In So Few Words

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&quot;In So Few Words&quot; is the tenth AMV created by Malcolm Wilson in his spare time to improve his editing technique, released on June 7, 2016. It was produced in just one evening, making it his most rapidly produced AMV. Malcolm attributes this speed to the music he selected, Frank Sinatra's cover of &quot;Fly Me to the Moon&quot; tied to the Pixar film WALL-E. The literally applicable lyrics, jazz tempo, and short run-time proved easy for Malcolm to work with.

The AMV's title is a reference to the limited vocabulary used between the film's main characters WALL·E and EVE. It is also a reference to "In Other Words", the original title of Fly Me to the Moon.

4K Redo
CYtv7uS-dAQ On March 3, 2020 WALL-E was released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray. Later that month Malcolm was considering experimenting with 4K resolution video. He decided that, given the limited computing power available to him, remaking an existing AMV would be wise, in order to limit complications. Of the source animations of his AMVs, only WALL-E was released on 4K Blu-ray at the time.

Working with 4K video did prove to be difficult for Malcolm. The expected increase in processor use made for a slow and unresponsive live preview in Kdenlive. Malcolm was unwilling to mitigate this with the use of Kdenlive's proxy clips; as timing inaccuracies introduced by proxy clips had impaired development of All the World's a Stage. In addition, the 4K Blu-ray's colour space was not supported by Kdenlive, and had to be down converted using FFmpeg. As a result, colours and brightness are not fully accurate to either the 4K or original Blu-ray releases of WALL-E.

Malcolm was disappointed to discover that the WALL-E 4K Blu-ray had been made by the use of digitally up scaling a lower resolution master. This is evidenced by pixel peeping and observing jaggies on the edges of objects; particularly on small objects. In theory, as the majority of imagery present in WALL-E is computer-generated, it could be re-rendered to a native 4K resolution. Malcolm speculates that the additional cost, and only minor improvement in resulting image quality, made this an unfavourable proposition when producing the 4K Blu-ray. However, it is still an objective upgrade in image quality, for home media, as it was up-scaled from a compression artifact free master. This upgrade was especially noticeable to Malcolm when comparing the rest of In So Few Words 4K Redo to the scene from BURN-E; where compression artifacts from up scaling the 1080p Blu-ray were highly pronounced.

The 4K Redo was released on May 5, 2020.

Original Statistics

 * Animation: "WALL•E" and "BURN·E".
 * Music: "Fly Me To The Moon [feat. Count Basie And His Orchestra]" by Frank Sinatra, from the album "Ultimate Sinatra".
 * Editor: Malcolm Wilson.
 * Made in Kdenlive Version 15.12.2 running on Fedora 23 64-bit (Linux Kernel Version: 4.5.5-201.fc23.x86_64).

4K Redo Statistics

 * Animations: "WALL•E" and "BURN·E".
 * Music: "Fly Me To The Moon [feat. Count Basie And His Orchestra]" by Frank Sinatra, from the album "Ultimate Sinatra".
 * Editor: Malcolm Wilson.
 * Made in Kdenlive Version 20.04.0 running on Arch Linux (Linux Kernel Version: 5.6.10-arch1-1) 64-bit.
 * BURN·E Blu-ray upscaled with FFmpeg (Official Repository Extra package) version n4.2.2 with the bicublin scaler option.
 * 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray colour space down converted with (Arch User Repository package: ffmpeg-amd-full-git) FFmpeg's video filters: zscale=tin=smpte2084:min=bt2020nc:pin=bt2020:rin=tv:t=smpte2084:m=bt2020nc:p=bt2020:r=tv,zscale=t=linear:npl=100,format=gbrpf32le,zscale=p=bt709,tonemap=tonemap=hable:desat=0,zscale=t=bt709:m=bt709:r=tv,format=yuv420p.
 * Brightness and contrast adjusted in some scenes with Bézier Curves in Kdenlive.
 * Timing adjusted in some scenes.