VotW: February 21-27, Arjan

[Sean]

This week's trick is courtesy of Arjan - a very nice addition to the growing world of 2 diabolo genocides.

http://diabolo.ca/votw/arjan_2d_minigenocide.mpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKi5aeNRsiM

Sean

[Matt_]

that's a great trick, i love minigenocides (just learned the 1D mini genocide this week). i wish you could see the trick more, the beginning is pretty obscured

[Tom_G]

From what I can see, that looks like a great trick, but I can't really see what you're doing  Would you mind filming it again?

[busk]

aaaaaaarghhhh!!!    he has stolen my trick!!!! arghghghghgh....uff i was so happy of my ORIGINAL 2diab minigenocide.....

anyway it's a great trick arjan! i'm not anger with you...

[Ceri-Anne]

the beginning is pretty obscured

True, but it looks great anyway! Very nice trick of the week Arjan, oh, and the music is cool

[norbi]

aaaaaaarghhhh!!!    he has stolen my trick!!!! arghghghghgh....uff i was so happy of my ORIGINAL 2diab minigenocide.....

anyway it's a great trick arjan! i'm not anger with you...

People make up the same things all the time, i on the other hand have blatently just stolen it from Arjan, but he doesnt mind.

As for that video, very cleanly done, well done. Nice appearance of Niels in there, and great music. Keep it up.

[Arjan]

Thnx people! I discoverd it myself from some inspiration off a trick done by Antonin that had nothing to do with a genocide. As the diabolo hit`s the backside of the string, and travels in the right (good) direction (for me that is left), it seems so obvious.
Thnx you people,

Go on and hit it! I hope about having new things soon. I`m serious, my next thing is not stolen from anybody, it could only be stolen from me  

[martijn]

I've already seen your trick, Arjan. Nice one Keep it up

P.S. If you convert from wmv/avi to mpg, you should set the format on 352 x 288 to prevent the obscured beginning. (instead of 720 x 576)

[Sean]

If you convert from wmv/avi to mpg, you should set the format on 352 x 288 to prevent the obscured beginning. (instead of 720 x 576)

Huh?  :-s   When I play this video it looks identical to the original WMV file. I assume the obscuring people talked about has to do with Neils, not the video quality. The resolution shouldn't have any effect on the playback as long as an appropriate bitrate is chosen.

I also have a 352x288 version which I plan to use as the permanent smaller file but I thought that those that follow the videos of the week closely would appreciate a full quality version.

Here's the lower resolution file if you're interested:
http://diabolo.ca/video/week/2004_02_20/arjan_2d_minigenocideMQ.mpg (2mb)

Sean

[Matt_]

I thought that those that follow the videos of the week closely would appreciate a full quality version.

you thought right, i have all the tricks of the week saved and i appreciate the higher quality  

[martijn]

Huh?  :-s   When I play this video it looks identical to the original WMV file. I assume the obscuring people talked about has to do with Neils, not the video quality. The resolution shouldn't have any effect on the playback as long as an appropriate bitrate is chosen.

Umm, well that could be a problem with my computer. If I play a high resolution mpg video, the first 3 seconds are very shaky/slow, (well don't know the exact word really) I don't have this problem with a smaller resolution.

[Dave P]

Very nice Arjan
Takes some working out when you can only see half

[Arjan]

LOL, Norbi has also a much more visible version, he might put that online, or let me. I was just lucky I had this trick on video, me and Niels were just fooling around.
But it is not so hard to figure out.

[seán_]

If you could please talk us through it then Arjan? that would be lovely.

Seán

[Arjan]

Please, let me just upload Norbi`s video, if he is ok with that, I`ll ask soon.

[norbi]

Ok, tomorrow (friday) i will film a step by step tutorial of the trick, it will be worth it i hope, so everyone can learn the amazing new genocide (look Arjan, your dream of it becoming a standard trick is coming true    )

I hope it helps you guys, i'll keep you posted (the video probably wont be online tomorrow by the way)

[Paul]

Nice one norbi. I'm looking foward to it!