[:apple:] Bad Apple!! (feat. nomico) [Full PV][ASS FLAC][Vectorized][BAADF00D].mkv

What's this?
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This is a new entry to the already long list of "Bad Apple BUT on [...]", and once played, at a first glance, it doesn't seem that different. A full name of this entry would be "Bad Apple but on vectorized soft-subtitles drawings" or "Bad Apple but it's ASS". This is also a full-length version of the track, compared to the original video, which was a shortened edit.
And yes, you heard it right, this time it's not fake "pixels", it's full on vectors. And it actually plays!

How?
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• First, multiple sources were used. The original shadow art, and a recreated version of a "live" full-length show, which follows Μμ's long storyboard version.
• The audio track comes straight from the Lovelight album release, which is the full length.
• Frames were traced into SVG, either automatically after writing some scripts following a palette of 4 / 9 shades of black/white, or manually in some cases.
• Transitions between original and recreated footage were patched and edited, as the recreation was too rough and noticeable.
• A full Karaoke + translation track was timed and styled, and included into the output.
• SVG frames made of simple curves and lines were translated to Dialogue entries using svg2ass.
• Then, all of this was built into a packaged .ass file that now spans 700MB, with early builds taking around 500MB.
• The Matroska file has this muxed in, with the original track, and zlib compressed. If your player doesn't support this, fix it yourself.
• Note this is the second project of this kind, as first proof of concept had just black/white frames. And could be played on the web directly!
• Also, these are true vectors. Scale your player all you want, you won't get to see pixels! (But maybe some gradient issues).
• There is a commentary track that includes a few more details, see the bottom for more details.

How does it look?
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• It surprisingly looks good. This is one of the best test-cases for this process.
• It plays on most players, and although heavy, does not require a supercomputer to render or playback realtime, but works on mid-to-low spec.
• If you can pick a player, use mpv. Works great. ffplay via -vf won't let you rescale to see the full display.
• VLC, although working, has some flickering issues (just use libass ffs).
• If testing, make sure you have the subtitle track enabled, as well, that's where the good stuff is at.
• Because it can be rendered at any resolution, here is an 8K render of it uploaded to YouTube.



Are you ok?
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• If you have not realized already ([[1]](https://nyaa.si/view/1099393), [[2]](https://nyaa.si/view/1097157), [[3]](https://nyaa.si/view/962982)), no.
• This continues a bit of my research of what is possible using just ASS.
• I can say: "WOW, this looks like ass!"
• This is not even a main project or whatnot, but a small side project from an even worse one.
• It took just six days to make, including first version prototype, but that time was spent mostly editing and patching out frames.
• Who would make a toolset for a one-off project? Maybe End of Daylight is going to be next :)

Did you know the subtitles are also a shell script?
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You can run the subtitles directly on Linux(?) systems and it will try to use either mpv or ffplay/ffmpeg to play itself. Nothing else is needed, as audio is included in the subtitles.
You will have to extract the track first:
- $ mkvextract '[?] Bad Apple!! (feat. nomico) [Full PV][ASS FLAC][Vectorized][BAADF00D].mkv' tracks 2:badapplenomicofullpv.ass
- This was done using mkvextract v45.0.0 ('Heaven in Pennies') 64-bit
- Sadly [/i]ffmpeg mangles the output when extracting, so it will add Windows newlines (instead of Unix) and mangle/reorder lines in the output that break frames.
Make it executable:
- $ chmod +x badapplenomicofullpv.ass[/code]
Run it!
- $ ./badapplenomicofullpv.ass
Alternatively you can enable/disable debug + commentary mode via the same script (subtitles file will be modified by itself):
- $ ./bad[/i]applenomicofullpv.ass debug
- $ ./badapplenomicofullpv.ass nodebug
- Alternatively you can enable the extra tracks using sed -i -e 's/^Comment:\(.DebugText.\)/Dialogue:\1/' bad[/i]applenomicofullpv.ass
If you can't execute it due to the lack of shebang (could not be included):
- sh ./badapplenomicofullpv.ass [debug|nodebug]
• sha256 of extracted file via [/i]mkvextract_ is 27b6e79eda18479864493b9f5c15e9330f0d77d2ceebb6b5a62867916bec8f1f. If you have issues extracting it, you can download it here.
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