to use the sample clips and thumbs. I don't use this code, but it appears to be automatically generated for all movies. The code changes the links to the clips and the thumbs for each movie, but the dimensions for the thumbs don't vary, even if the thumbs don't fit. Here is some of the code provided for Ski Bitch:
a href="http://clipserver.vixeo.com/Ski_Bitch_0__2.mpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://clipserver.vixeo.com/images/Ski_Bitch_0__2.jpg" border="0" height="202" width="270" /></a>
Note how the dimensions are set to 202x270. That width is too small for a 16:9 image with a height of 202. It should be 202x359.
As for the gallery builder, the 16:9 images don't fit them. For example:
Ski Bitch http://galleries.vixeo.com/Ski_Bitch/4703R_mgp-01_2528.html
Spunk in the Trunk http://galleries.vixeo.com/Spunk_In_The_Trunk/4703R_mgp-01_2152.html
etc.
The problem is that the widescreen format isn't bad and the content looks really good. It would be a shame to reduce the quality of the content to fit the premade galleries. Not sure what the solution would be...:-?
The movie clips for Ski Bitch were not created in widescreen 16:9 (try the clips on the gallery above). When they were cut, they were resized to 4:3. The clips for the other movies are okay, but that one needs fixing. The reason I mentioned the other movies is because the thumbs are widescreen and don't fit the galleries (or the premade code as shown above)Hope that clears things up.

Cbouchar

[ABRob]

ohh your right

we're creating a seperate flag for 16:9 movies so we can differentiate

thanks!