Uploaded September 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Best listened to with separate stereo speakers. Yuri's story & flashbacks at the end of the level Blood Brothers, played amongst and side-by-side with the actual events from the earlier games.
This took me ages to make, mainly due to the plethora of audio-video sync issues that surround video editing. It was made using entirely freely available software: Handbrake to rip the recorded video from DVD and apply PAL-anamorphic widescreen, AviDemux for frame-accurate analysis of video and for extracting audio from video, VitualDub combined with AviSynth to create the side-by-side sections, Audacity to mix and combine all the audio, and finally Windows Live Movie Maker to encode the final result.
The side-by-side video sections were created with an AviSynth script similar to the following:
DirectShowSource("Bottom-Left.m4v")
Trim(1500,-525)
#PAL video has physical (non-display) dimensions of 720×576; half the width and height so the video will fit into a quarter of the screen
#PAL anamorphic widescreen (PAR 64:45) to achieve the display dimensions of 1024×576 can be applied afterwards to the resultant AVI this script creates
A=BilinearResize(360,288)
DirectShowSource("Top Right.m4v")
#Trim to same length as first video, 525 PAL frames
Trim(75,-525)
B=BilinearResize(360,288)
#The following line organizes the two videos in a 4×4 grid
StackVertical(StackHorizontal(BlankClip(B),B),StackHorizontal(A,BlankClip(A)))
#For the audio, the following line simply mixes the audio from both videos together
#AudioDub(MixAudio(A,B))
#But a nicer option may be to place the audio from the left video into the left stereo channel, and audio from the right video into the right stereo channel
AudioDub(MergeChannels(ConvertToMono(A),ConvertToMono(B)))
#Finally, this might be needed; sometimes AviSynth likes to read video data upside-down for some reason
FlipVertical()
Best listened to with separate stereo speakers. Yuri's story & flashbacks at the end of the level Blood Brothers, played amongst and side-by-side with the actual events from the earlier games.
This took me ages to make, mainly due to the plethora of audio-video sync issues that surround video editing. It was made using entirely freely available software: Handbrake to rip the recorded video from DVD and apply PAL-anamorphic widescreen, AviDemux for frame-accurate analysis of video and for extracting audio from video, VitualDub combined with AviSynth to create the side-by-side sections, Audacity to mix and combine all the audio, and finally Windows Live Movie Maker to encode the final result.
The side-by-side video sections were created with an AviSynth script similar to the following:
DirectShowSource("Bottom-Left.m4v")
Trim(1500,-525)
#PAL video has physical (non-display) dimensions of 720×576; half the width and height so the video will fit into a quarter of the screen
#PAL anamorphic widescreen (PAR 64:45) to achieve the display dimensions of 1024×576 can be applied afterwards to the resultant AVI this script creates
A=BilinearResize(360,288)
DirectShowSource("Top Right.m4v")
#Trim to same length as first video, 525 PAL frames
Trim(75,-525)
B=BilinearResize(360,288)
#The following line organizes the two videos in a 4×4 grid
StackVertical(StackHorizontal(BlankClip(B),B),StackHorizontal(A,BlankClip(A)))
#For the audio, the following line simply mixes the audio from both videos together
#AudioDub(MixAudio(A,B))
#But a nicer option may be to place the audio from the left video into the left stereo channel, and audio from the right video into the right stereo channel
AudioDub(MergeChannels(ConvertToMono(A),ConvertToMono(B)))
#Finally, this might be needed; sometimes AviSynth likes to read video data upside-down for some reason
FlipVertical()
